Destroy the Box

K, they/them everything is queued, big fan of the Processing Vortex round these parts

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[grandmafc]

[souplover13]

image: tweet. "creating a Hater Sports App where you can add players you don't like from any sport to a list and you will be alerted via text whenever they commit an error, foul, turnover, etc". end ID.

[valtsv]

it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"

[trufflesmushroom]

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Actually, fuck the myth of the Tower of Babel. The real beautiful utopia where we can all finally truly understand each other doesn't lie in sameness or uniformity, it lies in the giant and digital Rosetta Stone we are going to build and broadcast across the entire world

[solarpunk-nightbird]

So, genuinely no hard feelings, I get where y'all are coming from, but that was actually kind of my entire point

The Rosetta Stone was and is real.

This is indisputable. You can go see the Rosetta Stone on display right now!! I'd say you could even it touch it, but there's museum glass in the way, so that the oils on human skin can't further degrade this 2,000-year-old stele, which is one of the most important surviving historical texts in the world.

The Tower of Babel is not real, and it never was.

The Tower of Babel is a millennia-old religious story about a mythological tower, which serves as a mythological explanation for the origin of different human languages. Yes, there are some religious historians who speculate that the myth was inspired by one or another physical tower, but no, that doesn't prove anything other than "this is how many people in this cultural explained or understood that sort of event."

The Rosetta Stone, on the other hand, is an object of translation that actually exists

Photo credit: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved from Wikipedia article "Rosetta Stone." https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3153928

That picture is of a real object. It is not of a picture of a 3,000+ year old myth.

Our attempts to understand each other will not result in us being struck down by some force from on high!

And the true path to a world where we can all understand each other does not involve us all speaking the same language. That's racist bs

True understanding depends on ethical translation and language preservation, not on unity of language

[victusinveritas]

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

[hubblegleeflower]

All news posts are stronger with receipts:

8 convicted in Texas immigration center shooting and protest are sentenced to decades in prison

Eight people accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting out

[auxryn]

You can support imprisoned people by sending them letters of support and money to use for the commisary and phone calls. Being in prison is expensive. Don't write anything that would get them in trouble. Prisoners' mail is read by guards.

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[theweirdwideweb]

[bidgeovertroubledwater]

[goldcrescent]

lmfao I just saw zohran doing the inaugural swim in a full suit and tie, the schtick genuinely gets funnier the more he does it. My only complaint is should have worn swim trunks OVER the suit

[goldcrescent]

Can you guess which of these people is the mayor

[xanaxfarts]

4000cc breast implants :)

[mackie-ds]

[brblifuk]

[cosmic-aria]

[aariatov]

I don't know how to tell you this. But the wizard in the picture is canonically Saruman.

[metatextuality]

#saruman's big artificials vs. gandalf's big naturals

[elvenferretots]

I need a better camera if I ever want to catch the terrier and long terrier playing on film, even though they do it every night.

[sunsetbuddie]

we used to get christmas episodes of television. halloween episodes. valentines. we used to get television that felt like part of your life. like it was happening alongside your life. now we mostly get 8 episodes dropping all at once every two years and they don't have time for any of that. i miss characters living alongside us

[dinothundersblog-deactivated201]

banksy is so funny how do you gentrify vandalism

[mftango]

[noticesghosts]

Hey what the fuck

[i-think-im-asleep]

shoutout to all the real graffiti fans scouring the prestigious auction houses in tears because they’re the only places on earth where graffiti exists

[livelaughratgirl]

These people need to be shot how do you secure to right to something on a fucking brick wall

[aquarianconstellations]

Caught this while staying in Amsterdam a month ago. Photos taken one day apart - the graffiti got painted over, but the Banksy was painstakingly maintained. The joke writes itself.

[notatzimisce]

I will never shy away from the word goon. goon is the only way to describe a particular type of henchman, lackey, or thug. look at these guys. they're goons.

[pseudonymtumbler]

@pastanewguinea jammer as a mob boss and blockers are the goons. Commentators call the bout in the most stereotypical 20’s gangster voice

[langernameohnebedeutung]

another thing that's just fascinating with climate change deniers is the giant overlap with a demographic that is usually seeing the end of the world in everything. How are you more afraid of pronouns than fucking forest fires. What if I said the forest fires will turn your frogs gay.

[nickcarr]

Field notes from the time I scouted a decommissioned nuclear power plant...

This is the control room, and if you look closely, you'll see a dark stripe in the carpet running the perimeter of the room. This was referred to as the "velvet rope," and absolutely NO ONE was allowed to cross it without authorization. It was under constant observation from an adjacent office, and I was told that if someone did set foot inside without permission, things got VERY serious VERY quickly.

This is one of the computer stations, and to me, it's such a gorgeous encapsulation of its period of technology, the sort of aesthetic that shows like Lost will bend over backwards to recreate.

As I was scouting, I noticed the day calendar had last been torn off about when the plant closed for good...

Then we went into the nuclear reactor, and the whole damn thing was just so spooky.

Looking back, I think it came from an overwhelming feeling of utter insignificance in the face of the sheer power this colossus was designed to produce.

The scale was just so out of proportion to every day reality, the sort of place where a weight of "46000 LBS" is just casually noted on the side of a part.

Peering into where the core would've been, all I could think is that I'd never want the job where you have to climb down that ladder on the left while this thing was in operation.

If you're interested in seeing more, you can find my full tour here!

https://nickcarr.com/scouting-a-decommissioned-nuclear-power-plant/

And as always, follow for more location scouting fun...

[cloudmancy]

three 'please draw my bike as a horse' commissions! breed choices and tack under cut:

The first one is a workhorse commute bike that is dependable, can carry a lot, and has been with owner for a very long time. I thought a carriage horse would be suitable specifically:

I had in mind a large draft breed - specifically the Drum Horse - for being large, sturdy, gentle, and very even-tempered. While a 'drum horse' is not a specific recognized breed like Shire horses, Shires are not allowed to have white markings like roan or piebald. So, Drum Horses are Shires crossbred with Vanner Cobs and Clyesdales to create any coat and marking possibility while retaining the Shire's distinctive leg feathering.

The owner of the mountain bike wanted an Andalusian, Mustang, or Lusitano with western tack and some leg protection. My concept was a red chestnut Mustang with saddlebags and protectors on the front knees.

The last one is a 'little three speed with pedal brakes like a kid's bike'. I picked a Welsh pony for her.

I do think this bike is still too big to be a Shetland! This is a Welsh Mountain Cob, and they're hardy and have excellent temperaments. They're good for lesson horses and children's show ponies. This one has a simple classical riding saddle and saddle blanket on.

[stephenroot]

I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.