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Stunning colorized photos of legendary Soviet female snipers from WWII, including one dubbed ‘Lady Death’ who killed 309 Nazis.

bewitchking-deactivated20230725

What’s better than this?! The Wonder Woman theme was performed on an electric cello?!!

zombeesknees

#just end me #someone add fireworks to that cello and strap her to a truck in the wasteland shredding to valhalla

eccentricandfantastic

Y’ALL THAT IS TINA GUO AND YES SHE PERFORMED THE WONDER WOMAN THEME FOR THE MOVE SCORE.

vaporize-employers

btw… important PSA: cutting off the mold on the surface of food does nothing. you can only see the spores on the surface, but mold itself has spread and grown roots into the food. by the time you can actually *see* the spores, that piece of food is completely full of it. youre still eating mold.

many of which are poisonous and have been shown to cause cancer. youre not even supposed to sniff it, because that can get spores into your lungs. like if you look up the health and safety guidelines for mold they barely stop short of telling you to put on a hazmat suit.

like produce is okay as long as you cut around it at least an inch, but cooked foods? you gonna die. stop eating mold people

khattikeri

does that include bread

vaporize-employers

yes

mercy-misrule

it’s been linked to before but this is a good solid source

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/safe-food-handling/molds-on-food-are-they-dangerous_/ct_index

and there’s a lot of ‘whose doing this!?!??’ in comments

the answer is, unsurprisingly, poor people. poor people, and people who fear poverty, honestly

it’s horrible what that will do, how people will endanger themselves because of it, of fear of food scarcity

source for that: me, a lifetime of living under the poverty line and also being mentally ill

wishyounew

mediamattersforamerica

Sinclair Broadcast Group is about to buy Tribune Media – and Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will get a whole lot easier.

gayscifi

racefaker

So Captain Underpants explores the friendship between a gay boy and a black bisexual boy and y’all wanna say Beauty and the Beast was the pinnacle of gay representation in children’s films huh

racefaker

Captain Underpants comes out on Pride Month. Coincidence? I think the fuck NOT.

evil-little-princess-from-hell

Excuse but Harold and George aint gay.

dykelliewilliams

You miss the book where Harold has a husband?

evil-little-princess-from-hell

Fanfiction aint canon

heartandstride-deactivated20190

It’s in the official books written by the actual author, so it is canon. Pilkey wrote it, so it’s canon.

evil-little-princess-from-hell

I refuse to believe he willingly inserted a political agenda into a popular, established children series

heartandstride-deactivated20190

Oh look, stuff from the book! The actual canon book.

Look at Harold with his husband and kids. Very small but super poignant.

darkwingsnark

LOL @ ‘wouldn’t put political agendas in children’s books’.

celepom

David Pilkey was throwing shade all over these books. One of the biggest, most obvious commentaries in the books are how shitty the public school system is. And it was carried over into the movie too.

boatsthatfly

whats up with space warfare in film man

dont gimme this pussy-ass star wars bullshit with the sounds in and the lasers and the artificial gravity and all that shit

gimme the zero-g bloodshed man, i want a fucking spinny space ring ship with artillery guns that point DOWN into the floor but its still shooting out and you gotta fire an equal force on the OTHER side so that you dont push your ship off in the other direction

i want lasers that arent in like a physical little stupid tube but are actually a beam that melts shit and FOR CRYING OUT LOUD it is SO boring for soldiers to just get hit and then bam they are gone like please ENGAGE me in the warfar more

i want an ACTUAL 3D fight like WHY ARE YOUR SHIPS ALL FACING THE SAME DIRECTION? iTS SPACE HOW DO YOU KNOW TO DO THAT

WHY DO THE SHIPS HAVE WINGS IN SPACE. USELESS

and why are youR engines ALWAYS ON you only gotta fire em off for a little bit if youre just SLIGHTly moving forwards because when youve got no resistance youll just KEEP GAINING SPEED

“oh no!ccccc ive got an enemy onmy tail!!! i cant shake him ??? ahhhhnnb!!!!” ITS SPACE IF U JUST TURN AROUND YOU ARNT GOING TO LOSE YOUR DIRECTIONAL VELOCITY YOU CLOWN ITS NOT A PLANE theres no AIR

it’s all so fucking fake and thoughtless and effortless like w o w its looks so pretty!!! i gues???? it means NOTHING to me though get the FUCK outta here with this silliness

AND NOBODY EVER SUFFERS A BRUTAL DEATH LIKE EVER where are the “war is death and hell and suffering” themes its like you want it to be f u n instead of horrifying and tragic and brutally heartless

fuck

heartofalifer

mindblowingscience

We've learned so much already.

1. Lungs don’t just facilitate respiration - they also make blood. Mammalian lungs produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, which equates to the majority of platelets circulating the body.

2. It is mathematically possible to build an actual time machine - what’s holding us back is finding materials that can physically bend the fabric of space-time.

3. Siberia has a colossal crater called the ‘doorway to the underworld’, and its permafrost is melting so fast, ancient forests are being exposed for the first time in 200,000 years.

4. The world’s first semi-synthetic organisms are living among us - scientists have given rise to new lifeforms using an expanded, six-letter genetic code.

5. Vantablack - the blackest material known to science - now comes in a handy ‘spray-on’ form and it’s the weirdest thing we’ve seen so far this year.

6. It’s official: time crystals are a new state of matter, and we now have an actual blueprint to create these “impossible” objects at will.

7. A brand new human organ has been classified, and it’s been hiding in plain sight this whole time. Everyone, meet your mesentery.

8. Carl Sagan was freakishly good at predicting the future - his disturbingly accurate description of a world where pseudoscience and scientific illiteracy reigns gave us all moment for pause.

9. A single giant neuron that wraps around the entire circumference of a mouse’s brain has been identified, and it appears to be linked to mammalian consciousness.

10. The world’s rarest and most ancient dog isn’t extinct after all - in fact, the outrageously handsome New Guinea highland wild dog appears to be thriving.

11. Your appendix might not be the useless evolutionary byproduct after all. Unlike your wisdom teeth, your appendix might actually be serving an important biological function - and one that our species isn’t ready to give up just yet.

12. After 130 years, we might have to completely redraw the dinosaur family tree, thanks to a previously unimportant cat-sized fossil from Scotland.

13. Polycystic ovary syndrome might actually start in the brain, not the ovaries.

14. Earth appears to have a whole new continent called Zealandia, which would wreak havoc on all those textbooks and atlases we’ve got lying around.

15. Humans have had a bigger impact on Earth’s geology than the infamous Great Oxidation Event 2.3 billion years ago, and now scientists are calling for a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene - to be officially recognised.

16. Turns out, narwhals - the precious unicorns of the sea - use their horns for hunting. But not how you’d think.

17. Human activity has literally changed the space surrounding our planet - decades of Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio communications have accidentally formed a protective, human-made bubble around Earth.

18. Farmers routinely feed red Skittles to their cattle, because it’s a cheap alternative to corn. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lupinerage

@mychronicillnessblog, 13 is the one I specifically want you to read, bit these are all feckin cool

geeky-jez-deactivated20231025

kumafromtaiwan

Ruby never can read a total book at once ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

passthecavasier

The Pacific Northwest is fucking Perfect

bad-intentixns

Holy shit

itscolossal

An Amazing Split View of the Milky Way as If Photographed from Beneath a Frigid German River

yourplayersaidwhat

I Am Floored By My Group's Infiltration Tactics

I’m DMing for a group of four players: a Dwarf Druid, a Wood Elf Ranger, a Human Monk, and a Half-Elf Cleric. Currently, due to tips from an NPC, they’re attempting to infiltrate the castle, and are currently dealing with the king’s advisor, Bo. They’ve decided they need to get away from Bo and check either a side room, or the basement.

Ranger: (OOC) I want to try and sneak away into this side room. (rolls low)

Me: You take three steps, then step on a squeaky floorboard. Bo is looking right at you.

Ranger: (IC) “…man, you should get these floorboards fixed.”

Bo (Me): “Well, with all that’s been going on lately, we haven’t had time to call in any carpenters.”

Monk: “I’m a carpenter, I could get them fixed for you if you bring me some tools.” (passes Persuasion roll)

Bo (Me): “Oh, that’d be wonderful! I’ll go get you what you need.”

Bo leaves. Our Druid goes over to a small hole in the wall, lures out a rat, and communicates with it to try and learn any secrets about the castle. Some guards have noticed this and gotten suspicious, however, and are on their way over to apprehend him. Our Cleric quickly tries to intervene.

Cleric: “Hey guys! What’s it like being guards? You look so cool!”

Guard (Me): “Sir, please stand aside…”

Monk: I want to punch the squeaky floorboard. (rolls high on Strength)

Me: (amused, thinking he wants to break into the basement) Alright, make a Stealth check to see if the guards notice.

Monk: Nah man, I’m trying to distract them!

Me: (after a surprised pause) …you loudly punch a five-foot hole in the floor. The guards start rushing over to you, forgetting about [Druid].

Monk: “See, there’s your problem! Wood rot!”

Ranger: I want to push one of the guards into the hole in the floor. (makes Strength check, beats my roll for the guard’s own Strength)

Me: You push one guard forward into the hole. It’s only about a foot deep, so he gets back up and turns to you angrily.

Ranger: “I just wanted you to check if you found any problems in that hole!” (makes a Deception check, gets decently high)

Me: (rolls the guard’s Insight, gets Nat 1) …

Guard (Me): (cheerfully) “Oh, okay then! :D”

charlesoberonn

New original 3D animated movie: Ducks. The secret life of ducks when humans aren’t looking.

Whenever ducks fly south in the winter, they’re actually flying to a big city of ducks where they talk and have jobs and have traffic lights with pictures of ducks in them and every billboard and storefront is a bird pun.

A generic duck guy is a young adult who feels inadequate because his dad is a big broker in the bread stock exchange.

He accidentally reveals the secret life of ducks to a human child, and now he must take her south with him to duck city. On the way they get into hijinks and find out about a big duck conspiracy or something.

artigust

I was thinking at first this was an actual movie

charlesoberonn

It will be if you just give me 3 years and $150,000,000

old-manrupee

How many times would “duck” be confused between the physical action and the animal in question?

charlesoberonn

12 times for comedic effect. 1 time used ironically in a sad moment in the end of act II. And 1 time in the last act when the protagonist has to say something badass when he defeats the bad guy.