Pugugly001's Knick Knacks

Main Blog: @Pugugly001 Table of Contents My shelf of things, probably on tumblr, probably SFW, humorous, or just cool, I happen to run across that I want to save.

[pugugly001]

I'm going to be downloading and shutting down a number of my side blogs in the near future. Pretty much anything that is purely pics for certain is going away, maybe other stuff.

[unifiedintelligencetaskwhores]

"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

[mariacallous]

[macrolit]

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[alarajrogers]

32, and the list is actually either only 99, or a lot longer than 100. “The Chronicles of Narnia” contains “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.” If we were to count them out as separate books, then there would be six more, and then we’d also have to separately count all of Harry Potter, all of Shakespeare, and all of Sherlock Holmes.

I was a little surprised to see I’ve only read a third of the list, personally. Perhaps I should read more of this shit.

[pugugly001-misc]

Generously, 23 - I haven't read all the works of William Shakespeare or the Bible by any stretch.

[lobsterenthusiastt]

duality of man

[pugugly001-misc]

Massive violations of the Antiquities Act.

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Hackin'

King: i can't believe elon's grok is pretending i'm friends with him King: i need to stop that AI before everyone believes it! King: i've got to hire a hacker King: franz, you've got to help me Franz Kafka: what? me? Barker: steve, no

Kafka: i'm not a hacker King: oh i thought franz was a hacker Barker: what gave you THAT impression? King: you know, with the cat ear headphones and the striped thigh socks Barker: no steve that's something ENTIRELY different Kafka: n-no it isn't, on second thought yes I'm totally a hacker

Kafka: it means i'm a hacker, nothing else Barker: sure franz Kafka: it does! it totally means i'm a hacker! Barker: franz, go play with your blahaj plush, the adults are talking here

Barker: you know who you need? you need william gibson Barker: the best hacker money can buy King: william gibson? how do i contact him? Barker: you don't Barker: he'll contact you

King: can you really hack grok, william? William Gibson: [wearing black duster and fingerless black gloves] my hacker name is shadow gigabyte King: oh sorry Gibson: can i hack grok? listen kid i was cyberbyting the megabyte mainframe when you were just rebooting your motherboard mouse data bandwidth modem email King: wow!

Gibson: my CPU is a neural net processer, a learning computer King: wow he really sounds like he knows what he's talking about! King: that definitely sounds like hacker talk to me Gibson: CD Rom Gibson: internet Joe Hill: dad can i talk to you for a second King: not now joe daddy's hiring a hacker

Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] i'll re-index the mega bit blaster cyber codex Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] now we'll cybersecurity the lock box data center King: hey what happens if you push that button? Gibson: what the-- no!! [klaxons sound] King: what's that mean? Gibson: shit Gibson: we've got company

Gibson: sentient cyber virus electronic guard cyberbots Gibson: real high tech Gibson: state of the art in bio-tech wetware neural-data scrapers Gibson: [putting on sunglasses with red laser scope] and they ain't friendly

King: what are we going to do?! Gibson: kid, you keep your hands to yourself unless you wanna become roadkill on the information super highway!!! Gibson: hold on to your CPU (central processing unit)!!!

Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] gotta reconfigure the darkweb logistics for ethernet wavetech Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] upload the memory downloader for dumpware backup Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] uncodify the cyberpatch modifer aaaaand Gibson: i'm in

King: wow, you hacked twitter?? how did you do it? Gibson: the greatest hackers never reveal their secrets [earlier] Gibson: [wearing fake mustache] hey elon its me catturd Gibson: could you give me your password? Elon Musk: sure it's "picklerick420"!

[pugugly001-misc]

Time to rewatch the guilty pleasure that is "Hackers"

[animentality]

[atlantahammy]

Pssst if you have ublock: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

[alatariel-galadriel]

I love Spock so much. I’m constantly thinking about “‘Vulcan’s do not lie,’ Spock lied,” and “one of my ancestors married a human” (his DAD he’s talking about his DAD marrying his MOM, king shit)

He never leaves my head I am rotating him like a rotisserie chicken in the microwave. I love him.

[alarajrogers]

I know, right? He was my first blorbo (well, if you don't count Underdog and Letterman from the Electric Company). I love him.

I've heard a lot of diss on Strange New Worlds but why? There is baby Spock. Spock trying to make his future marriage work and we all know it won't, poor guy. Spock saying "I would like the ship to go now." Spock being established to have dyslexia. The most superhumanly intelligent non-android character of all time and he's dyslexic. (Admittedly this is Discovery not Strange New Worlds but it's the same iteration of the character.) Incredible! Spock getting temporarily turned into a human and having no fucking idea what he's doing. Spock singing because there is a musical episode. Spock meeting James T. Kirk for the first time and they offhandedly talk about three dimensional chess. Spock being an absolute dork.

I love more mature Spock from TOS and I love elderly Spock from TNG and the alternate timeline movies and I love Spock playing off Q in Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie's radio plays "Spock vs Q" and "Spock vs Q 2". I am so famous within my family for loving Spock, one time my brother pranked me by replacing all my Windows 3.1 icons with Spock, and changing the blurb that comes up on boot from "Microsoft Windows" to "Microsoft Spock."

Spock is great, we need more Spock.

[pugugly001-misc]

Wait … Spock versus Q/Q2?

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ampervadasz]

[pugugly001-misc]

My life in three acts.

[depsidase]

[pugugly001-misc]

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

[msprayforever]

[randomencounters]

Encounter: Dancing Hosebeast

[pugugly001-misc]

When your town has a shapeshifting alien and everyone just rolls with it.

[chainsawmansheart]

[natalieironside]

Sometimes I can still hear their voice

[breadbird]

Breaking: TikTok is better bc it’s more hostile towards humanity

[deathbyotpin123]

The lack of video content is what kept us here... I thought we all agree that the best feature of this hellhole was and always will be anonymity.

Tumblr's not asking for my phone number. It's not going through my contacts to try and connect me with my fucking colleagues. I can come here and talk about whatever I want without anyone ever seeing my face or hearing my voice. I don't have to censor myself and hide my interests or enthusiasm out of fear of consequences it might have in my real life.

[charlesoberonn]

I think the biggest misunderstanding they have of Tumblr is that they think of it as a social media platform when in actuality it's a blogging platform with social features.

[grifalinas]

I like the use of Metroman here because if there's one thing Tumblr users collectively agree on it's that we want everyone to think we're dead

[pugugly001-misc]

Shhhhhhh!!!

[dduane]

…Somewhere around here, Carmela Rodriguez is snickering.

(Tx to @lordbaronmccabre over at Bluesky)

[pugugly001-misc]

The hell you say!

[the-cimmerians]

when i started my last director job at a university, they told me one of my duties would be to write all the chancellor’s letters. me: “cool. but why though?” them: “English isn’t the chancellor’s first language.” me: “I’m aware of that.” them: “the chancellor likes the suggestions that autocorrect gives him if he misspells something.” me: “Ah.” them: hands me a copy of a letter the chancellor sent to a donor who had just given a million-dollar gift to the university, which includes the following: ‘The profundity of your gift fills us with the greatest horror. In recognition we have prepared a special plague to compromise you and your family’. 

Which is why to this day when I’m struggling to communicate in a different language, i remember the chancellor, who was Doing His Best, and i try to give myself a break.

[pugugly001-misc]

I would absolutely frame that on my wall with the caption "Do your best. It'll work out."

[n09m19changsblog]

[wretchedly]

You know what, fuck it. Figure skating is now my favorite sport. Unless there's another one that will let a competitor dress up in a silly costume and do all these silly jumps and wiggles and fall on purpose, IN THE OLYMPICS, there's no contest

[pugugly001-misc]

This is why figure skating is the only sport I voluntarily watch. I still think the funniest thing in the world was watching Curt Browning sail in after an almost perfect pair of brilliant performances and watching Scott Hamilton hit the ice *pulling golf clubs behind him* and a look that plainly said "That sumbitch is gonna win this isn't he!? Dammit!"

[reasoncourt]

EXTREMELY rare w from the uk media

[doctorstarky]

Defamation lawsuits in UK are heavily weighted in *favor* of the plaintiff. You have to have a pretty weak case to lose over there. If there wasn't a rabbid, inescapable social media campaign against Amber Heard, he would have lost in America too.

[red-red-spout]

[geeoharee]

I did not follow this whole thing closely and do not know who accused who of what, but if Depp LOST a LIBEL SUIT in ENGLAND, he 1000% fucking did what he was accused of.

Celebs bring libel suits here because we have the most laughable 'yeah we'll silence that journo for you no worries' libel law in the world. There's a running joke about TV comedians having to insert the word "allegedly" to avoid being caught up in it.

edit: the S*n should still be burned down though, in minecraft, allegedly

[pugugly001-misc]

Honestly, I haven't deeply dug into either case but from what I saw casually, I haven't the foggiest how he lost the case in England. His case seemed solid to me, and I don't think the people saying it's 'easy' to win defamation cases in the US are right, you just don't bring defamation cases here unless you have a really strong case.