Radioactive Rats

Whatever thoughts come to my head are posted here

[jackalspine]

@schnuffel-danny hehehe

regarding this post: from schnuffle

[i-am-a-fish]

I was searching the internet for <character> because I like <character> and the auto search results recommended to me, in order

🔍 <character>

🔍 <character> death

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

still annoyed my mom threw out my wisdom teeth. you don't just RECYCLE SOMEONE'S TEETH, MOTHER

[rueval]

My sister got our cousin’s baby teeth (both graduated from college at this point) for Christmas and they were perturbed to say the least

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

always, this website beckons me back with its siren song

[wubrh]

@biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist well, since you asked so nicely :)

[assiraphales]

imagine dealing w an international crisis involving precious artifacts and someone is like ‘don’t worry I know a guy’ and it’s a dorky connecticut college professor named henry who slips into his slutsona and suddenly he’s capable of saving the world w the power of his whip & fedora

[assiraphales]

you don’t know where the guy is. you don’t know where the guy is going. but you do know he’s on the case w a 98% success rate and his tits are out

[assiraphales]

I said what I said!

[xavantina]

#this man gets uncomfortable and overwhelmed when 20 y/o college girls hit on him #but take off his glasses #put on his fedora #and this man is ready to find Atlantis in three to eight business days (via @sansakenobi​)

[coffeedrgn87]

It’s impossible to argue with anything above.

[theanishimori]

previous tags are on point: #hat ON archeology APPLIED tits OUT

[rhube]

Honestly, a slutsona that you only slip on when you're not talking to students is a slutsona that's being appropriately applied.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

love it when my fellow they/thems refer to themselves with gendered language specifically to make situations gayer and/or funnier.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i knew an enby who got married and they both referred to each other as "my wife." until the other spouse transitioned, at which point they became husbands.

the cherry on top? introducting each other to new acquaintances as "my ex-wife and current husband"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"nobody likes a complainer" you say, like an idiot, as if thriving ecosystems of friendships aren't blossoming every day based solely on people vocally disliking the same things in similar ways

[milo-melon]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*reaches out my hand in love & friendship* come be a Hater with me

[areyoudoingthis]

babe wake up ao3 came up with the only funny april fools joke in the history of the world

[justplainsalty]

The blog post is pretty great too.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

one thing I respect the hell out of is little kids lying down on the floor in public. they have had ENOUGH and are ready to go HOME and are willing to be a HUGE INCONVENIENCE about it. we can learn so much from them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

still thinking about how much WORSE running errands is for kids. they aren't even your errands! sure it sucks for adults, but kids are 1) forced to tag along, 2) no personal investment in the outcome, 3) get no say on location, duration, timing. a kid stuck in a grocery store aisle while their parent gossips with an acquaintance is a Hostage Situation. at the bare minimum hostages should be allowed to lie down and get some rest

[penpaladinjules]

My oldest kid was especially intolerant of extra bullshit during errands. He wanted a list of where we were going, and would get irate about new ones being added to the list after we started. He called this rule “No Secret Trips,” with special contempt reserved for the bank.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i think your kid should be put in charge of a major government agency. i want him ruling the FDIC with an iron fist. i want him usurping total control over the Department Of Motor Vehicles

[liarsblade]

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

[liarsblade]

[a-potato-of-death]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[just-a-random-bird]

You know that rivalry between Gothamites and Metropolitans? I want that but with Fawcett and Amity Park. Not because they’re so different, but because they’re so similar. I want people from Fawcett accusing Amity Park of stealing their shtick and Amity Parkers to declare Fawcett's magic to be stupid and ineffective.

I want them insulting each others cities and heroes and sports teams and street names and bragging with their own events and people and inventions.

I want Billy and Danny to be besties and hang out and laugh at the praise, insults and admiration thrown at them in the all but war that is taking place on the internet. Not that they're not taking part in it, they still have to defend their town's honour.

I want the rest of the world wondering what the fuck is going on with these random two midwestern towns fighting each other.

[stealingyourbones]

I wonder how many DC villains have been finally sentenced, not because of any of their villainous crimes, but because they tampered with mail and the US Postal Inspection Service got their ass.

[the-witchhunter]

This has “Al Capone getting caught for tax evasion” energy and I love it

[yourlocalcorviddad]

[skiplo-wave]

From bottom of my heart

Putting folks hard work through a machine you don’t deserve call yourself fan of art.

[sionnualanicheallachain]

I think there's actually an additional level of betrayal here.

When I was a teenager and learning about critiquing, one of the things I was explicitly taught was that you don't share other people's manuscripts without permission, full stop. If you're critiquing someone's story, you don't show that draft to your partner, or your friend, or anyone, no matter how good or how bad or how funny or how weird or how whatever you think it is. You have been extended a degree of trust, but that does not come with the right to extend that trust to someone else on the author's behalf.

So even before you get to don't feed other people's work into AI, there's the very basic and technology-agnostic social contract of if you are critiquing someone else's draft, the permission to read it only extends to you and the feedback you provide should only be coming from you. Feeding it into AI is adding insult to injury, but even if you took the AI out of it and substituted another human reader it would still be Super Not Okay.

[the-haiku-bot]

I think there’s actually

an additional level

of betrayal here.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[beemovieerotica]

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

[elodieunderglass]

👍

[mousenoseopera]

The ocean is scary.

[mamoru]

hey before you call something wheelchair accessible just go ahead and invite a wheelchair user or two over because I almost guarantee you that an able-bodied person is not capable of guessing what is accessible without having ever used a wheelchair solo before

some but not all cool things nobody ever thinks of:

put hand sanitizer or a sink in the accessible bathroom stall, or alcohol wipes outside of it. people who cannot use their legs have to use unwashed hands to roll to the sink, and people who can use their legs are afraid to walk out of stalls because they get harassed and even assaulted.

enough space for wheelchair in doorway…AND ARMS. HOW DO YOU THINK THE WHEELCHAIR MOVES! if I cannot roll through it without scraping my arms it is not accessible

brick paths suck the end

gravel paths suck. make it smooth

a ramp is not accessible if it is too steep. not every wheelchair user is ripped enough or capable of using muscles enough to propel themselves up a steep angle safely. some wheelchair users have heart issues. you want heart attacks? this is how you get them

perfect 90 degree turns suck and are often impossible to turn through

some wheelchairs have foot rests. account for them

wheelchair accessible means wheelchair accessible while alone. if you expect someone to have to be helped out to use your facility, that is not acceptable or accessible

yeah

[addamatic]

Your door is too heavy.

There isn’t adequate space to open the door while in a wheelchair.

Your door is impossible to close while in a wheelchair.

Your door requires a weirdly high amount of hand dexterity.

Your door is too heavy. It’s so stiff. It’s impossible to see someone struggling with it and people open it into the wheelchair user from the inside because it’s too heavy and they didn’t see them there.

By the way, your door? It is too heavy.

[the-haiku-bot]

Your door requires

a weirdly high amount of

hand dexterity.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[i-am-a-fish]

treat yourself with the same kindness and understanding youd offer to an ancient wizard

[i-am-a-fish]

i didn't realize this would be a problem when I posted this but some of you don't have the respect and admiration for an ancient wizard that I assumed would be more inherent and universal

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

NASA took a pic of the dark side of the moon fyi

[marlynnofmany]

Yeah, isn’t that a cool picture? It’s the one someone showed me to point out what color the moon really is compared to the Earth! They both have the same amount of sunlight on them here.

The moon’s not white! It’s concrete-gray! It only looks so shiny when compared to the void of space!

I love learning things I didn’t expect to learn. Like when I learned that it’s called the “dark side” of the moon because it’s the side we don’t see, not because sunlight never hits it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

she's mooning us

[periodicallypurple]

Thought this might help others who struggle when writing. I know I get in my head too much.