all art is quite useless.

nicole, 28, dancer, writer. “dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

[nylonlion]

It's dishonest work and it's a lot. And nobody needs to do it

[stud-yawgmoth]

[anxietyproblem]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[valtsv]

[bacontoktok]

[cellarspider]

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

[scientia-rex]

I would not have guessed this in a thousand years. I am delighted.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Did you know? Tumblr DOES have a post length limit. Strangely, though, it's based on how many blocks of text you have. Supposedly this implies that you can have any length post so long as it's one block of text? Very strange, will have to investigate further.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Two limits! You can have a maximum of 4,096,000 characters in 1 [one] tumblr post. I would work out how many combinations this is, but 26^6,000 is already considered to be "Infinity" by most calculators, and a program I wrote threw an error code.

26^95,000 is already over 134,000 characters long - which would take 33 different text blocks to convey via tumblr. Whenever somebody says we're running out of posts, don't forget that tumblr is needlessly designed for MASSIVE amounts of information [no matter how detrimental it may be for mobile phones].

There are SOME works of fanfiction which are lengthy enough that you couldn't fit the whole thing into one tumblr post, but this is enough to fit Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy in it about 14 times over.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Don't hide that in the tags

[tanoraqui]

For something more conceivable than characters:

The average word in English text is ~5 characters long

4,096,000/5 = 819,200 words in a FULL Tumblr post.

So, if you did solid blocks of text (rather than the books’ paragraphs, all much less than 4,096 characters!) you could include the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy PLUS the entire Hunger Games trilogy…

or War and Peace plus Crime and Punishment…

or every single Jane Austen novel plus The Secret Garden just for fun

or Anna Karenina plus Gone With the Wind

[redstonedust]

I've always disliked mr beast just based on his content mill vaguely exploitative vibes so it's been kind of wild learning he also does legitimate crimes and workplace violations. it's like disliking an acquaintance because they're kinda annoying and then finding out they kill people too like damn dude you didn't have to do all that i already hated your ass.

[the-meme-monarch]

happy hallowing you can take TWO pieces

[stantler]

You’re in your 20s saying seggs and unalive… Maybe worry about that

[sanitymakesposts]

Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

[sanitymakesposts]

Mods, make him busy during a friends planned trip so he misses out on the new inside joke.

[sanitymakesposts]

Mods… change the smell of his parents house.

[evilscientist3]

look boss, our quarterly "subjection to the brutalities of the Absurd" budget is almost blown already. can we not just shoot this one twice in the back of the head and call it a day?

[ruinedchildhood]

[anxietyproblem]

[figdays]

Scale Ceramic Mom Kittens & Spilt Milk Bucket Figure // LovelydesiCreations

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Here it is, the sexiest thing I could think of dressing up as for Halloween.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Nearly the last chance to seasonally reblog this until I put the legs away for another year.

[thebelchers]

[regicide1997]

So when I was getting dressed today, I very quickly put on a lab coat and some cat ears, not even trying to have something coherent, just wanting to have some kind of costume, and then I used some eyeliner to draw some whiskers on my face, so, yeah, that's my costume, cat in a lab coat, does it make sense? no. who cares. Still wearing the same skirt and striped knee-high socks from yesterday, but that's just my work clothes.

But then when I got to my office in the physics department, one of my colleagues was immediately like, "Oh! Schrödinger's catgirl!"

[sanitymakesposts]

If life ever gets you down, install an app that lets you make YouTube videos to 5x faster and watch dog agility courses. You get to see them how they feel themselves

[stitchposts]

BOOP

[stitchposts]