Things I Like

don't mind me I'm just a lurker

[goawfma]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

[blatterpussbunnyfromhell]

Moroccan architecture (specifically, amazigh from Chefchaouen)

Post-colonial Algerian architecture (Algiers and Constantine):

Mozabite architecture (from Ghardaia, Algeria):

[tlirsgender]

When you get more objective about the way nature is & away from weird anthropomorphic carnivore slander it is a little funny when the baby sea turtles hatch and every other animal in like a ten mile radius goes "oh fuck yum one million mini sliders"

[tlirsgender]

[ID: a screenshot of the original post's tags that read, "#real turtleheads know this is a play on sliders (turtle emoji) which are a type of terrestrial turtle. but it's also tiny hamburgers #which seems apt. #this has been another episode of Joke Explainer" /end ID]

Keeping these actually. Necessary footnote for this post

[tlirsgender]

Watching a jaguar casually walk up to an adult sea turtle headed back to the water after laying her eggs and eat it like why am I in my sea turtle violence era and why are they like this. Adult sea turtles aren't especially easy to eat in the water they'll swim around with shark bites taken out of them like they're just chillin. And then on land they just kinda

[tlirsgender]

Jaguar watching a sea turtle on the beach: oh fuck yum 100 pound slider

[tlirsgender]

Also today I learned that since the jaguar scares off other smaller predators it's actually good for the sea turtle population if there are jaguars there. Cause less babies get eaten by Everything Else. I'm gonna be honest I didn't even consider that a jaguar could be on the beach

[tlirsgender]

Every other animal in like a ten mile radius: I'm gonna be honest I didn't even consider that a jaguar could be on the beach

[deervsheadlights]

incomplete list of contraptions and online entertainment i think rocky would be weirdly into and/or try to replicate for fun and/or pleasure:

rube goldberg machines

marble races

domino toppling

hydraulic press vs [x]

hot knife vs [x]

item stocking/sorting

blacksmithing/milling time lapses

[elizabitchtaylor-deactivated202]

I learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese in two separate psychology classes, at two separate universities. It was studied as an example of the “bystander effect”, which is a phenomenon that occurs when witnesses do not offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn’t do anything because they “assumed someone else would”. Nobody intervened until it was too late. 

What I was not told was that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian who lived more or less openly with her partner in the Upper West Side and managed a gay bar. 

Now… is it likely that people overheard Kitty’s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn’t care?

Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn’t know she was gay, or didn’t care.

But it’s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it’s a dishonour to her memory.

RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.

[chemicalheart-deactivated202009]

this was one of the first lessons I had in psych too and we were never told about this either nor was it in any of the reading materials

[thelingerieaddict-deactivated20]

I never knew this.

[dsudis]

I also never knew this about Kitty Genovese, but I do know that, in fact, many of the dozen (not thirty-eight) people who witnessed some part of the attack (which took place after 3AM, on a chilly night in March when most people’s windows were closed) tried to help in some way.

One shouted out his window for the attacker to leave her alone, which did successfully scare the man off temporarily.

Another called the police but, seeing her still on her feet, said only that there had been a fight but the woman seemed to be okay.

And when Kitty Genovese was finally attacked in a vestibule where she couldn’t be seen from outside, Karl Ross, a neighbor, saw what was happening but was too frightened himself to go to her rescue–so he started calling other neighbors to ask what he should do. Eventually one of them told him to call the police, which he did, and the woman he called, Sophie Farrar, rushed out to help Kitty even though she didn’t know whether the attacker was gone.

Kitty Genovese died in the arms of a neighbor who tired to help and comfort her while they waited for the police and ambulance to arrive. Kitty was in fact still alive, although mortally wounded, when the ambulance reached the scene.

The man who saw the final stabbing? Who panicked and called other neighbors first instead of the police? The man who said, infamously, that he “didn’t want to get involved” because he was reluctant to turn to the police for help? He was thought to be gay himself. He was a friend of Kitty and Mary Ann’s. After being interviewed by the police he took a bottle of vodka to Mary Ann and sat with her, trying to comfort her.

So, no. I don’t think the evidence indicates that Kitty Genovese’s neighbors let her die because she was a lesbian, because Kitty Genovese’s neighbors tried to help.

See also: Debunking the Myth of Kitty Genovese (The New York Post)

A Call for Help (The New Yorker)

(Also, going by the content of the murderer’s confession, it was indeed a random attack.)

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

how on EARTH was this “scientifically” studied but the details gotten so wrong and the wrong as hell conclusion published and taught in schools?!?!?! where were those scientists observation skills?! on vacation?!

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

How to take facts and turn them into an urban legend that gets taught in schools: Make a bad made-for-t.v.-movie about it, watch it, believe everything the movie says, annnnnnnd go!  That’s how it gets taught as this supposed “scientific study.”  Someone got fucking lazy.

Spread the real deal, kids.

[tehriz]

A book about this, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction this year! if anyone wants to check it out try your local library!

[racefortheironthrone]

I want to add one crucial but telling detail: the story about the 38 witnesses didn’t come out of nowhere, it was handed to the New York Times City Editor by the Police Commissioner in order to distract said editor from asking unwelcome questions about a different case, and the story that was eventually written and which made headlines was almost entirely composed from police sources. 

At the time, the NYPD was coming under quite a bit of criticism about rising crime rates and the seeming ineffectiveness of the police’s response to the problem. In the Kitty Genovese case, even though people did in fact call the police, it took about an hour for them to show up and the first detectives didn’t arrive until three hours later (at which point they mostly spent their time interrogating Kitty’s girlfriend about their relationship, because for “some reason” they considered her to be the most likely suspect for the murder. In fact, the police wouldn’t catch the actual killer until six days later when he was picked up for having a stolen TV in the trunk of his car, at which point he admitted to having committed a total of three murders). It’s not an accident that one of the things to come out of the Genovese case was the establishment of the 9-1-1 system, because at the time that the attack happened, you had to call the specific number of a particular police precinct and it was up to the duty sergeant on the desk to take action - which was usually to send someone out from the precinct to the address reported, because cops on foot patrol wouldn’t be outfitted with two-way radios for several years. It’s more than a little convenient that at a time when the NYPD is coming in for public scrutiny about its ability to do the basic job of responding to reports of crimes in a timely fashion, the Police Commissioner happens to hand the City Editor of the city’s most prominent newspaper a story which puts the blame for the slow response on the apathy and inaction of New Yorkers, neatly absolving the NYPD for its ridiculously poor performance in this case in particular and its response to the rise in crime in general. 

It’s also quite telling that the New York Times ran with the story the way they did. It’s not like there weren’t people on the scene who said they had called the police, or that the basic facts about how many witnesses there were and what they had seen didn’t match the account that the commissioner had given. The writer the Times sent out chose not to include this information because “it would have ruined the story.“ The Times wanted to frame the story as a narrative about how the root of NYC’s problems was urban apathy and anomie - and the news organizations that picked up on the Times’ reporting and made the Kitty Genovese case a national and global story wanted to frame the story as proof that NYC was a dangerous urban jungle that deserved its decline because of the bad character of its residents.  I think the takeaway from this case isn’t just about sloppy scientific research, it’s that you have to always consider how official narratives are used to assign blame to specific individuals and groups and absolve larger institutions of responsibility. 

[sighinastorm]

Shocking: people in the past had their own motives for lying too.

[zer0brainc3lls]

Grace and Rocky somehow getting onto the topic of Dom and Sub dynamics, Grace is explaining kinda awkwardly even though he isn’t super educated on the subject, he gets the gist and tries his best to explain!! He expects questions, maybe some teasing judgment about earths sex culture, what he doesn’t expect Rocky to say is:

“Ohhh like Grace and Rocky!! Rocky understand.”

[depsidase]

[blurds]

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

[luxshine]

The “Thunk” will always kill me.

[falconratesbirds]

14/10 doing his best

[littleguysdaily]

[thoodleoo]

hades explaining that he’s the god of the dead, not the god of death

[moonlitlillypop]

Thanatos explaining that he’s the god of death, not hades

[moonlitlillypop]

Thanatos explaining that it applies to animals too

[mando-lore]

Poseidon explaining that he is the god of the seas and oceans

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

Zeus explaining why he can’t keep it in his pants

[miceprincess]

Hermes explaining why he gotta go fast

[memesandmylife]

dionysus explaining why he’s Like That

[femur-theif]

All of these are so accurate it hurts

[glass-trash-bab]

@nicadenic

[lesbian-velma-rights]

Also Hermes, God of messengers

[confusedwitch-deactivated202412]

And Eris, Goddess of discord and chaos

[thethinkingaurora]

Oh my god I’m dying, these are all just consecutive sucker punch’s straight to the nose

Help

[william-solace-aaaaa-deactivate]

Ares, the god of war

[skznccmlee]

I’M DYING I LOVE THIS

[iys-cloud]

WHY IS THIS SO PERFECT

[astoriagalaxy]

i love it when tumblr users play with jpegs like dolls

[sigmaleph]

so a thing i often think about while showering is that controlling the temperature of the water is tricky, right? how hot the water is when it comes out of my showerhead is going to depend on a lot of factors like what temperature the water is before going through the water heater and how much gas the heater is burning and how much water is flowing and how much cold water is getting mixed in. and i have no control over some of those factors, limited control over others (I can't change my water heater settings if i'm already in the shower) and for the ones i do control more-or-less directly (flow of water from the 'hot' and 'cold' parts of the system) it takes some amount of fiddling and the system has some inertia and if i get it too wrong it can be very unpleasant because i am physically there getting water at the wrong temperature thrown at me.

and like if i had to design the magical perfect shower system, the two dials would not be 'hot water' and 'cold water' but rather 'temperature' and 'flow' that can be adjusted independently with small movements of the dial corresponding to small, predictable changes in the relevant physical variable and you might even imagine presets per person or something.

and like. there are practical difficulties with that sort of thing ofc (e.g. water famously has a pretty big heat capacity, so there's gonna be some inertia if you're trying to change its temperature quickly) but it doesn't seem beyond our abilities as a species, right? expensive, I am not surprised I don't have this at home, but. Does someone?

I have no idea how the showers of rich people work but are they remotely like this or are they just doing something entirely different and presumably-better-by-their-preferences or do they also have to deal with fiddly showers? i am curious.

[nia--san]

Yes, there are fancy showers with digital controls that do this, and they are expensive. Although now I'm wondering if this is feasible with a traditional water heater setup or if this is only practical with hot water on demand.

[serinemolecule]

and like if i had to design the magical perfect shower system, the two dials would not be 'hot water' and 'cold water' but rather 'temperature' and 'flow' that can be adjusted independently

This exists and is called a "thermostatic mixer" faucet. @nia--san has probably seen ones with digital screens, but the tech is completely mechanical and are usually sold without any electronics at all. They're also not expensive; here's one for USD$20.

Basically every Japanese shower works like this, and, I repeat, it has zero electronics:

As you can see, the right knob adjusts temperature, and the left knob adjusts pressure. There's also a button on the showerhead to turn it on and off, so once you set the temperature and pressure you like, you can just press the showerhead button before and after every shower.

I've seen these controls in a few luxury hotels (and airport lounges) outside of Japan, but it's pretty rare rare.

adjusted independently with small movements of the dial corresponding to small, predictable changes in the relevant physical variable

You can see from the pic that this one has a bunch of temperatures marked on the dial. You can literally just select the exact temperature you want.

(e.g. water famously has a pretty big heat capacity, so there's gonna be some inertia if you're trying to change its temperature quickly)

Not actually a problem. As you can see, the mixer bar has hot water and cold water going directly into it, so you're not changing the temperature of the water itself, so much as changing what percentage of the mixture is coming from hot water.

In my experience, feeling the change happens pretty quickly, but that's also true of every other shower I've used (which also work this way), so I don't know what's up with your showers.

I have no idea how the showers of rich people work but are they remotely like this

Nope, I've been to a lot of pretty rich people's houses and seen some ultra-luxury showers and they may be huge and made of marble and have rain showers, but the controls seem optimized for artistic value rather than convenience.

I'd much rather use a Japanese shower. It's not like thermostatic mixers are expensive (the first one I found on Amazon Japan was USD$20). They just haven't caught on in the rest of the world for whatever reason.

[andmaybegayer]

thermostatic mixers are becoming more common (my apartment in Czechia has one) but you mainly see them in new construction and commercial spaces because of energy efficiency and safety regulations, also because people don't ever replace old fittings and even when they do they usually buy the same kind of fitting. If you cheap the fuck out (motels love doing this) you put in a single-knob version that only controls temperature, not pressure, but the two-knob ones are excellent, you can just set the temperature and forget it.

In commercial settings these save you from accidentally burning anyone, and it allows you to use much hotter water in the pipes which reduces risk of bacterial growth and allows you to use less, hotter water from a smaller, better insulated tank.

The way these work is cool, there's a piston containing a plug of wax that's exposed to the post-mixer water, and the wax expands when heated such that actuates the mixer valve. When the piston extends it mixes in more cold water, and you adjust a springloaded offset adjustment with the temperature knob so that you can change equilibrium. Closed-loop mechanical control with an adjustable setpoint!

[writing-prompt-s]

It's not a name, I'm not immortal, and while I am very good at what I do, if-when I die, they got some other poor shmuck ready to be my replacement, it's a title so no that's not my name. I look up and see my companions shocked expressions.

[artdecodude]

Don't know if it helps the photo quality any but I took a Top, Middle, & Bottom photo of the artwork of the Empire State Building inside the lobby of... THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING #ArtDeco #NewYorkCity #EmpireStateBuilding 📸:me/10/2023

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

"when people ask how you're doing, they don't really care." most of them do, actually, the amount they care is just directly proportional to how well they know you. you're just mad you can't be the main character of the Twice Daily.

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

if i am doing shitty and the check out girl asks me, "how are you?" i will say,"man, i've been better." we are strangers to each other. she doesn't need to know my whole life story. she doesn't need to know about my credit score and my hemorrhoids or my uncle in the hospital. she just needs enough to respond "been there, buddy. hey, at least the day is almost over?" and then we part ways. i have been on both sides of thousands of exchanges like this, the only one making you do a little song and dance is you, my friend

[animentality]

[neunhofferart]

Nearly pissed myself laughing earlier when I saw this absolute Looney Tunes truck attempting to transport an oversized mattress down the road with only a couple tiny bungee cords holding on for dear life, while it ballooned out behind the truck like a drag racing parachute:

[darquingdragon]

@foldingfittedsheets

[doingbad]

The plot of A Scandal in Bohemia is Irene Adler orchestrating an elaborate escape to get away from her abusive ex (the king hires people to stalk her, confront her, break into her home, steal from her, etc.). AND SHE ESCAPES! SHE'S FREE!

So every time an adaptation includes her as a criminal, love interest, or femme fatale who loses to Holmes it's not just missing the point, it's genuinely so fucking disrespectful.

[doingbad]

Exactly, exactly @skyriderwednesday

#SHE WINS!!!!!#THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF HER#she makes holmes see that he was the being used to do evil to an innocent woman because he didn't bother questioning the motive of the king#that's why he keeps her photograph imo#to remind him to keep his eyes open and question all sides of a case#it's a 'norbury' if you ask me#to open his desk drawer and see ms adler looking back at him#is to ask the question of himself ''am i in the right here?''#''am i aiding the correct party in this case?''#sherlock holmes

[monsterritory]

Episode 12 of @eridian-heart

In reference to Episode 4.

Kink negotiated! The unaddressed PTSD is still there but hey at least they negotiated the kinks now :3  

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I need to admit something to the US Tumblrinas. Philadelphia isn't a place to me. It's a cream cheese. You say "philadelphia" or "philly" and I immediately, and exclusively, think of the cream cheese. "Twelve people die in Philadelphia disaster" wow that must've been a Molasses Flood style event

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

No I trust the Americans, the cheese lovers, and the fans of the molasses flood to find this one on their own.