áileánach

laughing at clouds

[malibuklaus]

[galadriel1010]

Sometimes you get a brief glimpse into the American worldview and decide that you don't want to know.

[transcyberism]

I cannot stress enough that this meme is entirely literal. there's no reference or subtext you don't know. these are simply the objectively most popular works of art from each denomination.

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

this comes across my dash regularly

i'm the Catholic one, looks pretty canonical

Orthodox is like the Eastern European Catholics? ok cool

the other two are clearly my fellow Americans' upbringing but like

what point are you making?

there are no latter day saints elsewhere, Joseph's hat wasn't big enough

and Protestants? fucking Protestants? I mean, I don't really know what happened in the centuries since Martin Luther. But I'm pretty sure it isn't.. whatever you learned in the suburb you grew up in.

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

It is quite something for the state to lose the benefit of the doubt in its own courtrooms.

[wondersmith-and-sons]

Which of the following moments in British politics was funniest?

David Cameron allegedly fucking a pig (2015)

Theresa May Brexit deal sees worst parliamentary defeat of any British PM (2019)

Dominic Cummings' social distancing scandal is named #Cumgate (2021)

Matt "Eat Out to Help Out" Hancock caught having affair with his aide (2021)

MP resignations reach critical mass under Boris Johnson (2022)

The Queen dies 2 days after meeting Liz Truss (2022)

Liz Truss who doesn't outlast head of lettuce (2022)

Nigel Farage has to run in by-election against Count Binhead (2026)

I'm American and I never read news from outside of my country

Something else entirely (I'll tell you in the tags)

Voting ended onJul 19

Note: don't let your recency bias decide this, actually think back to what was the objectively funniest time on the internet.

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

what about my Regency bias, ha!

[nemfrog]

Sound asleep. Health Habits. 1925.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Railway lines, west of Chicago and St. Louis. Fortune. March 1930.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Comet of 1680. One card in a deck of 52 featuring celestial imagery. The four seasons correspond to suits in a regular deck with the yellow cards denoting Fall. Published by F.G. Moon, 1829.

David Rumsey Map Collection

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

ooh i love it. i wonder what colors they picked for the other three seasons. i want a pack (but like a reprint that i would feel comfortable actually playing skat with).

[nobrashfestivity]

Via amandapourlesintimes

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[smokingchagga]

This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

try not to go over 70% or so of an ass

[paksthestoic]

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

[geslotencirkel]

@capacity2

[capacity2]

Life was so different back then omg u could act like this and it was fine im tearing up

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

it's like 120 Minutes, i love it

[official-kircheis]

kinda lazy worldbuilding to have every terrestrial vertebrate be a tetrapod

[o-craven-canto]

They're trying their best :(

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

There's only like four directions to go on land.

[twiststreet]

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

very has-nothing-to-do-with-los-angeles moment

very i-moved-here-for-hollywood

[elveny]

If your business can only be reached and all info about it only be accessed via Facebook or Instagram, know that it isn’t reachable or accessible AT ALL.

The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.

Get a fucking WEBSITE. It can be just a static landing page with the relevant information. But get off the metaverse!

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

ok, yes, too easy. still, ha ha: yelling at cloud[s]

[the1920sinpictures]

1920s French postcard. Pinterest.

[hedgehog-moss]

Looking for water in the woods

[exhaled-spirals]

« The river is something that happens, like exercise or illness, to the body on any given day I am rivering.

To not end where you thought you did, not with skin but water not with arms but meadow of watercress, dropwort, floating pennywort, against all odds to be buoyant.

To feel there is an upward force greater than the weight of the heart the knuckles the head to feel as in to feel it physically push up the ribs which are bones now

[...] hordes of heartbeats not my own: mollusc onto stone, milfoil onto moss, mayfly onto trout,

[...] the satisfaction of finding a spot deep enough to swim in needs its own word, signalling a joy at depth, like snorkelling without the snork; kelling – eruption of eye over retina in slow pan of arrival, in spring kelling. Entry is slip, unplanned into palette of oils, limbs form brushstrokes, muddied in matter,

smell of earth and sadness at getting further from the river needs its own word; a de-connecting, de-spiriting, de-kelling –

[...] in the day in the river in the moss in the rushes we’ll come and part in the river in the heather in the rushes in the rain we’ll stay and the day and the day and the days dart over and summer is over »

— Excerpts from "Swims" by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

[was-once-somewhere-else]

I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.