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colbertt

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

I truly wish Ronald Reagan was alive today

because he’d wake up buried alive in a coffin and then die a slow horrifying death as he asphyxiated in the ground

And that would be fucking hilarious :D

hellenhighwater

What is a cat if not a silly little guy that follows you around 24/7, making funny faces and shedding on your clean clothes?

perplexingly

I will never forgive Elisabeth das Musical for changing the choreography of Die Schatten Werden Langer from this in 1992:

To this in the 2020s:

perplexingly

If anyone is unaware of the context of this scene, this is the personification of Death attempting to seduce Kronprinz Rudolf into committing suicide (by feeding into his fears of powerlessness)

we used to be a society

ramalamacreatures

HANDMADE Polymer clay Armadillo sculpture.

ralfmaximus

Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming.

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team.

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

dailynarnia

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

helloitsbees

happy pride month to this post specifically

victusinveritas

(found on Facebook)

millerflintstone

Someone uploaded a recording from 1990/91 of the Rocky Horror London revival where Tony Head was Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Craig Ferguson was Brad. You know, the Scot who was the host of The Late Late Show starting back in 2005.

foone

Neither of us knew it at the time, but technically when my mom told me I couldn't watch The Matrix back in 1999, it was transphobia

foone

What happened with The Matrix was actually far funnier than "you can't watch it": my parents watched it, and told me it was "too dark" to let me watch it. BUT they said the fight at the end (Neo vs Agent Smith in the train station) was too cool to keep me from watching it, so they let me watch JUST THAT PART, completely out of context.

Wacky.

Anyway I am and always have been a pirate who doesn't believe in authority figures, so I had "borrowed" the tape from them overnight and duplicated it onto one of my own VHS tapes, so of course I could watch the whole thing on my own time. But as far as their Official Parenting rules said, I was only allowed to watch like the last 10 minutes of The Matrix

afieldinengland

vincent price calling christopher lee a bitch asmr

afieldinengland

great work everybody

foone

I like my women like I like my women: Tea

servals

⭐ THE CATS OF YELLOWSTONE ✨

I have had this idea mulling around for a while now! I love cats and I love Yellowstone so why not both??

This is an art series I am interested in continuing. Do you have any suggestions for national parks around the world with multiple native cat species? If so, I'd love to hear them for future similar drawing ideas!

hometoursandotherstuff

Scientists Make Sourdough from Yeast Found Inside the stomach of a 5,000-Year-Old Mummy

Scientists have kept his body frozen since he was found in 1991, which led to some surprising discoveries of ancient and modern microbial life inside his stomach.

“What we didn’t expect to find was yeast,” lead study author Mohamed Sarhan of the Eurac Research institute told Reuters.

"If you tell anyone you have yeast, they immediately ask: Can we use it for bread?" Sarhan said.

"Initially it didn't work," the microbiologist admitted.

But after three months of effort "we had a very, very good sourdough," Sarhan said with a laugh.

When asked if the scientists were considering using the yeast to brew beer, he responded: "It's on the list."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oetzi-the-iceman-yeast-mummy-sourdough-bread/

#mummies #sourdough never ends #cursed bread #don't eat the cursed bread

lamiafemme

You really start to understand that the “angry black woman” and “mean lesbian” stereotype only exists to shame us for the fact we get reasonably upset about people wanting to horrifically abuse us indiscriminately. Let’s get meaner !