Completely Pointless & Arbitrary Blog

Now with 99.9% reblogging!

[ashenmind]

good lord this thing is useless

[fishmech]

idk what yall are mad about the new Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You machine is working great

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

Happy Horse on Mars anniversary everyone!

[wittywallflower]

that feeling when you just know you are gonna rip off half your fingernail at some point in the near future…

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

You can delay the inevitable with super glue & a teabag.

How to Fix a Broken Nail Yourself | DIY Nail Care -

You finally grew your nails and then BAM you broke one. I walk you through how to fix a broken nail with a teabag & superglue. Lasts for wee

[antifa-succubus]

girlbulge is such a choice look i really wish it was more normalized

[antifa-succubus]

No offense to the droves of nsfw blogs reblogging this, but this was actually not meant to be a horny post. Let trans women exist in public spaces in their natural bodies without having to tuck or take other uncomfortable measures. I deserve to be able to wear tight clothes or go to the beach without having to be uncomfortable or in straight up pain from tucking just because some fragile cis people might think it’s some kind of perverted sexual display if there’s any sign of a bulge. So again, girlbulge is a choice look and I really wish it was more normalized and not seen as something inherently sexual, because it’s literally just how our bodies look in certain clothes.

[antifa-succubus]

got my first terf shitstain in the notes throwing a tantrum about this which is part of why i think it’s so important to normalize it. people being driven to seething rage at the mere thought of having to see a little bump under someone’s clothing is not fucking healthy! trans people deserve better than to be treated that way! i should be able to safely wear what i want without having to worry that my body is gonna send someone into a complete fucking rage!

[sobblefan]

Girls with big breasts 🤝 Girls with bulge

Being sexualized for having a body

[xpxssxm]

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

WIP: Pumpkin Sitting quilt

All 14 pumpkin blocks for the Pumpkin Sitting quilt, which was an exclusive pattern in the 2025 Spooky Box from Fat Quarter Shop. Fabrics are from the Riley Blake "Hey, Pumpkin" collection. Next comes a black cat block for the upper right corner & two leaf blocks for the first two pumpkins in the top row.

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[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[serendipitouscrafts]

I finished the quilt! I finished it Christmas eve morning with just enough time to wash it and photograph it in the brief daylight.

I gave it to dad this afternoon, along with some new light blue sheets to go with it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i get so freaked out by like. pictures of really big rope

[clintwaffle]

I’d like to say that’s normal but I’m a frayed knot

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i’m so fucking annoyed at this, just for that you don’t get photos of the rope

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i changed my mind, this is just too horrifying not to share

it’s called a Hawser and is the thick cable or rope used for towing/mooring a ship

in conclusion, i have nightmares beyond description

[arithmeticanimaniac]

NO it would NOT be cool

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

well i fucken disagree

[goeswiththeflo]

@scumrunner do you have any cursed facts about hawsers to share ?

As a fiber nerd, i am personally very enthusiastic about them….

[scumrunner]

Ohhohohoho DO I EVER. Meet the “snapback zone,” not an area with cool hats, but instead the unintuitive range at which a hawser can kill you if it breaks under tension.

[cloud-and-proud]

What if we kissed in the snap-back zone? 😳 😳 😳

[talus-the-broken]

I don’t think you guys understand how much force this is, a tow rope used to move a 20 foot boat snaps under tension with enough force to dent metal, shatter glass and seriously injure anyone in its way. A Hawser on the other hand… Well I’ve seen a concrete pier with a chuck the size of a sedan ripped out of it by a line failure, and anecdotally, I’ve heard of a 2 ton heavy cargo forklift being skidded sideways, then knocked over. These lines snap with enough force to noticably dent the hull armor of navy ships.

This is a line designed to hold in place a moving object that can be easily in excess of 10000 tons. AND THEY CAN BREAK FROM THAT TENSION ALONE.

THESE THINGS ARE TERRIFYING RUBBER BANDS FROM HELL.

[butch-of-the-blades]

Nope Rope

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

NOPE ROPE

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

I’m once again reminded of its much smaller cousin, the haywire.

You’ve heard of the term, “Going haywire,” right? Ever spared a thought to why that term exists?

See, time was there was a prototype automatic hay-baler. But this was in that magic period juuust before we really got into standardized sizes. So calibration of the machine was handled manually - a mix of guessing and learning from the results of guessing. If you’ve read Raising Steam by Sir Terry Pratchett you know that many people don’t get to learn from the results of their own guesses, due to being dead.

A poorly calibrated hay-baler had the mechanical strength to smush the hay into a tight bundle, wrap the wire around it, and tie that wire off to maintain the bale’s form. But the pressure of the over-packed hay was a constant outward force. Each bale made by an over-tight baler was potential energy in physical form. We have a word for “potential energy in physical form” and that word is “bomb.”

So sometimes, a man would toss a hay bale and it would land with a twang and the man who’d been reaching down to pick it up where it landed was dead.

And that is what “haywire” means.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh nice. i knew hay bales occasionally spontaneously combust, didn’t know they used to have an explosion factor too

[marlynnofmany]

I am learning multiple things today

Normally I’d expect wet plant matter to be less likely to go up in flames, but not hay bales! Those pesky bacteria really like to party in damp conditions. And by party I mean “create heat.”

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

OK but returning to the snapback - this video shows a deliberate snapback event of a mooring line, filmed from different angles & shown at different speeds. No humans were harmed in the making of this video. The same cannot be said about the mannequin standing in the danger zone.

[7pleiades7]

Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1919) by George Henry Grenville Manton (English, 1855 – 1932), oil on canvas, 107 × 82.2 cm, Wycombe Museum, England

[rosslynpaladin]

Oh pot o' Basil,

we're really in it now.

[kunosoura]

I think it’s normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they’re close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that’s a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes

[kunosoura]

“Why were you on Mad At Me island” because at the time I was mad at you and yet our friendship has weathered that without trouble

[tiredragedemon]

I went to Mad At You island because my feelings are my problem. I needed to stomp down the beach until I could sit and watch the sunrise. I built a sandcastle and did some thinking. Then I boarded the good ship You Matter To Me and sailed it all the way to meet you on the Let’s Talk Shore of I Love You Island.

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

Mythbusters have 3 categories of myths

the general public doesnt know how physics works

the general public doesnt know how lying works

oh crap this ones real

[catgirldragon]

4. Turn up the dynamite, let's MAKE it real

[importantcatpics]

[deepinourengines]

unclean = adj. of or pertaining to uncles

[plaguedocboi]

There is,,, a lobster. On the way

[plaguedocboi]

There is a lobster somewhere in the facility but we don’t know where

[plaguedocboi]

This is not a joke btw I was supposed to receive and acclimate a lobster today but I waited around in the lobby for an hour before finding out that the Lobster Deliverer went around back and gave the lobster to the aquarist and he went out on a diving trip without telling anyone where he put the lobster. There is literally a lobster here somewhere and we can’t find it. Lobster location unknown.

[plaguedocboi]

Update he put it in one of the lobster traps tied to the pier. Which is fine, that’s where it was gonna go anyway until we set up its display, but I would’ve preferred to acclimate it before plopping it into the ocean. But the hooligan has been contained. There will be no surprise lobster attacks today.

[plaguedocboi]

Update 2 here is Thee Lobster

[plaguedocboi]

Oh my god happy anniversary to that time we misplaced Neptune!!!!

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

NGL, when you said the hooligan had been contained I thought you meant the aquarist... You know, as punishment for Lobster Abandonment

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[craicisirish]

reminds me of how artists flip the canvas to make sure their art looks good

Just flip the genders real quick and check if you accidentally made a cult

[megamindsupremacy]

Beautiful dash pull

[dw]

love the word aforementioned. like i already said that

[bartmobile]

how to look at art / lynda barry

@reggieonline