the circus arrives without warning

She/her. Little bit of whatever has my interest this week.

[lady-d-arbanville]

Catherine O'Hara in Stylist UK September 2024 by Jason Kim

[whitager]

it's genuinely bullshit that you should be required to own a mobile phone for participation in literally any aspect of life

[whitager]

this should be illegal and i'm not fucking joking

[endoanarchy]

I'm not going to leave this in the tags cause I would like to expand on this with a situation I ran into a few months ago:

I took a Greyhound in November to my current state. I had a homeless man approach me and ask if I knew where the next bus was headed. He needed to buy a bus ticket, and was completely stranded in that city because the bus stop itself did not sell physical tickets. It required purchasing them online, and he didn't have a phone. He had cash with him to afford it, but literally could not buy a ticket because he didn't have a phone or debit card of any kind.

The bus driver allowed him to just ride for free that day so he could get to his destination (3~ hours from there), which was incredibly kind of them.

More recently, I had to download an app for my friend to use a parking meter because they got rid of letting them take change and debit cards. An app for a parking meter.

I'm currently dealing with homelessness and do you have any idea how lucky I am to have a phone that's paid for? Half the resources I go to require a phone number or email to sign up for assistance (or more ironically an address but that's besides the point).

It's shit like that, that makes me HATE how everything requires a phone, an app, an email ect to use basic shit, especially when it's not needed. It's inaccessible to so many people, and not just those going through homelessness.

Phone broke? That sucks. Is your phone dead? Too bad. Missed payment on your phone plan? Fuck you, better suck it up. Don't have data or signal? Uh oh better find somewhere with it.

It's a disadvantage at BEST to the average day to day citizen and it's absolutely exhausting. At worst I honestly think it's a symptom of fascism.

[mythischemiems]

[viohra]

Blease stop Dutch is barely a respectable language as it already is

[derogatoryemployed]

#oh thank god i thought i was having a stroke (via)

[esmeriandreamer]

Translation because I like to torture myself :D

“Oopsy-woopsy! The train is brokey-wokey! We’rew worwing vewy hward to fix twis, maybwy u swould uwse a bwike owo”

[just-rhys-things]

HOW IS THAT BETTER (I’m still having a stroke)

[kaylmao]

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

[kaylmao]

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lilacchao]

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

and we have pictures of giraffes of the time! what a beautiful gift from such a distant past

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

[alexanderwales]

I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".

It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.

[headspace-hotel]

like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again

[animentality]

[54625]

flicking back through my procreate library what the fuck was this

[pillowspace]

Things to look for in this:

Fish

Eyes

Body

[anxiousposting]

CHEAT SHEET BELOW!

[sparrowsarecool]

I really, really liked this piece, so I made this:

using the original as a base and coloring on top of it. Took a lot longer than I thought it would.

[changan-moon]

How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard. 

cr: 承启 建水紫陶

[amemait]

that last teapot is like witnessing an eternal and important truth

[ms-demeanor]

I just watched this with the sound on and i really recommend it because the utter silence of the last teapot is both perfectly predictable and totally remarkable.

[thememedaddy]

[injuries-in-dust]

Tell me more about NASA's scientific accuracy ratings for movies.

[songue85]

For those who are curious...

The Worst:

1) 2012 (2009): Neutrinos from a solar flare heat up the Earth's core, setting off the end of life as we know it. The plot conveniently ignores the fact that neutrinos pass straight through matter—even us—without doing much of anything.

2) The Core (2003): The Earth's core has stopped rotating and scientists have to drill into it to start it back up. The moviemakers go nuts with basic geology, ending up with something the New York Times called “monumentally dumb.”

3) Armageddon (1998): A team of drillers is sent to an asteroid on its way to strike Earth to split it into two parts they say will fly safely past the planet, completely ignoring Newton's First Law of Motion ("an object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force"), which says that all they did was make two asteroids that would hit the Earth.

4) Volcano (1997): Los Angeles is destroyed by a volcano that springs up in the city. Bad science mingling with cheesy dialogue and effects.

5) Chain Reaction (1996): Keanu Reeves. Bubble fusion. A government plot to prevent the spread of the technology. The perfect recipe for bad.

6) The 6th Day (2000): Arnold Schwarzenegger is cloned. Because one of him just wasn't enough?

7) What the #$*! Do We Know? (2004): Read the synopsis on Wikipedia. It'll make your head hurt.

And the Best:

1) Gattaca (1997)

2) Contact (1997)

3) Metropolis (1927)

4) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

5) Woman in the Moon (1929)

6) The Thing From Another World (1951)

7) Jurassic Park (1993)

NASA Picks Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies. What Are Yours?

The space agency lists their favorite flicks

[crabussy]

hiccups are VERY STUPID. you stupid diaphragm I am NOT A FISH

[crabussy]

(remembering the beautiful taxonomic concept that is monophyly) okay maybe I am a liiiittle 🤏🐡 bit of a fish I suppose

[crabussy]

I MAY BE A FISH BY TECHNICALITY BUT I STILL BREATHE AIR. YOU ASSHOLE DIAPHRAGM. I DO NOT NEED YOUR ANCIENT VESTIGIAL FISHY NERVE FIRINGS. I AM DOING PERFECTLY OKAY BREATHING IN AND OUT OF MY MAMMAL LUNGS. DO YOU SEE ANY GILLS. NO? DID NOT THINK SO. LET M okay it is difficult to compose a post when I am hiccuping. can you just imagine the rest of my angry rant okay love you

[elisecairo]

[rosslynpaladin]

Cats Copy. Hence the phrase copy cat. And this cat is clearly fond of this dog as a family member, and just now realized by observing:

"OH WAIT Human is making biscuits on this dog brother and it HELPS with his pain??? Hey I can do that!! I can do that too! Look! Biscuits!!"

[hollyevolving]

Veterinarian at the next follow up: "Dog is looking really good! But I'm concerned - with this kind of progress, it looks like Dog is getting HOURS of massage every day. If you work yourself into a repetitive motion injury, you won't be able to keep up with Dog's home physical therapy, and, you know, you'll be hurt, too."

Human: "I give Dog a massage for about 30 minutes a day. The rest is all Cat."

[warmhappycat]

Imagine disliking this animal. Poor taste. Reddest of red flags.

[draconym]

I just saw an acquaintance use "👖🛝" in place of the word genocide and. like. at what point are we going to decide that this kind of self-censorship is too degrading to abide anymore.

[draconym]

"grape" "sewer-slide" "the panini" I feel like I'm surrounded by Rugrats who overheard the grown ups talking about the news.

[draconym]

I'm tired of seeing people excuse algospeak because "corporations are making us do it." Why are we all letting them do that. The Internet is real life. Get mad about it.

[jay-auris]

The problem: you are Michael Bublé, it is 2011 and you would like to make a Christmas album. Your producers want you to sing the classic Christmas song "Santa, Baby," but if you sing it as intended, it's gonna come off as, like, super gay

The proposed solution: you will rewrite the lyrics to the song to imply a platonic friendship between yourself and the man in red, making Santa a real bro who's gonna help you get laid by some hunnies, with cool, masculine gifts like a steel blue convertible, a yacht and tickets to a Canadian hockey game

The reality: the combination of the eroticism of your voice and the inherently sexual vibes of the song means you create a story about a closeted gay guy desperately repressing his desire to - as the kids say - fuck that old man, no homo'ing your way through asking him to trim your tree, promising you'll be such a good boy if he treats you well, and begging him to slide down your chimney

[questionableyeball]

arguably the funniest genius annotation ever

[mikkeneko]

[parkchanwoohoo]

Realizing that I am not employing enough of my free will to become a nuisance at work

[shamebats]

Did they task the vampires with hanging up the flags 😭

[generaldeliciousness]

@zsmithzdlgs2

[move-slowly-and-mend-things]

I can't readily identify the yellow one with the heraldic-looking border between Peru and Antarctica but it could well be the Royal Banner of Scotland or some variant of the Walloon flag from Belgium. Either answer raises merely more questions

[generaldeliciousness]

it is, in fact, the scottish lion rampant. incredible.

[shamebats]

Why teenagers are the best.

Posted by @ missfiction (she/her).