Hopeful Monster

Largely unremarkable. #scartrek for posts about me. #pieces_of_thought for writing.

[metalbatteryzone]

Software Creations: *in the middle of development for Solstice* Okay so we need an intro theme to set the mood. Something folky, like medieval times. Think you can try your hand at that?

Tim Fucking Follin: Yeah I got ya, check this out.

Software Creations: *barely seconds in* Ohhh yes finally, something that isn’t an overwhelming banger. You done good, Mr. Follin.

Tim Fucking Follin: *waits for it*

Software Creations: *ten seconds later*

[banshees-deactivated20180812]

[machine-elf-paladin]

Tim Follin was a chiptune virtuoso and absolutely deserves to be as famous for it as Liszt or Paganini. Like listen to this thing:

I realize it sounds like it is being played on a chorus of bandsaws, but that is because it is on one-bit sound hardware and is in fact being played on a single bandsaw.

[danskjavlarna]

“You can’t ignore the rat” (1948).  Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

[z-a-d-i-e]

and who would want to!

[spacebrick3]

@ratracechronicler

[ipecacandcivetoil-deactivated20]

so many gifs of ostriches doing their mating dance for humans but did u know

they actually did a study on this

and ostriches repeatedly found humans more attractive than other ostriches

yes

ostrich farmers have trouble setting up their ostriches with each other because they’re just not interested, they want their farmers instead

it’s incredible

[ipecacandcivetoil-deactivated20]

also, ostriches show notable sexual preference

some male ostriches will only display for male humans, some will display for anybody, some will display for female humans only

[nekosaws]

I can’t believe ostriches are reverse furries

[sunlian-deactivated20180906]

great we gotta kinkshame the fuckin birds now

[king-in-yellow]

this has some implications for jurassic park, probably

[woahzone]

i prefer guys who make small dick jokes about themselves over guys who make big dick jokes about themselves

I got a medium dick

It can talk to ghosts

[k-not-okay]

I nearly spat out my tea

[racheldotgov-deactivated2016123]

ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me

[hakushokuwaisei-deactivated2017]

Hi! Croatian here. As an inland country, I found a job processing uranium. We have a lot of it.

[mediumsizedboy]

God I wish I was processing uranium in Croatia

[theocseason4]

I think about this post every day

[tardis2101]

Hey, another Croatian here! Croatia has a coastline and I can’t find a single mention of uranium in Croatia. I don’t know what kind of paralel universe this person is from.

[threebigolsausages-deactivated2]

what crime did this tree commit to be put in tree jail

[claimed-clams]

Treeson

[ihateeverythinggg]

Get out

[mistergandalf-deactivated201601]

one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

[mistergandalf-deactivated201601]

some of my favorite tags on this post

[theelvenkingshalls]

Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.

Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.

Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?

Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.

[fandomsandfeminism]

This makes me so happy.

[wetwareproblem]

And there is no way in hell that a guy who loved linguistics more than life itself did this by accident, either. So picture Faramir delivering that line in his best my-soul-is-dead customer-service voice.

[princessamericachavez]

Character vs Player. Married edition.

Fjord *feeling as usual responsible about keeping everyone safe*: Sorry, Jester

Jester *hellbent on protecting Fjord*: No, I’m sorry that you weren’t protected earlier. 

Fjord: *is shooked*

Fjord: *heart eyes*

Travis: *realizes his wife is doing it again*

Travis: *stares into the camera like he’s in The Office*

[meanwhilebackinthedungeon]

[stability]

[poetical-irony]

my naem is skwid

i am not fish.

i mite be sick

so im in dish.

the doctor touch

it give me shock.

i do not trust

so now im rock

[sarahmackattack]

10/10 squid poetry, on my evergreen squid tweet 😂

[yesterdaysprint]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1894

[ralfmaximus]

When trollies were new and people didn’t understand they had to fucking get out of the way of the Murder Train.

[teamvoorhees]

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson)

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

[kainoliero]

You blink back. It’s only polite to return the greeting of the Big Night Cat.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

I meant for this to be all spooky and ominous, but fuck it, this is way better. I love the Big Night Cat. She is beautiful. I support her.

[hollowsolaris]

Big Night Cat watches over the Earth <3

[gokuma]

@iamnamedsilence

[mortalityplays]

reminder that sixpence condones child slavery 

[mortalityplays]

I can’t believe this is a website where that’s a concern

[mortalityplays]

@ all my mutuals please don’t put posts from slavers or graverobbers on my dash. highwaymen and phrenologists don’t interact.

[i-will-follow-the-sun]

Meet the dog who plays Cheddar on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'

Stewart, the 11-year old corgi, is a fan of food, not work

Greatest article I’ve ever read.

[the99noice-deactivated20190110]

i wouldn’t want to meet anyone else

[redwinerozanova]

[jedijenkins]

THE GOODEST COMEDIAN

[memecucker]

What I think is really interesting about the papyrus account of the workers building the tomb of Rameses III going on strike to demand better wages is really fascinating to me because if you look at the description given by the royal scribe you see that there was an attempt to satisfy the workers by bringing a large amount of food at once but that was rebuffed by the workers who declared that it wasn’t just that they were hungry at the moment but had serious charges to bring that “something bad had been done in this place of Pharoah” (is poor wages and mistreatment). They understood themselves as having long term economic interests as a -class- and organized together knowing that by doing so they could put forward their demands collectively. It so strongly flies in the face of narratives that are like “in this Time and Place people were happy to be serve because they believed in the God-King and maybe you get some intellectual outliers but certainly no common person questioned that”. If historical sources might paint that sorta picture of cultural homogeneity it is because those sources sought not to describe something true but invent a myth for the stability of a regime.

[memecucker]

Since this is getting notes here’s a link to a translation of the papyrus scroll and here’s an article that gets further into the economic situation surrounding the strike and giving an explanation of the events. The workers didnt just refuse to construct Rameses III’s future tomb, they actually occupied the Valley of the Kings and were preventing anyone from entering to perform rituals or funerals. Basically they set up the first ever recorded picket line

Again the workers went on strike, this time taking over and blocking all access to the Valley of the Kings. The significance of this act was that no priests or family members of the deceased were able to enter with food and drink offerings for the dead and this was considered a serious offense to the memory of those who had passed on to the afterlife. When officials appeared with armed guards and threatened to remove the men by force, a striker responded that he would damage the royal tombs before they could move against him and so the two sides were stalemated.

Eventually the tomb workers were able to win the day and acquire their demands and actually set a precedent for organized labor and strikes in Egyptian society that continued for a long time

The jubilee in 1156 BCE was a great success and, as at all festivals, the participants forgot about their daily troubles with dancing and drink. The problem did not go away, however, and the workers continued their strikes and their struggle for fair payment in the following months. At last some sort of resolution seems to have been reached whereby officials were able to make payments to the workers on time but the dynamic of the relationship between temple officials and workers had changed – as had the practical application of the concept of ma’at – and these would never really revert to their former understandings again. Ma’at was the responsibility of the pharaoh to oversee and maintain, not the workers; and yet the men of Deir el-Medina had taken it upon themselves to correct what they saw as a breach in the policies which helped to maintain essential harmony and balance. The common people had been forced to assume the responsibilities of the king.

[…]

The success of the tomb-worker/artisan strikes inspired others to do the same. Just as the official records of the battle with the Sea Peoples never recorded the Egyptian losses in the land battle, neither do they record any mention of the strikes. The record of the strike comes from a papyrus scroll discovered at Deir el-Medina and most probably written by the scribe Amennakht. The precedent of workers walking away from their jobs was set by these events and, although there are no extant official reports of other similar events, workers now understood they had more power than previously thought. Strikes are mentioned in the latter part of the New Kingdom and Late Period and there is no doubt the practice began with the workers at Deir el-Medina in the time of Ramesses III.

[jenniferrpovey]

There was also a strike at one point where construction workers refused to continue until they were given sufficient “cosmetics.”

This was thought a highly strange thing until somebody deciphered the recipe for the “cosmetics” the workers were demanding and recreated it.

It was sunscreen. Sunscreen. 

Making that the first recorded strike over occupational safety.

[rubysevens]

Danny Devito and Jeff Goldblum both give off chaotic energies, but in opposite directions. One is the yin to the other’s yang. However, both are everyone’s uncle

[occasionallyomniscient]

Danny is ur dad’s brother and Jeff is ur mom’s