"These bruises make for better conversation..."

"I assure you sir, literature is a drug" -George Borrow

[sraithpics]

I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.

[sraithpics]

IT’S FINALLY PRIDE MONTH, TIME TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN.

[catchymemes]

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NEW LEVERAGE TRAILER DROPPED

July 9th!

In this new iteration and new world, the Leverage crew have watched as the rich and powerful continue to take what they want without consequence. Grifter Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman), thief Parker (Beth Riesgraf), hitter Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane), and hacker Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge) have watched the world change over the last eight years.Since their last job, it’s become easier–and sometimes legal–for the  rich  to  become  richer  and  the  powerful  to  squash anyone  who  gets  in  their  way. To  address  the changes in the world around them, the team finds new blood in Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle), a corporate lawyer who is looking for redemption after realizing he’d been sitting on the wrong side of the table for his entire career, and Breanna Casey (Aleyse Shannon), Hardison’s foster sister who has a knack for computers, robotics, and getting into trouble.

[sokkalore]

i can’t stop thinking about the fact that gilderoy lockhart was 28 years old in chamber of secrets

he was just an instagram influencer himbo.........no WONDER

[sokkalore]

gilderoy lockhart is the wizarding caroline calloway

[miamitu-illust]

AU where Sokka’s high-on-cactus-juice encounter with the giant mushroom takes a dark turn. (Also he has a gun)

based on this beautiful tumblr post

bonus:

[yesterdaysprint]

The War Chest Review, Australia, February 1919

[trilliath]

New hot trend from 1919: Loudly ogling anti-maskers and their bare faces like “Wow where did you find such an ugly face mask???”

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

Actually, Queen was the band. You're thinking of England's monster!

ABGDHXJXJV

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[say-a-little-grace-for-me]

@boggblog please everyone needs to see your very correct statement

[nocontextgoodplace]

[sarcasticmudkip]

I love how tumblr’s environment is so self-sustaining and strong that I can just go to sleep, and wake up to find out that we bullied off an industry implant band within five hours without so much as an indication that some corperation tried to market on here. Keep doing the good work tumblr users. Good on you for keeping this place safe 

[oarfjsh]

anyone: tries to market some big corporation product on here

all of us instantly:

[pervocracy]

How to hack any hospital computer

-Use the password taped to the monitor

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)

-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor

[dysgraphicprogrammer]

As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none. Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.  

[pervocracy]

This is true of so many things in healthcare.  Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range.  If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else.  It makes sense, in our setting.

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad.  Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health.  Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health?  Heavens no!

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal.  A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up.  We have increased our vigilance!

Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking.  We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.

But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources.  They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.”  And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.

The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.

[softlyfiercely]

this here is an absolutely fascinating overview of how and why this happens

[princessrhcenyra]

another Unforgivable omission from the hunger games movie is when they announce ‘oops jk there can only be 1 winner good luck!’ and katniss immediately, instinctively draws her bow and points it at peeta to kill him, before realizing what shes doing, and who he is, and that she could never/would never want to do that! and then he tells her to do it anyway bc 1 of them has to win! but she WONT so he rips off his tourniquet so he’ll bleed to death and she can win and go home. and she drops to her knees and tries to stop the bleeding and cover his wound and BEGS him not to die……………yeah…they fucked up

[princessrhcenyra]

OH MY GOD..and the entire scene where katniss wakes up on the ship after theyve rescued them from the arena was not in the movie AT ALL. when katniss watches them operating on peeta and she pounds on the glass and SCREAMS at them bc she thinks theyre still in the games and theyre hurting peeta. and then she backs away from the glass and sees a rabid feral animal girl in the reflection and realizes that its her…..and that line where she always wondered why the family members of a dying person stay to watch them and ‘now she knows. its because you have no choice’ that is RAW that is LOVE and they left it all OUT

[fuckyeahasexual]

Okay so I don't know why people say sex or love is what makes us human. Lots of organisms in nature have sex or mate for life. You know what makes us human? Cooking. Nothing else in nature cooks except humans. Checkmate aphobes. Sincerely, an ace cook.

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is that true??

Holy shit!!

[singing-sorrowless]

Not only that, some anthropologists think that cooking is what MADE us human- as in the ability to consume large amounts of EASIER-to-digest calories (with all the pathogens killed off and the tough cell walls broken down) is the thing that allowed us to devote evolutionary energy to growing larger brains, and solidified the beginnings of communal human civilization. Have you seen how many hours a day pandas spend chewing on raw bamboo? Cooking let us take a shortcut so we could evolve in other ways. Especially bread, bc it’s a lot of caloric energy packed into a portable chunk you could take with you for days and days. Also in order to have bread you have to have grain farms, so bread (and beer, also made from grains) sort of catalyzed humans settling down into centralized permanent settlements. So cooking (and eventually farming) didn’t just help us physiologically evolve into our current form, but also shaped our social structures from the beginning. You should watch the Michael Pollan documentary “Cooked,” on Netflix! It’ll rock your world.

Source: “What makes us human? Cooking, new study says,” National Geographic

[synapselost]

Evolutionarily evolved to love Bread

[jenniferrpovey]

There’s a strong theory that we didn’t invent farming to make bread.

We invented it to make beer.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

But you know what that means (at least, synecdoche-ly speaking)?

The Aces were right all along: Love really is stored in the cake!

Another connection between cooking food and human culture: Waiting for the food to be cooked, instead of just eating our food as soon as we find it, means we gather together around the fire – and that leads to storytelling.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[biglawbear]

Studies showed that DARE literally increased drug use

[melonisopod]

“Things that would kill a medieval peasant,” bro shut up, these people lived off of homegrown crops, hard bread and moldy cheese, they watched executions for fun. Your shitty “Feral White Girl” playlist isn’t going to hurt them, they’ll probably call your taste in music garbage and then drop some sick beats on the lute.

[melonisopod]

I’ve learned from this post that most of you don’t know a lot about history but I admire the confidence you have despite the lack of research.

[clairenovvak]

a 12 year old girl would make a pact with a demon just to have two different colored eyes. why did spn never touch on this

[sherlockisactuallyagaysname]

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