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Sicko.

[34ther]

he is purple and fat

[starsandaces24]

the beauty of early 2000s shows is that they just... stuck to the bit. You watch this show to see a neurodiverent man solve crime with his best friend, you will get that for 8 seasons. We said this show would be about an ex-spy and his employer who built an AI and the people they save. They will do it even when they admit in the show it makes no sense because that's what you signed up for. Leverage commited so much that they got a modern version that still does the same thing instead of being 6 episode seasons about one big con.

I miss "filler" episodes, but they aren't filler because that's what you signed up for! that's why you watch the show! to see them do the thing you started watching the show for!

[birdonahotdog]

contrary to social media developers’ beliefs i have literally never once wanted to see posts in anything other than chronological order

[aint-love-heavy]

I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed

[sandersstudies]

I think of myself as a fairly well-read person with a decent vocabulary, and a couple years ago I made a goal to learn 100 new words in a year just by encountering them naturally. (That is, not googling “list of rare words” or something similar.) That’s a couple new words every week!

It was great fun keeping a list. I didn’t drill myself on them so I’m sure that there are a few which, if I encountered them again, I’d have to look up again, but so what? It felt great to learn even a few words.

I can’t imagine feeling angry about learning something new in such an easy way. (The internet is at our disposal! We don’t even have to flip through a Webster’s tome to find definitions any more.) Plan to learn new words until you die!

[papayajuan2019]

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

[sniperserpent]

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

[nothingbutthedreams]

In the UK there's a thing called the endangered crafts list which I highly recommend if you fancy discovering some crafts you never even knew existed. Scientific and optical instrument making is considered 'critically endangered' and glassworking (scientific glassware) is just considered endangered, which is for 'crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.' There's some other crafts in that category which are easier to teach yourself or go to classes on that list, like lithography, marbling or block printing on fabric, so it might be worth considering those if you're looking for something to try.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lilyblisslys]

friend of mine posted this in our discord and now I’m constantly being accused of engaging in barn gossip (they’re right)

[clevercrumbish]

DIRECTOR: Hey Tom Hardy here is some weird shit we're gonna put on your face to hide your beautiful little kissy lips pretty boy mouth

TOM HARDY, ENTIRELY NOT LISTENING BECAUSE HE'S BUSY FORMULATING AN ACCENT NO HUMAN BEING ON EARTH HAS EVER FUCKING HAD: Sure boss

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

You’ll need the link!

Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?

We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.

[iamaine]

i've praised americans before for their sensible mental categorisation of 'lemonade', how it doesn't include sprite and how we are being very stupid for calling sprite and sprite-like things 'lemonade' when those two things should absolutely not be thought of as belonging to the same group.

for balance's sake i will now scorn the americans: 'red liquorice' is not a thing. 'oh i don't like black liquorice i only like red liquorice' is an insane statement, you're following up one thing with a complete non-sequitur that only makes sense because of a gerrymandered category boundary.

we call them strawberry laces here, or usually just whatever their brand name is. 'red liquorice' contains no liquorice and should not be thought of as belonging to the same category as liquorice, or 'black liquorice'

[lickingandsuckingchristmascoins]

[taxidermycanine]

the fierce wolf in the natural habitat

[electricpurrs]

[yourenotgettingthisusername]

[castledock]

Image description: a screenshot that reads the following;

“Nobody:

Girls that bullied goth kids in high school:”

Attached images are of Taylor Swift, a white woman with sunglasses, blonde hair, a black tank top reading “this is my fight song”, and green shorts. She is wearing a leather bondage harness. It is backwards.

[betazoidpantsuit]

my favorite genre of humor is alt text being just completely factual and somehow reading the image for filth

[crabussy]

(guy who can draw horses and hands easily but can't draw hugs or kisses to save his life) yeah I just like it when the characters are just standing next to each other. no need to make their adoration too obvious you know. and I turned this one into a centaur,

[bowlby4]

[pudulogy]

same animal btw