rbing this cause it gives me the same satisfaction "She told him that she loved him" (put "only" in front of any word in the sentence to change the meaning) gives me
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Janaina Medeiros
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NASA

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shark vs the universe

pixel skylines

oozey mess
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Sweet Seals For You, Always

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One Nice Bug Per Day
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rbing this cause it gives me the same satisfaction "She told him that she loved him" (put "only" in front of any word in the sentence to change the meaning) gives me
WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)
Lumpsuckers, gouache and markers.
some of you have never had your notp be the most popular ship in the fandom and it shows
The cards see all.
Time to clean the blorbo! Pick an action
gently run a lintroller over them
steam clean
handwash only
machine wash hot, longest cycle
use a power washer
sandblast them
let them stay filthy
other
plz reblog for sampo size
question. does the yarn have to be supersize like, structurally?
i think the thing that bothers me about the “everything is sex, even/especially things that aren’t literally sex” mindset that i keep seeing around—and specifically the positioning of it as this enlightened way of thinking—is that it is still holding up sex as the highest, most special and important form of intimacy possible. you know?? this is a moment of immense intensity and vulnerability and intimacy, therefore it must be sex, and in fact that’s the truest and realest and coolest way to read it. as though those things can’t exist outside of that framework.
idk man i just want sex to be a Normal Thing. not the most appalling shameful thing that no one should ever talk about so that the thought of something being created for a fetish makes people recoil, AND ALSO not held up as the Height Of Human Connection such that all art and all connection can and should be reinterpreted through it. both of those things suck.
“these characters’ feelings/actions towards each other are so intense and intimate, there is no platonic explanation, it has to be romantic” 🤝 “this scene/activity is so intense and intimate, it’s fundamentally sex”
This is the best one
(in case anyone needs context, since i know there's a bunch of younguns who didn't even know the "It's gonna be May" meme... The song playing is NSync's song "It's Gonna Be Me", the guy in the mint green t-shirt is NSync member Lance Bass, and the guy in the pink hoodie is his husband Michael.)
I need to you all to know that the original caption for this is : “POV your friend mispronounces a word once and now it’s a national holiday.”
Justin Timbersnake
lillium white and his twelve breakfast named dogs (oc from ctc)
ok I have some sneaking suspicions that I may be more on the ace spectrum than I thought so answer my poll pls
What is the LEAST amount of interaction with a person you need to be attracted to them?
Just seeing a picture is enough
Seeing a film / video in which they are not playing themselves
Seeing a film / video OR reading an interview in which they are being themselves
Parasocial interactions like social media posts where they respond to other fans
IRL parasocial interactions (e.g. con panel) OR IRL performances (play, concert)
Digital / virtual interactions (e.g. tumblr mutuals, Discord server members)
IRL social interactions in groups with other people
IRL one-on-one interactions in a specific context (e.g. kink party)
IRL one-on-one interactions over a short period (days)
IRL one-on-one interactions over a long period (weeks)
vanilla extract / bald / tell me in the tags
P.S. The voice actor is doing the audiobook
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There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?
I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!
Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.
Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...
I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.
Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come
Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.
DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.
I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.
Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm
Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!
Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter
It isn't so much about edible plants as it is about decorative ones, but I think it fits the theme of this growing list enough for me to add it.
beginning to think my perspective is skewed.
I'm selling off some of my shit on FB marketplace and I list the dimensions of crucial shit like furniture. I've had people who are "not sure" something will fit in their car and I'm like "maybe check with a tape measure before you come over" because I don't wanna fucking drag shit downstairs just to drag it back up. today someone said "I thought it was taller than this, oh well" as I was helping them load this shelving unit into their car. and all I could think was "did you not look at the dimensions with a tape measure and like, plan it out???"
and while I know everyone on FB marketplace has a significant chance to be chronically stupid, I am also beginning to wonder if having a tape measure easily accessible in your home is simply not the common experience i think it is
no there is not a third option. it's either yes or no. do not start "it depends"-ing. if you have to do that, the answer is no. thank you. I love you.
do you own a tape measure/is there one in your living space that is easily accessible and available for you to use?
yes
no
149 votes so far and not a single no lol
This is a literal "Hammerhead" shark created by artist Matt Sanders.
The sculpture is made from 685 reclaimed steel hammer heads and weighs 500 lbs (about 227 kg). It took approximately 2,500 hours of work to weld together. Sanders even used sledgehammers for the eye sockets and ball-peen hammers for the eyes to give it a realistic look.
It was displayed at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California and remains one of the coolest examples of upcycled art out there.
please please please remember that no matter what your manager says, it is never that serious. unless you are literally performing surgery or defusing a bomb, it simply is not that serious
last november i stopped working at an office job that was so deeply Corporate™️ it seemed like the setup to a bit. like, every joke you’ve ever heard about a miserable, soul-sucking, completely pointless pencil-pushing job was modeled after this place. management was so afraid of people having personalities that male employees were not allowed to have pierced ears per company policy.
as is somehow Mandatory for jobs like these, anyone in a position of power made it their job to make everyone else’s lives as miserable as possible with constant micromanaging. like, i got told in a strongly worded email to reorder the $2 plastic shelves in my cubicle that i used to store spare paper. it was fucking dire.
but anyways. the reason i quit has to do with what im talking about in the original post. despite the fact that i was consistently at the top of our department leaderboards (yes, we had those, they were emailed out daily) my manager decided that because i couldn’t stay late one day because of a doctors appointment, i needed a Talking To.
he spent an entire day hounding me about this single event, saying that it was a “growing pattern of careless behavior” and that i “forced [my coworkers] to stay until 6 pm”
obviously i felt awful. i was friends with everybody on my team! i didnt want to inconvenience them!! even thought i knew that he was being too harsh, the guilt trip still got to me. but every time i tried to defend myself and explain what was actually going on, he would double down and make it an even bigger issue. this kept going and going until the situation got spun into me being a terrible employee who needed an Action Plan, and i was Ruining The Department, and Everyone Was Going To Stay Overtime Because Of Me.
while i was dealing with this instead of, yknow, actually doing the work that is apparently so dire, i realized… it wasn’t that serious. like, not even fuckin close. the things my coworkers had to do overtime to complete? folding papers. and while yes, it was shitty that they had to stay so late to finish up, i wasn’t the one who made them do it. my manager did! and there were literally dozens of other options to pick from instead, including just leaving the work for me to do the next day! the work we did was nowhere near time sensitive, and certainly not worth the overtime the company paid.
but because i wouldn’t just roll over and accept a chewing out that i didn’t deserve, my manager decided to keep laying on the pressure until i caved. man was assigning legitimately apocalyptic levels of intensity over folding papers. i went from being an asset to the team to getting yelled at by both him and his manager for my “poor performance.”
so i quit. because it’s not that serious.
this whole shitshow is a standard tactic that employers use to trick you into signing away more of your life to the job. make you feel stupid, make you feel like the menial tasks you perform have these dire consequences that simply do not exist. ramp up your anxiety over nothing. they will punish other people because you aren’t slaving away hard enough, and then say that it’s your fault in the first place. you’re not being a team player! you’re not pulling your weight! don’t you see that everyone else is doing their part? don’t you understand what will happen if you don’t contribute?
it is absolutely fucking vital that you don’t listen to any of it. it is even more so that you don’t fall for it when they try to pull this tactic to get you to turn against someone else. the most effective tactic to get someone to fall in line in a workplace is social ostracization. don’t be a tool for your boss to use to manipulate someone else.
it is never that serious.