Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
I'd rather be in outer space šø
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Andulka
#extradirty
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
art blog(derogatory)
if i look back, i am lost
KIROKAZE
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pixel skylines
RMH
Not today Justin
shark vs the universe
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@starry-night-lite-bright
being too warm during the day: well, this sucks, but this temperature makes sense because the sun is up, and the sun is making me warm. i am unhappy but logically i can deal with it for now.
being too warm at night: what if i kill everybody.
So true
And weāre stuck with only solutions that can be done from bed.
Starting to wonder if we should revive porch sleepingā¦
At least then you have a chance of experiencing a full breeze.
Wednesday the 15th. What an excellent day. Middle of the week, middle of the month. Truly, we are in the middle of things.
My reblog is ready š„
āpeople on twitter are saying-ā i dont care. I dont care I dont care. thatās why i am on tumblr and not in that joyless blackhole
The only way I could care less about twitter is if I was actually dead
Several years ago, I was at the cafe of the Hoover Dam and I saw a teenaged boy in a blue bucket hat order a hamburger of truly astonishing size and then be utterly confounded with how to eat it. Like, there was no way that he could possibly fit that thing into his mouth according to the laws of physics, and he just kind of stared at it for a good few minutes, periodically picking it up and examining it from various angles as though it or his jaw would magically change in size
I think of him often. I hope he is well
I have been this boy, and ultimately just went for it
This is why napkins were invented, and I was not going to let my ancestors down
I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as god intended.
When accurate previews of search results expanded, I rejoiced
When AI started compiling unhelpful synopses, full of inaccurate data and inaccurate conclusions that are often TAKEN AT FACE VALUE instead of DUG INTO FURTHER, I wept
So many kids will never know the joy of a Wikipedia rabbit hole. We were a veritable STORAGE UNIT of fun facts and talking points.
Tumblr, a treasure trove of fun facts and useful information, is our last line of defense against the loss of acquiring this knowledge at random.
In this essay, I willā
"You're a boy now, my son, but soon you will wear the sleeves of a man, like your father."
1834 fashion plate in La Mode.
Soup
Hot hot soup
fuck if itās this easy why do they close the goddamn road for like five months shit
all outta soub :(
I work for the road crew in the summer. Crack sealing (the process you see above) is fairly quick and simple. (Though holding a hose that pumps literal tons of 350F tar into the road in the middle of the summer is NOT easy)
I think what a lot of people underestimate is just how much road there is in your city. And just how many directions the crew gets pulled.
For our city of around 50k people there are 8 of us.
Also, crack sealing is a wholly temporary measure, meant to slow the break-up of the roads, itās not a permanent fix.
Roads tend to get closed for months on end because we have to tear the whole thing up, then, depending on the class of road, we either have to hammer-drill into concrete to lay rebar and the pour concrete, or we can get straight to paving. If itās a road requiring concrete weāre required to wait at least 24 hours for it to set.
So after 2 days weāre finally able to pave. But the city allocates one (two if weāre lucky) 5 ton truck to transport material.
A relatively short paving job requires at a minimum of 60 tons. So thatās 12 trips to the asphalt factory and back. Each ton is around $80.
TL;DR
Thereās a lot of road, not many of us, and soup is expensive.
Leave the soup men alone.
Leave the soup men alone, and go vote for people who will pay for more soup and more soup people
also be careful in workzones and obey speed signs and other directions. Soup men deserve respect and deserve to go home safe ;o;
āIf it feels selfish, youāre doing it rightā
Iām constantly on the edge of burnout because I canāt keep up with all of the things I need to do
Which means I sometimes lose an entire day because my brain and body canāt handle it and dip out on me
I talked to my therapist about trying to incorporate more rest and downtime, so that it doesnāt happen when I canāt afford to be immobile and catatonic for a day
She told me that if it feels selfish, Iām doing it right
Hit me like a ton of bricks
Smiling Bats
Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v
One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.
For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"
Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."
Deeply unfair that my friends are not all within five minutes of my house so that I can go bother them when I am bored
Been working on getting my best friend to move from their coast to mine (usa) for years
AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK
Still dependent on job and relationship stuff, so at minimum, at least a year off
BUT PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, LET THIS HAPPEN šš
RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER:
my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm
a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force
daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed
always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't
you do not talk about my daughter
One of the guys I worked with told us a story about how, when they were doing archaeology surveys in the woods they ran into a bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot guy asked if they had seen signs of bigfoot, and he was like "Sorry, nothing like that. We're archaeologists, so we're looking for human stuff." and the bigfoot guy was like "Oh! I saw some Native American cairns on my way out here. I can give you a general location." and when he was like "Yeah dude, that'd be sick. We're actually looking to document those." the bigfoot guy was like "Yeah, they looked pretty cool. I didn't touch them though, because Native Americans built them, not bigfoot."
the rainbow is a well-known symbol of gay pride that originated in the late 1970s in san francisco, when the gay community promised to never again destroy the earth by flood
I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby
English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son
I explained the āx before gta6ā meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named GicÄ Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: āThis happened and GicÄ Petrescu hasnāt even died yet?!?ā
So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid
OP are you telling me we got the death of GicÄ Petrescu before we got gta6
Me, writing: huh, I wonder if this character should be wearing a sword for this wedding or if formal swords were a thing yet
Me, fifteen minutes later: okay I am now comprehensively educated on fourteenth century weapon carrying laws in London and also the development of the rapier and the reason why people drive on the right side of the road and the proper way that horses are mounted and I still have no idea if he should be wearing a sword
