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nudityandnerdery

Sub-Radio, the band that did Stacy's Dad, coming out with another banger for Pride.

dancinbutterfly

It's what MyChem would have wanted

ororium-z

Happy Pride!

rootbeergoddess

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

thesaltofcarthage

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

thefibrarchaeologist

I keep thinking that I wasn't that stressed about money when I first moved out, even if I had roughly the same amount available as I have now - a little less, actually.

Today I looked it up in an inflation calculator and, well. I'm doing the equivalent of living off a little bit over 700€ in 2010. Just with more medical expenses on top of everything else.

#recently I looked up what my salary when I was hired for my current job would be if it had kept up with inflation #it was more than $20k over what I make now #inflation is insane #most of us aren’t bad with money we’re just trying to do the impossible #and then being told we’re spending too much on ‘’frivolities’’ when we can’t make it work #recently I saw a ‘‘hacks for saving money!!!’’ article that said to buy a mesh bag and put your little leftover bar soap bits in it #fine but sir food costs twice what it did last year the new bar of soap is not the problem #the disconnect is WILD

cryptotheism

"Medieval Christians would have gone nuts for protons, neutrons, and electrons for trinity reasons" sounds like a jokey oversimplification historypost but I cannot really articulate how true that is. They would never shut up about it.

ahopefulbromantic

RIP St Thomas Aquinas you would have loved atomic physics

heycallmered

people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target

llama2237

What... What movie is this.

heycallmered

ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500

marmoset-marmoset

i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady

gremlinservant

Just vaccinated three kids and got kicked thank GOD I am selling them today

Edit:

THIS IS A POST ABOUT GOATS!!

call-me-cd

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

Hey. Things are going to get better.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

You cannot prevent it.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

Yes I am threatening you with a good time.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

Have A Good Day, Bitch

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

duckprintspress

Have you ever decided to watch a show/movie/whatnot based solely on gifsets of it you've seen on social media?

yes

no

nuance

Voting ended onMay 31

I am emphatically in the "yes" category, as recently as a few days ago when I watched the anime Marriagetoxin based solely on gifs reblogged by @ruanbaijie (who is also a great gif maker, highly recommend). What about y'all? Ever taken something up solely because of pretty moving pictures on Tunglr?

bonus: reblog and shout-out your favorite gif makers.

#this is how kpop demon hunters got me

athelind

The Most Tumblr Punchline

I've noted before that my favorite punchline on Tumblr is "hang on, gotta look something up/okay that's funny."

Let me explain why:

It is a way to say "I don't get it" without blaming the joke or the teller.

It is a tacit admission of ignorance without shame or judgement.

It assumes responsibility for acquiring the knowledge the respondent doesn't already have.

It cues other people who Don't Get It to do the look-up themselves, allowing them to get that full impact of Getting It without derailing the post with explanations.

It gives subsequent readers, whether or not THEY got the joke, a little frisson of good feelings when they realize that someone else is now In On The Joke.

It not only makes the original joke funnier, it gets funnier the more often it's used.

prismatic-bell

I've actually used it when I already knew, but also knew the subject at hand was absurdly niche and wanted to encourage people to look it up.

jmtorres

i also enjoy the variant "hang on i gotta look something up"/"hey what the fuck" because sometimes history is just. like that

navigatorwrongway

i think fic authors that do absurd amounts of research for their fics should post a bibliography at the end both as a flex and as a resource for other fic authors that do absurd amounts of research for their fics

sunlit-capybara

That would require us to keep track instead of frantically googling, say “medieval casualty rates battle cavalry versus foot soldier” or “fortified cities built islands in rivers”

navigatorwrongway

i think fic authors that do absurd amounts of research for their fics should post a bibliography at the end both as a flex and as a resource for other fic authors that do absurd amounts of research for their fics

farenmaddox

I have just found. the COOLEST website???

Lost Kitchen Scrolls

It has a huge variety of historical recipes from different regions, taken from manuscripts, transcribed and translated, and a whole section of notes about the context for the recipe. It's really fun and I AM going to try a couple of these recipes.

Look at how this lamb recipe is presented:

This is just such a fun way to learn more about historical foodways and discover traditional cuisine.

Look at all the filters you can use:

Maybe if I can forage some good blackberries this year, I can make a 300 year old recipe for blackberry wine!

Anyway. Check out Lost Kitchen Scrolls.

thatlittleegyptologist

Hi, for very serious purposes, how would one write something along the lines of "Oh mighty Ra, kiss my ass!" in hieroglyphs?

Since Hieroglyphs are simply the script used to write the language, I chose to render it in Middle Egyptian (it wouldn't look as good in Late Egyptian).