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@synaptichound
Sorry I took this photo using a potato but this is a sign outside a daycare. Text: "KNOW WHERE THE KIDS ARE THERE'S NO GOING BACK"
Official ominous sign
My brain inserted "we" at the beginning, and it's surprising how much worse just one word makes it.
do any other mammals have faces as flat as ours or is that an us thing
think we are pretty unique with that and our build in general. like most mammals are somewhat rotund and usually longer than tall or wide. we are built like a blade of grass
honestly we might be unique for vertebrates in general.
someone brought up owls, but…
now THERE’S and interesting contender
still not as flat as a human face, but the amount that the jaws sink in is wild
bowheads are at least on-par
Persian cats are pretty flat.
still not nearly as flat
how the fuck do we breathe
I hate to do this but
Persian cat seems pretty flat
well, almost every skull is flat if you’re gonna rotate it that way
It is time for the pygmy marmoset
Yeah, this is getting pretty damn close. The teeth prevent it from being quite as flat as us, but this is getting there.
Found throughout most of South America, the Pygmy Marmosets are the smallest of all living monkeys.
ghosts who are trying to warn you. ghosts who are a cautionary tale. ghosts who see you walking into the maw that chewed them to bits, and try to divert you, try to make you understand. ghosts who are trying to tell you something, who are begging you not to end up like them, an unliving prophecy begging not to be self-fulfilled
*sighs* ok fine i hear u tumblr. ghosts who want to seduce you sexually
🎵 Nut busters! 🚫
I'm sure someone has already linked it, but here it is anyway.
I have to believe I can because I never know when I will need to try
With bear hands? I could take on 3
Unrelated: I have an idea for a video game. You remember Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out?
I am fascinated by the 28% of Americans who do not think they could fight a rat…
The fighting itself is not the problem. Pinning down the slippery bastard is. It will immediately go behind furniture or into a wall, and you won't get anywhere near an actual fight occurring. So the only way you can actually fight one is if it can't escape. Even in a sealed room with no hiding spots, actually laying hands on one is going to be tough. Once you do, it's not too hard to finish things, but getting to that point is going to be frustrating at best.
ok so we're just lying now.
. . . that's a light gray with alleged hints of purple
said allegations would not hold up in a court of law
[Image description for the original post: Screenshot from an article about paint samples. It shows a paint sample called Clare Wink. The paint looks grey. The article describes the colour as quote. Clare Wink is a light, muted purple with hints of gray. It feels like a more adult periwinkle. unquote. I cannot stress enough that it looks grey. There is not a hint of purple visible to the naked eye. /end ID.]
I had to go check this out and lmfao. Yeah technically it's on the purple colour spectrum but nothing with that low saturation can reasonably be said to be any colour.
I checked out the website and there's another colour further down called "Benjamin Moore Heaven" and at 2.2% saturation it is Even More grey. The other ten or so paint samples are actualy colours, though several look more brown than purple to me.
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[Feel free to copy/pase my image description of the original image if you want to use it without reblogging my addition to the post.]
I'm gonna be honest, I see a grey, two whites, two very light pinks, and a brown on this list. They're all supposed to be purples. There are only twelve colours total. Fully half of them don't read as purple to me. That's very weird. What happened here?
Just started reading Sherlock Holmes and...
Was nobody going to tell me that Holmes is introduced messing around in a lab inventing FUCKING LUMINOL.
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Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
I agree with the sentiment of the post but this is probably a generated story.
Credibility check:
there is no writer perspective here. we don't if this is written by a historian or a descendent of the subject, it just launches into an emotive story but doesn't tell us how we got there which is a key attribute of rage bait
the gulf in technology between walking to the well to retrieve water and the machine filling with water by itself skips over the installation of a running water supply into the house
the speed of the machine doesn't seem to have any basis in how long washing machines actually take
the logo for the facebook page is a blatant AI gen which means we know the page owner uses gen AI. I don't think I need to break it down just look:
the last nail is the em dashes which are of course usable by people typing credible original work but where other markers of AI exist they're a useful tell
Luckily, there are real stories of this type.
It sucks that the other one may not be real, but the sentiment is. Labour saving devices like the washing machine have improved our lives so much more than we really think about, especially if we've never had to do it the hard way. And we're really not as far removed from the hard way as we like to think. It's only a few generations back.
i need to know- have you heard about the night dermatologist of toronto?
THERE ARE NO GOOGLE RESULTS FOR THAT PHRASE WHAT DO YOU MEANNNNN
So I visited, and:
These are some... interesting hours.
The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There
Every library I've ever been to also has free wifi that won't track you like the corporate wifi spots at restaurants do
My local library has an online movie and audiobook catalogue that you can access from home with your membership! And it’s free!!!
I've been reading ebooks on my phone for two months and it's great! Libby and three local library cards has been pretty good to me.
Except for the one series I started and then discovered I couldn't get the sequels, but that's a risk no matter how you read your books.
Hey is there a reason why I've never seen backpacks that look like folded up wings? Like either feathered or batlike dragon wings.
It feels like such an intuitively obvious idea to me, that I'm going to presume that there's some perfectly logical reason for why you can't do that, and I just don't know enough about sewing backpacks to be aware of it. So if someone does know about making backpacks, please tell us why nobody seems to have made one.
Good news! People have done it before!
the archivists aren’t loving that I’ve been quietly ranking every piece of pottery on a scale of how satisfying I think it’d be to give it a good chuck
Most chuckable shape of pottery I know of. The stirrup spout bottle, not that I knew the name when I was searching which made finding it a pain.
Frankly some of you should be hornier over weirder shit. The fear of being too genuine is the enemy of art. Be a bit of a pervert. It's good for the health. Doesn't have to be a sexual thing just own up to being a bit obsessed in some cringe shit it's fine.
File this under "phrases from Tumblr that didn't have to go that hard but totally did".
@shitpost-poetry-official
In an incredible reversal, Builder.AI just declared bankruptcy after admitting that they were faking their AI tool with 700 humans
Holy smokes it’s true
Builder.ai has collapsed under the weight of several deceptions, ending the rise of a British startup once heralded as a pioneer in democrat
way too good to leave in the tags
"Positioning must focus on our proprietary AI – human labor isn't part of the story," a 2022 internal memo stated.
Lol. Lmao, even. There's even financial bullshit alongside the AI lies. This company is a trainwreck and the former CEO has fucked off to Dubai. What a clusterfuck. Hope to see more from this drama factory, it sounds fun!
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
Sometimes a house is so ugly, disgust boomerangs back into a form of respect.
This is a rare phenomenon, one which should be treated seriously. I've been looking at ugly houses professionally for almost a decade now and I can say with confidence that there are only a handful of true goose eggs that meet the mark. This house -- this remarkable, revolting house -- located, of all places, in Randolph County, North Carolina, is perhaps the finest goose egg a rogue and most certainly confused contractor could possibly lay.
Yeehaw, man. For the curious, the house is on the market for over 500 grand despite being badly sited and measly 2600 square feet. Most of that is devoted to the lawyer foyer which is not the choice I would personally make, but hey, to each their own.
Most of the houses on McMansion Hell these days are submissions from members of the McMansion Hell Patreon, either in our discord server or on our livestreams. This one, however was a total fluke. I came across it by accident because my brother is looking to move to the area in order to be closer to my folks. (I doubt he'd be interested in something this, uh, unique.)
Now, in all these years, I've never devoted an entire post to the exterior of a house. As they say, there's a first time for everything. There is so much going on with this house, all of it in direct opposition to the concept of taste, it requires a deeper investigation than the initial exterior image usually allows. (Also the entire interior is, as one might expect, entirely dark gray, complete with that awful washed out laminate flooring.)
(here is a sneak peek inside. the rest is not really important nor interesting.)
Anyway, without further ado, let's hit it from the top.
First off, no, I don't know what is inside this house's giant, hammerhead-esque forehead. It's not supported by anything so my assumption is, well, nothing. They put this in there for the sheer aesthetic love of the game.
Second, we have to talk about the siding. It's vinyl, and $500 grand is firmly in Hardie®™© Board territory. You can already start to see it ripple against the cornice, which is probably fine. The cornices are painted black in a cartoony, Roy Lichtenstein fashion, that is, if Roy Lichtenstein was drunk. The can lights are a nice touch. They help highlight important parts of the facade, such as:
The vinyl siding and black trim will continue until morale improves. Also, I zoomed out here to include the forehead (fivehead?) just because the scale is INSANE -- that's like a 50-50 wall-to-fivehead ratio. Honestly, even though things in the world are pretty dire, I wouldn't trust that cantilever with my life.
The window layout on this thing makes me wonder if the people who put it together have eyes that can see and a brain that connects to them. Now, I'm not going to invoke the Greek orders or anything, but I am going to say that every single architectural rule is being brazenly broken here. Total impunity. The window and door don't line up at the top, which is the bare minimum of common decency. Then there's that little guy pulling a Leeroy Jenkins up in the corner. You go dude.
The trim on these masses is starting to look AI generated but it's probably just the HDR every realtor uses. The FaceTune of the field. Anyway, I think it's a bad idea to put what looks like builder grade wood flooring on the outside of a house. It's giving mold. It's giving sunbleaching. It's giving Etsy.
As we can see, another familiar McMansion Hell enemy has also made an appearance: the prairie mullion window. There is no reason to use this window unless it involves building a fake bungalow, but the worst possible place to use it is in this particular situation. It's the only window with white mullions, it looks weird with the siding, and it's not exactly """modern""" or whatever this house is supposed to be.
(Often I wonder if some people believe that modernism is just "doing some stuff with squares" and the more squares there are the more modernist it is. Probably not true, but then again, I'm not the one pulling massive profit on houses that look like doo doo so jokes on me.)
Zooming out again because context still matters even in the most nonsensical situations. The funny thing about this house is that the only normal part of it is the front door and even then... what?? Also, look at that siding-less patch of brick on the right. As though to say: haha! Finally, I love how the stairs lead down into a bunch of rocks. Serves you right!
Thanks to advanced screenshotting technology, we can see that there are also prairie mullions on these other windows, it's just that they're a more reasonable black. Don't worry though, the windows are still offensive. They're two windows stuck together in order to give the impression of a single continuous one. (Remember the inside shot?) Nice try, bucko. Second, why don't the two windows meet where that little band of siding is? Well, we all know the answer to this question. (We don't, in fact, know the answer to this question.)
This is my favorite part of the house. It's almost good, to me, which is why I saved it for last. I have no idea what the hell that glossy composition book siding is but I love it. I've never seen it before. I also like how they're doing a weird entablature-quoin combo thing with it, but only on the right side of the house. There's some great five-cornice action going on but, thanks to the precedents set by truly mid postmodernism, it works.
Unfortunately there are some downsides here. What's the deal with that tiny, skinny stone? brick? veneer? Second, why is the siding just hanging off the edge like that? That whole little section where the three (four?) cladding meet is precipitous. The cheapo off-white developer special garage door with the little trad elements is a nice gesture, one that tells you life has no meaning. Why bother?
Anyway, after all that, if we put it all together again, we get this:
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Is this supposed to be from the actual inside of this house? Because it feels fake. CG or AI or something. Maybe we'll all one day find out it wasn't a real house at all but some elaborate fraud scheme.
*A little edit, since I went and found it, it is from this house and absolutely everything looks exactly this unreal. Why is there a door in the column behind the stairs?
I think it's a pantry, but that's still a weird place for a chonky column or a pantry.
Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!
(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)
Would you read a book with this title?
Absolutely!
Sure, why not?
Probably not
You could not force me at gunpoint to read something with this title
Share what you got!
#HOW THE FUCK DID I GET 'LEAGUE OF LEGENDS'
"Warrior of Fire"
Ok, but it has to be a graphic novel and it has to be mostly 30% memeable scenes by weight
"Legend of Late Stage Capitalism"
That sounds like a terrible fantasy novel. Possibly interesting for other reasons, but not likely to be good fantasy.
