#inane thoughts

[ailithnight]

80 cents.

It's not enough for beeschurger. :(

[petitmeowmeow]

I wish all the short stories I read on r/nosleep counted towards my goodreads goal.

I WILL finish Fire and Blood this month damnit

[biteyourbetters]

i haven’t thought about steamrollers in a long time

[z-bot]

So I was sitting around thinking about retail pharmacy, like ya do--

actually I work in nuclear pharmacy, and its defining feature is that it is so much better than retail pharmacy, ergo

--and I remembered that as I child I had a deep curiosity about how pharmacies worked. Surely it wasn’t possible that they had every drug you could possibly need just sitting on their shelves.

Except yes, that is exactly how they work (essentially, compounded drugs and “our next order comes in tomorrow” notwithstanding). I just refused to believe that for some reason.

And then I thought back to when I was three and a half years old, and my family had nearly completed our move from Chicago to Phoenix, and I saw saguaro cacti forests for the first time, all over the mountains.

“Mom, what are those things on the mountain?” I asked.

“Cactuses.”

And for some reason this answer was unacceptable, it was wholly incorrect. “No, those things on the mountain.” I pointed. “What are those?”

“Those are cactuses.”

“NO, the things on the mountain!”

“The things on the mountain are cactuses!”

And I stopped since she obviously didn’t understand my question.

So I understand brains rejecting new information if it’s harmful, somehow, to one’s well-being or one’s ego, but how about just for no reason at all? Just for the hell of it? Is that a “brain in development” thing? Or is this something I’ve also done as an adult without remembering it? 

“Hey, here’s some really basic information, some axioms, some ontological relationships, some self-evident truths.” “Nah, you can fuck right off with that.”

[mishidraws]

Life hack: if you’re liveblogging something and you got spoiled, when you get to the part that you were spoiled for, pretend you’re experiencing this all brand new.

when you reread the liveblog a couple of years later, if your memory is average, you won’t be able to tell the difference!

[landlockedcorsair]

Man, there is a particular person from years ago that I want to find. I don't know their last name, I don't use any other social media they might be on, and I don't speak with anyone else who might know how to reach them... that's annoying.

[floridaalicat]

Sometimes I think I should just run a cat blog.

[cry-for-judas]

man that fucking story about Ireland accidentally legalizing a bunch of drugs

Ireland is the most hilarious fucking country on earth

i love it so much