The Mod Who IS Broke.

Does anyone actually read these? My name is Talus. I draw and cook and garden.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[talus-the-broken]

Some of us do, but nobody really seems to want to listen

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[talus-the-broken]

I don't think y'all understand, let me tell you about the fucking sunfish, or Mola Mola.

First of all, just take a look at this gloriously stupid fuckin' fish.

Yes, they are huge, but they feed on jellyfish, mostly because they suck at fucking swimming.... The one thing that basically defines a fish, the ability to swim, and they're TERRIBLE at it. Most of their bodies are cartilage, not muscle like basically every other animal, so they maneuver incredibly stiffly with their too small fin structures and too weak to be efficient musculature. So why are their entire bodies mostly cartilage? Basically to make them less appetizing to predators. Most predators basically ignore them because they're so calorically scarce that they aren't worth eating. You could practically starve to death trying to eat one of these idiots. Because of their underdeveloped swimming skills they're very often found stranded by even very gentle currents.

The sunfishes response to such situations?

Basically they just float there with surprised Pikachu face.

The entirety of the ocean bullies these things.

This sunfish will be perfectly fine, there is nothing there it needs for survival and I'm pretty well assured that the sea lion will give up after that, because, again, they aren't worth eating!

[yorgen-sh]

The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes

[scarlettohairdye]

And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles

[talus-the-broken]

Let me be honest, I'm impressed with the shoes, but far more impressed with this woman. Who manufactured her???

[curioscurio]

Picard Big Naturals

[jalapeepo]

[talus-the-broken]

[talus-the-broken]

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[talus-the-broken]

They didn't save a couple million, any money they did save was easily deleted by the costs of the breaches of contract, the absurdly inflated salaries of DOGE staff, lawsuits, costs of reinstating lost functions that are vital to national function, and the economic damage killing programs like the screw-worm quarantine is STILL causing every single day.

DOGE cost us BILLIONS, and is still costing us billions. It didn't save any money.

[inkandguns]

[lillytheaspie]

[aberrantemotion]

why is this even a crime? She was selling it to the adults

[all-stairs]

Because you have to have a license to sell alcohol. This is both for tax reasons and for safety reasons.

[aberrantemotion]

Okay the second part i can manage to care about. But really I think all that should happen to her is like. A mandatory course towards alcohol safety and getting a liquor license.

[flipocrite]

I recall some kid selling fellow high schoolers tamales for $4 (“the tamale guy”) getting in trouble for a similar reason and so he started selling single sheets of paper towels for $4 instead (every paper towel comes with a “free gift” – a hot tamale).

[talus-the-broken]

God forbid a girl do anything!

[eclecticopposition]

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

[carby]

Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

(for science.)

[violetthunderstorm]

You have a fitting blog title

[nico-the-overlord]

this post is getting 50k easy

[marlinspirkhall]

[talus-the-broken]

I was raised mostly in the US South, among US Navy sailors, I can do one worse, picking up the wrong red solo cup and not realizing it was someone's dip spit cup.

[deathtofun]

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

[regularlesbian]

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

[villainessbian]

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[libraford]

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

[libraford]

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

[libraford]

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

[libraford]

I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

[libraford]

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."

[talus-the-broken]

Every culture that has ever had to deal with hot weather has at one point or another, invented their own version of Gatorade

[talus-the-broken]

Trump is not Christian. His constituents, and his cabinet, and his supporters in government are not Christian.

If they were, they would take issue with ICE failing to treat the foreigner as the native-born.

They would have a problem with not healing the sick by or feeding the hungry.

They would take offense at the usury, selfishness, and greed of wealthy corporations.

There would be outrage among them for the warmongering and reflexive violence of their own party.

But they don't care. Christianity is not their faith, it's their excuse, twisted, and cherry-picked, and mistranslated to justify their ungodly acts and words.

[bowlby4]

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[talus-the-broken]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[talus-the-broken]

Luigi was not the shooter. I don't say this as some coy deflection. The evidence that has been presented against him is plainly contradictory and he was presumed and presented as guilty in a media circus from day one. This case is not an actual trial it's a threat against anyone who would harm the elite.

[talus-the-broken]

The power of evil is not stored in the balls or the tits. Historically, evil people have lost both and continued to be evil, so it must be somewhere else.