Pretty numbers and stuff

Basically a blog with random things I find neat - I'm Nemo, disabled communist transmasc (he/they). I like maths, philosophy, DnD, fun facts, and roughly one million more tiny things. Please say hi! :)

[theweirdwideweb]

[astronicht]

Unless you were a tech at NASA back in the day, when one time some hydrogen a) escaped in a particular building, and b) caught on fire. This was extremely difficult because hydrogen does NOT burn on the visible spectrum humans evolved to see (and flee). Rather, it technically does, but it’s so pale that in practice, no one could see it. Additionally, pure hydrogen burns without smoke and with so little ambient heat that you can’t really sense it till you walk into it. So, per the lore, for a few days all the techs in that building just walked around brandishing brooms in front of them like lances. If your broom lit on fire, congrats! You have located more burning hydrogen! Do not proceed!

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

oh my god it’s real and it was LITERALLY called “the broom method” holy shit

[inthefallofasparrow]

Hot Shit | Tom Cardy

[aquilacalvitium]

Okay not only is this a bop but it single handedly raised my self confidence

[linkedlikedays]

My 2 year old is OBSESSED with this song. When we first started listening to it they loved it, and then began requesting it by name. Except we never told them the name of the song, because it's called Hot Shit and we didn't want a baby demanding, "Mama, Hot Shit!!!"

So they made up their own name, based on a toddler's understanding of the lyrics:

"Mama, can we listen to

Rocketship?

[iamreallytryingiswear]

Please give it a listen it is just my favorite, and @moreover-clover remember you are hot shit even tho your cheese has fallen ok?

[tbcl]

[whomightthatevenbe]

I neutralized a ghost and all I got was this shirt and stabbed

[idiosomatic]

look upon my work, ye mighty, and this pear 🍐

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[hotvampireadjacent]

[icaseybaybee]

[real-language-facts]

invented a new word today. its 'plagiarism'. im a genius i know

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

[lahiah]

beam me up scotty (beam me up inside) can’t beam up (beam me up inside)

[phantomrose96]

Hey kids, you need to start worrying a little less about getting “#mogged” and a little more about getting “#smogged”. This is an Air Quality Index public service announcement.

[berkeleygirl3]

[vacuously-true]

Has this been done yet

[didntaskforfrozenyoghurt]

[Image: an edit of the 'one fear' comic by Brandon Reese. The first panel has a teen in a shirt that says 'No aperiodic monotile'; the second panel is a screenshot of the start of the paper describing An Aperiodic Monotile; the third panel has the teen wearing a shirt shaped like the 'hat' aperiodic monotile. End ID]

[rumwik]

DO YOU SEE???

[theblackparadeisdead]

One day ur a suicidal 15 year old and then suddenly you wake up and you're 22 years old and genuinely debating the merits of iceberg vs romaine lettuce in the salad ur making. Life goes on ig

[radicalgraff]

"No Borders, No Nations, Just People"

Sticker spotted in Pittsburgh