TLM

I'm no longer super active but maybe some day I'll come back

[taitetsu]

[omgitsnewton-deactivated2023080]

@staff

[ilpheion]

FUCKING SAVAGE

[ndelphinus]

I once got into a grudging Nice Off with a neighbour.  This crotchety old bastard had moved in across from my grandma and within a week became legendary for his sniping about every tiny thing.  Kids sitting on their front steps weren’t respectful.  Someone’s cat got into his yard.  The mailman stopped in front of his parking space for two seconds.  The man was impossible.

So I baked him a cake.  Not like a Duncan Hines box cake either.  I made an angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries between the layers and lemon buttercream frosting entirely from scratch.  I was and still am crap at cake decorating, but pale yellow frosting with star shaped sprinkles on top looks pretty good no matter how uncoordinated you are.  Then I put on my nicest clothes, marched over, and apologised for not welcoming him to the neighbourhood sooner.

He slammed the door in my face.  Then the next day he came over with cookies.  I offered to mow his lawn.  He told me he wouldn’t pay me then invited me in for lemonade.  I took him cupcakes I had “accidentally” made too many of.  He loaned me a book on Irish history.  I read him the newspaper.  He (rudely) told me how to improve my English presentation.  I raked up his leaves.  He told me stories about his time in Korea.  Eventually the fucker gave in and actually started being half-way pleasant.

[wholesomeobsessive]

#people always think being a slytherin is about revenge and cruelty#really manipulating someone into liking you is so much more effective

[loveremains4eva-deactivated2017]

33 Questions White People Have For White People (X)

You all need to watch this, white people calling out white people…😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

“we were white people running away from other white people”

[did-you-know]

The Temple of Quechula was built in 1564 and abandoned in the 1700s because of a plague.

Source

[jonlybonlyfromboldlygo]

plague church emerges from the water.  totally cool.  normal.  not an ill omen or harbinger of doom at all.  happens ever y day

[unescapable]

I FUCKING HATE WHEN PEOPLE POUR KETCHUP ALL OVER THE FRENCH FRIES INSTEAD OF A DESIGNATED CORNER AND THEY OFFER ME SOME LIKE NO FUCK YOU AND YOUR TAINTED FRENCH FRIES

[thelaughingmanic]

which scientist should you fight

geologist: will throw copious amounts of rocks at you. not recommended unless you can also throw equal amounts of rocks back

botanist: knows 1001 ways to poison you. probably shouldn't fight

zoologist: knows 1001 animals that can kill you. probably shouldn't fight either

entomologist: spiders. enough said.

physiologist: they know too much about the human body and how to cause optimal pain with minimal damage. not safe.

geneticist: will unleash their army of mutated fruit flies at you. can be either good or bad thing, depending on your preference for flies with legs growing out of their eyes

immunologist: they have perfected the t-cell inspired technique of "death by neglect". if you fight them you will die in the saddest way possible

microbiologist: please don't fight someone who is already pissed about antibiotic resistance and can identify bacteria based solely on their smell

climatologist: will choose the battlefield as somewhere in the path of a category 5 hurricane and then leave you to die. do not fight please

environmental scientist: they can control the entire world do you really want to fight them

chemist: have you seen breaking bad? no, do not fight them. do NOT

physicist: will kill you with math. not the best way to go

herpetologist: can probably speak parseltongue and know just which frogs are best at taking over your habitat. only fight if you live in antarctica

cancer biologist: has immediate access to at least 5 different tumor cell lines and knows exactly where to inject them in your heart to cause metastases. don't even look them in the eye

marine biologist: is a real life aquaman. will lure you with cute river otters and then finish you off with some terrifying deep sea creature. better to just stay home and never leave

psychologist: is basically a mind reader. will drown you in your deepest darkest fears. 10/10 do not recommend to fight

molecular biologist: will kill you organelle by organelle. you will die a slow and painful death while covered in budding yeast

statistician: their power is always over 80%, and they will quickly punt you in the path of a normal distribution even before you can yell "Wilcoxon!"

archaeologist: can use a trowel 59 different ways, and only 9 are for digging. one can only guess the other 50, so may be advisable to stay far away

astronomer: will launch you into space and send you to a planet so inhospitable not even matt damon can make it back this time

pharmacologist: why would you ever fight someone who knows all about drugs. why

computer scientist: they know the perfect algorithm for death. do not fight, even with a firewall

linguist: no matter where you are, they can talk about you behind your back in the native tongue. do you really want death by humiliation. do you

dinosaurologist: are you kidding me?? the answer is no

[did-you-know]

Other awesome cereals that used to be stocked at your friendly, neighborhood supermarket:

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[mewwitch]

Now this is how to Halloween, people.

Skeleton War skills - level 5000

[200percentrad-deactivated201812]

[obsessivegeekgirl13]

I’m just sitting here laughing hysterically. 

[ulibeanzz]

mi whole life

[sixpenceee]

Green trails show the movement of the fireflies in Wisconsin as the Milky Way galaxy sparkles in the background. Photos by Adam Dorn. 

[james-boswell-illustration-deac]

INTERSECT - James Boswell 2015

[steviemcfly]

I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

[reagan-was-a-horrible-president]

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

[sixpenceee]

On his deathbed, in a hospital, surrounded by family, children’s author Roald Dahl reassured everyone, sweetly, that he wasn’t afraid of death. “It’s just that I will miss you all so much,” he said—the perfect final words. Then, as everyone sat quietly around him, a nurse pricked him with a needle, and he said his actual last words: “Ow, fuck!” (Source)

[jedavu]

Russian Photographers Show How Birds See Our World And It’ll Leave You Breathless

Epic panoramic photos by AirPano

[dutchster]

i don’t even need to know the context of this drawing

[xxlove4evaxx]

pussy game so strong it scared the devil

[ohbeckoh]

no but literally that is what is happening, there have been long periods of western history where spirits were said t be frightened by the site of lady business. Sailor’s wives used to flash their husbands ships (mind you this was a time before underwear so you just lifted your petticoats and BAM) in order to scare away the spirits and devils that made storms. A woman could flash her crops to keep away spirits that might ruin them.This was also back when the vagoo was seen as something taboo and horrible so literally looking directly at some labia was thought to be so scary the devil would poop himself. Misogyny so intense it gave the pussy superpowers. 

[objectivemistress]

I love academic papers written solely for the purpose of dragging another researcher. It’s like Jersey Shore but in academia.

[objectivemistress]

Any title including the phrase “A Response To: ” is basically an intellectual bar fight.