official* poll grapher

firefly in the sky / i can go twice as high / take my love, take my land / reading rainbow

[redstonedust]

women are like beautiful flowers..... found all over the world. pleasant to be around. part of a larger plant. full of pollen. evolved in the jurrasic period. may eventually turn into an apple. comes in purple sometimes.

[strictlyquadrilateral]

i'm trying to find a map of public transportation in minnesota and i feel insane. all of this is so completely useless. so far i've found one thing that kind of counts as a route map and i got so upset at how bad it was that i unironically had to look at a map of the mbta to calm myself down

[strictlyquadrilateral]

i think the strat, in theory, is that you can figure out which bus company provides transportation for which county? and then i guess look at the relevant bus companies' websites? but also this information is so annoying to track down. why is the only potentially helpful thing i've found a pdf from 2022. like ok i get why there isn't a nice color coded and labeled image file of the bus routes but why isn't there a website where i can click around and see what's closest to any given point and what the route is named/numbered and get a link to the current schedule. or something. and also why isn't there a nice color coded and labeled image file of the official mvta routes either actually. i did find a map but i have no idea how to get from that (barely legible) map to actually finding information on the route schedules

[strictlyquadrilateral]

^ is this it. is this all i get to have. why can't we have a nice map. that is helpful. like this one:

i miss the mbta so bad it's not even funny

[the-real-seebs]

I was going to say "well they have a ton more population", and that's true-ish, but actually the population density isn't that much different, so honestly I think MVTA is just sorta bad, but maybe if you send them these two pictures and a question mark they will contemplate this

[strictlyquadrilateral]

if i wanted to compare the less dense areas i would get a picture of the massachusetts commuter rail and the minnesota bus routes. but like i said before, i can't find a map of the bus routes. here's the commuter rail map so you can have an example of what i was hoping for, i guess (official map and also what it looks like on an actual map of MA)

[strictlyquadrilateral]

it is so egregiously condescending that the minnesota drivers manual is like "you should try to take public transportation instead of driving :)" and then you have to solve a bunch of stupid and bad riddles in order to figure out whats going on with public transportation in minnesota even a little bit

[strictlyquadrilateral]

[this-glittering-world]

god yeah that's really bad. probably so bad it wouldn't be that hard to make a better one yourself... getting your version in front of other people might be too much work tho

[transgenderer]

i feel like "man massively cuts foreign aid spending, resulting in hundreds of thousands fewer lives saved, is he a mass murderer?" is kind of an interesting thought experiment. but its really really bad it happened in real life. in real life its just very simply one of the worst things you could do in your life

[mi-tu-o-moli-poka]

Now er-ge what do you mean you're upset about me locking your meridians kidnapping you and keeping you hostage while I flee the country I thought you said you were a no limits sub

[mi-tu-o-moli-poka]

Er-ge, you really have to communicate more. I distinctly remember you saying "whatever you want" on more than one occasion, and what I want right now is to flee the country. Couldn't you honor our agreement? Do you want some more sparkling water

[aistobascistod]

Proton : Electron :: Proto-Indo-European : Electro-Indo-European

[redstonedust]

i think its fun when people use the trope of vampires thinking that werewolves smell like shit but its especially funny to me when they say a werewolf smells like 'wet dog' . like specifically WET dog? not dry dog? something about werewolves makes them smell damper than any normal dog even if theyre dry as a bone? fascinating implications. wet werewolf vs creepy vampire. much to consider.

[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]

[insomniac-arrest]

the road OUT of hell is also paved with good intentions. That’s just kind of the main road we’ve got

[neverniko101]

who up perceiving and reacting to stimulus

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[qin-shi-huang-di]

Shouldn't have made a dni for the school of medical skills. Maybe they could have told you about the mercury.

you FOOL. you utter BUFFOON! my royal alchemists already know about the HEALTHFUL and NUTRITIOUS mercury, which i take every day to achieve immortality! i don't need those quacks from the school of medical KILLS to tell me what is already common knowledge!

guards, execute this rube for wasting my time!

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What is Tumblr?

Tumblr is the opiate of the very, very few.

[ourdarling]

insane shit happening over on uquiz right now

[foone]

The three types of kink are

* you have power

* you're safe

* feet

[foone]

this is a shitpost but I think it's not THAT wrong. Most kink is either one of (or a combination of):

You get to play at having power over someone else. This is your dominance sorts of things, your sadisms, etc.

You get to play safely. You can play with scary things while knowing there's safewords and a dom/top who loves you.

Feet. By which I mean, there's some normal part of the human experience that your brain has for some reason fixated on. Maybe you're into red hair, or glasses, or fluffy tails.

[foone]

"safety" can also present as "useful". You have some intrinsic value that cannot be taken from you (because of some sex/kink thing). The safety is from abandonment, because you're useful, despite everything. And "useful" is a bunch of kinks (none of which I'm comfortable mentioning here).

[sleepydogdisease]

oh no, animal ears are feet

[foone]

yeah. cat ears are feet!

[mere-technicality]

can someone turn this into the calvin's dad dialogue

[foone]

oh god, this is so obviously calvin's dad dialogue that now I'm worried that I plagiarized it without realizing it

[madigail]

the two types of tumblr post are calvin's dad and rule 34. all posts fall into one of these two categories. despite being kink-related, this post is actually calvin's dad.

[stupidestasshole]

what if it was called magic the slathering and it was about lotions and ointments

[jazetallo-art]

pov: you're making history. you're working with the most advanced technology in the world. outlook still doesn't fucking work.

[ichiro-artosaki]

kees the feesh 🧜🏽‍♀️(siren au is consuming my brain!)