The Original Whore of Babylon

I'm Devin, I'm 21 and loving it, I can be your greatest ally, closest friend, or your worst enemy. I'm easy going and value vanity, sense of adventure and honesty. I'm in love with the stage and hope to be an actor some day. Get to know me and I'll love you forever.

[bluefroots]

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[rhydonmyhardon]

yea im a tiny bit of a math geek :)

addition haha

subtraction lol

[kittensnax]

[afloweroutofstone]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

ok, and what did the 12 disciples have?

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

did u know: according to scientists, in October the mitochondria turns into the frightochondria and becomes the haunted house of the cell

[randomish-things]

This should not have made me laugh

[jewishdragon]

As a scientist I can confirm

[reactionfaces]

What

if

[reactionfaces]

Wait!

Also…

[cosmic-giraffe]

Behold, A MAN

[excellent-monster-girl-ideas]

I WOULD PREFER TO NOT BEHOLD A MAN

[witchinghour]

“We knew we wanted it to be beautiful and disturbing, often concurrently within the same shot. In the end, a lot of it was just from nature. We found images that were atmospherically relevant. One I remember was of a vapor trail behind an airplane, and in the sort of vortices, light was reflecting through the water droplets and creating rainbow shapes. That became relevant to how we created the look of The Shimmer. Another was a tree that was covered in thousands, hundreds of thousands of spider webs. The spider webs in the branches made the tree like a tree, but not a tree, and that sort of became the crystal trees at the end of the film. It was that kind of thing.” – Director Alex Garland on the inspiration behind The Shimmer in Annihilation (2018)

[academicssay]

On poverty and pronunciation in academia

[jazzybot4]

Oh.

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

Why I never mock or even bring attention to mispronunciation in a conversation, and will snap down anyone who tries to

[bogfox]

Besides poverty, for many peoplevEnglish is a second (or third+) language and has weird rules too. Most of the time, even when words are mispronounced, they’re still understandable if you make an effort. Just be patient and don’t look down on people who mispronounce!

[destiny-islanders]

If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“Please oh please open up your computer to a porn virus! If you don’t you’re evil!”

[history-student-against-antis]

Freeloader Comin’ through!

[moonlight-fox]

We didn’t start this war internet users have with ads - We might have moaned about banner ads, but it was only when they started making noises when we might be listening to music or a podcast or whatever, causing two sound sorces at once, that we started trying to block ads universally rather than just a specific type of ad (pop ups).

And since then ads have gotten worse - Actual malware rather than merely breaking one of the fundamental sins of web design - though shalt not autoplay anything with sound. And the more aggressive a website is with ‘please turn off adblock’ the less I trust it to bother to vet ads and advertisers to make sure they’re not installing malware.

[bramblepatch]

Not to mention that the idea that avoiding ads is “freeloading” is hilariously backward. Advertisement is a transaction between the platform and the advertiser, the user has no obligation to provide the views/clicks the platform has promised. Using an adblocker isn’t freeloading in the same way that leaving the room to get a snack during a commercial break isn’t cheating the tv network.

[pocosun]

Ok y’all, I work as a web developer and I’m here to tell you that you are 100% right and that it’s shit. SO I’m going to tell you how to get around websites that block you from using their website if you’re using an adblocker. 

Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:

Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature

Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu

And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”

And then just refreshed the page

[eggfucker1]

Reblogging to save my life

[funereal-disease]

Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.

It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be. 

[augustdementhe]

LET LOVE AND LUST BE MONSTROUS.

[celciusdiscourse]

i feel like Guillermo del Toro ghostwrote that

[xtine-daae]

“I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”

- Oscar Wilde 

[dankmemeuniversity]

[fifty-shadesofgay]

i just astral projected back to 2009

[teainawineglass]

Holy shit

[ratshithead-deactivated20210422]

all posts should be in deviantart journal format

[ratshithead-deactivated20210422]

Listening to: linkin park ;D Reading: yaoi :3333 Watching: naruto rofll Playing: kingdom hearts!!!!! Eating: nothing o__O Drinking: blood XD

[brittany]

Ariana Grande as Chanel #2 in Scream Queens - “Pilot”

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Watch: Carl Sagan schooled B.o.B. on his flat Earth theory more than 30 years ago

Follow @the-future-now

[micdotcom]

🐸☕️

[trashboat]

bipch erastosthenes schooled b.o.b. 2,230 years ago

[luckyladylily]

Ok so this is cool but I always wondered how they knew the shadows were different at the same instant. I mean it is not like they had phones. How did they sync up that instant. I feel like that would be interesting to know but no one ever says.

[when-it-rains-it-snows]

^^^Does anybody know this one? How, that far apart, the time at which the shadows were observed was synced up? I am genuinely curious, not a goddamn moron asking a gotcha question. High/Low tide? (I live in the middle of the country I do not know for the precise habits of tidal activity.) The appearance of a star (or planet) in the sky? Something as utterly mundane as sunrise?

[kerosenekate]

Well, first of all, it wasn’t actually pillars! Eratosthenes was told about a well in Syene that, in the summer solstice every year (June 21st) would be illuminated at the bottom entirely and without any cast shadows. This indicated that the sun was directly overhead. Going off that well known curiosity and an intelligent hunch, our dude Eratosthenes waited until high noon of the summer solstice to measure the angle of a shadow cast by a stick in Alexandria. (Sidenote: Eratosthenes was a librarian of the infamous Library of Alexandria.)

His next course of action was to hire bematists, surveyors of the time whose professional specialty was to measure distance by walking with equal length steps. They measured a distance between Alexandria and Syene of about 5000 stadia. (Guess where the word stadium comes from.) Once he had that measurement, Eratosthenes did his math-y thing, and there you have it.

[when-it-rains-it-snows]

ANSWER EVEN COOLER THAN I HOPED!!

[cellarspider]

Eratosthenes’ work was thorough enough that by the time he finished revising his calculations, he ended up only 66 km off of the actual polar circumference of the Earth, or an error margin of 0.16%. [wiki]

[taraljc]

I am picturing a dude handing another dude one end of a ball of twine and starting to walk and count and I know that’s not how they counted steps but in my head it is and it’s hilarious

[funnylime]

why my hand shaky

[sundial911]

your skeleton is ready to hatch

[funnylime]

this is so fucking ominous thank you

[arodudejude]

me at four in the afternoon watching a 2hr video essay tearing apart a movie that i’ve never seen

[moonlightsdreaming]

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