Uranium Teacup

they/them...20...space is cool....yeah that's most of it

[the-parasaurolophus]

happy may day to everyone's favorite unionman

[flowers4therapture]

a single andes chocolate mint from the olive garden can fully nourish an adult human for up to 96 hours

[elodieunderglass]

This is genuinely the idea behind Kendal Mint Cake

[hylianengineer]

Say what now?

[elodieunderglass]

Kendal Mint Cake is a sort of highly dense lump of sugar flavoured with peppermint oil. It does not spoil, and somehow contains 2x more sugar and glucose than sugar or glucose. It is a purposeful product intended as an emergency ration to give a boost of energy when mountaineering. It is associated with hikers and mountaineers in the UK and is sold in camping/outdoor stores. Typically you keep a packet permanently in your camping bag or car or emergency kit, and just never move or remove it. If the time comes, it’s there.

I gestured a hand across an explanation of a Scottish field geologist character named Ken(dal Mint Cake) stating that he always has a packet of Kendal mint cake somewhere and received a message from a friend saying “I didn’t know you also knew (guy that Ken could conceivably be based on)”. I didn’t. This is just a portrait of too many extant guys.

There are several species of this man crashing cheerfully around the UK receiving deep spiritual pleasure from crouching in a puddle in a howling gale up a mountain nibbling pieces of violent mint sugar and apparently metabolising sufficient joy from this to polish off Kendal Mint Cake in marketable quantities for over 100 years.

Unless they made too much of it originally and are still selling it.

It isn’t sugar cube. It’s sugar to the fourth power. Nobody sounds reasonable talking about it.

[elodieunderglass]

Tumblr users rising to the challenge . You’ll note the recurring theme

Step 1: go on an entirely optional adventure

Step 2: get into an unpleasant condition in bad weather

Step 3: become very uncomfortable and hateful

Step 4: Kendal mint cake

Step 5: access stratosphere with tits blown off

Step 6: summit

Step 7: say “that was lovely”

[elodieunderglass]

i'm so sorry OP

[homoquartz]

we got another good news roundup!

the fight is still on! don’t give up!

[todaysbird]

happy earth day. don’t forget that someone else’s outdoor cat is your indoor cat

[autisticslp]

A few years ago I picked up a cat at an apartment across town because tenants said the owner had threatened to shoot her. They’d been feeding this cat for five or six months. She’d just shown up one day, friendly as can be, and never left. I asked if anybody had tried finding an owner - they said no, but that she did have a collar on when she first showed up. They just assumed she was some outdoor cat or abandoned. The first thing I did the next morning was take her to the shelter to scan for a microchip, which she had. Her owner was so happy when we contacted her. Her cat had escaped while moving and she’d looked for her for months before resigning herself to the reality that her cat was probably dead. If those tenants had seen a friendly cat show up and immediately taken her to the shelter, it would have saved this person months of heartache, and this poor cat months of fear, ear mites, ticks, and fleas.

This is why I hate outdoor cats. Yes, they cause environmental damage. Yes, they’re going to be killed by cars or coyotes or assholes. But on a completely selfish level, I know that because of people’s normalization of outdoor cats if my indoor, microchipped cats ever got out there’s a good chance I’d never see them again. People see a loose dog running around and they assume it’s lost. They try to catch it or call the dog warden. People see a cat running around and they ignore it. Maybe they feed it for months and never even think that that cat might have someone out there worried sick.

So yeah, if I see an outdoor cat I will catch it and make sure it’s not chipped, and, in accordance to my local laws (make sure you check yours), I will feed that cat for three days, making it my (soon to be indoor) cat.

[todaysbird]

It does! You should check for a chip and/or collar (most vets will screen a cat for a microchip without any fee) to be sure they aren’t a missing cat, but other than that…If your cat never goes in your house, wears no identification, and isn’t cared for, it isn’t your cat.

[sofflepoffle]

I like how dropout shows often have an almost “filmed in front of a live studio audience” effect from simply having the crew obviously losing their minds off camera

[sabertoothwalrus]

if you have ocs it is so so so important that you have Barbie Time™ (drawing them over and over wearing all sorts of different outfits)

[xcziel]

link: https://bsky.app/profile/brainvsbook.bsky.social/post/3llc72lyhu22j

google translate defaulting to chinese at first

okay but for those of us with interests in both the murderbot and the daomu biji fandoms this is kinda hilarious

(english-side-only really, i get that the kanji and hanzi are completely different)

our good (air)ship murderbot! thanks google

[japanwords]

I love reading about these kind of translation decisions.

I've only ever seen 弊 used to refer to one's company: 弊社, as the article says.

I've been told 弊 is used to refer to one's own something, and it has a very humble nuance.

So 弊機 translates to something like "I, your humble machine" or "I, who am but a mere machine".

Japanese is great that it can say so much with simple pronouns.

[blessphemy]

Romance language translator: well we don’t have a gender neutral pronoun so I guess we’ll flip a coin for male or female

Japanese language translator, an intellectual: none of Japanese’s 30-something plus personal pronoun options have the perfect vibes so I’ll create a new one to bring that special somethin’

[imitationgame77]

What I found to be particularly clever about the coining of this very unique first person pronoun 弊機 (heiki) is that it’s a homophone of 兵器(heiki), meaning ‘weapon’

[alphacrone]

when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

[alphacrone]

this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, it’s very fun, but i mostly just need to lower people’s expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine

[lawfulgoodness]

"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."

[ach-sss-no]

#you gotta be more specific man#Hobbits are specifically famous for two Really Long Walks

[teaboot]

Long Walks Georgs were outliers adn should not have been counted

[roseschmits]

Tentacle pots

Available on www.roseschmits.com right now

Worldwide shipping

[subversivegrrl]

@elodieunderglass horrible things with tentacles?

(super cool work anyway)

[elodieunderglass]

Oh hey it’s the cousins of the spidery one!

[anonpolls]

How do you pronounce “Mr.”?

murr

meer

marr

mare

more

other…?

Voting ended onApr 25, 2025

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

[ramblings-of-a-chaotic-neutral]

Me: Ugh, why is dating so difficult? I guess the dating pool where I live is bad :(

Also me, attempting to flirt: How's your day been? :) Did you know that trees pump nutrients into nearby stumps in an effort to keep them alive, resulting in stumps that survive for years entirely on the support of the tree community around them? I like how the trees can sense through their shared root system that their neighbor has been felled, and instead of taking advantage of the new lack of competition, they use their own nutrients to support their now-cut brethren. It's an act of innate, selfless community love from an organism that you'd think is incapable of such a thing, and, in a sense, it's a form of grief, because those surrounding trees won't be able to keep the stump alive forever, and yet they try to keep it alive for as long as possible anyways. It's both touching and a bit disturbing, the sense that trees are trying to hold off the death in their community for as long as possible, almost like they're unable to come to terms with it initially. It seems as though the themes of loss and grief transcend even animal life and have a presence in everything in the world around us. What're your thoughts on that? :D

(As it turns out, turning cool science facts into an analysis of literary themes doesn't make for a good pickup line. Who would've thought?)

[helixsnake]

I remember someone saying "mad scientists in fiction aren't scientists because there's never a control group"

I think if you've created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir

[nonegenderleftpain]

@aydascomprehendsubtext

[lostlightsperceptor]

[elodieunderglass]

Quite similarly to the fairy ring post (https://www.tumblr.com/lynati/698207583782289408/places-an-orange-just-outside-a-fairy-ring-to-see) I think what people forget is that they’re not scientists either, or at least that they haven’t read the methodology section of any publication outside of a few disciplines. By demanding a control group, they are trying to apply the rules for clinical trials and drug development … to FIELD WORK.

If the same people wish to tell, say, solar physicists or field geologists or field ecologists or marine biologists that they “aren’t scientists” because they “don’t have a control group,” those people are very welcome to produce a spare identical planet, or perhaps an identical sun, to serve as the “control group.” But since that isn’t POSSIBLE, then CAN WE CONTINUE WITH OUR OBSERVATIONAL METHODOLOGY. Science is not defined by the presence or absence of a control group; that is simply a type of experimental design. Not all science is experimentally based, even. Thanks.

I mean if you’re turning people into satyrs, you’re probably not testing the efficacy of the drug. You probably developed the serum already. You’re probably running a completely different type of experiment.

[girl-mercury]

I agree with Elodie here, science happens in a number of ways, what you need for figuring out why that space thing’s orbital velocity is not doing the expected is different than what you need for a Phase II clinical drug trial or whatever, but I think we’re missing a prime storytelling opportunity here:

Character living in Superhero City who keeps getting kidnapped and randomly sorted into the control group. It’s like twice a month at this point. They’ve tried to tell people they can tell what a sugar pill or dyed water tastes like but none of these mad scientists coordinate because its publish or perish literally around here. After a while they get a flexible remote job because getting kidnapped is SUCH a time-waster. They wish FOR ONCE to end up in the experimental group, just for some variety, surely growing horns would be interesting.

[elodieunderglass]

So true bestie!!!

[increasingpanic-deactivated2024]

[shello-hi]

ignore my subpar editing skills. i felt like this was a necessary edition. they are transmasc transfem solidarity

[shinosarna]

[markodragic]

fuck esports, the only correct way to play smash is the way my 7 y/o niece plays it: connecting 2 controllers, setting one as peach, setting the other as marth, pretending marth is peach’s boyfriend and then playing virtual barbie and ken with them

[markodragic]

smash esports livestream but it’s just thousands of people tuning in to watch my niece make bayonetta marry solid snake on the zelda temple stage

[powerburial]

esports commentator: now watch what she does here. shes crouching with snake to indicate hes proposing. blink and youll miss it: she uses down+b to place a bomb- this is the wedding ring. going back to bayonetta, shes going to ever so slightly tilt the left stick forward, now this serves two purposes: 1.) to make sure she doesnt set off that bomb when she goes to accept snakes proposal, which would obviously ruin the whole scene, but 2.) and this is a more subtle touch, to show bayonettas hesitation. that's something we know about bayonettas character, shes very independent, so thats the true work of a master to incorporate that into their gameplay

[creature-crow-deactivated202512]

brb trying this

[hyenangel-deactivated20241224]

[blue-the-flyingpyrochef]

[chromegnomes]

[maeamian]

If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline [phone]) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

[maeamian]

You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.

[toastbutteregg]

[skovenshemmeligheder]

mom: who took all my coping juice

14 year old daughter: