Like A Turd In The Wind

Chels|24|She/Her|♒🌞♎🌜♊⬆️|INFP Just a blog filled with things I find interesting.

[tlirsgender]

Loving how as soon as electricity was like, a Thing, people just went "you can make toast with this" and started working on electric toasters but they didn't quite have the whole heating element thing down so there was a not insignificant chance of it just exploding

[tlirsgender]

People have been making bread crunchy by heating it up for Ages but for some reason I thought electric toasters would be happening around the same time as like, refrigerators but no people went "easier crunchy bread?" as soon as the technology was available. Not even remotely safe but like, existent. It took Way longer to figure out how to make things cold with electricity

[tlirsgender]

I specify electric toasters because before that they had these bad boys

You just put your slice of bread in there and hold it over your fireplace and bam it's toast time

[tlirsgender]

Actually you didn't have to use those, if you find yourself wanting some toast in victorian england you could also stick your bread on one of these motherfuckers right here

These are the very creatively titled (/s) toasting forks and they look metal as hell for the purpose they serve

You might notice that the tips are bent upwards, which is actually not for inflicting more pain when tormenting the souls of the damned but rather because the bread goes on them like so

And the bend helps keep the bread from sliding off

[tlirsgender]

I know this is the most niche interest shit in the world but just look at that. The victorian era had no reason to go as hard as it did but every day I am grateful for it

[definitelynot-darcy]

But sliced bread didn't exist until... I dunno, but it was after Betty White was born. So would the Victorians just stab a wad of bread and toast it like a s'more or what?

[tlirsgender]

I don't know how to tell you that you can slice a loaf of bread

[petermorwood]

Take a knife (on evidence, maybe not the sharpest one in the block), place the loaf on a cutting-board, and use the knife to cut off a slice of bread.

Then toast it.

Easy, when you know how.

Using a toasting-fork, a grill (broiler), an old-fashioned single-element toaster, or the 0 (zero) setting on our double-switch Dualit, is how to get "toast done on one side" as in the song "An Englishman in New York", by Sting.

Toast has other literary connections. This is my favourite:

"Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar..." (Link to Gutenberg.)

[rated-u]

On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was.

It’s  October 3rd.

[anglaised]

this is another thing i was thinking about that i haven’t seen many ppl even discuss like sonyas death was gruesome and horrifying yes but im seeing a lot of ppl using one of her final statements as her “seeing the devil in the cop” and while i can see why ppl would draw that conclusion it doesnt help with stereotypes agaisnt psychotic people, as a psychotic black person myself, she quite literally was just nonchalantly saying “id never do that!” and again like this tweeter is saying is why aave and black lingo being demonized or treated as a joke or taken from us and decontextualized is irritating at best and dangerous at worst, people automatically hearing aggression or being unable to detect humor when we talk has claimed lives and will continue to do so because nonblacks inherently see us as more of a threat for simple things like this

[mindblowingscience]

Florida Cactus Species Becomes First US Extinction Victim of Rising Seas

A rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be the first species lost to sea level rise in the United

A rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be the first species lost to sea level rise in the United States, researchers said Tuesday. The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) was restricted to a single small population in the Florida Keys, an archipelago off the southern tip of the state, first discovered in 1992 and monitored intermittently since then. But salt water intrusion caused by rising seas, soil erosion from storms and high tides, and herbivory by mammals placed significant pressure on the last population.

Continue Reading.

[hes-a-plant]

I want to add that while this is horrible that the cactuses are extinct in the wild, they aren’t completely lost:

The researchers rescued the last remaining cacti from the wild, wrapping them with towels for protection, and whisking them away to a greenhouse off site to ensure the plants’ survival.

While there are plans to reintroduce the species back in the Keys, researchers say finding a suitable habitat that would contend with the rapid changes in climate has been “difficult.”

In the end, the Key Largo tree cactus may not have a future in a wild made too wild by the climate crisis.

(From this article)

The researchers saved what they could. We don’t know for sure if these cactuses will have a future in the wild, but it’s still a possibility, and one to fight for.

[insomniac-arrest]

By god, they are advertising work on the Hating Work Website

[insomniac-arrest]

Hardworking pornbots replaced by soulless capitalist fake job bots😔

[insomniac-arrest]

"are u horny😉💋" not anymore girl, they want me to work at FedEX

[the-haiku-bot]

“are u horny😉💋” not

anymore girl, they want me

to work at FedEX

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[everythingfox]

He was not having it

[animusrox]

The Bear season 3

Spongebob Squarepants S03E08 "Squilliam Returns"

[junkfoodcinemas]

Twister (1996) dir. Jan de Bont

[raylangivins]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[moss-sprout]

I'm starting a collection

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[disteal]

i love having adult horse girl friends. I’ll send them a 100x100px crunchy ass jpeg of a random brown horse and be like “thought of u🐴” and I can literally feel their sims relationship bar fill up in real time

[disteal]

Rly felt compelled to capture this before bed

[disteal]

i don’t think i posted it but here’s how the horsethey in question responded to this

[birdblues]

Bronze-winged Jacana

[bludragongal]

burnout be like

[bludragongal]

turns out all the people who added notes like “this is so adhd” were correct

[chongoblog]

All of the Powerpuff Girls villains are in a Discord server. Mojo Jojo is the head mod

[doctor-nu]

Oh god, I just imagined the rules channel and how he'd write it.

Rule #1

If you are an enemy of the Powerpuff Girls you ARE welcome to The Nemeses of the Powerpuff Girls Server, BUT if you are their ally you are NOT welcome. That is to say if you are a friend of Blossom, Bubbles, and/or Buttercup, you CANNOT be friends with us. BUT if you are not their friend and are in fact their enemy, you CAN be friends with us and be on this server.

[chongoblog]

RULE #2

The channel #general is for general discussions and not venting your emotional problems with the Powerpuff Girls or any other issues. Such discussion is meant for the channel that is labeled #serious-vent-channel and not #general, otherwise the channel called #general would be called #serious-vent-general, however it is NOT so please do not discuss serious topics in the #general channel, please do so in the #serious-vent-channel

RULE #3

Please do not post hole

[cryptiddies]

Hey shout out to every custodial/sanitation worker taking out and cleaning up literal hot garbage so that the rest of us can go about our summer days like it doesn’t exist

[cryptiddies]

Glad to see this resonated with someone, respect custodial staff or die<3

[brightlotusmoon]