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I receive quite a lot of asks and submissions of things that fit this blog, which I absolutely love. However, as I am not able to add alt text to submissions, or edit the images to make the formatting easier to read, my policy will be to make new posts using the material in the submission, and @ the person who sent it in to thank them.

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txttletale

cocktail recipe

podplease

A score of milk for one part rye

Named for america's most famous guy

Now add some aid both kool and lemon

Pour in moxie nice and even

Share it with your closest friends

Theres so much it never ends

White washington its much too bland

Takes all the milk you have on hand

chthonic-thought

13 more parts this cocktail lacks!

Add coffee milk and coffee, black

Mix in two more parts of whiskey

A brandy old fashioned and a DC Rickey

Tomato juice and apple cider

Two parts CJ, plus OJ and water

'Awa's made from kava root

Stir it in with the rest of the booze and fruit

White Washington makes you repent!

Milk content still nearly sixty percent!

kaiasky

somebody please make an update

machine-unlearning

Breaking News: a new erratta

Coming now from hot Nevada!

Picon punch: it hails from Basque,

Top with brandy from the cask.

From Delaware and Maryland,

Two parts milk have met their end.

In: orange crush, vodka and juice

with triple sec that gets you loose.

White Washington is getting boozy!

But all the milk still gets you snoozing

#LET'S GOOO PART THREE

wikipediahmms

txttletale

cocktail recipe

podplease

A score of milk for one part rye

Named for america's most famous guy

Now add some aid both kool and lemon

Pour in moxie nice and even

Share it with your closest friends

Theres so much it never ends

White washington its much too bland

Takes all the milk you have on hand

chthonic-thought

13 more parts this cocktail lacks!

Add coffee milk and coffee, black

Mix in two more parts of whiskey

A brandy old fashioned and a DC Rickey

Tomato juice and apple cider

Two parts CJ, plus OJ and water

'Awa's made from kava root

Stir it in with the rest of the booze and fruit

White Washington makes you repent!

Milk content still nearly sixty percent!

#the version of the post without this addition is circulating again so i want to make sure more people see this one

kittysneezes

I like this article because it’s not what you think it is.

aprilwitching-deactivated201808

the world is a strange and wonderous place

lakevida

look how long this spoon pic from wikipedia is

#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudle

tuxankhamun

charl0ttan

loving how Anthropologically they worded this

charl0ttan

genuinely expected it to say like 300 bce

sycamorality

so we all know the image of the cat covered in packing peanuts from the static cling page on wikipedia, right?

you know, this delightful little guy? an image from 2017?

not only is it on the static cling page, it's also on the pages for static electricity, triboelectric effect, electric field, eletrostatics and electrostatic induction (and you can also find it on this user page captioned "my fav photo", which i thought was delightful, and way down on this user's page)!

it's full description on wikimedia also reads: "Styrofoam peanuts clinging to a cat's fur due to static electricity. The triboelectric effect causes an electrostatic charge to build up on the fur due to the cat's motions. The electric field of the charge causes polarization of the molecules of the styrofoam due to electrostatic induction, resulting in a slight attraction of the light plastic pieces to the charged fur. This effect is also the cause of static cling in clothes."

except, i left out the last bit. the last bit reads: "Image cropped losslessly from File:Cat and styrofoam – electrostatic charge (235112299).jpg using cropgtk"

now, this means this isn't the full image.... so what is the full image? it's this!

now, what i find really endearing about this photo, is that, while this file was uploaded to wikimedia in 2015 (as opposed to the cropped version being done in 2017), the original picture is actually from february 2006! you can see this in the summary!

the picture itself actually originates from flickr, and it has a DELIGHTFUL little description:

unfortunately the original source and picture is long gone, but we can delight in the fact that it was preserved a decade ago on wikimedia after being transferred via Flickr2Commons :]

sycamorality

happy 20th birthday of my cat loves styrofoam peanuts