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In the midnight hour, he cried "myrrh, myrrh, myrrh".

[danismm]

50th anniversary of the Lava Lamp — retrorenovation

[wilwheaton]

“The Aristocrats!”

[blueandbluer]

Tag yourself, I’m the charm and warmth of one’s personal good taste.

[yagathai]

... no you’re not.

[fuckyeahrichardiii]

ladyplantagenet reblogged your post and added:

@fuckyeahrichardiii yaaaasssss give me the…

I will indeed. yOu will have ample fodder for breaking awkward silences. Do you want stuff on boar fewmets? I’ve got some stuff on boar fewmets somewhere. Or, Edward of Norwich does. I just sit at his feet and fan myself.

[yagathai]

Technically, boars don't drop fewmets. Only deer drop fewmets. Boars drop lesses, or more accurately, leʃʃes.

[blueandbluer]

As I was picking up my breakfast, the girl at the counter asked me how many times I had to “lift.” It took me a second to figure out she was referring to bleaching my hair before I color it. I told her just once; my hair comes up pretty well. 

She said “Wow, just once? That’s great… I see your hair has some greys and those sometimes are resistant to lifting.” 

OMG child. Really.

[yagathai]

OK but that picture is great though.

[sexgoddeathandus]

[blueandbluer]

Uhhh… what.

[yagathai]

Marabou storks shelter in a bathroom at the Miami Zoo during Hurricane Andrew is what.

[tonightweredrinkingfromthebong]

i’d like to clear it up once and for all

things that ARE amore:

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie

when the world seems to shine like youve had too much wine

when the stars make you drool just like pasta fazool

i will NOT clarify this again, these are the only things that are amore

[yagathai]

What about when you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee?

Wait, wait, no. That’s a moray.

[punkrocktaire]

tag urself I’m Halloween

[blueandbluer]

I’m lycanthropy, which apparently they think is real???

[yagathai]

... most of these? I mean OK maybe not most, but a lot of them.

[rickbman]

Anyone have any recommendations for science fiction movies directed by women? I’ve tried searching around, but most lists I find are very lacking. So, if you know of any good ones I should check out, let me know.

(Not Strange Days or anything directed by The Wachowskis, I’ve see those)

[blueandbluer]

I, too, would like these suggestions if anyone has them, thx.

[yagathai]

Near Dark also by Kathryn Bigelow. It’s vampires not SF but in the neighborhood. Deep Impact Aeon Flux Real Genius Tank Girl

[yagathai]

Random question: Anyone here enjoy playing NSFW video games, and if so would you mind being interviewed about it for an online article?

[themarysue]

Decked out in Wonder Woman gear, Jessie Graff became the first woman to compete the new Warped Wall at the 2016 American Ninja Warrior LA Qualifiers.

[blueandbluer]

Watch that video you guys, it is AMAZING.

[yagathai]

You know, I just don’t think letting superheros compete is fair.

[lizardywizard]

But now I’m wondering how all these facial recognition algorithms we’re coming up with now are going to take to the Bright New Transhumanist Future

Like, okay, we know Google can recognise dogs. But what about stranger things? Is anyone training these things on lizards?

Imagine basilisks specifically designed to crash these algorithms: abstract-blocks-of-black-and-white-for-heads that, like the QR codes of old, carry a hidden message in their patterning, only it’s a payload, a virus that shreds the system of anyone who tries to capture it on camera, the natural evolution of anti-face-detection camouflage. Imagine things that don’t even have faces, that don’t have an equivalent and easily-cataloguable part; people who deliberately wear mass-produced, identical android bodies, the Guy Fawkes masks of the future.

[mugasofer]

It’s a thing! Turns out, people would rather not look stupid than not be caught by facial recognition.

[wirehead-wannabe]

Somehow they look exactly like you would expect cyperpunk protagonists trying to avoid detection by facial recognition software to look.

[charleypollard]

hillarious dystopian future fashion finally makes sense. or, all scene kids will survive 

[yagathai]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/license_plate.png

[shake666pro]

You have now fucked the character on your desktop/mobile wallpaper.

How fucked are you?

[camwyn]

It’s the Curiosity rover. How did that even happen.

[shrewreadings]

WTF mountain range. 

[warpsbyherself]

A calm, grassy plain. …Does this count as a roll in the hay?

[tehnakki]

it’s a cartoon version of me…. AHHHHH YEAAAAAHAHHHH!!!!! Doubly fucked!

[flatbear]

a literally collage of flowers and cartoon bdsm accessories. this is working out in my favor.

[reysskywalkering]

Finn AND Rey.

[blueandbluer]

…my pet tarantula??? Jesus christ I need to be locked away.

[yagathai]

Hot model twins in my bathtub? AWWWW YEAH

[annaillustrates]

Anna posts drawings twice a week. A rare self portrait.

[vanillycheesecake]

licky licky

[jumpingjacktrash]

i just found out something weird

ok so i have been really baffled for years by the fact that, while eating what is essentially a mild starvation diet, i keep getting fatter. i eat roughly 800-1400 calories a day, with occasional (once or twice weekly) larger meals when someone brings me a burger or we order pizza for gaming. by all the rules as i understood them, i should be worryingly skinny, despite being so stove up with chronic pain that doing my daily physical therapy (400+ calories worth of exercise) feels like walking on a broken leg.

for years, i’ve tried to get medical professionals to tell me wtf i’m doing wrong. all but one told me ‘eat less exercise more’ because they basically didn’t listen to me at all. my gp, bless his soul, listens and cares and tries, and i’ve given so much blood for so many tests but it’s all normal normal normal. nothing wrong with my thyroid or glucose or any other damn thing he can think of to test for.

well, today i was looking up calorie counts trying to think if maybe i was just… somehow… miscalculating how many calories a peanut butter sandwich was worth or something? maybe buttered wheat toast and a fried egg is actually somehow 2000 calories instead of 200? maybe that once a week two slices of pizza is secretly an apocalyptic shitfeast instead of a slight relaxing of the rules?

and i came across a bunch of articles from nutritionists and sports trainers pointing out that on around 1000 calories a day (some say as much as 1800 for a full grown male, some say as little as 700 without specifying gender) your body goes into full on famine mode, shuts the fuck down, and stores every calorie you give it beyond what’s required for mere survival.

it could be that the solution to my ever-growing problem is to eat more.

i’m honestly not sure i can. i don’t have much of an appetite. i eat pizza on fridays because it’s gaming night and it’s social; if you could order a nice bowl of tomato basil soup and have it get delivered from the pizza place, i’d eat that instead. but i’m going to try eating a thing of yogurt or a handful of trail mix between meals and see if it helps. *fingers crossed*

[mishi-bear-deactivated20200707]

sympathy fist bumps bro. i’m literally in the same boat.. i’m technically morbidly obese. i’ve been tracking my calories in every day for the past few weeks.. i literally never eat over 2000 calories in one day. i very rarely even get -close- to 1500. some days i only eat as little as 700-1000. food has bafflingly -few- calories to me now that i know how many i’m eating in a day, and i eat when i’m hungry and am not ‘starving’ myself. it’s such a weird mindset to have now, coming from just thinking i must be eating too much, and just eating less would magically solve my problems. now i have to think about actually eating more and it seems way too hard.

i wish i had good advice but i’m struggling too. i can say, adding in some small things throughout the day is a good choice, but it might not add up to enough on a low calorie day. i had been adding in small things like a cup of yogurt and a piece of fruit throughout the day but those things would only add up to maybe an additional 200 calories at most.

are you okay with protein shakes? that’s something that’s been recommended to me a few times. the important thing is to look for actual protein shakes and not meal replacement shakes meant for people on diets… diet shakes have very low calories and aren’t really satisfying. getting protein powder to make your own shakes with might be worth a try. i know sometimes the flavors can be off or textures can be weird though, but maybe if you were to mix the powder in with the smoothies i remember you saying you were making sometimes, would help with flavor/texture?

[jumpingjacktrash]

huh, i have some peanut butter powder and i bet that’d be good with banana and honey and milk. that’s good protein. i should look into actual protein shakes tho. i often have carnation instant breakfast, and that’s like… 230 calories or sth. which, with a 400 calorie lunch and a 500 calorie dinner, adds up to Not Enough.

[nikkibot3000]

As someone who is currently seeing a dietician for similar issues, not eating enough is apparently a common cause of weight gain in folks with disabilities/brainweird stuff because either we don’t get hungry like we should or we get encouraged by misguided healthcare providers to cut calories to compensate for lack of mobility. (It’s scary how many GPs seem completely unaware of where the ‘starvation mode’ threshold is calorie wise, but still want to tell you whatto eat and how much).

The particular low-effort small meals my dietician encourages me to always keep in the fridge are greek yogurt, cheese, eggs (hardboiling a half dozen at a time to have them always handy for snacking), carrots (I prefer precut carrot chips to save spoons because they’re fairly cheap where I live), and small, easy to peel mandarins oranges/clementines.

Ymmv, though, since that advice was pretty specific to my personal tastes and needs. But I know most people who could really use a knowledgeable dietician don’t have access because that shit is expensive if your insurance isn’t covering it.

[yagathai]

Straight calorie restriction did nothing for me. I didn't get heavier, but I certainly didn't get any lighter. What worked for me: Intermittent fasting 24-on 24-off (aka eating every other day) and going low carb high fiber high protein (no bread, no rice, no potatoes, no pasta. Lots of bitter greens, kale, sprouts, lean meat, tofu, onion, celery, tomato, etc. Also a daily multivitamin and extra vitamin D). I dropped 40 lbs in less than three months.

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[yagathai]

But Jurassic Park isn't old! It's... wait... math... hard... Oh my god. It's old. I'm old.

[blackfashion]

Name a celebrity with the same birthday as you and what you have in common.

May 11th - BlacChyna - petty

[princehenry]

August 25th - Claudia Schiffer - a slut from the 90′s

[sparklejamesysparkle]

November 13th - Jean Seberg - controversial, progressive, and sadly doomed 1950′s/1960′s actress (Joan of Arc, 1957, Breathless, 1960). I fear my fate.

[paulbetttany]

February 26th - Johnny Cash - addictive personality

Betty Hutton - hilarious!

[twostriptechnicolor]

11/27 - Billy Nye - Bow ties

[devi13]

8/30 - Mary Shelley - Horror

[yagathai]

11/19 Jodie Foster Neither one of us wants to bone dudes.

[yagathai]

Traveling in the North Country

Greg Larson travels to North Korea and attempts to find reality in a country built on illusion.