I Drink Juice When I'm Killing

Harley | ♂| 27 | professional bishonen Sideblogs: mcrsavedmylife and smokestungheart

[yourgothboyfriend]

the way I'm smoking straight COOCH chemicals

[maxpawb]

It's scary to be transgender in the world right now but if you're transgender I love you and we have to stick together and keep fighting and keep living and keep loving

[jensorensen]

Climate Silence

The COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil has been largely overshadowed by the Epstein files, but I thought it was worth reminding ourselves that humans are destroying the planet. Here in the states, it now feels almost taboo to mention the climate crisis. Poll-driven pundits warn Dems not to bring it up because voters don't see it as a top priority, and Democrats have largely stopped talking about it. Even Bill Gates, a longtime funder of climate projects, has issued a widely-criticized memo suggesting a "strategic pivot" to helping poor countries develop rather than reduce carbon emissions, as though these two are mutually exclusive. 

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[viktor-sbor]

A 50-kilogram anvil floats perfectly on the surface of mercury, because the density of the steel from which it is made is almost half the density of mercury.

[e-102]

damn that shit is light lmfao

[telltaletypist]

[vienna1954]

Fun fact! Many lighthouses with especially large fresnel lenses would have huge fucking tubs of liquid mercury in the lantern room because it’s a super easy way to make these giant lenses rotate quickly!

Shockingly, however, spending most of your time in close proximity to 500 pounds of liquid mercury is Not Great For One’s Health and tons of lighthouse keepers started to go crazy from the whole. Mercury poisoning thing. Hence why there are a lot of “haunted” lighthouses or wickies that lose it and maybe do a bit of manslaughter.

Anyway, people saw a bunch of lighthouse keepers go crazy and get sick and got empirical evidence that it was in fact related to the 500 pound mercury bath they have to visit every day and then they decided nah it’s fine actually. So we’ve kept the liquid mercury thing and I think that’s beautiful

[ben-the-hyena]

I love how it is so dense it does not "wet" the anvil, the drops all run and leave with nothing behind them unlike water, oil, sauce... it's super satisfying it's like in cartoons

[macleod]

In a letter written on April 19, 1825, Augustin Fresnel proposed the use of mercury to reduce the friction in revolving lenses. His statement follows: “I propose to float our rotating devices, of the first order, in a bath of mercury, instead of placing them on rollers. This project won't present many difficulties; nevertheless, as I have not put it into execution, I won't require you to adopt it for your first lighthouse.”

Fresnel’s plan for mercury flotation was not put into practice until 1890 when Monsieur Leon Bourdelles, Chief Engineer of the French Lighthouse Service, designed and built a workable mercury flotation system. The mercury bath allowed the lens to operate in an almost frictionless environment and, additionally, allowed the speed of rotation to be dramatically increased.

Lens Rotation by Thomas Tag | United States Lighthouse Society

[sashaforthewin]

Ah to be a sailor in 1890 who has to turn to his fellow men and ask "is it just me or are the lighthouses flashing faster?"

[asteroidtroglodyte]

They had been slowly getting faster for decades.

It mattered for optics reasons.

Under less-than-ideal conditions, you can only see the beam when it’s pointed more or less directly at you. In-between beams you would not be able to see anything. One solution to this was to create multiple beams, and the lenses Mr Fresnel designed usually created 8 beams. But, even still, duration between flashes could be as long as one minute in the old mechanical roller systems.

The nearly frictionless operation of the Mercury suspension system allowed the lenses (large pieces of precisely ground glass weighing several hundred pounds in some cases) to rotate fast enough that they could be redesigned to create fewer (usually 3) beams. Fewer beams from a similar light source will be proportionally brighter, and the gains in speed were sufficient that duration between flashes could still be reduced to as little as 10 seconds.

This was a big upgrade. It didn’t just make the lighthouse signal faster, it allowed them to completely overhaul the lens and derive more visibility from a light source.

What’s a little Madness, in the face of Progress?

[myth-myth-yeth]

mods are asleep, post the fresnel lens

[akashicrecord]

*banging on the driver side window of your Honda Civic* WHAT are your dogs pronouns

[yourbutlerangelofdespair-deacti]

California enacts its own internet age-gating law

This one has Google on board.

If you live in California, call your senators and tell them to oppose the internet age-gating law.

If you don’t live in California, please spread the word.

[terraswallows]

I think the sky is trying to say something? 🤔 👀 🏳️‍⚧️

[scholarhect]

[alliekills]

“male loneliness epidemic” but i saw this post on twitter about this girl getting messages from guys and they had all used the same fucking line from chatgpt. not just one or two, but like 6+ different men. like… are you fucking kidding me. the bar is in absolute hell already for you and you can’t even use your own brain to talk to a woman? you need to outsource your lack of ability?? ugh

[alliekills]

SPEAK ON IT

[big-tiddy-goth-ghoulfriend]

Oh but good news, she ended up getting the abortion anyway by convincing the doctors and using her power as a rich white woman. She literally tried to call DeSantis to...get him to back her up, I guess? It totally wasn't an abortion though, it was a "medically-assisted miscarriage".

Feels like a good time to repost this essay by Joyce Arthur:

“The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion”

When the Anti-Choice Choose By Joyce Arthur Copyright © September, 2000 Available in a German translation Available in a Russian translation

[bitchesgetriches]

Just in case anyone needs it:

How To Get an Abortion

[animentality]

[grox]

The way patrick star dies would be unknown but his body was found in like squidwards pantry or closet completelt dessicated after a couple months of people realizing they haven't seen him in a while and foul play is suspected but ultimately dismissed as his body shows no signs of trauma and they don't know it but in truth, one day he just crawled into a dark space to go die like a cat

[parakeet]

I misread this post as ‘Pete Star’ which I thought was the name of the guy from fall out boy turns out his name is Pete Wentz which I know now after a Google search of Pete Star came up with nothing and had to Google FOB. So I just read this thinking this must be what the fall out boy community thinks of Pete Wentz until I reread it and realised it was about SpongeBob the whole time. Worst anyone’s ever done it I recon, but the image of Pete Wentz crawling into squidwards closet to die like an old cat was funny nonetheless

[kropotkindersurprise]

[video]

[purlturtle]

She isn't the only one, either. There's an organization, "Omas gegen Rechts" ("Grannies against the Right") that's been active in this way for years.

(first link is for the organization's German language "about" page; second link is for the English-language Wikipedia page about the organization)

[beardedmrbean]

[nevergiveupparis]

[fullafag]

[blackjame]

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch

The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing com

[identitty-dickruption]

“people pleasers are all manipulative self-martyring assholes who need to get a grip” people pleasing is a pattern of behaviour that develops as a fear response because of what has happened when you’ve failed to please others. and sure this can be detrimental to being able to have healthy relationships as an adult and it should be something that is slowly worked on over time. but let’s not pretend every people pleaser on the planet is doing it because they’re sick and twisted on purpose