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everydaylouie

bull in a china shop

#art good

sergal

my favorite mashup emoji is this one and i wish it was real so bad

coastal-mangos-one

birdplushie

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

magn-animously

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14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat

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buriedunderyourmum

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hannisconfused

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kitsunesakii

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yourlocalfandomfriendo

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thatghostthateatspeople

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Dess has Mettaton AND Papyrus parallels…

(Not to mention the stars scene all throughout Mettaton’s room in general, not just them both liking Biig Biiby)

I’m not sure if this’ll be plot foreshadowing, but more so it’s telling about what her personality is like, Imo. But interpret this how you’d like :)

fallencalf

I wanna talk a bit how I interpret this. I think that pre-dissaperance, once of Dess’ biggest motivations might’ve been wanting to become some sort of rockstar. Papyrus and MTT both are heavily driven by their desires for popularity. For both of them, they wish to gain friends & community they currently lack through popularity.

But I think Dess is also a bit silly and not the best socially, like Papyrus & Mettaton before he got his new form. There’s a general tendency for people in the Holiday family to say “Fhahaha,” I think Dess says “Fheh - heh - heh!” which would make her a bit akin to Papyrus while also referencing her family.

Also— Dess’ clothes are pretty big for almost anyone, too big for Susie, even. Her closet is notably oversized. I think Dess was fairly tall like Papyrus is lol

#deltarune

dingdongyouarewrong

man y’all remember when the avengers movie came out and everyone headcanoned that all the avengers would live together in the tower and had all these cute posts about various fun ways they could interact and then the movies literally never had any of them even be friends

mycroftrh

I want to state, for the record, that “all the avengers would live together in the tower” wasn’t collective headcanon, it was canon. The very last scene of Avengers (2012), the one they left us on, is Tony redesigning the tower, designing a living area for each Avenger. That was, canonically, what was supposed to happen, in canon, and they just changed their minds and decided to… not. For whatever goldarn reason.

dingdongyouarewrong

GHHFDGJHFDS THATS EVEN FUNNIER WHY IS MARVEL LIKE THIS

copperbadge

Also it was canon for literal decades in the comics. First it was Avengers Mansion which was Tony’s Manhattan family home and then Avengers Tower when Tony built it. At one point Avengers Mansion couldn’t get their trash carried away because in order to operate in the US they had to be an embassy and NYC trash carriers don’t service embassies.

janmisali

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

4 or 5

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 4 days 21 hours

historical-fashion-polls

which tie would you rather wear? (1951)

A 🤍❤️💙🖤

B 🤍❤️🏝️

C 🧡🎣

D 💙❤️🫎

E 🤎🦆

F 💚📜

G ❤️🐴

Remaining time: 5 days 15 hours

commentary from the curator: interestingly, the catalogue notes that you can get the "initial tie" (F) in "all initials" except I, O, Q, U, V, X, Y, or Z. so then..... that's not "all initials" because that's like a solid third of the alphabet that you can't choose as an initial for the tie?? anyway, for the purposes of this poll, I invite you to imagine that you can choose any letter of the alphabet for the initial tie ☺️

patronsaint-ofthedenial-deactiv

First of all he's not my boyfriend he's some other shit. Plus scientists don't even know the ramifications of it's hazards yet

nimmiami

isn’t it exciting? 🌺🌺🗡️

#su

drawnsnake

I cried watching Project Hail Mary btw

mx-marriott

A bot’s touch

girlgrimer

Americans invented tbe worlds burgled and burglars to apply to robberies because the concept of losing their burger is the scariest thing to them

girlgrimer

Follow me for more wikipedia ^

luimnigh

This is shockingly close to the truth.

Both come from the Latin "burgus", meaning castle or fortified town. A burglar being someone who bypassed the security of fortifications.

Meanwhile burger comes via Hamburg, the burg of Hamma.

So burgers are named after fortifications, and burglars are the ones who bypass them.

bubba-san

The Hamburglar is a reunion of terms

official-linguistics-post

official linguistics post

bophtelophti

There appears to be some disagreement or uncertainly surrounding whether burglar is actually related to the -burg in Hamburg!

Some sources (the American Heritage Dictionary, etymonline.com) do say that burglar comes from Latin burgus 'fortification'. However, other sources (the OED, Merriam-Webster) are more circumspect and don't assert that connection.

The OED says the word is "of uncertain origin"; and a related-looking word with the same meaning, Anglo-Norman burgesour, is "of obscure origin". Burgus isn't even mentioned as a possibility; it does assert a connection to the obsolete word burgh-breche and thus to Old English burh-bryce, but OED doesn't state that the burh in burh-bryce is the same burh (modern English borough) that is cognate with -burg. In fact, OED's entire etymology for burh-bryce is "compare breach". So at the least, it seems someone at the OED is going out of their way to avoid stating that burglar has this origin.

OED's earliest citation for the word burglar in English text is from 1541, but there are a bunch of citations of similar forms in French and Latin dating back as far as the 13th century, including the hilarious phrase "murdritores et robbatores et burglatores" in Latin in De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, a 13th-century Latin treatise on English law.

The verb burgle is a back-formation from burglar, and the earliest attestation of it that any of those dictionaries mention is 1867, referenced but not quoted in Merriam-Webster. Wiktionary gives an 1867 attestation of burgle from the Delaware Tribune, so that may be what M-W is referring to. Wiktionary gives a bunch of other early attestations that assert that burgle is an American coinage, but I don't know how seriously we can take those claims.

OED also mentions a Latin verb burgulare—also perhaps a back-formation?—showing up in English Law Latin in 1354, but doesn't claim that burgle is derived from that.

hotvampireadjacent

https://twitter.com/birdtickler/status/1552657242909904897?s=21&t=q4JEDIALmV-cAjcoEOypdw

littlemisspipebomb

ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn't realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

The funniest part is that the inspector was watching the whole time, and once the ball stopped he left without saying anything. Park management just shut it down then and there.

baronfulmen

"The ball cleared a small hill, briefly going airborne, then zipped right across Route 94, the two-lane road splitting the park. Cars honked and slammed on their brakes. If there had been opposing traffic, Frank would have become part of a real-life game of Pong, volleying from one bumper to another.

Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.

Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.

We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."

I don't know that this beats the teeth story, but it's pretty great.

deaths

ny tiktok feed is currently just these kinds of videos with like 1k likes or less

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

santhipoma

beneathsilverstars

tomorrow i have to give my daughter’s pikachu plushie gender-affirming surgery

beneathsilverstars

(original tags: she literally had tears in her eyes while she explained that her pikachu had a boy tail shape. i was like hey she can still be a girl. all we know from her body shape is what her body is shaped like. maybe if we asked her she would say that she feels like she’s really a girl. and my kid was like BUT POKEMON CANT TALK 😭😭😭😭 so i was like ‘ok. pikachu. if you want to use he/him say ‘pika’. if you want to use she/her say ‘chu’. and if you want smth else say ‘pikachu’’. and my daughter had her say ‘chu’ and i was like see there you go! now. she doesn’t HAVE to change her tail shape. she can totally be a girl with a rectangle tail. but if she would feel more comfortable with heart shape bc she prefers it, or so that people won’t assume she’s a boy, i can make that happen. so pikachu what do you think? do you want tail surgery? and pikachu agreed enthusiastically! so. plushie gender-affirming surgery first thing tomorrow i guess!)