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oozey mess
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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Xuebing Du
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@zenithofdisaster
I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".
It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.
like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again
official linguistics post
im incredibly conflicted by the phrase ‘the question is not who will let me but who will stop me’ because on one hand its so fucking raw and powerful but on the other hand it’s derived from ayn rand but on yet another hand the first and primary time ive ever seen it was on a picture of a lawnmower flying through the sky which is the perfect level of absurd and nonsensical that would piss ayn rand off
reblog to piss off ayn rands ghost
Netsuke of Mother Bat with Two Young, Hō-raku, 19th century
34 and ready to score!
Some jokes just never get old
giant clams……………………………………….are blue
How blue?
honestly? pretty damn blue
and not just blue! some of them are green and purple apparently…
this world compels and overwhelms me.
No one one this website has the capacity to experience Shame
#i HAVE to include context as a classical musician who is *almost*in these spaces #this is from the schleswig-holstein music festival #(presumably faculty????) #which is probably The most selective classical music festival in the goddamn world #these people are some of the best you will ever hear on their respective instruments #this was literally posted originally by the goddamn schleswig-holstein music festival #these are their dudes #classical musician me is being shocked by seeing them on tumblr #y’all don’t even know how insane this is #y’all are just enjoying chickens playing saxophone and cornet (via @clockworkouroboros )
My favorite emoji expression me and my friends came up with is "throwing rocks at it"
Basically if you ever see or hear something that displeases you, You go like this:
🫳🪨
🫳🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
☺️🫳🪨🪨🪨
So on and so forth. But also if something is beautiful or true you throw lotus.
🫳🪷🪷🪷
I have one that;s called "picking grapes off the vine"
🍇🤏
🤌🟣
this method could also be used to pick other things, if you'd like...
🎂🤏🤌🕯️
🐒🤏🤌🦟
⛰️🤏🤌🪨
🫳🪨
Everyone: Californians are such whimps about the weather. "Oh no there's half an inch of rain, whatever shall i do?"
Also everyone: When there's a hurricane you should never drive through water more than six inches deep, water that's a high as your ankle is enough to sweep you away.
Every major street in southern California when there's half an inch of rain: I used to be a dry riverbed in a desert, but today I am a river again :)
This isn't even bad, it's just an entire lane turned into a Slip & Slide for about half a mile.
"Don't you people have storm drains?"
Yes.
They're why the slip & slide isn't over the curb here.
Reviving this meme from when Australians and the British were complaining about our weather and not being taken seriously. I absolutely feel you, best of luck with your rough weather
‘MEMORIAL TO 418 PALESTINIAN VILLAGES WHICH WERE DESTROYED, DEPOPULATED AND OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL IN 1948’ (2001), is a work by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir, born in 1972, featuring a refugee tent embroidered with the names of Palestinian villages impacted by Israeli expansion.
Tinikling
I am both in awe of their rhythm and if fear dor their ankles. *chef's kiss*
I learned how to dance something similar to this in the third grade. in Cambodia it's called the Pestle Dance, and it is WAY slower than this, and it is still REALLY hard to do the turny bits without getting your ankles banged up. it was my least favorite dance to learn because it hurts like a bitch when your foot gets caught. that is god-tier levels of talent.
I‘m so happy to see traditional Filipino dances being hyped up here! I grew up watching these dances everywhere and have even seen diaspora kids dance hip hop ON TOP of doing the tinikling dance 🌟🇵🇭🔥
Tinikling irog ko ❤️ this is one of those things that's simple in theory but actually really really hard to do and these kids are amazing 🇵🇭
what 'cyberpunk dystopia already exists for disabled people' looks like for high tech aac users:
(here using 'voice' to mean both an aac program and an aac device.)
Your voice used to be free but now is behind a paywall. Your voice only runs on a subscription payment model and doesn't offer outright purchasing. The cost of outright purchasing your voice is several hundred dollars. Your voice runs ads. Your voice has planned obsolescence. Your voice ran out of funding and is no longer being updated. Your voice is free but requires coding knowledge to create. Your voice can only be used and accessed with a wifi connection. The people most trained to help you with your voice are expensive or unavailable specialists. You require additional aids to use your voice that are difficult to get and/or expensive.
Feel free to add on your own experiences. We listen to and look out for each other.
your voice may omit words about sex, reproduction, drugs, and other "adult" stuff, preventing you from being able to join conversations, express desire, or describe assault
I like the idea in fantasy that humans are better at maintaining things long term because they set up societies or professions to do it whereas dwarves and elves and stuff are like “just get bob to do it he’s got a good few hundred years left” and then bob doesn’t teach anyone else how to do it
Elf: How have you kept this castle maintained for a thousand years if your lives are so short?
Human: We just train new people how to do it?
Elf: *gears visibly turning in their head*
Human: Are you alright?
Elf: I just realized that we didn’t have to let that whole city fall to ruin just because my grandfather died.
Human: What?
Human: Wait that’s why there’s ruins of elven cities even though you live for so long? You just keep not asking people how to do things? How do you learn anything?
Elf: There’s a lot of “you’ve got time to figure it out on your own” attitudes floating around in our society that I’m starting to question somewhat.
Elf: That sword, where did you get it?
Human: My cousin made it.
Elf: Impossible! Those metalworking techniques were lost a hundred years ago!
Human: What do you mean lost? My great-grandmother learned to make these swords from an elven smith, then taught it to her kids.
Elf: That's ridiculous. No elf would give such secrets to a human.
Human: They didn't. Meemaw delivered the metal to the forge, and no one kicked her out when she stayed and watched. She always said they barely acknowledged her even when doing business with her, like she wasn't worth noticing.
Elf: Come to think of it, my great-uncle always was rather single-minded when he started working.
Human: So he wasn't ignoring her, he just forgot she was there?
Elf: Oh, he was definitely ignoring her, too. He was super racist.
also people alway assume all very long-lived species are like Elrond and "oh yes I remember 4,002 years ago Elendil was wearing vetivert that day" but the reality is a lot of them literally just forget shit, so it's like "this intricate water system I built two millennia ago is collapsing but fuck if I remember how I put it together back then"
I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i'm not even remotely kidding
Very much in line with the attitude of "this choice will marginally improve the way I move through the world and make everyone else's experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse, but I don't really care, based simply on the fact that I am allowed to do it and there's nothing they can or will do to stop me" ya feel me?
I used to live in an apartment complex and this guy had those super bright headlights, a custom job that was WAY brighter than the norm. He would use his brights in the apartment complex and when his headlights were on your window you could read fine print with the curtains closed.
We yelled at him and told him to at least turn off his brights and he told us to go fuck ourselves. So one night after he came rolling back in at 2 or 3 in the morning someone smashed his headlights in with a hammer and sprayed black spray paint inside the holes. The reverse lights too as they were also obnoxiously bright.
Police came by the next day after he woke up and screamed blood and vengeance for an hour. I think we were all questioned and not 1 person knew anything.
Property management had to admit that the fake security cameras were actually fake.
Guy got his system fixed exactly the same and went around loudly bragging about it. Guy went back out to set up his camera to watch the car and went to bed. The camera was smashed from behind spray painted and again the headlights and reverse lights, with the added bonus of a side view mirror smashed and spray painted.
This time the only person who said anything to the cops was a guy who could confirm it wasn't at 5 am because he went out with a gas can and a box of matches but the job had already been done. And funnily enough saying "well I was going to do it but someone beat me to it" isn't actually illegal.
He put in much more sensible headlights and didn't turn his brights on in the parking lot anymore.
this is the way
"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually
Tag via @bluehairedspidey and vocabulary updated
though fuck the bbc so
what on attenborough's blue planet
This just got posted to a Discord I'm on & my first thought was, "ah yes, for @elodieunderglass."
@kedreeva explaining that albino UPS trucks don't exist and that you can see it's leucistic because its windows are blue and not red
actually! They do but this is still a leucistic vehicle. The windows are not eyes, like some cartoons would have you believe, they are false eye markings to deter predators (largely other vehicles), and due to their translucent nature can appear different colors even when there is none. The headlamps are where you would look, but even then it might not tell you much; the actual lamps on most vehicles are already "white," and both leucistic and albino vehicles have a cool white cast instead of the normal warm white (which can even appear cream or yellow). SOME albinos will have indicators around the eyes though.
The markings on the side are also not a great indicator, as those are brands added by the company to purchase the truck, in this case UPS.
But what we CAN see from here is the black rims, and black encircling the rear light patches, which indicates leucism not albinism. In an albino, you'd see white, red, or possibly chrome in some species.
This would be an example of an albino truck:
and a different one where you can see the chrome rims and white or absent light casings, but as you can see there's very little other indication on this guy except! that the front grill usually has black, and this one doesn't.
Not to say that albinism is necessarily unhealthy, but you can kinda see genetic deformities on both of these trucks. It's less a case of albinism causing deformities and more a problem of albinism appears more often in poorly-bred cars, and is usually seen in consumer-owned trucks like the above, not in working vehicles. These trucks also often have behavioral problems (personals space issues) and sensory issues (poor eyesight, poor hearing), making them a bit of a menace on public roadways. They're better kept away from the public.
So, I'm relatively certain the above UPS truck is a leucistic one, but it would help to see the front to be sure. Still a really cool photo of an unusual animal though! Thanks for the tag!
WIND WAKER ! ! !
