"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
You were *already* gonna kick ass.
Is the missing gum just a thin veneer of justification to lampshade your intended violence?
they were very clear that there was cum on your watch.
Leverage (2008) // S02xE09 // The Lost Heir Job
she may be a world-class grifter on an important job, but damn if she's not going to take every single opportunity to torment Nate just a Little Bit More along the way. which if anything actually just commends her more for the team.
tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020
i think about this every day
I know vampirism is often used as a metaphor for the drain of the aristocracy but I think it would be fun to have more vampire characters who were just some guy before they got turned. You seek out the most ancient vampire in existence and find out he was a 40 year old wheat farmer in ancient Mesopotamia when he was turned 7,000 years ago and he hasn’t been doing much since then.
You ask him about his experience living through the rise and fall of most major empires and he’s like “It was very bad. For my wheat.”
You’re like “Why do you sow and reap a wheat harvest every year? Is it to retain the memory of your humanity? In honor of those you have loved and lost?” and he’s like “I just like growing wheat. I think it’s fun.”
Nope. He’s got a new tractor. He’s got his headphones on. He’s listening to AC/DC. He’s fine.
Dave Brandt was that vampire.
I stg my period better be about to show up because my heart has no business hitting 160bpm while lying still.
It’s absolutely wild to me that I went almost 30 years on this planet being told that my symptoms were “just” anxiety and I needed to calm down, when in actual fact it was my autonomic nervous system malfunctioning at periodic intervals due to a genetic disorder.
Like no, actually, I don’t think I’m ever going to be not mad about that.
To expand on this, I'm also extremely irate that clinical anxiety is treated so dismissively.
Anxiety disorders can be debilitating for some people, and constantly having your very real mental health issue be diminished to the modern equivalent of 'hysteria' and something you 'just' need to calm down about is both insulting and incredibly harmful for everyone.
It's bullshit my complex health needs got misdiagnosed as something else because doctors thought I was a hysterical female right up until their negligence almost killed me.
But it's also very much bullshit that doctors think anxiety is something so negligible they don't take it seriously and use it as an excuse to dismiss patient concerns.
Like fuck you, actually. I should be allowed to hunt doctors who do this for sport.
Is it obvious from my incessant tumblr use that I’m trying to force myself to clean a room rn?
Is it obvious from mine that I was being put in a position where I had to do statistical analysis
I do statistical analysis to make tumblr posts.
Unrelated, my house is a mess.
3500 years ago a bunch of people decided to build a tower to the sky and now I have to worry about keeping up my Duolingo streak
why would you blame the people reaching for heaven instead of the god who cursed them
add that one to the list, boys
*English man with a mustache in a period drama voice* GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN.
YOU have an angel and devil on your shoulder. I have some sort of WW1 infantry commander standing behind me screaming at me during stressful situations.
-- Jirt during The Great War
““A lot of Kings fans, myself included, had started to question Rob Blake’s moves, and felt time had come for a change. Ken Holland steps up and says, ‘hold my beer,’ and now we’re wishing Blake was still in charge. Worst free agency period I’ve seen from my Kings in a long time.” The Kings lost Vladislav Gavrikov to free agency, spent that money inefficiently on Cody Ceci and Brian Dumoulin, and then gave up Jordan Spence for good measure. The end result is a markedly different defense group, and one that looks very likely to be worse.”
This team has become so disappointing, so mid, such a waste of young talent.
I was thrilled to see Rob Blake go, but goddamn Ken Holland is incompetent. I can’t wait to see how making the team older and slower is supposed to work against a division that’s younger and faster than ever.
[The Buffalo Sabres fandom has entered the chat]
Why I Edit As I Write (Even Though Everyone Says Not To)
hi. it's me. the writer who edits mid-sentence. the writer who literally cannot move on from chapter one until chapter one feels right. the writer who rewrites the same paragraph fourteen times before letting themselves move to the next. yes i've seen every single "just write, fix it later" post. yes, i love the idea of messy first drafts. and no i will not be changing
okay so listen everyone, here's the thing: i DON'T think editing as you go is inherently bad. it's only bad advice when people try to universalize it. writing process is personal. maybe for you it's a fast draft in November and editing in february. maybe for me it's hyper-fixating on every single sentence until the scene flows like water and then moving on with peace in my soul. BOTH ARE VALID. BOTH CAN WORK. both get the book done.
people love to say "don't edit while you draft" because, yeah perfectionism can slow you down. listen, i'm not editing for perfection, im editing for immersion. i need to feel like i'm inside the story or I'LL SPIRAL! if i know the voice is off, pacing is weird, or the character feels flat, i can't pretend i don't see it and continue. i can't push through. my brain physically will NOT LET ME!
when something sounds wrong or looks wrong, it breaks the spell. it kicks me out of the scene like a bad special effects in a movie. no seriously!! and once i'm out it's really hard pt get back in.
also, i'm gonna be real, i hate the feeling of finishing a draft and knowing the entire thing is a flaming wreck i now have to sift through. i HATE that feeling. it makes me never want to open that doc again. i need to be able to re-read my work and go, "okay yeah, this slaps a little." that's how i keep going. a little dopamine hit every few pages. if you call that toxic? i call it necessary.
side notes: there's a weird gatekeeping vibe around speed in the writing world. people act like if you're not cranking out 50k in 30 days, you're "not disciplined." but i'd argue that forcing yourself to write in a way that actively hurts your process isn't discipline. it's sabotage. if editing as i go keeps me working on a project long-term, keeps me engaged, keeps be BELIEVING in it, then it's a valid method
my best scenes? the ones i took slow. the ones i sculpted sentence by sentence. the ones i paused to read out loud, rework, and reimagine until the tension finally clicked. yeah it took hours. yeah it was annoying. but that scene still holds. it still makes me feel something. and that’s worth more to me than blasting through 10k of filler.
edit while you write. reread the last paragraph twelve times. fix that one clunky sentence before you let yourself go on. obsess a little. it’s fine.
I'm using a dialing software at work, and--look, I knew I was hard up, I knew that, intellectually. And it is true that I'm not wearing my glasses, so everything has has a bit of a blur. But this:
...is not an icon intended to represent a double-ended dildo.
It is if you aren't A FUCKING COWARD
But who gets the corded end
They can take turns getting the extra wiggle.
I stg my period better be about to show up because my heart has no business hitting 160bpm while lying still.
The very slow tiger hunting you is your uterine lining.
The tigers are coming from inside the body.
I'm using a dialing software at work, and--look, I knew I was hard up, I knew that, intellectually. And it is true that I'm not wearing my glasses, so everything has has a bit of a blur. But this:
...is not an icon intended to represent a double-ended dildo.
It is if you aren't A FUCKING COWARD
digitaldisciplineRebloggedthebibliosphereFollowI stg my period better be about to show up because my heart has no business hitting 160bpm while lying still.digitaldisciplineThe very slow tiger hunting you is your uterine lining.
digitaldisciplineReblogged knitmeaponyhallo-catfishFollowOnce he had watched Liz making a silk braid. One end was pinned to the wall and on each finger of her raised hands she was spinning loops of thread, her fingers flying so fast he couldn’t see how it worked. ‘Slow down,’ he said, ‘so I can see how you do it,’ but she’d laughed and said, ‘I can’t slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn’t do it at all.Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the BodiesdigitaldisciplineMuscle memory is a hell of a drug.
digitaldisciplineReblogged necronomipodteabootFollowALTKind of, actually, yeah, but not the way you’d think!Not a psychologist- obviously- but I HAVE asked my therapist if he thinks I might be thriving in the security industry because my maladaptive traits- hypervigilance, slight paranoia, compulsion to document and “gather evidence”, the can’t-turn-it-off “babysitter” brain, adrenaline-seeking habits- are advantageous in this environment.And after some discussion, we concluded- yeah, it’s pretty likely, but ALSO- I’m making a good living off it, it’s not triggering any of my issues, I’m calm and level-headed and in control of myself, I’m not risking my safety or others, and it’s providing me with a productive outlet for my needs.So, really, it’s less of a “seeking out a toxic environment because I can’t handle a safe environment” and more of a “I need to apply my compulsions SOMEWHERE, because if I don’t my quality of life falls apart, so I’ve found a place that needs someone to be the way I am.”And I really AM doing great!Before I had something to be protective of and patrol around and pay attention to, I’d… find something to direct that attention to. Like riding the train all day looking for fights to break up, or assholes to tell off, or problems that needed fixing. It was like I CRAVED conflict, even if all I wanted was peace. And then I’d spiral if I couldn’t do anything that felt useful.I was used to having someone to fight, and without someone to fight, I didn’t know what to do with myself. I didn’t want to START fights, or hurt anybody, but if I could FIND a fight already happening, or a place where someone NEEDED to be fighting, I could get it out of my system in a way that let my conscience stay clear. But it was risky as hell, because I had no training or backup or support network if shit got ugly. Now… I’m doing what I’m suited to, in an environment that’s JUST conflict-oriented enough to be comfortable, and at the end of the day I can go home feeling happy and peaceful like I’ve stretched all the right muscles.My therapist and I figure I’ve just found a way to turn my vices into virtues. And if I get to a point where it’s no longer working for me, or I’m no longer happy, we’ll address that then.But for now… I’m genuinely doing the best I’ve ever felt in my life before. And it’s going good 👍digitaldisciplineI'm the same way, in many of the same ways. I'd probably enjoy doing what OP does (and my FitBit would love it).I am, by inclination and training, really good at solving many types of problems. I work in tech support because someone else has a problem.Unfortunately, this also means that I go into what a friend calls "Target-seeking mode" when understimulated by a lack of problems (there are other contributing factors, but y'all don't need all that) - see OP's self-care through justice and vigilance.Which is why I occasionally throw elbows recreationally. (Zero-stakes arguments are great, which is why sports are awesome.)I try to pick my targets more carefully these days, which is why my byline reads, "Strong prey drive (fascists, dipshits, grifters, anyone else raw and wriggling)."
digitaldisciplineRebloggedcephalotodd-deactivated20190310we should make fun of americans more. why dont their shops include tax in the price tag. like how much does this item cost? its a surprise :)madamebombHonestly, tea. I’ve lived here my whole life and I have never once known what my total is gonna be at the register. Total fucking mystery.2-faceim an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction greekedtextthis callout is completely deservedvaspideri love living in a state without sales tax :) thank you oregon i had no idea how much i loved this :)wandererrihaAlso what has tax and what doesn’t varies wildly by state.Don’t get me started on “””luxury””” items like mini pads and disposable diapers.digitaldisciplineNot to dunk on the bullshit reasons for this price labeling model, but please use your math skills to estimate your local tax on top of the cost of what you put in your cart. Five percent? Seven? Nine? Ballpark that shit!"This costs $9.99, and my local tax rate is 8%, so this will cost about eleven dollars ($10.79)." Voila, you have a running tab in your brain.Make a game of seeing how close you get!It's like playing "The Price Is Right" without the pressure or audience.Estimation is a useful life skill. Please practice it.
digitaldisciplineRebloggedblackwoolncrownFollowall millenials have absolute permission to be ~wacky~ bc we are all driven insane by the fact that we were the ONLY generation to have access to certain technologies and we sound fucking crazy trying to explain it to people everyone before us lived in the pre-digital age.everyone after us lived in the enshittified post .com erawe and we alone were juuuust aged right for the point in time where we had sick ass gumdrop looking computers and phones of all shapes and sizes and you could go out in the world and be human and imperfect without some chode recording youfucking hellshit was free and gmail was, actually, simple and reliable.blackwoolncrownthe internet was *so cool*now they want you to pay for Youtube and show your ID to watch itallsortsoflicoriceThe generations before you did not live in the 'pre-digital' age, lol. First of all, they invented the digital age, and secondly, they didn't experience a mass die-off the day the internet went live. Many individuals from those generations are still alive today, happily coding, gaming, programming, iphoning, etc..., etc.... wandererrihaOnce again Gen X s forgotten about.Hi. We’re still here. We exist.I realize OP is referring to the age of the internet in the mid 90s but not every adult is tech illiterate.digitaldisciplineI remember The September That Never Ended, Gandalf. I was there, as an adult, in 1994.
digitaldisciplineReblogged in-boldceasarslegionFollowOuran high school was my favourite anime when I was like 14 which is really funny because thats also the age I basically was in a Haruhi fujioka situation. Not like fully literally but the meat of it was the sameI was the one single middle-class kid in a super high-end rich kid private academy with like pressed uniforms and building wings and everything. I didnt get any sort of scholarship, my dad just got a job as a teacher there and teachers kids got to enroll for free because the tuition was like 30 grand a year and you arent affording that on a teacher salary. So I understand her on a very visceral level and perhaps enjoyed OHSHC so much because she was SOOO me fr. These damn rich peopleceasarslegionOne time I convinced my classmates that I had never had sushi before because we were too poor to afford it just so they would pay for my sushi dinner and it worked. They were so out of touch that they thought I didnt have the money for anything more expensive than fast food. I did in fact take advantage of this partially because every teenager is a shithead and I was not exempt from that rule and partially because I knew they had more money than god so it was a totally victimless crime. A classmate once bought 2 copies of The Last Guardian on release just because they thought I "deserved a new game." They thought I couldnt afford a new video game and I said nothingceasarslegionThis experience also made me utterly immune to the "rich people shit is when [middle class thing]" discourse on this site. Because ive directly experienced rich people shit and its NOT when someone goes to NYU or gets Starbucks on their breaks at the job they have to work to afford their mortgage.Rich people shit is when I had to yell at my classmates that we are not spending tens of thousands of dollars ON BALLOONS for our prom when we had a DJ to pay and their response to me was "thats only 700 dollars per person." Rich people shit is when I went to go tutor one of my classmates little brothers who was struggling with history and it took him 10 minutes to go get his tablet from his bedroom and come back to the kitchen table because their house was that big, which was being cleaned by a live-in maid while their private chef made us snacks the entire time I was tutoring him. And then their parents paid me 500 bucks and told me "sorry I seem to have misplaced my other wallet, is this enough? Its not a lot :((" Rich people shit is when the other teachers kids and I breezed through school with high GPAs because all of our peers had so much money that they never had to care about getting into a good university or having careers or budgeting or anything, so they never tried.Rich people shit is when youre invited to a little get together on the weekends and get told to bring an overnight bag because their definition of a little get together is an overnight yacht trip. And then you get there and find out that your middle class definition of what's needed for an overnight trip is VERY different from a rich persons definition of the same thing: you have some pajamas, clean underwear, toothpaste, and some soap and face wash, maybe some moisturizer. They bring half their wardrobes and designer personally-commissioned serums that cost more than your house and then tell you that youre "just so quaint." So much discourse around whos rich and whos not comes from people who have never been in a rich persons reality and so they end up shooting directly above them and calling that rich. But I tell you from personal experience that rich people are uniquely disconnected from reality and anybody who has to work for a living is by definition NOT rich. I dont care if they have a big suburban house and 2 new cars and go on vacations a lot, thats not RICH. Rich is when their kids think 700 dollars is pocket change for prom balloons and have their own personal yacht to take their friends on whenever they want, not when someone goes to fucking NYU.
digitaldisciplineReblogged in-boldredstonedustFollowlittle-clown-boy asked:you got reposted by the official tumblr account on instagram redstonedust answered:girl why does tumblr have an instagram account. cheating on us....
digitaldisciplineReblogged in-boldscribefindegilFollowso many things try to emulate the Beatrice/Benedick relationship and so few of them get it right bc they’re like ‘oh it’s about the banter’ and YES, obviously, but if you make it JUST about the banter you’re going to fail! it’s about the RESPECT!!! it’s about the scene after Hero’s shaming where Benedick drops the banter entirely and sits there with Beatrice as she rages and weeps and then chooses to side with HER instead of the boy’s club that he’s been hanging out with for the entire play, both because he loves her and because she’s RIGHT! like, it’s not some impulsive thing to make her like him, and it’s not just talk; he asks her if she’s sure and then he agrees and then he remains cold and determined when he meets Claudio and Don Pedro and they try to get him to joke around with them like old times. i think that’s one of the things that gets me the most; that there’s a scene that you half-expect to fall into that same sort of joking, where Claudio and Don Pedro are specifically like, “Huh, we inexplicably feel kind of sad after ruining this woman’s life and reputation, I bet Benedick will cheer us up!” and he just. utterly refuses to engage. and it’s so powerful and it’s such a tonal shift and such a strong indication of just how much he loves and values Beatrice and!! anything that gets the banter but doesn’t get that completely fails to understand their relationship! THB!!fortunes-haven“When the men in a Shakespeare play listen to the women, it’s a comedy. When they don’t, it’s a tragedy.”minutia-rI mean Macbeth did listen to Lady Macbeth. That was a pretty significant thing that happened. Like I understand where you’re coming from here but Macbeth did very much listen to Lady Macbeth (and the witches).
digitaldisciplineReblogged dessedencejson-deruloFollowI may have ended up going into tech, but getting a pre-law degree and working for attorneys for a few years repeatedly saved me from getting totally ripped off in my early 20s. So many charlatans are only able to get away with their bullshit because they expect you to not know what your rights are or how to create a paper trail. I once had a landlord try to withhold my entire security deposit after I moved out despite leaving the place in good shape. Just by writing a letter that A) cited the state statute saying a landlord must provide an itemized list with invoices for any repairs they deduct from a tenant’s security deposit, B) bluffed by declaring my intention to file suit if they did not (and cited the same statute again, which says that tenants are entitled to recover DOUBLE what the landlord withheld if they did so in bad faith) , and C) sending it via certified mail with return receipt (so they couldn’t claim not to have received it), they sent me back a check for like 2/3 of what they tried to withhold, plus the itemized list, plus an apology. I spent $2 on postage and half an hour on the letter and got back $300. Another time, I got into a car accident (in which I was officially found not at fault) where the other person was driving a rental car. Over a year after the fact, I received a letter from some sketchy claims adjuster demanding immediate payment for around $2000 in damages to the other car. Once I stopped panicking, I gathered the info from my old insurance claim and called the adjuster, and some very snippy lady told me the letter was sent in error and I should disregard it. I followed up with her by email restating exactly what she told me on the phone, instructing them to work with my insurance company on any future inquiries about the accident, and threatening to involve my attorney (which I did not have) if they ever directly contacted me about it again. And again, I got an apology and saved myself a crazy amount of money. If you are getting ripped off (or sense you are about to be), you want to ask yourself two things:1. Can I indisputably prove that I said/did this? That they said/did this? When? 2. What rights do I have under the law? (For a lot of issues, googling “can X legally do Y” + your jurisdiction is a good place to start.)And then, if you’re in the right, bluff. Act like you’re going to sue even if you know you don’t have the time or resources to do it. They don’t know you won’t, and even if they think they’d win, they know that would cost them more in attorney’s fees than just letting this go.
digitaldisciplineReblogged in-boldhardcoreparkourFollowThe modern character of Frankenstein is so divorced from the source material that it's hard to even know how to classify it. Like any new Frankenstein character that comes out isn't even a retelling or an interpretation anymore, that character has been completely fabricated, like tons of little bits of old forgotten media have been stitched together to make the version of him we know today, it's like, it's almost like he's been like... well I can't think of a word but you get what I meandigitaldisciplineThey Ship of Theseused my hideous amalgamation!Can't have shit in Ingolstadt.
digitaldisciplineReblogged missroseroseraiburaFollowrelelvanceSome of you are lyingonly-trash-canCan you make GOOD rice without a rice cooker?raiburadigitaldisciplineA shrimp fries my rice.
digitaldisciplineRebloggediiamartFollowvagoonabeachit wasn't "some reason", it was 2D animators being unionized and 3D not being unionized. and the simple truth that capitalism kills art.loubatasI remember when 2D faded out, the reason studios kept giving was "it's because 2D is a lot more expensive to produce". I was a child back then so I didn't think too much about it, assuming it was about the process itself, but as I grew up and learned more about art as an artist, and gained friends who were professional 3D artists themselves, I started to question it. Because 3D is very different from 2D, but it's definitely not easier or faster to make. Also, both European and Asian studios kept producing 2D animated moviesThe answer was unions. The answer wasn't "this kind of art is cheaper because it's easier to make", it was "this kind of art is cheaper because these artists can't force us to pay them correctly"aryinspires????? Wait lads this feels weird to meI am part of the animation guild and I have never heard this before. Generally speaking, STUDIOS are unionized, not individual job positions. It’s possible that early CG jobs were not classified as union positions, but it’s weird that I would not have heard anything about this in my 10+ years as a union memberIt’s my understanding that 2D died because a string of 3D films massively outperformed them for a myriad of reasons, and it is the nature of Hollywood to simplify those reasons down to “2D=bad” arythusa(Oops meant to reblog this on main)I’m open to being wrong, but I’d need to see some receipts!bludragongalHey fellas, Animation (2D and 3D) has been unionized since the 1930s and is still unionized today. You can read a little bit about the first attempts to unionize (mostly efforts headed by women!) on the TAG official website.3D Animation was easily integrated into the production process because all you have to do is learn some new software. The same workers who did 2D transitioned to 3D and were treated no different before nor after the change.Comparing the US Industry to European studios is, unfortunately, an unfair comparison to make because the US is in Late Stage Capitalism. European studios have things like "Stronger Workers Rights," "Government Funding for the Arts" (anybody watch Bluey?), and in some places, "Universal Healthcare." They have the resources to give their workers the things they need to work on more labor intensive products without having to pay for it themselves. (Note: this is a gross oversimplification.)So it isn't a union thing. What is it?To my best estimation:3D ANIMATION IN THE UNITED STATES IS CHEAPER TO PRODUCE AND EASIER TO COORDINATE.Think about it: before 3D, you had Celebrity Animators like Milt Kahl, Glenn Keane, Ollie Johnson (and the rest of the Nine Old Men), James Baxter, etc etc etc - and they were celebrities because of their draftsmanship and mastery of the craft. No one else could do what they do, and studios had to pay out the nose to secure them for their projects.With 3D, you only have to "draw" the character once. Think about the
Animation folks who do well on social media now and who you know for their own style: Character Designers, sometimes storyboard artists, right? How many actual feature film animators do you follow (and can I have a link)? When you think of someone "famous" in animation, who do you think of? Are they an animator, or a showrunner?If it's for TV, it's easier to package and ship materials for a 3D project to outsource it to oversea studios, then hire state-side laborers to fix everything that looks weird to get it up to snuff when it comes back (this position is called "Retake Animator"). (Feature films are produced entirely within the United States, though.) This "dilutes" the recognition of certain workers' styles and influence on the final product. Additionally, these Animators weren't doing all the work on their own, they were heading ENTIRE TEAMS of Animators and overseeing the work they were doing. 3D means smaller teams, more efficient work pipelines, and additional tools and tricks that equate to less labor needed.So when you put all of this together, you can pay your workers smaller salaries because the work force is larger and more competitive, and none of your workers have the pull of celebrity recognition, all while still abiding by union policies.Unfortunately the answer isn't "studios are greedy and evil" (although this is still a factor)... the reasons are just slightly less provocative and kind of boring. (PS Studios tend to sabotage their own films for a variety of reasons, ranging from "tax writeoff," to "New Executive Wants To Start Their Own Project And This One Is Sucking Up All The Resources," to "higher-ups genuinely don't think it will do well and are, in their minds, trying to mitigate the damage by not spending more money on marketing.")TLDR: The answer isn't unions. The answer is "this kind of art is cheaper because it's easier to make," AND "this kind of art is cheaper because these artists can't force us to pay them correctly."If you want something actionable to directly mitigate this,READ THE CREDITS OF YOUR FAVORITE SHOW OR MOVIE AND FIND THE NAME OF AN ANIMATOR ON IT AND LOOK THEM UP AND TELL THEM WHAT A GOOD JOB THEY DID.petranaradulovicOne of my favorite projects I ever did at work was a series of deep dives specifically into this era of animation, where I talked to a lot of directors/producers/screenwriters about why this era was so offbeat (TLDR: a lot of them just wanted to do something DIFFERENT from fantasy musicals!) and why it didn't connect with audiences the way the studios wanted (my theories skew on the side of audience tastes changing, because if you see what did succeed it was that edgy self-referential humor that Shrek pioneered that we would see define animation for, like, two decades after (that's another piece)). ANYWAY not to hijack this post, but a lot of these pieces quotes directly from animators and it's a fascinating look into this strange time of cult classic animation!Beloved Animated FailuresThe box-office duds you didn’t know were dudsPolygon
digitaldisciplineRebloggedreallyreallyreallytryingFollowthere should be creatures that only exist at night. they should be made of shadow and, if possible, evil itself. and they should be impossible to defeat!digitaldisciplineI believe that's called carbon monoxide poisoning and sleep paralysis.
digitaldisciplineRebloggedhazard-symbols-that-fuck-hardFollowAssume that you will remain in reasonable health and that humanity will continue to exist hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hardYou see my thing is that I NEED to see all the wild and fantastical forms of life that come from what we have to day.I’m so fucking bummed that I’ll never know what rats become. And god I need to see what happens to humans. Like, if we continue to exist for 10 million years, it’s inevitable that modern humans and hypothetical future humans won’t even be genetically compatible and I NEED to know what that looks likehazard-symbols-that-fuck-hardYou see I get sad thinking about all the loved ones I’ll never get to meethazard-symbols-that-fuck-hardI couldn’t deal without human contact.Also. My medications.digitaldisciplineI'm not answering until I know how long other humans live.Because there are absolutely people I do not want to deal with for that fucking long.
digitaldisciplineReblogged dessedenceheadspace-hotelFollowWikipedia is good but holy shit, it's not good enough for the amount of internet it is single-handedly supporting. We editors are mere mortals, yet we hold up the sky like Atlas. We're fighting for our lives here headspace-hotelListen closely—We have just entered an absolutely wild new era of internet misinformation and the shit hasn't visibly hit the fan yet but it WILL. It's quite simple: Wikipedia has become the definitive online source of information to the point that other fairly reputable websites often cite or copy it. Do you have any idea the psychological whiplash of clicking "Info" on iNaturalist for a plant, and being confronted with text that YOU WROTE The internet as a whole is being used as training data for AI bots, which are in turn used to generate online content. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, meaning it is supposed to summarize information that's already out there, NOT synthesize new conclusions. In my experience, Wikipedia is alright about labeling and eliminating unsupported statements, but not so good at pinning down and excising bad or disreputable sources, which can stick around for years. To make matters worse, reputable sources are often paywalled. In conclusion: Oh god oh fuck headspace-hotelIt is pretty funny though that anything can manifest "sources" relating to it and become increasingly legitimized just by being discussed on the internet. I have seen so many bot-generated websites advertising and discussing lawn alternatives pop up in searches relating to the topic. penrosesunxkcd saw this coming more than a decade ago:Citogenesisxkcdheadspace-hotelof course, randall munroe is the modern day king solomon aqueerkettleofishHis comic about "Little Bobby Tables" now appears in textbooks, and the phrase is instantly recognizable to anyone in the tech industry. I was once developing a website, and the client asked me if I was covered against Little Bobby Tables. I started to explain exactly what measures I had taken, and he stopped me, because he didn't know what it meant, but a friend of his told him to ask me and if I didn't know what it meant, he was gonna review my code.pomme-poire-pecheThe Far Side ran for 15 years; xkcd will have run for 20 years next month. So. digitaldisciplineUntil it achieves Cow Tools, it will continue to be a close second.
digitaldisciplineReblogged songofsaranetheggshells-and-simple-spellsFollowA rest day isn't enough. I need one billion years alone in a crystal. digitaldisciplineDoctor Who, "Heaven Sent" (S9:E11)
digitaldisciplineReblogged chibisquirtunbfactsFollowralfmaximusThe Gimli Glider! So many things came together to make this safe landing:The co-pilot was a local and knew all the local airstrips...including the decommissioned 10,000 foot military runway they ultimately chose as their destination...but because it had been decommissioned, was now utilized by a local go-kart club for racing...which, on that day, was indeed having a great time racing go-karts on the old runway...and because there was no way to alert the people on the ground and the plane’s approach was utterly silent (NO ENGINES) with kids in go-karts were whizzing around on the runway, the final approach was, shall we say, alarming...until a parent looked up and noticed a giant fucking airplane getting bigger and biggerOH GOD HE’S LANDING HEREThus within seconds the whole area was cleared by frantic parentsPlane lands perfectly, but without power they had to drop the gear via gravity and the nose wheel failed to lock into placeFront gear collapsesPlane screeches to a halt, and because they landed at a go-kart event pretty much every dad has a fire extinguisher, so they manage to extinguish the small fire caused by frictionThe only minor injuries were due to passengers jumping from the emergency exit slides, which dangled off the ground due to elevated tail heightIf you have 27 spare minutes and want an excruciatingly detailed, technical breakdown of what happened as told by a real pilot, here’s the Mentour Pilot episode on the Gimli Glider.animeengineerI read an article about this back around 1990 and my favorite part was that, after landing and stopping, the pilots were reflexively going through the “crash landing” checklist, shutting down all the fuel pumps and lines to prevent a fire from spreading, until it dawned on them halfway through that they didn’t need to do those steps because the tanks were quite empty.
digitaldisciplineReblogged icklewolfiekinslilithsaintcrowFollow“Take year 3 student Emma Glenfield, who started with a simple question about magpies and wound up conducting some cutting-edge research almost by accident." Do magpies target you? This eight-year-old's viral research could explain whyEmma Glenfield wants to know why magpies swoop. She's conducting some cutting-edge research — and displaying her results with Lego.abc.net.auadastra-sf"I watched the people he swooped and I recorded it," Emma said."Then I got everything I recorded and I figured out that the people Mr Swoopsalot swooped were male, they were tall, and that they had thin or receding hair."chaumas-deactivated20240115ALTamalg-emy'all i don't usually say this shit out loud but please read the link. she got 30 THOUSAND responses to her survey. THIRTY THOUSAND. And she's eight. So learning how to use MS Excel for that data wasn't really an option.So she made a graph out of Legos. LEGOS!! This kid is an absolute genius and I am so excited for her.
