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22 Mar 01:19

Not to be absolutely unhinged but I think that if I buy enough tiny plastic tubs to continue…

Cary

I do feel a yearning to do that, but I'm way to disorganized -- the best I can do is tubs/drawers/boxes with very broad categories)

18 visible plastic bins lining a large bookshelf, all labeled as different art, craft, and makeup supplies, plus 'cool rocks' and 'seashells'ALT

Not to be absolutely unhinged but I think that if I buy enough tiny plastic tubs to continue breaking down every possession I own into discrete categories then eventually I will live in a home where I don’t constantly have a large pile of completely miscellaneous nicknacks in the middle of the floor constantly and forever until I die

Current box count is 56

21 Mar 17:47

so many people do not understand that 1) animals are not people, and 2) they aren’t teaching their…

the-real-seebs:

ravynfyre:

so many people do not understand that 1) animals are not people, and 2) they aren’t teaching their animals what they THINK they are teaching them.

dog group on the book of faces, someone is asking for advice on how to get their dog to come to them after the dog is done relieving itself outside. The dog doesn’t like coming to them an they spend ten or twenty minutes or more catching the dog each time to bring it in. Which reminded me of one of many attempts to talk a person through trying to fix exactly this same behavior in *many* other dogs over the years…

Me: So, a quick question for you… does the dog not coming to you and you having to chase them down frustrate you?

Them: Of course!

Me: So what do you do when you finally either catch the dog or get them to come to you?

Them: I give the dog a correction!

Me: So. You get hands on your dog and then you immediately punish them for allowing you to get hands on them. And you wonder why your dog has developed the habit of not coming to you?

Them: No, that’s not… I’m punishing them for not coming when I call!

Me: Which was…. fifteen minutes ago, or so, you said?

Them: Yes, when I first called them!

Me: Dogs brains literally cannot link an abstract thought like that. A thought and a consequence MUST happen within 2.4 seconds of one another, or the consequence becomes linked to the most recent behavior, thought, or activity. So, tell me… how is your dog supposed to understand that you punishing them is for the event fifteen minutes ago when you have made such a concerted, if unintentional, effort to teach them that them getting close enough for you to lay hands on them in the yard means an immediate punishment?

Them: But that’s not what I *meant*!

Me: Doesn’t matter what YOU meant… what THEY learned is that they come to you, and they get punished. Stop punishing your dog for the behavior that you want to see more of.

Stop anthropomorphizing your animals, folks. They don’t think like us. Stop setting them - and yourself - up for failure.

with humans, thanks to the capacity for abstract thought, punishing them basically always produces undesired results.

20 Mar 19:20

sometiktoksarevalid:

Cary

My retirement plans

20 Mar 15:56

naamahdarling:I should know better than to reread this thread...





















naamahdarling:

I should know better than to reread this thread whenever it comes across my dash. I always cry.

Mr. Rogers was there for me when my parents materially COULD NOT be, and he taught me so much about being in love with the world.

20 Mar 15:37

“Why do Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day like that?” “Why do Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo…

Cary

Left out Saint Urho's day! :flag_finland:

froody:

“Why do Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day like that?” “Why do Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo like that, we don’t even celebrate it in Mexico?” IT IS AN EXCUSE TO GET DRUNK AND EAT FOOD. Every popular American holiday is an excuse to get drunk and eat food. Labor Day. Veterans Day. Memorial Day. Halloween. Valentines Day. Fuck it, Leif Erikson Day. My family celebrates Guy Fawkes Day, for some reason.

20 Mar 15:17

Hello Mr. Gaiman, For context, my brother and I live in a place where the LGBTQIA+ community is seen as weird and not generally embraced by those who fall under the umbrella. My brother is not homophobic himself, but his colleagues are certainly… passionate… individuals about their thoughts, and to be honest I was worried he may one day be influenced to say the same homophobic things. I remember watching the finale of Gomens S2 and being violently shocked, positively. Said brother came into the room to see if I was alright, saw me and slowly sat down next to me. I rewatched S1 and S2 with him and he absolutely loves the show. My brother realised after watching the show that being gay and/or being part of the community is not something that should be oppressed or made fun of. Now, every time one of his colleagues says something disgusting, he makes sure to educate them. The show means a lot to me, and it now means a lot to him as well. Thank you from the whole of my being.

That means the world to me.

20 Mar 00:14

Honestly just the idea of royalty is wild to me. You’re just keeping human pets at this point. It’s…

Honestly just the idea of royalty is wild to me. You’re just keeping human pets at this point. It’s weird. It’s a weird thing to do. You’re collective pet owners of a bunch of purebreds that are spoiled rotten and think they’re the boss of you.

“We can’t go in the big palace. Yes we own it but that’s Charles’ palace. He’s very nervous and he gets upset if anyone gets into his palace, and honestly it’s not worth dealing with him afterwards.”

“We’re throwing a party for Charles, it’s really expensive but wait until you see how cute they look in their little outfits! (No, we can’t eat any of the food, it’s not for us.)”

19 Mar 20:36

Are Doppelgängers Real? Revealing The Strange Science of Seeing Double

by Sam Walters
Cary

Grew up with mine -- even our moms got confused sometimes

Once a trope of folktales and literature, the doppelgänger is now a subject of scientific study. Dive into the tradition and science of lookalikes and discover your odds of finding one yourself.
19 Mar 20:14

Industrial Design Student Work: A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts

by Rain Noe

The Augmented Limb for Zero-Gravity Movement Control is a project by industrial design student Cheng Chang. Chang is in the Design Products program at the RCA, and this project was undertaken for the Design Futures course.

"In the plausible future, there is going to be a whole generation of humans living their lives in zero-gravity," Chang writes. "This kind of environmental shift will totally reshape our understanding of space and body function."

"When our hands and feet are no longer suitable for the task of controlling our movement in zero gravity, we need a new form of body extension."

"This limb has the ability to automatically anchor to your surroundings, and stabilize your position while floating inside a space station."

"Wave - Hit - Wrap / Automatic Anchoring"

"Just like a snake hunting, uses its whole body to wrap and squeeze."

From the original concept to the final functional prototype, the limb has been upgraded 12 times to ensure every structure on it can cooperate perfectly under its context.

[Editor's note: In the descriptions below, I think Cheng may be confusing the role of flesh versus tendons—it's possible there's a translation issue.]

"Control String – The control string is like our muscles, driving the limb to move."

"The Rubber Band Structure – The rubber band is like our flesh, it doesn't have the ability to move the limb, but functions as a mechanism to prevent the limb from curving too much."

"The Limb Bone – Inspired by the dinosaur tail, connecting with each other by joint ball, which let the limb have the power to conduct heavy load tasks."

"As We Move Towards Evolution"

"This Augmented Limb prototype [seeks to answer] how should we respond to living environment changes driven by fast-developing technologies? When the evolution conducted by nature can't catch up with the speed of how we implement technology to send us into an environment full of uncertainty, what should we do?"

19 Mar 17:34

“…but there’s a misconception that digital files are safe forever. In fact, files end up corrupted,…

theprofessional-amateur:

lilithsaintcrow:

“…but there’s a misconception that digital files are safe forever. In fact, files end up corrupted, data is improperly transferred, hard drives fail, formats change, work simply vanishes.”

“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

As an archivist I can say, with no hyperbole, that digital preservation is a very expensive, very labor intensive, nightmare that we absolutely lose sleep over.

19 Mar 16:19

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."

by noreply@blogger.com (Minnesotastan)
The title is Hannibal Lecter's famous line from Silence of the Lambs.  I learned at the movies subreddit that there is a subtle implication:
Lecter could be treated with drugs called monoamine oxidase inhibitors - MAOIs. As a psychiatrist, Lecter knows this.

The three things you can't eat with MAOIs? Liver, beans, wine.

Lecter is a) cracking a joke for his own amusement, and b) saying he's not taking his meds.

Reposted from 2015 because I ran across this post while browsing the back entries in the movies subcategory of the blog. 

18 Mar 22:44

Orangutan Freedom

by Corey Mohler
PERSON: "Haha, stupid monkey in a cage! "

PERSON: "I may be in a cage, my brother, but i am more free than you!"

PERSON: "You are a slave more than me - a slave to work, a slave to your boss, a slave to capitalism."

PERSON: "What the hell?"

PERSON: "Every day you go to a job you hate, to toil away on tasks you don't want to do, all so you can afford to pay your landlord rent."

PERSON: "So who is really free, human? "

PERSON: "You told him a thing or two about real freedom!"

PERSON: "Shut up, idiot, we are literally in a cage. my only freedom is being able to antagnozing the tourists."
18 Mar 22:15

my coworker doesn’t take the hint that she’s interrupting me

by Ask a Manager
Cary

We had Ed... All day long all he did was pop into folks offices and tell the same stories (usually you would hear the same spiel in the morning and afternoon). He just retired and started visiting the office and doing the same thing (HR had to email him asking him to refrain from visiting unless he had been invited by somebody)

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager.

A reader writes:

My company is generally pretty casual, collegial, and “open-door.” An employee on my team (not a direct report, but I review a lot of her work and am senior to her) who seems to lack a lot of common sense about professional norms has a tendency to walk right into my office when I’m working and begin a long-winded question without waiting for me to acknowledge her, make eye contact, or otherwise indicate that I’m available in any way.

I’m trying to be available to answer questions because she’s having a lot of performance issues and has tried to blame me for not “helping her” enough, but the constant interruption is driving me crazy. I’ve tried putting on a show of not looking up from my computer until she’s a few sentences in and acting confused and saying she needs to start over because I was focusing on my work, but this doesn’t seem to faze her at all. I’ve tried wearing headphones and pretending I don’t notice that she’s there (same result) and I’ve tried setting daily meetings with her and encouraging her to bring all of her questions then, but that doesn’t seem to discourage her from coming in 5-10 times per day with one off questions.

I answer this question — and two others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here.

Other questions I’m answering there today include:

  • CEO assigns work to my staff without talking to me
  • People ask me for favors and then never thank me
18 Mar 21:37

Goddammit, Moon Moon.

Cary

bunch of dirt lords

elodieunderglass:

cryoverkiltmilk:

hapalopus:

thesarahshay:

fand0mfan:

depsidase:

I can’t be the only person who immediately looked for the least common ones to try and use them more, right?

Scumwit and dirt goblin are pretty great, tbh.

I’m more interested in the mid-range. People actually call others dipclown, buttgoblin, and poopboy??

Find your favorite mid-range entries:

dickgoblin, twatnozzle, and wankbag

Tremendous amount of work being done here

Goddammit, Moon Moon.

18 Mar 18:11

Found this blue heeler puppy. Very hard to get into the back seat. Not friendly.

Cary

blue heelers always remind me of woodland creatures

Found this blue heeler puppy. Very hard to get into the back seat. Not friendly.

If he’s yours please come get him. I am scared to get back into the car. Thanks.

18 Mar 17:57

first time I ever went to the animal shelter and picked out my own animal was surreal. we had so…

vampireapologist:

first time I ever went to the animal shelter and picked out my own animal was surreal. we had so many animals growing up but we never picked out any of them. and sure that’s normal for cats. they just showed up and we adopted them. but it didn’t end there.

we had a ball python because my mom was on a walk with her friends, saw it on the ground (this was Ohio) said “woah! that’s not native!” and put it in her purse. we advertised but never found the owner so we kept the purse python.

we ended up with a corn snake during a hurricane because my mom went out to get one of the cats and the corn snake was so little it came blowing through the air like a branch and my mom reached out and grabbed it out of the air to save it.

actually the point of this post is lost because I typed this far and realized the universe was maybe just sending my mom snakes specifically.

18 Mar 17:55

I wonder what the implications would be if the Pope became a zombie

foone:

greyhoundone:

foone:

foone:

I wonder what the implications would be if the Pope became a zombie

Like say the Pope is off visiting Canada when the zombie outbreak starts and his little popemobile is overrun and he becomes infected and turns.

Can they elect a new pope right away? Or do they need to wait for someone to kill the zombie pope?

And if someone does, is that a sin for them? Or do you get like automatic sainthood, for services towards the catholic church?

What if the zombie!Pope isn’t killed and is instead captured. Does the catholic church try to get him to continue to serve as the Pope? Or do they figure out how to declare him unfit to serve as pope and elect a new pope? Or do they kill him/put him out of his misery? If so, how? Is there a papal executioner?

Also, in case of a zombie apocalypse, does the Pope declare a crusade against the undead?

Are there holy knights of zombie killing?

From my sister (a devout Catholic, consecrated virgin (yeah that’s a thing; don’t ask), with a masters in theology, currently studying canon law to practice for a diocesan tribunal):

“First, we’d need to define whether a zombie, as ‘undead,’ should be classified as alive or dead.

If being a zombie is like being infected by a virus that makes you go crazy, you couldn’t kill the pope. Technically, you couldn’t just kick him out of office, either. But other officials could confine him and limit his actions.

A physical assault on the pope is automatic excommunication, so you definitely wouldn’t get automatic sainthood.

Probably even if a zombie counted as dead, the attack on the pope’s body would still be wrong, although justifiable if that’s the only way to save yourself from the zombie pope as he’s attacking you. If the zombie pope counts as alive, you’re still morally allowed to defend yourself, and while the penalty of excommunication is automatic, it’d probably be lifted right away by whoever is in charge and not zombified.

There’s some theological tension in the idea that the Pope is the ‘first among equals;’ he’s in charge, but he’s also just a bishop among bishops. So a zombie Pope would definitely shift power more to the diocesan level, which could have interesting implications on the debate. In the past, sometimes rulers sent a pope into exile and a new one was elected. That’s not allowed under current law, but in a desperate circumstance, if a foreign power captured the zombie pope because of the threat he posed and would never release him, there might be a way to allow for the election of someone new. It’d mean treating the laws more like guidelines, though.”

Me: Fascinating contribution. Thank you! And I presume that if zombies did count as dead, the Church could proceed with electing a new Pope?

Her: Yes.

Cool! Thanks and thanks to her.

18 Mar 17:41

jewlwpet:“After a performance, I came out into the lobby where a middle-aged Dutch woman was waiting...

jewlwpet:

“After a performance, I came out into the lobby where a middle-aged Dutch woman was waiting to see me. She politely inquired, “What is Hans doing now?” I responded, “Who do you mean by Hans?” “Hans Buruma, my husband,” she said. As she explained it, Hans Buruma was once in charge of mail delivery at the Amsterdam Central Post Office. Three years before, he had attended Heretics (Jashumon), a guest production from Tokyo presented by my theatre troupe at the Mickery Theater. Just after the play began, two men masked in black leaped down into the audience area, grabbed her husband by the arms, and forcibly dragged him up onto the stage. Once onstage, Hans was dressed in a costume and made up, and before he knew it, he had become a character in the play. At least two times during the course of the play, she clearly saw her husband joining other characters who together pulled the ropes. He seemed to be enjoying himself. But when the play was over, Hans never returned to his seat in the audience. The wife waited for two hours, then went to the dressing room, but the members of the company had already returned to the hotel. That night, Hans failed to come home. After two more nights, he still hadn’t returned. By then, the company had left Holland and moved on to West Germany. She thought he had joined the company, that “they hired Hans for his acting skill.” She thought, “My husband is in the play.” Now. after three years had passed, she was pleading with me, “Please give me back my husband.” I had to tell her that I had never heard this story before. Neither I nor anyone in the company knew a middle-aged Dutchman named Hans Buruma. There was no evidence indicating that such a person had been with us during the past three years. When I told her that I didn’t know him, she was on the verge of tears. “Then where is Hans?” she asked. Three years ago–one middle-aged male post-office delivery worker evaporated into our play. In this case, we cannot distinguish where the drama ends and reality begins.”

— Shuji Terayama, The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea: My Theatre, translated by Carol Sorgenfried in Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji

15 Mar 22:21

surgeon: sorry sir, we can tailor all the other stuff down there but we can’t give you scrotoplasty

foreverial:

surgeon: sorry sir, we can tailor all the other stuff down there but we can’t give you scrotoplasty

me (in hospital gown in stirrups while a nurse holds a blowtorch to my taint): what? why the hell not?

surgeon: after tumblr was purchased by the us government in 2026 all posts about medical transition have been logged and vetted by AI for harm prevention. in 2023 you posted, and i quote, “the moment i get balls i’ll become a serial teabagger”

me: *sad chuckle* that’s true… i did…. and i would.

15 Mar 21:45

whatbigotspost: saywhat-politics: ...

whatbigotspost:

saywhat-politics:

Robbie Harris passed away the other day.

Robie Harris, who wrote an often-banned book about sexuality for kids, dies at 83

A lil snippet from that^ article/listen:


A true hero & legend whose memory will be a blessing ❤️

15 Mar 05:14

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Shrimp Edition! 🦐

Cary

I <3 Monterey Bay posts

How do you get from Kevin Bacon to shrimp? 🤔 Join us as we shellebrate the interconnectedness of our world, from the silver screen to the shimmering seas. 

15 Mar 05:11

thefingerfuckingfemalefury: iosonomer-blog: ...

Cary

That was our Golden, Lucky, and mom's half-persian, Garf -- they just adored each other

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

iosonomer-blog:

<3 THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST WHOLESOME THING I HAVE EVER SEEN <3

15 Mar 04:52

huariqueje:Pihlajanmarjat (Rowan berries)    -     Seppo...

Cary

I had a mountain ash (Rowan) tree outside my bedroom when I was kid -- always loved watching the first birds of spring enjoying the berries.



huariqueje:

Pihlajanmarjat (Rowan berries)    -     Seppo Similä, 1984

Finnish,b.1950-

Oil  on canvas, 70 x 105 cm.

15 Mar 04:19

Cary

Finally! somebody giving recognition

15 Mar 03:57

the football is an egg that needs to be incubated in the strong warm arms of players and tossed…

Cary

Makes so much sense

heedra:

electrificata:

heedra:

the football is an egg that needs to be incubated in the strong warm arms of players and tossed around violently by the strong warm arms of players and kicked by their strong warm legs to develop properly. and whoever wins the super bowl, their quarterback, gets to sit on the egg when it hatches so the young warbeast inside will imprint on them as its mama.

lydia tell me more about sports

if you look at a football stadium from above, it kind of looks like a giant cephalopoid eye and that’s because it is.

14 Mar 22:39

partlysmith: Julius Caesar memes are fun and all, but make sure you don’t forget the true meaning...

partlysmith:

Julius Caesar memes are fun and all, but make sure you don’t forget the true meaning of the holiday: Stabbing the fuck out of politicians for their flagrant, self-serving abuse of power.

14 Mar 21:22

petermorwood: redscharlach: terfypicrew: ...

petermorwood:

redscharlach:

terfypicrew:

Okay, so it turns out I could watch tigers on ice for HOURS.

“Tigers On Ice” would be a great stage show.

14 Mar 19:29

shu-of-the-wind: lockedharrow: weirdreindee...

shu-of-the-wind:

lockedharrow:

weirdreindeer:

Tom Cox
@cox_tom
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler and he told me that the wild owls in the sanctuary where he worked worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.ALT

i used to work for a nature center and we would constantly have wild owls come and call out to the owls in their cages and try to 1.) get them to follow them or 2.) they were looking for a mate

in the spirit of this post: when you live in areas with wild horses, the number one culprit for horse theft is actually other horses, because the young stallions that get chased out of the herd wanna start their own, and oh, look, look at all those cute mares in just,,,,a fenced off grassy area,,,how easy would it be to lure them over the fence,,,like some four-legged yodeling pied piper,,,

i think about this a lot

14 Mar 18:57

If you’re lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a…

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

If you’re lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can’t, it’s worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it’s also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you’ve learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn’t just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you’re reading!

Reading as a kid: “I can tell that this is supposed to be an emotionally moving ending, but I genuinely cannot remember who two-thirds of these characters are.”

Reading as an adult: *reads a paragraph* *pauses* *reads the same paragraph again* *flips back and re-reads the preceding page to make sure you didn’t misunderstand something* *stares into space for ten minutes as the Implications sink in*

14 Mar 04:38

just learned about the granulated sea star …

Cary

the comments...

mxmollusca:

detectivesnail:

just learned about the granulated sea star …

dont talk to me

Hey, I’m gonna be that guy

So sea stars are echinoderms

Which means that they have a dermal skeleton of tiny plates basically infused throughout their skin

And while this lil guy looks like he gives the squish

His connective tissues are capable of becoming incredibly rigid, and so he’s quite tough to the touch

So unless your various orifices are in need of a good sand blasting, I’d say ol Romeo here isn’t exactly body safe

But I love the enthusiasm