We failed as a society when everyone stopped wearing headphones.
At my parents place with 2 children watching YT on tablets and 2 adults watching tiktoks and reels on their phones and trying not to summon a comically sized Loony Toons hammer out of my back pocket to smash them all.
I’m rebloging this twice im tired of people not wearing headphones when watching videos in public. It’s basic etiquette to wear headphones in public when you listen to things.
Niece got some small geodes for a birthday and my friend and I helped her crack them open... When water came out of one, my friend and I both reflexively dipped our finger in it for a taste (we didn't get sick)
…..you know I would like to thank @voyoock for this reply because tbh I kind of wanted to break one of these open and taste it myself.
Just think, these stones contain the water from ancient seas from millenia ago, and a well educated scholar STILL couldn’t resist their pull. Not one of us is immune to the siren call of ancient tide pods.
wanna hear a wild story? my brother’s history professor is closing in on 80 and basically lives at the university. one night my brother visited him for a meeting, and it came up that my brother was gonna be performing as a court jester at the castle the following day. and his professor busts out: “ah, that reminds me of my youth!”
he then proceeded to tell the tale of when he and his friends went backpacking to greece back in their early 20s. then one day they found themselves completely penniless. so they decided that the only reasonable thing to do was to set up acrobatic shows in skimpy outfits on the beach at day, and then drink up the money at night.
after a week or so they gained some traction, and a gang of young greek men walked up to them like “hey y’all are cool as hell, can we join y’all for drinks tonight?” and my brother’s professor was like “of course! y’all have to wear these revealing outfits and do somersaults with us tho” and the greek gang said “sounds dope. y’all are invited to live with us for however long y’all want.”
anyhow, they proceeded to live like this for the better part of 3 months, doing shows, drinking, and sleeping at the greek gang’s apartment. but after a while they decided enough was enough, and said thank you for everything, but we’re going back to sweden now. and the greeks said “sure! love y’all have a safe trip xx”
half a year later my brother’s professor gets contacted by the greek police. they ask him about the months they spent in greece, and then informs him that their greek friends have been convicted of serial homicide and robbery. that the group of young greek men had joined up with several tourist groups for several years “for drinks”, and then killed and robbed them all, terrorising the beach city for several years. with one exception, of course, because “this one group of swedish acrobats in slutty strongman suits were just ‘so damn nice’”.
and that’s the story of how one swedish history university professor survived sharing a flat with a group of serial killers for several months by performing acrobatics in slutty outfits on the beach. moral of the story? be kind of heart, thicc of ass.
For 2 days in a row I have seen this little guy removing leaves from my plant and eating them until he passes out. He’s missing an ear, so he may be self-medicating his PTSD, but still, I think it’s time for an intervention.
I’ll let him sleep this time, but when he wakes up, we’ll have a serious talk.
every prehistoric human reconstruction has me thinking “I want to smoke weed with this bitch”
she looks like she would have been an awesome neighbor, like she would have loved menthols and called me baby
“a Cheeto could have killed a Victorian child” but the opposite. Neanderthals would have loved to go to Hardee’s and get a burger with me.
neanderthals would have walked hand in hand with me into hell (buccees opening day)
When I saw this article two years ago and found out Neanderthals were seasoning their food 70,000 years ago, I teared up thinking about how they never got to try things like beef jerky and Doritos.
Corn was domesticated around 9,000 years ago and cheese was invented around 7,000 years ago. Her entire species went extinct before the basic ingredients to create cheese flavored corn snacks were a twinkle in humanity’s eye. That’s part of the reason finding out Neanderthals and early modern humans were creating complex dishes to maximize flavor and texture 70,000 years ago is so wild to me. 
They were definitely making jerky. They might not have had domesticated cows yet but a lot of animals were being turned into jerky.
I like this kid. Mister Rogers of simple exercise (geared towards all abilities)
Feeling tired or exhausted all the time?
I think sometimes we get so bogged in exhaustion and misery that we lose sight of a better life.
I’ve been in similar places, and I’m really glad I continued taking steps to try to get to a better spot.
I know it’s not simple for everyone, but I’ve found that maintaining this pursuit keeps a bit of hope in my life - which already makes it more enjoyable.
Bitch you are a piece of fruit why does it look like I murdered you. Why do you leave my fingertips red and stained. Why do you run down my hands to my elbows when I tear you apart. Why must I rip your body into bloodied chunks to get what’s inside of you. Why do you sound so lovely when I crack you open. Why must I eat you with a knife and my bare hands. Why is there so much of you and why is there never enough.
LEONARD NIMOY (Vladeck) and WILLIAM SHATNER (Michael Donfield) appearing together for the first time in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode “The Project Strigas Affair” (1964), directed by Joseph Sargent
I literally just learned that male carpenter bees are usually the ones tasked with protecting the nest from predators. They have that little yellow bald spot on their heads, and they’re usually the ones buzzing and hovering near you, just kinda looking at you. However, the reason they hover near you is actually because they think they’re being intimidating, and they’re trying to scare you off. If that doesn’t work, well, male carpenter bees don’t have stingers, and they don’t bite, so they’re only defense mechanism to scare humans off is to bump into us over and over. Literally just fly full speed into us, head first, and hope it’s enough to scare us away. I love carpenter bees so much. 🥺 Truly the himbos of the insect world.
As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses
I feel that some non-Boston people think I may have been exaggerating this. While I did not snap a photo as I was on the train, someone else did several months ago. I do want to stress that this column is now freshly painted and therefore completely structurally sound and in absolutely no danger of causing the entire tunnel to collapse. And yes, it did in fact never cross my mind that the original post was nearly 105 years to the day of the Molassacre
This is so safe this is the safest I’ve ever felt good job mbta gold star
Fun fact: Copley station was built 5 years after the molasses flood so we’re in good hands
I love that the turtle is explicitly bothering the cat, rather than just zooming aimlessly around.
“Mom it’s not supposed to BE that fast!”
This just in: Turtle gains speed and immediately becomes a menace to local cat. “Why is he chasing me? Why not explore the house?” Cat comments. More on this in the evening.
For those curious, this was taken at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No DAPL protests in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The photograph is titled “Defend the Sacred” by Ryan Vizzions. I did not find the name of the subject on horseback.
Her name was
Marissa Blacklance. #Dakota38 rider, & front line water protector at Standing Rock. She was killed by a drunk driver in January of 2018. Her mother is using this tragedy to make changes benefitting our community with the Yellow Scarf tribute.
Amusing too that even though some parts of Brook’s movies have aged (as all comedy does), it still hasn’t aged as badly as that comment saying that they should aspire to be more like Woody Allen.
All art is subjective and everyone has their own likes and dislikes
And if people don’t like Blazing Saddles that’s their call
That said
Anyone who thinks that anything Woody Allen has done in his entire career is better than even the worst film Mel Brooks has ever made is an appalling buffoon who has no fucking business being a film critic ._.
Today we celebrate the life and works of Terry Pratchett who would have been 76 years old today
Having spent many times in his company over the years, we would like to hear your stories of “Time with Terry”, be it at conventions, book signings or elsewhere !
Let us know your Time with Terry moment in the comments.
in guarani there’s a standard greeting that literally translates to “are you happy” (ndevy'apa) and the natural reply is “i’m happy” (avy'a) and as americans learning the language we were so distressed like “but what if we’re not happy…..” and our teachers were like “that’s so not the fucking point”
we kept trying to think of any other way to reply but our teachers kept trying to get it into our brains that it’s an idiomatic greeting, it literally is not the time or place to traumadump, and as usamerican english speakers we are not some special exception for saying “what’s up” with the reply being “not much” instead of “the ceiling”
but anyway while i was working in paraguay – the country with the largest population of guarani speakers – i got sent an article by some friends back home like “look! they’re saying that paraguay is the happiest country in the world!”
and the methodology was “we went around and asked paraguayans if they’re happy and recorded their responses” and i was like. oh. of course you did. and of course you got a 100% positive response rate.
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held a Hoftag (informal assembly) at the cathedral provostry in Erfurt. The combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement. This event is called the Erfurter Latrinensturz (lit. 'Erfurt latrine fall’) in several German sources.
