Jonathan, my favorite Archivist who dresses like a librarian
using tumblr mobile and seeing people talk about a desktop layout change is like hearing a timer suddenly start ticking down. I am safe for now but I hear the danger
stuck in a time loop all by yourself, handsome? stuck in a time loop all by yourself, handsome? stuck in a time loop all by yourself, handsome? stuck in a time loop all by yourself, handsome? stuck in a time loop all by yourself, handsome? stuck in a time loop all by yourself, handsome?
I died but I came back exactly the same. You though, I came back and you were wrong. Did the fact of my dying really damage you that much? Was bringing me back worth what it cost you? Would it have been better to just leave me?
there is an academic text I've been trying to get my hands on, and I tracked down an ebook copy held by the national library, but due to legal restrictions it's only available for viewing on a library computer on their premises. like the only way I can read this research is to go to the national central library, book a computer desk, and scroll through it on a pc monitor for hours on end.
this digital copyright shit is so stupid, it makes me SO fucking mad. it costs nobody anything to let readers access this shit from home. it's a bunch of bits and bytes, the ebook file already exists. but publishers (and I include universities in this) are so brain rotten and craven that they will block any attempt to make information more accessible just in case there's a chance they'd miss out on one person with a really specific research interest paying them like £17 to look at a word document in a more comfortable chair.
want to get even madder? the library only has 'one copy' of this ebook. we have this infinitely reproducible data resource but only one person is allowed to go and sit in a computer lab and scroll through it at a time!!! if you want to rent access from elsewhere, that'll be £17-30 depending on the gateway site. Want to buy a copy of the book? tough shit idiot. it's a niche academic text that's out of print, it's going to cost you upward of £70.
want to become the joker? it's a book about how the printing press fueled an explosion in accessible literature during the french revolution.
this sequence of images is so mystical to me. it's like a prey animal noticing you
The biggest reason I KNOW we haven't captured an alien spacecraft is that its specs haven't been leaked on War Thunder forums
shout out to when i told my dad about goncharov and he figured out it was fake because i told him "1973 martin scorsese film with robert de niro" and he said that wasn't possible because the godfather came out in 1972 and the godfather part II came out in 1974 and they wouldn't have had time to make a movie in between. a perfectly good jest, foiled by this man's weird and vast knowledge set
We need a shitty RPG Maker horror game in the mode of Fear and Hunger that takes a page from Undertale and lets you go all in on your bad choices. There needs to be a route where by the end the eldritch horrors are looking at the player character like "dude, what the fuck". No, I don't just mean a "surprise, you were the real monster all along" twist – it needs to be a choice.
found out last night about the cricket player Don Bradman, whose batting average of 99.94% is “the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport”, nearly a full 40 points above the second best player. Apparently they had to invent a whole new type of defense to try and deal with this dude.
I have no idea how cricket works but it’s hilarious that the best sportsman who ever lived chose to play British baseball of all things.
I tried understanding the rules for cricket purely to better comprehend how someone could be so almost supernaturally dominant like
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“average person is decent at cricket” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is terrible at cricket. Bradman Don, who lives in Australia & bats over 99 each test day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
✨mechanisms character designs!!✨
lyf gets to be blue because i said so
who else should i draw!!!!
me: man my job sucks i want to play video games or somethin
the nefarious anglerfish: