Some important additions from the notes that I either forgot about or were too long to add (thank you guys I love you):

these with some context:

"[...] more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?"

( I think he also had a fourth book called Well That About Wraps It Up For God iirc)

"'But the plans were on display…'

'On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'

'That’s the display department.'

'With a flashlight.'

'Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.'

'So had the stairs.'

'But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?'

'Yes,' said Arthur, 'yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.''"

and then a couple really excelent ones that I didn't include because they're technically from later books in the series:

don't worry ive cut you off cause i went and found the exact quote because this is one of my favorite bits of the whole series:

"“This Arthur Dent,” comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been found inscribed on a mysterious deep space probe thought to originate from an alien galaxy at a distance too hideous to contemplate, “what is he, man or mouse? Is he interested in nothing more than tea and the wider issues of life? Has he no spirit? has he no passion? Does he not, to put it in a nutshell, fuck?”

Those who wish to know should read on. Others may wish to skip on to the last chapter which is a good bit and has Marvin in it."

this one is always a classic

I used this section for years in my linguistic anthropology class as a thought starter about language changing to accommodate the changing world. Also wildly hilarious for linguists etc.

Fun probability fact: If you press the button 100 times, there's roughly a 1/e chance you'll become a girl!

Fun gender fact: If you press the button 100 times, you were almost certainly a girl to begin with.

...wait, that's not true at all. The first one, that is.

P(girl) = 1 - (0.99^t), where t = # of times button was pressed For t=100, P(girl) ≈ 0.634, while 1/e = 0.368 P(girl) = 1/e when t = 46

(pictured: P(girl) for 0 < t < 150)

However, I do have some fantastic news! The first press that gives you better than 50/50 to have become a girl is... *drumroll*

button press number 69 (nice)

@numberlover1729 I don't understand this math, but maybe you'll enjoy it

Sent it to my math friend to explain it to me and got this in return.

Ok also bc this website doesnt allow polls pls reblog if ur subbed to dracula daily and say in the tags if you’ve read dracula before, have only seen/heard film/tv/radio adaptations, or if u only know dracula through cultural osmosis im curious

Emergency cleaning: Unfuck your whole house in the shortest time possible

So, your landlord/parents/home inspector/favorite movie star is dropping by, and your place is a disaster. You don’t have much time to clean it up. You’re in emergency mode. Let’s get started.

You can do this. It’s overwhelming, yes, but it is not impossible. You just need to do it. You have a list. You have directions. You have a whole bunch of Internet strangers who have been there before and who are cheering you on. You can do this, but you need to get started.

Why are you still here? GO. START. NOW.

the number of times in my past that I desperately wanted/needed someone to sit me down and tell me this stuff. I will never get back the hours and hours lost to headless-chicken mode, but it’s nice to know that in the last year I’ve learned so many coping mechanisms :D

castielsupernatural -> hexedcas -> turbohellcas

🌈🌈🔥🔥let destiel holy week commence🔥🔥🌈🌈

‼️‼️PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY LITTLE BROTHER!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY‼️‼️

He’s a missing native child and at EXTREME RISK! The cops aren’t doing SHIT!

BOOST, DONATE, & SHARE

This was posted on 29th October 2021. Don't mistake it for something super old. This is happening now and the kid could be in danger so please please PLEASE signal boost

Destiel. Is. Canon.

These are words we never thought we’d be typing in a Year in Review, but, as par for the course, 2020 had other plans. November 5th, 2020, was one of the best days on the internet in recent memory. A night akin to February 26th, 2015, except our runaway llamas were Nevada and Georgia counting votes, and our Dress was a love confession from an angel named Castiel. Only this time, there was a sprinkle of Russian politics, too. #Superwholock, who? This is #Superputinelection.

The Road So Far

In case you are somehow unfamiliar with The CW show Supernatural, it follows brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they continue the family business—saving people, hunting things, no big deal. In 2008, as the show entered its fourth season, Dean (Jensen Ackles) was gripped tight and raised from perdition by none other than an angel in a trenchcoat and a loose tie, Castiel (Misha Collins). From the first stab, fans felt the immediate chemistry between Dean and Cas, and so Destiel was born. 

Supernatural writers became aware of the ship over time. For a show that gets as meta as SPN does, they were bound to write Destiel in somehow. In their 200th episode, titled “Fan Fiction,” the Winchesters are faced with a high school play based on the in-world Supernatural book series. The students playing Dean and Cas are an IRL couple, and Dean Winchester is introduced to the concept of Destiel for the first time.

Enter: Despair

Approaching the endgame, the episode “Despair” aired on November 5th and saw Castiel give an impassioned speech to Dean about how much he cares about him—actually saying I love you—before being killed immediately after (shoutout to @lithiumionbatteries​ for predicting this in July!). This confession of love was not something anyone in any fandom was expecting. In the week following the episode’s air date (11/5 - 11/11), Tumblr saw huge spikes in #destiel original posts (up by 2,083%) and reblogs (up 11,042%) with an overall 5,065% increase in all engagements around the ship’s tag.

While Supernatural fans were dealing with the fallout of another bury your gays moment, many people on Tumblr were on their third day of waiting for results from the US Presidential Election. The conversation expanded, weaving in jokes about Nevada’s ballot-counting speed and Georgia turning blue, which many found out about via Destiel shitposts. Things continued to snowball into discussions around how people were learning anime news, like Dabi from BNHA’s real name, and provided the perfect backdrop for the rumors that snuck into the meme cycle: Putin stepping down, a new season of Ouran High School Host Club, or a new Sherlock season. And this was just twenty-four hours. 

Let’s take a moment to go back to a time before the finale and the Spanish-language dub. Our team has curated all the best posts from this incredible day on the internet. Pour one out for Castiel as you scroll through.

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

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Great group of writers!!

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Video of Tama

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The picture in the background of the second one

Tama is boss

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

Beautiful.

Now I’m crying thanks

and a new cat was hired right?

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

Law

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

a legacy

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

Even medieval monks complained about their jobs!

There is no bitching like bitching in enormously expensive creations. 

Oh, my hand.

I have probably reblogged this before but WHO CARES

IT’S STILL HILARIOUS

This is why I love people. Every time I think I hate everybody I should remember that people have been being PEOPLE for so long and it’s brilliant and I should embrace it all.

Shoutout to the last dude, having an existential crisis in the middle of work. Relatable.

Another Power Couple!