by Mary Oliver
The way the plovers cry goodbye. The way the dead fox keeps on looking down the hill with open eye. The way the leaves fall, and then there’s the long wait. The way someone says we must never meet again. The way mold spots the cake, The way sourness overtakes the cream. The way the river water rushes by, never to return. The way the days go by, never to return. The way somebody comes back, but only in a dream.
Matthew Hodson: “ 20 years ago, 2 years after the arrival of combination therapy that effectively treated #HIV, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s LGBT newspaper ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.”
Y'all need to appreciate that this was practically fucking *yesterday*.
as of today: june 1, 2023, that headline is 2 ½ months shy of being old enough to rent a car
for everyone bad at math, like me lol: the original print date was August 13th, 1998
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good evening to this guy
I can’t find it, but I once read a thing mentioning how like Mossad hitmen would wear stupid hats when committing crimes in public so that any witnesses would only focus on the hat and not be able to describe anyone’s actual physical appearance.
exclusively relying on hitmen with big tits
im just here for a good time but i feel so attacked rn
Love it.
Accurate af. Love it
We all love a good pun but pretending to be Horatio from CSI Miami and then signing the Who is very much frowned on in the lab #CSI #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon #academia #science #research #errantscience
one time i went up to my friend (also my coworker) and gave him hug from behind and just like held him there for a moment and our one regular client walked in and was like “huh….so are you guys like….winnie the pooh and piglet?” and i lost my fucking mind. what does that mean. i also said yes and that i was pooh.
me and this coworker are now dating and the same client client came into today and was like “sooo winnie the pooh and piglet?” again so we asked him what he meant and apparently those were the only two male fictional characters he could think of that hug
winnie the pooh heritage post
Just putting this out there to let people know to watch what they post because you can be found and if you think that the government can't do this ...
Well, you better think again!!
Reminder that in 2017 4chan played capture the flag with Shia LaBeouf. Without any kind of a retail store to use for landmarks they got a rough estimate of the flags location from a livestream. They used the position of the sun to narrow it down to a specific time zone, they tracked the flight paths of planes seen flying overhead to further narrow it down. Then someone in the area drove around honking his horn while viewers on the livestream told him if he was getting closer until he found and stole the flag.
going to work 😌
Jesus fuck, dude.
Bro driving to work in the doohickey
Madam, you are looking very posh in your fancy dress, if I may say so.
Those earrings are a delight, darling and I love what you did with your hair.
people will just say anything
Dennis Rodman slays absolute penis
THIS IS A PICTURE THAT SOMEONE TOOK WHO WORKS ON AN OIL RIG IN TEXAS. HE WANTED TO GET A SHOT OF THE LIGHTNING THAT WAS FLASHING BY. HE WAS UNAWARE OF THE TORNADO UNTIL THE LIGHTNING ILLUMINATED IT. This has been called a one-in-a-million photo; taken south of Ft. Stockton, Texas.
Plains rlly be like that
Oh dang I’ve seen this photo a lot but never knew the backstory, that’s legitimately terrifying but also spectacular?!?
a terrifying chair that i would never sit in
I want my ass in this immediately
You: rolling around in office chair
Me: hanging from the ceiling waiting for prey to walk under me
Public service announcement:
If you happen to teach undergrads as a teaching assistant, you will be given a certain amount of latitude depending on the gig. Sometimes they’ll just have you taking notes on attendance and not otherwise be interacting with the students much, sometimes you’ll grade, give lectures, and have flexibility in attendance policies and rubrics. These tend to involve more work, but are also more rewarding.
When they assign you to high-responsibility postings, you’ll also have a fair amount of independence. Usually this situation arises because you’re teaching lab sections for a course with several hundred students in the lecture, and the professor has neither the time nor the inclination to read through everything that the students are doing with chemical titration or mineral identification or whatever. They’ll tell you what to teach, provide some slides and some worksheets, tell you what grade distribution to vaguely expect, and then let you do your thing. They’ll mostly hear about you if something goes really well, or really badly.
So here’s the thing. You will, absolutely, get in trouble for going off-book and giving the students an extra credit option to collect a large number of dead scorpions. But it won’t be that much trouble, especially if you play the naive grad student card, and it’ll take a couple weeks for the rumor mill to jump from students in your section to students in someone else’s section to another TA to the professor. So you’ll have plenty of time to collect all your ill-gotten scorpion gains, and explain to your students about stimulated emission and coherence in light and how scorpion chitin is capable of a weak phosphorescence. And sure, the powers that be can scold you a little bit, but for the rest of your life you’ll always get to be the teacher who collaborated with their class to build a scorpion-powered laser.
there is no guarantee the trinkets are not cursed. choose at your own risk. reblog to keep the trinket shop traveling.
We Love Deciphering First Days Of Kindergarten Handwriting
posting this isnt even a privacy issue bc these absolutely do not spell anyones names. go ahead, try to decipher them. you cant. i know what theyre supposed to say & there is no way in Hell that information can be extracted from this
[ID: the name line at the top of 3 different worksheets. on each is written a jumble of letters and other markings, none of which spells anything and most of which is totally illegible.]
