TIL that Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was asked at the age of 84 by rapper 2 Chainz if he could sample his 60-year old song. Lehrer replied, “I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”

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the fact that this doesn’t mention that 1. the song is called “the old dope peddler” and that 2. lehrer’s other songs range from delights like “the masochism tango” and “poisoning pigeons in the park” to a catchy theme tune for the myth of Oedipus to celebrations of plagiarism in math academia and a series of jokes about the folk song “Clementine” as written by various classical composers, not to mention The Elements Song, is unforgivable.

lehrer is also a math genius who entered Harvard at 15 and may or may not have invented the jello shot. eventually he got bored of performing music and went back to teaching math. as of May 2021 he’s 93 and still kicking around in California.

In Super Mario 3D World, it is not normally possible to enter Plessie sections without riding Plessie, as they are either guarded by a gate that only opens when the players ride Plessie, or the room automatically places the players on Plessie when it is loaded.

However, in level 1-4, Plessie’s Plunging Falls, there is a section of collision on the left side of the gate that can be bypassed with 2 or more players jumping on each others’ heads in the manner depicted. When the players pass the gate, it is revealed that the water is extremely shallow and the players can simply walk through it. If the glitch is performed as quickly as possible at the start of the level, there will be enough time for the players to walk all the way to the end of the level without needing Plessie at all.

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You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”

the people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about.

US President Laughing Skull, when pressed for comment, responded predictably

THEY’VE PROJECTED A LETTUCE ONTO THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

can barely believe it but this is real

pls… i beg of you… reblog creations… or else there won’t be any more creations

it makes me so sad to see so many creators talking in the tags about how they’re not creating as much because less and less people are interacting. this is proof that interaction is vital. this is proof that a lack of interaction leads to discouraged creators and leads to less creations. liking—and only liking—does not encourage creators.

and that’s because (1) the purpose of this website is to share things that bring us joy and (2) likes don’t share things or ensure something is seen by more people, not like they do on other sites. so, when so many people decide to only like a post and not share it (i.e. not reblog it), that tells the creator that those people didn’t think their hard work was worth sharing with others. that’s discouraging. 

and the creator isn’t the only one that gets something out of that. you get something, too. you get the joy of sharing something you like; that’s a meaningful experience for both you and for the creator. and that experience—that interaction—encourages the creator to create more, and so there’s more joy to be had for both you and the creator.

long story short, interaction (i.e., reblogging, which is interaction in its simplest form on this site) brings joy. it’s literally all about the joy, people. the joy in discovering and sharing and appreciating and marveling at creations. so please reblog—for everyone’s sake, including your own. 

REBLOG!! Support content creators!

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I think about this all of the time

stop saying "cannibalism causes prion diseases" this is a common misconception

gonna preface this by saying I'm not trying to be weird or edgy here I just have an interest in diseases and find it frustrating to constantly see people spreading misinformation abt how they originate and spread

this misconception comes from an epidemic of kuru, a type of prion disease (you might also seem em referred to as TSEs) that broke out among the Fore people of Papau New Guinea in the 1950s. until colonial rule, the Fore people practiced a form of funerary cannibalism in which a loved one's flesh, including organs, would be consumed after they died. this practice isn't exclusive to the Fore, and has no profound inherent dangers; cooking and eating human flesh doesn't have any more health risks associated with it than eating the flesh of an animal. what started the epidemic wasn't the practice of cannibalism, but rather a stroke of incredibly, incredibly bad luck.

(more under the cut; there's cannibalism and disease talk, but nothing graphic.)

you. need. to. vote.

Reminder to people who won’t pick up on it otherwise that this is a 1) U.S. HOUSE proposal not a state level thing, if this were to pass it would affect the whole country and 2) a lot of people who only care about gas prices are prepared to give this party control of the House. You need to outvote them.

i love you transmasc fags i love you transfem dykes i love you transmasc dykes i love you transfem fags i love you girls who are boys who are girls i love you boys who are girls who are boys i love you genderfuckery

Current state of British politics: a cat is now the longest serving member of the government.

that 'i have to get ready for work' edge of the bed sit. you know the one.

hold on can I just

Buy these

It doesn’t feel like I should be able to just do this.

$4.99? 500 stickers that say Cubed for $4.99????

i have the overwhelming urge to buy a few rolls of these and put them in gift baggies at parties and events.

great gift ideas! A roll of 500 stickers that say hepatitis

Speaking of being autistic and dating, did i ever tell y’all about my first boyfriend?

I was like 15-16? and realized that I was the age where it was common to start dating. I was curious about the hype and didn’t want to to an outlier so I decided to get myself a boyfriend. I asked a random boy, who was above average in height and looks, for his number. After that I got straight to the point and asked him out.

Our first date was at a movie theater, because I believed that was a common first date. Our second date we went mini golfing, I kissed him on the cheek because I decided he was to timid to initiate it and I had to fulfill the normal second date requirements. Our third date was at the zoo, pro-protocol, I kissed him. This was because out of the many people I interviewed, the 3rd date was commonly decided to be the “kissing date”

We continued to date some more after that. On our 6th date, he tried to say “I love you”-I cut him off by saying “nope” as it was far to early for that according to general consensus. (Also I didn’t feel comfortable saying that to him). After I had decided that I fulfilled the healthy teenage milestone, I broke up with him. Overall I was satisfied and didn’t want to go further until I was older. I told him the basic, “it’s not you, it’s me” and paid for his food and left. I was super happy afterwards, as I now had more free-time.

My parents still refer to these events as my “experiment”. I refer to it as, “that time I decided I needed a boyfriend”

why were you treating being a teenager like a list that you had to check off and complete 😭😭😭😭 sjkjskjaskjkas

I didn’t want to get a bad grade in “being an average person”

on twitter fighting for my girl's honor. homophobic toriel truthers should be hunted for sport