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Had a dream where mini golf was added to the Olympics. And one of the Olympic mini golf athletes lost the gold because she hit the windmill.

And she tweets with a picture of the windmill and the caption “bout to go through my Don Quixote phase” and honestly I think that’s the funniest thing my brain has ever come up with.

Cat-egory 3 hurricane

richard -> dick so obviously we should start the charles -> cock process

how the fuck do you get cock from charles

you ask him nicely

The Richard-dick naming situation actually comes from a fad that existed back in I think it was the 17th or 18th century, can’t remember which. But the naming fad/convention of the time was for rhyming secondary nicknames for names that already had a 4 letter nickname. Ie: William-will-bill, Richard-rick-dick

so it’d be Charles-chuck-fuck

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

what the FUCK man.

Actually I hope Lower Decks runs well past the point of jumping the shark, and some day we get a season 18 episode 9 reveal that Mariner has a Secret Evil Sibling. I want that Sybok energy.

that's cool! who's the dude just chilling there?

I’m guessing it’s the dude that got “passed over” considering he looks like a Generic Country Singer

I saw thiiiiis- and nope, that's Luke Combs- he did a cover of her song and that's actually what brought Chapman to win the CMA!

'Fast Car' was actually written over 30 years ago but didn't get the attention it is now unfortunately- both because of Chapman being a black woman but also (I believe) because she was queer (she never specified/comfirmed her sexuality/preferences but she was in a romantic relationship with another woman.) When Combs did the cover, he also didn't change the lyrics to fit gender/himself, keeping and singing the line 'So I work in the market as a checkout girl.'

Chapman couldn't make it to the actual awards ceremony to accept the award, but she did leave a message/note thanking Combs for the amazing cover and bringing the song (back) into the spotlight after all this time- and likewise, Combs thanked her for having written such a beautiful song and his own increase in popularity because of it (he won a few CMAs himself this year)

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... no, Fast Car was a top 10 hit when it came out in the US and the UK, and it was nominated for 3 Grammys, one of which it won (Best Female Vocal Performance). It also got a VMA nomination. It got plenty of attention.

This is just bringing it back for another generation, which was Luke Combs' intention.

So... a bunch of NFT grifters threw a party in Hong Kong this weekend and reportedly a bunch of attendees are now at risk of permanent eyesight damage because the promoters used unsafe lighting, and people are going to the ER...

Found a picture of the stage setup with the UV lights

The contractor who set up the lights used bulbs that emit uv-c light, which is mostly used for sterilization

I did a quick search for the bulbs and almost every result mentions sterilization or germicide, I have to assume it's impossible to purchase these, (in bulk! enough to light a stage!) without knowing that they're for killing living organisms.

Link to an article about it

#fucking INSANE#i'd love to be like ''lol they deserve it'' but this is such a fucked up thing to do to a captive audience????#also love how the one guy is like ''ur good guys so u'll do the right thing and make a statement... right? :)''#but fr this is so fucked up i hope they use all their crypto bro money to sue the hell out of the event organizers

Yeah I don't think this is something anyone reasonably deserves. I mean, we can roll our eyes at people dumb enough to pour all their money into the Stupidest Scam Ever, but I think 'the lights at this concert meet basic safety standards' is a reasonable assumption for anyone to make. I don't interrogate the people at my local cinema about what kind of UV lights they have, I just assume they're using normal ones that won't send me blind. That guy up there is being weirdly forgiving of these penny-pinching arseholes ("you're good guys" THEY BLINDED YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE STUPIDEST SAFETY VIOLATION POSSIBLE) but this one's entirely on the organisers.

Of course, the really stupid thing would be if they're too addicted to the taste of boot leather to organise a class action lawsuit. They better sue. The organisers should be paying every cent of lost work, general suffering and medical care costs.

#a) how does this happen and b) why don't other situations with uv lights do this?#like i used to go to laser tag that had uv lights and we were fine?#or maybe that's black lights and it's different???#idk whatever the thing is that makes white clothes glow in the dark

They used a different kind of UV light, one for sterilising things. It emits a kind of UV that kills living tissue.

I don't know the details of the situation but I've heard people speculate that production of these sterilising lights was ramped up due to an expected surge in sales (due to Covid) that never materialised, so these guys probably went "oh sweet, incredibly cheap surplus UV lights someone's offloading" and did no further research on the matter. I have no idea how true that is, though.

Good fucking grief.

Obligatory "this is not their fault and I'm not laughing at them" out of the way, I'm going to say that to me, knowing this type, the opposite is just as likely. Somebody, probably through a language barrier, heard "superpowerful expensive UV lights" and interpreted it as "luxury high quality bestest best UV lights".

If you go through the notes you'll find out this is not the first time this happens specifically at an event in HK, which makes me think that there's some very irresponsible broker who is trying to offload a ton of these and doesn't care how it happens. The other time it was at a Hypebeast pop-up, which is why I'm thinking more of them being sold as luxury items than as cheap.

And yes they definitely should sue, also in order to give a push towards stricter regulations.

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

i bring you my one offering for every fandom: Twitch Streamer AU!

i see your "two teachers at the same school who none of their students realise are married" and raise you "two polar opposite streamers who none of their viewers realise are dating/living together" 😩🙏

i also accidentally drew these at 4k so enjoy these high res wallpapers i guess!! (1 + 2)

i have headcanons:

i bring you my one offering for every fandom: Twitch Streamer AU!

i see your "two teachers at the same school who none of their students realise are married" and raise you "two polar opposite streamers who none of their viewers realise are dating/living together" 😩🙏

i also accidentally drew these at 4k so enjoy these high res wallpapers i guess!! (1 + 2)

i have headcanons:

This beautiful invention dates back to 1840

no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...

also they love love LOVE to try and sell you "plant-based leather" that you then look at the details and it's "45% cactus" or whatever and there's no mention of what the rest of it is

it's plastic.

it's always plastic.

Let me tell you a story.

50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it's body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.

But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.

The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn't melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.

Anyway, I pulled grandad's jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.

The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there's no market for leather these days. Its skin won't be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a "vintage" cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they'll sell another one.

Ive noticed recently that my generation has... no concept of what the various economic classes actually are anymore. I talk to my friends and they genuinely say things like "at least i can afford a middle class lifestyle with this job because i dont need a roommate for my one bedroom apartment" and its like... oughh

You guys, middle class doesnt mean "a stable enough rented roof over your head," it means "a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days." If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you're lower class. That's lower class.

And i cant help but wonder if this is why you get kids on tumblr lumping in doctors and actors into their "eat the rich" rhetoric: economic amnesia has blinded you to what the class divides actually are. The real middle class lifestyle has become so unattainable within a system that relies upon its existence that theyve convinced you that those who can still reach it are the elites while your extreme couponing to afford your groceries is the new normal.

Middle class is being able to live 3 months comfortably without a paying job.

“lol Arthur Conan Doyle clearly didn’t know anything about drugs. Sherlock Holmes did cocaine but it calmed him down. That’s not how cocaine works!”

There are two options: Arthur Conan Doyle had never met someone addicted to cocaine or he met some with ADHD who was addicted to cocaine

#you cannot convince me sherlock 'i don't see a use for this common knowledge i shall forget it immediately' holmes wasn't adhd as hell #sherlock 'if i have nothing to do for a day i will literally start shooting the walls out of boredom' holmes #sherlock 'i have built a perfect wax replica of myself - why? iunno' holmes

He specifically took drugs when he didn't have a case to occupy himself, that man was ADHD as fuck

Trying to get a glass of water but i cant. The water goes up

What do you mean the water goes up

It goes up.

Reepicheep could kill the Witch King of Angmar (and/or Macbeth).

@deadinarussianelevator You're absolutely right

This is, of course, counterbalanced by the fact that putting Reepicheep in The Hobbit would expand it out to a three book series (minimum) chronicling his attempts to fight the trolls, the goblins, the giant spiders, Thranduil, Smaug, and All Five Armies At Once.

Reepicheep in LotR objectively dies trying to solo the cave troll in Moria, let's be honest.

I bet Reepicheep could solo that cave troll. Definitely not the balrog, but the troll seems manageable

Reepicheep probably couldn't kill the Balrog, but he's small and fast enough that the Balrog wouldn't kill him, either. So by one metric, he would have done better than Gandalf.

so hard to explain your personal inside jokes but. okay so every time i roll a joint i’m like hmm how much is left in the tray.. about a joints worth..

and then i get caught up thinking about a weed butler named jointsworth

my 6yo piano student: did you KNOW that girls can marry girls and BOYS can marry boys? But they can’t do that romantic dance together when one has a rose in their mouth, because only boys can play the guitar :(

me: 👁️👄👁️well actually, girls can definitely play guitar??

6yo: WAIT REALLY?? :O

it was honestly so fucking adorable because she was SO excited to impart with me the news that gay marriage exists, but then instantly heartbroken that wlw couples were robbed of all romance as they couldn’t possibly do the flamenco together