BOO!! Tony jumpscare

You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

what they don’t tell you about being an artist is that sometimes you will sit down and suddenly know how to draw something that youve never gotten right before

something else they don’t tell you is that sometimes you will sit down and suddenly have no idea how to draw something you’ve drawn numerous times before

My little sister's new boyfriend got a tattoo for her about a month ago and he wanted matching tattoos so he decided to get uh. The tattoo on her ankle of her ex boyfriend's name that she hasn't gotten covered up yet

She broke up with him but I also just got the same tattoo

OK my dad also got it

DYLAN!

The hole… (you can also find it on youtube although the aspect ratio is a bit fucked up :P )

SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS LIKE "LALALA"!

I finished it!! Dear Heavens!!! This was both fun and a mess to color!! ALSO THANK YOU GUYS FOR 1162 FOLLOWERS??? THE HELL??? /POS AAAAAAA

/nf!!!

spooky season <3

Rene Magritte: The Glass Key (1959)

Being a very poor painter, Magritte's works seldom resembled what he intended them to. This attempt at a glass key ended up looking like a rock in a mountain landscape.

Other mispainted works included his attempt at a self portrait, which looked like a slice of ham with an eyeball; his painting "Heartstrings" which resembled a cloud in a glass; and perhaps his most famous failure, "This is Not a Pipe," which sadly very clearly showed a pipe.

don’t forget that train he drew in the fireplace

You want some real legitimate advice about mental health? Stop being mean to yourself.

Like, when you wanna say mean shit about yourself either internally or externally, work to learn how to step back a moment and remind yourself that what you are doing is a form of self-harm and not a fair or legitimate judgement on you as a person, and furthermore is not productive to your survival or well-being.

Even if you fuck something up, you can resolve to do better in the future, you can tell yourself that you’re going to make this a learning experience, and even if you’ve made the same mistake 50 times already, telling yourself you’ll get it right someday if you just keep trying will always do you better than calling yourself an idiot and beating yourself up for not being able to get it right.

Take it from me, a lot of mental health shit is a product of your environment and personal history, and therefore you really don’t have the control over it that you need to get by without others’ help, but one thing you can have some control over is whether you’re going to be a friend to yourself or just another enemy, and if you want to survive, you’ve gotta strive to be in your own corner as best you can.

Started a discord server a couple of years back, and one of the rules is you can’t be mean to yourself. You don’t have to be nice to yourself, you just can’t be mean. If someone says something self-deprecating, they THEN have to say 3 nice things about themselves to make up for it. This was a steep and harsh learning curve because I can tell you NO ONE wanted to publicly say 3 nice things about themselves a second time (but also, hilariously, everyone else was very eager to inflict making their friends say nice things about themselves, because pretty much everyone wants their friends to be nice to themselves… Go ahead and think about that a minute and try to remember that you are that friend for others, and that they want you to be kind to you, too)

And… Actually it worked. It didn’t work just in the server either, multiple people admitted they caught themselves doing it in real life, and put themselves through saying the nice things to themselves about themselves. And you know, the server is a lovely place to be, these days. Watching people be kind to themselves had a great influence. Not being constantly exposed to people you like saying mean things about themselves actually makes it more pleasant to be there. More people voluntarily praise each other and themselves, and creativity and community remain plentiful. It’s contagious.

I stopped being mean to myself after seeing a post here which communicated the harm it can do, when you say something mean about yourself and then people who like or may look up to you hear it. When you’re a writer or something and you say you’re bad or that something you made is crap, any reader or writer or other creative doing the same thing as you that thinks you’re better at it than they are is being told (in their minds) that they’re worse and their creation is worse crap. That’s not a message I ever want to send, that is not a cruelty I ever intended to inflict even unwittingly. So I stopped.

And holy SHIT does it make a difference. Not even being nice, but just not being actively mean to yourself. Make a pact with some friends if you’re having a hard time stopping on your own. The first time you have to claw your way through saying nice things about yourself in front of someone else after they pointed it out to you will change you.

me: wow this soup is so good... i've never tasted anything like it before. what's in this?

person im visiting for dinner: oh i just tried out some new spices i got from poisons.com

me: wow that's amazing... i should go check that out later

*Later i die but it's unrelated to the soup (struck by lightning)*

This one needs to go right next to the Baltimore accent with the Aaron earns an iron urn.

In case anyone hasn't seen it

love how english started as a rhotic language and half the native speakers said, "oh, Fuck That Noise"

this reddit thread of living your silliest life is so so good

@jokin-around

On October 4th 2023 in the USA there will be a test alert from the government

It'll have sirens and text to speech and be incredibly loud. You cannot opt out of it.

TIMES

Expect it to last a few minutes.

please please PLEASE reblog!! Especially for those with psychosis, paranoia and sensitivity to loud noises.

plaintext :

On October 4th 2023 in the USA there will be a test alert from the government

It'll have sirens and text to speech and be incredibly loud. You cannot opt out of it.

TIMES

• Hawaii: 8:20 am

• Alaska: 10:20 am

• Pacific: 11:20 am

• Mountain: 12:20 am

• Central: 1:20 pm

• Eastern: 2:20 pm

Expect it to last a few minutes.

please please PLEASE reblog!! Especially for those with psychosis, paranoia and sensitivity to loud noises.

[ note : this is an emergency alert test. expect the same sounds you'd hear in a regular test , there shouldn't be anything new ]

please can we do inbox trick-or-treating this year. can we make that a thing on tumblr. please please please please please

literally all it entails is sending people "trick-or-treat" asks and people answering those asks with pictures of candy or those silly spooky plastic toys or whatever else you would give a trick-or-treater. please. please can we have some whimsy

Jason & Friends

ALWAYS REBLOG

Jason doing ASL is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

Recreating the Ice King Crown, from Adventure Time

@petr1kov

hi my name is annie mation

2003