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Mclovin616

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Beautiful art, but it looks like a combination of the one bitch from my life as a teenage robot and ghirahim from LOZ skyward sword IMO, still really cool design though.

Windcatchers are fascinating.

Also called wind towers and wind scoops, windcatchers have been used in North Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years to provide natural ventilation & passive cooling. They fell out of popularity after the introduction of HVAC systems, but are now experiencing a revival because they’re so practical and cost-effective. Here’s how they work:

Not only are they an engineering masterpiece–they’re gorgeous

Windcatchers rely on local weather instead of the electric grid, making them affordable, reliable, and eco-friendly. they’re a terrific example of how vernacular and traditional architecture is often more suited to its environment–and more livable–than modern polite architecture. 

Gaud I just love uncontrolled humidity and insects freely coming into my house as they please. Or am I missing something here?

ok but have you seen Crabeater Seal teeth?

here’s the seal

here’s the teeth

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Best part. Best part.

They don’t eat crabs. They’re fucked up looking teeth are like that so these babies can get their real food. Krill! Those nasty looking comb like structures let these guys filter feed. Still wouldn’t piss one off tho. Would be unpleasant.

there are teeth on their TEETH and you’re telling me it’s for krill????

It’s for the krill of the hunt

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Honestly if I was slippery I’d slide around everywhere like a penguin until my head hit a wall too fast due to lack of friction

I… I don’t know how to react to this post you made…

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You don’t need to react, you don’t even need to accept, you simply need to watch as I oil myself up, slide down nob hill, SF, gain too much momentum and die breaking my neck against a brick wall

News tonight: pukicho going into a wall head first at breakneck pace

All of a sudden it’s possible for disabled people to work from home.

All of a sudden it’s possible for elderly people to have designated, assisted shopping hours.

All of a sudden the internet is a utility.

All of a sudden we realize that we can live without watching LeBron James bounce a ball for a few weeks, but minimum wage retail and food service and grocery workers are indispensable to the function of our society.

Interesting.

All of a sudden e-learning is widely possible

All of a sudden UBI is being seriously considered

All of a sudden data caps and roaming charges vanish

All of a sudden gas prices plummet

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

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Weird no?

I hate people that are like "oh you shouldn't curse. Use proper words. Only people with a small vocabulary uses curse words" like no Karen fuck is exactly the word I'm looking for.

Because saying you are and idiot is one thing

Saying you are a fucking idiot is another

Similarly, trying to be all fancy and calling someone a “blight on the world” simply has a different energy and weight to it than calling them a fucking asshole.

You wouldn’t use a rapier in the same situation you’d use a folding chair.

"I had a bad childhood"

  • says too much
  • sounds sad
  • people will assume things

"I come with lore"

  • makes you sound like a character
  • is cooler
  • people will be so distracted by the wording that they won't see how badly you've been doing
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I'm fucking using this.

I also recomend using:

  • my bloodline ends with me. instead of “im not having kids”
  • Many have tried to court me and failed, instead of “im single”
  • How does it go traveller? as a gender nuetral way greeting
  • my family history is huanted by monsters as a quick way to summerise a problem/mental illness that negatively affecting you

and like a whole lot more ive forgotten

what she says: i’m fine
what she means: have you noticed that whenever people tell cheesy stories about going off the grid to find themselves, it always includes elements of feeling freedom from their appearance for the first time? not that they felt pretty or beautiful for the first time, but that for the first time, they didn’t care at all? when I lived on a farm, I didn’t care about how I looked. I washed my face and combed my hair, and nothing else mattered. nobody else cared either. we got along with each other, or we didn’t, but we worked together to get our work done, and we ate well, and we explored the world, and we were mostly happy.
similarly, people joke that hiking or camping or roadtrips “lowers the bar” of what we consider attractive. that after two months on the appalachian trail, suddenly you find people attractive even with messy hair, and no makeup, and when they smell a little funky. and you feel good about yourself even though you have messy hair, and no makeup, and you smell kind of funky.
we like to laugh at this phenomenon as if we’re all just a bunch of hippies forgetting what it’s like to be and look “normal” for a while, but I think what’s actually going on is very said because the truth is
we’re just realizing that when we escape media for a few months, a few weeks, a few days, when we’re not comparing ourselves to impossible images, when we’re not told we have to have this body, this face-shape, this color skin, no acne, no scars, straight teeth, shaved armpits, a “good” smile, the “right” clothes, the “correct” gender presentation,
suddenly, we feel good about ourselves. The truth is, we’re experiencing freedom from the pressures of what society deems “acceptable,” “pretty,” “attractive,” for the first time, and we can then realize how fucked up our modern idea of beauty has become.
it messes me up.

🍪Hows daddy’s little girl doing?🍪

the 20s are soon upon us

things to include

  • flapper dresses
  • jazz music
  • sex positivity
  • women’s rights
  • renewal of arts & culture
  • increased immigration & cultural sharing
  • sequins
  • eyeliner

things to leave behind

  • racism & nativism
  • consumerist culture
  • white guys writing “the great american novel”

more things to include

  • black/jewish solidarity
  • short hair of all textures
  • suspenders
  • beaded & embroidered dresses
  • subtly homoerotic advertising
  • masculine women, feminine men

things to leave behind

  • ineffective prohibition laws
  • wealth gap

That last one sounds a lot like communism