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Nimeni Anemone

@nimenianemone

Cursed Photoshop Novice

if you haven’t kept track of what’s happened with twitter, elon fucked the servers so you can only read 600 posts. scrolled and posted for 5 minutes and im locked out. this rules lol

the kingdom of saudi arabia sovreign wealth fund invested billions of dollars in helping elon buy twitter because the crown prince of saudi arabia is a moron. if elon ever visits the middle east they’re gonna grind him into hamburger

this gun is way too big!!!

this is a gun that is too damn big!

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c’mon now son, put the big gun down. this is a job for a big axe

my son. my giant onion son. do not go the way of the giant conflict. you may be very large too, but your heart is bigger.

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So we've been having a bit of a debate in the office because we wanted to do the headline "Local man gives up sugar for 12 minutes" but then overdoing the "local man" trope is a bit male-centric, so we considered "Local woman" but then that sounds like we're typecasting women so that wasn't great either, but I think we've finally found a worthy compromise:

in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,

this is 1947 Cincinnati Enquirer erasure

please do not forget your smash mouth

It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

wdym you can hear it?

Basically, it’s a form of synesthesia, movement-hearing. In this case, you expect to hear a thud, so you do. It’s estimated that 20% of people experience this type of synesthesia, as opposed to 2-4% for other kinds.

YO what the FUXK

The longer you watch it the more you get convinced that you can hear a  distant thud and the air displace.

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I heard the thud. I closed my eyes and the thud stopped. I opened my eyes and I heard the thud. My goodness but human brains are a mess.

This was easily the first ever viral post on Tumblr back in 2011/12. Perhaps even before the great “what your leg feels like after falling asleep” followed by a picture of a static teevee channel.