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Kens? I think you mean… RENS

Now THIS is the Dragula babe content I WANT.

I’m crying this person is so hot

Yeah !!!!! Firefox truly is the superior browser

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#throwback to that one time a platonic friend invited me to a swinger club#and his earnest reasoning was#'the buffet there is the best I have ever been to and it's so cheap we need to eat our way through the buffet together'#I didn't go but I have reliable sources that the buffet really is that good (via @notgreengardens)

#this has been the case at every single kink event i've been to#went to a fireplay demo once and it took like 45 minutes to get started because everyone was distracted by the host's pet lizard (via @glorious-spoon)

The best sex party I ever went to nearly stopped because someone taped a sheet to the back of sliding glass windows and were using dry erase markers to make diagrams. A bunch of math and physics PhD’s were helping a chemistry phd with a thorny problem and they cheered when they solved it. A board game night broke out and it was really hard to pry people away from the games, science and snacks for sex so someone put up a pole in the living room and four women started pole dancing while shouting instructions to the scientists and board game nerds.

Epic party, I think I shagged 8 women that night and I won a card game.

I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

this same idiot: what kind of animal is the pink panther

me, already taking off my clothes: benjamin you’re so fucking stupid

oh my god the original out in the wild

This is.... Absurdly cute. What the fuck.

It's worth noting that the reason the beaver wants the water to be deeper in the first place is that the Beaver is using the deep water as a pantry:

All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it's negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it's lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it's cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.

So it's less "there's a leak in my house" and more "OH SHIT THE FRIDGE!!"

news reporting on murders is always like ‘the victim was described by the people who knew them as polite and funny’ like yeah i fucking bet they did what else are they gonna say. breaking news local man stabbed 1000 times to death, grieving friends and family described the deceased to reporters as ‘a bit of a cunt’, ‘mean and bad’ and ‘just generally kind of annoying, you know?’

Inspired by @lacnunga 's adorable dragon embroidery

I keep trying to like red wine like a grown-up but like … it’s rotten grapes, guys. You can drink things that don’t taste like rotten grapes. Why

Okay I don’t know when this post is from (I came across it stalking multiple blogs). But in case this might help, here is a brief science/wine lesson.

To start off, some facts:

-White wine is made from sweet pulp inside of the grape (minus the seeds).

-Red wine is made from both the skin and the grape (and the seeds and stems…sometimes? Can’t remember).

-Tannin is the substance found in red wines, coffee, dark chocolate. Tannins are responsible for the bitter taste in those foods.

-Tannins are found in the skin of the grape, as well as the seeds and the stems. Therefore, most red wines will have tannins, versus most whites will not have tannins.

-Red wines vary in level of tannins, depending on variety of grape, climate, and fermentation process. Pinot noir tends to be very low tannin. Shiraz/Syrah, choice of poison for our beloved brunette surgeon, is very heavy on the tannins.

-Some white wines (most commonly Chardonnay) are aged in oak barrels instead of metal containers. Oak barrels have tannins, which seeps into the wine during the fermentation process. That’s why Chardonnays tend to be “drier” aka it has tannins.

-White wines like Sauvingnon Blancs are usually fermented in steel barrels (aka no tannins. Aka usually very fruity and light and sweet).

Your ability to taste tannins is genetic.

There is a genetic marker determining whether your taste cells are sensitive to tannins.

Basically two people can drink the exact same wine and have wildly different reactions because: 1. Person A can’t taste tannins, so they taste the actual wine flavor. 2. Person B can taste tannins, and that tends to overpower ALL the other flavors in the wine. Basically all they taste is tannins and none of the wine.

I am super tannin sensitive, so if I drink a wine like Cabernet Sauvignon (very tannin heavy, aka “very dry”, it tastes like bitter ethanol alcohol to me, whereas my best friend can’t taste tannins so the same wine is maybe a little bitter but they can actually taste the grape and different flavors. To her, a wine like Sauv Blanc is too sweet, tastes like sugar water. But to me it tastes good.

So unless it’s the taste of the alcohol or all wines you hate, chances are you might hate the taste of red wine, especially the heavier red wines, because taste the tannin overpowers everything else. And all you taste is bitter bitter ethanol bitter more ethanol. 

More tannin info: -Tannins bind to fat.

-This is why tannin heavy wines are recommended with fatty foods (Shiraz and steak). Whenever you eat food with high fat content, the fat builds up on your tongue. A sip of red wine will bind with the fat on your tongue and clear it away. That’s why the sip of wine between bites of fat heavy foods is considered a palate cleanser.

-By that logic, this is why white wines are recommended with low fat foods, like fish. Salmon is fattier than most fish, which is why Chardonnay (tannin heavy white wine) or Pinot Noir (low tannin red wine) is recommended with salmon.

-People who are sensitive to tannins can drink tannin heavy red wines with fatty food and generally the wine won’t taste gross. The fat on your tongue (from that steak) will bind with the tannin and neutralize the tannin taste. Aka the only time I ever drink Cabernet Sauvignon or Shiraz is with a steak or heavy, creamy pasta. Aka never bc I don’t often eat either.

-The reason dairy helps coffee taste better is because the fat in milk/creams binds with the tannins in coffee and neutralizes the bitter taste. This is why people who can’t taste tannins can generally drink coffee black without milk (sugar is a different story). It’s also why almond milk in coffee is the worst idea (almond milk is already bitter and has no fat).

More wine facts: -90% of the “aromas” of wine are marketing BS

-You know the labels that say like “cherry with a hint of blackberry?” There’s no real way to infuse cherry or blackberry into grape wine without screwing with the fermentation process. It’s all created by the wine marketing industry to sell you win. Sometimes if you smell cherry before you drink the wine, you might taste it in the wine (because majority of flavor comes from smell). Or if you think there is cherry flavor in the wine, your brain can trick your taste buds into tasting it.

-The only true flavors found in real grape wine are grapes (obviously), oak/earthy flavor (the barrels), vanilla (barrels, oak sticks), tannins. (There are a few others but can’t remember. I think maybe cinnamon?).

-People’s perception of wine often affect how good it tastes to them. Social psychology studies show that people will rate the exact same wine differently if they’re told the wines are different in price. (They rated the more expensive wine as tastier).

tl;dr Whether you can taste tannins is genetic. Exact same wines taste different for different people depending on your genetic makeup. If you’re sensitive to tannins, red wines won’t taste like anything other than bitter alcohol. Genetics/tannins are why people generally have preferences for red or whites.

this is extremely informative and i have learned a thing about myself, which is that i CLEARLY inherited the tannin-tasting genes from my teatotaling mother and not from my dad who subsists entirely on espresso and cabernet sauvignon.

I suddenly understand why my goddad can drink black coffee and those wretched tasting dry wines and think they taste good.

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i was going to say ‘i have no idea what to do with this information’ but then i realized its a handy guide to generate fake words that sound english

“What to do with this information”: kick ass at hangman

Kinda shitty but I made a Come Cookie

Happy Valentines Day yall

Adam Driver #115 (Squarespace “The Singularity” 2023)

Adam, gazing upon The Singularity, hair flying back in the wind, brows gently knit above eyes squinting slightly into the strong light flooding over him, a small satisfied smirk quirking one corner of his mouth. If anyone ever asks me what I think best represents Adam’s sense of humor, I’m going to point to this ad (and “Backstage with Adam Driver | Squarespace Big Game Commercial 2023,” which manages to be side-splittingly funny even after many, many views; I will freely confess to enjoying it more than the official ad, but that’s a tale for another portrait). Adam’s dedication to the bit is always impressive; it’s the thing that makes all of his SNL performances so funny, that no matter how bizarre, outlandish, or ridiculous the scene, he’s going to be a Serious Actor for every single one, sometimes to a hilariously overdramatic extreme (he was a soap opera worthy KETCHUP BOTTLE for chrissakes). He brings that same discipline even when he’s playing himself (anyone else remember the John Oliver bit?); add that to the fact that we all know, because he’s TOLD us, that he’s more than a bit of an internet luddite (the very idea of him representing a company that makes websites, of all things), and the commercial gets even funnier.

It presents, as Adam himself put it, a straightforward concept skewed about 15 degrees to the left. Wandering the desert as he muses seriously on the self-creating conundrum of a website that makes websites, he multiplies into nearly infinite versions of himself, which then all, except the original, get pulled into The Singularity they’ve created.

Some go whooping and laughing, others fly end over end, sideways, upside down, but the Original Man keeps his footing, stoic mask and sunglasses firmly in place until just before the very end; as the last of the Infinite!Adams is swept into the swelling light, the camera swoops in closely as he pulls off his sunglasses, and we see the tiniest of self-satisfied smirks crook up the left corner of his mouth as he declares, “You DID it, Adam Driver,” to which his duplicates all chorus from the Great Beyond, “No, YOU did it, Adam Driver!”

(And he really did too; the stunt coordinator revealed on instagram that every Adam we saw flying by really was Adam himself, and praised his skills, saying that it was clear he’d done a lot of wire work before.) Does it make any sense? Not really. Do we care? Not at all! Do I think he probably had a lot of fun making it? Almost certainly, and that’s the best part. This moment is just after he’s made his declaration, the light from The Singularity washing over him. The overexposed nature of the frame, as well as the already strong lighting, means that we don’t see much in the way of detail in terms of his moles, freckles, and crinkles. The reflected light reveals the dark side of his face, but what I loved the most, and the reason I painted this particular moment, is the way the light catches in his irises, highlighting their striking coloring. And the smirk, I do love that tiny smirk. It’s rumpling the dimple on his left cheek a little bit, which is catching some of that reflected light, and we can just see the tips of the crinkles of his crow’s feet under his left eye. Reference used was a screencap of the ad, taken and edited by me. About 9 hrs of painting time. I thought I was done once, let it sit overnight, & decided in the morning that I had a couple more things I wanted to do (and I’m glad I did!). 

yeah well he had me in the second half too

oh this was absolutely the wrong blog

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say "I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report" and you bring me just a first aid kit, it's so much more efficient to say "thanks now can you bring me an accident report" than "I asked you to bring an accident report why didn't you bring me one".

Once you've internalized "a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument" you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing

Hmm. I will consider this. Like many lawyers, I often throw in a

This octopus candle holder that my sister hand made in a pottery studio.

tell your sister good fucking job

This post is like getting punched in the chest four consecutive times and being surprised about it every single time.