American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

shrubberyandherrings

a-large-orange-cat

theinturnetexplorer

Poor Grandma

drunkcyclonus

this is seriously the one time I wish a video has sound.

chibi-masshuu

Brilliant.

pizzaotter

What the hell is this? :O

candiikismet

Me at 1000 years old

handsupcashx0ut

What do we say to the God of Death?

Not today.

I haven’t seen this post in YEARS so I forgot what it’s like. I nearly screamed.

bladeobrona

Betty White when Death comes calling

pepperstrawberry

Tried to find the original source (the vid description gives it… but are out of date or something)… Still, here it is, in full, with sound:

pomrania

a) That is the creepiest Death I’ve ever seen in a moving format.

b) What the actual fuck did I just watch.

c) I’m always here for little old ladies curbstomping malevolent supernatural entities.

d) @pepperstrawberry is a HERO for finding and providing the full video.

snarky-badger

Go grandma!

fetus-cakes

I thought for sure this was Sylvain Chomet stuff

shrubberyandherrings

egberts

fairycosmos

unfortunately multiple things can be true at once. it's sick i know

shrubberyandherrings

mahalidael

pi-la

Megas vs Mystery Machine

midnight-revelation

When Cartoon Network was The Cartoon Network

jadedmisfits

Used to be so lit

canape-official

the director of these bumpers put all the HD masters on his vimeo for free

passworddots

Wow, I miss this.

shrubberyandherrings

professorsparklepants

hufflefluffles

I got a marketing email from hobbycraft to say that they're now selling plush pumpkins ahead of halloween

so of course I went to the website, which led me to this delightful photo series showing the different sizes available:

I love and support this man and his pumpkin collection

Baahubali 2

Zero special effected used in the entire movie.

I forgot how weird these movies are

fuocogo

I’ve never seen an action scene and been like “yeah I could watch 86 straight minutes of this” before today

I just need to mention for those of you who haven’t seen it that the entire fucking movie is like this. There isn’t a single scene that didn’t get the FULL DRAMA treatment and it is an absolute delight.

irishironclad

Bollywood really is on another level

disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

both movies are such a delight

shrubberyandherrings

lilu-the-almighty

turtlesandfrogs

So I was scrolling and saw this image in an article about the European heat wave,

And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.

And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?

But nope, that's not the case:

‘Hot Continent’ Perception Downplays Africa's Heat Wave Dangers

Africa is struggling with heat waves and many countries on the continent lack the resources rich economies have to deal with rising temperat

Bloomberg.com

Some selections from the article:

"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases they’ve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africans’ ability to withstand them.

“Africa is seen as a sunny and hot continent,” said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. “People think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.”

"The Sahel, for instance, has been heating at a faster pace than the global average despite being hot already. Burkina Faso and Mali, both in West Africa’s Sahel, are among countries that are set to become almost uninhabitable by 2080, if the world continues on its current trajectory, a UK university study found. Its people are especially vulnerable due to shrinking resources, such as water, and poor amenities, and a dearth of trees and parks means there are few options for places to cool off."

Claudia Bueno is an artist born in Venezuela, now based in the USA, whose light art installations will tease and tantalise all your senses. Bueno works with circuits and motors to create ethereal installations which play with light, sound and touch, creating immersive art which is psychedelic and magical in nature.

shrubberyandherrings

beatrice-babe

skeppsbrott

So this has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it three days ago.

ofdirtandbones

The goblin look, the fork, the song,,, the tofu,,,

shrubberyandherrings

mondengel

schizophrenwitch

surely this is a good idea that doesn’t have the capacity to end real fuckin badly

foxalpha

Bridges aren’t supposed to have weight restrictions on them. That is, they don’t come with weight restrictions on them when they’re new. So a bridge with a weight restriction on it is a sign that something has gone wrong and the bridge does not meet current standards.

The maximum weight that a vehicle is allowed to carry on the Interstate System per federal law is 80,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (with a max of 20,000 pounds per axle). That’s 40 tons. That limit applies to every inch of pavement, not just the bridges. Since this is a known cap, a new Interstate bridge will be designed to accommodate an 80,000 lb GVW load on it. You could say the bridge’s weight limit is 80,000 lb/40 tons but that doesn’t really have much meaning, because a load higher than that would be illegal to transport on public roads anyway, and the road leading up to the bridge has the same weight restriction. (In practice, the bridge doubtlessly will be designed to have a little bit of let to it just in case some idiot tries to squeak by a few hundred extra pounds.)

Now, note that that law applies to the Interstate System only, because the federal government only has a governing interest in the Interstate System (and other roads that together make up something called the National Highway System) because they partially fund it. Most long-distance roads are owned and funded by the states. The states could theoretically set lower standard weight limits and/or design bridges with lower weight limits…but in practice they don’t.

One, because all of that 80,000 lb GVW traffic on the Interstate system has to go somewhere when it exits the system.

Two, because a group called the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO, who are best known for picking the road numbers) maintains a catalog of standard components for making bridges that meet Interstate System requirements. Engineers are expensive on a per-hour basis, so if you can direct your engineer to use standard components and make a standard bridge, that’s a lot cheaper than having them design a bridge from scratch to go over the creek in Nowheresville. As a result, most new bridges meet Interstate standards and have an 80,000 lb GVW rating even if they aren’t on the Interstate system. (This is also why all new bridges kind of look the same, but we’re not worried about how boring the bridges are for the sake of this post.)

So a bridge only has an explicit weight limit if it has been damaged in some way (through failure to properly maintain it usually) or because it predates the application of Interstate System standards and the standard AASHTO bridges.

Older bridges often have other problems in addition to the weight limits: many older designs are what we call “fracture critical”, which means that if one component of the bridge fails the whole thing collapses. Modern bridge designs have redundancy designed into them so that if one beam fails the other beams will carry the load until the damaged beam can be replaced. Older bridges also often don’t meet other standards, like height (16 ft clearance) and width (12 ft per lane plus 14 ft for shoulders) requirements.

Biden isn’t advocating eliminating weight limits and letting it be a laissez-faire free-for-all where trucks can just go wherever they want. He’s advocating for replacing bridges that carry weight limits with new ones that don’t have them.

wow i got absolutely schooled thank you for all this this is really informative. i have learned so much

fandomsandfeminism

This is a great explanation of what the fuck Biden was talking about in his tweet. because I will freely admit that I also went “…….wtf?????” when I read it. So thank you.

tikkunolamorgtfo

Today I learned about civil engineering.

shrubberyandherrings

infernal-violinist

complextoasts

4 non blondes were right. I DO wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream from the top of my lungs what’s going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shrubberyandherrings

startedwellthatsentence

phantasyhalation

girl with four different "I SURVIVED THE TIME LOOP" pins on her backpack like prestige star ranks

shrubberyandherrings

mondengel

coonazz74

chocolate-guy-compilations

GODS I DID NOT EXPECT TO HEAR HIM SPEAK

shrubberyandherrings

bellemere-florence

mag200

underrated lotr moment is gandalf’s “let me risk a little more light” so the fellowship can see the ruins of dwarrowdelf.

mag200

idk what it is idk how to put it into words but like. such a quick and quiet little moment of, recognizing we’re all in constant mortal peril but while we’re here you should still witness the wonders of the world. while we are here, though it may be on a life-threatening quest, you deserve a little tourist moment. soak it in, the great city that remains long-abandoned and nearly forgotten, the grand pillars that outlived the memories of those who built them. so much of love and life is fleeting in this dark age. but the scraps of it can still be found. the remnants are still here, and even with significant risk they deseve to be beheld.

swan2swan

And Howard Shore went “Do it, Mithrandir, I’ve got your back.”

tanoraqui

#and when you consider that this comes after gimli talked at length about the glory of khazad-dum and the place it holds in their history #and then got there to find it abandoned and shattered and filled with goblins and the bodies of his kin #it's this moment of almost like... affirmation? #no you were not wrong to speak of it this way; yes it is as glorious as you have heard and more #countless dwarves fought and died for this place; it is worth the risk to see what they died for; why they believed it *worth* dying for #gimli is the only dwarf on the quest and in that moment the rest of the fellowship get to see that the creations of his people #are EVERY BIT as spectacular and awe-inspiring as those of elves and men #the movies did gimli wrong in a lot of ways but they NAILED this bit @arafinwes

shrubberyandherrings

bellemere-florence

jaubaius

Graphics glitch makes for entertaining weather report…🔊 🔊

fenix-minerva

catgirl-kaiju

Animorphs into myself

shrubberyandherrings

startedwellthatsentence

derinthescarletpescatarian

What's your DIY cardinal sin mine is that I never countersink screws

ghostcwtch

Until this past weekend when my dad gave me his spare power drill, I have owned no power tools for the nearly 3 years of living in my house so when I need to screw something into a wall I just brute force it into the dry wall and if it won't go in with the screwdriver/strength combo, then that screw becomes a nail real quick (ie. I just get out a hammer and hammer it in).

derinthescarletpescatarian

This is a safe space but what the fuck

knives-in-the-dishwater

I needed to build a desk but I didn't have a saw, so I whittled the planks to length with my knife.

sometimes I don't want to make noise while building, so I just slowly push the nails through the wood instead of hammering them.

one time I was assembling a loft bed, and it had a factory defect where there was a bolt hole that was missing; so I heated the steel with a butane soldering iron, drilled a hole with a gimlet and a hammer, and tapped it by driving in a spare bolt.

one time I had a 2 x ¼ inch steel bar I wanted to cut in half but I didn't have any power tools, so I spent an hour or two grinding through it with a round file.

Once, when I was a teenager, I tried to hang a picture frame in front of a breaker box to hide it, and I put a screw straight through the power main.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I think I started a dialogue I wasn't prepared for with this post