i'll be honest i don't know what tumblr live is. people keep talking about it but i've never seen it. is it a localized thing
fucking lol
It exists in the UK now and…
All day every day, right there at the top of my dashboard. Excuse me if I’m not fucking tempted.
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
How the fuck does his have less than 200k after setting the internet on fire for months
This lack of notes is probably a big part of why TikTok seems to think they invented the meme.
They think WHAT?!
Warlock concept: A warlock multiclassing as warlock.
Two separate patrons, two separate pact boons.
Level 7 warlock multiclass: Warlock 4/Warlock 3.
Celestial/Fiend.
just this. constantly.
if you bribe the DM, go Pact of the Chain for both and literally have an angel and a devil on your shoulders 100% of the time.
I probably shouldn’t be allowed to play d&d
I think a lot of the ink that's been spilled debating whether the "surprise, you're secretly a princess" trope in popular media is reactionary or not is wilfully overlooking the extent to which, as the target age bracket of the media in question climbs, the secret princess fantasy transforms into a fantasy of guaranteed employment.
Like, there's a definite point at which "what if you were secretly a princess" becomes "what if you had an important job where nobody can fire you or tell you that you're doing it wrong". And those jobs are often difficult and unpleasant at best – what's being articulated is often less "monarchy good" and more "I would literally be willing to get shot at with laser beams if it meant I got to be my own boss", and I can't say I wholly disagree!
Of all the episodes to get to promote: Wayne Brady, Rashawn Scott, Ross Bryant, and Aaron Wilson on keys -- THIS WEEK, in a very special "Karaoke Night" episode of "Make Some Noise." 🎤👄🎶 This one is pretty full circle for me: "Who's Line" was my very first taste of improv and Wayne Brady my very first taste of musical improv. Both of would go on to become life long loves. When Wayne showed up to set, the first thing he said to me was "There are only two people doing taped improv correctly: us and you." I could have cried. Wayne's talents are just a part of this week's episode, in which Rashawn, Ross, and Aaron also left no crumbs.
My favorite gag is mixing up the distinction between oft confused terms. Like, oh no, it's quite simple: stalactites have hit the earth's surface but stalagmites are found in space. Meteorites can be distinguished by their round snouts and asteroids by their sharper snouts. Oh, and remember: crocodiles hang from the ceiling. It's alligators that point up from the ground.
Meow meow meow meow
I had one of those conversations with yourself that goes like
First thoughts: trained cats would be such an incredible theatre technique! Black cats carrying props. Climbing up walls and jumping huge distances carrying cool puppets! Like ninjas only even better!
Second thoughts: trained cats?
First thoughts: oh
"DNI: freaks" do you realize how conservative you look
freaks please interact
this is the first time one of my posts has been tagged like this and out of all of them i think id be glad if this one got 100k. because firstly i need to find my fellow freaks but also we need to shame people who are anti-freak because like. why do you hate to live deliciously
I love it when I tell doctors that I'm a LARPer and an endurance hiker and one of the most frustrating things about chronic pain is how hard it is to go to the park and do my favorite physical activites, and they'll look at me like a dog that's just been shown a card trick and ask, "Have you tried exercising?"
Brother, you don't even know how bad I wish we could try exercising rn
Chronic illness patients: so I really like to do [physical activity] but it's gotten like, physically hard to do lately
Genius doctors: have you tried increasing your physical activity?
"I'm so fucking good at health."
Me: my bones hurt when I exercise
Doctors: that's because you have Bones Hurt When You Exercise Disease
Me: great how do I fix that
Doctors: have you tried exercise
The vulture capitalist hedge fund that bought and subsequently destroyed Toys R Us now owns Overdrive/Libby.
They have already begun making it worse/less usable and they have a chokepoint monopoly on the delivery method of ebooks borrowed from public libraries in the US.
A fun thing about capitalism is that rich people can buy something a lot of people love and depend on, and then destroy it for fun and profit, and there’s not really anything we can do about it.
And now they’re in closing negotiations to buy Simon and Schuster. I’m sure this will have no negative consequences for books at all.
I couldn't get OP's link to work so here's a clean version: https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries
i wonder if actors ever get their scripts and are like
well this is fucking stupid
[image description: photos of the cast of Game of Thrones at the season 8 table read, in various stages of grief]
posts that are made funnier by the image description
on a scale of “dapper” to “fuckboy” how would you rate your taste in gnc womens fashion
wait actually
Why this is so important:
Typical commercial white paint gets warmer rather than cooler when subjected to sunlight or other light sources. Paints on the market that are designed to reject heat reflect only 80% to 90% of sunlight and can’t make surfaces cooler than their surroundings.
In comparison, the world’s whitest paint reflects 98.1% of solar heat away from its surface.
Because the paint absorbs less heat from the sun than it emits, a surface coated with this paint is cooled below the surrounding temperature without consuming power.
Using this formulation to cover a roof area of about 1,000 square feet could result in a cooling power of 10 kilowatts, more powerful than the air conditioners used by most houses. At SXSW, researchers demonstrated the effects of the difference with two model barns sitting under direct halogen lights: one painted in commercial paint and one in Purdue’s white paint. Judges were able to compare thermometers reading the barns’ internal temperatures and to feel the difference in the roofs. The barn painted in Purdue’s technology consistently held cooler internal temperatures by 8-10 degrees Fahrenheit. The “whitest white” barn roof was also much cooler to the touch, prompting many surprised responses from judges and viewers.
While Ruan’s original paint formula is massively efficient, it required a layer 0.4 millimeters thick to achieve subambient radiant cooling. The newer, thinner formulation can achieve similar cooling with a layer just 0.15 millimeters thick.
The new paint also incorporates voids of air, which make it highly porous. This lower density, together with the thinness, provides another huge benefit: reduced weight. The newer paint weighs 80% less than the original paint yet achieves nearly identical solar reflectance – 97.9%, compared to the original formula’s 98.1%.
This could be an important piece in fighting global warming. Imagine if the city of New York City repainted all the skyscraper roofs with a paint that cools down buildings.
Paint is awesome!
The guy operating this is a mech pilot.
Do you like poems?
yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem
for context these are the poems
also I almost forgot but the r/ambien Gives Us The Sleep post takes a completely serious third place in my favorite poems list:
and COMING IN HOT at NUMBER FOUR on my list, it's Fragment 147! an accidental poem created when the original parchment containing a text by Sappho was used to stop a wine jug more than 2,000 years ago- eventually the wine dissolved most of the parchment, leaving just a few words and BOY do they prove that the Universe has a sense of irony.
anyway. onto better things
onto better things thursday
"Should trans women be allowed to compete in women's sports" I don't think there should be women's sports. I think it's a silly artificial construction that only upholds the gender binary while it's benefits are incidental and would be better addressed directly.
Care about giving people with different body types and muscle mass a shot? Split your league by weight categories like boxing, or some other direct physical measurement. Gender is at best a poor proxy for these and we only do it because we still treat women are a different species. "But that still wouldn't be fully fair to everyone?" Sport isn't fully fair, it's about rewarding people with the most biological advantage. That's the whole point of it.
You want to give more sporting opportunity to women and minorities specifically? Okay then do that. Create your own opportunities league, but if we're giving up the pretense that it's about essential biological advantage then you better let trans women in.
What's that, the extra league would be treated as a novelty afterthought and would lack the prestige of the real main event? You mean like how women's events were treated when they were introduced? True! In fact women's leagues are still largely treated as secondary now, and you know how we can fix it? Make the main leagues open to everyone with weight, height or muscle mass categories so that people with different body types can excel. Like I suggested before. Problem solved.
Women's sport is bad actually.
Can't wait for the terfs to find this and be like "mask off!!! The TRAs want to abolish women's sport!" Yeah lol die mad about it. You may be happy with your condescending secondary leagues but not me. Open up sport categories based on attributes that actually matter to the sport, not binarist fiction.
If you are convinced that all woman would still universally lose to all men even when correcting for things like gross muscle mass difference, then you're a misogynist by the way.
Katie Ledecky is a better swimmer than Michael Phelps but he's still the more famous athlete because the mens events are more high profile, more covered by the media. he gets the sponsorships and the money.
if we could abolish sport division by sex, Ledecky would kick his ass.
