The birth of rational thought (c. 30,000 BCE)

and then the ape-man picked up about 4000 bones and threw them at a warthog in pleasing geometric patters

no Pavlov was the scientist. The dog is Pavlov's Monster

While unobserved, Schroedinger is simultaneously the doctor and the monster.

anyone else remember feeling a sort of kinship towards charlotte from the animated adaptation of charlottes web. like. that was my mother.

momther

DONT TALK ABOUT MY MOM LIKE THAT IN FRONT OF ME

well how do you think you got here lmao

Not via pegging, I’ll tell you that much

hot take: the reason Lord of the Rings doesn’t go much into Aragorn’s tax policy is bcos Lord of the Rings is not about Aragorn. Lord of the Rings is about hobbits.

more specifically, lord of the rings is about Frodo’s journey. it starts with him getting the Ring and ends with him leaving middle earth. what Aragorn did as king is not expanded on in detail bcos it’s of 0 relevance to Frodo on account of he sailed off to the Undying Lands.

the majority of the societies visited are not described in detail and have an ‘unreal’, story-book quality compared to the Shire bcos our point of view characters are the hobbits and we are experiencing these places as they do. the Shire, their home, is in contrast very real and grounded and detailed.

btw the pepe symbol used to be a white supremacist/fascist icon, but a while back the creator sued and worked to make it illegal for those groups to use the meme. hong king protestors seem to be using it as a symbol for their protest now!! pls signal boost so people don’t label them as white supremacists.

Success on the Pepe reclaim

What are you clowns talking about??? This is LITERALLY a far-right protest to protect a man who murdered his girlfriend. Like I get you guys wanna make your "pepe redemption arc" memes so bad but. Consider thinking. For once.

Hey! HongKonger here. It looks like there's confusion about what the Hong Kong protests are really about, so I hope I can help clear it up.

We want justice for the murder victim too, and we're definitely not trying to protect the murderer. The thing is, the murder happened in Taiwan, outside of Hong Kong, and HK currently doesn't have any extradition agreement with Taiwan, so we can't give the man to Taiwan for legal proceedings right now.

Now, HK can certainly work out some sort of special agreements with Taiwan to make it happen for this murder case, and that's what a reasonable top HK leader should do. But no, the current Chief Executive (i.e. the top political leader), who's actually elected by mainland China but not democratically elected by the people of HK and thus doesn't really care about our opinion, decided not to work out a special arrangement for the murder case. You know what she did?

She decided to make a blanket change to the current HK extradition law, so that it allows everyone who lives or even just passing through HK to be handed over to places we currently don't have extradition deals with. Sounds good, right?

Wrong! Taiwan doesn't want to go down this route and it has explicitly stated that if that's the route HK takes, Taiwan will not request for the murderer to be handed over to Taiwan. For one, it's not the most time efficient way for HK to hand over the man to Taiwan and get justice for the murdered girlfriend.

The most important and underlying reason is: the proposed changes cover handing over people to mainland China, which we all don't trust bc of its "legal" system that frequently forces people to "confess" their "crime" without real proof of crime and the main victims are human rights activists. The proposed new extradition bill can't guarantee people turned over will be assumed innocent until proven guilty in the legal systems they're sent to, which is the foundation to protect people wrongfully charged of crime. And the HK court doesn't have enough power to overrule sending anyone to mainland China for any "crime".

Tl;dr:

HongKongers want justice for the murder victim, but not through the proposed changes to the law currently put forward by the HK government. If the proposed changes are passed, mainland China can bully the top HK political leader into handing over anyone who disagrees with mainland China to be sentenced in mainland China under any "crime" it can make up.

"You're protecting the murderer if you don't support the proposed new extradition bill" is exactly the kind of rhetoric the mainland China-appointed top HK political leader uses to try to make protestors fighting for freedom look bad.

Is that what you want for Hong Kong? To be turned into the express line for punishment in mainland China for fabricated crimes?

P.S. We identify as HongKongers / HongKongese to denote we're different from mainland Chinese. "Chinese" in our context refers to people from mainland China. Be mindful when you refer to people from Hong Kong.

I’m so glad I’ve finally found a post on my dash about why the Hong Kong protests are happening.

A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: China is waging an unprecedentedly large information war against the Hong Kong protests even in the west. The idea is to insidiously confuse the situation and also to sow the seeds of doubt into your mind, and it is so subtle that unless you know what to look for you probably won’t even notice it.

MAINSTREAM NEWS OUTLETS COVERING THE PROTESTS ARE NOT SAFE FROM THIS. Reporting has been biased and very focused on the few violent incidents that have occurred, often leaving out the surrounding context. There have been some serious concerns that a number of these violent acts were insinuated by cops dressed as civilian protestors. Furthermore, most social media channels where Hong Kongers are hanging out have been flooded with Communist Party propaganda, many of it in the same flavour as the mainstream media information war. IN SHORT, UNLESS IT IS COMING FROM THE MOUTHS OF ACTUAL HONG KONGERS, IT IS VERY DANGEROUS TO LISTEN TO INFORMATION ABOUT THESE PROTESTS THAT PAINTS THEM IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT.

I would normally never advocate for not listening to bipartisan viewpoints, however I have never seen and studied something of this scale. You cannot trust that your viewpoint will not be poisoned.

Please understand that the protestors who are out on the street right now are risking their livelihoods. If this protest fails and the extradition law passes, they could easily be at the fingertips of the Communist Party for extradition. You might say they’d have to commit a crime to do that, but China is well known for making up bogus crimes to fuck up “enemies of the state”. China is currently trying to paint the protestors as terrorists in order to silence and demonise them, especially in the mainland.

Your best sources of information right now are Hong Kong people themselves. I am not one of them, but one of my best friends is stuck right in the thick of this.

STAND WITH HONG KONG. THIS IS NOT A FAR RIGHT PROTEST. THEY ARE PROTESTING TO ATTEMPT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM PERSECUTION AND LOSS OF FREEDOM AT THE HANDS OF CHINA.

a few money-saving tips for millennials

-Instead of buying coffee each morning, make your own at home before you leave for work. Those dark roasts really add up! Buy just one drink per week and make it a special occasion to savor and look forward to.

-Stop costly ‘vampire power’ drains by unplugging appliances when not in use. Use power trips when possible for east turn-offs and avoid plugging things into the wall.

-Employ the ‘30 day rule’. If you want to make a purchase, put it back and wait a month—if the urge to buy it has passed, it probably wasn’t worth it.

-Use grocery lists and stick to them.

-Prepare your own meals whenever possible instead of going out to eat—and host your friends at home!

-Cancel unused gym memberships and automatic subscriptions.

-Learn how to sew and cut your own hair. This saves a buttload if money if you’re not replacing new clothes or going to expensive trips to the salon.

-Use poison-testers efficiently. Paying someone to test your food for you can provide peace of mind and a sense of security, but it’s an expensive service, especially if you have many determined enemies! Buy, store, and prepare your own food in a room only you have access to, vary your diet, eat unpredictably, and you will only need to employ a poison tester for special occasions, like weddings or diplomatic missions.

-Learn to enjoy cold showers! Not only do they build character and increase endurance, but they’re good for the skin—and cut on electricity costs!

-Sell your guns! Bullets are expensive and extremely difficult to make, and subject to legal restrictions. In contrast, a good sword and a whetstone can last generations with proper care and be repaired with comparative ease. If ranged attacks are important to your home defense system, arrows are reusable and easy to make. Watch free YouTube tutorials instead of attending a class.

-Coupons, coupons, coupons!

-Dogs are high-maintenance, expensive, and can be difficult to train. They need high levels of attention and are vulnerable to bribery and treachery—even a dog that’s aggressive towards strangers can usually be thwarted with food or a familiar face. Spiders, on the other hand, are exceptionally low-maintenance, can go days or weeks without feeding, and can act as pest control. Allowing large, recognizable spiders to build webs over windows and door frames inside your home will serve as a strong deterrent to most intruders, and broken webs can act as warning clues that something is amiss.

-Quality over quantity. It’s fair cheaper to buy one pair of high-quality $300 shoes that will last you a decade than to buy thirty pairs of $30 shoes that fall apart after a few months.

-Make your own gifts to give to friends and family. Picking up an artistic craft or hobby may seem superficially worthless, but the social obligation to give expensive presents is a major money-suck. Your loved ones will appreciate the handcrafted, personal quality of your gifts—and customizing them will allow you to create secret compartments in which to hide listening devices, illicit materials, and/or coded messages.

-Only use ATMs affiliated with your own bank to cut withdrawal fees.

-Get a library card and USE it! You can rent books, movies, music, and more from your local library for a fraction of the cost of using other services.

-Grow your own garden. Getting down on your knees in the dirt is great for stress-relief, and being able to grow and manufacture your own poisons eliminates the difficulty and expense of finding a trustworthy supplier. 

are we not going to acknowledge the poison-tester part bc i dont think im a part of the people that worry about that kind of thing

Look, it’s great if you CAN afford a poison-tester for every single meal, but some of us have to make the budget stretch. I know “just eliminate your enemies” sounds like a good plan, but in practice it just begats more enemies. 

(Trade secret: poison-testers will occasionally work for free, provided they’re hungry enough.)

Are we going to ignore that they suggested just letting a spider live there, rent-free? I don’t know about you, but that won’t fly in my household.

It won’t fly in your household because the spider will catch it. There won’t be any flies in your household if you listen to my wisdom. 

putting big puncture holes (about the size of a penny) in the sidewall (as opposed to the tread) also makes most tires irreparable

valve stems can be replaced but sidewall holes can’t :) the more you know :)

Just a reminder that this is a crime and I'd never advocate for crime on this blog. :) Stay safe out there and don't get caught doing crimes!

Do Not do this y’all spread the word of not doing

Spreading this information so you know exactly what not to do.

Reblogging to let you all know what NOT to do.

Reblogging again to add this

;) definitely don’t

Also these are how ICE vehicles look, so you know what cars not to do these things do

Concept: with the trend toward smaller family sizes in the modern era, certain prognostically significant genealogical configurations have gone from rare to practically nonexistent, to the point that incumbent destinies are increasingly obliged to take what they can get. So it is that our intrepid protagonist, as the only seventh daughter of a seventh daughter for several thousand miles in any direction, finds herself the simultaneous Chosen One of four unrelated and seemingly mutually exclusive prophesies.

One of the prophecies declares that the individual in question will be the sworn enemy of the subject of another of the prophecies. She has to become her own archnemesis. 

And don’t forget that she necessarily has six older sisters and six aunts. If you recall the folkloric role of numerologically significant sets of specific types of relatives, you know that this means there’s going to be Shenanigans.

“But these two should cancel out! If I’m the Chosen One from this prophecy, then I have to be the worst enemy of the Chosen One from that prophecy. And I am the Chosen One from that prophecy! I can’t be my own worst enemy!”

“Darling, that’s called ‘being a teenager.’ You’ll probably grow out of it. Now be a dear and pass the rolls, please.”

You know what Good Omens does NOT get enough credit for? How it never, not once, makes gender presentation the butt of a joke.

Crowley presenting as female to be Warlock’s Nanny? The way this was filmed, acted, and written wasn’t made to be funny whatsoever. She was stunning, I loved the hat!

Pollution using they/them pronouns while the postman used the gender neutral honorific of sir for them? What’s there to make fun of? They’re royalty.

Archangel Michael, who has a traditionally male name, played by a female actress? Never questioned.

Lord Beelzebub’s androgyny? Only respect for the Lord of Hell.

Aziraphale sharing Madame Tracy’s body? Crowley recognized his angel and accepted it no problem. He was right about the dress too, it did suit him!

Crowley’s pure, unfiltered non-binary/gender-fluid energy in general? Fucking fabulous. Who could seriously make fun of this demon’s style? As someone once pointed out to me, you could swap him with Tilda Swinton and I’d see no difference. What an icon.

Good Omens is the first big show I’ve seen to basically avoid transphobia all together when the opportunity presented itself, and even say fuck you to the gender binary as a bonus. If the biggest binary in all the universe, Heaven and Hell, don’t give a damn about it then why should you? 

They have nine beverages between the two of them

i have that painting ai app on my phone so i went ahead and took the liberty…

What they have are five beverages and four waters. Water, by definition, cannot be a beverage.

The fuck do you mean water cant be a beverage?

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The wording of this indicates this was two different crimes

False

funniest part about this is i dont know which category youre trying to add him to

This a Moonmelon, scientifically knows as asidus. This fruit grows in some parts of Japan, and is known for its vibrant blue color. What you probably don’t know about this fruit is that it can switch flavors after you eat it. Everything sour will taste sweet, everything salty will taste bitter, and it gives water a strong orange-like taste. It’s also very expensive…costing about ￥16000 JPY (which is about 200 dollars).

or you know this could be photoshopped

but idk

you tell me

this is alexandrias melon (wow)

it never grows seeds but it can still produce other melons (its magic)

it is grown deep in the jungles of peru and can prevent you from aging well into the hundreds

it is known by the natives there as k’uhul ajaw cacao shi-jiiy.

its really strange how all of these pictures look exactly the same because everything on the internet is true

This is the Peppermeloni. (seriously gosh just look at that sexy mother fucker) Its scientific name is Tumblrous Pepperonus.

The only known specimen is in a pot in David Karps treasure dungeon. It is a tradition that a single slice is given to every tumblr blog that reaches 500,000 followers.

It has the remarkable property of being as healthy as watermelon but tasting like cheesy pepperoni pizza.

This planet is really just so amazing guys wow.

Patrickmelon

The taste of this melon will always surprise you.

I’m fucking done with this site

This is the evermelon.

If you cut this watermelon a certain way you will find that it has seemingly regenerated. You can do this an infinite number of times and will have a neverending supply of melon.

OH GOD I haven’t seen this post in YEARS and THAT is the fucking additon to it!?

ALRIGHT THATS IT ITS TIME TO STOP

Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Ravenmelon and I’m ebony black  (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips, and a lot of people tell me I look like watermelons (AN: if u don’t know what dat is get da hell out of here!).

Nothing will ever be better than the last one

HASHBFJGJDHRJFKFKRJ

That last one took me out at the god damn kneecaps-

Is there anything more nauseating than ‘expensive heterosexual wedding’ culture?

My dream wedding: outside, illegal fireworks, shoes are optional, mostly potluck, someone’s dressed as a wizard, I get to insult my relatives, hopefully some live music.

there's a complete media blackout in kashmir. thousands and thousands of troops have been sent there and we have no idea what's going on because there's no possibility of communication. in the span of a few hours the indian government has revoked the special status of kashmir (a country it was and is occupying) and forcibly made it a union territory. all political leaders in kashmir have been placed under house arrest. and just recently the govt amended a law so that they could declare individuals, and not just organisations, as terrorists. if you're in india, please get out there and talk about this, protest etc!! if you're not in india, please get the word out about what's going on here. to those in kashmir - we stand in solidarity with you ❤️

Amen.

100%

And waiting to be infiltrated by Lara Croft.

Only to those who know