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"Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren't any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid."

Peter Watts, Echopraxia

This steampunk clock writes the time every minute, and erases it before writing again.

This is the most ridiculous, inefficient, and needlessly complicated thing…..

I know. It seems almost completely unwieldy and useless.

I want it.

okay, but this is really what a Steampunk watch should be. Not just a dial watch with a cover made of bits of brass and copper.

At first I thought it was a stationary clock and thought ‘well that’s inefficient in a cool way’ and then I NOTICED IT’S A WATCH and fucking lost it

I am once again explaining that in order for walkable cities and public transit to work for disabled people, there also need to be more public bathrooms available in and around those areas. Not just places to sit down or rest. Bathrooms. We need accessible, clean bathrooms. With sharps bins. With multiple wheelchair accessible stalls. With an area to set down supplies needed to maintain one’s body. Even if it’s not being used to get rid of bodily waste, bathrooms are one of the few spaces disabled people have to maintain some sort of privacy when they’re in the middle of a flare up or they need to take medication or what have you. Designing a public space? Include bathrooms.

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Have I ever told u about the people my sister ran into when she was working at Rocky Mountain National Park in college?

They thought the rangers put the animals in barns at night and let them out in the daytime.

My sister was like. No. The elk just...live there.

This broke their brains. They couldn't wrap their head around the concept of wild animals that just live in the wild without humans taking care of them.

So I like asking people who work in an educational capacity what the weirdest question they have ever gotten is (I take stupid too, but asking anything is better than making assumptions)

Ranger from Grand Teton had a woman ask her how they trained the bears to get into the boxes at night.

For those of you who have never been camping in Bear Country, every campsite and picnic table in Grand Teton and every other park in the mountain time zone is outfitted with a big metal box with a slightly complicated handle specifically for keeping bears OUT of human food, because otherwise the bears learn humans are VERY easy to bully lots of calories out of and that's how you get bear attacks.

In this woman's defense, they are called and labelled "Bear Boxes"

She apparently didn't hear the second part and said "OH. That makes sense. With all the high-fructose corny syrup they put in everything these days, human food would give them so many cavities and that'd be a lot of expensive dental work for you to give them!"

"...Yeah!" said the ranger, who had neither the time nor emotional fortitude to disabuse this woman of the idea that she lives in a magical world where the park service is well-funded enough to know about and treat the dental issues of wild bears.