The worst thing in the entire world is when you’re sweeping a big pile of dirt into a dustpan and it leaves that little coke line of grit behind. No matter how you position your pan or your broom and no matter how many times you sweep over it your outcome cannot change. As immovable as fate. I hate it so

Get a wet paper towel and wipe up the last line of dust with it. No fate is so immovable that we cannot change it.

"No fate is so immovable that we cannot change it" is a raw and inspiring quote I did not expect from a post about a minor chore annoyance xD

This is so awesome

Bad news...

Since the AO3 fundraising drive is coming up, this is your friendly reminder that AO3 has zero ads. That’s right, zero – even if you turn off your ad blockers. There are zip. Zilch. None.

There are vanishingly few places these days that don’t sell you. If you’re sick of being sold, and if you have the means to do so, then maybe you should consider supporting those sorts of sites.

"i don't like this thing and i wish i didn't have to see people talking about it all the time"

girl (gender neutral), you are on tungle dot com:

choose your fighter.

reblog to kill it faster

So they didn't want people using the very things they advertised as being useful; the reasons you'd tolerate an always-on virtual assistant in your life.

this is the kind of stuff the cyber dystopias never think to include. "spying on everyone couldn't make enough money :(" like what

they aren't losing money on the product itself they're losing money they wanted to make after selling it lmao boo fuckin hoo

I have no like. Moral objection to adults watching children's cartoons lol. I don't think it's even inherently an annoying trait to have. But adult fans of children's cartoons have got to recognize how niche their interests are. You guys have to stop trying to get people who don't watch children's cartoons to watch children's cartoons. Like, new ones they don't already have any nostalgia for. No amount of "ooh this one has rep in it" can make someone care if they're severely not the intended audience and don't like the genre

Can you imagine if we did it the other way around though. I'm gonna force an adult owl house fan to watch the lighthouse. It has queer rep so you're gonna like it

I thought you loved houses

I FUCKING LOVE THIS VIDEO THIS BABY IS SO VIOLENT LMFAOOOO

Unmute !

Bob’s calling in sick the rest of the week.

Honestly the only kind of journalism that should exist is the kind where journalists commit self-harm in front of a camera for my enjoyment.

He just, bit right into it with no hesitation. Just no sense of danger.

The conversation

Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???

For those who can’t go to the ocean…. 

…I can bring an ocean to you.

thank you

Adding My Ocean:

have some more

adding my ocean as well

Not my ocean but my brother’s:

adding my ocean

A sunset from my ocean (when I used to live in Hawaii)

Do you like the colors of the ocean

Finally bought some good china

How dare you

Do you think that there were any ships that went out whaling out of New England and missed the entire american civil war

Like they went out in 1860 had a long voyage for the usual reasons and came back in late 1865 with very little idea of what had happened. like "oh boy I've finally finished getting my whale oil I can't wait to see my favourite president Abraham Lincoln after having been out whaling since early 1860." do you think that that was anyone

Something like this happened to famous Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton. He set out on an expedition in the arctic in 1914 just as the World War I had begun. The expedition was a disaster, he and his crew got lost and stranded. Somehow they survived though, and after much struggling and an incredible and impossible journey, they found help from a whaling station on South Georgia Island near the end of 1916. One of the first questions Shackleton asked from his saviors was something along the lines of "whatever happened with that war in Europe? How long did it last and who won?". The reply he got back was "the war isn't over. Millions are dead. Europe is mad. The world is mad". It's difficult to imagine the shock and terror that those few words must have generated.

This is... horrific.

Ofc Musk would accuse a Jewish man of being a Nazi.

meanwhile in reality, elon musk is a white supremacist who quotes neo-nazis unprompted.

If y'all haven't read the Forbes article in the link let me also give you a... Clip

"Hey there's accusations that you're being a white supremacist and perpetuating racial violence on your platform. Can you speak on that?"

"💩"

Christ I hate this man.

by the way, for people who don't understand what the issue with "delulu" is, let me put it this way. i know a kid who uses delulu in day to day speech to refer to her crushes, or her favorite fictional ships, or other people liking things she doesn't. this is common. one day, she found out from an ex friend of mine that i used to honestly believe i was the second coming of jesus christ. when she asked me about it, i told her it was a delusion. she said "honey, you're not delusional, you're straight up insane." if non-psychotics take "delusional" and make it mean anything less than what it does mean, it leaves us with no word less than insane, or nuts, or crazy.

An obsidian mirror found at Catalhoyuk, 8,000 years old

“get the fries, you’ll need the energy in the coming days”

From the Red Bull Daniel Craig interview.

im baldr

this is baldr everyone

oh fuck huge fan, I love your gate

what

my what

god she is always serving cunt.

she would karate chop the shit out of you for saying that.

Imagine thinking you bring more to the table than Kermit the Frog

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

Time to drop some links again.

– https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

– https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

– https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

– https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.

– https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Google’s. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

I guffawed out loud because THIS