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oathgrowth: This stupid exchange between friends has become a...

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:01:51 +0800

oathgrowth:

This stupid exchange between friends has become a cultural icon.

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:01:12 +0800

preserving-tiktok:

Victorian Reverse Painted Crystal Intaglio Earrings, 1870

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:01:29 +0800

velvetcloak:

Victorian Reverse Painted Crystal Intaglio Earrings, 1870

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN + the ‘Obi-Ani’ lightsaber spin

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:01:05 +0800

hayden-christensen:

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
+ the ‘Obi-Ani’ lightsaber spin
Hayden came up with a move when we did the second film that was like your move, like signature […] for me it always felt like your move because he was really good at it. — Ewan McGregor

football tournaments give me a genuine midlife crisis because one day it’s 2014 and you’re a kid and…

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:01:10 +0800

zayphia:

football tournaments give me a genuine midlife crisis because one day it’s 2014 and you’re a kid and your favourite player is still in their peak and then it’s another two years and then you’re older and your favourite player is older and then it’s another two and you’re older than the newest players and your favourite player is retiring. not good. do not recommend.

scribblingface: modmad:tinsnip:hmmm-official: hmmm That’s a...

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:00:46 +0800

scribblingface:

modmad:
tinsnip:
hmmm-official:

hmmm

That’s a tarot card

ten of swords

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:01:00 +0800

harrisonthefulgurite:

dumbassstupidblog:
zuesue:
dankmemeuniversity:
oh my GOD

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we’re all…

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:55 +0800

kiisaes:

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we’re all on the buddy system. I’ll start: bok choy

I’m instituting a new policy of “if I can’t easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I’m sending it…

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:00:59 +0800

thesummoningdark:

firstbornsons-deactivated202605:
biglawbear:
christaaah:
biglawbear:
I’m instituting a new policy of “if I can’t easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I’m sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house”
this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file
I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit
@thesummoningdark hello?????

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because…

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:04:18 +0800

h0lyshift:

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:00:59 +0800

mrsjdavis:

appalachian-werewolf:
starlightxraven:
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
“Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.”
It fucking better.
Like to charge, reblog to cast?

Was about to fall asleep and apropos of nothing was struck out of nowhere by a horrible future…

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:01:02 +0800

teaboot:

crystaltoa:
teaboot:
teaboot:
Was about to fall asleep and apropos of nothing was struck out of nowhere by a horrible future vision of a brightly-lit and saccharine 3D-AI Calvin and Hobbes movie with Scarlet Johanssen voicing the mom and Chris Pratt voicing Hobbes and experienced an emotional haptic jerk so chilling I feel like I just foresaw my own death
(Drenched in a cold sweat, visibly shaking) We Need To Warn Bill Watterson
No, we don’t.
He knows.
He has always known.
Actual quote:
“I don’t want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor’s voice, and I don’t want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip’s world is diminished. ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ was designed to be a comic strip and that’s all I want it to be. It’s the one place where everything works the way I intend it to”

This was in the 1990’s, pre-AI, pre- Chris Pratt, pre- Cinematic Universes, and if he was opposed to it then, he sure as hell wouldn’t be okay with it now.
I think he probably experienced the same nightmare dystopian vision of the future you saw, but fortunately he had it like 40 years earlier.
oh thank heavens

legolokiismighty: chubbbybunnie: galacticgoldfishart: Sometimes...

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:00:45 +0800

legolokiismighty:

chubbbybunnie:

galacticgoldfishart:

Sometimes i save little gems and forget about them

For those who want the pic

i spent longer than i care to admit on this

Do you people even know about Prompto’s photographs

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:55 +0800

shitpostingkats:

shitpostingkats:
Do you people even know about Prompto’s photographs
Do you know that in hit game Final Fantasy 15 (2016) one of your party members is this cute lil’ nerd and one of his Things is he’s a photgrapher, so he’s always taking pictures, there a whole system coded in to just randomly take in-engine screen captures of your party as they go about their day-to-day. And whenever you save you get to go over ten of those pictures and choose if you want to save any to your personal in-game album. This is obviously a feature designed for word of mouth fan promotion, because from your in-game album there’s a ton of options for sharing your photos or downloading them to personal storage. Which is fun, games are allowed to do that, but. Ya know. Maybe not worth the effort of making a whole system to automatically do that.
Except it’s also very baked into the world. There’s a couple photos you have to get as you advance through the story, but mostly they’re fun so you bookmark one or two as you progress through the game. And as you explore the world sometimes Prompto will ask to stop at scenic locations or tourist traps or whatnot and bam you’ve got a few more. And if you do this every time you save, you end up with quite a collection.
Anyways, fast forward to the end of the game, when you, the main character, are about to die. You know this. You are marching stubbornly to your own martyrdom, with no hope of survival. And the main character turns. And asks to see Prompto’s photo collection.
YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!!!!! YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE!!!!! You have to pick, from those maybe dozens of silly goofy funny little screencappable moments, which one the main character is going to physically take with him into the last battle and clutch to his chest as he dies!!!!!! That photo you choose will show up in cutscenes!!!!! They make it your save files lockscreen!!!!!!! Is this thing on????

Well I would give a medieval peasant some spaghetti.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:03:37 +0800

what-even-is-thiss:

ailius-suffers-through-art:
what-even-is-thiss:
juh-was-deactivated19691231-dea:
what-even-is-thiss:
good-fwiend-in-wome:
predatory-lesbians:
what-even-is-thiss:
what-even-is-thiss:
Well I would give a medieval peasant some spaghetti.
1. They don’t have forks. I would hand them a fork with it and see what they do.
2. They don’t have tomatoes. This is something they can never experience again
3. I would let them keep the plate because it’s a nice plate and I think they’d like it
i love it when a post comes with its own FAQs
what the fuck do you mean they didn’t have tomatoes
Tomatoes are not native to Afroeurasia and generally wouldn’t have been available on that continent before the Colombian exchange. When we refer to medieval peasants we’re usually referring to the poor of Europe and west Asia between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of what we now call the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. A time before the so-called age of exploration and colonization brought food such as tomatoes, maize, and potatoes to Afroeurasia and domesticated animals such as pigs and chickens to the Americas. European cuisine of the poor and rich alike before the Colombian exchange would still have been tasty with their wide selection of game meat, herbs, vegetables, and grains, but tomatoes would not have been available to them and that’s why I want to give a medieval peasant a plate of Italian-American style spaghetti with marinara sauce just like dad used to make
wait so. italy? i guess it’s not called afroeurasitaly, but…so “italian” food used to not have tomatoes? until they came from the americas? and they they what, decided “hey let’s just rebuild our national identity around these tasty christmas tree ornaments”? centuries of italy were lasagna-free and i’m just supposed to accept this
They had lasagna. It just didn’t look like what we think of lasagna today. It was more like layers of flat noodles with spices and cheese on a plate that you ate with your hands rather than a baked dish.
If you look at ancient Roman food there’s certain things we’d recognize as “Italian” like olive oil or fermented fish sauce or cheese but the flavor profile is completely different and pasta isn’t anywhere to be found. They also had herbs and spices that have since become unpopular or even gone extinct.
A lot of things we view as unmovable and unchanging about certain culture’s cuisines are incredibly recent developments. Modern Indian cuisine for example can be traced back to a singular guy in the 16th century. And these days lard is considered to be integral to making tamales but that wasn’t used until the Spanish brought over pigs and cows.
Food culture is something that can change very rapidly. Sometimes within a single generation. People generally use what they have available and what’s available can change at a moment’s notice.
This feels like watching a clown get questioned by the crowd before they pull out a history textbook and proceed to whack the audience repeatedly with it
That sums up pretty well what it’s like to be me yeah

Job hunting observations, possibly advice

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:02:05 +0800

mikkeneko:

pearwaldorf:
As you may or may not know, I was laid off about a year ago. I still don’t have full-time employment, but things are getting less bad. Here are some things I have learned that may help people in the same situation.
Something I need you to understand right now
The market is very very bad. The last time I remember it being this terrible was right after the mortgage busts in 2008-10. It might honestly be worse. The last time I looked for a job was three years ago and it has changed completely.
The number of people applying to available jobs is w i l d. The stats coming out of this r/recruitinghell thread are nuts. 2000 applications, even after screening out the obviously unsuited they still went through 900. There’s no way to screen all of them. It is, unfortunately, mostly a numbers game.
I’m not telling you this to scare you or discourage you. But it will be hard, because so much is tied up into work, labor, and our senses of self. And if you’re going to get through this, you need to understand what you’re up against.
I hope the stuff below the jump will help you do that.

(If you need to contact me hmu on Bluesky or via pearwaldorf at gmail. I have messaging and asks turned off because spam and because I’m not on Tumblr much)
Keep reading
@veliseraptor in response to your posts the other day

how it feels to message a friend who’s having Problems that you can’t do anything to help with.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:02:26 +0800

pterribledinosaurdrawings:

how it feels to message a friend who’s having Problems that you can’t do anything to help with.

For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:01:12 +0800

notjusthespongenextdoor:

notjusthespongenextdoor:
For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.
#every time I read this phrase the same thing happens #I read it as shittable and go wait that can’t be right #oh right they were talking about public benches that makes more sense #but public bathrooms available without fees should also be a thing tho #cities should definitely be shittable #it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME
it must also be shittable

Do it scared but please don’t do it hungry. Please don’t do it dehydrated. It’s gonna make it so…

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:00:32 +0800

lupismaris:

Do it scared but please don’t do it hungry. Please don’t do it dehydrated. It’s gonna make it so much scarier. Please.

Not sure about anyone else, but I re-read all my favourite AO3 comments when I’ve had a rough day,…

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:00:33 +0800

erraticprocrastinator:

Not sure about anyone else but I re-read all my favourite AO3 comments when I’ve had a rough day so if you’ve ever taken the time to write a deep, funny, or just kind comment, thank-you.