Sometimes I go on Zillow and look at both the most expensive and absolute cheapest things out there, just to be nosey. But the mannequin is new.
Completely stripped-bare house. No furniture no beds no couches no anything. Literal cabinets ripped out of the wall of the kitchen.
But the mannequin remains.
The mannequin and the upside-down ceiling mounted shelf(?)
I’ve been rechecking the listing because I’m convinced one of the times I check it, the mannequin will be gone. At which point I should Not turn around.
The oldest living tree ever found was a pine named “Prometheus.” It had been alive since before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Some guy cut it down in 1964. Source
he was actually a forestry graduate student who was doing research on bristlecone pines (Pinus langaevea) and got his increment borer stuck in the tree. this tool costs almost $800, so he asked the forest service if he could cut down the tree to recover the tool. after cutting it down, it became apparent that the tree was actually the oldest living organism. ever. (around 8,000 years old). so, not just some asshole. the guy feels extremely guilty and has even broken down in tears during an interview about the accident
OH MY GOD SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY
So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”
And he just takes off running. Literally. Turns around and runs across the salt flats away from the interview and I feel so bad for him but I can’t help but start crying I’m laughing so hard about it imagine a guy high tailing it across salt flats away from a dude with a recorder
i own an aesthetic blog, and i don’t usually comment on reblogs, but:
the “grad student”, dr. donald rusk currey, died in 2004. so he is not, as someone said in the comments, “still receiving death threats to this day”.
prometheus was the oldest non-clonal organism known at the time. many many many floral organisms of equal and older ages (upwards of 10 kya) have been found since 1964. so not “oldest living organism ever”.
though it wasn’t known at the time, methuselah (sampled in 1957) was later found to be at least 10 years older than prometheus.
prometheus’ innermost, extant rings have been dated to 4862 years. not 8000. (the only source given doesn’t even say 8000. where did this person get 8000?)
currey became a professor of geography in 1970. he was an extremely respected scholar in his field with an annual field trip and a scholarship in his name. he helped the area prometheus belonged to become the protectedgreat basin national park. yes, it was controversial at the time (again: 1964. we’re talking about 5 years before man landed on the moon), but it did not sink his career, and it did not become the only thing he was known for.
i barely know anything about dendrochronology and yet i was able to find all this information in about 10 minutes. don’t believe everything you see on tumblr.com.
Turns out we don’t need to apologize to him, cause he’s dead! Rest in peace…
it’s fucking me up how tv shows, movies, and even video games can’t be “niche” content anymore
like nothing can be underrated anymore. it HAS to be a success. cartoons have to either be spongebob level successes with immediate marketing or they’re shelved a season or two in.
Movies have such inflated budgets that they NEED to break a billion in the box office just to make back what they cost. Anything less than a blockbuster smash is turned into a tax write-off.
a single triple A video game can destroy an entire studio if it doesn’t meet expectations, which are already lofty enough as it is.
and everything has to appeal to the widest demographic possible, which can mean sterilizing anything creative about the work so it becomes as palatable as possible.
People getting mad about Firefox switching to using hardware acceleration for video playback because they think “hardware acceleration” is a form of DRM is basically the browser equivalent of people freaking out because some random social media platform’s terms of service says they own your posts, then when you read what the ToS in question actually says it’s literally just “you grant us the right to show your posts to other people”.
Cookie pop-ups are designed to be confusing and make you ‘agree’ to be tracked. This add-on automatically answers consent pop-ups for you, so you can’t be manipulated. Set your preferences once, and let the technology do the rest!
This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.
We looked at 680 pop-ups and combined their data processing purposes into 5 categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes our categories don’t perfectly match those on the website, so then we will choose the more privacy preserving option.
I’ve been using this since it came out in December 2019 (how time flies!) and definitely recommend it.
hey instead of bullying or scaring you into switching to firefox, let me tell you why i LOVE firefox and how my online life has improved significantly since installing it
- the setup process is easy, and even fun! if you’re using tumblr rn, you can handle it, and if you’re the kind of tumblr user who likes customizing your blog or tinkering with xkit, you can have a lot of fun personalizing really granular settings and picking themes and extensions and everything, it’s very customizable and i happily spent like 2 hours getting everything perfect.
- you can use a command line entry tool to change specific settings right from the search bar! i did this to make firefox stop auto filling my email information since i use a different password locker (which you should too! try bitwarden!), and it was easier than digging through a bunch of submenus for a setting i wasn’t sure existed. you can just turn shit off!
- there’s a preset theme called aurora that’s purple and VERY pretty
- once you get ublock origin and as many other blockers as you’d like set up, no ads, anywhere, ever! streaming sites, youtube, all the basics, totally no stress and no compatibility issues for me
- in browser screenshot and picture in picture functions!! holy shit i use these every day, the PiP is especially helpful, it replaced an extension i used to use on chrome and it’s leagues better and works on all video content pretty much
- overall better downloads management imo, it’s a lot easier to get to your downloads and find them later
- better bookmark system, with the ability to organize your bookmarks with searchable tags and assign them a shortcut you can type into the search bar to go to
- containers! you can have two accounts to the same website open in two different tabs and switch between them without having to switch accounts. also gives firefox the ability to contain facebook and their trackers, so you can click that party invite link without feeling like you just let mark zuckerberg into your house
these were just off the top of my head, i love firefox a lot and actively enjoy using it, which i never felt with chrome! please download firefox!! you will not regret it!!! where’s your fucking rage!!!!!! go!!!!!!!!!
One thing that Firefox can’t do is allow me to access my telehealth therapy appointments. Three different platforms now have rejected my use of Firefox. I use Safari instead bc that’s what works and at least it isn’t chrome, but for folks who rightfully use Firefox, be aware that many, if not all, telehealth platforms will not work on Firefox (something about the encryption/security not being up to their standard, I believe; if there are hacks that Firefox gurus know to bypass this, please share with the class?).
I haven’t personally verified this as I’m not at a computer, but multiple people in multiple places are saying the same thing. This is fucking insane. First the endless war on UBlock, then the Chromium changes to shut out some blocker functionalities entirely next year, now this?
Something is deeply rotten in recent Google/YouTube policy. I can’t imagine that this is legal - how is this not anticompetitive? Google needs to get mega fucked in the press and the courts sooner rather than later.
And I need to switch to Firefox as soon as I get home.
While I’m sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti.
These are used with people who can’t grip well:
This is for Parkinsons’s:
For people who can’t even bend their joints:
Here’s a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouth
This one holds a sandwich
Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think “that’s fuckin’ lazy” or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products aren’t meant for lazy people, they’re meant for people who need help.
So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking “Wow, are people that lazy?” just be grateful that you’re able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it.
This isn’t specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled aren’t considered a viable enough demographic on their own.
the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users.
This is actually really nifty.
oh my god of course the snuggie was for wheelchair users
The fact that anyone buys these products besides disabled people drastically lowers the price of them. These would normally cost hundreds if not thousands if dollars. Because if spent time and money creating it, the company wants to get more than that back. And they can’t do that if they sell and market these primarily to disabled people for $20-$40 a piece or whatever. They’d lose money on production. If they can sell hundreds of them to everyone, they can lower the price drastically and therefore disabled people don’t die while trying to scrape up the money to buy these things and be a bit more independent.
I never considered that last part and that’s actually genius
Like yeah, a handful of people ARE that lazy.
But those are the people who use these products even though they don’t need them and thus allow the price to be lower for those who DO.
So honestly in this case good bless the lazy and those prone to gimmicks because they are invaluable to the elderly and disabled in this sense.
@thebibliosphere Look! People learning about disability and why to be kind!
The normalization of disability aids needs to be a thing precisely so they can cost less.
Better living through technology bitches
I’m so glad disabled people get to have nice things. Its still an ableist world but damn we’ve come so far
the spaghetti thing would be genius for arthritic fingers.
And like, arthritis is SO SO common.
also like who tf cares if people are lazy anyway? why does everything have to be a grind - but making things easier for people who find everything harder is such a skill
but… they’re not. Trans is short for “transitioning” which is to say you go from one gender to the other. Non-binary people are not transitioning to another gender. They’re just not moving from one to another.
trans is not and has never been short for transitioning you dumb hoe
trans is short for transgender dumbass
also for those who don’t get it, the creator of the trans flag herself (monica helms, to be exact) has stated verbally, herself, that the white stripe in the flag was for nonbinary individuals + that nonbinary ppl are absolutely trans
if you exclude nonbinary folks and tell us we’re not trans go fuck yourselves
For people who forget: the whole thing of being transgender is that you identify with a gender that isn’t your sex/what you were born as. Because no one is assigned nonbinary at birth, being nonbinary is inherently transgender because you’re not cis about it.
I am really happy that other people are getting the word out on sharks.
Everyone is always saying that they are scared of sharks and don’t want to help them.
But, this is a serious issue.
Sharks aren’t he only ones who are affected by the actions of hunting and shark finning, but the entire ecosystem.
So everyone, PLEASE REBLOG!
SAVE OUR SHARKS!
My art touches people, but it is still far from touching the real shark killers.
I will continue, even if it takes my whole life, even if just somewhere in the sea, someone stopped the knife that would cut a shark’s fin, because someone showed my art.
I am really happy that other people are getting the word out on sharks.
Everyone is always saying that they are scared of sharks and don’t want to help them.
But, this is a serious issue.
Sharks aren’t he only ones who are affected by the actions of hunting and shark finning, but the entire ecosystem.
So everyone, PLEASE REBLOG!
SAVE OUR SHARKS!
My art touches people, but it is still far from touching the real shark killers.
I will continue, even if it takes my whole life, even if just somewhere in the sea, someone stopped the knife that would cut a shark’s fin, because someone showed my art.
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I feel the people who say sex positivity and ace positivity are opposites are fundamentally misunderstanding sex positivity. Sex positivity includes all ways of having sex, including not having sex or being repulsed by having sex.
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so you’ve chosen the path of hubris. so be it.
hey, rip to all the guys who’ve been killed by the tumblr public for their hubris, but i’m different. and better. maybe even better than the tumblr public.
honestly the original is still funnier than 85% of the edits people make
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You have three minutes to stop an argument about who’s ship is better or worse than someone else’s, and three more to make the arguees see that ship wars are pointless. If you fail, you’ll be forced to watch your favorite book or show be adapted into a terrible remake. Good luck.
I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn’t have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he’s a monster who doesn’t deserve love.
The thing about general life weirdness is that it’s accumulative. If you open the door and allow one (1) unusual thing into your life, that significantly improves the odds of other weird things happening. Just one mildly odd thing is just one mildly odd thing, but they lead the way for things that can be a perfectly logical consequence of the first thing, that would never, ever happen to someone who hadn’t invited the first odd thing into their life.
Like let’s say you decided to get an iguana. That’s not the most common kind of pet, but not unheard of. Perhaps you thought you wanted a cat, but then decided to see what other animals your local animal rescue has available, and holy shit they’ve got an iguana. So now you’ve got an iguana.
And being a responsible pet owner - which, again, is a normal thing to do - you make sure you take good care of your new baby. And being a rescue, your iguana might have some issues that they’ve got from being poorly handled by the previous owner. So you see what you can do about it, and find out a vet who is specialised enough to do physical therapy on an iguana. And naturally, you call them right up and get your iguana cared for. And being such a specialised professional, naturally this vet makes sure to keep their work and personal life neatly separated.
All of these are perfectly logical steps into an unusual direction, but they are also the way you may find yourself saying something like “my iguana’s therapist blocked me on grindr.”
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