I Need you all to stop and watch this fucking video in its entirety. Even if you have seen clips of this scene, you need to watch the full thing. This is the most batshit thing ever put onto tv and it’s how the fucking season STARTS
The Dublin spire isn’t a bad looking landmark per se but why does it look like it was specifically designed to pop blimps
It looks like whoever designed this hates balloons.
It’s a 120 meter tall stainless steel spike. Can’t go in it.
this looks like it was designed specifically so you could trip a kaiju and impale them with it
I used to hate it, but it actually makes more sense when you’re actually in/moving around Dublin lol.
Most buildings in Dublin are less than 5 storeys high, so you can see the Spire from most of the city centre, and get to the rest of the city from it fairly easily.
The Spire is designed so it works as a landmark you can see from almost anywhere.
Before Google Maps was really a thing, and even now it is, you could use it as a physical reference point to move around the city, and you’re kind of drawn to it one way or the other naturally. It’s kind of a giant IRL map pin.
That means there’s always a group of people at the base; teenagers meeting up with their buddies before setting off for the day, tour groups, folks from out of town just off the bus waiting their friends, and - my perpetual favourite - well dressed people with visible nerves trying to act cool as they wait for their dates.
So rather than a blimp defense system, think of it more like a spawn point.
Also when there’s a Star Wars movie they turn it into a lightsaber.
for those interested, this is a good example of how “Major structure you can see from everywhere” is a good thing for cities. The needle, though maybe not loved by everyone, is exactly as EJF says - a navigational reference point.
If you were ever lost, you could look for the needle and identify a major spot in the city. This can help avoid getting turned around (since you can track your direction in reference to a single point) , or provide a known spot to return to if you get disoriented.
This would also mean that if someone was new, they could learn the directions from the needle to where they were staying, and then travel the rest of the city with confidence that they can find their way back when they are done.
Water towers can serve a similar purpose in smaller towns, which is one of the reasons why they’re often kept, even when no longer used for storing water.
In conclusion, make fun of how it looks all you want, but this giant needle is now part of vital city infrastructure.
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it seems this is the universal artist experience and not just me struggling to draw the same curved line for the 5608th time
You know you did great when they don’t need you anymore…
SOB
we were so close to this ending on a good note… why…
this fucking post popped up in my dash again i swear it haunts me since the day i posted it why must it come back why must it always have that last pic attached why did this happen i did not sign for this.
licherally cannot explain to adults these days that im actually so cool with the idea of being “just an employee” somewhere as long as i am paid enough to live comfortably and i also like the job. “but dont you want to be rich?? dont you want to always be striving for more???” like that sounds EXHAUSTING and i like having friends so
“Martyrs” volunteer and go to their death willingly for a cause they believe in. You are not a martyr if your house gets bombed by enemy shelling and you die. You are a casualty of war. Children cannot be martyrs. They cannot consent. Non-combatants caught in the crossfire cannot be martyrs. They are simply innocent victims of someone else’s violence. Do not conflate martyrs and innocents. In no scripture are they considered the same. Their fates are different. It is wrong to call one a martyr when they are an innocent. One is a choice, the other is not.
Westerners never cease to amaze me with their cruelty and their racism and their atrocious behaviour.
We’ve explained this a thousand times and this is something that can very easily be googled. And yet you people still choose to bother a man trying to survive a genocide about your own personal queasiness and self-righteousness over something you don’t understand.
In Islam, the concept of martyr is different. The actual word, in Arabic, is ‘shaheed’, meaning 'witness’ in the past tense. This is because on the Day of Judgement, they will be asked to testify in 'other people’s cases’. There are many things that can make someone a martyr in Islam. If you die of drowning, you are a shaheed (martyr). If you die of illness (plague), you are a shaheed (martyr). If you are a stillborn, you are a shaheed (martyr). The one used for Palestinians is the criteria listed by a specific hadith that says that they who are killed: 1) without their fortune 2) without their blood 3) without their faith 4) without their family then they are a martyr. Because when we are killed by the occupation, they have taken everything from us, our freedom of faith, and our fortunes (which they are still stealing millions of lbs of gold as they kill us in Ghazzah since Oct. 7), and they have scattered us so we are no longer united.
But no. Instead of asking someone else what we mean in good faith, you evil people want to bother a man who really doesn’t need this shit right now.
You people are so evil it’s crazy.
even this islamic definition aside.
Just trying to continue living your life in the face of certain destruction is an act of conscious defiance.
If that doesn’t make you a matyr, I don’t know what will.
To attack people who were killed in cold blood for no other reason than just expansion like this. Few things are as disgusting and inhuman
someone commented this under the post & btw this does not mean Israel/Zionism is the same as Judaism. Judaism has nothing to do with what Israel is doing. Just like ISIS has absolutely nothing to do with Islam
Israel IS a terrorist state. They are terrorists.
They are just allowed to say this and continue their genocide and no one can stop them? I knew the world we live in, is a total fire dumpster but this? what Israhell is doing and getting away with? this is a whole new level of fucked up.
And the hypocrites who used to say “never again”, who now side with the oppressors, i just want you to know you would have sided with the Nazis too.
Fuck Israel, fuck anyone that supports them and fuck Zionism which is the root of all of this.
the united states should not exist reblog if you agree
Fun fact! The United States functions as the bank for entire nations and that’s why our national debt is so high (the value of a bank is calculated based on its debt because that’s how much money it’s been given). Sooooo if the United States stopped existing, a global scale and far worse Great Depression would occur. While I most definitely don’t like the US, the ways things are set up it would be much better to try to fix it then destroy it.
it’s a common misconception that maths is all theoretical; they actually keep the 0 in a vault in France and u can go look at it if u got connections.
most numbers can only be found in the platonic realm of forms but there are a bunch of seven-digit primes that physically exist inside british museums as a holdover from the days when britain had colonies inside the platonic realm of forms
the ability to say “i dont have a tiktok” in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is “shock, confusion, then this weird ‘thats probably a good thing’ response” its so fun
i think im in the minority on tumblr in that i actually LIKE driving but every time i see a semi truck my life flashes before my eyes stay away from meeeee
crying and creaming and throwing up because an 18 wheeler is behind me
[video description: a big orange cat sits inside a large metal pot on a kitchen counter looking around slightly confused and bewildered as two people off screen repeatedly point at him and say ‘little baby man’ over and over again overlapping with one another as they repeat the phrase /end description]
people who say shit like “well i identify as a toaster” should be turned into a sentient toaster for the rest of their lives so they can experience that trapped helplessness feeling that dysphoria brings
Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Consider this your save point.
Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.
Things people in the notes have been able to do thanks to this post:
eat breakfast
go to bed
get out of bed
take a shower
write
practice
watch Superman Returns and write a paper on it
retain shreds of sanity
I need y’all to know that you’re doing amazing, and I’m so glad that I was able to help you break out of a procrastination loop you did not want to be stuck in.
Helpful post I’ve added to my queue in case it helps someone else at the random point when it’s posted.
