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.
What if every pattern of glazed terracotta was on every colour? (very long post) (Also maybe you would be able to change secondary + tertiary colours but I’m not doing that) (some of them look better than others)
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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
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.
“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
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
yes trans people can be hot and sexy and cute but most importantly they’re normal. yes fat people can be hot and sexy and cute but most importantly they’re normal.
I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. “Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don’t you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It’s so mid and bad you should listen to real music–” you are a pit of misery
People can’t just say “I don’t like this music” anymore they gotta call you gay and autistic for listening to a band that had one song go viral
I love the Original Flavor Vader. Like, subsequent stuff made him ridiculous by giving him a backstory and world building and shit and I love it, but just imagine
He’s the Emperor’s goth Space Rasputin who you all have to let hang around, even though he’s really killing the vibe, has absolutely no real authority over any of you (Tarkin is the one giving the orders!), and likes to spew vague threatening mantras while you try to strategize and shit. None of you know where he comes from, Darth may or may not be his real name, and that religion he likes to lecture you about is Extremely Illegal
So one day you tell him his esoteric dying faith–that, like, two old men and a twink from Desert Bumblefuck still take seriously–is old, weird, and not as powerful as your fash wetdream planet-destroying laser–and also kinda useless, dude, it hasn’t exactly fixed that Rebel Problem you have going on
Unfortunately, he is also a seven-foot-tall laser-sword-wielding robot wizard of death, so in response to this, he gets mad and chokes you out with his mind
Your other boss (Tarkin, is Probably In Charge) treats this like it’s normal and tells both of you to play nice while you make sure your trachea is intact and The Magic Death Cyborg sulks in the corner because he wasn’t allowed to murder the non-believer
