In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.
Is this about how ppl born in the late 20th century have a unique and fluid experience of navigating barriers to information access and its our responsibility to teach the younger folks how to tinker with technology to avoid being spoonfed everything we experience in order to have critical skills that keep us informed, autonomous, and able to hold power despite looming threats of authoritarianism or……….???
i love love lOVE the additional element of “the only information that’s free is the ‘how we’re going to hell’” BS. Chef’s kiss.
Apparently yes and I cannot wrap my head around this. You’re telling me most of these teens and early 20 something’s dominating social media do not even have a laptop full of organized directories of favorite images? They aren’t downloading and playing with creative SOFTWARE rather than stupid little “apps??” They already can’t navigate what was supposed to be the new standard level of technological familiarity!?
I’ve been wondering what message it sends for awhile now, apparently it’s random?
oh?
OH
#lmfao no way #why do i reblog these things #hahaha #urban legends #tumblr myths #im so gullible
nO FUCKING WAY THIS JUST
gUYS NO JOKE I GOT “motor oil” IN MY ASK BOX I’M SCREAMINH
I HOPE U GUYS DON’T LIE
THIS SHIT FUCKING WORKS WTF
you’re shitting me
HOLY MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORL-
i wanna see what happens
it looks fun i guess
Where did this even come from
This sho
Wierd :o
I want in
I call doubt
Hmm
I D I D T H I S A N D I G O T A N A S K T H A T J U S T “ P A N T S ”
i s2g-
i fUKCIGN REBLOGGED THIS AND DAMN IT
I dont believe this
My anon is off. Bout to catch this fucker.
I don’t think it works like that…. It’s probably more like a deer, it won’t come out if it’s going to be caught… whatever it is that’s sending the messages x’D
..what if it shows up as anon anyway?????
O . O Then we know it’s a real myth and not just followers seeing you post this and sending random messages…. xD
Hmmm
GUYS THIS SHIT WORKS
yolo
I’m sure that this ain’t gonna work for me. Prove me wrong.
Hm.
ok i believe
shrug emoji
BITCH FUCK ME UP
DROWN ME IN YOUR MESSAGES
what is this mahogoney.
Dude wtf
((i am utterly confused))
oh))
Yeah right, as if it’s real…
(But I am actually desperately lonely and hoping it is)
*rolls eyes* suuuure
//:^)))
pls
NOT EVEN A MINUTE LATER
NOPE IM OUT
wot in tarnation
can i get a hoopla
Q?
I wanna see if something actualky happens
(UPDATE) it actually works
only doing this to see if something happens
(UPDATE - LMAO IT ACTUALLY WORKS)
OKAY LETS TRY IT
Not even some magical being can make me get something on my inbox, that shit’s a fucking desert
Askbox empty will wait to see what happens
Ah it works I’m not having a crisis or anything I’m so confused
hm
they said “sorry, got caught in traffic” I’m knDJSMSN
hm doES it really work?
What the hell is this
If this works it will be the second thing to ever be in my ask box oof
Aight let’s try
i have tried this multiple times before and they all worked
i’m gonna be surprised if they still come in
Let’s try this bitch
Let’s see if this still works
dont trick me, ya dingle
I know for a fact that if I do receive something I’ll be super freaked out for no reason.
Let’s see what happens. I’ve lived long enough anyway.
Come at me
I wanna
please
Hmm… Maybe?
Holy shit it works!
Ive got mail!
Let’s go gaymers lmao
Why not? Will it bring people out of the woodwork?
I want to see what will happen X3
WHAT!?
HOW IS THIS REAL????
I’m willing to try it.
Let’s end this once and for all. I never get asks.
No. I refuse to believe that this is real.
ha͡h҉aha҉hah͢a̕
This exactly the kind of chaotic bull I signed up for
… does it work
Sorry for the long post but 👀let’s see what happens here
I summon y’all come to my inbox spam it til it fALLS TO IT’S KNEES
Bet
Will this work??? Let’s wait and see
please
Why is everybody deleted in this thread does this come with a curse of instant death as well?
No way this works, right?
I wanna see if it works
what the fuck
I kinda doubt this still works, but I wanna know.
after the last one, i have no doubts, however i want to see what message ill receive
fuck it why not
With all of the comments I just have to try this now.
like, if you’re a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you’ve given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm’s way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.
it also doesn’t help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).
anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it’s a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).
In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it’s demise was too inhumane.
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oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about
Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy
Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he’s five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge
“nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life” ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i’m busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box
nuclei don’t touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.
you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.
electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.
you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.
Pussy corrosive. Pussy explosive. I look at that pussy, it’s what I need a dose of. Pussy eroding. Pussy abrasive. I look at that pussy, it’s what I need a taste of. Pussy be stinging. Pussy be hurting. Pussy be sizzling when it’s supposed to be squirting. Pussy disintegrating. Pussy dissolving. Pussy turning heads, that shit is revolving.
Pussy potent. Pussy persuasive. Pussy not local, that shit is invasive. Pussy feeble, pussy pathetic. This pussy ain’t meta, this shit’s diegetic. Pussy ambush, pussy boobytrap. Pussy equipped with a glock and a strap. Pussy not rude, this pussy’s the meanest. This pussy’s a pussy but it’s also a penis
Pussy flexible, pussy twistable, pussy compelling, that shit’s irresistible. Pussy bewildering. Pussy perplexing. Pussy be cursing and pussy be hexing. Eye of newt and turkey gizzard, drink a potion from the pussy wizard. This pussy tells the truth, this pussy tells lies. Can you see through my pussy disguise?
Pussy sopping. Pussy sweating. Pussy complicit, it’s aiding and abetting. Pussy disco. Pussy rave. Put that pussy on the radio waves. Pussy be zesty. Pussy be spiced. Serve up that pussy in a bowl with some rice. Pussy helter. Pussy skelter. I get more pussy than an animal shelter
literally do not know what happened i just blacked out for 5 hours and this was on my computer
The first time I left the US was on a trip with my grandmother to Germany. My grandmother was always traveling. Always! Always off on some holiday somewhere, always bringing back tacky souvenirs.
I spoke a bit of German but was far from fluent. I’d been a little worried about communication but my grandmother assured me we’d be fine. She did this all the time, after all.
My grandmother left me in the hotel room one morning to sleep in while she went to the nearby bakery to get some pastries for breakfast. When she returned, she looked very flustered. She got me up because she had to get this off her chest. The woman in the bakery… didn’t speak ANY English. In her words, “Not a lick of English! Not one word!” I replied, heavy with sarcasm, “Really? In GERMANY?” She didn’t pick up on my sarcasm at all and just thought I was equally as astonished as her.
Turns out every trip she’d ever taken was with some pre-planned tour group for obnoxious white Americans. Never in all her years of traveling had she just gone into a small local shop and had to interact with a local whose entire business didn’t revolve around serving people like her. It was a genuine surprise to her that a person - especially a white person! - would actually not understand English.
I later went down to the bakery to apologize as well as I could in German. Fortunately the woman found it very amusing that the American woman just kept talking louder and slower instead of trying to communicate in some other way, and wasn’t bothered at all. But from that day forward I understood something about my grandmother (and a whole hell of a lot of other Americans) that I could never unlearn. That she literally saw everywhere in the world that wasn’t America like some kind of giant fucking Disney World and everyone who didn’t speak English as some kind of bumbling savage. I was embarrassed to be seen with her, ashamed to be there with her. This is very much A Thing and it’s fucking awful.
When I was young and traveling in the late 90s and to about 2007 I want to say? Every time we left the United states we were sat down and would go through some vocabulary that kids should know. Mainly thank yous, hellos and arbitrary pleasantries.
I learned why this was so important the first time we went to France, we entered a port town after leaving England via boat. My Mother barely speaking French, it was nearing 9pm and we had missed the train because of a docking issue to get to our booked hotel.
The ticket master of the ferry pointed us towards an old inn run by the sweetest woman I had ever met. She met us outside of it, waving us over and through my Mom’s poor French and the Innkeepers broken english the two worked so much out. And after signing us in before she went to prep the room herself. She brought each of my siblings a tea pot filled with some of the best hot chocolate I ever had. Because it was so chilly. The next morning she did the same.
Every time I said Merci in french she’d just light up, she even help me learn a few extra things in the short time of breakfast. Apple, orange, tea cup.
It’s one of my favourite memories as a kid and something I try to show to people who can’t speak English visiting America as I work retail. Because, expecting fluent English is rude.
Appreciate people that can speak your language, no matter how small, because they’re doing their best.
I work at a non profit that specifically works with immigrant women. I can’t give specifics of any interactions due to confidentiality, but I can say that many of the white people I work with are impatient at best and downright rude at worst to the women who don’t speak English fluently. This sounds counterintuitive, right? That people working or volunteering at a centre for immigrant women would act like that to women who don’t speak English?
These white people travel or volunteer for their own egos, their own agendas. People are props to them, and people who don’t speak English (especially people of colour) are props that they can’t use.
The English language as a measure of people’s intelligence and/or worth is exactly what the colonists intended. Don’t let yourself be a part of that.
Once I was in Germany for a work thing and the only place I could manage to get a room was this old local hotel run by an old German lady.
I speak: Italian, English, and a tiny bit of French.
She spoke: German and Czech.
It was the most fun I’ve ever had.
When I visited Paris, everyone told me how rude the French would be to me and how they’d *hate* if I spoke English but would hate it even more if I tried to speak French.
My sister and I both are *okay* at French. We both studied it for a few years. And all the people I met in Paris were nice and friendly as hell to us. I remember one waitress in particular who was super friendly and happy that we made an effort to read the French menu instead of requesting an English one. Everyone seemed to appreciate that we at least, tried our best in French.
I honestly am now suspicious every time someone tells me how rude the French are, especially Parisians. I’m starting to think the tourists themselves were being rude first.
cc'ing this particularly for @petermorwood’s attention. :) …The “have the very basics if nothing else” approach – please, thank you very much, I’m sorry my [language of travel] is so terrible, where’s the toilet, I’d like another, etc – has taken us far and wide without a lick of rudeness anywhere. Especially not France.
(Disclosure: my few French words and phrases are left over from a fourth-grade experimental class: Peter had college-level multimedia French and still speaks it better than he reads it.) Even simply to walk into a shop and say “Bonjour m'sieur, bonjour madame” and then add, in resigned but cheerful-enough English “I’m so sorry, that’s all I’ve got, can someone possibly help me?…” has produced much cheerfulness in return… and immediate English that’s been lightyears better than my French. Trying counts, and is pretty much invariably appreciated.
i hate whenever people say “autism and adhd are basically the same disorder” because that isn’t even remotely true. autism believes a strong defense is the best offense, and focuses on keeping plays connected in order to steadily earn points, while adhd is characterized by unpredictable high risk combination attacks that prioritize scoring
Do you ever practice your daily routines with eyes closed, only one hand, etc., so it would be easier to make the change if you suddenly become disabled in that way?
Do you ever practice your daily routines with eyes closed, only one hand, etc., so it would be easier to make the change if you suddenly become disabled in that way?
UNFOLLOW ME RIGHT FUCKING NOW IF YOU THINK ARO MEN ARENT PART OF THE COMMUNITY I HAVE NO TIME FOR YOUR BIGOTRY
following you now because people need to know Exclusion is Not Okay! Again:
Exclusion is Not Okay!
The LGBTQIA+ community was BUILT on excluded and marginalized groups coming together to fight for recognition and acceptance. Aro/Ace people not finding acceptance in THIS community? Of ALL places?!?! UNACCEPTABLE.
If you aren’t willing to acknowledge and accept people who don’t fit into your preexisting worldview, it doesn’t matter how wide that view is. You’re doing the same thing that others have done to you SO. DAMN. MUCH.
Prince Rupert’s drops are toughened glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water, which causes it to solidify into a tadpole-shaped droplet with a long, thin tail. These droplets are characterized internally by very high residual stresses, which give rise to counter-intuitive properties, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer or a bullet on the bulbous end without breaking, while exhibiting explosive disintegration if the tail end is even slightly damaged.
In nature, similar structures are produced under certain conditions in volcanic lava
fucking bullshit how when a member of the working class isn’t thriving in a system meant to exploit them it’s somehow their fucking fault because one way or another they’ve somehow Done Something Wrong.
“you should have asked for more hours” what if you’re working all you fucking can while still being able to stay awake on the job. which we shouldn’t have to fucking do.
“you shouldn’t have spent too much on things you don’t need” you should be able to spend on one or two nice fucking things without being broke
“you should get store brand instead of name brand” getting the store brand of everything still amounts to hundreds of fucking dollars for a week’s worth of groceries
“you should have listened to the financial advice you got as a teenager” we did. we fucking did.
“you shouldn’t have spent so much in loans” we did so we could get those Good Jobs You Need Degrees For like you fucking told us to
“you should have gotten a better degree” I shouldn’t fucking need one to have a job that I can live off of
“you should have started working sooner so you could have saved up” not every teenager has parents that will fucking let them work and even then you should not have to work on top of school as a fucking child
“you should have listened to this financial coach” I am not fucking poor because I didn’t listen to some grifter trying to sell me a fucking “course” that I can’t afford. I fucking promise you that.
“you should have” “you should” “you shouldn’t have "you shouldn’t” you should maybe fucking consider that this is bullshit. jumping through these hoops is bullshit. trying to do everything you were advised to just to still end up in shitty circumstances is bullshit. trying to prove you’ve made all the choices you were told were the right ones just to try to get people to believe your struggling isn’t your fault is bullshit. still being told it’s your fault because you didn’t do this Secret Financial Life Hack or whatever is bullshit. it’s all bullshit.
When I first signed up for electrolysis, the clinic owner told me her whole staff is trans. Cool. I assumed that meant trans femmes, since we’re the ones who usually need the facial hair removal, so it only makes sense that some of us will go into the business.
Nope! My electrolysis tech is a trans man with a full beard. Huh.
I like how every reply has unanimously agreed that he’s taking the hair for himself. We’re all on the same wavelength here.
I’m going to see him again today to continue my electrolysis. On a scale of one to that’s weird, how much of a bad idea is it to bring a printout of this comic?
I need to know how this ends.
(I haven’t shown him the comic yet. I keep forgetting to prant it)
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