tea drinkers: unlike you filthy disgusting creatures i only drink green chamomile peppermint raspberry lemon tea, which makes all my insides glow 10 times brighter and improve. i can feel my body get healthier by every drink i take of my delicious hot mug of TEA. youre absolutely disgusting and a waste of human potential
coffee drinker: hhhnng lov those beans
someone tagged this as #tw drama
coffee drinkers: i am unimaginably powerful. i can see through time. i haven’t slept in four days but who needs sleep when you are on a higher plane of existence. the beans are in my soul, they are in my heart. i AM the beans. soon i will vibrate at the harmonic resonance of the universe and transcend.
tea drinker: hhhhhhhhhhhot leaf juice
soda drinkers: death is coming. death is coming. pass me a hotdog.
energy drink drinkers: (just the fucking kill bill sirens played on repeat for eternity)
the caffeine fandom is fucking wild
Humans be like I’ll take a little poison. As a treat.
“I’ve had a horrible day and I blame it on not taking my poison ration”
tea drinkers: unlike you filthy disgusting creatures i only drink green chamomile peppermint raspberry lemon tea, which makes all my insides glow 10 times brighter and improve. i can feel my body get healthier by every drink i take of my delicious hot mug of TEA. youre absolutely disgusting and a waste of human potential
coffee drinker: hhhnng lov those beans
someone tagged this as #tw drama
coffee drinkers: i am unimaginably powerful. i can see through time. i haven’t slept in four days but who needs sleep when you are on a higher plane of existence. the beans are in my soul, they are in my heart. i AM the beans. soon i will vibrate at the harmonic resonance of the universe and transcend.
tea drinker: hhhhhhhhhhhot leaf juice
soda drinkers: death is coming. death is coming. pass me a hotdog.
energy drink drinkers: (just the fucking kill bill sirens played on repeat for eternity)
the caffeine fandom is fucking wild
Humans be like I’ll take a little poison. As a treat.
“I’ve had a horrible day and I blame it on not taking my poison ration”
Oh.. this is unfortunately me. I was held at ransom (not really) by a friend who wanted to introduce me to every single character of one such game, with a little background tale about their personality and his personal opinion of them.
There. Were. So. Many.
At first it was interesting and I was like “oooooo cool can you show me what they look like in the game and stuff?”
And he was like “NO!” And then went on to tell me all of the rest of the characters
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…….. I…I still don’t know what the game looks like when you’re playing it
really wish i’d figured this out sooner but refusing to capitulate to someone who you know from repeat experience is determined not to respect you whether they understand you or not really is one of the greatest experiences in the world because there is Nothing they can do about it that matters if you refuse to play along and trying to comprehend that is physically painful for them. you get to watch the light go out of their eyes in real time as the cracks begin to form in the tinted glass through which they see the world. power word kill your ego.
MAN I LOVE ARCHER FISH!!!!!!!! this is actually a learned behaviour and they can improve their skills via observation of older/more experienced fish. they can also adjust for light refraction in water AND they shoot ahead of flying insects so that the water jet catches them mid-flight, as well as adjusting the strength of their water jet for different kinds of prey. these fish are so intelligent and so ballsy
Listen if I was a powerful Djinn or ghost of Christmas Past type entity I think Mr. Beast would be the ripest pickings for symbolism-rich moralistic magical torture.
These things are made of garbage and glue and they want to charge this much for them??? Seriously considering just buying some real wood and making it myself. We tolerate this chipboard crap BECAUSE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE INCREDIBLY AFFORDABLE.
My cousins recently bought an extending table from a hardwood place, only to find out that the extension bit in the middle was not hardwood but actually some cheap material blend (I can’t remember what unfortunately).
When they complained they were told that it had to be this other material because you just can’t make that kind of table out of hardwood.
In my house right now there is a table from the late 19th century that folds out the same way as my cousins table and it is made from hardwoodwe have the technologyfor goodness sake’s.
the quality decline of the everything needs to die, I need to kill it with my fists.
While I also mourn the decline in quality and specifically sturdiness of objects over time (damn plastic), it’s not always true that because something existed in the past, it means we know how to make it now. Techniques get lost if no one writes them down/craftspeople don’t pass them on. Two very old examples are Roman concrete (which i still don’t think we have totally solved) and a blue ink used in manuscripts called folium (only very recently rediscovered how to make it), but I’m sure there are more recent ones as well.
I’m dead certain that we have not lost the art of cutting hardwood planks
I also figure that with something like a folding table that we still have existing examples of in functional use today it’d be easier to reverse-engineer how it works than, say, old dried ink we don’t have a recipe for getting the color of. If it really was a case of having lost the technique.
What I expect they mean is not “it’s impossible to make that out of hardwood” and more “but if we don’t give it a part of the table that will break relatively quickly we won’t have customers buying them from us continually!”
(Unless the issue is getting lumber from trees big enough because IIRC for some things that is a legit problem due to a lack of mature trees from so much logging and how long it takes trees to grow to the size needed. But I don’t think in the example of a table meant for a normal residence that you’re gonna run into that.)
Absolutely not an expert but I do think this is a problem of access to the correct sort of wood. I understand that professional craftsmen probably do not shop exclusively a the Home Depot, but that being said, a lot of the lumber you can find for purchase at hardware stores nowadays either warps easily or is already warped when you buy it. It is a lot easier for manufacturers to make a flat, light piece of chipboard than it is for them to try to source large, straight planks of hardwood. Old Growth Forests just… aren’t so much of a thing anymore.
My town’s main industry is pine production, in a world that makes sense our cheap furniture would be made of low-to-medium quality pine planks. Pine isn’t the ideal furniture wood but it’s miles more suitable for it than chipboard. But they export that and sell us glued together sawdust and charge more for it than they should be charging for nice hardwood. $300 is what that cabinet should cost if it were made from good furniture wood.
Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon
It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right
There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that
not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”
We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.
another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference
and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less
@valtsv you’ve probably seen this post a million times already but every time you talk about angels’ halos, I imagine them to look like the on the right
really wish i’d figured this out sooner but refusing to capitulate to someone who you know from repeat experience is determined not to respect you whether they understand you or not really is one of the greatest experiences in the world because there is Nothing they can do about it that matters if you refuse to play along and trying to comprehend that is physically painful for them. you get to watch the light go out of their eyes in real time as the cracks begin to form in the tinted glass through which they see the world. power word kill your ego.
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i understand now that this image wasn’t an exaggeration for comedic effect but a 1:1 dramatic recreation of a real life event
i genuinely hate how people have to sit and write a post that stands out while boosting a fundraiser because most people won’t bat an eye at the misery and inhumane conditions Palestinians are living in.
i see people making art and telling others to use it because fundraisers with art are generally reblogged more often. i see people using colored text in order to make the post more eye catching.
palestinians on instagram are using popular audios and stitch trending reels at the beginning to make the world pay attention to them. imagine having to make something look entertaining in order to survive.
they are living under constant threat of israeli airstrikes, bombing, scarcity of food and disease. many have lost a lot in the past few months.
palestinians on tumblr are posting their pictures and the horrible conditions in which they are living. they travel long distances for internet connection only to be called a scammer by some privileged ass who cannot locate gaza on a map.
here are some verified gfms. please share the linked posts. it’s the bare minimum we can do from the comforts of our home.
not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]
I’m remembering that they say the moon is so big because a rogue planet crashed into proto-Earth and broke off a chunk, which clumped together and started orbiting the rest.
I’m remembering the concept of soulmates, who used to be one soul, but were torn apart by heavenly forces.
I do love Tumblr’s isolation from some topics, but we’re tragically missing out on the JD Vance couchfucking saga
OKAY I’LL SUMMARIZE
So JD Vance is Trump’s veep pick to replace Mike Pence (who made the fatal GOP error of following the constitution on J6 2020 and not announcing Trump as eternal godking)
Overall, Vance’s rollout since the GOP convention has been
not
great
Now, some important context is that a bunch of extremely sexist and off-putting video has surfaced from previous campaigns, podcasts, etc. For example:
In a 2021 appearance on Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show, Vance, who was then a candidate for the Ohio Senate, told Carlson that the United States was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
This generated a lot of outrage, as you’d expect, and the current peak result of this quote is major news outlets talking about Jennifer Aniston calling him heartless. Vance’s other quotes are driving a lot of news stories, they can be looked up, yadda yadda, but they’re not really part of this particular saga.
No, what’s really captured people’s attention about Vance is this one tweet that someone dashed off:
Damn, it even has page numbers cited! It must be legit, right?
No. It’s totally made up. But people wanted to believe, and boy, did they run with it. A sample:
Snopes chimed in with a factcheck on whether that text was in Vance’s book, and no, it was not.
The Associated Press tried to do the same, but there’s one problem: they phrased their headline a little differently.
And people pointed out that while you can objectively verify whether certain text is contained inside a book, you can’t actually verify that Vance has never had sex with a couch! Whether for the AP realizing that they’d posted an unverifiable “factcheck” headline, or for an editor going “why the fuck did you write that in the first place,” this soon happened:
Which means that if you try to visit the article saying that no, Vance didn’t fuck a couch, you see this:
As many people immediately realized: it’s funny to have the AP run its initial headline; it’s fuckinghilarious for them to pull the factcheck after its publication. The collective hilarity surged even higher.
I found this in my old cotl stash, I was too lazy to do a background but I did actually draw them cuddling(?) together in the grass later on so I’ll just pretend I redeemed myself.
Um actually scrub daddy is my comfort character and it physically and psychically hurts me to see you chop him up and eat him after freezing and cracking him up with liquid nitrogen while naked with big boobs?
dont worry abt it, you just keep reading your lines and well take care of the rest. you’ll be a star.
you’re not a disability advocate if you make fun of people with incontinence or people that drool or peoples motor functions or people with brain damage or people with low intelligence 👍
“is it okay if I draw fanart for your fic? do you mind if–” come. take my hand. we will waltz through the lavender fields and let the sunshine spill over our windblown hair until the twilight calls us home. we are bound to each other in creative harmony and I will keep it as close to me as I keep the beat of my heart
“is it okay if I draw fanart for your fic? do you mind if–” come. take my hand. we will waltz through the lavender fields and let the sunshine spill over our windblown hair until the twilight calls us home. we are bound to each other in creative harmony and I will keep it as close to me as I keep the beat of my heart
Everyone who plays around with Tarot cards long enough winds up with a “bad” card that they love. I just barely persuaded my husband not to get the Ten of Swords tattooed on his body; traditionally, it shows a corpse with ten swords stuck in their body and means “utter ruin,” but he thought that if it took ten swords to kill you, then you must have put up a pretty good fight.
honestly this is the most badass ten of swords interpretation i’ve ever heard. i’m stealing this
Homeless LGBT Couple is struggling and needs help!
Hello everyone.
My little family is struggling really bad this month and could use some support. We are still homeless and I’m still sick, and have been feeling much sicker with the excessive heat in our area. These last few weeks have been a train wreck for reasons I wont get into, but either way, I’m burning out quickly and could use some relief.
We need to eat but we can’t afford anything. We also need temporary shelter to keep out of the heat so I can rest (with a bathroom) while I recover from being sick. Any help keeping safe and covering food so I can focus on getting better and finding work again would be greatly appreciated. I can’t keep like this much longer.
(Please, no hate or unsolicited advice. I don’t have the energy to deal with it and I will block you.)
We have no food and could use help with shelter this week. Anything helps.
We have 24 hours to get enough for our motel room, or we will be without shelter in the morning. I’m still sick, my lungs are filling with fluid, and my body is wracked with fatigue and pain when I have to leave the bed, especially in the heat. We are broke, and very little has come in this whole week, so any help is appreciated.
We have about 20 hours left. Nothing has come in yet.
I’m in a very bad place and could use support.
We are without food or shelter today. I woke up sick to my stomach, and the first moments in the heat magnified this. Please, if anyone can send some help so we can get a new room as soon as one is available somewhere, it would mean a lot.
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