egglygreg:

dracula61:

This is Louise Numina, an indigenous Aussie artist painting bush medicine leaves- more videos and pics of her art can be found at raintreeartballarat

sallyhansenpacificblue:

sallyhansenpacificblue:

liam is the worst member of one direction but indisputably has the best tweets

tvarchive:

SEVERANCE 1.02 - ‘Half Loop’

carlyraejepsans:

ALT

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no more sans remembers resets, the world has progressed past the need for sans remembers resets

skippyisntfunny:

bloos-bloo:

I love angsttt I love makin’ things-

Anyways- ramble under the cut :P basically lore stuff for my AU

Keep reading

sleepysnailzzz:

velvety-vixen:

wheeled-jack:

strawberrydragon:

moonymango:

what-even-is-thiss:

xxfanenbyanonymousxx:

bisexual-redacted-energy:

what-even-is-thiss:

cheeseanonioncrisps:

what-even-is-thiss:

krystal-prisms:

enderenby404:

wooteena:

off-and-odd-again:

wooteena:

are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane

Imagine an empty storefront. Some business that closed years ago. The building stands empty, unused for literal months. And then boom. Fall comes around and there’s a Spirit Halloween. There’s no escape.

what the fuck 😁

Yeah this is a thing

Are you serious

Yes and they are divine gifts of beauty and cheap plastic lawn decorations.

… I honestly assumed that the existence of Halloween stores was just a running joke in American TV shows.

No they’re very real

Can confirm this phenomenon also occurs in Canada

It’s fun

Oh, it’s a blast.

Wait, so during non-halloween they are just empty? Like, they don’t switch between seasonal decorations (like christmas, easter, etc), they just…close and wait for next year???

Yeah, it’s not a permanent store. A company will rent an empty building for the 2-3 months before halloween, sell halloween stuff, and then clean everything up and disappear until the following year. And they’ll usually set up in different buildings from year to year. They just find any good-sized empty store space that will give them a cheap, short-term lease.

It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:

So you’re telling me that every year for a month or two the Spirit of Halloween possesses a dead building then disappears?

that is exactly what we’re telling you

So this means you DON’T have Halloween stores all year round??? I’ve been bamboozled. My only reason to ever visit the USA has been DESTROYED.

artifacts-and-arthropods:

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This plush bird was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

ur-daily-inspiration:

source

hymenoptera07:

barrel-fish:

A comic based on this poem

@solarwavejuice hai thought maybe you’d like this :3

ironychan:

It’s weird how geological time works. Eras start and end bit by bit over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. That sounds like a big uncertainty but that sort of timescale, on which the climate can overhaul itself completely and entire species rise and fall, is instantaneous compared to the age of the earth. Any hypothetical sentient creature would have no idea it was living through a major turning point. The Silurian slid into the Devonian as land plants became A Thing and insects started to wonder if ‘pilot’ might be a good career path, but there was no one moment when one thing ended and another began. That’s not how that works…

… except for the Cretaceous. The Cretaceous had a Last Day and it was probably in April, and then the next day it was the Paleogene.

guysonroblox:

dogposts:

pseudocapsicum:

pouring coca cola into a rare, sickly bird’s mouth confidently and without doubt

queer-as-city-folk:

Tutorial on how to build a train

1. Steal rails from LA metro, they aren’t using them
2. Put then where you want to go
3. Go to Japan and buy a train
4. Hire a guy
5. Make him drive the train
6. Congrats

gatheringofaccounts:

strawberrymilk123:

dyst-blogs:

pukicho:

sliceocheese:

pukicho:

Having media literacy is more important than being good at math prove me wrong

oh great lord pukicho your ass is fat and your wisdom is plentiful 🙇🙇🙇

Thanks bro

prev you have passed peer review

tyltos:

inkskinned:

she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

tyltos:

inkskinned:

she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

dumbbitchawards:

This is real

texashippiecowboy:

i’m in true shock x

draculasstrawhat:

earlgraytay:

wrenchinator-central:

special-agent-dale-gooper:

So this graph appears to be from an organization called Marriage Pact, which… look, I don’t care enough to actually research this, but they seem to be AI/economics bros (who also worked at a self-driving car company) who have weird ideas about online dating. Their thing is a “viral dating experience” powered by machine learning.

Their logo is literally on the graph.

As for the study itself, it’s not actually asking how most people meet these days; it’s comparing traditional and nontraditional relationships on a bunch of different axes, to see how people stay together.

Oh, and speaking of axes? You notice anything about that last number? 2020 is what statisticians call a confounding factor. No one was meeting people at the bar, or going out with their friends, or even spending much time with non-immediate family in 2020, even though they very much are in 2024. 2020 was so goddamn weird that it warped the graph for everyone.

How much did it warp the graph? Well, we don’t have the data points…. because the lovely AI bros of the Marriage Pact smoothed out the graph. So we don’t know. But this graph is trying to sell you something.

This is your frienbly remembly to fact check your tumblr posts before you succumb to doomerism. Thenk.

Also, my immediate thought on looking at this graph is how did they do their sampling?

Because there are three options - the first is a longitudinal study or metadata analysis of asking people how they met their partner over the course of 70 years.

It is obviously not this, because the shape is wrong - the curves are too steep. If this is what you’re measuring, a couple who met through friends in 1960 will *still* have met through friends in 1980, and 2000, etc.

But in this graph, around 35% of the couples met through friends from the period of 1980 to 2010, but only about 8% in 2020 - which suggests that 87% of people who met their partner through friends had a break up/died between 2010 and 2020.

This is clearly not the case. So, they are measuring both new relationships started AND how they met, which they could either do:

a) through a longitudinal/metadata study, covering 70 years - which would be a valid approach. Every 2-5 years, ask a sample of new/newish couples how they got together and how long they’ve been together, or compile a bunch of studies over done on this over the years.

This is a sound method and might produce that graph, although it may also explain that sharp online uptick through sampling bias - where are you most likely to advertise a survey, and who is most likely to fill it in.

But… looking at the very small text under the image, I don’t think that’s where they got the sample. They talk about “analysis of the original survey” - singular. Which, unless this is a longitudinal study of 70 years standing, means this is a recent, self selecting sample for a self-report survey, part of which asks people to state the start year of their current relationship, and where they met.

Which means they’ve got a broad sample of people - some of whom have had relationships of up to 70 years in length, and some of whom have clearly met last week (assuming the survey was done in 2020) how they met.

Which means we are counting data of couples who have had their Diamond Wedding as being on a par those of people who have been together six months. Can we say survivorship bias?

Even if they’ve factored in previous relationships (as in “were you dating in this time period, if so, how did you tend to meet people?”) we are veering in to really sketchy self report and there is NO WAY this data can be seen as representative.

For one thing, what is the sample size of people who were dating in 1950 compared to that of 1980? These people must be 85 at least.

And if it is continuous measurement, how have they accounted for the fact that someone dating as a teenager in 1960 would be a 20somethings in 1970 and a 30something in 1980 - which is going to skew their dating and socialising habits ENORMOUSLY?

Basically, I hate this graph.

sacred-portal:

armchair-factotum:

landmoose:

memewhore:

Grand Old Boars can of course cast spells as a 17th level sorcerer

tyltos:

inkskinned:

she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

cryoverkiltmilk:

devantnuit-ladeluge:

only-tiktoks:

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.

ellipsus-writes:

Happy Whumptober Wednesday, everyone!

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punkitt-is-here:

littlefirefly42:

akashicrecord:

6 year old asked me why i dont like mr beast and i didnt have an answer that a small child could understand so i said he tried to eat a homeless person a long time ago

Spreading misinformation to children because you don’t believe they’re mature enough to understand a topic is actually not a good thing. At all.

it’s true tho he ate that homeless person up. He went yum yum and shit it was brutal

baddywronglegs:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

ebonyheartnet:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

Nah one straw is no problem bro. I’m the strongest camel ever, I’m carrying like TEN THOUSAND straw right now. If I can handle ten thousand straw then what’s one straw gonna do? Stands to reason. Just chuck it on bro, it’ll be fine.

By Talos this can’t be happening

#posts with 10k. to me

Bold thing to say on a one minute old post

At 9 hours and 2,444 notes currently, we are at 24.4% of our goal. If we want to reach our goal by the end of today, we need to get a move on.

Why is this website like this

And so the builder, dropping a brick on their own foot, curses the house

cryoverkiltmilk:

devantnuit-ladeluge:

only-tiktoks:

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.

auckie:

Calling any object I dislike debris regardless of size or purpose

offical-liechtenstein:

I can’t drink bleach anymore :(

bogleech:

greatjaggi:

Did they stop quartering people cuz they realized all it did was create four of the guy they were trying to kill

posts from the timeline where starfish are the dominant civilization

iambad:

iambad:

ok i’m done being crazy lol

no i’m not

i-am-a-duck-collector:

transarsonist:

finnslay:

xthehatchick:

wheeloffortune-design:

varangianviper:

deus-ex-aquila:

wheeloffortune-design:

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ABOUT BISEXUALITY

that purple in the middle is not the right saturation, it doesn’t fit with the other two colors and it drives me crazy.

all right, I think I got this, I’ve got dual citizenship and I have another flag we can borrow from:

step 1

step 2

step 3

This is true bi/ace solidarity.

holy shit

This is the only correct way

[Patchnotes]

1. swapped purple in bisexual and asexual flags for better saturation matching and color theory

the correct color hex that the purple should be (mixing the pink and blue) is:

#6B1D8C

the ace purple is:

#81007F

next to each other you can clearly see the differece.

however i totally am i here for bi/ace solidarity and i love the new ace flag so who cares. i was just curious what the correct one would be.

peach-flavored-cyanide:

just-prompt-things:

best trope and you can fight me over it (i abuse this so hard with my ocs)

alternatively

runby2:

hauntingrabbits:

comic

the implications of this comic are astronomic and too much for me to handle at 10 AM.

streetchicken:

COTLtober Day 15 : Piece of Flesh

Geel the yellow cat is much more than just a piece of flesh to Leshy :)

Day 14 / Day 16

VV Cotl Drawtober prompts by @/stychu-stych

Keep reading

askzloyxp:

ihavenohotcocoa:

ctommyinnnit:

ROSANNA PANSINO???

??????

I don’t think y’all understand how dedicated this woman is to fucking up Mr. Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI

She got a journalism degree and ended up not using it because she was concerned her dyslexia would cause issues, only for Mr. Beast to be such an asshole that she’s using that degree for everything it’s worth

She’s been leading the main charge against Mr. Beast basically ever since she initially called him out for editing one of his youtuber competitions so that the top three excluded her and Quackity, who were actually in the top three.

This woman is done playing games and so far she’s done some wild stuff to completely fuck over Mr. Beast, including leaking full copies of his organization documents and documents given to employees of his company.

Actual icon

(All information is taken from tweets and YouTube videos by Rosanna Pansino and I encourage you to go read them for yourself)

irlactualhuman:

Compliment them. That person you think has their shit together and wouldn’t need it or want to hear it. They do. They absolutely do. Their shit is dispersed. I promise you. It is a shambles.

I’ve had someone tell me to my face that they would compliment me, but for the fact that I already know this or that about myself. Huh???? No. Sorry.

No I don’t. In my weaker moments I become an ungrateful mud monkey that has never once internalized a compliment

I adore being told you like me or something I’ve done. It sustains me, and in my weaker moments when I forget that life is good and happy, you might catch me before I fall.

You ever had someone catch you like that? You can do it too. The ones that catch you have been you in that moment before and know they will be again.

cryoverkiltmilk:

devantnuit-ladeluge:

only-tiktoks:

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.

darrylayo: