Ah, but yes you can! Ordinary Sausage on youtube has spent years providing content for anyone who’d like to see just what would happen if you made a sausage out of whatever you can think of:
Recently Mr. Sausage has also been putting more time into his non-sausage videos, including stuff like Chicken Boiled in Nuclear Green Kool-Aid and Carbonated Eggs. Check it all out if you aren’t prone to being easily grossed out.
Okay so a guy in my solid state physics class was telling us about this muon scanning startup he worked at, GScan, and I’m going insane. I don’t work there and I have no stake in the company, financial or otherwise, I just need to tell you about it.
Muons are short-lived subatomic particles, same charge as an electron but ~200 times more massive. On Earth, they’re produced by cosmic rays colliding with the upper atmosphere, and they hit the ground at a rate of about ten thousand per minute per square meter.
They’re moving extremely fast at ground level, like 0.99 c. So they careen right through matter, deflecting only very slightly around heavy atomic nuclei – they’ll penetrate like a hundred meters into solid rock.
What do you do with this continuous shower of deep-penetrating charged particles, constantly blanketing every square inch of the Earth’s surface?
The classic thing is use them to image the inside of massive structures, like we use x-rays to look inside living tissue – except instead of generating them yourself, you just use atmospheric muons. Muon archeology is a whole thing, they’ve used it to find hidden chambers in pyramids and stuff. Neat!
But this one Estonian company is doing some crazy bullshit and I love it.
Sandwich anything between a pair of portable muon detectors and get full 3D imaging of the interior, with sub-millimeter accuracy, by tracking the minute deflection of muons between them. Samples that are WAY too thick for x-rays, made of literally anything. Just put some muon detectors on some two by fours in a warehouse and call it a day.
You can just. Image anything??? Anything you want?? Completely passively!! Just detectors! No particle source! Put them anywhere. The detectors themselves are a mature technology, the company’s tech is in the algorithms they use to get this level of spatial and elemental resolution.
You can detect failures inside cable-reinforced concrete bridges without cutting open the bridges.
Decommissioned Soviet nuclear submarine filled with concrete, with no drawings or documentation, that may or may not have spent fuel canisters in it? And you need to cut it up for storage? Just look at the muons.
One of the wackiest ideas is to put one detector under your bed and one on the ceiling, so you get a full 3D scan of your body every night, passively. I want one.
AU: President Obama falls for part white house intern part rockstar Harry Styles. Obama surprises Harry in the audience of one of his shows and the affair blossoms from there.
Please get this off my dashboard right now immediately
You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that’s happened gradually, and which I’ve seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I’m not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it’s due to the homogenization of social media sites? There’s a lot more of this divide between “content creator” and “consumer” instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. “Asks” aren’t really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an “ask” on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it’s probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
this example from this crt reader in the intersectionality section about a “hypothetical black woman” is so irritating to me… abortion is a concern that arises specifically out of the white female experience?
“White women want abortions while Black women want affordable childcare services” is profoundly racist and completely inaccurate. The American abortion rights movement was successful because it included women from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and income levels.
The 1970 Women’s Strike included explicit demands for legal abortions and free childcare.
This is also just like….such a transparent example of the sort of feminist-Goofus-and-Gallant shit that people constantly use to scare women away from feminism?? Literally this is just using pseudo-anti-racist rhetoric to legitimize the dynamic of “Sally says she is a feminist, but she only wants feminism so she can be a cold, selfish, power-hungry baby killer :( But Brenda is a feminist because she just wants it to be easier to do her job of birthing and nurturing babies :) So see, feminism is okay sometimes :)))” Like we’ve seriously gone full “Angel in the House” in regards to how we talk about poor and/or racialized women sometimes and it’s mindbogglingly demeaning on both a racist and sexist level. If this hypothetical woman wanted to be a Fortune 500 CEO that popped Plan B pills like Altoids, the need to include her in the feminist movement would be no less urgent.
The idea that black women wouldn’t be interested in electing a female president sure aged poorly
the reader that text was from was written in 2001; I think the authors meant well, but they weren’t walking their own talk enough yet to realize that maybe they should have asked some of their Black colleagues to provide the examples involving Black people. (Richard Delgado is of Latino background, his wife Elise Stefancic is white). Interestingly, in a 2011 interview, Delgado talks about the difficulty when you’re a scholar talking about race to a primarily white audience, how easy it is to get watered down trying to keep that audience listening long enough to do anything, makes me wonder if that was part of the gross example choices.
But yeah, also maybe people arguing in good faith should be using examples of “feminist” writing that isn’t old enough now to fuckin’ vote as representative of “feminism.” Particularly when said example is from a critical race theory reader, not something purporting to be primarily about “feminism,” intersectional or not. Delgado and Stefancic are in their 80s. A lot of 80-something academics said shit that sounded progressive 25 years ago but would be pretty dated and cringey now. Question: Why are we calling this out now, stirring up ancient discourse?
A long way around to say:
How about let’s NOT recirculate outdated conservative boogeyman-texts to spread division. Maybe instead of doing that, boost actual Black peoples’ voices. Or if you MUST be the purity police, call out racism that’s happening NOW in the feminist community, not a quarter century ago, instead of getting in a lather about shit that was written before a lot of you even existed and doing the likes of goddamn Tucker Carlson’s work for him.
HATE when there’s an objectively cooler word for what you want to say but you can’t use it because it’s “archaic” or “obsolete” 🙄 Okay well my best friends from the 1600s say it sounds fine.
OP this can’t stay in the tags
Anyway you can pry “alas” out of my cold dead hands.
Old school words totally work in the right context imo. Like most creative things, it’s largely a matter of making it work.
Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.
Gypsy does not mean wanderer.
It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.
Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.
Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.
Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.
Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.
And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.
non romani people, please reblog this.
As someone with romani friends, THIS IS INSANELY IMPORTANT
OP left out the third tweet talking about asexuality haha
Bi asexual 😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Lesbian asexual????
GUYS I LITERALLY HAVE A POSTER OF HER ON MY WALL BECAUSE SHE WAS SUCH A HUGE PART OF MY GAY AWAKENING I FEEL SO VALIDATED RIGHT NOW
WE FEEL VALIDATED IN THIS HISTORY TONIGHT
Just wanted to share this for my ace lesbian followers! Marilyn Monroe was most probably one of us asexuals, even if she didn’t know about/use the terms we use to describe ourselves today. Reading these excerpts is almost the textbook experiences of aces before we find out community.
-FemaleWarrior™
I really like “it was like hearing all the time that stove polish was the greatest invention on earth.” Because yes, that’s exactly the sentiment of the disconnect.
that The Chaser blog that the laid off employee still has access to might be one of my favorite things ever. i fucking love when bosses forget to revoke access to company accounts. ultimate revenge. chaotic good.
The construction workers within the community will keep up on maintenance. You see that? This is solidarity and mutual aid in the face of capitalist oppression.
The median rent in Houston(assuming this is Texas) is $1,853 a month. This person is likely being handed $59,296 a month. Even if they have to pay utilities or maintenance that’s still a comfortable six figure yearly salary. How the FUCK do they not have ANYTHING left over. Like how do you blow through nearly $60k a month. I could spend $60k in a month once, not EVERY month. That is a fucking embarrassment of riches, like I want to see this person’s bank statements, what in GOD’S name are you doing every month that costs $60k. At that point it is actually your fault if you don’t have a savings to deal with something like this, truly I cannot even fathom spending that much money every month. If I was making that kind of money I’d have like two savings accounts and a retirement fund and I’d have gold or some other easily liquidated asset to sell if something exactly like this happened, and I’m a dirt poor dipshit who’s never even seen that kind of money in person. The FUCK is this person’s excuse??
Sorry rent in Houston is $1,800 a month??? How the fuck are Americans alive???
The construction workers within the community will keep up on maintenance. You see that? This is solidarity and mutual aid in the face of capitalist oppression.
The median rent in Houston(assuming this is Texas) is $1,853 a month. This person is likely being handed $59,296 a month. Even if they have to pay utilities or maintenance that’s still a comfortable six figure yearly salary. How the FUCK do they not have ANYTHING left over. Like how do you blow through nearly $60k a month. I could spend $60k in a month once, not EVERY month. That is a fucking embarrassment of riches, like I want to see this person’s bank statements, what in GOD’S name are you doing every month that costs $60k. At that point it is actually your fault if you don’t have a savings to deal with something like this, truly I cannot even fathom spending that much money every month. If I was making that kind of money I’d have like two savings accounts and a retirement fund and I’d have gold or some other easily liquidated asset to sell if something exactly like this happened, and I’m a dirt poor dipshit who’s never even seen that kind of money in person. The FUCK is this person’s excuse??
Sorry rent in Houston is $1,800 a month??? How the fuck are Americans alive???
and was marie antoinette effectively utilizing coquette dollette hyper feminine toxic femininity lana del rey old money ceramic baby fawn sad girl girlhood girlblogger girlboss power when she secretly conspired with foreign countries to kill scores of her own citizens in an attempt to restore the absolute monarchy and the regime that had rendered millions starving poor oppressed colonized enslaved and murdered
and was marie antoinette effectively utilizing coquette dollette hyper feminine toxic femininity lana del rey old money ceramic baby fawn sad girl girlhood girlblogger girlboss power when she secretly conspired with foreign countries to kill scores of her own citizens in an attempt to restore the absolute monarchy and the regime that had rendered millions starving poor oppressed colonized enslaved and murdered
and was marie antoinette effectively utilizing coquette dollette hyper feminine toxic femininity lana del rey old money ceramic baby fawn sad girl girlhood girlblogger girlboss power when she secretly conspired with foreign countries to kill scores of her own citizens in an attempt to restore the absolute monarchy and the regime that had rendered millions starving poor oppressed colonized enslaved and murdered
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
pet peeve of mine whenever I talk about being bisexual online and people want to make it about them
I love being bisexual but the second I talking about liking dudes I get people in my mentions going “ew dudes I’m only into women” and it’s like. Hm. Well I’d like to do this to you
pet peeve of mine whenever I talk about being bisexual online and people want to make it about them
I love being bisexual but the second I talking about liking dudes I get people in my mentions going “ew dudes I’m only into women” and it’s like. Hm. Well I’d like to do this to you
when i was really little and had just learned how to write my full name . i noticed my twin brother had really messy handwriting. while mine was like … as nice as it could be for a little kid. so i wrote my name in his handwriting on a wall and i waited to see who our parents would get mad at . and they blamed him. and that was when my life of crime began
all joking aside it’s really funny that like little kids do things like that sometimes . my mom would look at her phone everytime she was at a red light so i got into the habit of saying “green” once the light changed so she would know . one day i was like “i wonder if i say green while it’s red if she’ll go” and so i did . and she did . and i got yelled at real bad
though looking back on it what the hell was she doing relying on like a five year old . who was a chronic shoplifter and liar . for that . i’m surprised we didn’t get into more accidents
My mom is Deaf so when I was like 5 I plugged all the drains in the bathroom with towels & toilet paper and turned the bathtub and sink on full blast before we went out to go shopping cause I knew she wouldn’t hear it and I flooded the entire house for no reason
ok that is some nasty shit i can’t even believe the amount of damage that would’ve done 😭
Today on “Indigo posts fanart for the niche indie game visual novel nobody following him knows about”, we’ve got a mothman! Not THE Mothman, that would be his dad. I firmly believe he has ADHD just like me because come on. Look at him. He goes on long rambles that can bore and confuse some, he’s very bubbly, loud, and energetic, he tends to forget about responsibilities or procrastinate on them until the last moment… need I go on? He’s just like me fr fr.
when i was really little and had just learned how to write my full name . i noticed my twin brother had really messy handwriting. while mine was like … as nice as it could be for a little kid. so i wrote my name in his handwriting on a wall and i waited to see who our parents would get mad at . and they blamed him. and that was when my life of crime began
all joking aside it’s really funny that like little kids do things like that sometimes . my mom would look at her phone everytime she was at a red light so i got into the habit of saying “green” once the light changed so she would know . one day i was like “i wonder if i say green while it’s red if she’ll go” and so i did . and she did . and i got yelled at real bad
though looking back on it what the hell was she doing relying on like a five year old . who was a chronic shoplifter and liar . for that . i’m surprised we didn’t get into more accidents
My mom is Deaf so when I was like 5 I plugged all the drains in the bathroom with towels & toilet paper and turned the bathtub and sink on full blast before we went out to go shopping cause I knew she wouldn’t hear it and I flooded the entire house for no reason
ok that is some nasty shit i can’t even believe the amount of damage that would’ve done 😭
