oh good oh boy oh golly gee my city police dept has robot dogs now. that’s so fun. hey siri where is the weak point of a boston dynamics quadroped located
We need her now
Did u find out where it is btw because i think it should be basic knowledge for the public for safety reasons
On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day.
This is the infamous tweet
and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity
There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph
I MISSED ED BALLS DAY AND IM MAD ABOUT IT SO THIS IS GOING INTO MY QUEUE FOR ED BALLS DAY 2023
HAPPY ED BALLS DAY FROM THE PAST MOTHERFUCKERS
Happy Ed Balls day 2024!
[ID: 1. A picture of Ed Balls on a london underground ad. Text below reads, “Never forget. 28th April #EdBallsDay.”
2. A tweet from edballs, written on 28th april 2011. it reads, “ed balls.”
3. A tweet from nick_clegg: “Ed Balls.” this was followed by a tweet from edballs: “I agree with Nick… RT @nick_clegg: Ed Balls.”
4. Ed Balls’ Wikipedia page edited to have every single word replaced with the phrase, “Ed Balls.”
5. A photo of a selection of birthday cards marked as celebrating the event, “Ed Balls Day.” A tweet from Carousel_Lights remarks: “#EdBallsDay has become so commercialised. Shame really.”
6. A series of Coke bottles. The label on each reads, “Share a Coke with Ed Balls.”
7. A framed and signed version of the original Ed Balls tweet.
8. A photo of two Tesco’s Scotch eggs. A tweet from Tesco describes them as, “Egg Balls.”
9. A tweet from edballs, which reads: “Ed Balls #10LongYears.” Attached is a photo of Ed Balls holding a birthday cake with a “10” candle. /end ID]
On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day.
This is the infamous tweet
and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity
There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph
I MISSED ED BALLS DAY AND IM MAD ABOUT IT SO THIS IS GOING INTO MY QUEUE FOR ED BALLS DAY 2023
HAPPY ED BALLS DAY FROM THE PAST MOTHERFUCKERS
Happy Ed Balls day 2024!
[ID: 1. A picture of Ed Balls on a london underground ad. Text below reads, “Never forget. 28th April #EdBallsDay.”
2. A tweet from edballs, written on 28th april 2011. it reads, “ed balls.”
3. A tweet from nick_clegg: “Ed Balls.” this was followed by a tweet from edballs: “I agree with Nick… RT @nick_clegg: Ed Balls.”
4. Ed Balls’ Wikipedia page edited to have every single word replaced with the phrase, “Ed Balls.”
5. A photo of a selection of birthday cards marked as celebrating the event, “Ed Balls Day.” A tweet from Carousel_Lights remarks: “#EdBallsDay has become so commercialised. Shame really.”
6. A series of Coke bottles. The label on each reads, “Share a Coke with Ed Balls.”
7. A framed and signed version of the original Ed Balls tweet.
8. A photo of two Tesco’s Scotch eggs. A tweet from Tesco describes them as, “Egg Balls.”
9. A tweet from edballs, which reads: “Ed Balls #10LongYears.” Attached is a photo of Ed Balls holding a birthday cake with a “10” candle. /end ID]
I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD. If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?
CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY
this is awesome but the original link just turned into a redirect loop for me, here it is again (x)
OH HELLO
No more potatoes in medieval novels!
BREAD and SOUP have been around longer than alcohol and milk and domesticated chickens and tea and marshmallows (2000BC!!) and coffee and the Neolithic and the UK being islands and ancient Egypt and ancient Greece and Rome and Jesus… love for BREAD and SOUP is as old as time
I’d say that’s why they’re my favorite foods, but brocoli is my favorite and it was invented in 1993
no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube’s forced ads (at least until they fix it)
Just a reminder my blog is trans inclusive. It’s bi inclusive. It is pan inclusive. It is intersex inclusive. It is ace/asexual inclusive. It is aro/aromantic inclusive. It is queer inclusive.
I don’t support terfs or exclusionists.
If you came here looking for an ally in your bigotry you came to the wrong blog. Go away. You are not welcome here.
realistically i know that many of the people i interact with are british but i will never be prepared for the accent ever. its just not natural. “oh im propper splinkied up on this jobby mate” what the fuck does that mean.
Does it help if I, a Brit, declare that you’re allowed to be weird to us.
you know if you think about it the whole “don’t mess with gamers… i’m close to leveling up and you look like just enough xp” novelty shirt is kinda funny. imagine a shirt that says “if you displease me i will kill you and absorb your essence”
NEW POKEMON CONFIRMED FOR XY!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO NAMES AS OF YET, BUT IT IS BELIEVED TO BE AN ELECTRIC/ICE TYPE!!!!!!!! POPULAR FAN NAMES ARE “BLUE PIKACHU", “ICELECTRIC", AND “GAY SHITTY IDIOT".
daylight savings is actually truly one of the most evil things in the world. just casually forcing us to confront the fact that time is fake while torturing insomniacs, autistics and schoolchildren across the globe. when will the agony end
ideas conceived by the truly deranged
America mostly observes DST, but landlocked Arizona does not, but inside Arizona is the Navajo Nation which DOES, but inside the Navajo Nation is the Hopi Reservation which DOES NOT.
Its worse when you realize that there’s multiple layers of “Navajo nation inside Hopi Reservation, and Hopi Reservation inside Navajo nation” going on
The surrounding pink/brown is Arizona
The top right yellow corner is the Navajo nation
Any pink/brown inside the yellow corner is Hopi reservation
Any further yellow inside that is further pieces of the Navajo nation inside the Hopi reservation
And I think there’s even a city or two inside those yellow pieces that are Hopi, but are too small to see on the map
I calculated once that you could travel in a straight line between two points in Arizona and have the current time change 10-12 times because of this
I had to find it. and yes, if you include the border between AZ and NM, you would have to change your clock a total of 12 times, or 11 if you’re only counting time changes within state lines.
“she’s aging so well!!” and the woman they’re referring to is like 27. touch grass
Can’t make this stuff up anymore but I just saw someone dissing on a female celebrity by going “she’s 29 but she’s still living like she’s 23… so jealous” bc she posted a silly photo where she’s posing??? What 😭😭😭
draw it bad and draw it weird and draw it catered only to yourself and draw it wobbly and draw it too small and draw it with the default brush and draw it without using references and draw it and leave it unfinished and draw it for the first time and draw it
i just found this very threatening drawing of darrell on my phone from many months ago and i have no recollection of drawing it i’m scared why is he looking at me like that
one of the more bleak things to acknowledge is that if you pirate literally all of your music and then set aside a spotify subscription’s worth of money each month to spend on a single pay-what-you-want album, it would almost immediately amount to you supporting those musicians more than streaming does
pirating all of your music and then buying a hat or something four times a year still makes you pull significantly ahead of the person who streams thousands of songs every year. it’s not really a fair or good system for anyone
What a good post to reblog on bandcamp friday. Remember that any money you spend on albums on bandcamp today goes 100% to the artist.
I saw a lot of people reblogging this with my addition two days ago and now I’m afraid some of them might have thought it was bandcamp friday that day lol. So for anyone with post timestamps turned off: I made that addition on Friday March 7th 2025. Bandcamp fridays always fall on the first friday of the month (when they do them) so the next one should fall on April 4th
The next Bandcamp Friday is on May 2nd, 2025! You can use this page to check how long until the next one :3
im american and i knew that like in kindergarten so i think some of you are just stupid sorry
“US curriculums don’t talk about-” ok? And? Are you guys not absorbing literally any information from the outside world? Tv, movies, books, people talking around you? Hello????
I’m sorry do people need to be taught that other countries have metropolitan cities in school or is that information you can kinda infer from like. existing in real life
Absurd that people will just say shit like this with their whole chest. If I had somehow gotten through life to age 21 believing that my country had cities but my silly primitive sepia-toned neighbours didn’t then when contrary information came up I’d keep my mouth shut and head right to wikipedia. I’d take that misconception to the fucking grave.
For USAmericans who care to listen; the issue here is not that you were never taught or exposed to facts about the world but rather that ignorance is used as a shield for criticism. This is considered a dick move as you’re basically saying you know you’re ignorant, you’re saying you don’t want to learn.
If you’re older than fifteen and not currently trapped in or recently escaped from a very overbearing cult then “I wasn’t taught that at school” isn’t an excuse for beliefs that reveal that you fundamentally don’t think of other places as real or important. “It wouldn’t occur to me to put ‘USA’ on my address for international shipping because I just expect everyone in other countries to know where my state is even though I don’t know theirs” “I just assumed that other countries on my continent wouldn’t have cities for some reason” “naturally I just assume that having states is a US thing and other countries either don’t have them or they don’t mean anything, other places don’t have regional differences like we do, we’re so varied and everywhere else is a Country Of Hats” THIS IS A YOU PROBLEM. We all have shitty education systems, yours isn’t special. We all have racist governments and nationalist propoganda machines, yours isn’t special. Your American exceptionalism isn’t suddenly cute and humble if you try to make it about your country being extra bad instead of extra good. You just learned you made a stupid assumption due to inherent racist or nationalist or whatever beliefs? Now you have better information. Maybe think QUIETLY TO YOURSELF about what other dumb assumptions you have because of that and spend some time on wikipedia or watching foreign movies or something instead of crying to the internet that it’s your fourth grade teacher’s fault for not making you memorise a list of foreign cities.
We all believe dumb shit and don’t know anything. You think I know anything about your states? I don’t. When people from non-English-speaking countries started buying my books online I couldn’t understand the address formats to post them; I had to learn. I don’t automatically know which countries in the world are larger than mine, I look up the info if I need it. Sometimes I say make a bad assumption and dumb shit and people are like “Derin what you said is wrong actually” and tell me otherwise and then I learn that. This is not an issue of having information. Everyone can be wrong about stuff, but your “uphill in the snow both ways” ranting about how nobody should expect better from you because Your Uniquely Bad Culture And Schooling is at fault for every problem is getting old.
Y'all don’t seem to understand that, for a lot of Americans, the first time they experience truly global thinking is University.
That’s why Universities are so dangerous to certain political factions.
It’s not rocket science, but education is IMPORTANT and not all educations are created the same. I would encourage you to try to understand that an alarming % of the USA is illiterate or has a very low level of education. That’s not necessarily their fault.
Be kind. Understand that the world SUCKS and some people need a little help seeing that the world is this huge, complicated, interconnected machine that runs BETTER with kindness.
What Americans leaving comments like this think they sound like:
What they actually sound like:
You know, I remember Geography class back then. We covered the whole world continent by continent, talking about the social, natural, political, mathematical geography of all those regions. Yes it was all shoved into a single year and the whole year after that was just national geography, and we may have kind of skipped Oceania because the year ended before we could get to it, but we still covered the world. Does the United States truly just not have that in the curriculum?
I’ve taken a random state to serve as an example, the first I poked on the map, Colorado.
So my question is: How do you “investigate other cultures and how they have been influenced by the climate, physical geography, and cultures of an area” while also “examine geographic concepts through the lens of multiple diverse perspectives from various regions of the world and with consideration for indigenous, dominant, and marginalized populations” without realizing that there are metropolitan cities in Mexico??
I get that teachers are underpaid, but your books are surely required to include all this stuff. Not to mention that large cities (like those in Mexico!!) are in fact clearly labeled on world and North America maps, which you’ve hopefully at some point in your life looked at for more than 2 minutes.
I can get why your education system would leave you unable to recognize different African countries or something, but this is just a crazy thing to get wrong until you’re 21.
A bunch of quotes from the standards below:
According to the Colorado Academic Standards for Social Studies designed and published by the Colorado Department of Education:
“SOCIAL STUDIES Sixth Grade, Standard 2. Geography
Evidence Outcomes
Students Can:
a. Classify and analyze the types of human and geographic connections between places and regions.
b. Identify physical features of the Western Hemisphere and explain their effects on people who reside in those regions.
c. Analyze positive and negative interactions of human and physical systems in the Western Hemisphere and give examples of how people have adapted to and modified their physical environment.
d. Use characteristics to define physical and political regions of the past and present.”
And at higher levels:
“SOCIAL STUDIES High School, Standard 2. Geography
Prepared Graduates:
Examine the characteristics of places and regions, and the changing nature among geographic and human interactions.
Grade Level Expectation:
3. Investigate patterns of the interconnected nature of the world, its people, and places.
Evidence Outcomes
Students Can: a. Explain how the uneven distribution of resources in the world can lead to conflict, competition, or cooperation among nations, regions, and cultural groups.
b. Explain how shifts in the world’s population are connected to and dependent upon other people for both human and natural resources.
c. Explain how migration of people and movement of goods and ideas can contribute to and enrich cultures, but also create tensions.
d. Analyze how culture, and cooperation and conflict influence both the division and unification of Earth. For example: International agreements, political patterns, national boundaries, and how cultural differences and conflict over land may lead to genocide.
e. Make predictions and draw conclusions about the positive and negative global impact of cultural diffusion and assimilation. For example: Human rights, language, religion, and ethnicity.
f. Examine geographic concepts through the lens of multiple diverse perspectives from various regions of the world and with consideration for indigenous, dominant, and marginalized populations. Including but not limited to: Indigenous Peoples in Colorado, Christians in the Middle East, the Uyghurs in China, and tribal groups in Afghanistan.”
These standards include a lot of other stuff at other levels, but you get the idea. Additionally:
“Seventh Grade
[…]
Students Can:
a. Determine how physical and political features impact cultural diffusion and regional differences. For example: Modern environmental issues, cultural patterns, trade barriers, and economic interdependence.
[…]
5. What are different ways to define regions in the Eastern Hemisphere based on human and physical systems as they change over time?
6. How has globalization changed the ways people in the Eastern Hemisphere interact with places and their environment?”
