debating if it would be funnier to have a bumper sticker saying "my other ride is a [exact make and model of the car the sticker is on]" or "my other ride is a [equally shitty but different car]"
2008 Honda Civic with the bumper sticker "My other ride is a 2007 Honda Civic"
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Masked Palm Civet or Himalayan Palm Civet (Paguma larvata), family Viverridae, Thailand
photograph by Alexander Coke Smith
ilya as woodstock
we live in the future and they still can’t spell it
i think danganronpa is garbage and i don’t understand what kinning is but i think every person on earth kins komaeda. like it’s what makes us human. kinning komaeda separates us from dogs
this post sucks :/ i dont kin komaeda i hate him.
this is exactly what komaeda would say.
"spam like = blocked" if you spam like me i am going to cast 1000 protection spells on you so nothing bad happens to you ever
You know those videos that talk about things in Japan that are "mindblowing" (often they're not that common or just small little touches). Well fuck it, here's a load of things that I think will blow people's minds about the UK that are just common knowledge here.
Ohhh good point @sweetlyfez , a thing about pantomime is that there’s specific call-and-responses. Children are trained to shout things at the actors at specific points, like if someone is creeping up behind a character, the audience all go “it’s behind you!” in a slightly creepily unified chorus. Like, the tone and cadence are always perfectly consistent.
But a thing about the UK is that people a) will show up to the opening of an envelope, b) will make the HELL out of a tradition or ritual. If it happens three times, it’s an official local ritual.
Rituals always contain a tremendous reliance on everyone’s willingness to participate and suspend cringe. Like the panto call-and-response, people are often surprisingly willing to do it.
So you can get a surprising number of people to do bonkers unified things like “hold hands with strangers and dance around a person dressed as a Green Man”. There was a “clap for the NHS” thing in lockdown (cringe, annoying) but people were willing. There’s a local ritual that involves stomping around a local apple orchard, wassailing it, and hanging toast on the branches. Everyone is tremendously engaged and serious about this. Crowds are generally quite willing to turn up and shout unified chants. During right-wing property vandalising outbreaks there were far more people turning up in anti-fash defence than there ever were fash, but what was most amusing about it was that anti-fash brought bands and snacks. Like within thirty minutes of people being outside systematically, there will start being self-organised predictable small Behaviours. When the shed blew down on my allotment, a collection of elderly people righted it and repaired it and brewed tea about it in about 30 minutes, including the time it took to stand around congratulating each other.
You can genuinely say, “turn up at 3 pm to a muddy field, we’re all going to scream at the sky. No, that’s it, literally that’s all I’m offering” and get 100 people in frigid winter to race willingly to a muddy field in awful weather with flasks of tea, alcohol, picnics, an impromptu cricket game, several more guests than you expected, and a really startling total willingness to scream like fools at the sky. Like YEAH SKY SCREAMING TIME. Let’s do it every Thursday at 4!!! And the thing is you’ll find yourself being like “oh man. I love Sky Screaming Time actually.”
Oh and the milk floats are electric
Talking to Ghosts, by Sienna Gonzales.
one of my favourite things about my boyfriend is that he's 6'4 but convinced he is a normal sized person and this does not constitute "tall"
once, if not twice, a week the card game shop he plays digimon at upload a top-4 photo best described as "gandalf and the hobbits" and every time he is genuinely baffled as to why he looks like that
told him i made this post and he's still insistent that he isn't tall
incidentally the fact i am 5'5 also comes as a shock to him at least once a day and then he inevitably asks if i'm "normally that short"
if you lean in real close you can hear his singular brain cell bouncing around like a windows screensaver
Has your boyfriend got his eyesight checked? Bc when I don’t wear my glasses I’m nice and close to the ground but when I do it’s HOLY SHIT WHY AM I THIS TALL, I’M AFRAID OF HEIGHTS, HELP ME time and it’s genuinelly terrifying.
he wears glasses he's just dumb
update to this post from yesterday:
bf: apparently only 7% of people are over 6' tall me: yes........? bf: that isn't very many. am i tall? me: i cannot believe we are having this discussion again. yes. you are tall. you are still tall. you were tall yesterday. you will be tall tomorrow bf: oh my god i'm tall aren't i me: my love the netherlands is the tallest country in the world and even there average male height is 6' 0.5". you are tall by "kingdom of giants" standards, even. but we live on "shortarse island", so... bf: AM i tall though me: you are 6ft 4
he is he's very pretty
Can he make spinach puffs? Asking for irrelevant reasons....
having watched emperors new groove (it's my favourite) he does understand this reference but also he really loves cooking so you saying this has now prompted him to look up how to make spinach puffs
which is to say that yes, he is kronk
fun fact they're both the same person. same 6'4 boyfriend referred to himself as a short king because he thought it meant a man who really likes wearing shorts
Large dog energy
gnarp gnarp
Wolf Moon, the First Supermoon of 2026 l Nick Jackson
Another thing about light pollution and adjacent things is. They threatened my area with rolling blackouts last winter. Now this was of course largely because the AI datacenters are hogging all the electricity, but in the notifications about it they always specified that that residential areas would be the blacked out areas. Not offices. Not businesses. If you're at home and freezing, well, you can just go loiter in a McDonald's I guess. Never mind that this is extremely difficult for disabled people and often not allowed for pets.
Well, as winter turned into spring, I started biking home from work. A long, circuitous route that took me through residential areas, and past offices and businesses. Offices and businesses that were closed for the day. And yet their signs were still lit up. The lights were still on inside. There were TVs playing in empty breakrooms. All the computers in the school district offices stayed on, their monitors not even going to sleep, all night. Paused to take a break in an empty strip mall once and when I leaned against the glass of a restaurant I could hear the music still playing inside.
Like. There's something deeply rotten about the priorities here. These places that are so flagrantly wasting electricity will never be subject to the rolling blackouts that could freeze you out of your home. Not even at night, when no one is there, when they don't need their lights on. Their waste is prioritized over normal people's life.
