When youre a kid youre like wtf adults are making themselves sick with poisons and when youre an adult youre like i need more poisons ASAP

didn’t jesus do something similar to that

You know I never considered how much trust some painter's tape and a sharpie could inspire. I could cause some serious chaos on a perfectly functional vending machine this way

It's actually so ideologically important to me that solarpunk aesthetics don't fall into the trap of just being "cottagecore with a bit of technology"

that's true, but we also can't forget that traditional methods of building homes/planning towns do a lot of the right things, even if our ancestors didn't care about solarpunk principles. They use local materials and built houses with the local climate and longevity/ease of maintenance in mind, rather than just caring about how much profit building the house will make them.

I cant help but think of that one video where an African woman (I'm so sorry I don't remember which country she was from, I want to say ghana?) said she was tired of getting online discrimination for living in a "mud hut". She explained that her home was actually very well suited for the local climate and far more comfortable than a "modern" house, and when it needed repairs she didn't have to buy expensive foreign materials to fix it. To me, that's as solarpunk as anything I've seen.

I think where people get confused is that for most of the english speaking internet, the only traditional methods of homebuilding they've ever been exposed to are Northern European stone cottages. It's the usual problem of the modern US/English perspective being incredibly overrepresented in conjunction with the compound effects of hundreds of years of biases around what it means to be 'advanced'.

Modern north american houses suck and people living in them know this deep down, they've just been starved of alternatives in multiple senses -- economically, logistically, culturally, and educationally.

You’ve heard of Men Loving Men (MLM) and Multi Level Marketing (MLM) but I would like to propose a new concept wherein I date two men who each date two men who each date two men etc, which I like to call Multi Level Men Loving Men, or MLMLM

Step 2 is gathering together all the MLMLMs into a single monolithic syndicate referred to as a gathering of Multi Level Men-Loving Men Loving Multi Level Men-Loving Men, also known as an MLMLMLMLMLM

We will then perform a coup d’état against the greater Seattle polycule

yes we are all very impressed with the depth of your research. Your 27 citations in two sentences, however, goes past ‘impressive’ and becomes ‘your historical article looks like the goddamn warrior cats wiki page for firestar’

Genuinely what this article looks like

Than there is the other option:

which makes one grateful for citation styles that contracts the 90 references into one, instead of doing stuff like

this.

because yes, we are really very impressed with the depth of your research, but come on

#1 reads like you're stopping to take a breath in between every second of your presentation.

#2 reads like a pause to slap a 5-meter-thick pile of files onto the table.

men can go to the restroom while women must go to the shadows of contemplation

i promise the map of salamander diversity is not what you expect

Appalachia numero uno salamander capital of the world baby <3 there are like 70 something species in North Carolina alone

Basically its cause they evolved here!

The U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama also have the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems in the world.

The Appalachian Mountains are notable for having the world's greatest diversity of tree species in a temperate forest, with over 100 species of tree that make up the forest. They're also a global hotspot of lichen biodiversity.

Fun fact, dozens of genera of plants only have 2 species in them, one found in Appalachia and one found in SE Asia. These are called vicariad species pairs. Eastern Asia and Appalachia has very similar climates, that's why all the major Appalachian invasive species, such as Kudzu, are from eastern Asia

The SE United States has some of the nation's most biodiverse ecosystems but they are also some of the least protected.

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW. 

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in. 

*A couple of months later* 

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit. 

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

Cassandra: Penelope, I’ve had another vision.

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

HOW DARE YOU HIDE THIS IN THE TAGS, @a-dauntless-daffodil!

There's something kinda weird about seeing someone use any given mainstream software the way it was intended to be used once you're enough of a nerd about tampering with such things, like uhhh what do you mean you haven't brutally eviscerated the ads and such out of youtube with the power of computer and spite?? I thought everyone did that??? And then I just realize no I'm just a massive nerd about this stuff lol

Same goes for linux, like it's only been a month and I still have to remind myself yes, people still use windows, no, they probably won't have a good experience if I tell them to use one of the least beginner-friendly distros of all time ever

Me, my wife, and my girlfriend all use linux, but have customized our machines in different ways. I am basically incapable of using either of their machines. It's not just about being a nerd but about what specific subspecies you are.

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

One time she said she used to be into BL and another employee down the hall asked what BL was and I yelled back "ITS YAOI" which reduced the teen to yelling "ITS SOFTCORE! SOFT CORE!!" So I yelled back "ITS SOFTCORE YAOI" anyway I get why dads are like that now

what if I was a gaming streamer but I could only reach the spacebar

doing anything functional with audhd and explaining that to anyone is the whole shadow time prison comic

it's like this.

cars are so much scarier than planes. i've literally never been afraid on an airplane like first of all being on a plane is fun. second of all you're in a big as fuck vehicle with no other vehicles around for miles and the person at the wheel is a professional and not just Some Guy. one time i was getting a ride home from a nonbinary friend of a friend who was driving very erratically down the highway at 1am and they said to me unprompted "i have ocd so i only drive at speeds that are multiples of five"

this was years ago but i ran into them again at a party and they didn't recognize me (transition) so they started hitting on me and wouldnt stop talking to me about criminal minds yaoi. and i've never had this happen with an airline pilot, at least not an openly airline pilot

i know this isn't the reguar theme of this blog but i need to share it somewhere because today someone called my local fire department because they found

a horse

and not only was it a not-dead horse, they dug it up and it was

a lil muddy, mostly

We laugh at how The Art of War is basically just, "An army can't fight if the soldiers aren't eating," but I'm reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says, "You should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete," so I think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything