he/it | adult | physics | musical theatre
Hey remember when uquiz was a thing everyone was doing. I thought of taking this down but I think I’m gonna leave this here forever actually. Take my quiz boy
People online are willing to hate for so little. I made an unserious post about how my friend watches instagram reels a bit too loudly sometimes and got comments about how he’s an awful person and that I need to ditch him as a friend. Buddy… it’s really not that deep
On the internet everybody hates you, your friends, your partners, your spouses, your parents, fucking EVERYBODY. Oh, you and your partner sleep in separate rooms because they snore? You must secretly hate each other and need to break up NOW. Your friend missed brunch because they overslept? Ditch them immediately. Your grandpa doesn’t understand neopronouns? No contact until he dies.
There’s a secret character in all of your relationships. It’s the internet, and they want you to be as lonely as possible. They hate your friends, family, and partners for the smallest of flaws
In case you're wondering the context of this video: this was uploaded by a commercial kina (common sea urchin; Evechinus chloroticus) harvester off the coast of Aotearoa. Here's his YouTube channel. Kina populations have exploded recently due to decrease in predator numbers, and consequently they're overgrazing kelp ecosystems and creating urchin barrens. That's why there are so many in this video. So this guy is helping get numbers down to a sustainable level.
(Also for clarification: the urchins are not invasive. They belong in this ecosystem; there's just too many of them to be sustainable)
Also, the ones he's harvesting are probably going to be food. Kina is a Maori delicacy and even some fish and chip shops serve it. It's not strange to come across a pile of several dozen empty shells on the beach, you just crack them open and slorp like an oyster.
I mean, I'd check that your local stuff is safe to eat first but if you want to help the environment and get a free lunch out of it, it's worth a shot
I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know
I think...you might be right
what the fuck
I feel like I'm the last person alive writing in Word, but wanted to share this because it might save someone some heartache.
I am used to Word autosaving relentlessly; for the last few years it didn't really even have a "File>Save" command that I could see--it just autosaved like every five seconds or something. It took me a long time to get used not clicking File>Save at the end of every writing session, and I never really trusted it--with good reason, it turns out.
Apparently, when you turn off Word's new ai features, AutoSave is disabled and cannot be turned back on. There is toggle button in the upper left for it, but when I try to toggle it on, it says "Autosave is not available because of your privacy settings." I worked in my document yesterday, put my computer to sleep with the doc still open on the taskbar (my usual habit), and when I opened it today, the new work I did yesterday was gone.
This time I only lost about 300 words, which I had typed into my document from my longhand-writing in a notebook (so I guess I kind of autosaved them that way!), but if I'd really been on a roll, this could have been a disaster.
Be careful out there. Everything is terrible!
Yeah, they're baking it into essential compontents now so we'll stop turning it off. Noticed that in several programs. FFS I hate all of these tech bros.
All for the game series worldbuilding boldly asserting that the top four collegiate teams in this coed ultimate frisbee-racquetball-lacrosse hybrid that is also universally and internationally popular btw are 1) EVIL GOTH YAKUZA-RUN organized crime team run out of a horrifying labirynth of human rights abuses in fuckinggggg Charleston West Virginia whose starting lineup are all international human trafficking victims 2) not-clemson-for-copyright-reasons, a team that exclusively recruits world-class athletes of this definitely expensive boutique sport from broken homes. 3) anachronistically-woke ultra gay team who has unlocked therapy-speak, groupchats, emojis, nonbinary people, and boba tea technologies in 2006 because of their good sportsmanship and 4) Pennsylvania State University (we are)
This is hilarious to me
Servant: Your highness, a party of adventurers has answered your call for help.
King: Excellent. What are they like?
Servant: One of them is a dragon-lady.
King: Interesting. Those are rare around these parts.
Servant: Another is a goblin paladin.
King: Not a role you usually see goblins in.
Servant: A third is a purple-skinned tiefling.
King: I didn't even know they come in that color.
Servant: The last one is a sapient gelatinous cube.
King: What. How did these four even meet?
Servant: They met in a tavern two hours ago, apparently.
Queen: My love, please return to bed.
King: *pacing* Why would a gelatinous cube come to a tavern? Can it even get drunk? How did it fit through the doors?
All-cubes party
enough films about autistic piano and math prodigies that are clearly just inspiration porn. i want a movie about a schizophrenic who can shoot hoops like nobody's business
they need to invent clubbing for boring sober people who don't like loud music or crowded group dancing. what's the "she should be at the club" for this hypothetical not-me demographic.
roundup of various common suggestions in the notes:
ALT
ALTfirst good suggestion on this post in years, FINALLY true equality
