To any Palestinian folks who have sent me requests for aid: I’m so sorry—there are active scammers going around posing as folks in Gaza, and I don’t know how to figure out which ones are real and which ones are scams.
En lieu of those. I’d like to direct you all towards NGOs which I know are not scams
im gonna start answering my parents how donald trump answers questions
how does he answer questions?
well theres a lot of ways he answers and a lot of question that need to be answered and one of my close friends asks me, a good friend, he says, and I tell ya hes a good, close friend, he says are we gonna answer some questions and you see this guy and this guys got some real questions to answer *wave hand*, we’ve got a lot of real, important…. goood questions to answer
You are alone in a strange place. The murmurs of ghosts echo through the corridors. Instead of people there stand pools of water, isolated forever. A phone rings off in the distance. Do you answer?
A daydream I had to Light Green Fellow by Michael Hurley & pals, one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard. I’ll post a link to the song in a reblog. inprnt.com/gallery/murphysletsdraw if you want to buy the print!
[ID: A video clip showing a Black person in a green coat interviewing an elderly white person holding up a flag, with more protesters in the background displaying Palestinian flags.
The interviewer asks, “Why is it important for you to be here today?”
The protester responds, “Well, uh, I’m Jewish, I’m Israeli, my parents were the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust. They both survived Auschwitz. I’m not going to support genocide am I?
"I’m here with the Palestinians, and we are here with Palestine, because we don’t believe that what the British government is doing is correct. The British government is supporting this genocide! It’s arming Israel, it’s financing Israel.
"BBC and the other media here is supporting genocide. This is illegal. This is immoral. We don’t agree with it, we will never agree with it, and as Jews – and myself as Israeli – I am totally against it, and we will continue to be against it.
There are now more than 60 such events in the whole of Britain, uh, people don’t want to support this. They are against this government on so many other issues, but especially on this one.”
Another elderly white protester next to the first joins in, leaning forward to add:
“And, also, this didn’t start on October the 7th. In 1948, Palestinian villages, hundreds of them –”
Another elderly protester interjects specifically, “500 of them”.
The second protestor nods and continues, “were demolished, thousands of Palestinians, innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered, and seven-hundred and fifty thousand Palestinian refugees were created. That’s when it started, and it hasn’t stopped since!”
What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?
My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually
Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire
very very slowly.
What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.
I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.
okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.
Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).
We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.
The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).
This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.
OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*
And once again, the internet makes learning history and science a thousand times more interesting than school ever did.
I love shit like this.
I was totally having thoughts along these lines and along comes tumblr to pretty much sum it all up. Bravo~
I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.
I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.
How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.
Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.
1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword. Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade. Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.
This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords. Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.
So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.
So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.
Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.
Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.
“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.
I’m so proud of everyone in this post
Well I guess I have future plans I need to see come to fruition
