Vinyl records are circular because it's an efficient use of space: the grooves that encode the music are laid out in a spiral on the disc, so that the needle only has to move as far as the disc's radius to read the entire thing. Before this clever idea was thought of, the grooves were instead laid out in a straight line, and every LP was a narrow rectangle more than a thousand feet long. To flip an album to side b at least two people were needed, one at each end, coordinating via shouted instructions.

For the cassette tape they revived this idea with the genius addition of rolling the rectangle up so it would fit inside the tape player.

Beth McCarthy gives trans fan new name

Queer joy detected!

many people know loons from heated rivalry, but now laser loon is the symbol of the resistance here

all the small things sand grain bug wings kitten puppies tadpole guppies baby fetus germs and amoebas hair strand (louse world) bartender mousegirl

He be judging~

"I love maps. And I always said, look at the size of this; it's massive! And that should be a part of the United States." --Donald Trump, in a 2021 interview with columnist Susan B. Glassner

This fucking imbecile.

it’s frustrating when you’re talking about an inherently oppressive institution that dehumanizes everyone who is subjected to it and someone is like “it’s especially bad for those it is incorrectly applied to!” as though being the intended victim of an injustice makes it less of a tragedy

having lunch and someone's watching cnc videoes loud as fuck style so i'm just here chewing my food while there's sounds of water jetting and steel screeching in the back

One of my fav things about mdzs is that wxw prays that no one from his past shows up and then immediately almost every single person he has ever known shows up

Tumblr 2015: omsqueeeeee *ovaries exploding*

Tumblr 2025: OUGHHH MY PENITS EXPLODED

On account of the gender transition

On account of the gender transition

"don't assign human morality to non human things" is so true except when it comes to printers. they know what they are, they understand dilemmas and ethics and morality. they choose to be how they are, they choose to be evil, at their very core they are rotten

[sexting] no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Sometimes my little cat will approach me all "what if there was a little cat now" and it's always an excellent idea I love when there's a little cat