a bit of a snowpocalypse in the last few days

lol turns out this was just a minor inconvenience. LOOK WHATS HAPPENING IN KAMCHATKA

"Jucika rides a motorbike."

BBC Radio Dracula audiobook with Tom Hiddleston...!

Via AlisonMOtoole at Twitter:

Omg I just remembered…have the #DraculaDaily fans discovered yet the audio book where Tom Hiddleston plays Jonathan Harker to David Suchet’s Count Dracula… Hiddleston’s performance opposite the Brides is particularly delicious, as I recall…. https://t.co/MhmCnuZcO3

An extract is here:

https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/dracula-by-bram-stoker-starring-david-suchet-and-tom-hiddleston-audiobook-extract

Having actually heard this, it is not the one you want if you want Actual Dracula. It’s a little more like fanfic Dracula? I ended up listening to the one with Alan Cummings and Tim Curry, which was actual narration as opposed to what I can only call fanfic Dracula.

haven't listened to this one, but having read the reviews and listened to the other version, i agree. still,

The suburbs.

I appreciate the sentiment but I don't get all those "we made it to the longest night of the year! the light will start returning soon! it's all uphill from here & we're halfway there!" posts because like. Oct-Dec is the easier half of Winter. Jan-Apr is way harder. there's no big holidays or decorations, everyone is kind of over the whole Cozy Hygge Sweaters & Cocoa vibe so they're just tired & restless instead, and the whole thing is so drawn out & uneventful that it feels like it lasts 10x longer

the cold season Oct-Dec:

the cold season Jan-Apr:

When you're unsuccessfully looking for something and start gradually increasing your It Could Be There range. Like yeah sure maybe the rice cooker pot is in the freezer, idk

Constructing geographic edifices that challenge the boundaries of hilldom and devising exciting new dooms to meet upon them.

Best way I’ve ever seen academia described.

Fandom, academia, and Minecraft.

This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.

I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!

Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well

My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.

wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5

HOW THE FUCK

Reblogging to save a life, and also because, even if you don’t have tinnitus, this is totally worth trying if you like new sensory experiences.  

@theshaddowedsnow

what

HAVE THOSE BIRDS AND WIND BEEN THERE THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME

First time posting my knitting to tumblr. Look at my Bug Son

He's just a baby boy...!

"came back wrong" but it's from work

but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!

a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.

It's a wonderful place! I had the privilege of visiting the fynbos last year and it was as amazing as these photos show and more!

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.

self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

The root of my frustration with a lot of trolley problem discourse is that 'What does it mean to act ethically in a world where shitty luck and the actions of strangers you'll never meet have left you without any purely good options?' is, like, possibly one of the most relevant and universally applicable questions moral philosophy might help answer.

Saying it's a bad question because it's the negligent trolley engineer's fault literally exactly misses the point - yes how to deal on a personal level with systems and infrastructure that designed without much care for human collateral damage is an incredibly useful thing to think about!

i'm surprised i've never seen anyone say that, because they didn't design the system, therefore nothing they choose to do is their fault and isn't a moral statement.

the whole point is that it's simple. simplistic. and yet we can't find an answer to even the simplest question. people keep changing it to make themselves feel better about it. it's common that people won't even engage with it, as if denying it is a solution. i guess that is a form of "this isn't my fault or my problem". if you act, you "take responsibility" for it all.

are you responsible? how much? does changing the parameters from a lever to shoving matter, and why? does it matter if you designed the system or not? why does it matter who the people are or how they got there?

life isn't fair and people don't like confronting that. there MUST be an out that leaves you unambiguously the good person. that's the just world fallacy: if only you can figure out how things work, nothing bad will ever happen to you, nothing bad will ever happen to anyone again, you'll never do anything bad again. you'll never deserve to be on the tracks, you'll never be forced onto them.

except that's a childish fantasy and life isn't fair. all you can do is try to make it more fair, which is the whole point of the question: what does that mean? why does bitching about it matter, when all that does is put moral paint over it to deny responsibility and thus consequences? why are there consequences when all you did was try to help? why is your trying to help nitpicked as if you designed the circumstances?

The trolley problem is the ethical equivalent of physics questions that start with "ignoring friction..." because they're teaching you a Newtonian formula. Throwing the textbook across the room and declaring "Aha! The rolling ball would experience friction, actually!" does not make you look good at physics. It makes you look like a idiot with so little understanding of the basic concept of the question that you're not worth talking to about physics.