Leverage episode where they have to bypass security and burn the Gävlebocken

This would be part of a completely unrelated job in Sweden where burning the Gävlebocken only ends up being necessary by a hugely convoluted sequence of events, so that the entire episode everyone has to constantly remind Parker they are not here to burn the Gävlebocken, leave the Gävlebocken, do not be distracted by the Gävlebocken. Until we finally are rewarded with the delight on Parker's face as everyone on the team concedes that in fact we now must burn the Gävlebocken.

Throughout the episode, it's loosely implied that every other person on the crew EXCEPT Parker has already, for one reason or another, had to burn the goat. Parker is increasingly outraged each time.

Broke: Imma kick your ass

Woke: You are invited to join me on the

I didn't go all the way to Yorkshire for 72 notes

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Why does it take 20 seconds for a site to process adding you to a mailing list and “up to two weeks” to process taking you off. I call bullshit.

As someone who works with mailing lists on a regular basis, here's a couple things that could be happening:

The first one is legit. The rest are all some level of bullshit, though what level of bullshit is up to you.

So I'm an archivist and a few days ago I got an email from a 15-year-old girl wanting to know if I've got any material on the only still-existing old mill in town (you've got to imagine this mill not like a quaint, stereotypical windmill the likes of which Don Quixote fought against but rather like a industrialisation-era factory).

I wrote back and asked if she needed this for a school project or for something else where there's a deadline looming, for the simply reason that the more time I have, the more in-depth I can go with my research and the more material I'll be able to get for her.

And she answered that no, it's for her personal use because she's interested in abandoned buildings in general.

And, like. What an absolutely excellent hobby for a teenage girl to have. I bet she's the coolest person in her class and I hope that no one ever gives her a hard time about her interests.

never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"

"You're smoking too much weed," says the guy who got addicted to manosphere podcasts on his orb and started a fascist militia with a side hobby of deliberate environmental destruction. Started cutting down trees to own the woke elves.

im so fucked up. theres a scene in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the sequel to hitchhikers guide) where zaphod is rummaging through the ruins of a long-destroyed city on a lifeless, abandoned planet, looking for a way off, and he stumbles upon the crumbling remains of a spaceport, and miraculously one of the crafts is still intact, and there's still a quiet hum of power going into it from a connected cable, and it's making a quiet noise. so he rigs up a makeshift stethoscope and listens, and there's a PA system saying something like "we are very sorry for the delay. we are currently waiting for a restocking on lemon-soaked towlettes, for your hygienic and culinary pleasure. in the meantime, we will be serving coffee and biscuits on the deck." and he finds the remains of the arrivals/deparetures board, translates the dates and does a little math, and discovers the delay has been 900 years. spooky, yeah? but he goes on the ship, hoping he can get it flying, and it's perfectly well-functioning and an android flight attendant comes out and tries to force him to sit in the seating area, continuing to apologize for the delay. and when he gets to the seating area, every seat has a person in it. long-haired, long-nailed, and completely silent, but very much alive. and another android comes out with a tray of coffee and cookies, and all of the people wake up and start screaming in agony as she gives them their snacks. zaphod is terrified, so he runs to the control deck and locks the door behind him, and he finds the autopilot computer, which repeatedly tells him to return to the seating area, and he eventually convinces it to talk to him. "have you seen the planet?" he says, or something to that general effect. "there's no civilization! you're not GETTING a lemon-soaked napkin shipment!" and the autopilot says "the most likely path to us receiving our shipment is to wait until another civilization develops on the planet and they can deliver it. so we have put the passengers in suspended animation, and we wake them up once a year for coffee." and then? and then zaphod's friend who he was looking for shows up and the plot carries on and they don't say another word about the ship (at least, as far as i know from my place a couple chapters later). thats it. some classic Space Horror Of Grand Proportions, a doctor who plot, a twilight zone plot, an scp article, an asimov short story— that, when a ship ran out of a luxury amenity and didn't get it fulfilled quickly, the autopilot ai decided that, regardless of plentiful fuel and safety, the ideal way to deal with the situation is to suspend the lives of all of the passengers, waking them up once a year, until a new civilization could evolve around them to produce napkins— and it takes up about two pages total before being put aside completely!

And it's a perfectly doctor who plot cause he probably intended to make it into a fourth doctor storyline and the other writers were like "Doug, Doug no, don't. It's too much."

#look at my detective dawg we are NOT solving this case

Eartha Kitt's career is just so iconic because there's no way you don't know her even if you don't know you know her. You like Christmas music ok well she's Santa Baby. You like Disney animated movie ok well she's Yzma. You like Disney Channel original movie ok well she's Madame Zeroni. You like comic book ok well she is Cat Woman. She won.

You like making the racist wife of a war mongering president cry on national television? She did that

literally what the fuck do you mean its still january. how is that remotely possible. its been six months minimum

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At least two people are interested, so here are my thoughts on the anti-intellectualism surrounding queer histories and why it matters:

There’s a common misconception that historians are being homophobic or oblivious about queerness, and it’s parroted by not just conservatives but also progressive and queer folks. This tends to call into question historians’ credibility. That’s a huge problem now—misinformation abounds, and delegitimizing history as a discipline harms us. Historical memory and interpretation is a valuable skill, and one that needs to be fostered. My post was an attempt to bridge that misunderstanding between historians and others interested in historical topics. Pardon any typos, as I was metaphorically rampaging and you can’t go back and edit stories.

Also: @qqueenofhades is who to talk to about Richard I and queerness.

@goatsandgangsters @koksu-5-gram

Love that Murderbot sees itself as the absolute worst most dangerous thing in any room at any given time

Except ☝️when a combat SecUnit or combat bot shows up

Then it's a very sudden turn to "I am a mid sized herding breed and that is a fucking wolf. All my sheep and myself are going to die"

"this post transcends language XD" but it's a post with no english cognates at all

The tweet is indeed intrinsically funny without knowing japanese but I also want to say this because I think it makes it even funnier: this tweet says "AAAAAAAAAHHHH GARLIC TOASTTTTTTTT"

not "AAAAAAAAAHHHH GARLIC TOOOOOOOOAST"?

[Image: A Tweet with a photo of a loaf of bread that's actively on fire inside what looks like a toaster oven. The Japanese does indeed translate as "AAAAAAAAAHHHH GARLIC TOASTTTTTTTT". End ID.]

Definitely with the extra "t"s at the end instead of elongating the vowels in the middle; my Japanese is rudimentary at best, but what's here is the "Aaaaaaaaahhh!" in hiragana (simplified sounds, as opposed to kanji, which are ideograms (IIRC)), followed by "garikku toosutu" in katakana (also simplified sounds, but usually used for foreign words). At the end of "toosutu" and repeating to the end of the Tweet is another hiragana symbol that, like the one in the middle of "garikku" that turns one "k" into two "k"s, turns the t at the end of "toosutu" into multiple "t"s.

Someone who knows more can explain it better, I'm sure, but that's the gist.

The stages of Cat Friendship are thusly

somatic symptoms of anxiety are so fucked. what do you mean I got so scared my body decided that it needed to add nausea and headache and dizzy to the situation. how is it helping