Veni Vidi Amavi

i just know at some point on voyager tom and harry started a bad podcast together. like the classic guys talking about nothing for an hour kind of podcast. they’d keep bugging people to guest star but the only person who wants to is the doctor (the only person they don’t want guest starring)

they eventually manage to get seven to guest star because janeway thinks it’ll be good for exploring her humanity and it’s an hour of harry and tom debating whether leola root belongs on pizza and ranking their favourite holodeck programs and every time they ask seven for her opinion she’s like “i fail to see how any of this is relevant.” it’s their most popular episode by far

on reflection Tom would get into historical podcasts and re-introduce them to the 24th century (invasive species). no-one really understands what he's going for with it but Harry keeps making it with him so they can hang out :)

get in babe we're 30 year old women we're having formative experiences that our teenage years denied us

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about

Today I was trying to chat up this girl standing with her friend at a lesbian bar and said “oh are you two together?” meaning were you friends before being next to each other at this bar and one turns to the other and goes with all the venom of a black mamba snake “I don’t know Cara, are we?” and I was like you know what? not my table

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It was like the sun came out from behind the clouds...

It was like the sun came out from behind the clouds...

my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"

OP the tags!!

I am utterly captivated by this video series that Taryn Delanie and friends have been making on TikTok

Rocket scientists who leave the rocket industry keep thinking everything is a rocket and it's kind of adorable

"We can honeycomb this to reduce the weight" sweetie no that's going to be twice as expensive to manufacture and we are not launching it anywhere.

"If we use titanium instead of steel we'll save a bunch of weight" baby you need to stop worrying so much about your weight! And maybe worry more about what happens to titanium when you expose it to deuterium plasma.

I have made some memes to commemorate the day

I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable

oh shit i almost missed it!

Some of the categories for the NYT Connections fills me with hatred and wrath. What do you mean “dog breeds with the first letter changed” i’ll kill you

Fury. Rage. Flames on the side of my face.

“This is how these words would be related if they were different words”

there's this phenomenon i've noticed on youtube which i dub "man math" which is when men STEM-ify hobbies/activities/art forms in order to make them more masculine. it's very noticeable in the cooking video sphere where there's an endless stream of videos made by men along the lines of "the SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN best way to cook an egg" (and dgmw, i watch them and find them helpful, but the observation stands), but i notice it also in the way men approach ceramics (a lot of focus on mold-making and slip-casting to perfection, basically reinventing one man mass-production rather than play and discovery), tailoring/sewing/knitting/textile art, gardening and other nature-oriented hobbies, interior decor, furniture making and woodworking, journaling/planning/productivity, even drawing and painting, there's always some man math angle to it that although interesting it often strikes me as some sort of overcompensation to move away from the inherent vulnerability that comes with art making and once you notice it it's literally everywhere

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1977): We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

From the article:

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.

The original The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is very clear that the headless horseman wasn’t supposed to look like it had a pumpkin for a head, Brom Bones used a pumpkin to make it look like the horseman was holding his actual decapitated head and threw it at Ichabod, and every artist over the past 205 years has gone “Holy shit a pumpkin head on a headless horseman fucking rocks” and they’re right

I love seeing a headless horseman with a pumpkin head. Did he carve that himself. Did he steal that from someone’s yard. Did he just go “Fuck it that’ll do” or does he even know it’s a pumpkin?

My interpretation of this when I was a kid was always that the horseman was so desperate for a head, any head, that he found a jack o lantern and felt its face and went “Two eyes a nose and a mouth yes it’s a head it’ll do until I find the right one” and nobody’s told him it’s a pumpkin yet