hold on let me google something

what the fuck

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!

Long time coming, but here's a comic update! Happening as regularly as a whaleship's shore leave...

Beginning of Update Beginning of Comic Also on Tapas Patreon

This update commences with a continuation of Ezra and Josué's hilltop chat. Latter part, the captain and his wife obtain letters for the crew. So ends.

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

I just heard about the recency bias, and honestly I think it's gotta be the best one ever

Today's xkcd is going to be another hit with the boat crowd. [x]

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

Yeah basically

Yeah I should’ve clarified (pun intended). They had glass in the ancient world especially in Rome and Egypt but it was basically super heated sand and color additives put in a mold and often looked opaque and kinda lumpy. Even if it was blown like it was in some regions it wouldn’t have looked like modern glass.

Clear blown glass like you’d see a modern scented candle contained in wasn’t invented until the late Middle Ages and certainly wasn’t mass produced until the 1500s and even then places like Venice that had knowledge of these techniques literally forbid their glassmakers from leaving their city or region so other people couldn’t make it, forcing artificial scarcity and making it a very expensive material.

So if you showed a yankee candle to an Ancient Greek, especially one from a city or something, they’d be like burning scented wax okay not something I’d do but it makes sense. Also how the fuck is that glass transparent.

Like imagine if someone brought you something weird but understandable contained in a material that they said was made out of wood and you could tell that it’s clearly made out of wood they’re not lying about that but it was also completely transparent and see through with no visible flaws. That’s about the level of weird we’re talking about here.

It isnt flawless, but transparent wood does already exist actually

What the fuck I feel like a medieval peasant seeing an iPhone

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Who goes there

Here are the 2024 vaccine recommendation schedules. They’ve already been wiped from the cdc site. Save them and share widely, especially to your friends with kids.

*** watch with sound ***

Vintage Phantom of the Opera movie poster featuring the cutest version of the Phantom ever.

I’m a bitch I’m a lover

we were all thinking it, so here it is XD

is it just me or

@hobbitmajora

"i was today years old when I learned [the most blatantly untrue folk etymology you've ever heard]!!"

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