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i step out onto stage clad in full corpse paint and death metal regalia and start playing the most middle-of-the-road soft rock you’ve heard since 1974
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whenever I see these comments I imagine Im in a busy marketsquare and the merchants are yelling as you walk by
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whenever i’m trying to talk myself out of buying something i don’t need i always hear my old russian professor’s voice echoing in my head: “WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?” and then i make an unwise financial decision
i’m so glad i happened to see these tags this is the best thing anyone has added to this post so far
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making fun of americans is pretty much always ok if youre not doing it in an edgelord “you guys have so many school shootings” way or acting like we’re the only country that has racism. but like posts about americans and hamburger get me every time
This is just objectively hilarious
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I love this so much
“Am I the asshole?” Friend you are a fucking champion of the working class. People will write stories in your honor.
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Stop reading popular books by Zionist authors!
This includes Neil Gaiman, Brandon Sanderson, SJM, Rebecca Yarros, Chloe Walsh, Gabrielle Zevin, Pierce Brown, Carissa Broadbent, Rachel Lynn Solomon, Michelle Hodkin, Taylor Reid Jenkins, etc.
Boycott Zionists’ works!
neil gaiman is jewish and has explicitly stated he’s not a zionist, and his stance is that the violence should stop and people should be safe.
brandon sanderson visited israel in 2019 and one of his books is apparently influenced by multiple different conflicts, including israel/palestine.
sarah j maas has not posted at all abt israel or palestine, but she is jewish and has visited israel in the past.
rebecca yarros was harassed into making this statement:
chloe walsh planned to stop in israel on a book tour in collaboration with an israeli romance author, and people flooded her with harassment, including telling her that the baby she lost just a year ago deserved to die.
gabrielle zevin is jewish and has not made any statements about israel but one of the characters in one of her books is israeli.
pierce brown made a statement condemning the october 7 attack.
i found literally nothing on the internet about carissa broadbent and israel except a random tik tok accusing her of supporting israel.
rachel lynn solomon is jewish and i couldn’t find any statements from her at all about israel, and only found one tweet from months ago accusing her of being a zionist with no evidence.
michelle hodkin is jewish and i also couldn’t find any statements from her, only posts on social media accusing her of being a zionist.
taylor reid jenkins has called herself “half jewish” and has also not made any statements, the only “evidence” i could find was a tik tok claiming she “has only posted one video and it was from an israeli father.”
half the people on your list of “zionist authors” are jewish, and none of these authors have made explicit statements of support for israel. i need y’all to examine why you are more focused on targeting people who you think are “zionists” rather than people who have actually shown outspoken support for israel. i need you to think about what would compel you to focus on some shadowy unspoken force trying to manipulate you rather than the glaringly obvious problems that are right in front of your face.
a lot of y’all are unironically starting to sound a lot like germans in the 30’s who called for a boycott of jewish businesses and anyone who supported them. you are not being activists you are being bigots and hiding it behind a liberation movement — a movement you are an active detriment to. if you want to help, donate, call your representatives, support palestinian businesses, have difficult conversations with your community. stop wasting your time compiling lists of (((secret zionists))) to “boycott” and harass.
here’s the extensive and extremely eloquent statement he put out on his blog.
y’all literally just play telephone with people’s lives based on random social media accusations and call yourselves activists. all of these things were easily googleable, and yet you still continue to spread misinformation like your life depends on it. it’s fucking embarrassing.
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How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.
Oh snap!
As an engineer, this makes me happy.
If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…
easy peasy
watching this while listening to a clock ticking
is the best decision i have ever made
You may like this amazing web page then: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
It’s a full break down of how a mechanical watch works, every single part including a complication. Every diagram is interactive and beautifully put together. It’s a fantastic read, fun to play with and really informative.
Seconding this recommendation, and in fact this person’s entire blog: he has multiple of these explainers and they’re all good.
In particular, if you’re a programmer who finds floating point numbers to be exotic dark magic, I strongly recommend his Exposing Floating Point post. There are many guides/tutorials on floating point arithmetic out there but IMO this is the best one and makes them really not seem so difficult by the end of it (or at least, all their counterintuitive behavior now makes sense).
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This is definitely a dude living his best life.
This is TWO dudes living their best lives, and I’m so fucking happy every time I see Jack Black and Kyle Gass together because how often do you actually get to see the spotlight on two people – one of whom is a HUGE film star at this point – who are fat and aging and yet also still goofing and rocking and enjoying one another’s company despite the wild changes life has brought their way?
Kyle has talked about the difficulty he faced in watching his partner hit it big without him, and how they communicated about that and how they balance their friendship with their respective creative pursuits when they’re not working on a Tenacious D project. I respect the fuck out of him for putting in the work to maintain that friendship and I respect the fuck out of both of them for being Peak Fat Old Goof Goals
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Golly Golem
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I’m writing something about a species that is genuinely very rare and trying to not get too philosophical about it. No, how we treat this one shrimp is not indicative of humankind as a whole, but at the same time you guys had better keep this shrimp safe after I’m gone or I’ll haunt you forever.
shrimp can be fussy and rare, but they can also be ridiculously powerful. Mono Lake has a pH of 9.8 (higher than windex, literally feels soapy in your hands) and the doofy little shrimp are in there by the millions making mario noises of joy like ha! woo-hoo! waha!
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Welcome to Build-a-Frog!
Click here to enter
gUyS please click the link you won’t regret it
Its been so long since Build-a-Frog came across my dash. I needed them today :)
im sobbing omg
Please do build a frog its very nice
This was my first build a frog experience! And IT WAS SO LOVELY!
This was my first build
a frog experience! And
IT WAS SO LOVELY!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
