Let Us Hope For a Different Outcome

doodle-devil:

green-cryptid:

dandelions are magic. literally tiny suns in the grass that turn into the moon and then the stars when you blow on them. fucking insane.

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Fucking insane

neshamama:

past few years it’s like i don’t know how old i am or when anything has taken place

drchucktingle:

today is great day to create something, to fill the void with a piece of yourself that wasnt there before and to push back against the darkness. you can create a song or painting or sandwich or a walk in the park or even a MOMENT. use this mighty power to defy the cosmic nothing

tooies:

tooies:

tooies:

tooies:

how is the word “cellphone” pronounced

chel-po-ne (CORRECT and GOOD answer)

kaey-poen (WRONG and BAD answer)

something else (????????)

see results

was originally gonna go with “dog” but decided to go for a longer word with more “reasonable” mispronunciations instead, but that ended up backfiring and now like half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this. guess you could say it was a bit of a. a b. it was a

it was a bit of a self-own

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

  1. why might op have said that she wanted to choose a word with “more ‘reasonable’ mispronounciations”? what could the quotes around “reasonable” indicate? why did she say mispronunciations instead of pronounciations?
  2. op writes that the post “backfired” and now “half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this.” what might the word “backfired” mean in this context?
  3. what words could “self-own” sound similar to, and how could that relate to the rest of the post?

cipheramnesia:

toebeanz:

bogleech:

non-euclidean-gf:

bogleech:

Sick of flimsy plastic junk that lasts a year. I want the huge heavy dangerous solid metal version of everything, the one that rattles and hisses and might catch on fire if you don’t take care of it and keep it clean but will keep working a hundred years after I’m dead as long as anyone else needs it

every dial, button, and switch nowadays feels shit and weak, like a new born child. i feel scared i might destroy an innocent life.

I want everything to be built out of the kind of breakers and fat KATHUNK switches, giant dails that make satisfying little clicks, big fuck off glowing round buttons that i can slap with all my might. The kinda shit you see in a power station in the 70’s, something that requires the kind of daily strenuous effort that it blasts your DNA right out of your cells.

HATE THE GENTLE BREAKABLE PLASTIC DIALS >:( >:( >:(

I want a machine where giving it a whack with the side of my fist actually jostles a physical mechanism into working properly

I too wish I could give the unyielding perfection of the machine a good fisting.

dr-otter:

cyborg-alchemist:

earhartsease:

drst:

the-rain-monster:

neckspike:

huffle-puffen:

the-rain-monster:

funnytwittertweets:

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Get hot water, not boiling hot but almost hotter than you can stand, and put a metal spoon in it for a few seconds. Take the spoon and put it against the mosquito bite for about 30 seconds. Do it a few times if you like. The proteins that cause the itching are susceptible to heat and break down.

WHY DON’T THEY TEACH THIS SHIT I have four decades of suffering from skeeter bites behind me

I got this fucking tip from tumblr and tried it and fuck me it works. It’s uncomfortable and you get a red mark for a while* but it stops the itch dead.

*like a couple hours for me and I have stupid sensitive skin, probably goes away faster for other people.

I was gonna do a high five gif but this came up and.. just look at this cat. What the fuck is up with those pink beans? That pink nose? It’s unreal. It’s too much. I die.

Also, cheers! I’m happy it worked for you! I also get the red mark for a few hours but it’s never scarred, just a by-product of toasty hot skin in my experience.

Rebageling since it’s mosquito season in the north and this actually works!

hot spoons in your area want to soothe you

As mammals, we have a long history of playing heat-chicken with all sorts of things we don’t want in our bodies. That’s what a fever is, after all. Now I’m surprised we don’t see more localized use of heat to cook venom or infections.

Actually, @dr-otter, DO we do that? Or is the risk of burning flesh usually greater than the benefits of trying to cook out whatever nasty is in there?

Also, do you know if this is actually what’s happening, or does the heat just feel nice? My googling pulls up info that there’s around 20 main proteins in mosquito saliva, and the itching is actually a histamine reaction to (some of?) those proteins.

In any case, I wanna try this next time I get accosted by mosquitos and feel the urge to dig out my ankle bones.

I don’t know! If you can denature mosquito saliva to make it not itchy with heat before you denture the proteins in your flesh it could totally work. For that matter, I wonder at what temperature histamine denatures? It might also work just by increasing circulation to that spot enough to clear them (and the histamine) out and dilute them to the point where you don’t notice anything (the solution to pollution is dilution).

We DO use heat for other things medically, often because of that increase in circulation, which is why applying heat to sore joints and muscles works. Another thing that works is hot compresses locally on an infection; you can tolerate an increase in temperature of a peripheral body part (hand, boob, whatever) WAY higher than you could tolerate in a fever, because your brain is the heat sensitive organ there. Get the temperature high enough and it might not actively kill bacteria but it can warm them up past their comfort zone where they aren’t dividing well, plus increase circulation to bring more antibodies and white blood cells in so that you can tip that balance your way. I mentioned boob because a heating pad is a fantastic treatment for mastitis, just don’t fall asleep with one that doesn’t have a safety shutoff, because it is possible to burn yourself in that game of heat chicken.

chassdraws:

theunfairfolk:

my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

Daddy Electric and Mother Nature sounds like a cute 70s act

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deaduncledave:

gallusrostromegalus:

A Haiku:

📲 💡

🖼️ 🆔 📖 🗣️

🖥️ 📜

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Reminds me of an old internet poem:

< > ! * ’ ’ #

^ “ ` $ $ -

! * = @ $ _

% * < > ~ # 4

& [ ] . . /

| { , , SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, as such:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,

Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,

Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,

Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,

Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,

Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH