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Walpurgisnacht (The Night of the Witches)

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I think the swifties should get weirder with their conspiracy theories. For example, I think the song “Out Of The Woods” was inspired my the Panic! at the Disco fanfiction “The Heart Rate of a Mouse”

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you're not brendon urie, i'm not ryan ross, this ain't the chelsea hotel. or whatever taylor swift said

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people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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the most attractive women on the planet objectively speaking are drag queens who dress up as yassified conservative women in order to make fun of them. my god... combining republican momcore with exquisite faggotry produces a kind of raw sexuality that cannot be replicated

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I really wish it wasn’t so socially acceptable to drag people for being messy and having untidy living spaces because the reason for it is almost always deeper than, “they’re gross and lazy”

Personally, I struggle with doing chores because as children my sister and I were responsible for about 90% of the housework growing up. Sweeping, mopping, cooking, yard work, dishes, laundry, litter boxes, toilets, all of it. Every day. If our parents were cleaning it was a special occasion or we were in trouble.

And I have a lot of resentment about that. Not the “helping out” but the scale, regularity, and disproportionate share of what I was expected to do on top of school and caring for my siblings. For the way us struggling and consistently failing to do everything ourselves —as completely unsupervised children, mind you— was only met with punishment instead of support or reevaluation.

So my room was always messy because it was the one space that was mine. The way I exerted control over that space and that situation was refusing to clean unless my parents were adamant, which was a hill they only cared enough to die on a few times a year.

At the time I just said, “I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me.” Without really stopping to see if that was actually true or if saying it just felt like freedom.

So as an adult, I carried that “I don’t care if it’s messy, the only person whose opinion on my living space matters is me,” mentality even though the chaos and the clutter weren’t good for my mental health.

For so long I was stuck in a cycle of only cleaning when I was too stressed to tolerate the mess anymore and the state of my living space was constantly the butt of the joke in my family and friend group. The constant ribbing only made it harder to admit that it was a problem for me and just made me double down on “not caring.”

It’s only after spending years feeling overwhelmed by the constant mess that I’ve been able to reframe cleaning as something that takes control of my environment and not just another unwanted duty externally imposed on me without regard for how much I could manage. I’m a lot better, but I still struggle a lot. I think I always will.

So anyway maybe stop being such a dick to your messy friend

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like and liek have two completely different meanings don’t ask me to elaborate

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I get a little annoyed at how writings don't give Native North American peoples any agency in agricultural technologies

Domestication takes hundreds or thousands of years to accomplish, so it's weird to me that so many sources claim that food plants native to North America were cultivated into existence after European settlement, from a "wild" ancestor into a highly desirable crop

Take for example, the famous Concord grape. Supposedly it was bred from wild ancestors in a few years by just one guy.

With pecans, the word itself is Algonquin, so it's harder to deny that Native Americans cultivated them, but supposedly "domestication began in the 1800's". and as the source says, "wild-type" pecans are perfectly acceptable for sale in the market

And then there is nonsense like all the sources that will tell you pawpaws are an "evolutionary anachronism" from when they were distributed by giant ground sloths and other megafauna, as though humans don't count.

Are we to believe that indigenous peoples knew nothing of plant breeding? When the Cherokee were given peaches, apples, and watermelon, they adopted the new plants for use in their orchards and soon developed their own breeds.

Don't even get me started on all the plants that were almost lost and largely not used anymore, like Rivercane and the American Chestnut.

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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“GROUPE SURRÉALISTE” MAN RAY // circa 1924-25 [gelatin silver print | 9.2 x 8.3 cm.]

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A rose and a rose hip (left panels) and a fruit tree blossom and forming fruit (right panels). What the World Eats. 1938.

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If a country signs and ratifies a treaty, and then a second country secedes from it later after a civil war or something, is that second country also beholden to the treaty?