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The Vought CR-173, the "Flying Crabcake".

coming for you

#crab #flying pancake

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You fill a dress with candles for several hundred years, it'll change color too.

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

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I love villainesses isekais because they always open to some shit like "I've reincarnated as Evilla Von Lily, the empire's only princess and I'm destined to die after becoming affianced to Prince Rytius de Citrus?!?!?" and you think ok so just not marry him, right. Cant be that hard? But then chapter 1 in kicks in like " Evilla, sweetie your father and I are sooo glad you're marrying your Highness prince Rytius otherwise all these 56 orphans we tend to would spontaneously combust. Like, immediately. don't ask, we dont know how either. anyways proud of you" and youre like oh shit evilla

#The commoner is not the only one who is unsettling

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And now it's a stag party.

party beetle

#beetles

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Stanley Spadowski. Mopjutsu.

I've been ordered by my lord to escort his ladies to Edo. I'm sorry, but without a permit, no lord or his retinue may leave Osaka Castle. It is Lord Ishido's order. You leave me no choice.

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I don't think I've hit a million words of actual fanfiction (as opposed to amateur fiction of my own stuff or other original works in collaboration with others, which has passed a million words), but I've got a decent amount out there. Mostly Transformers.

i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#fanfic

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"So uncute."

#ranma 1/2 #akane tendo #ranma saotome

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the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards crabs

#crabs

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THANK YOU. Haiku is more than just syllable counting. Good poem otherwise.

#Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger #Super Sentai #Tokusatsu #haiku

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You pronounce Miette with geminate t, like the end of word?

Linguistics for mother! Linguistics for a thousand years!

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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Easier to deal with the rat race when ya got a car.

IG : @emperorofmischief

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Now, catch it up on the future of football.

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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It depends on the platform. Right now, I'm being blocked by someone on Bluesky who is notorious for blocking with little to no provocation. Unfortunately, several people I follow are mutuals with this person, and the way blocking works there breaks threads. I'll see a response to the blocker, but not only can't I see what was replied to, I can't see anything above that in the thread. I wish they'd get the block button out of their bum and use Mute instead.

“how would you feel if someone blocked you just because they found you annoying?” then i wouldn’t have to interact with someone who thinks i’m annoying? i don’t see a problem

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My childhood home was like that in the winter, but with kids instead of cats.

“What happens when you have heated tile flooring”

(via)

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"Gimme the controller!"

"NO."

#crab

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In this case, the cost of a sore arm.

it’s insane how quickly your life can just. suddenly improve. i used to be so miserable but now i own 5 swords

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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

#loki #taco bell