#interstate numbers

[geezerwench]

Yeah. Now I feel dumb. I never noticed. I knew about the even, East/West thing, but I just never noticed the numerical order.

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Even numbers go East/West. Odd numbers go North/South.

I think my dad told me that.

#US highways #US interstate highways #highway numbers #interstate numbers #stuff i didn't know #interstate highways

[thelordofshrimp]

you do not need to disclose what its name is stay safe

#ignoring my own caption. my big road is numbered “I-285” despite not being an interstate but we also have I-85 and that gets confusing #so 285 is the Perimeter #at school we have the Loop #another big road I know has a name but everyone calls it 316 #polls

[passengerpigeons]

becoming largely chill about most things. but i give myself permission to be mad about car infrastructure, car dependence, and cars flagrantly ignoring pedestrian right-of-way and generally endangering beings of flesh. because this is one of the few truly moral axis of this world

#also like increasingly cars piss me off in the abstract too as like #ok like in the united states unless you live in a couple large cities and a handful of specific smaller cities #and like maybe some small towns that built up a decent city center by say 1900 and avoided being disemboweled by the interstates #u need a car to work to get health care to get food but like we all know this #BUT #we all also know this. but it is like one of many traps to bind u to the capitalist economy inextricably #you must cough up gasoline prices and insurance costs and maintenance #and if ur the most likely to be burdened by these costs it probably also means you're making car payments too in a form of debt peonage #like once i thought about owner-operator trucks and how you pay to own the vehicle to work to pay off the vehicle #before realizing that this is just american car ownership for a large number of people in its most brazen and naked form #like we're all (ok not me because i dont have a car) owner operators who own a car to work to earn money to pay off the car #samsara. all is samsara #the wheel spins and spins and spins the wheel goes around

[koko2unite]

logged in on twitter for like a min to reply to some important dms and I got reminded on how much I hate that place

#seeing art that i post got like 100 likes for an hour #im like ok cool #and then it stopped #like what was that #thats not ok #its as if someone shut it down or smth #also the number comparing game there is so sick i hate it #i hate it i hate it i hate it #i wanna move away from there so much but all of my audience are literally from thereeee #sobbing and shaking and crying #also all the mutuals are ignoring like i reply to their art to their art and they dont even click likes or reply #nothing #is it because i have more interest than... whatever interest we got when we first met or smth??? cus thats annoying as shit #and so many times i post my discord and be like heyyy join me here so i can post my art here instead and then NONE #like not only nobody joined. nobody also rtd the post and because the stupid twitter shadowban. only small number of my followers can see #the link #and it just so happens all of them are not intersted in joining the discord #and then they fucking complain that i dont post that much art anymore or im on hiatus im not on fucking hiatus i post art everydayyyyyyyy #its just that nobody shares it and because of that nobody can see ittttttt #i fucki g hate twittterrrrrr #pleaseee i beg just join my discorddddddd AAAAAAAA

[shadowglens]

7, 12, 22, 24 for the sunshine girlie herself, miss olympia ☀️

edgy oc ask meme

7. what's one way your oc has changed since you first came up with them?

she's become less of a 'goody-too-shoes' and a more fleshed out person, which i suppose comes with the territory of having an oc for longer. at first i struggled to think of flaws for olympia, but now she has many (her arrogance, her standards, her tendency to judge others); they don't degrade from the fact that she's a good, kind person, but make her feel more real in my head.

12. is your oc self-destructive? in what ways?

no, not at all. she has always been focused on bettering herself and those around her, on spreading hope and kindness; even in her darker periods, she is not the kind of person who tends towards self destruction. she's very stable and grounded like that. even when it comes to her altruism, she would rather find a way to survive and lead others to survive, rather than sacrifice her life away on the chance of it helping.

22. what character alignment would you consider your oc to be?

neutral good, leaning a little towards lawful good.

24. what is an alternative life path your oc might have gone down? how different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

if she hadn't been in baldur's gate that day, trying in vain to reconcile with oleander, then i think she would've ended up embroiled with the game's plot regardless. she can't stand by as evil persists, after all, and no doubt oleander would've still been at risk regardless.

in a world where she was never chosen by lathander though, i imagine her life would've been quite different. she wouldn't have become a cleric, wouldn't have traveled the realms between monasteries, wouldn't have met gale or any of the others. she would have followed her mother's wishes as heir to the family, and would likely have lived the majority of her life in the feywild, married off to some other high elven noble and forever caught up in elven politics. it wouldn't have necessarily been a bad life, but not fulfilling in the way her current one is. at least her relationship with oleander would've been more positive in this alternative path though, since the rift about her being blessed never would have eventuated.

#oc tag #ch: olympia #feypacts #tysm !!!! <3 #number 24 was a really intersting question to think about!

[rabbitcruiser]

The United States Numbered Highway System is established on November 11, 1926.  

#Wyoming #Sitgreaves Pass #Arizona #Santa Fe #New Mexico #Chicago #Illinois #Galena #Kansas #Winslow #Seligman #Adrian #Texas #highway #Route 66 #Midpoint Route 66 #Interstate 80 #United States Numbered Highway System #established #11 November 1926 #anniversary #US history #cityscape #landscape #original photography #summer 2014 #2019 #street scene

[bibleofficial]

this guy harassed me for years to meet but i thought his profile was fake & then we eventually did & he led me on for months before ghosting me, so in retribution i’ve been hitting him up constantly on scruff & grindr & today he’s finally blocked me …. BUT I STILL GOT HIS NUMBER 😭😭 BUZZ BUZZ BITCH 😭😭😭

#diary #ALSKALSKALKSLAKSLAKSLAKSLA #LIKE ITS SOOOOOOOOO PETTY #like i know i’m insane #but he knew i was insane when we met & then he ghosted so it’s only just #& it makes me laugh so fucking hard bc i knew he wouldn’t block my number he’s TOO NARCISSISTIC #i mean i already know i’m deleting & remaking my scruff & grindr in a month or 2 so i’ll be BACK ON IT #unless i’m in the uk then i :( gotta focus :( #ALSKALSKLAKSLAKSLAKSLAKSA BUT ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY #like when he blocks my number i’m just going to show up at his office ALSKASLALKSLAKSLAKSALKSLAKSLAKSLA #like hi xxxxx uwu #I KNOW IM INSANE BUT IF U PLAY W MY EMOTIONS I PLAY W UR LIFE #like ALSKALSKALKSLAKSLAKSLAKS IF HE DIDNT GHOST & JUST BROKE THINGS OFF LIKE AN ADULT INSTEAD OF A COWARD WE WOULDNT BE HERE #BUT HERE WE ARE #HE STILL HASNT SAID ANYTHING ALONG THE LINES OF ‘IM NOT INTERSTED’ HES PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO DO SO BC HE LIKES THE ATTENTION SO MUCH 😭😭😭😭😭 #girl this has been going on for like a year

[stairset]

Went to a pride event earlier and I might just be delusional but I’m like mostly sure a dude was checking me out at one point. Didn’t go anywhere cause I didn’t see him again the rest of the day. But that’s like the first time that’s ever happened ever so I feel pretty good.

#y'know with how many times i've gone to either a pride event or a gay bar you'd think i'd get SOMEONE'S number by now but i never have #maybe it's cause my parents always come with to be supportive #like maybe guys just see me with my parents and assume i'm a teenager idk #not to sound like i don't appreciate the support. but i KNOW there are people that think i'm attractive cause people have told me. #so the only explanation i can think of is that they're unintentionally cockblocking me #i'll add it to the list of reasons i need to move out #problem is i can't really go to these things on my own cause they're always like 20 miles away from where i live #so you need to go on the interstate to drive there. and i can drive in general but i've never driven on the interstate #cause i live in a small city where everything is close enough that i just don't need to go on the interstate #that and we've just never been able to make time for them to teach me #save like once or twice but that's not enough for me to feel confident about it #so yeah that's my current goal #learn to drive on interstate. get full-time job and make money. move out to city where the nearest gay bar isn't 20 fucking miles away. #shut up tristan

[autoneurotic]

ik i take anti anxiety/sedater at night to sleep better and not get anxious about nightmares etc, but i still catch myself feeling dread throughout the day as if i will be going to a real, physical place instead of To Bed

#90% of the time i love having vivid dreams and lucid dreaming #lately though i’m dreaming about like. moving back into my childhood home or trying to Go Home #and the house is different/on fire inside/my mom answers but won’t let me in #sometimes i’m very far away and i’m trying to call mom or dad to pick me up #and the buttons are illegible or i type in the wrong numbers time and again #OR they answer and refuse to get me so i have to walk miles through #foresty ravines with vague figures in the trees across the ravine #or through the show along highways and every night i swear #i dream about leaving a specific place and needing to make a specific turn #and i fuck it up every time. but i tell myself as soon as i leave the building Go Right Not Left Go Right #and i always go left for too long and end up by a huge interstate ramp Mess #most commonly nearly nightly o dream of being in a cramped many narrow halled home #small rooms where they shouldn’t be and the whole house is steeped in a skin crawling Sickly Essence. sometimes there’s an old person that #i feel equal parts pity and disgust for. always there is a basement that i do NOT want to go in but end up in anyway…dirt floors stuff #everywhere it goes on and on and on. wood beams and exposed wires n shit #OR finally o dream of being sick and kept in hospital. or i arrive to visit someone and am told i cannot leave #and am either made to be sick or i try to escape and usually the vessel i choose to flee on just misses me #or explodes over the sea with me in it #i want to. have cool dreams again. these suck

[beaversatemygrandma]

Going around a roundabout, 2mph faster than you should be, butt cheeks clenched, screaming, hoping you don’t somehow slip into the next lane that leads into the interstate/the point of no return.

I did this twice today. I don’t know how to feel about this.

#taks speaks #also idk how going 30mph around one makes it feel like you're about to get yeeted out the window #new enemy on the road made #its still tanker trucks in the number one spot tho #there's literally three of them on the way to my sisters school. THREE. #in my hometown there's like one. and it leads into some gated community #but today in just eight miles i went through six and i hate it #then for the next i slowed to 20 and got cut off by some guy coming off the interstate #*i need to add some sort of excitement while driving to soothe the anxiety* #*give myself a reason to be vibrating for literally no reason* #today that reason was going too fast around a damn circle #and that one guy who was riding my ass when i was going 5 over so i slowed to the speed limit out of spite #it was in a no passing zone. ha. #i always wanted to do that and that guy came out of nowhere so suck it random dude

[gothmods]

Theres something really funny (not funny funny but like, twisted i think) about seeing liberals call china authoritarian/draconian/orwellian/whatever other ~ian for continuing to use strict covid measures because thats exactly what wackjob conservatives in the US have said about western australia - where i live - for having a similar approach these last 2 years as implemented by the very much not-communist labor party who we willingly re-elected last year by a landslide vote under a western liberal democracy

Alas federal pressure and general antsy-ness means covid measures are being dialled down so our case numbers are now at record highs as is the death toll

I mean i say that but record high deaths here means 225 people, which is hard because to me thats a drastic number because for so many months under stricter measures we saw 0 new deaths but i know that globally we are extremely lucky that transmission is only rising now after the majority of people have been at least double vaccinated

Ive had people say to me there is no right answer wrt covid policy but i for one think the option that reduces death as much as possible is always the best option and if another lockdown was called i would not be complaining

Genuinely its nuts to me that people are so anxious to pretend covid is over and that the rest of the world should just pack it up and let it spread when it can still cause long term illness and still kills people

#we still have a partial mask mandate #but a lot of people are wearing them out in public even when not required #me included #case numbers really shot up though when we ended the hard border shutdown and opened up interstate travel #and while i do think there wasnt enough support for travel on compassionate grounds overall i think the border shutdown played a huge role #in keeping transmission low and its meant that our lockdowns have been short and sharp #its jarring seeing people say we need to go back to normal as in end covid measures #because the lockdowns and mask mandates have enabled us to live quote unquote normally these past 2 years #by that i mainly mean we could go out and work and study without the looming fear of death or severe illness #in between lockdowns people could feel safe to do things #mass death is not normal it is not and should not be acceptable when we have the means to prevent it #my primary critique if anything is that we dont have purpose built quarantine accomodation and people have been left to isolate in hotels #but that comes under federal duristiction and our premier did bring it up because the hotel quarantine system was shite #but the former federal government did a bunch of handwringing over the thought of actually spending money on suitable quarantine facilities #which in the long run is a dead shite idea because diseases come and go and we could bloody well need them again in a few decades

[stoneclaw]

I MISS RAID

#FFXIV #IGNORE ME #RAAAAAAAAAAH #we disbanded bc 2 years nonstop we were Tired #i got yoinked for a dif static...idk if they wanna reform for next still or not -n-; #i wanna raid w them toooooo weh ;n; #but also a good chunk of people cycled thru and i miss them all too #most couldnt continue bc of life schedule issues #bwah grabby hands #i didnt like most panda raids tho #the first tier was Okay and the gear was REALLY COOL #the rest was like #'i like certain fights' #im sad tho we quit on the fight that was MOST MECHANICALLY INTERSTING TO ME #I WANNA DO p10S SO BAD )O) #what do you MEAN theres stuff to do thats not in/out/left/right/just dont stand in it #or lc numbers #like there WERE lc numbers but the web mechanics #so cool

[bagel-lox]

i drive through ONE spaghetti junction on the way to the airport and my brain is roadgeeking again

#did you know US Route 83 in Texas is the longest stretch of highway within a US state-- going for over 900 miles (1448 km)? #did you know Interstate 10 also in Texas is the longest stretch of Interstate within one state-- running for 877 miles (1411 km)? #and I-10 also has the highest exit number anywhere in the US at exit 880 near the TX/LA border???? it's riveting #self

[miserye]

you think if a prof is reaching out to me based on my application i submitted to a school, it's because I’m in a good position to get in???

#chatterye #i'm like in email contact w a prof #he reached out first #but like he found me via my app #he wouldn't have reached out if he didn't think i was gonna get in right??? #but also he reached out because he thinks i'd be a good fit for his lab right???? #i told kat i wasn't interested but the more we talk the more intersting the project gets #maybe i'm just easy #LMFAOJOIADJFLKESJG #but like .. i don't want to say i'm down yet because a) what if i don't get in and b) this school is my number 2 choice i think #hmmmmmmmmm #fuck it we ball maybe

[drakonfire12]

Russo-Ukrainian War and Destruction to Places of Worship

As a result of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, at least 494 religious buildings, theological institutions, and sacred places were wholly destroyed, damaged, or looted by the Russian military. [emphasis added] [Source: Institute for Religious Freedom]

[Map credit: Institute for Religious Freedom. Image shows the distribution of damaged religious buildings on a map of Ukraine.]

[Map credit: Institute for Religious Freedom. Image shows: a chart showing how many and of which religious affiliation were the places of worship that were damaged. 143 were of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow affiliated); 94 were Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Halls, 75 were Pentecostal churches; 49 were Baptists churches; 34 were of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine;  24 were of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church; 22 were of other evangelist churches; 17 were of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church; 12 were Roman Catholic churches, 12 were Jewish synagogues; 8 Muslim mosques, 4 were of the LDS Church (Mormon)].

And yes, you read that right, the Russian soldiers did the most damage to Moscow patriarchate affiliated churches. I wanted to show this but then realized there was an English language version so instead I’ve added the charts and the link to the original article for more information. 

Article this post is based on:

Institute for Religious Freedom, Ukraine. “Almost 500 religious sites were destroyed in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression”. 03.02.2023. https://irf.in.ua/p/105. [Ukrainian version: https://irs.in.ua/p/139]

#I pressed the wrong button and it published it before I added the images #Russo-Ukrainian War #places of worship #war and religion #the thing that surprised me is the high number of evangelists- I didn't think that there were that many - so that's intersting

[ellemj]

It Was Sunday

Bucky Barnes x Female Reader: 18+, light smut

Song: never be like you (sped up) by Flume

Warnings: profanity, brief mentions of unprotected sex, brief mention of oral (female receiving), casual sex, slight brief somnophilia, kinda fluff (I know, who do I think I am), MINORS DNI, 18+!!!

Word Count: 855

A/N: I don't really know what this is but it was on my mind today. Super different from my usual shit. Do me a favor and don't read it without listening to this song at the same time: never be like you (sped up version) by Flume. I feel like it would fall very flat without music behind it.

            It was Monday when you wore that little black dress with the slit up your right thigh. That was the day you took down three men with ease while looking like a fucking goddess. It wasn’t just Bucky staring, it was every man on the surveillance team, every man in the club, both the guilty and the innocent bystanders. They weren’t transfixed on the violence unfolding in the center of the room, no. They were transfixed on the fatal, yet beautiful creation that was you.

            It was Monday night that Bucky told you how reckless you were, how close you came to taking on more than you could handle. Then, he gave you something he knew you could handle, right up against your bedroom door.

            It was Tuesday when he found you sparring with a trainer, flirting between lightly thrown punches and half-assed kicks. He focused on counting his reps with the weights rather than counting the number of times he imagined throwing you over his shoulder and carrying you upstairs to remind you who you belong to.

            It was Tuesday night when he counted the number of breathless moans and whimpers that fell from your lips every time he thrusted into you.

            It was Wednesday when you ran headfirst into danger to save someone out in the field. That was the day Bucky thought he’d lost you, and the all-consuming fear he felt seeing you disappear into that burning building made him wonder if he’d somehow fallen for you.

            It was Wednesday night when he stopped by your room to make sure you were okay and then, he scolded you for risking your life like you did. That night, he fucked you so thoroughly that you swore you could still feel him the next morning.

            It was Thursday when Bucky told himself he needed to distance from you, just in case he was really catching feelings. He didn’t see you the entire day and it left an empty feeling in the pit of his stomach. It was eating him alive as he sped down the interstate on his bike, trying to replace the high he gets from you with the high of an adrenaline rush.

            It was Thursday night when you knocked on his door for a change. He’d avoided you all day and you’d had enough, so you pushed your way into his room as soon as he opened the door. You didn’t question him, maybe because deep down you knew why he was avoiding you. Instead, you kissed him with so much fiery passion that you wouldn’t have been surprised to see his bedsheets go up in flames around the two of you. You put your all into riding his cock that night.

            It was Friday when Bucky went out on a solo mission, meant to be playing the part of the famed Winter Soldier. It was late that evening that he returned to the compound with more cuts and bruises than you’d ever seen on him.

            It was Friday night that you forced him to sit on the side of your bed while you cleaned him up, carefully dabbing saline-soaked gauze over each wound with the gentlest of touches. Bucky took your orders in silence, pulling his shirt off when you demanded him to, tilting his chin up so you could get a look at the abrasions on his neck. He did whatever you said because it had been so long since he’d had someone care for him like that. That night, he laid in your bed as you pressed your lips to every already-healing bruise littered across his skin.

            It was Saturday morning when you found yourself tangled up in the arms of the man you’d been casually sleeping with. That was the first day you felt butterflies dancing around in your stomach at the sensation of his warm body pressed so tightly against yours beneath the sheets.

            It was Saturday night when you tried to tell yourself that you could go one night without him. You made plans with friends, stayed out late, and had just enough alcohol to get him out of your mind for a while. When you sauntered up to your bedroom a little past tipsy, your inebriated mind decided to knock on his door instead of unlocking your own. Bucky gave you an amused smirk as he pulled you into his room and helped you change into one of his t-shirts. You slept in his bed that night, wrapped up in his arms, in his sheets, wearing his shirt.

            It was Sunday when you woke up on your back, with a skilled and familiar tongue working against your clit. As your fingers tangled in Bucky’s hair and your back arched off of his bed, he imagined how different it might feel if one of your fingers had a ring on it.

            It was Sunday when you both realized you’d fallen. You’d fallen far beyond the reach of any rescue, of any chance at getting back to where you started. Somewhere between Monday and Sunday, you fell in love with Bucky Barnes, and he with you.

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