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unexpected consequences to driving

The canonical EverymanHYBRID minecraft level

Y'all remember the EverymanHYBRID minecraft level? What, you don’t? You don’t remember that HABIT from legendary 2010-2018 Slenderman webseries/ARG EverymanHYBRID canonically made and shared a minecraft level that had a hidden code? In 2011? Not ringing a bell? Weird.

Anyway, I think it’s hilarious that this exists. The recorded playthrough I ran into when I got into EMH wasn’t that helpful, so I downloaded the level and a beta version of Minecraft, and recorded a playthrough for the benefit of other fans. It’s real short. It’s very 2011. Enjoy!

OP of this collection got deleted but the other one i reblogged made me remember this so i must spread the word

marathon durandal ass images

this was in the tags of a very funny screenshot and i didnt want to derail there, so i will make a new post: dishwashers manufactured after 2013 take MUCH less water than washing dishes by hand. it seems counterintuitive but it is provably true and has been tested extensively. if you are washing dishes by hand as a way to lower utility bills you are shooting yourself in the foot. dishwashers also sterilize dishes and in general are much much much much cleaner than hand washing, which becomes extra important if you live with anyone who has immune issues, long covid, cancer, etc. if you tried to hand wash your dishes with the temperature possible inside a dishwasher you would get serious burns. it’s not physically possible to hand wash dishes and get them cleaner (as in, the amount of bacteria and other contaminants on the surface) than you can with a dishwasher. its almost like an autoclave in there

also do not use sponges to clean things but thats a different post

oh my god i went looking for the sponge bacteria post and found these tags. everyone on this website needs to pay attention in school when they teach you about germ theory. i personally know four people who became permanently crippled from getting basic bacterial food poisoning once. bacteria does in fact make you drop dead, but more often it just makes you permanently ill for the rest of your life. i know “hygiene hypothesis” (being too clean makes you sicker in the long run) was big for a while in the 2000s but its been mostly debunked

it’s obvious and inarguable that having a dishwasher at all is a first world thing, and only the wealthy or lucky members of the first world. it’s a luxury. what im trying to say is that if you have access to one of these luxury machines, please use it. i run into so many people who have dishwashers and dont use them and then backpat themselves about water saving and cleanliness, both of which are measurably worse with handwashing. its not virtuous or practical or efficient to wash dishes by hand if you have a functional dishwasher.

questions of “laziness” etc can be referred to other discussions of disability vs protestantism and wont be addressed here. but i will mention that i know a few people who have to hand wash and have been able to use a barstool to make being at the sink for long periods of time easier.

Yep! Modern dishwashers use sensors to detect filth in the water and adjust their cycles accordingly. If your dishes are extra dirty it’ll use more water and more time washing. But still less than you, a human, would.

Also, you don’t need to rinse the dishes off before loading. That just wastes more water. Modern dishwashers use bladed impellers (basically a mini garbage disposer) that chops up organic stuff on its way down the drain. So as long as you’re not tossing bones or huge chunks of food in there, it can cope with normal amounts of detritus. If you’ve got an absolutely filthy load of dishes, you can toss a 2nd detergent pod into the cutlery basket as a pre-washing treat.

Bonus tip: run the sink’s hot water for a second prior to starting the dishwasher. As soon as the water turns hot, fire it up. This primes the hot water line for the dishwasher, helping tremendously with the pre-wash.

thank you for bringing up the rinsing thing. washing your dishes twice by rinsing them just wastes a bunch of water. all you have to do is scrape the big chunks of stuff that cant be chopped or melted into the trash. a dishwasher will basically boil off any food material that is water and heat soluble

@croaksac linked to this excellent Technology Connections video about dishwashers in another reblog chain, here it is

I wonder if there’s a master list somewhere of misconceptions about efficiency which used to be true, but stopped being true as technology improved. Alongside “dishwashers use less water than handwashing”, there’s “heat pump air conditioners are way more efficient than you think, and use less electricity than heaters”, “manual transmissions are no longer more fuel-efficient than automatics” (not that you can even get a manual transmission anymore), and presumably a bunch more.

call me a wish mouse the way she [remembers wish mice are creatures from a particularly gruesome dream my friend had several years ago and are not recognizable figures to anyone else] whatever

forgot until just now that when i went to the grocery store today i turned down the oil/vinegar aisle and there was a store employee stocking the shelf and he said “welcome to the land of wonders” to me for some reason

The canonical EverymanHYBRID minecraft level

Y'all remember the EverymanHYBRID minecraft level? What, you don’t? You don’t remember that HABIT from legendary 2010-2018 Slenderman webseries/ARG EverymanHYBRID canonically made and shared a minecraft level that had a hidden code? In 2011? Not ringing a bell? Weird.

Anyway, I think it’s hilarious that this exists. The recorded playthrough I ran into when I got into EMH wasn’t that helpful, so I downloaded the level and a beta version of Minecraft, and recorded a playthrough for the benefit of other fans. It’s real short. It’s very 2011. Enjoy!

The canonical EverymanHYBRID minecraft level

Y'all remember the EverymanHYBRID minecraft level? What, you don’t? You don’t remember that HABIT from legendary 2010-2018 Slenderman webseries/ARG EverymanHYBRID canonically made and shared a minecraft level that had a hidden code? In 2011? Not ringing a bell? Weird.

Anyway, I think it’s hilarious that this exists. The recorded playthrough I ran into when I got into EMH wasn’t that helpful, so I downloaded the level and a beta version of Minecraft, and recorded a playthrough for the benefit of other fans. It’s real short. It’s very 2011. Enjoy!

gray @existentialterror: I can’t even remember how I got to this tab but yesterday I learned about buddhist superhell

landfish: I feel like this is relevant to all the people who say if you meet Buddha on the road you should kill him

gray: "Please do not kill the Buddha if you meet him on the road. We have had to institute a new kind of superhell specifically to stop people from doing this.“

hearts: my brain is trying to put “Please do not kill the Buddha if you meet him on the road.” to the rhythm of “Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street” and it’s not working

grace: my brain thinks it works fine

gray: hmmm - 

Buddhism teaches that going to Naraka is temporary, allowing the offenders to work off the karma they garnered in life. Avīci is sometimes cited as lasting 3.39738624×10^18 or 339,738,624×10^10 years,[5] about 3.4 quintillion years.

now I know killing the Buddha is bad, but this really seems excessive

Don’t ever kill the Buddha if you meet him on the road
For the karma you’d acquire would be quite a heavy load
And it might take countless aeons for your spirit to atone
So if you should meet the Buddha, best to leave the guy alone

Don’t ever kill the Buddha if you see him eating rice
Though some koans may suggest it, this is dubious advice
He’s a busy bodhisattva with no time to transmigrate
And if he were less enlightened he’d be reborn quite irate

Don’t ever kill the Buddha if you find him in the park
It’s a temporary thrill and then the punishment is stark
And a year or three quintillion in Avici isn’t fun
So don’t ever kill the Buddha; simply put, it isn’t done

Alpha Edition

Call someone else the player, you the land,
And I the ship. In our developmental forms.
Still I flew across the water, and your sand
Would dive below the waves til I returned.

I’m stronger now, and fly through air. And you
are infinite, ten thousand unseen jewels.
We are marvels now, but marvel too
at the world when it was simple. Two young fools.

Another oak forest would come into sight,
Before we thought “we could be something more,”
A glimpse still made my naive heart delight,
Sail at full speed,
And break upon your shore.

I am too fearful of the night to ever really uncomplicately love the stars

which sounds sad but if you think about it, that’s not all bad; it adds excitement and thrill, which I think has real value even though I recognize that’s fueled by motivated reasoning, plus probably it almost certainly heightens my perception of how great the stars are, by contrast,

Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby and Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (1973), watching his third movie: Getting a lot of ‘Boss Baby’ vibes from this…

FORGET TGCF IS LIKE IF PARKCIV WAS GOOD WHO AMONG US IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO GET SVSSS STYLE TRANSMIGRATED INTO PARKOUR CIVILIZATION

FUCK

Alpha Edition

Call someone else the player, you the land,
And I the ship. In our developmental forms.
Still I flew across the water, and your sand
Would dive below the waves til I returned.

I’m stronger now, and fly through air. And you
are infinite, ten thousand unseen jewels.
We are marvels now, but marvel too
at the world when it was simple. Two young fools.

Another oak forest would come into sight,
Before we thought “we could be something more,”
A glimpse still made my naive heart delight,
Sail at full speed,
And break upon your shore.

Alpha Edition

Call someone else the player, you the land,
And I the ship. In our developmental forms.
Still I flew across the water, and your sand
Would dive below the waves til I returned.

I’m stronger now, and fly through air. And you
are infinite, ten thousand unseen jewels.
We are marvels now, but marvel too
at the world when it was simple. Two young fools.

Another oak forest would come into sight,
Before we thought “we could be something more,”
A glimpse still made my naive heart delight,
Sail at full speed,
And break upon your shore.

there’s just something about the word cock that makes me think of penis

STOP!!!!

this is acgually a symptom of ADHD

SCROLL BACK UP THIS IS A TUMBLR POST

Do not scroll up. This makes mustard gas

stop reblogging this obvious ai slop

wow every single account here is deactivated 😲

current aesthetic: cute english teacher who’s high key banging the history professor

current aesthetic: the history professor

current aesthetic: all of the lights and windows in grandpa’s house disappeared

there are games out there and they havent been made yet, nows your chance! make something that fucking suc ks

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hammond B3 organ cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I have been thinking a lot about what a cancer diagnosis used to mean. How in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when someone was diagnosed, my parents would gently prepare me for their death. That chemo and radiation and surgery just bought time, and over the age of fifty people would sometimes just. Skip it. For cost reasons, and for quality of life reasons. My grandmother was diagnosed in her early seventies and went directly into hospice for just under a year — palliative care only. And often, after diagnosis people and their families would go away — they’d cash out retirement or sell the house and go live on a beach for six months. Or they’d pay a charlatan all their savings to buy hope. People would get diagnosed, get very sick, leave, and then we’d hear that they died.

And then, at some point, the people who left started coming back.

It was the children first. The March of Dimes and Saint Jude set up programs and my town would do spaghetti fundraisers and raffles and meal trains to support the family and send the child and one parent to a hospital in the city — and the children came home. Their hair grew back. They went back to school. We were all trained to think of them as the angelic lost and they were turning into asshole teens right in front of our eyes. What a miracle, what a gift, how lucky we are that the odds for several children are in our favor!

Adults started leaving for a specific program to treat their specific cancer at a specific hospital or a specific research group. They’d stay in that city for 6-12 months and then they’d come home. We fully expected that they were still dying — or they’d gotten one of the good cancers. What a gift this year is for them, we’d think. How lucky they are to be strong enough to ski and swim and run. And then they didn’t stop — two decades later they haven’t stopped. Not all of them, but most of them.

We bought those extra hours and months and years. We paid for time with our taxes. Scientists found ways for treatment to be less terrible, less poisonous, and a thousand times more effective.

And now, when a friend was diagnosed, the five year survival odds were 95%. My friend is alive, nearly five years later. Those kids who miraculously survived are alive. The adults who beat the odds are still alive. I grew up in a place small enough that you can see the losses. And now, the hospital in my tiny hometown can effectively treat many cancers. Most people don’t have to go away for treatment. They said we could never cure cancer, as it were, but we can cure a lot of cancers. We can diagnose a lot of cancers early enough to treat them with minor interventions. We can prevent a lot of cancers.

We could keep doing that. We could continue to fund research into other heartbreaks — into Long Covid and MCAS and psych meds with fewer side effects and dementia treatments. We could buy months and years, alleviate the suffering of our neighbors. That is what funding health research buys: time and ease.

Anyway, I’m preaching to the choir here. But it is a quiet miracle what’s happened in my lifetime.

Cystic fibrosis used to be a “disease of childhood” because people who had it rarely lived to be adults. Now it’s considered a chronic illness.

I know I’m saying this as someone who’s career largely depends on this, but: please, this is why we need basic science research. If you ever see a headline or snippet about something “ridiculous” that scientists are doing, you are being propagandized. You are being lied to. And it’s in a way that aims to stop this progress.

There is a cure for sickle-cell anemia. Not a treatment, a cure. One of the first to be cured on a non-experimental basis–after decades of excruciatingly painful episodes, hospitalizations, after a disabling illness their entire life–recounted asking their doctor after the (lengthy) treatment, “What’s next?”

And their doctor said, “There is no next. You’re done. It’s gone.”. No follow up treatment, no drug regiment, just…life.

my bacteria #mybacteria

you doing okay there buddy?

#MyCrobe

“Scham mästet sich gierig am Schweigen”, “Shame feeds hungrily on silence”, Lithography, 2024

binding My Immortal is about finding THE tackiest mallgoth fabrics in your local joanns and going to TOWN with them

update:

i may have gone a little bit overboard

(yes the chain is actually attached to the headband so you can chain it to a shelf. no the padlock isn’t real)

twin raised cords!

and some progress shots (all badly lit because this is one of those projects where all my work sessions were in the 11pm-3am range)

like i did with misvil, i added bristol board “signatures” to both sides of the textblock; you can stick a piece of chipboard inside the bristol board “signature” and then your cover is Attached, with less opportunity for fuckups than if you’re casing in. unlike with misvil, i also frayed out the linen cords and then glued another piece of chipboard on top. this did not ENTIRELY work (at the bookbinding museum their example had bits carved out of the covers for the linen cord to go in) but it’s close enough and a lot less work.

(oh, yeah, i added the chain at this stage too – the cord for the headband just goes through one link on each side before it’s anchored to the cover. this was awful to work with and i don’t recommend it. i think the Thing to Do would be to integrate a metal ring with the headband while you’re sewing the signatures, so it can go in the middle somewhere, and then chain it up only when you’re done constructing the damn book.)

from the beginning i wanted to keep the cords on the spine visible, but i realized the spine would be a bit Wiggly without some support, so i glued on some kozo paper between the cords, and then strips of black cardstock glued to both covers but *not* to the spine. then i covered both covers with the snakes-and-skulls fabric, after some extra black paper to keep any chipboard bits from peeking out. (i did NOT make it into bookcloth first, i just folded the spine edge over a piece of card and glued it down so the card gives a nice crisp folded edge.)

the spiderweb mesh DID NOT want to stay put >:( i should have, like, strategized for that a little better, but instead i just glued it between some random scraps of card and concealed the entire Crime behind the endpaper. this is part of why i only added spiderweb mesh on the front (the other reason is that i didn’t have enough red ribbon for front and back).

anyway! now i just have to figure out how to display it on a shelf i can chain it to >:)

Honk mimimi

Good Morning!!!

More like good afternoon

When do you tear down the Calendar? When do you smash the clock? Abolish Timekeeping. Breathe and be free. Now is always the time!!!

New word proposal: threeshadowing

For when a piece of improv media does something that would be foreshadowing, but because of the context/timing, clearly could not have been intentionally planned.

I don’t want to spoil anything, but The Adventure Zone and the Dream SMP plotline both have examples of this.

Long-time SCP wiki legend Dr. Mann made a youtube channel and is gonna make videos about SCPs, check it out!

They’re doing nothing to me #controlgroup

Ceremonial weapons of the Majapahit Empire, Java

Artists I drew a scary image

hamnds

I see your hands and raise you something equally scary…

NOOOO

in my head it’s about here:

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wait you know I made this years ago in response to a similar ask - I think maybe I meant it to be on her right side but then drew it flipped?? Wild. Man, I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. Canon is imaginary.

Her left hand is the fucked up one, though. That one I have #headcanons about. You’d be like “well I guess that’s lucky” but she was a lefty. She writes with her right hand now and her handwriting is much worse. Jot that down. And then type it up, because you won’t be able to read it otherwise.