Dressing Gown

c. 1840

Litchfield Historical Society

saw the video of the ukrainian soldier who asked the bus headed to the battlefront to stop for a moment so that he could hug his family one more time and now i wanna sob.

don’t forget about ukraine. do not forget what ukrainians are going through to keep their families safe.

cartoon network on nickelodeon in 1999. an off-channel promo for cartoon cartoon fridays snuck onto nick’s airwaves via unmonitored local ad buys.

An unbelievable power play

Nickelodeon execs watching their own channel:

Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.

I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.

a truly unique and magnificent Feature on our planet, as singular and fascinating as Jupiter's Great Red Spot

in the words of farmboy, as you wish

the lake is quite cold, and as a result, these seals are very loaf

the babbeez are white poofs with lil eyebrowses

it is incredibly deep, and over a thousand species of plant and animal live ONLY there

Lake Baikal Seals' faces look way too much like grey aliens for my liking. Those eyes have SEEN shit in the depths.

Lake animal...

there are freshwater sponges and giant amphipods in the lake too

and the Lake Baikal oilfish, which is the deepest-living freshwater fish, and has a lot of similar adaptations to deep sea fishes

just thinking about how totally leftists opinions shifted from 2020 to 2023/2024 like

"a person of color being a bad person doesn't mean they deserve to face racism" >> "bad jews deserve what they get"

"black lives matter" >> "slavery is okay if the houthis do it"

"the US government is bad but people arent usually represented by their governments, most of us didnt vote for trump anyway" >> "all israelis are evil because of netanyahu's actions"

"if one nazi sits down at a table of 9 normal people, there are 10 nazis" >> *allowing swastikas and HH salutes at protests*

"silence is violence" >> "it isnt my job to talk about antisemitism"

"racial minorities shouldnt have to try to pass as white, 'white passing' privilege is complicated and should be treated as such" >> "jews are white and i wont entertain any other possibility, historical or otherwise"

"let minorities define their own bigotry" >> "jews dont know what real antisemitism is and theyre exaggerating anyway"

obviously this isn't a comprehensive list & feel free to add more if you see fit but the amount of things these people did a total 180º on as soon as it was about jews is insane

We had the Me Too movement but suddenly it's rape is resistance and denying that there were any rapes regardless of the mountains of evidence.

And I remember when "go back to X" was uniformly condemned by the left as an incredibly racist thing to say, and yet here we are.

We had Women Life Freedom and now it's "long live the Axis of Resistance" and people saying that actually they are glad Women Life Freedom failed because the IRI is the only viable counter to "zionist fascism."

I like being able to tell when a European made something, specifically a Brit like that. We don’t name our cabinet members like that

Ask meme for people in their 30s

had a bad low blood pressure moment last night and messily asked my partner for saltines and water before realizing i should probably ask for the Blood Pressure Medication I Need To Take. while they went to go grab it though i still had water and crackers so in a daze i took a swig of water but didnt swallow and then tried to cram 2 saltines in my mouth. full of water. in bed. with mouth full of water

Oh My God Damn

"But I didn't think the face-eating leopards would eat YOUR face! You're one of the good ones!"

terror camp sounds like an 'immersive haunting experience' they'd set up for halloween, where you and your friends go to a summer sleep away camp that's in its off season, and there are councilors and camp activities and songs, and then when the sun goes down, someone tells a story around the bonfire about a local cryptid. Then you settle into your cabin for the night, only to be woken up by some strange noises, and then the cryptid attacks the cabin, and your councilors direct you to "come this way!" and so you rush out of the cabin into the woods, where you have some creepy encounters and maybe a councilor or two is dragged off screaming. Then at some point your party figures out that one of the camp songs you learned during the day reveals a weakness of the crypted or smth, and you sing the song as your last councilor exploits the weakness in a climactic battle where they finally defeat the monster (and it turns out one of the councilors who got dragged off had like, summoned the cryptid or was actually the cryptid themselves the whole time). And then some floodlights turn on and the councilors are all like "thank you for attending terror camp!" and take their bows lol.

but no it's a conference for nerds obsessed with historical arctic tragedies.

Cats' behavior will remain the same 🐈😺

"if I fits I sits" is a universal constant

hey remember when people actually thought saying things like this was bad, and not, like, a daily occurrence from all corners of social media…?

under a cut because some of this is particularly gross/graphic/exploitative

Normalize this response

Look a company in my town bought a fucking cyber truck as their company business and nobody is using their service because they're considered the town idiot if they'll pay for that death trap. We should have the same response to AI.

Girls, please

THE FUCKING BEIGE.

SO MUCH FUCKING BEIGE.

My older coworkers (like, in-their-60’s-old) told me it was to hide cigarettes smoke stains better. I don’t think they’re joking.

Having had the singular experience of cleaning my grandfather's house after he died (he was a multi-pack-a-day smoker who always smoked inside), there's a non-zero chance the beige WAS the cigarette stains in some houses.

After much scrubbing, we were very surprised to learn his walls were white.

After much scrubbing,

we were very surprised to

learn his walls were white.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.