So there are several species of frogs that have evolved to be so small that their vestibular balance system doesn't work well and I'm sorry but it's the funniest thing to watch them try to jump.

@lassukmiboolelunk tekintsd meg ezt a békát

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The word garbage sounds like it should mean clothing

It does! Or rather, it does come from garb. Garbage originally meant the small fabric scraps left over from tailoring--all the tiny bits that were too small to cut a pattern piece from.

Back when you generally bought fabric by the yard from a draper and then took it to a tailor to be made up, keeping the garbage was the tailor’s perquisite. Unscrupulous tailors were accused of deliberately cutting to maximize the garbage, which still had various uses in tailoring--as padding, or for backing buttons--and could also be sold for making paper.

That is DELIGHTFUL information oh my god!!! Oh that's my new favourite bit of trivia thank you so much

who's reposted Jay Foreman to Tiktok?

oh it's Jay Foreman. well now I'm just confused

happy hallowing you can take TWO pieces

I'm at a :.|:; for words.

Fun fact this anon was about me using he/him pronouns for Loki while he was transformed into a female horse for the purposes of getting railed by a male horse.

Genitals do not equal gender anon ESPECIALLY when the person in question is shapeshifted into a HORSE

Nice to see everyone enjoying the Norse Horse Intercourse Discourse

Robot Girl who keysmashes in DVORAK

:(

counterpoint

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

probably just a coincidence and not at all a linguistic marker or anything...

girls go to college to get more knowledge. men go to svalbard to die in the polar night.

wait fr

oh my god

men when they die in svalbard

and waste fresh meat???

I didn't think that it would be more wild, but it is. Terrifying.

Oh yes. The graveyard is quarantined.

Longyearbyen has some other nice laws, such as it being illegal to lock the doors of houses and cars (so that people can escape polar bears), or it being illegal to leave the town without firearms (so that people can defend themselves from polar bears.)

Is a pretty cool place.

So it’s not illegal to die there they just firmly prefer you try not to

Lateral Podcast #46

Mr. Kill Gun Die

Anna Ploszajski, Scott Manley and Bill Sunderland face questions about stately stands, letter lists and silver streaks.

how would a seagull do cocaine?

bendy straw

When I was younger everyone cared about Talk Like a Pirate Day. Every September 19th it'd be yars and shivers me timber all the way down, and people took delight in it. Now nobody ever talks like a pirate, on that day or any other. So few of us cling to the old ways. This is where our society went wrong. People not talking about pirates once a year, everything else about society is fine, probably

Next year we are so back

Together we can revive the pirate-talker ecosystem

Talk Like A Pirate Day was the pioneer of Silly Meme Holidays, the standard-bearer for many years. But now, in a fast world of Ides of March, MAR10s, and Pi Days, nobody stops to talk like a pirate anymore.

But we can change this. This September 19th, stop being a scurvy landlubber and "walk the plank" of fun! Set a reminder now, possibly on a clock you put inside a crocodile, to save the struggling pirate ecoysystem, yarr. We lost the ninjas. We lost the epic bacons, narwhals, and Flying Spaghetti Monsters. But you can help save a pirate today (if it's September 19th)

(This reminder would be more timely if it was in April, like I always think it is for some reason)