45 silver worms in a trenchcoat

im swimming at the lake and accidentally kicked a fish. this has never happened in my many years of swimming. sorry man

yesterday my dad and i were stuck indoors because of the weather and i said “we’re homestuck” and he looked at me, like he knew this was some meme shit, he knew the score, but he couldn’t place it. he just kept looking at me suspiciously, knowingly, warily. then he carefully said, “yes.”

what if instead of paying companies to delete our info off of databases periodically we like. idk. passed a law that said companies couldnt do that anymore. and set up some kind of task force to disband all the companies that do that. thatd be cool

ridiculous! Next you'll be suggesting the IRS tell you how much you owe, rather than making you guess or hire a company

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

we’re the only animals that know what will happen later in the day

I actually think that science fiction has done everyone a disservice by presenting escaping to another planet as a remotely feasible near-term solution to problems on Earth.

Like, I’m sorry, but if terraforming Mars is an option then why can’t we just terraform the Earth?

(I mean, this last bit isn’t actually a great argument, because a lot of techniques proposed for terraforming involve such things as smashing asteroids into planets, blocking out their view of the sun for decades at a time, or seeding the entire planet’s surface with novel extremophile bacteria, which would be unthinkable on Earth; but the point still stands! It would be vastly easier to restore Earth to a healthy climate than to make Mars even as habitable as the peak of Mount Everest)

As Mars is fuck-off far away, it’s really expensive to send even a robot the size of a compact car there, half of all uncrewed missions there fail, and we don’t even know how to land a crewed one yet.

Did you see anything about how china returned Przwalskis horses to it’s steppe and effectively halted desertification bc keystone species can do stuff like that? Technically terra forming, perfectly doable to engineer/ restore all sorts of earth ecosystems, and SO MUCH MORE FEASIBLE than anything that can be done on Mars.

This was such a great fucking movie.

We really don't talk enough about Goncharov on this site.

my personal pet peeve vis a vis grace atticwife posting isn't actually anything to do with the posts or au itself, that's all fine, it's just that the way fandom currently uses the term "atticwife" appears to have mostly divorced itself from what The Wife In The Attic actually represents in jane eyre and that Personally ticks me off in a gothic nerd way. I think fandom currently uses it as a shorthand to basically mean "a beloved imprisoned in a gilded cage," while in jane eyre it's more "living reminder of something horrific the hero has done and is still doing that he's trying to hide from the heroine." I hear "ryland grace atticwife au" and imagine adrian as the jane eyre in the situation, cautiously asking their spouse "...by the way, what, uh. happened. to that alien you brought back home? it was a big deal at the time but it's been years and I haven't heard anything more about it" and rocky saying "oh, well humans have such short life spans and high medical needs, it's basically just on palliative care for the time being, don't worry. also the banging on the biodome is the air vents, pay it no mind." or I imagine stratt hiring a new young staff member as an assistant when the beetles come back to earth and them realizing that there are weird cuts in the video logs sometimes, and their boss keeps redirecting conversation when they try to bring up the circumstances of the original launch around other people, and no matter how hard they try they can't find copies of ryland grace's informed consent paperwork when everything else related to project hail mary is so meticulously and publicly archived. but, alas, this is not what other people mean.

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

@redsesame