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It's crazy how humanity invented bicycles and decided to try it with one big wheel and one small wheel BEFORE they tried having two wheels the same size
This is not quite true, though it would be very funny if it was.
The classic "old bicycle" we're all thinking of, which looked like this:
Is actually a technological compromise developed in the early 1870s. The very first bicycle was invented in 1817 and it looked like this:
It had no pedals and the rider would push it along with their feet, the same way toddlers learn to ride bikes today.
In about 1864, a mechanic in france came up with the idea of adding pedals to the front wheel, making the first self-propelled bicycle.
This was a great improvement because it's a lot easier to move and a lot more fun than the Fisher Price version above. It was a big thing for about five years, but there were some drawbacks.
First, because the pedals were directly attached to the front wheel, you couldn't go very fast without moving your legs incredibly quickly, which takes a lot of effort. It also is kind of awkward to steer because your legs are in the way of the wheel.
The other issue was bumps. Roads were not very smooth in the 1870s, most of them were unpaved and full of ruts, potholes, and rocks. And at first there were no rubber tires, just wooden wheels with metal rims. Altogether this made for a very bumpy ride.
The big front wheel, which was made possible by the invention of wire spokes and solid rubber tires, solved all of these problems. A big wheel runs over bumps more easily: think of how rough it is to ride roller skates over bumps in a sidewalk that you would hardly notice on a bike. And the bigger the wheel, the faster you can move with one push of the pedals. Having the seat on top of the wheel, instead of behind, also makes steering less cumbersome.
There are of course drawbacks to this design, in particular being so high up makes it very easy to go over the handlebars if you crash, and more likely to hit your head or break your arm.
Two more inventions helped drive this comical beast into extinction and bring back a more balanced, and safer, bicycle.
The first was the pneumatic tire, which contains a cushion of air, and makes for a much softer ride compared to a solid tire or a metal one. The cushion effect eliminates the need for a big wheel to smooth out the bumps in the road.
The second invention was the sprocket and chain drive. This lets you put the pedals anywhere you want on the bike, and with a big gear at the pedals and a small one at the wheel, you can get more speed out of a small wheel.
The first modern bicycle to combine a sprocket and pneumatic tires was built in 1879. It was an instant hit, not just because it was much less dangerous, but because the low drag profile and the smooth pneumatic tires made for a faster ride, and the trendsetters in cycling, then as now, were the racing community. There have been plenty of innovations and modifications in the years since, from ten-speed gears to carbon fiber frames, but these are all variations on a theme. The basic form of the bicycle has not changed.
Happy riding.
Okay full disclosure I was high as a kite when I made this post, otherwise I might have fact-checked my joke before posting, but this is awesome. Thank you for the bicycle lore.
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Well personally I think the hero's girlfriend got a lot more interesting when she came back wrong.
Vultures are important to the ecosystem I think it's nice that we've been seeing more of them around here.
Her new look is perfectly fine? Honestly the white dresses and colorful leggings weren't bad of course, but darker and more structured clothing has better utility for hiking around cemeteries.
Taking up new hobbies after a traumatic experience isn't unusual. It isn't even difficult to understand. Of course the woman wants to get out more, she was stuffed in that fridge for months.
Really it's not surprising that she has such heavy dark circles around her eyes all the time either. She's probably not sleeping well after, well, dying? And the expectation that women constantly cover up blemishes with makeup is quite unfair.
I think she's definitely got some kind of nutritional deficiency though. I haven't seen her eat anything since she got back. On one occasion I thought I saw her chewing some carrot sticks, but they didn't seem to agree with her.
Did some reading and I think she probably needs to eat human flesh now. A lot of people who come back from botched rituals end up as ghouls, and the hero definitely did not perform thorough research before he was trying to crank her back out of the grave.
I mean I don't really see the problem though? There are tons of humans dying all the time. Logistically it might be tricky to handle because of some legalities and taboos but people are always dying in this town. I don't know why anyone moves here.
Look I didn't want to just ask her directly because she seemed very embarrassed about it, but I finally did and yes it seems she's a ghoul now.
No I'm not going to tell her boyfriend? Why would I? That's her private business.
It's actually amazing. She only needs to consume about one corpse every three months and she's basically got superhuman speed, stamina, strength, resilience, etc. She can unearth a grave with her bare hands in less than an hour. I don't know for certain but based on my reading it seems she's pretty much immune to disease too.
Can't emphasize enough that is an amazing deal in terms of consumption vs payoff. She's basically taking a bunch of worm food and fueling super powers with it.
I mean vampires are even more energy efficient because we only need blood, but still. Remarkable.
Unfortunately the hero has been talking about sending her back to the grave. Which I think is just murder at this point but apparently, I just do not properly appreciate that something sinister is afoot.
He doesn't even know what it is and he's making this call?
Personally I think he could just try breaking up with her if he doesn't like goth girls who eat meat. Ending her existence seems unkind and excessive. She hasn't even killed anyone.
Unlike me.
Well, I think I'll just invite the hero over for drinks this evening before he gets started on that nasty little ritual of his, hm?
Don't worry darling, there are always more and better fish in the sea.

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characters raised to be tools
Weapons. Trained, tested, forged in steel and fire. Failure is an inevitability that ends in death. Pain should not be felt--it should be recognized, familiar, and inconsequential
Martyrs. In the form of servants and princes, of leaders and underdogs. If blood is necessary, the martyr will lift their hands and offer it all
Shields. Like tempering a sword, but only to bear and not to lash out. Wounds are medals--not symbols of pride, but symbols of worth. A pretty shield is useless; scars mean a job well done
Experiments. Raised on the cold comfort of a lab table. Restraints are only necessary when they're not in their right mind. Is it honorable, to be twisted beyond recognition? Or is it just a necessary evil?
Monsters. Cruelty, caution, and regarding one as a creature beyond reasonable thought is tempering in its own right. But if you keep a leash at the right length, perhaps the massecre won't reach you. One can hope.
Idols. Pretty face, pretty name, pretty hands around their shoulders and throat. There to seduce, manipulate, force any feeling to come to the surface and twist it to their favor. Any genuinity stays locked behind the guilded cage that surrounds their pretty little heart
Trophies. Status and wealth and the traditions that keep someone at their heels, on their knees, to display and serve and decorate one's ballroom.
Sacrifices. Drenched in honorable clothes, prepared and adored and cleansed. The gift of hope at the cost of one's life. Is it taken with no fight? How can you escape the ropes you were born in?
fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun
i meant road. road to success
Reblog the Toad of Success to sleep well, eat well, and have fun
wolf gently howling, rain pouring, thunder crashing. This is so dang soothingâŚ.
This is entirely my aesthetic
i cant believe that there's still gamergate STANK on games that women enjoy. NASTY misogyny residue. stardew valley is in fact a video game. animal crossing is also a video game. so are otome games and dating sims and twee little cozy games. sometimes a bitch doesnt wanna play bloodborne that shit's hard
guys who mainly play 2k and fortnite will still be like oh youre not a real gamer for having 1000 hours in stardew. mother fucker you're larping as a basketball player
We donât talk enough about the rejected yautja prince and how interesting his story and design was. Like LOOK
He was seen as inferior to his older brother for being âsmallâ and âweakâ and yet everything about this man screams power and regalness. Red is his identifying colour and it shows both in his tattoos as well as his clothing; a colour of passion, historically signalling royalty. His hair is also incredibly unique for a comics yautja design, as it is long and the prince is shown tying it into a bun to keep it out of the way.
Absolutely gorgeous, no doubt about it.

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Watching that scene for the first time cracks me up
Same energy
letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.
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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.
âMrs Râ was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.
Years before the Stonewall uprising, Drew Shafer started Kansas City's first gay rights organization and published the first LGBTQ magazine
âWe tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,â he says. âYou gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."
Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.
Bring this bad boy back with some delicious context for pride
Listen if the study of ancient humans doesnât make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.
I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.
Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.
And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didnât give us blisters while hiking!
Is that not just the coolest shit ever????
(Quietly, with love) We will remember your bread, we will remember your dog, we will remember your shoes
(Quietly, with anger) We will remember your copper
Iâd divorce him too lmao
Itâs never JUST about the tomatoes.
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Throughout the day, partners would make requests for connection, what Gottman calls âbids.â For example, say that the husband is a bird enthusiast and notices a goldfinch fly across the yard. He might say to his wife, âLook at that beautiful bird outside!â Heâs not just commenting on the bird here: Heâs requesting a response from his wifeâa sign of interest or supportâhoping theyâll connect, however momentarily, over the bird.
The wife now has a choice. She can respond by either âturning towardâ or âturning awayâ from her husband, as Gottman puts it. Though the bird-bid might seem minor and silly, it can actually reveal a lot about the health of the relationship. The husband thought the bird was important enough to bring it up in conversation and the question is whether his wife recognizes and respects that.
These bidding interactions had profound effects on marital well-being. Couples who had divorced after a six-year follow-up had âturn-toward bidsâ 33 percent of the time. Only three in 10 of their bids for emotional connection were met with intimacy. The couples who were still together after six years had âturn-toward bidsâ 87 percent of the time. Nine times out of 10, they were meeting their partnerâs emotional needs.
Those who showed genuine interest in their partnerâs joys were more likely to be together.
Damn, this made me think of all the âshouting into the voidâ social media posts everyone makes. Just bids for connection. From ANYONE.
I think that is ABSOLUTELY what a lot of that is. Our culture is very isolated (even BEFORE covid!), and weâre desperate to connect with others. I read an article one time that suggested that childcare workers stop saying that a child is âJust wants attentionâ and start saying that the child is âlooking for connection.â Weâre starved for it even from childhood.
When they are speaking about a passion, respond to children as if you would a tenured professor at a prestigious university, and to an adult as if you would a child free of the burdens of adulthood.Â
Children are desperate to teach the wonders of the world that they know, that they have just learned, and share it with anyone interested. Adults pour passion they didnât know they had into voluntary obligations, and crave a simple acknowledgment of that passion as being worthy and valid.Â
âDear third grader, tell me exactly why you chose <x> as you third favorite carnivorous dinosaur instead of second, as specifically as possible.â
âHey neighbor, your vegetable garden is absolutely gorgeous this yearâŚand no Iâm not just saying that because the tomatoes you gave me last year were absolute perfection.â
And if you canât respond to the emotional bid at that moment, let them know you heard them. If thereâs a gorgeous bird outside, ask your loved one to take a picture so you can share in it together. But by god, hear them. Tell them they were listened to.
That *is* a response though! Telling someone âIâm busy/low on energy right this moment, but if itâs possible, Iâd love for you to show me this thing laterâ works just fine. At least so long as you establish a pattern of actually following up on it, even if itâs just going âhey, wasnât there a thing you wanted to show me? a bird?â
Most people hate being told âlaterâ, but thatâs just because most people who say âlaterâ really mean âI canât be botheredâ.
Yeah. This. I have run into this a lot. Itâs what kills me about having many friend groups Iâm kind of in, but no one Iâm properly close to.
Idk why Iâm rambling about this especially after such a long post this one is never gonna be readâŚ
âThere are no trigger warnings in real lifeâ
âThe real world is cruel, get over it.â
My boyfriend is triggered by Christmas and Christmas music. We were in a restaurant, and Christmas music was playing, and he started panicking so he went outside for a cigarette. The manager of the restaurant overheard him saying he had to get out, and changed the music over for the rest of the time we were there. There are safe spaces in the real world. People are nicer than you think. And bullshit people who try to tell you to get over your triggers, ainât shit.
Honestly âthe world is cruel get over itâ is pretty easily translated to âIâm a complete asshole who doesnât want to be held responsible for my sh*tty behaviorâ
The world may be cruel but you donât have to be.

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Thinking about how Palamedes tells Pash that they "are conversant with the concept of family in the Houses" in Nona....because, like, are they? Are they really?
Palamedes calls his own mother by her full name or job title more than he calls her 'mother'. Their relationship is COLLEGIAL at best. The Sixth raise their children in some kind of communal academic system, from what we can see in canon. Meanwhile, on the Second, it's all about that sweet sweet military command structure. On the Seventh, your parents literally try to pass super cancer onto you, and probably die of it themselves before you reach puberty. The Eighth is a monastic order where EVERYONE calls each other 'brother' or 'sister', regardless of family relationship. From everything we hear, the Tridentarius' parents are fucked-up in some way. The Ninth is....the Ninth, and on the Fourth, parents just tend to be dead.
So, like, are they really 'conversant with the idea of family'? Everything about the system John has set up discourages real family relationships. There is no socially acceptable way to share a family name with your spouse, parent, or sibling - the arithmonyms encourage you to identify with your HOUSE, not your family, and every time characters share an arithmonym, that is considered 'weird' (see the Tridentarii). John's system demands allegiance to the EMPIRE, not any individual family units.
This dissolution of family has the side effect of also dissolving (unjust) gendered roles, but it is also VERY effective at creating the existential, deep loneliness that so many of these characters experience and that John's system then uses to fuel their loyalty to him as God. It's this dissolution of family that creates the codependent structures you see in so many cav-necro relationships (Cam and Pal above all else), because WHERE ELSE but in this (fundamentally militaristic) relationship that was originally intended to serve the Empire could you find the closeness family often provides.
And, like, every time characters prioritise their chosen or blood family over the values of the Empire, it's transgressive. Any relationship that emphasises the individual - as a spouse, friend, lover, sibling, child, parent - over the 'imperial role' of cav, necro, soldier, or servant, is transgressive in the world of TLT. Magnus and Abigail are transgressive for that. Gideon and Harrow are. Even the Tridentarii have something going on that seems to go against imperial power structures, even if it's a different kind of fucked-up. Cam and Pal are such a complex case because they DO earnestly love each other outside of their role as necro and cav, but are so fundamentally alienated from healthy relationship dynamics because of their absurd upbringing that they immediately become *like that*, to the point of doing ye olde soul-merger. Still - they fundamentally hold allegiance to each other as family of some sort, whether romantic or platonic.
Which, I think, is why it's so perfect and messed-up and appropriate that Juno Zeta, Palamedes' literal mother, spends the last few minutes of her son's earthly existence as an individual quizzing We Suffer about her family structure. Rather than. Y'know. Talking to her son. Who is about to eradicate himself as an individual within the one relationship that ever transgressed that enforced, non-familial distance.
Camilla, meanwhile, does not let her fathers watch her death/ascension at all.
Thirty year Predator fan right here.
Predators are sexual. Very sexual. This is canon. It is in the books. It's highly noted in the books AvP: Prey, AvP: Hunter's Planet and pieces in Forever Midnight. If a human becomes a member of their clan, they'll get sexual with them too. It was noted in canon books how Yautja were having the hots for Machiko Noguchi and hated the idea themselves of even remotely being attracted to her. Again, this is noted in canon books.
The problem is that Yautja lore stopped after the book Forever Midnight and has been stalled since. The lore picked back up in the book Predator: Through the Eyes of the Demon, but focused more on their society than anything else. Then just a little bit in Predator: If it Bleeds and the Rage War series.
The harassment of others who aren't sure either is going to stop. If you don't like Predators being sexual, well, you have a right to not like it. If you see people drooling over and fantasizing about Yautja, well, we're freaky that way. This doesn't give you a right to harass people who are not bothering you just because you have a different say in it.