Chirex Sanguiens

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

Well that's not *a* gun, now is it

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

Hell yeah moon holiday

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

Happy Moon day!!

Alan Turing and Ada of Lovelace did not invent computer science for the girls and the gays to claim they can't do math

it's okay if math isn't your forte but that's not bc of your identity as a girl and/or a gay! and it has nothing to do with being non-binary either!!

Pulitzer Prize type shit

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

TBH, I kind of want to get a printing press.

potato battery? no. potato usually fried by itself. potato starchy enough to go in oil without batter

Potato battery? no, it only threatened you, which is assault

yes. good. fried potato taste very good with a salt

potato battery? yes, it's more efficient to fry several at a time

potato battery? no. potato usually fried by itself. potato starchy enough to go in oil without batter

Potato battery? no, it only threatened you, which is assault

yes. good. fried potato taste very good with a salt

the justification when law enforcement kills someone for no particular reason always boils down to “we got really really scared, you should feel bad for us because we were sososo scared” ok. piss yourself or scream or something. why is killing someone the only option

I'm scared of the Christian nationalists' hostile takeover of the US but you don't see me shooting people about it

Queer plural system, call that a fruit basket

therian plural system, call that a zoo

Lots of people find math tedious so they think of math people as unusually willing to tolerate tedium. But math people don't find math tedious; math people are unusually UNWILLING to tolerate tedium, and only want to focus on the "interesting part", the underlying structure. to be clear, this is a vice. lots of good things lie behind tolerating tedium

The part I like best about getting further and further in math is how much tedium I can get away with skipping. (If I prove this in the most general external case I never have to prove these specific ones!) (see pattern? Is it also another pattern that is less tedious?)