don't carry it all

august 23, 2025 - from NASA's astronomy picture of the day

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

in my day someone just let the dogs out. never did know who.

But I’m a creek. I’m a weird flow.

Basically my whole (very basic) research class was the professors beating us over the head going DO NOT STRESS YOUR SUBJECTS. DO NOT STRESS YOUR SUBJECTS. HERES HOW EVERY KIND OF CAGE AND FACILITY AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THE ANIMALS AS HEALTHY AND CALM AS POSSIBLE. IF YOU DONT DO THIS YOUR DATA IS GARBAGE. so if your evil mad scientist has the meat grinder right next to the sleeping quarters while claiming to be doing things for Science™ I’m going to call them a moron

Friend of mine calls it active listening. Ah yes we are speaking of tooths. I understand and respond. Here it a tooth image. I have heard you.

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

She read War and Peace over the course of two years using a giant russian-english dictionary and translating it line by line like a poem. I have thought about this every day.

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

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources

This is actually a really good example of why internet of things is a security risk. The hackers couldn't have exploited the thermometer as an entry point if it didnt connect to the fucking internet to start with

You're telling me an Ocean Eleven'd this casino?

the prawn bomb exploded into shrimpnel

a lot of people were krilled

"rickrolling is mean" rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url

Do it scared but please don't do it hungry. Please don't do it dehydrated. It's gonna make it so much scarier. Please.