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I you come into my notes to ask for donations or whatever for any cause:
I never reblog donation post from people I don't know well enough to recognise their face. My inbox is for two things: rock-related questions, and shenanigans. Nothing else!
Or, to put it another way:
Aan de deur wordt niet gekocht, en jezus? Zet die maar in de achtertuin.
TikTok live is such a waste of time there are no good….
this is how we should generate power for cities
contextual storytelling from that sign in the back
You know, rivers catching on fire used to be a regular occurrence.
Boring, even. Mundane. People just accepted that rivers had oil slicks floating on them that could be lit by somebody throwing their cigarette in the wrong place. Cities had regular protocols in place on what to do when the river caught on fire.
The modern environmentalism movement wasn’t just started by hippies you know. Regular people cared about this stuff because their rivers caught on fire and existing near farms gave them cancer and by the 1970s they weren’t even seeing that much economic benefit from it.
If you don’t live in a world where rivers regularly catch on fire it’s because of stuff like the clean water and air acts. A lot of rivers in the US that in the first half of the 20th century regularly caught on fire are now safe to swim and fish in.
A lot of environmental damage is reversible if we act. We’ve got a lot of success stories like this actually. A lot of formerly endangered species have come back, fish have returned to American rivers, the ozone layer is being restored.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen next with the environment but I hold out at least a little bit of hope. Because rivers used to catch on fire and now for the most part they don’t.
Visit Norway!
Take me away, soft Norwegian travel butch
Jacek Yerka, Eruption
i like tumblr because occasionally i’ll be recommended a 12 year old post that depicts something so absolutely my shit that it makes me believe in art again
natasha pobedina
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
shout out to the people in the notes saying "this is so true except actually middle age starts in your 30s and ends at 50". you are completely wrong and you're the target of this post, get help.
funniest response so far is that middle age is actually 35-50 but that you're not 'old' until you're over 60. great news for that decade in between. category error, you're young again.
lmao so y'all know how I'm a software engineer right. and we're mandated to use specific software to build our automated processes in (which only lets us properly deploy packages if we're on Firefox, which is a blocked app within the bank, so it deletes Firefox off my machine overnight and I have to reinstall it every morning and ignore the popup saying it's not allowed)
anyway the bank blocked the software. that we use. to build the processes that the bank runs on
wait no it's chrome too, and sourcetree
@greatscottdoc @massive-tank i'm so thrilled to announce that I logged in this morning to find that they now no longer allow us to reinstall Firefox! and have instead blocked it entirely. which means we can't deploy anything at all, since all other browsers block essential content of the admin screen for the software we use 👍
Something dark, crossing over.
b-sides from the series Baked Earth
The secret to being a private person is to overshare dumb shit so people think you are an open book but then not tell them any of the important details of your life.
By now I’m sure you know about the “Trinity scientists worrying whether the test would set the atmosphere on fire” story, although this post is the most complete examination of the story I’ve found.
One interesting tidbit: the fireball was much brighter and longer-lasting than James Conant had expected, and so for a moment he thought it had really happened:
Then came a burst of white light that seemed to fill the sky and seemed to last for seconds. I had expected a relatively quick and bright flash. The enormity of the light and its length quite stunned me. My instantaneous reaction was that something had gone wrong and that the thermal nuclear [sic] transformational of the atmosphere, once discussed as a possibility and jokingly referred to a few minutes earlier, had actually occurred.
Everyone has had those brief “oh shit!” moments of pure panic, although I’m willing to bet no one has ever had one quite like James Conant briefly thinking he had just annihilated all life on earth.
