and the grass grows

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

Me: ah shit, I misidentified that yellow rumped warbler as a female goldfinch, I should literally be hung at the gallows for this. I'm such an IDIOT

My friend, pointing at a vulture: check out that fucked up crow lol

ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

Time seems such a universal concept and then I find out the different ways people perceive everything and remember “it’s all appearances to consciousness”

But the coolest part of that time-direction study, was there didn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to how aboriginal Australians arranged the images, until it was realized that the issue was where the participant was sitting, because they were consistently arranging them East to West.

@crowinthecorner

Submission to the DNI Hall of Shame:

someone should make reignberg vamo de cycle a gif

sooo tumblr isnt letting me upload my gif

someone should make reignberg vamo de cycle a gif

sooo tumblr isnt letting me upload my gif

someone should make reignberg vamo de cycle a gif

sooo tumblr isnt letting me upload my gif

The biggest misconception in public schools is that literary analysis is about proving you can be right or wrong about a book you read

Literary analysis isn’t about the book

It’s not even about being right

It’s about performing an investigation and presenting your case to the jury

It doesn’t matter if your defendant killed that guy or not. If you can convince the jury he didn’t, you’ve won

And the incredible life skill of spinning bulletproof bullshit out your ass with a handful of facts and a prayer is soooooooo much more valuable than anyone’s ever gonna tell you

Bullshitting is becoming a lost art

😔 Another industry lost. Should have bought stock in Grifting

A Man of Few Words

End of an era, Phil has added Dadza as a blocked term in his chat.

HELL YESSSSSS

o7 to all the dadza-ers in chat but I cannot overstate the level to which this is a win for me personally.

Well, @mysterioussubstance, the donos calling him are parasocial in a way that he is increasingly uncomfortable with, and when streamer is uncomfortable, I'm not jazzed. (Donos saying things like "I love you, Dadza" are not uncommon, and Phil is very firm that he's just a guy playing block game, people don't actually know him, and he doesn't want people to regard him like that. He doesn't think it's healthy and he doesn't want that dynamic with people.)

Phil also expressed that he's not as comfortable with the term as he once was because it was used by people he's no longer friends with, so it's a bad reminder of a relationship he's moved on from— and like, you can see this on his face when the donos get really heavy into the dadza stuff— who started it and pushed it, and how he feels about that now.

And I personally win because I'm not into the dadza stuff myself (i am phil's age), so I prefer when the discussion is interacting with Phil as a person and his cubito as a chaos bird who does war crimes and anxiety. That's just my preferred lens because I am old and crotchety.

So streamer is less uncomfortable and I am less frequently reminded of the task of babysitting Tommyinnit. Wins.

they hate me for my ardent refusal to accept cruelty as the status quo

daylight savings is actually truly one of the most evil things in the world. just casually forcing us to confront the fact that time is fake while torturing insomniacs, autistics and schoolchildren across the globe. when will the agony end

ideas conceived by the truly deranged

America mostly observes DST, but landlocked Arizona does not, but inside Arizona is the Navajo Nation which DOES, but inside the Navajo Nation is the Hopi Reservation which DOES NOT.

Its worse when you realize that there's multiple layers of "Navajo nation inside Hopi Reservation, and Hopi Reservation inside Navajo nation" going on

The surrounding pink/brown is Arizona

The top right yellow corner is the Navajo nation

Any pink/brown inside the yellow corner is Hopi reservation

Any further yellow inside that is further pieces of the Navajo nation inside the Hopi reservation

And I think there's even a city or two inside those yellow pieces that are Hopi, but are too small to see on the map

I calculated once that you could travel in a straight line between two points in Arizona and have the current time change 10-12 times because of this

I had to find it. and yes, if you include the border between AZ and NM, you would have to change your clock a total of 12 times, or 11 if you're only counting time changes within state lines.

honestly the boundaries between friendship and romance don’t really matter that much like at all if everyone involved is ok with it

like most of what is and isn’t romance is cultural/constructed anyways... you can take and leave what you want with it as long as you maintain boundaries. does that make sense

how come you'll say tragedy is your favorite genre and then 100 thousand million people will be like "you should check out this adaptation of this famous tragedy but the twist is there's a happy ending this time." GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nobody ever tells me to check out a Hamlet adaptation where things go even worse for him

Hamlet but he slept weird and is neck hurts a little bit through the whole play

honestly I think everyone should just play Hamlet this way anyway. he should have a tension migraine