Beyblade heavyweight division

Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

[ID: social media post by Finest Natives. Post text reads, "When your electrician is native with pride"

Photo below post is of a white enclosed fuse/switch box mounted on a concrete wall. The conduit leading into the box has been decorated in black and white diamond patterning resembling Native American beadwork. /end ID]

Had to reblog since relevant to day job. I see so much bog-standard bare conduit and wiring putting together lighting supply sales collateral that this was a very pleasant surprise. Kinda wish I saw more of this!

it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby

Kallista actually trying to do murder

(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED

POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET

Hey guys! Check out this block of pure sodium that I got!

NOOOO, I DON'T WANNA GET OUT OF THE POOL!!!

Do you know how badly you have to fuck up for this to happen

... Holy fucking shit.

Okay some background for ye westerners: Japan, China, and Korea have basically been as diplomatically as possible at each other's throats for centuries. As recently as the fucking 50's there have been actual fucking war crimes committed just as part of doing business w each other.

And look, I'm Korean. I believe in peace and desperately wish for my people and the people in that region to see how much more they have in common than not. We could be so much stronger together than separate.

And, for centuries of reasons, each has a laundry list of justifications for not trusting each other or the west as a whole. But these countries won't even apologize for horrors commuted during war, even when it would take as little as a bow between leaders, because pride is just so fucking important.

But they looked at Trump, looked at each other, and said, "Yeah, okay. Fuck that guy. Agreed?"

As usual, Korea stuck in the middle having to bend awkwardly for both parties.

Wow, new Ep tomorrow!

@flicks-random-stuff

As always the more support we get the sooner these eps get made!

Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.

Put this out about Luigi Mangione.

i’m going to start saying “sorry i was stimming” in an indiana jones voice forever now

When, not If

THE PITT 1.08 • 2:00 P.M.

It wasn't just in the US that black people started the EMT services. In Britain, the Harrow and Wealdston train crash in 1952 was the worst peacetime rail disaster in UK history(112 dead, 340 wounded). A United States Air Force medical unit was among the first responders, and while most ambulances at the time(including this incident) just picked up anyone injured and rushed them to the hospital, the USAF people recognized that things were so bad this should be handled like battlefield medicine, treating and triaging on-site. 7 doctors and, crucially, 1 nurse, Abbie Sweetwine made up the USAF medical unit.

While ambulances were rushing off with "walking wounded" who had made it out of the accident first, the more seriously injured were still being dragged from the wreckage. The doctors who had rushed over with whatever they happened to grab treated those on-site. Meanwhile, Lt. Sweetwine handled triage and recorded what treatments had been performed by writing on the patients with lipstick and directed the returning ambulances which patients to take back to hospitals next. This was crucial for saving lives, and when the various UK organizations were figuring out how to make sure this sort of disaster didn't happen again, the role of ambulances as actual medical providers rather than as a fancy taxi service was one of the big realizations. It wasn't a wholly new concept, but news articles and pictures showing doctors on-site, crucially with Abbie Sweetwine following up with patients and covering basic care, gave a solid basis that the NHS could model it's Paramedic system after.

And Abbie Sweetwine was black. This was almost unheard of for the time, a black woman serving with the USAF, and the impact of a black woman being lauded for heroism throughout the UK on your average Joes cannot be overstated. She basically just did her job, continued doing it for the next few decades, and retired to her home state of Florida with some unusual medals on her wall, but she also changed a country and that's not something most people can say.

(source, please click through for a better writer than me tackling this)