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'Oil of Vitriol' is such an funny name though like, a guy had a beaker of this stuff, spilt it, ate through his table, and he was like

'yep. that is one ANGRY liquid.'

Vitriol comes from the Latin vitrus, meaning glassy or glass like. Vitriol, also known as sulfuric acid, has a clear glasslike appearance, and is highly corrosive.

The emotion is named for the alchemical agent, not the other way around.

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Hunter S. Thompson wrote this a week after 9/11

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“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year” — Emily Dickinson.

(Essay on Dickinson’s unusual manuscript forms, which included sweet wrappers and concert programmes, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-manuscripts-of-emily-dickinson

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>buy impossible burger >look inside >it's possible

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Idk why anyone thinks they can debate Elizabeth Warren after we all watched her rip Michael Bloomberg to shreds on live national television and single-handedly put such an abrupt end to his campaign that we simply haven’t heard from the man since

Image: @betches_news on Instagram

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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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Thinking about this tweet every time I see/hear about the Harris vs. Trump polls being close.

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Mosquitoes actually are not replaceable in any ecosystem that naturally has them and that includes replacing them with any of the non biting species because these are the traits that make them so core to food webs:

Tiny

Can use every single pool of moisture to raise generations no matter how dirty and stagnant and low in oxygen

Can fly

Males get by on just sugars

Females take protein from larger animals to manufacture thousands more eggs

All these things combined allow thst ecosystem to make huge volumes of insects from conditions barren to most other macroscopic life. You might think there are other insects that seem to make huge massive swarms out of nothing but there's really nothing that hits all the same qualities *except other insects that also suck blood.*

It's the precise combo of being able to "prey" on things millions of times larger and breed in nothing but a few drops of filthy rainwater or the moisture in a rotten log. That's the most efficient combination for anything that size to multiply that rapidly where nothing else can even survive, except of course the things that can move in because they eat them :)

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in honor of Philip "The Stanford Prison Experiment" Zimbardo finally eating shit and dying, i highly recommend reading The Lifespan Of A Lie (free online article) and Debunking The Stanford Prison Experiment (journal article available for free through the author's website)

the Stanford Prison Experiment was fraudulent at best, and so was Zimbardo's entire career, which he spent defending imperialists who committed war crimes by pretending his work had any scientific value

rest in fucking piss

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There’s no state so red that it can’t be flipped, and no state so blue that it doesn’t need your vote. Popular vote matters in this election.

Also, the further down the ballot you go, the more your individual vote counts.

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“all these vote blue no matter who types don’t actually do anything between elections” actually we do! It’s just that those things (going to meetings & hearings, signing petitions, calling representatives, writing letters to the editor, lobbying, fundraising, and protesting) largely don’t happen on social media — they happen in real life!

come out here and join us sometime!

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A large part of housecat vocalisation toward humans isn’t goal-directed communication, but rather, affiliative signaling: a simple call-and-response protocol which establishes that the participants are part of the same social unit. Amongst themselves, most housecat affiliative signaling is non-vocal, but humans aren’t really physiologically equipped to respond to such signalling in a feline fashion, and cats, well, they’re adaptable.

Which is to say that when your cat yells, and you yell back, so the cat yells again, and so forth, what you’re really saying to each other is “hiiiiii~”.

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normal person: whats up man

20 year old who watches youtube videos: Our greatest city state was humiliated 1000 years ago

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