#2021/04

[myloveonherknees]

@mothercain. “🛎” twitter, 9 apr 2021.

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[nanadouken]

They are going to a concert together :)

[blinkandyoumissit]

04 NOV 2021 | On The Red Carpet / ABC Queen Family Singalong • Fall Out Boy shares what they think makes Queen so timeless. 🎸🎵

[sp7]

do you ever think about the fact that pete was only one or two (ish) by the time jenny “left.” he never knew his brother before he changed himself.

[slapthebass]

DIR EN GREY - GALACAA MOVIE「DIR EN GREY TOUR21 DESPERATE LIVE & DOCUMENTARY -Vol.5-」 

[merpmonde]

Plan Incliné de Saint-Louis-Arzviller

This is going to be a rather long post as there is a lot to say about this thing! But the short version is: this is a boat lift.

Built in the 1960s, this "inclined plane" was designed to carry barges as part of the fluvial coal transportation industry. However, that trade declined pretty much during the edifice's construction, and today, it almost exclusively serves leisure boats. But if you're going to do a canal cruise, this thing gives it quite the difference!

Its function is that of a lock, taking boats from the lower water level to the higher level, or vice-versa, but it does this by technically being a lift or elevator. A caisson carries the boats and the water up and down, using counterweights to ease the travel.

In fact, the caisson will take on more or less water in order to be heavier or lighter than the counterweights. Though the total mass of the caisson and counterweights is enormous, the difference in mass between them isn't, so very little power is needed to get the system moving, and gravity does most of the work. Two relatively modest electric motors (centre of photo below, steps to the right for scale) start the movement and control the speed.

As such, the system uses comparatively little power, for impressive results. The boat lift was built to bypass a "ladder" of 17 locks which required a whole day to go through, while the travel time of the lift is just 4 minutes. The ride is seamless and very comfortable, effortless even, for reasons mentioned above but also because the effort is distributed across 5 times as many cables as physically required to hold everything together!

Water-tightness is also extremely important, not just for the caisson obviously, but also for the other doors, particularly the top door, which is holding back a whole length of canal. A serious incident in 2013 has led to further reinforcement of redundancies and the construction of an emergency dam closer to the lift in the event of major leaks.

With a lot of freight traffic in mind, the structure was actually designed for two caissons, side-by-side, as evidenced by a second gate hole visible at the top of the ramp (4th picture), and extra space at the bottom, visible in the final picture below. Doubling the caissons would have meant doubling the counterweights, and a second set of rails were laid for that scenario and are visible in the 4th picture. As mentioned earlier, demand dwindled as the lift was being built, so it never operated with two caissons.

For a long time, this place was a childhood memory, visited during a school trip. In my hiking spree after the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns, I sought this place out again and was glad to see it was still working. And just this week, I returned with my parents and rode the lift! It's without doubt one of my favourite pieces of engineering.

[oldfarmhouse]

[myloveonherknees]

@mothercain. “untouched and mad about it” twitter, 9 apr 2021.

[nixonpartyhat]

[griaustinis]

i'm watching a kurt cobain docu and he's kinda autistic.

disclaimer, this is just for funnsies, i'm not actually diagnosing him, obviously. just some things in common with autistic people. some might just be adhd things (which he's diagnosed with, according to the internet), since they're so comorbid, they might be a little confused in my head

didn't like his schedule broken (insisted his family did the usual weekend game night even when his family wasn't in the mood)

liked the games but only when he won (seemed insensitive to others)

the internet says he was diagnosed w adhd. autism and adhd often go together

didn't know how to make his family to like him

doesn't understand relationships (the situation with the girl w a learning disability)

didn't understand at all that [the girl who later became his girlfriend] had a crush on him - bad at reading social cues?

his girlfriend Tracy said that she nurtured him, was sort of motherly to him, that she helped him mature (and autistics are often considered immature)

it was difficult for him to keep a job

"i use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own" - masking?

in this one video he was preparing for a concert and asked his friends to be in the first row, so he wouldn't be looking at strangers and literally said "i dislike strangers"

was sensitive to criticism and praise

[lgbtally4ever]

MEN ON A MISSION

CHA EUN WOO

MOONBIN (R.I.P.)

(Astro)

NETFLIX

P6: E15”2021-04-17”

[blinkandyoumissit]

04 NOV 2021 | ABC Queen Family Singalong • Fall Out Boy - "Under Pressure"

[ note: the audio in the original video only comes through the left channel - i uploaded a copy with fixed audio that comes through both sides here! ]

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[aureliebella]