#Historical Data:

[hadesoftheladies]

”you’re biased against men!” but am I wrong?

[the-final-sif]

Just to be clear, because I'm seeing some misinfo going around about the oceangate stuff, it's not particular weird or an indication of failure for the controls of the submersible to be an xbox controller/other game controller.

It might sound odd to people who've never done any of this stuff, but legitimately xbox controllers fucking rock for being used to control stuff. It's significantly more accessible and user friendly for a large majority of people, and it absolutely makes sense to use them in certain contexts. It can actually massively improve safety because of the ease of use, and the fact you can have 10 full replacements in a cupboard that can get swapped in if anything goes wrong. It makes the controls really simple for people, and honestly it's a generally a solid design choice.

Oceangate's Titan isn't even the first company to do this, the idea most likely came from the US navy doing the exact same thing in 2017/2018 for submarines because they realized it was way easier for everyone:

Turns out that game controllers are just really easy to access, use, and sometimes keeping things simple is the best idea. Wow. Who'd have guessed the thing made to make things easy to control would make things easy to control.

We currently don't know what happened to the Titan sub, we don't know why things went wrong, if it was a freak accident or if it was bad practices or bad safety standards. Hopefully people get found and then we're able to find out. It may be caused by poor submersible design, but some of y'all are out here acting like you're suddenly submarine engineers because something sounds silly to you. Let's maybe wait until we have actual information on the situation in order to assign blame.

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

I know this is interesting to no one because it's incredibly niche but I have a little mystery around mid-to-late 19th century mens waistcoats that I've been digging into, and so far, after digging into a bunch of local, provincial, and also national and international online archives, including but not limited to the Rijksmuseum, the V&A, LACMA, and KCI, and also asking about this on instagram and specifically asking the dutch costume society, I have found:

-9 pictures, all local to my area in eastern Netherlands, and every single one of these pictures is people wearing local folk dress -and one (1) extant garment, in the US and also made there.

that's it.

[aconfusedsquirrelsstuff]

Did I start this blog with the idea of filling it with historical fashion yes, yes I did. Has it very, very quickly become a quagmire of star trek and ghostbusters and anything else that my twisted little mind is currently fixated on? Also yes.

[feministfandomgeek]

we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing. what do you mean you don't care if what you write is full of nonsense presented as facts

[moonilit]

I like to think Bruce have a journal, not as batman just as Bruce Wayne and you can see where he wrote all the headaches he gets from his kids

[cybergrapeuk]

Archiving YouTube videos is activism, especially now.

Education on US history, LGBTQ+, racism, Palestine, and more WILL be affected.

Follow the 3-2-1 rule:

3 copies of the files on

2 different storage types with

1 copy offline

This will preserve your media and keep them safe from censorship.

Your favourite small trans YouTuber with 1k views per video will be forcibly forgotten if you don't archive.

[thepersonperson]

imagine the reason why he doesn't have wife and kids it's bc he ate them accidentally.......

If anything, Sukuna would’ve eaten them on purpose. I do say this as a joke. But it should be noted that Heian commoner life was likely full of famine and starvation. Cannibalism as a response to that is inevitable.

Directly quoting this amazing thread:

“We rarely have such specific records about peasants as that petition. We mostly have big-picture data like looking at references to famines and plagues in official chronicles. Environmental data has been used to fill out the gaps in these records and shows an alarmingly high rate of drought in Heian Japan. In his book Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan, William Wayne Farris looks at population trends across the Heian period. Based on environmental data and historical records, he determines that brutal spring famines swept through rural communities an average of every three years. Mortality rates were very high, with between 55% and 62% of people dying before the age of 5. Life expectancies for those who survived childhood were age 40 for women and 38 for men. (These figures come from household registers which stopped being made after the early 8th century.)”

Eating his twin to survive. And possibly eating his mother to survive too. There’s something more to this outside of Sukuna just being evil. All the other antagonists’ upbringings/trauma directly affect how their brand of evil functions. He shouldn’t be any different I think.

[jadedbirch]

(Please reblog this for SCIENCE so that I can get better data)

[total-serene560]

Happy Wip Wednesday! Here's a bit of chapter 5 of WOYM to tide you over in these trying times.

I'm alive I swear

currently posted fic under the cut:

[blackbackedjackal]

I was already favourable towards coyotes when I started following you, but between you and a nonfic audio book I read recently, I'm now Obsessed. Thank you

[theygender]

I have experienced my first interdepartmental nonsense at work. I think that Officially makes me a member of this office now

[talesfromthenorsesmouth]

psychology grads in popular media: we despise Freud so much we have clubs about hating him

actual psychology grads (me): if roy lichenstein wasn't dead I'd kill him myself

[alijoharjatoi]

[theflashjaygarrick]

Frederic Wertham is such a wild historical figure. Imagine pioneering race-neutral psychiatry and having your work used to win one of the most famous landmark Supreme Court rulings (Brown vs Board of Education) and then having your entire legacy be that you encouraged comic censorship by complaining that Batman and Robin turned kids gay.

[finnickeys]

got distracted with a question one of y’all sent me about early d4 and started doing intense population calculations in my drafts