#big yikes all around

[vhsdogs]

SO I’m not gonna get into detail rn (mainly because im a little scared and very overwhelmed) but I just had to run out of the shop i work in because the police are investigating my boss and i was told to essentially tackle the cop to get him out of the shop soo i’m now unemployed

[why-the-heck-not]

19.11.23, sunday

I listened to Succession soundtrack a lot today and had about the most productive day I’ve had in so so long

things done today:

7h of coding

went to my sister’s kid’s birthday party (mario theme 🍄)

[bigender-cowboy]

If this post hits like 15 notes or something I’ll ask to cut my hair for the first time in like 2 - 3 years

[thebest-medicine]

I know some people on this blog also follow my main blog but wow y’all… what the fuck..

somebody in the community replied to a post I shared on there in the most nightmareish yikes l take I have heard in a while… (at least they’re open about it I guess so I can use the block button?) in a post about how Israel started bombing Rafah

anyway if you feel like Palestinians should be “wiped off the map” please get the fuck off of my blog… my posts are not for advocates of genocide

[epic-and-kitty]

cope and seethe, Splatoon is LGBT friendly, Pearl and Marina are gay as hell and you're a brat who gives BigCal fans a bad rap, HAPPY PRIDE (I got 9 of these messages before I blocked this person)

(leaving the name uncensored so y'all can block, do not harass, just block and move on)

[blanketforcas]

i honestly do not understand anna regarding this picture for the album and that she didn't get paid. it's THEIR image on the picture, she is selling pictures with THEIR image and is making profit off of them/jensen mostly of course, she also sells shirts with their lyrics, jensen's pictures she took at cons and wow i cannot believe this. is she paying them/jensen for the money she makes off him? no she isn't so in this case she should be thankful they chose her picture and she can use this fact for her reputation and that's it.

she should be grateful that millionaire even lets her profit off of the shirt designs she makes!!!! she should be grateful she even gets to breathe the same air!!1!!

...

[chandralia]

we’ve actually slowed down just a bit :’)

[ndostairlyrium]

I think da2 is how it is partially because of Varric's narration, but the visuals are provided by Cassandra's imagination, so let's start to share the blame for Hawke's oiled biceps and Bethany's boobs shall we

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

I just realized I don't want gender neutral bathrooms and changing rooms just for gender reasons. I don't even want them just for practicality reasons, or just for economic reasons.

I want gender neutral hygiene spaces because, in my experience*, women who are bursting to get out of a sports bra and/or pee are wont to say unkind things and excuse it as "between us girls", and men do not wash properly if they think the bro code protects them.

[galaxywhale-moved]

like 2 weeks ago, somebody put a box that had been delivered on our office floor. It’s labelled “kindergarten health checks” and we were like huh, I wonder what the kindergarten health check people are going to do with that when they come, and the box, still sealed with its delivery label, has just been sitting there ever since.

anyway today we were looking at it like “why does it say “to be collected on March 1”, does that mean like.. tomorrow March 1?” and eventually I was like y’know what, fuck it, I’m gonna open the box, I know it’s not addressed to me bc I’m not a kindergarten health check person but whatever, let’s find out.

So I opened the box.

Turns out it was full of envelopes that we were meant to be sent home to families, that they were going to come and collect tomorrow, and the box has just…been sitting there, in the middle of the room, surrounded by our desks where we spend time every day, fully sealed, unopened, for two weeks, because none of us realised we were meant to open it or had the thought ‘hey I wonder what’s on that’ until this afternoon 💀

[aceofwonders]

the extra layer to rhydian’s anger issues in that he doesn’t even know who exactly killed his dad so he does not have anyone specific to blame or direct his anger towards

[sesamestreep]

seeing the Picard s3 trailer and the fact that none of the original characters from s1 are back at all except one and it’s just TNG characters reprising their roles for some nostalgia cashgrab for the show’s dying breath really truly sums up that series perfectly actually, no notes

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!

[starfruuits]

Hey idk if you'll see this or even care about this but you follow this one j allin on twt that degrade (? Idk the word) hao's bdsa wins (they said that hao's ost doesn't deserve the win since no one knows about his ost, something like that) I saw that you don't like solo fans/akgaes so you might not want to follow this person, sorry (this is the tweet --> https://x.com/shzhaywy/status/1813587682951619037?t=EPfGevBlZ4SLsBAPmousXA&s=19) the acc is @/shzhaywy (sorry again for this message)

omg anon im so late to this, i never get on tumblr anymore!! but srsly thank u for letting me know if u ever come back and see this, a lot of ppl i follow fly under the radar for me lmao 🙏🏾

[forshadowing]

realizing the host's friends consider me an "evil" alter like hmm. well that isn't concerning whatsoever

[shxtdisturber]

Hey so just a little update: my activity is going to continue being spotty for a little longer than I thought it would. We’re currently living out of a hotel and searching for other temporary lodging while we wait for housing to become available. Essentially, we don’t have any eta as to when we’ll be able to move in.

The internet at the hotel we’re currently at… is not great. Not at all. Currently, I haven’t been able to login with any of my devices and I’m pretty much stuck with using mobile. So, I’ll login in whenever I can to post replies, but between not having an actual residence and internet issues, I can’t tell you how frequent that’s going to be.