#gizmoriginals

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You know how the word "feline" refers to cats, and "canine" refers to dogs? There are a whole bunch more animal adjectives, and here are some of them:

equine -> horses

bovine -> cows

murine -> mice/rats

porcupine -> porcupines

wolverine -> wolves

marine -> marmosets

saline -> salmonella

cosine -> cosmonauts

citrine -> citrus

combine -> combs

famine -> your fam

bromine -> your bros

palpatine -> your pals

alpine -> alps

christine -> christ

asinine -> asses

machine -> the speed of sound

landmine -> explosions

migraine -> migrants

trampoline -> tramps

dopamine -> dopes

medicine -> the Medici family

praline -> prey

masculine -> mascara

feminine -> femurs

latrine -> latissimus dorsi

fettuccine -> fetuses

poutine -> sadness

turbine -> turbans

engine -> england

supine -> soup

valentine -> valence electrons

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Wondering how to watch this? Good news! There's a site that has a link to watch all of Doctor Who in chronological order!

It's three weeks long.

Okay, technically it's "2 weeks, 6 days, 8 hours, 41 minutes and 31 seconds", and that's if you're watching 24/7. It's split into 21 "episodes" of around 24 hours each. That length doesn't include the latest season, but it does include every episode of every spinoff show. (The site includes extensive discussion on the methodology and more info on the project.)

i saw this:

and thought it would be fun to actually work that out. so

^^^ every doctor who episode in chronological order

(pls let me know if theres any mistakes! i got most of the info from the tardis wiki so idk if its 100% accurate)

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yeah so i saw dracula daily in person yesterday

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i was told to post this on tumblr with no context

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Them: So, did you get… the surgery? Me: Yep, my wisdom teeth are out. now I'm dumb as a rock Them: No, I meant the surgery… down there. Me: Ah, yeah, I hopped on the bandwagon and finally got that surgery that makes your knees point backwards. like a bird Them: No! I'm talking about surgery that involves… genitals… Me: Ohhh, I get it. Yeah my umbilical cord was cut a long time ago, I still have it preserved tho Them: Quit playing dumb! Me: Well I did tell you my wisdom teeth are gone Them: I'm asking about your penis! Is it there or not? Me: Fine, I'll show you *pulls down pants to reveal I have a second dick*

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havent seen it, but im gonna go ahead and assume this is the plot of That's So Raven

in sixth grade my homeroom teacher caught this kid stephen saying, “that’s so gay.”

so he told the class that for the rest of the week, anytime you wanted to express something negatively, you could say, “that’s so stephen.”

and it started out as a joke, where even this stephen kid was going around using it, laughing at it, not really caring. it was funny, i guess.

but then one of his friends got a bad mark on a test and said, “that’s so stephen.”

we had a blacktop recess and everyone kept saying, “that’s so stephen.”

and when we got too loud doing groupwork and had to separate and work silently, everyone in the class kept muttering, “that’s so stephen.”

and the weirdest part was that even though it was just a word we were using, even though it had nothing to do with stephen, we all sort of blamed stephen.

and as everyone kept using “that’s so stephen,” all week, you could see stephen himself finding it less and less funny. we played a game called “pamplemousse” in french class and everyone got stephen out right away if they could. someone literally went and found one of stephen’s art projects when nobody else was around and ruined it so he had to start over.

and when my homeroom teacher found out about it, he sat everyone down and told us that it wasn’t okay to say “that’s so stephen” anymore. that the things we’d been blaming him for weren’t his fault and the things we’d been doing to him weren’t fair.

he told us that stephen couldn’t help it that he was stephen. he didn’t choose to be stephen. he was born stephen.

and that’s when it clicked.

we all felt pretty stupid, i think, for sort of falling for it, but i’ll be damned if i’ve ever had a teacher get a lesson across so utterly and completely as mr. bernard did.

it hadn’t even been the full week.

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Me: I have Asperger's syndrome

Them: You know that's an outdated term right? In 2013 it was merged with autism with the publication of the DSM-5

Me: No, you misheard. I said I have Assburger syndrome *pulls down pants to reveal that instead of a butt, I have a hamburger with lettuce and cheese neatly sandwiched between two buns*

Them: Oh, neat

Me: But yeah I'm also autistic

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polyam is short for polyamongus

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Hey, girl, are you from Missouri? Because you're the only miss I'd yuri

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I'm preparing to send query letters to literary agents asking them to represent my book and it's terrifying. I'm basically searching for someone to adopt my characters and world. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Always remember the mathematical order of operations!

Logarithms Grouping Brackets Tetration Quotients Integrals Addition(+)

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[ID: An aerial photograph of Mount Rushmore and the surrounding mountains and trees, with the white carved stone faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln starkly contrasting against the grayer surrounding rock. End ID.]

Here's a 1905 image of the Six Grandfathers, the English translation of the name the Lakota used for the mountain. The name refers to the six directions (north, south, east, west, above, and below).

[ID: A black and white photograph of a series of weathered cliffs standing above trees further down the slope. End ID.]

The land was legally recognized as belonging to the Sioux in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, but the US broke the treaty in 1877 and took control of the land after gold was discovered nearby. The name Rushmore comes from an attorney who visited the area to examine a tin mining company's claims to the land.

The Sioux have maintained their legal right to the land, and in 1980 brought a case to the Supreme Court demanding the return of their land. Instead, the Court offered for the US to pay "just compensation" for the land, which the Sioux have refused, since accepting would mean they give up the claim to the land. The interest on that payment has grown to over $1.3 billion.

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I don't know much about basketball, so I used the digits of π to make my NCAA bracket! Each digit of pi determine each matchup's winner: odd means the team on top wins, even means the team on bottom wins. These are the results:

According to this universal constant, Tennessee University will win the women's bracket and Clemson will win the men's.

The universe can't be wrong, right? Right?

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@salt-rocks

heck you!!!! youre just jealous cuz i have a tag system that actually allows me to find posts i've reblogged later by searching my blog

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A story in two holidays:

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ID: Tweet by @TheEcho13 that reads: "It's illegal to sell a puppy within 8 weeks of birth because it's deemed cruel to separate it from its mother, but corporate America expects women to return to work 4 weeks after giving birth." End ID.

Puppies can't be sold before 8 weeks in about half of US states:

Approximately twenty-seven states, as well as D.C., have laws or administrative regulations that state how old a puppy must be before it is offered for sale or adopted out to an owner. Of those states with laws, all but three (D.C., Virginia, and Wisconsin) require that a puppy be at least eight weeks old before being offered for sale. Source

Maternal leave laws vary by state but only about 11 states have 8+ weeks of paid leave:

The Family and Medical Leave Act is 12 weeks of unpaid leave with job protections. Paid maternity leave is often voluntarily provided by employers; however, several states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington—and the District of Columbia) have recently created paid parental leave plans which are funded partially by employers and employees. Source