#some engineer fucking guy

[ozymoron]

cannot believe im sat here losing my god damn mind over some fucking fictional guy who just sorta looks like this

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

The thing about the time lords is yeah they’re a super powerful species, it wouldn’t be all that inaccurate to call them gods of time, but you get yourself a time lord and like 70% of the time it’s like oh this is a guy I could kick in the shins really hard and get away with it unscathed

[serpentface]

Interview Question for Etsushir:

What was the vibe like as a foot soldier during the suppression of the North Finn Rebellion? Did it feel doomed from the start or did it only fall apart once the Odomache was assaulted and killed?

[bacchuschucklefuck]

[gabi-theladylover]

Tf2 & Brawl Stars crossover cuz they're my fav games

[tvckerwash]

rvb au where everything is the same but the soldiers on chorus all wear odst armor

[cocoa-rococo]

so you know how the koopalings have those little wrist bands with spikes on them, same as bowser?

how much do you wanna bet iggy modified his to contain a whole bunch of helpful functions in case he got separated from his wand.

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

hm. tried clowning around on twitter, didn't like it. clearly tumblr is the only one for me

[front-facing-pokemon]

[steakout-05]

i was watching star trek and this clip of Worf's childhood pet disappearing singlehandedly made me laugh so fucking hard it sent me into a coughing fit and distracted me from watching the episode for like half an hour because i was SO fixated on how funny it was

the echoed "HOURNK" as he fades out of existence. the 80s editing and lighting. the bewildered look on Worf's face. i am in love with this show

[kitabasis]

Ursula Vernon is an excellent author, but *damn* does she refuse to let any of her male leads realize that they’re people, not weapons! And frankly it’s driving me up a wall! I understand that characters don’t always develop positively, but can we please get a paladin whose arc is about unlearning seeing himself as a weapon, and learning to see himself as a full person who can live for himself and not just others? (My pie in the sky would be one unlearning their kinda Catholic ideas about guilt and suffering and justice but. I doubt that would happen.)

[shelli-gator]

Okay fine, FINE, I love Ryan, alright. Best character to debut in CGI Era for me hands down (I'm sorry Marion I love you I promise). Like he's just SO 🥹🥺

It makes me double over and clutch my hair to SCREAM.

He's just some GUY

[alighterwithlove]

me: wow amc's iwtv is so good. I luv seeing gifsets of these guys and the way the show is using the narrative to tell a better, more compelling, more complex story about race, vampirism, abuse, and love while refusing to cover up any of these characters' flaws

you fucking people making ur fucking posts: ohhhh my godddd my baby girl lestat is NOT an abuser this is CHARACTER assassination this show is NOT GOOD ugh

[mo-ok]

Car Sentai little guys ❤️💙💛🖤💚💗

You might not believe in fairies, or aliens, or interdimensional robots, but that doesnt stop them from believing in you!

[girderednerve]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/michael-lewis-chris-marks-the-canary-who-is-government/

Right through World War II, miners had used timbers to support the roof directly over their heads. In the 1940s, a handful of coal companies showed that it was far more effective to bolt the roof, effectively to itself. It struck many miners, at first, as completely weird. They’d drill a hole into the mine roof and then drive a metal bolt between three and six feet long into it. The bolt pinned the sedimentary layers together the way a toothpick pins a turkey club sandwich. The success of the bolt — and the toothpick — turns on the presence of at least one solid, strong layer. Roof bolts, in effect, used strong rock to hold weaker rock in place. “The single most important technological development in the field of ground control in the entire history of mining,” Chris called them.

Roof bolts were adopted more rapidly than any other technology in coal mining. Someone had the idea, and almost instantly they were being drilled into mine roofs. They obviously worked and yet … they hadn’t. At least not for a very long time. In the accident statistics, Chris stumbled upon a riddle: The powerful new technology hadn’t reduced deaths and injuries. “The accepted story was someone invented roof bolts and it was safer right away,” he said. “I looked into it and saw it just wasn’t true. By the end of the 1950s, death rates had actually gone up!” It was a full two decades before roof fall fatality rates began to decline, and dramatically. That year, 1969, also happened to be the year that the Bureau of Mines was finally given the enforcement power it needed to properly regulate the industry.

The standard story — the story accepted by the coal mine industry — was that new technology had led inexorably to greater safety. What had happened was far more interesting — and told you how this little American subculture worked, rather than the way economists who had never seen the inside of a coal mine might imagine that it worked. Roof bolts were indeed more efficient and effective than timber supports in preventing chunks of roof from wounding miners. But they were expensive to install. The coal mine companies had, in effect, figured out how few roof bolts they needed to use to maintain the same level of risk their miners had endured before their invention. “Simply stated,” Chris wrote, “roof bolts can only prevent roof falls if enough of them are installed.”

And so, amazingly, for the first 20 years of its use, the main effect of the most important lifesaving technology in the history of coal mining was to increase the efficiency of the mines while preserving existing probabilities of death and injury. Taking advantage, essentially, of people conditioned to a certain level of risk by failing to ameliorate that risk.

[unpopularvivian]

"Rio Romeo's Over & Over isn't MC Edward coded at all"

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