#tick marks

[todays-xkcd]

If you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.

Tick Marks [Explained]

Transcript

[A graph with two axes is shown. Each axis has tick marks with every fourth mark a bit longer than those in between. The Y-axis is labeled with text rotated 90 degrees clockwise. There is no label on the X-axis. The graph is a jagged curve with three clear peaks; the area beneath the curve is shaded in light gray. After the third and highest peak the curve drops to zero. At the point of decline, a dotted line goes up to a label above the last peak. To the right of this dotted line, the X-axis and the ticks on it are clearly thicker than the axis and the ticks to the left.] Y-axis: Activity Label: Deadline

[Caption beneath the panel:] If you need to conceal activity, try timing it to hide behind the tick marks on the graph axis.

[markscherz]

There is a happiness no-one else knows: the feeling of mud between fully webbed toes; the caress of a breeze on your moist shiny skin; the warmth of the sunlight that slowly soaks in; the gentlest hum of a thought far away, as you sit and you soak and let time tick away.

[fifthnailinstevesbat]

thinking about steve in that first scene in nancys bedroom back in season one. thinking about how goofy and flirty and charming and playful he was being. thinking about him being like that with eddie, and how eddie would react to that version of steve. the whole talking in a silly voice, acting as that stuffed bear, the whole “bad steve :( don’t do that to miss nancy :( “ and “you are beautiful nancy wheeler”.

eddie plays dnd, even more so, he DMs dnd games, he stands up on tables in cafeterias and makes big theatrical scenes to rant about issues he has strong stances on — that man knows how to put on a show, and enjoys to watch one too. see: immediately accepting erica into hellfire as a replacement after seeing her go on one of her tangents, showing off her attitude and how she isn’t afraid to get in your face to get her way. he LOVESS that shit. lives for it. seeks it out. so when steve starts getting like that around him he would just crumble immediately i just know it.

[catfindr]

[pickingbelovedoffthesofa]

Conjuring Lestat pulling Louis up on stage like this at a show in s3🤞🤞

[ali3nboyfriend]

the edge of sleep show had a bit of jank but i honestly really enjoyed it for that, it felt surreal and Weird in a similar way to how i view the janky voice acting in the original Silent Hill 2 where it really added to it. i'm not even a markiplier fan or anything but i had a lot of fun w it

[plasterhound]

since i wont be posting on my rw blog anymore im just gonna repost all the stuff from there. get downtown+painting'd

[strejdaking]

Everyone on twitter is complaining about not getting their Invincible/Spider-Man crossover (guys, they didn't have rights to Science Dog, that was not gonna happen), meanwhile I'm still holding out hope for the real shit

[leopardsealz]

lil thing of my OC mushroomtail

[amee-racle-ofmyown]

5 with heist carrying y/n and 4 but it's y/n carrying heist?

work injury

[kettlefire]

I just wanna see Dick being confused because for the past few weeks, everyone in his family has casually mentioned someone name Danny.

Like, it's done in such a quick passing. "Yea, my friend Danny said...", "Ya know, this guy name Danny used to...", etc.

After a bit, maybe it's after the fourth time it's mentioned, it gets more casual. They start talking about Danny like everyone should know him, like he's suddenly a new member of the family.

Maybe Dick thinks he's been away for too long and hasn't met or forget about a new brother.

Thing is, Dick has yet to meet him.

No one will really acknowledge Dick hasn't met Danny. Or even really give him any input or idea on who this Danny person is.

Bonus points if none of the Batfam actually introduces him, Dick ends up meeting Danny the same way everyone else did.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Hello! This is my partner's kitten Ora. Would you mind confirming if she is an orange ticked tabby? And if so, how uncommon do you consider this to be for a random street rescue? She's a female, if that matters (I know it's ~1 in 4 oranges are female, yeah?) Thank you very much!

Hello! Yes, she indeed seems like one 😸

I'm afraid i can't really say how uncommon this is, it really depends on the region. Around here ticked is quite rare (i'm not sure i've ever seen one in person outside of cat shows), and overall it's probably the least common tabby pattern worldwide. However in certain populations it can be much more prevalent.

The frequency of orange females depends on the frequency of the O allele (and this can be different regionally, too), but yeah, around that, maybe a little lower.

So all in all this color combination is relatively rare but definitely not unheard of. You don't see it often, but it's still not the surprising category.

Congratulation to your partner, it's a very nice kitty!

[theminecraftbee]

unrelated vault hunters statement: would you consider it cheating if i pulled out a notepad and wrote down how many rooms each cardinal direction i was going so that i don't have to leave markers,

[kitebird-hockey]

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[goannafr]

preddy sure i was bitten by a spider or some other critter last night cos i woke up this morning with a big red swollen itchy & sore patch on my neck lol yay

[mitchell-nihil]

No.6 is my favourite anime not because it's particularly good, but because the pure whiplash of going from expecting it to only SEEM like Shion and Nezumi had a thing going on and that Shion was gonna end with Safu, to suddenly "oh my god they're- OH MY GOD THEY'RE KISSING???"

100% that feeling is NEVER going to leave me