As a lab partner, he's not much help.

i giggled

Lucy St. Louis, Rhys Whitfield and Killian Donnelly

This does not even begin to cover the weirdness of cathode ray televisions.

They are literally particle accelerators that you point at your face.

And for eighty years, Americans' favorite thing to do was turn them on and stare at them for hours.

If you overcharge them, they emit gamma radiation.

Servicing them is like disarming a bomb -- their capacitors are enormous and are usually charged to hundreds or thousands of volts, and most of them have no bleed system that drains that charge, meaning that they can still be dangerous months or years after the last time they were powered up. A discharge can not only electrocute you, it can cause tools to melt or explode.

A black-and-white cathode ray TV driven by an unmodulated analog signal is theoretically capable of resolution that would require a microscope to perceive.

Old school CRT monitors had the same issues.

Back when, I worked at a small whitebox pc manufacturer. One day, a service tech brought back an older, gigantic (30 inch or so) AutoCAD monitor from a service call. The customer said "Made me feel nauseous"

So, we put it on the bench and fired it up. You immediately felt the hair on your body stand up, and my co worker put his hand up close to turn the power off, and his hand and forearm started spasming - I yanked the power cord from the wall as the tingle I was feeling began to feel hot.

No idea what was wrong with the thing, but it was kicking out some serious electro magnetic radiation.

Remembering the almost imperceptible high pitched buzzing that let you know the tv was still on even when nothing was on the screen. Also putting your forearm near the screen and watching the hairs stand up

The little crackle if you touched the screen to wipe it...

Omg no one's even talking about the smell of the screen

This is both horrifying to read and nostalgic

such a huge relief that hillary’s so ahead in the polls and trump has such a small chance of winning, right? WRONG. DO NOT GET APATHETIC OR COMFORTABLE. DO NOT DECIDE YOU DON’T NEED TO VOTE BECAUSE YOU’RE SURE HILLARY WILL WIN. the only way trump can win now is if so many people expected to vote for hillary don’t show up to the polls. because you BETTER believe ALL of his supporters will be at the polls.

brexit passed in the UK because young people grew apathetic because they were sure it wasn’t going to pass. and it did, because old racists and xenophobes showed up in DROVES to vote.

tl;dr: VOTE, PEOPLE. VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. IT MIGHT.

*AGGRESSIVELY STARES AT USAMERICANS IN 2024*

People, people, don’t pull the same shit that was done in 2016.

In 2016, people didn’t like Clinton so they either didn’t vote, protest voted 3rd party, or straight-up voted for Trump.

Look what that got us. 4 years of a literal dumpster fire.

in 2020 we united behind a candidate that might not have been our favorite but he wasn’t Trump, and we booted Trump out.

For some goddamn reason we are having a replay of that election - a felon (Trump) is running for the presidency, he has FLAT-OUT said he’s going to be a dictator on day 1, and has plans to completely eliminate a LOT of rights people take for granted and have fought for for years.

We need to unite once more behind Biden. Not because he’s your favorite (he may well not be), not because he’s perfect (he isn’t), but because if we DON’T we may never have another election in this country. It will be a major defeat for basically anyone who isn’t white, male, and evangelical.

Rally the troops. Stand up again like you did in 2020. Get out the vote. We’ve got to make this happen.

A battle was won. The war is far from over.

There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

He knows 😂 screenshot from Walton Goggins Instagram story 😂

This machine kills AI

Lena Horne sings Honeysuckle Rose in “THOUSANDS CHEER”, 1943

@hotvintagepoll

Ask me if I’m happy I don’t know If it is a place we need to go

Happy // Mother Mother

Co-signed

I was expecting anything but not Bard

Can't believe I got monk over wizard

I got a lot of 70 percents lol, but wizard just barely won out. My ass could never be a bard tho lol

if i took this test in my early 20s monk would have been up there if not #1 lmao

assigned square at dnd quiz

I'm not surprised.

@wolveria @tripodcoffeecup @dr-lynne

😄 Thanks for the tag!

Looks like I'm a morally neutral fighter with a perchance for the dark arts and a love for animals

Sounds bout right

@aloeverawyvren @drpumpkins @astranyx

@solointhesand @plague-doctor-on-tumbler

@cheeseandstrawberrytartlover

Yeah that adds up lmao

@xcoffeepostx, @queer-ghosts, @babyblueetbaemonster, @thalwhore, @fools-throne, @hassildor, @blossom-adventures, @libartz, @theguartist and i invite all of my friends and mutuals I forgot who are also into dnd! I am so excited for this sorry

Sounds about right.

Ranger huh. I have done archery before.

Is it weird that I’d love to see all the various children of Dracula from media over the years in a sitcom as actual siblings? XD