Unpleasant_(interface)_design
THERE’S A SEQUEL TO THE HORRIBLE VOLUME SLIDER POST
The horrible volume slider post is amusing. This post needs to be locked in a vault to prevent psychic damage.
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Unpleasant_(interface)_design
THERE’S A SEQUEL TO THE HORRIBLE VOLUME SLIDER POST
The horrible volume slider post is amusing. This post needs to be locked in a vault to prevent psychic damage.
Hmm investigation of wall begins
Today i learned.
What'd you learn, Ricky?
Not sure
Why Wayne got socks in the jacuzzi
those are his hooves you bitch
happy 10 years of those are his hooves you bitch
This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies
Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.
Give it a day
I can’t ever leave tumblr because I just love the tag function.. no other social media platform allows you to heckle yourself on your own post. you get to preemptively make metatextual commentary abt your OWN POST. how cool is that
Are you retired now
no?
Discworld: Wyrd Sisters Director: Jean Flynn | Studio: Cosgrove Hall | UK, 1997
It genuinely upsets me that there are people who call this animation and voice acting bad, there’s so much heart and soul on display in just this clip alone
At first glance: ‘lol this is going to be one of those hilariously cheap animations’
30 seconds in: ‘…Oh my god this is fantastic’
“WHO DARES TO INVOKE WXRTHLTL-JWLPKLZ?” “Where were you when the vowels were bein’ handed out, behind the door??”
3 inch opening: no problem
2.75 inch opening: Easy
2.5 inch opening: doing fine
2.25 inch opening: Bit of a struggle, but as Mr Meeseeks says: CAAAN DOO!
2 inch opening: Alright, lets try chewing the opening a bit, As long as we get the nuts into the mouth (huhuhu) we good I guess…
Uh-oh… Steve is getting greedy
:insert grunts of effort here:
Taking a break…
The guy who made the original video decided after a long struggle to help Steve out.
A New Challenger approaches!
1.75 inchs: Quote Mr Meseeks: “OOOHHH HE’S TRYING”
GIMME GIMME GIMME
He ends up giving up.
Source: Chris Notap - Squirrel ● literally ● bites off more than he can chew ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4ach0CwN4
via imgur
Science
I love it
What I learned is that I am not the only person who calls all squirrels Steve
stop it steve
mood:
His little hands at the end sent me into a frenzy of laughter.
hnmmm what if i just HHEGGDHEHHDGGEGEGGDGGDGEGEGE
The lack of sound is… unsettling. It forces you to take in the absolute chaos for what it is.
We finally have a European law on artificial intelligence. Always have the law at hand, for whatever may happen 👇🏼
So today I learned that not everybody throws back the whole handful at once and slams their water like they're doing shots
This is.....niche. Do period-appropriate chickens even still exist? Idk anything about chickens. I like the fancy ones.
Period appropriate chickens ("heritage breeds") do still exist, and even include some very fancy ladies, such as:
The Brahma, a popular giant known for its massive meat production and comically large eggs.
The cochin, seen here with gold and black 'lace' pattern
The barred plymouth, an incredible forager for lightly wooded terrain
The fayoumi, often regarded as The Oldest Breed of chicken
The wyandotte, a particularly good forager as well as a bulky, meaty bird.
The Minorca, a Spanish bird with stunning black feathers
And of course, the famous indonesian ayam cemani, which has black meat and bones
Old timey chickens often ARE the 'fancy' ones!
Lake Superior , Canada 🇨🇦 / USA 🇺🇸
Welcome to the sea of death.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy
Call the Great Lakes the Great Lakes the way you call the Fair Folk the Fair Folk.
Have you ever experienced a gun/bomb threat at your school?
Yes, American (US)
No, American (US)
Yes, not American (US)
No, not American (US)
Being raised by areligious jews with 0 exposure to christianity outside pop culture is so fun. One time I asked my ex-catholic friend why a picture of jesus had a bristle crown and she looked at me like I was insane. One time I heard someone mention the "lance of longinus" and responded, word for word, "Like from Evangelion?" One time during a history lesson my professor described an important monk and scholar as "Dominican" and I spent the rest of class super confused and hung up on it because I was very sure that the Dominican Republic didn't meaningfully exist as an entity back then, maybe she meant he was a native Taino or something but that's a weird way to say that and I'm pretty sure this was pre- European contact? Really fucks people up when they realize I genuinely have no idea.
This but it's my partner taking an art history class in college and the professor looking at them like they grew a second head when they answered "What came out of Jesus' wound when he was stabbed on the cross" with "...Blood?"
Additions that prove my point by mystifying me because what on earth would come out of a nail wound besides blood. Are you telling me it was something besides blood. What was jesus full of that wasn't blood. You guys are scaring me
Apparently it was water?? I guess he was also stabbed on top of being crucified (which feels like overkill imo) and water came out, which was a huge deal in medieval symbolism and also to my medieval poetry professor, who was genuinely shocked and upset that I didn’t know. This man fully docked me points because I, a whole ass Jew, hadn’t somehow heard about the secret waterballoon Jesus lore that I guess everyone is supposed to like… intuit
On the plus side, it does lead to some absolutely wild medieval Jesus art of angels tapping him like a fucking keg
He was stabbed to ensure he was dead and if not dead to give him some mercy. Crucifixion is a very slow and painful death in which you usually drown in your own fluids as it builds up in your lungs from the pressure, after several torturous hours of pulling yourself up by where you're nailed down by your wrists to take a gasp of breath before slumping back down to rest. Sometimes if your executioners were nice they'd put a little ledge for your feet so you'd have more leverage to push up for breath. Jesus, famously, was nailed by both hands and feet so he had to use the nails inside of him as his leverage instead.
(Image of one of the Catholics that Japan hunted down and killed in the 1500s and 1600s- note he is not nailed but tied, has a little foot ledge, and definitely is pierced thru the ribcage by spears. Japan more or less went "hey your god was killed this way so what if we just do the same to you")
Also famously he stayed alive most of the day until he couldn't pull himself up anymore, which was the most common way crucifixion killed people. By the end of the day, the executioner usually made rounds and stabbed the victims thru the ribcage on their side. This would A: hurt a lot if you were still alive so they'd know if you were faking right away, B: kill you way faster if you weren't already dead but already most of the way there, and C: ensure that you were dead because it would pierce your lung and the fluid buildup would release, appearing to be "water" which would mark you as definitely dead. Some people suffered on their cross for several days before succumbing, so the spear at the end of the first day is seen as a mercy.
Once you were dead you were taken down, dressed, and buried, so it was very important to make sure no one escaped their grisly fate by feigning death early in the process and got taken down off their cross to pull a fast one on the Romans. I'm assuming someone tried it at some point, otherwise it seems like a really specific process to go through to Make Sure They're Dead. Possibly leftovers from when Babylon and Assyria were doing it prior to Rome.
(The Bible specifically mentions "blood and water" came out of the wound, which is more medically accurate for what it would look like. Also when you've been dead for a while the blood starts to separate and can give that blood and water appearance as well depending on where you've been stabbed after death, especially in cases of blood pooling from gravity and physical trauma, such as would happen when you're unnaturally held upright for several hours by iron nails thru your wrists and ankles attaching you to a large piece of wood)
(The angels are tapping him like a keg, I assume, due to the whole "my blood is wine my body is bread" thing for communion. Catholics get real literal in their art about this. Catholics also love talking about the wounds from crucifixion.)
It is incredibly frightening to me how many people responded to this with "I was raised Christian and I didn't know this" or "I'm a scholar studying Christianity and I didn't know this" or worse "I was raised within the religion for years and it was never mentioned".
Guys. It's in the Bible.
The explanation isn't, but the blood and water thing is in every single English version of the Bible dating all the way back to the first English translations. If you are coming into this conversation as a Christian or former Christian and you do not know this, it is alarming and frankly absurd that so many have said they're unfamiliar with this. The Gospel John is one of the major books the entire Christian faith is based on. It should scare you that you were not taught your own (former, in some cases) religion.
A non-Christian of any sort makes sense. Jewish, Athiest, Buddhist, Sikh, I expect those to be unfamiliar with Jesus as a concept let alone the specifics of his death which is why I provided the explanation. But the amount of "wow I've read the entire Bible and it's not in there" is horrifying to me. It's very in the Bible as a core concept of what Christianity is about.
It does point to an issue that Christian leaders spend a TON of time arguing about, which is what translation of the Bible is best to use, and how much you need to focus on historical context in scripture study.
You’re screenshotting the NASB, which is generally good for clarity but has some ideological issues re: translation involved. Personally I prefer NRSV-UE. A lot of people grew up with ESV or King James, both of which can be really difficult to parse even as a high-schooler when it comes to learning specific details.
Also, different denominations put different levels of emphasis on a) Biblical inerrancy and b) the importance of studying the specific wording of scripture and etymology versus just kind of operating off the vibes of the stories. Many American churches today do the latter.
I will say the kind of “megachurch” and evangelical denominations (southern baptists) tend not to discuss the historical details of scripture unless they’re trying to make an ideological argument. Plus, any theological study that focuses on the “fully human” side of Christology would not be preferred by these denominations. It also would veer towards talking about transsubstantiation, which they *really* don’t like.
I screenshotted a specific version but there is a reason I said EVERY English translation including the original English translation says he was stabbed in the side with a spear and blood and water came out. It is because every single English translation says this. I have not read the Bible in every language, and tbh while I've studied it in Spanish I don't recall the exact wording of the Spanish translation (though since English is so consistent I'd assume that's how it was in the original Greek or Latin, possibly Arameic or Hebrew, which would mean it should be consistently translated the same in any language, but you and I both know "Bible translation" is a fraught topic to begin with)
I was raised within and adjacent to the Mennonite church and they put a huge emphasis on reading and studying the scripts in depth, going back to original text when possible, translating it yourself so you can really grasp the meaning, and of course the historical knowledge you need to surround yourself with to actually understand what and why things are happening. That is one of the few things I will say Mennonites do right when it comes to their religion- their knowledge of the Bible and history is remarkably robust.
And it also colors my reaction to seeing so many Christians and fellow ex-Christians not have any idea about this specific thing that like 99% of the Christian church is built around, because to my mind hoooooow can you call yourself a member (or former member) of a religion when you don't know anything about a really basic core concept? How can you say you studied the Bible when you don't know one of the most important pieces? How can you call yourself a Biblical scholar when you clearly haven't read the Gospels, famously the entirety of Jesus' life prior to the cross???
"I'm a Catholic scholar and I didn't know this" HOW is that even POSSIBLE
Something I adore about the Supercorp fandom is that despite Jess appearing in only one episode, she became a major character in the various SC canons that have been created in the seven and a half years since the ship was born
we love jess the secretary LOL a prime example of fandom taking a background character and saying "this is my child now"