odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

Oðinn spake:

Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth, And bathed his count'nance fair. Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar, I found on the cold pavement While returning in glory | from a grand hunt For a 3 AM quesadilla.

@damn-fuck-i-burnt-myself-again

I need this framed on my wall it’s so beautiful. 

@theshitpostcalligrapher

ay @systlin hmu

@systlin

My husband complained that this was more Shakespeare than Eddas, and I challenged him to do better.

Solen sken, skönt gyllene

Dagen Tor föddes

På trottoaren, vid Taco Bell

Där låg Loke

—KJN

My translation:

The sun shone, sweet golden

The day of Tor’s birth

On the tarmac, by Taco Bell

There lay Loki

(For poetry reasons, Thor needs the Swedish spelling.)

@bold-sartorial-statement

ay yo show ur husband 

@bold-sartorial-statement no but hang on this should be in runes: 

(oops spot the typos)

i wanna translate this into icelandic so imma do it 

Sólin skein, björt og gullin við fæðingu Þórs á stígnum við Taco Bell Þar lá Loki

The amount of quality going into these shitposts is amazing

This is not shitposting, this is transformative work!

And in Danish because why not:

Solen skinnede, skøn og gylden

På dagen for Tors fødsel

På asfalten ved Taco Bell

Dér lå Loke

“LEV MERE (LIVE MAS)”

*Snorts*

When Thor born

He hair shine brite

A very very

Magical site

But then I see

A bab from hell

I pik up loki

From taco bell

the rosetta stone of shitposting

@incorrectnorse-quotes

Now THIS is the best post on this hellsite

Ancient Babylonian/Akkadian addition:

𒄿𒉡𒈠𒉺𒉡𒌝𒈥𒄿𒇷𒅎𒌋𒋫 𒇷𒅂𒅖𒌅𒈬𒌋 𒄩𒋗𒁮𒅗 𒉡𒌨𒊭𒈠𒋛𒅎𒅁𒁍𒌋𒋫𒀀𒈾𒄿𒁲𒄩𒊏𒊏𒉌𒅎𒀀𒈾𒄿𒁲𒀀𒅗𒂖𒁲𒄀𒊭𒉡𒌝𒈥𒄿𒇷𒅎𒀀𒈬𒌨 𒋗

Inūma pānûm mār ilim ūtallid ištu muḫḫašu damqam nūr šamšim ibbuṭ. Ana idi ḫarrānim ana idi akal-tigê šānûm mār ilim āmuršu.

At the time the first son of the god was born, from his beautiful skull* the light of the sun shone. Beside the road beside the Bread-Cymbal I found the second son of the god.

*Yes skull is the correct phrasing, Akkadian is just metal like that.

odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

Oðinn spake:

Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth, And bathed his count'nance fair. Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar, I found on the cold pavement While returning in glory | from a grand hunt For a 3 AM quesadilla.

@damn-fuck-i-burnt-myself-again

I need this framed on my wall it’s so beautiful. 

@theshitpostcalligrapher

ay @systlin hmu

@systlin

My husband complained that this was more Shakespeare than Eddas, and I challenged him to do better.

Solen sken, skönt gyllene

Dagen Tor föddes

På trottoaren, vid Taco Bell

Där låg Loke

—KJN

My translation:

The sun shone, sweet golden

The day of Tor’s birth

On the tarmac, by Taco Bell

There lay Loki

(For poetry reasons, Thor needs the Swedish spelling.)

@bold-sartorial-statement

ay yo show ur husband 

@bold-sartorial-statement no but hang on this should be in runes: 

(oops spot the typos)

i wanna translate this into icelandic so imma do it 

Sólin skein, björt og gullin við fæðingu Þórs á stígnum við Taco Bell Þar lá Loki

The amount of quality going into these shitposts is amazing

This is not shitposting, this is transformative work!

And in Danish because why not:

Solen skinnede, skøn og gylden

På dagen for Tors fødsel

På asfalten ved Taco Bell

Dér lå Loke

“LEV MERE (LIVE MAS)”

*Snorts*

When Thor born

He hair shine brite

A very very

Magical site

But then I see

A bab from hell

I pik up loki

From taco bell

the rosetta stone of shitposting

@incorrectnorse-quotes

Now THIS is the best post on this hellsite

Ancient Babylonian/Akkadian addition:

𒄿𒉡𒈠𒉺𒉡𒌝𒈥𒄿𒇷𒅎𒌋𒋫 𒇷𒅂𒅖𒌅𒈬𒌋 𒄩𒋗𒁮𒅗 𒉡𒌨𒊭𒈠𒋛𒅎𒅁𒁍𒌋𒋫𒀀𒈾𒄿𒁲𒄩𒊏𒊏𒉌𒅎𒀀𒈾𒄿𒁲𒀀𒅗𒂖𒁲𒄀𒊭𒉡𒌝𒈥𒄿𒇷𒅎𒀀𒈬𒌨 𒋗

Inūma pānûm mār ilim ūtallid ištu muḫḫašu damqam nūr šamšim ibbuṭ. Ana idi ḫarrānim ana idi akal-tigê šānûm mār ilim āmuršu.

At the time the first son of the god was born, from his beautiful skull* the light of the sun shone. Beside the road beside the Bread-Cymbal I found the second son of the god.

*Yes skull is the correct phrasing, Akkadian is just metal like that.

i got the job

Litany against unemployment.

No fucking way LMFAO

happy 4/20

Can you imagine how much Tolkien would have lost his goddamn mind if he ever learned about Vatertag/ Männertag? A male-only holiday literally called “Men Day” where to celebrate bros being bros, you build incredibly elaborate drinking wagons and then take them for hikes in the countryside where you appreciate nature and sing walking songs while drinking the entire time. Dude would have lost his shit and retconned that into the shire immediately,

On that note, Hobbit Bollerwagen would be fucking NUTS.

For non-Germans, yes this is a real thing and it’s effectively “Take Your Drinks Cabinet or a Walk Day.”

And they actually met 😭

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/09/solar-eclipse-new-york-teacher/

no thoughts, just warawara.

Eclipse

Hey, this is relevant again after 7 years~

Don't usually share work stuff but I do work in climate policy and nearly every memo I write includes some variation of "government funding for this obscure but necessary area of climate mitigation research has been multiplied (sometimes by like, 1000x) under the Biden Administration" and while I know the oil permitting stuff is much splashier news there's a whole world of work that needs to be done under the surface that Biden is doing. And if he doesn't win in 2024 all that progress goes away and the climate is absolutely fucked

Like I get that it’s not eye-catching but Biden spending $6 billion on demonstration projects to decarbonize heavy industry is probably on its own the most climate-friendly thing a president has ever done

Reposting mainly because in the UK the Prime Minister has openly entered the war on climate change on the side of climate change and I need the reminder that less stupid things are happening eleswhere.

Also, the Biden administration just "paused" some LNG (liquified natural gas, aka super-cold methane) infrastructure development, which is HUGE. I cannot stress this enough. The reason global warming has accelerated so fast, suddenly, unprecedentedly? Very likely because of natural gas AKA methane production. Mostly in the US.

It is HUGE that they're working against this trend.

Gentle reminder: “bear witness” means “learn about what’s happening, so you can talk about it, agitate for change, and help where you can”

Not “you must watch X number of snuff films and look at X number of dead children, in order to be a good person”

They really put the "repetitive task for engagement" button in the adhd/autism website huh

I can't get over the fact that Dick fucking Cheney said, basically, that Trump is too evil of a dude for him to get behind.

That's like... fuck, idk... that's like Dick Cheney saying a politician is too fucking evil for him to work with. The dude who famously shot a dude in the face and the dude apologized to him. That fucking guy.

political context for the guys who don't remember the bush administration: george w bush was an absolute pants on head moron slated to be just one more ineffectual republican dunderfuck but his vice president, dick cheney, owned--and profited from directly-- haliburton, an oil company. when a small terrorist cell headed by a saudi arabian royal based out of afghanistan smashed two planes into new york, we somehow ended up invading Iraq for uhhhhhhh *checks notes* an entire generation.

dick cheney's oil company got all the rights to the oil resources that american troops took over and his direct friends in the military industrial complex got big fat contracts to buy, sell, and build all the other military and industrial shit involved in the war on terror. 8 trillion dollars of american taxpayer money didn't vanish into the air: it was paid to dick and his pals to slaughter a generation of middle easterners whose only crime was being born in the gap between valuable resources and evil men.

they did this right in front of us. anyone paying the slightest bit of attention knew what they were doing and why. they played Born In The USA at us and passed laws about where we could protest and what we could say when we did. but we knew anyway. it was daylight robbery on a national scale and the rest of the world watched us do it while the leaders of every other industrialized nation allied with us got to lap up the blood and scraps from our butchery.

no one older than 40 has forgotten this.

and the architect of this atrocity is saying that trump is a little much even for him.

ETA: OH YEAH THIS ISN'T EVEN MENTIONING THAT THE GUY WAS EXPLICITLY PRO-WATERBOARDING, HE LOVED WATERBOARDING PRISONERS, ABSOLUTELY HE CAME OUT IN FULL-THROATED DEFENSE OF TORTURING POLITICAL PRISONERS AND HOSTAGES AND HIS ONLY COMPLAINT ABOUT THE MANY MANY LOTS OF TORTURES THAT HAPPENED UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS THAT THERE SHOULD BE MORE TORTURING, DICK "WATERBOARDER" CHENEY

...wait a minute...

YOU!