my flabber is gasted and my gob has been smacked

Now that Twitter's URL has officially changed, lets all join hands and remember that Elon Musk threw away one of the most recognizable, established brands of the past decade due to his personal chuunibyou fascination with the letter X.

People love reblogging this post and saying "well, this is just what happens when an (undiagnosed) autistic person has too much money", as if the reason Musk had bad taste is autism - implying autistics inherently have bad taste - and not that he's the lamest type of chuuni known to man.

"Chuunibyou" of course, being a Japanese slang term (literally meaning "8th Grader Syndrome") for people whose idea of "cool" aligns with what an 8th grade boy would find cool, even though they really should've grown out of that by now.

So, y'know, the type of guy who thinks the letter X on its own is so cool that he keeps trying to use it as a brand. Before twitter, he tried to turn Paypal into X.com. His aerospace company is called Space X. It's embarrassing.

And as an autistic person it's frankly offensive to go "well yeah, that's just what autistic people are like right? Thank goodness most of them don't have the money to do this - or else they would, how cringe".

I love YouTube shorts because if you wade through all the slop you'll find art

We forgot about it

I once signed up to participate in a study on how depression affects memory, forgot I was meant to go do it, and when I emailed to apologise to the PhD student running it she basically told me that a) she was very used to this happening and b) the weird irony of her theories’ correctness making it very difficult to arrange proving them had by now gone from infuriating to hysterical

I went to the Grand Canyon when I was depressed and I literally forgot the whole thing. Like, the only reason I even know I was there is that I have photographs of myself standing in front of the Grand Canyon with dead eyes but i have absolutely no memory of it

People talk about depression like it’s just being sad all the time but straight up your brain stops working and sadness is just one of the many, many consequences of that

Dancing bugs 💃💃

do you think if robots came out in 2015 instead of 2005 that this guy would have been one of the inescapable tumblr sexymen like the onceler or humanized bill cipher

listen the message of robots (2005) is that if we all work together we can destroy our capitalist oppressors through direct action not that if we all work together we can sexualize a robot

"He would not fucking say that" maybe YOUR name brand version of him from Toys R Us wouldn't. Mine is an off-model Happy Meal toy that lets out distorted one-liners through rotting plastic from an ancient voice box and he would say that

@funnier-as-a-system and @funnier-as-a-fictive

Elon Musk bought the company. He has nothing to do with the development. #CosplayEngineer

No. I will not have you do this.

Dr. Nikola Tesla did not sign bad contracts. He signed an excellent contract with Westinghouse to bring AC power to America. Westinghouse was the big competitor against Edison Electric, which ran DC power. Thomas Edison was a massive prick and Edison Electric went around doing its best to convince everyone that AC power was dangerous, most infamously by electrocuting an elephant to death and developing the first execution-style electric chair using AC power. All of this cemented in the mind of the public that AC power was dangerous and deadly, while DC power was somehow safer.

By 1890, Westinghouse was in trouble. George Westinghouse went to Tesla and laid out the truth: if he honored the royalty contracts that he’d agreed to pay Tesla, he would go bankrupt. So Tesla tore up the contracts. He walked away from millions, maybe billions of dollars because he believed that wireless electricity should be free to the world. Westinghouse went on to bring AC power to homes across America.

Tesla wasn’t a bad businessman. He was an idealist who hated capitalism.

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I really enjoyed working in this commission, since it was in the context of it being artwork for a fanfic. Give it a try and read it, bc it is so damn good! https://archiveofourown.org/works/54312247/chapters/137554522

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There may be something there that wasn’t there before

you will never be a bad person for not reblogging a post on tumblr, please remember that

so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

these are called fossil words! here's a whole list

Also interested in words that originally had opposites but don’t anymore; i.e. how we say ruthless but not ruth.

Anthony D'Amato, The Contribution of the Infield Fly Rule to Western Civilization (and Vice Versa), 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 189, 195 (2006)

Jew here with a friendly reminder that:

BUT ALSO

silly