Spem Successus Alit

you know i got that wiimote strap on

i didn’t mean it like that and y’all know it :(

waiting for my knight in shining armor (ibuprofen) to rescue me from the horrors (head hurty)

As it becomes winter again... and as somebody who once popped out his kneecap by slipping on ice, I would like to remind my followers that slip on shoe spikes exist.

You can usually get ones like these for around $10, and they're really worth it. They're made of rubber, so you can just fold them up, and I've been using mine for a couple of years now.

And if you use a cane, don’t be afraid to get one of these bad boys:

[Image: The bottom of a cane, with an ice grip attachment. The end has several metal spikes for gripping ice and snow.]

The tip is on a hinge. You pinch the white knobs together and the ice tip just sorta flips around and up against the cane, so you can use it on dry floors indoors without removing it entirely! This thing has saved me from so many falls in the winter.

It's not quite winter again, but here we go again

Ice grip attachments for CANES?! Hell yes. BRB, buying a few.

There are few things that annoy me more than misinformation that’s technically on my side. Misinformation in support of a cause that I wholly believe in, but which is still bullshit and false.

Misinterpretations of religion, mythology and history that are ostensibly in support of women and women’s rights, but manage to demonstrate that OP doesn’t actually care enough about the topic to seek out reliable sources. Simplified distortions of third-hard rumours, covered in a vomit of pathos and sparkles and dished up as LGBT history. Valid criticism of the medical and pharmaceutical industries, immediately followed by absolute bullshit dangerous pseudoscience. Valid criticism of the diet industry, immediately followed by some more bullshit pseudoscience, but at least it’s body positive bullshit pseudoscience. Anti-capitalist screeds that betray a frightening ignorance of history, and other anti-capitalist screeds that betray a frightening ignorance of economics, topped off with anarchist screeds that betray that nobody in the thread has any idea how to run a farm. Sex-positivity posts by people who couldn’t find their ass with both hands. The embarrassment is going to kill me.

it’s time we start oppressing ppl that use the word “hubby”

sorry but “Hubble Space Telescope” takes too long to say

@annabethisterrified you’re

LOL yep that’s the day job! I started last year after graduating, working on the NASA side of things with the mission doing social media/outreach, so I’m going to do my obligatory HUBBY LINK DROP: insta, twitter, fb

@matzahball

For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner–I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones

great poast every one👍

I have drawn him…. The High Geologist

Can’t believe he’s ace

He is now And here’s the photo evidence:

hey guys…https://twitter.com/MatthewLillard/status/1322648148364324864 so does this make it canon?

the high geologist has ascended

every time i see this post it gets…. better? but also weirder.

I always gotta reblog the High Geologist once in a while.

I love this too much.

can’t think of a worse feeling than coming up with a really great meme, like, 2 months after the image format dies

I’m so happy to see Black people parenting differently from their own upbringing. Why subject your child(ren) to the trauma you endured and hated from your parents? I’m especially happy where little Black girls are concerned. When young, we were labeled “sassy”, we needed an “attitude” adjustment, ‘we thought we were grown’ and blah blah all because no one told us how to express ourselves. And even if we did know how, we were told to hold our tongues out of respect. And if we were allowed to speak, our feelings were immediately invalidated because the adults taking care of us had problems worse than ours and we didn’t pay bills.

Some of the kids are alright.

My little cousin was just diagnosed with ADHD and the doctor said in girls, anger is a symptom. Made me wonder how many Black girls were labeled with “bad attitude” when in reality they couldn’t focus on the task and just pissed at the adult in their face demanding and threatening them over something outside of their control

this website is fascinating because it puts some of the most narrowminded, sheltered, pearl-clutching weirdos on the planet right next to one million devoted sexual deviants

Source

i reach in and grab one and don’t realize i did not grab a soda until i touch it to my lips and feel a wet nose and find out i accidentally gave a big kiss to a woozle

has this thread made it on to tumblr yet?

the discussion about whether aliens would have original sin is at least 500ish years old

One day I will make a post about what people thought about aliens throughout time because it is an underrated fact that we've been thinking about aliens for all of human history

Remember, if it's been at least 2 months since your last covid vaccine (whatever it was), and you are over 18, you qualify for the new covid bivalent booster. This booster specifically targets Omicron B.A.4 and B.A.5., which are the dominant strains in the US, and account for over 98% of new covid infections.

As of a couple days ago, this was authorized for emergency use in the US. Your local vaccination place should be getting these in stock within a week or two.

Covid is still a threat. Get vaccinated if you can.

Excellent info!

Here is an article in case people want to read more about that sort of thing.

Get your booster!

Actual answer: Many early civilizations we're based in fertile river valleys, and developed systems of crop irrigation based on the rivers regular flood patterns. Therefore, a sufficiently large flood would destroy your entire agricultural infrastructure, with cataclysmic consequences. Hence civilizations that had no contact with each other often developed stories of mythical floods.

god i wish that were me