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family outing

It's summertime babey!!

So, for all the deeply confused people in the notes--this is figure eight school bus racing. It's not technically a demolition derby but destruction is absolutely the point. Basically a bunch of retired school busses, bought cheaply, are racing a set number of laps on a track with an intersection in the center. As you can see, they often ram into each other, and if you're lucky, sometimes roll over or crash. Typically this is only one event of many; the same race is done with V6's, V8's, vehicles with trailers attached, and any number of other categories calculated for maximum chaos.

It's not as dangerous as it probably looks, since they do install safety equipment in the vehicles used. I know this to be a pretty common event at speedways all over Michigan, and I assume elsewhere in the Midwest and probably the South. If you can find an event like this near you, I highly encourage you to check it out.

A little destruction is good for the soul.

he’s so real for this

rblogging again because it actually fucking was gargoyles

enough about iPad babies let’s talk about iPad senior citizens

my 80 year old grandma is a menace on Facebook 24/7

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You have to recognize your capacity for harm. You cannot omit the harm you've done to others to remain "good." Anybody can be a bigot. Anyone can be an abuser. Anyone can harm anyone at any time even those who have been harmed themselves. The world is not made up of victims and villains only, this is life, not a Saturday morning cartoon and you are a human being who can or maybe even has hurt others and you HAVE to acknowledge that to learn to be better.

My anthro professor has three forbidden words for his essays: problematic, interesting, and large. Point being they’re all filler words, he wants you to just skip straight to why it’s interesting or why it’s problematic. But anyway, any time I disagree with him in class I say to him “mm, interesting, but largely problematic.”

it is well established canon that my response to nearly any outlandish behavior that has impacted my day is to write the perpetrator a polite but firm letter

the letter i composed today and am about to drop off is perhaps less polite than I am typically capable of

reporting in to announce it worked

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

Despair is easy, hope is hard. And brother, I like to stay hard

This post has gotten big enough that people are tagging fictional characters in it. Please dont derail. This post is about baby Fievel the little white dog

15,000 notes for Baby Fievel Peace and Love On The Earth

babe wake up there's an official sequel to the bus meme

[deep down we are the same person]

Source is brazilian artist Genildo on twitter, his donation link is included

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it's always so funny to see a bug just fucking booking it across the floor. like girl where are you going. bug plans

i am no good nor evil, simply i am and i have come to take what is mine