weasleyan-university said: Flashbacks to CS Lewis’s description of how centaurs have both a human stomach and a horse stomach, so they need a metric fuckton of food
*scowling at the book* how are they going to eat grass with human teeth, Clive
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William Hays, Cirrus Sky, Woodblock print
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one of the bright spots of the smartphone era has been text messages as evidence in court. these motherfuckers do not know how to organize a crime.
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Some Fountains That Are Pretty Amazing.
Osaka Station Fountain-Clock, Osaka, Japan
Water Boat Fountain, Valencia, Spain
Magic Tap, Cadiz, Spain
Vortex Fountain ‘Charybdis’, Sunderland, UK
Cascades Of Hercules Monument, Kassel, Germany
“Tunnel Of Surprises”, Lima, Peru
Keller Fountain, Portland, Oregon, USA
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Fountain, Ancient City, Thailand
Fountain At The Smithsonian National Museum Of African American History & Culture, Washington, D.C., USA
Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy
‘the Divers Fountain’, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Giant - Entrance To The Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds), Wattens, Austria
Banpo Bridge, Seoul, South Korea
‘The Mustangs Of Las Colinas’, Texas, USA
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this post feels like it’s lost some of its original context because I remember reblogging it in 2012 when I didn’t have a smart phone and smart phone ownership was much lower in general. So being on tumblr on Christmas meant being physically at a computer and being visibly unsocial if not completely removed from any festivities. Now everyone’s on social media every day of the year. A true heritage post really
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like the idea of unnaturally aged cheese. making my gouda old using dread magics forbidden by the college of sorcery
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Having anotheg 'gork we have got to get out of bed faster then this' morning
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When people get a little too gung-ho about-
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
That’s…wild. What was I talking about?
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just got kicked out of Starbucks for - you guessed it - inventing a special kind of glue that lets me climb up anything.
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ah yes they call me “No Queue” Jones because I post everything I reblog at once with no breaks in between and then vanish into the night for extended periods of inactivity
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According to a recent report published by the Aargauer Zeitung (h/t Golem.de), around three million smart toothbrushes have been infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets.
The most cyberpunk thing on your dash today.
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