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Under all those muscles, he's a skeleton.

In fact, given he's blue, do we know that he isn't just a skeleton wearing a muscle suit?

Skeletor has forever destroyed our ability to come up with voices for skeleton characters.

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I'm sort of noodling with the idea that someone gets to hand out rock to the penguins for their nest, and theres's one penguin who gets handed a rock, and just goes "wait, are we married now?" Because congrats, you have that one penguin who's just like that.

Happy World Penguin Day (tomorrow)! 🐧

Dive into the wonderfully-winged world of African penguins with the Aquarium’s own aviculturist, Kim! From rocky shores to sandy beaches, explore where these charismatic birds call home. 💙🪨🏠

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And now... THE WORLD!

Wow 25 thousand likes. And four comments.

#25000 likes #tumblr milestone #thank you

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OK so I moved from one country (16c or less most of the year) to a place in the South China Sea*.

We got off the plane, with a bunch of other people, into the airport, opened the door to the outside world and the thermal shock made people faint.

Within a year we were putting on warmed clothes if it got down below 30c.

Similarly, I went to Colorado, got altitude related sickness for a week and after three more weeks coming down to lower altitudes I felt like I could run a marathon and flip cars. Like whoa, all this AIR!!

NB: Not sure of the elevation but water only boils at about 96c.

*Yeah I phrased it that way to sound exotic.

Acclimation is actually an insane thing that our bodies do and its amazing how rapidly we adjust to a new environment.

It's like "Oh you wanna live in a place where the average temperature is literally 10 TIMES hotter than we're used to with almost 100% humidity so sweat isn't as effective? Ok give me a few days to adjust than we're good just some more sweat as we get used to it"

"What the fuck you wanna move to a place that's THOUSANDS OF FEET up in the air? A place without enough OXYGEN for you to function fuck...Ok give me a few days to MAKE MORE BLOOD AND MAKE YOUR HEART BIGGER then you'll be alright."

On a generational basis it's even funnier cause within a few dozen generations we can actually adapt to like any environment. People from Africa and Aboriginals are usually darker because Melanin acts as sunscreen in a place where they get too much sun and during a time where people didn't wear many clothes or have indoor shelters like today.

But as humans migrated north to latitudes where the Sun isn't constantly raining down an endless beam of death and cancer and started to wear more clothes due to it being colder they started lacking in Vitamin D and that leads to a whole HOST of other health issues related to births, cancers and other shit so we started lessening the pigment in our Skin in order to get as much Vitamin D that we can. This happened within a few generations as far as we're aware and like this shit is happening on a SUPER Fast biological scale.

For a kinda poor metaphor, the rate at which humans adapt to massively different environments to best live in is like how Speed runners can complete OOT within like 5 minutes compared to the 27 hours it takes to beat casually Edit:So apparently I am a dumbass when it comes to tempreture as the way we measure tempreture is not in fact liniar and is more logrimtic in nature than I was led to belive by math. There isn't a 10X increase in tempreture. But still you can go from living in Norway in the Winter to the Tropics/Sahara in a short period of time and our bodies adapt concerningly fast

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Every day I wake up, look in the mirror and think "I could have those mutton chops"

And there's nobody to talk me out of it.

Chk-chk.

if you like penis coladas.. and getting shot in the brain!

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Do they do a grapefruit one in case you really want to fuck your meds up?

Just noticed a place near me is selling a 32 oz charcoal lemonade. That’s a pretty big cup of undoing my antidepressants.

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I'm just getting interested in Clusterfuck City

Sorry I mean Neom: The Line. Seriously this is brilliant. We all get to live in a world where the disasterous dystopian bullshit you get to experience in games is now a real life place!

The Prince of Saudi who's planning this has more money than briancells and has hired a bunch of yes men at 75,000 a day to tell him whatever he wants to hear...

More analysis here

Summary: Someoen told this pricne that they can have a 200km train that goes end to end in 20 minutes which means that it eitehr won't stop and travels at 500kph, or It stops but hits mach 1.3 between stops.

They also promised animatronic dinosaurs (OK not crazy), an artificial moon to use as a light source and giant, shitty TV (Fucking nuts), Robot maids (OK this one's semi plausible until it does the laundry and folds your clothes while you're wearing them).

Yadda. People have been over this. And all the human rights abuses because I dunno is Nestlé running this project?

The thing I'm fascinated by is the idea of a 200m thick city that's 500m tall and 197m long. Because modern Skyscrapers sway, and they're desgned to. Some of the really tall ones without sufficient width have wind tunnels so they don't just flop over. Now I invite you to think of an entire wall that's 500m high, 200m thick and mostly hollow glass and space frames with excitingly chunky habitat modules bolted on. And what happens when the wind, unencumbered by vegetation or terrain hits this thing and starts pushing on any part of it. In a sensible world, the thing would be sectional, with a flared base ~~so you can pull it back out~~ to resist lateral pressure, and you'd make it in air-gaped sections so they don't grind or twist and crunch into each other.

Which is horrible and I worked in a building where there was a 20cm gap between each halves of the building for this reason. Legend has it, the architect having discovered that the only reason the building didn't fall down was due to the brtalist exterior stairwells being made of iron vs wood, as in the previous building he'd built to the smae plan (Which all collapsed) thought ht ematter over, went up to the roof, picked a direction and started walking until all his troubels were over. This may be apocryphal. That building had panels with warnings on them saying 'If this panel is cracked stop breathing' because they were asbestos. Good times.

Anyway even if they got The Line built (It's been scaled back form 197KM to uhhh, 500m?) it's build on the premise that a whole bunch of tech will get invented and perfected in the next few months, the entire world will be OK witht eh Saudi Forced Labour racket and that 6,000 people per square km won't somehow cause some sort of populations ingularity that will have historians int eh future say "And of course Neom's Line city and Shanghai Walled city ar ehte resons we don't do this"

#neom #the line #computer send shitpost #shitposting #there's two arab guys with hacksaws at the door

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Have you tried buying your way out of the quest with cheese?

Since Merida is on Tumblr and has a thing for cheese, I suspect it may work…

A new hand touches the beacon

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So Beta readers don't count?

I’m formatting my thesis to submit with my graduation application and because I’m getting a creative writing degree most of the formatting guidelines don’t apply to me, especially the bits relating to human test subjects

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She's off to the feed store and then to get herself something nice. Maybe a spa day.

Viola the circus elephant didn't escape, she politely removed herself from an uncomfortable situation. role model to us all

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And Daffy is trying to be reasonable for most of the cartoon.

Duck Amuck | Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1953

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Wizard is the magic reaearcher.

Mage is the deployment specialist.

Sorcerer is that one user who knows how to use Sudo, and for some reason can, and by Orthax, they're gonna use it as much as humanly possible.

Warlock is logged into someone else's admin account and they only know the one command and it's the magical equivalent of rm -f.

Witch is that one person who thinks to check that all the plugs are seated and caps lock is off first.

Necromancer just wants to raise a family, and is sticking a prybar into the crypt's door to get close enough.

Magician is available for kids parties, and other events.

Clown: They always seem to be Cthulhu cultists but it's just the functional alcoholism, I dunno what to tell you.

What’s the difference between a mage and a wizard are mages just like less likely to be found in towers or something

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Plot twist, it's set in the Shivering isles, 2000 after Skyrim. One of the main plotlines is getting your soul gem powered dial up modem to work so you can book a holiday to see the dragon statue.

Every time I’m mildly curious to see if there’s any new news about Elder Scrolls 6 (there isn’t) I check in on the elder scrolls 6 Reddit and they act exactly like you’d expect a group of people to act when all they’ve had to go on for the past 6 years is a 36 second shot moving over a generic landscape

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Best case scenario, it's someone asking for technique tips.

You ever see an internet comment in the year of our lord 2024 that’s something like “how could an boy kiss another guy?” and you just know that this is either an overly sheltered 10 year old or a 29 year old homophobe and the fact you can’t tell the difference starts to take a nail file to your remaining sanity

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I got let go from an IT job because after four months of work "The computers are all working so we don't need an IT person".

Like yeah, good luck with that, wonder if I should tell them that the backup system has failed to run for six weeks?

Oh well, not my problem anymore…

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Space… A place beyond borders. These are the continuing voyages of the Earth Starship Nichols and the brave members of the low frequency right angle.

Hailing frequencies are open…

Humanity has finally reached the stars and found out why no one had contacted us. The universe is in a sad state. As such, Doctors without Borders, Red Cross, and many othe charities go intergalactic.

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Rhe cave with the giant quartz crystals is in Mexico, I think. If I recall it's so hot that after about 15 minutes you pass out, die and cook.

Caves are weirder and more varied than you think