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this guy's beef got old enough to have geology

#fascinating

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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

#…. #yeah it’s japanese #multiple japanese theme songs actually #not sure I could actually sing them but i do like japanese theme songs a lot

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#uhhhhhhhh

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you know how some people go to parties and befriend the pets there like the dogs & cats? whenever i go to social functions i somehow end up randomly in charge of children. i don’t know how it happens. people are always just foisting children off on me in public places.

and the thing is it never stops at one child, because once you have one with you, another child approaches, and then parents start to think you’re perhaps some sort of hired childcare at the function and they don’t ask you. more children appear whose parents pointed at you and the other children and said, “oh look! that’s where all the kids are! go over there!”

I was at a work picnic once and a man from another department asked me to hold his 5-month-old while he filled up his plate. Then he got distracted talking to friends and didn’t come back for thirty minutes. I stood there with this baby whose name I actually didn’t know, chit-chatting a meeting new colleagues, and everyone assumed it was my baby and kept asking about him and what was I supposed to do? Say, “oh this isn’t mine” ?? Because then they’d ask whose it was and we actually hadn’t exchanged names. So then what would I say, “I don’t know” ??????????

I started wondering if I needed to make up a fake backstory for this baby.

The baby’s MOM eventually showed up looking for her husband, saw me, and said, far more pleasantly than she needed to, “hi! You seem to have my baby????”

I was just like, “indeed. so I do.”

I once volunteered to run the bubble table at a local festival. The point was to come get bubble wands & soap to use around the festival, but people just started sending their children over en masse. The festival ended, and I still had like 17 unattended children. I needed to go home.

I had no idea what to do. I needed to find an event organizer but I couldn’t leave them alone? So I started walking around the festival with a line of hand-holding children to find an authority I could give them away to like some sort of reverse Pied Piper

once I ended up in charge of a 3 year old at a funeral and she realized what death was and that she was going to die one day. I was holding her & she was crying while I was desperately trying to locate her parents.

Idk where I’m going with this.

I need to find a way to seem less approachable so no more strange toddlers have mortality crises in my arms.

#stories

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receive the ultimate blessings from the Year of Loong龙( wealth, luck and health) by 爱摆牌的龙龙

#*clap clap clap*

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Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito, upon finding out he's back in the Game and now responsible for multiple teenagers

#twewy #ntwewy #good luck buddy youll need it

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Beat, Dope Line

#twewy

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He’s a musician

#dogs #music

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#damn.

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I love how well TWEWY captures the concept of "boys will be boys" in the most absurd ways. I'm talking specifically about week 3 Neku and Beat going "screw what we're supposed to do let's just go kill the city's god" with little or absolutely no pause to consider that it's a stupid idea that they'll almost certainly fail at. Like it really captures the spite of 15 year olds.

the neku beat single violence braincell is SOOOOO good week 3 is so wildly entertaining oh my goodness. they really just punched their way through every single obstacle with brute force and it worked. either sheer violence or friendliness with certain reapers solved the problem every single time. absolutely unstoppable legends. the dream team ever. every week they try to play up each of neku's partners as being annoying to him somehow/ holding him back but being honest i don't think beat's idiocy was ever a real issue. you didn't need to be particularly smart in week 3. neku's own smarts were more than enough. more than anything you needed to be powerful and insane. those boys had it in the bag from the start

#the power of friendship and incredible violence #twewy

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have i mentioned how much i love whoever runs the official pokémon social media accounts

#eepy… #pokemon

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God Twewy’s use of the dual screens is great for many reasons but this moment is SOOO good. Using the screen to show both moments at the same time is ascendant. The adaptations just aren’t the same.

#i own a ds. i could get twewy on there i think #twewy

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There’s a lot of Scooby Doo stuff on Netflix

#scooby doo

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soil / crocodile / banana

#DAMN #flight rising

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

#eclipse

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terra i love you lmao

#terra. buddy. #kh #bbs

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are we sure the only way out is through. shouldn’t every building have emergency exits

#you’re so right #themes