Y’all ever mess up putting your phone charger in your phone completely sober just to flex on sherlock holmes
It’s crazy how BBC Sherlock had such active and profound contempt for people in general and yet all of Sherlock’s convoluted deductions never factored in how we just do dumb shit sometimes
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#Sherlock #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this reminds me of that ”here’s an assumption for you: Sherlock Holmes is a huge jackass” post
One backslash: \ Two backslashes: \ Three: \ Four: \ Five: \
…but pages work completely differently and will never display multiple backslashes in a row.
EDIT: oh my god. The escape sequence for a backslash in a tumblr post is \, but just \ will work fine if you only need one. The escape sequence for a backslash in a tumblr page is anywhere from one to four backslashes, parsed greedily. If you want to display \ in a page you need to input .
What I just typed into this input box was “If you want to display \ in a page you need to input \.”
Also: every time you edit a page it reduces the length of each string of backslashes by a factor of two.
Alice wants her About page to say “Double \ backslashes are fun!”
The canonical way to do this:
* Type “Double \ backslashes are fun!” into the edit box. * Hit “Update Preview”. It will show “Double \ backslashes are fun!”; ignore it, it’s wrong. But now there’s a Save button! * Save. Go view your About page, which says “Double \ backslashes are fun!”. Yay! * Never edit your About page again.
If you do make the mistake of editing your About page, you will see “Double \ backslashes are fun!” in the edit box and also in the preview. Be sure to correct \ to \; if you don’t, then the next time you save, your About page will look like “Double \ backslashes are fun!” and the next time you edit you’ll see “Double \ backslashes are fun!” in the preview and so on until you give up and make a Dreamwidth account.
…
Post previews are broken, but in the opposite direction; instead of underinterpreting backslashes twice over, they overinterpret them a single time. If I hit “Preview” right now, this is what I see:
Fortunately, I think posts are stable and don’t mess up your backslashes when you edit them.
Quick update: every time you reblog it parses the previous posts an extra time, so if you have a long reblog chain, the OP will eventually be stripped of all but one backslash in each sequence.
Reblog to destroy the backslashes! I’ll start by typing 64 of them: \\\\\\\\
To clarify: if you go to my Tumblr and view the reblog immediately above this one, you see this:
But if you view that same reblog in your feed, you see this:
This is an exciting new discovery: Tumblr has a “first one’s free” policy on reblogs viewed from the feed; only the SECOND reblog will start cutting into your backslashes. But at least on my theme+browser+OS+bloodtype combination, this policy does not apply to someone’s Tumblr viewed directly.
If I’m wrong about how any of this works, shame on you for bothering to check.
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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”until you give up and make a Dreamwidth account”) #((…how the fuck am I going to archive this)) #((I guess I’ll just treat however it appears in my tumblr-utils scrape as the canonical version)) #((that’s usually where I pull from when adding new posts to the WordPress))
“By ‘tropical rainforest planet’, do you mean it’s got rainforest around the equator, or that it’s entirely covered in rainforest?“
“The whole thing is rainforest, yes.”
“Huh. Wild! Still, calling it all ‘tropical rainforest’ is misleading, as the tropics refer to the areas around a planet’s equator.”
“Oh, the jungle planet doesn’t have an equator.”
“It—what? Of course it does. It has to! All spheroid planets capable of sustaining life have equators, it just refers to the division between the poles along the axis of rotation.”
“No, no, you see, I know that. But the jungle planet doesn’t have a single axis of rotation. Instead, it wriggles around so that every part of it is equally heated.”
“That sounds fake, but I don’t know enough about planets to tell you how stupid that is.”
“The inhabitants call it Sous-vide.”
fun fact: the tropics are the area around the equator, but how much area around the equator depends on the planet’s axial tilt. a planet with a 90° axial tilt would be entirely tropical. in our solar system, Uranus is 99% tropics by surface
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #story ideas I will never write #overly literal interpretations #fun with loopholes
Item#: 256 Object Class: Keter Special Containment Procedures: SCP-256 is to be handled in isolation, only when required for further consideration. Any necessary actions are to be taken by Security Operations. As of ██/██/20██, no further action has been taken.
Description: SCP-256 is a 4 x 6-inch, high-density “slicing cutter”; it comprises the top three parts, two of which contain the top end of a large, flat top. An iron chain is located on top of the cutter, with a metal buckle around the center. The chain can now move approximately a meter or so along its length, along the length of the upper surface. The chains have been equipped with a thin membrane, which forms an insulating layer. The bottom end acts as a lock and the middle of the edge acts as a brake.
The chain is secured to the base of the cutter, but can be removed once the chain is no longer attached. The chain is held in place with a screwdriver while its motion controls the blade. The hand-held device can be used to operate a knife through its blade unless held on a metal base using a rubber band, or when the knife is moved with the tool to the point where it reaches the cutting surface, or when holding the cutter by the hand. When the blade is moved, the knife will slide back and forth. Any remaining sharpening force will be applied to the base of the cutter, which will cause it to produce a sharp edge in the manner described herein.
SCP-256 was initially discovered to be a 1 x 1.5-inch “slicing cutter”, but was soon discovered to be much larger, and developed a reputation for being capable of slicing through objects, causing several deaths, including that of three individuals, at ███/██/20██. Due to its size, this “slicing cutter”(1) was not sufficiently able to tear through wood, however, and SCP-256 was eventually discovered to have a thick, tough steel casing around its edge. The casing is also thin and hard as iron, so it can easily break down and cause injury, as seen in the following pictures.
Due to the low quality of SCP-256 (3), it was placed in storage at Site 12 on █/██/20██. SCP-256 began producing sharpened knives during this time, as demonstrated by one of its most recent incidents: one sharpened by one man who cut it off in the middle of the day. At ███/19
I completely lost it at “due to the low quality of SCP-256, it was placed in storage”, then remembered it earlier today while a barber was shaving my neck with a straight razor and had to desperately suppress my laughter for fear of being cut open
Yeah, that’s how it gets you
OpenAI’s language model wrote an SCP and it’s… a knife what kills you…
It has an impressive understanding of Sharp Thing = Danger Scary
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#SCP #GPT #death tw #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #also holy shit it knew to redact stuff #I guess now we know that GPT has read SCP Foundation entries #unreality cw #(which isn’t *quite* right but I feel like ”post was written by non-sapient entity: #if you try to interpret it as being from a person you’ll just end up confused” needs some cw and that one seems close)
“If you’re watching this video, I’m already dead. Not because I left it to be viewed in the event of my demise, but because that’s the only rational explanation for why somebody would be fucking with my laptop.”
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #death tw #storytime
*Tchaikovsky physically manifests in my house and fires two canon balls, destroying my home*
run away
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #music #(I suspect I’m missing some of the context for this but my level of understanding was enough to find it funny)
i love that jrr tolkien has nearly as many epithets as some of his characters at this point but the characters are like “aragorn son of arathorn, elessar telcontar, heir of isildur” and he’s like “jirt”
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Lord of the Rings
when i was little there was a book in my house explaining that pretty much all countries but us eat bugs in some form and there was a photo of some people cooking giant grubs or caterpillars or s/t similar over a fire and it looked somehow so delicious to me and I have wanted to try one ever since.
now everything I do and everything I am and every place I travel is all in search of the Grubs.
Hey so this girl I’m dating just showed me a dish from her home country at dinner and it was The grubs. I about yelled. I told her it’s my lifelong dream to eat those grubs. Then I thought maybe that was a weird thing to tell someone but she was very supportive of my ambitions.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #food #bugs #(I’m not really interested in eating caterpillars myself but crickets seem intriguing)
Brinens and Things 