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November 14, 2023February 5, 2024 ~ Brin ~ 1 Comment

“oh sure, I’ll just make a program to show pride flags, that won’t mess up my brain for the rest of time” I say, then I google this

foone:

Some of these are clearly being put together by algorithms and OH BOY are they a thing.

So you’re pulling aside the american flag, to reveal… another american flag, but also the type 1 diabetes ribbon WRAPPED AROUND A CROSS?

So who is this flag for, double-americans who are christians with type 1 diabetes?

foone:

now that’s a lot. Dabbing unicorn Love Is Love Zipper US Flag.

The best part is that a lot of these are vertically oriented and they only have a left-facing flag background to edit it over, which results in a ton of the american flags being flown upside down, which is a symbol of distress.

EVEN THE ALGORITHM WANTS TO ESCAPE

foone:

nothing says “Navy Veteran” like somehow managing to fly the flag sideways and upside down at the same time

foone:

@calicogamedev we have to find a way to put The United States of Cow into Untitled Cow Game. I don’t care if it makes no lore sense, we NEED it

foone:

The Paw Patrol Pride Flag?

foone:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

foone:

what the shit

foone:

more for the United States Of Cow

foone:

Look, I honestly do not give a shit if you fly the US flag upside down, but YOU DO NOT FLY THE BEAR FLAG UPSIDE DOWN!

(and backwards, but that might just be because this is double-sided and we’re looking at the wrong side)

foone:

That’s… it’s DESIGNED to be flown upside down?

Okay so Autism flags with puzzle pieces are terrible, yes, but it mostly makes up for it with THE SKULL. More autism flags need THE SKULL, you know?

foone:

they’re here if you want to look through them. They have 1907 flags for sale.

another-normal-anomaly:

Alright, so the crimes against vexillology are uncountable so we’re not going to count them. Instead I’m going to say that my first reaction to “American flag skull + autism” was to automatically parse all American flag skulls as the Sport Death flag and go “makes perfect sense, Senior House (RIP) had tons of autistic people”.

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #flags #juxtaposition #home of the brave #computer generated images #war cw? #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

September 17, 2023October 17, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

sigmaleph:

chongoblog:

vacuously-true:

We need a president who is a tumblrina btw. I think that would fix us. Both the US and Tumblr.

But then how would they respond if someone tells them they like their shoelaces?

try and take them

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #home of the brave #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

April 28, 2023June 1, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

nuclearspaceheater:

hjartasalt:

hjartasalt:

Too tired to draw but I still need everyone to be aware of this bizarre interaction I had at work this morning

Worth mentioning is that I’m in Iceland and the store I work at only accepts icelandic króna so like even euros wouldn’t have worked in this case

It occurs to me now that since cash registers are full Internet connected computers these days, surely they could be programmed to accept any currency and calculate appropriate change, with an exchange spread and an owner-configured Annoying Foreigner Surcharge.

Our full-Internet-connected-computer cash register *has* a foreign-exchange button, but (for some reason I am not privy to) it’s turned off. Our store policy is that we take U.S. cash at parity (with Canadian): if you want to pay a 35% Annoying Foreigner Surcharge, be our guest.

(Though I acknowledge that it makes a lot more sense to have a pre-existing policy on how to handle U.S. cash in Canada than it does in Iceland.)

(I think I had a guy hand me a USD$10 bill *once* in the several years I’ve worked here, and he was very apologetic about it and asked permission before ordering. Mostly it’s just a matter of not bothering to point it out when someone accidentally hands you an American nickel instead of a Canadian nickel.

We’re not *supposed* to accept when people accidentally give us British nickels or Jamaican dimes or something, but often cashiers don’t notice. Sometimes I’ll trade the cash register for it out of my own wallet so I can bring it home and go “hey guys, check out this neat coin we found!”.)

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#reply via reblog #in which Brin has a job #adventures in human capitalism #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #discourse cw? #embarrassment squick?

February 19, 2023March 3, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

rustingbridges:

vriskakinnieaynrand:

actually all of these are wrong. who says waughter. water has the same vowels as father not the same vowels as daughter

I say [ˈwɔɾɚ]. and I’m a normal american guy, who just likes to grill burgers and corn, drink a can of beer and/or corn, have a good time with boys and 91.7 megaacres of corn, as well as other wholesome american activities. a dialect of american so good it’s general. inferior dialects can’t compete with our C4 carbon fixation cycle

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#what *are* vowels? #we just don’t know #language #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”inferior dialects can’t compete with our C4 carbon fixation cycle”) #home of the brave

February 7, 2023February 24, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

rustingbridges:

poipoipoi-2016:

animentality:

Mom didn’t plan this, but my sister went to Cedar Point September 15, 2001.

Because the hotel was non refundable.

The lines for everything were so short my mother eventually started letting a 7-year-old ride alone because she couldn’t handle 6 rides an hour on Millenium Force.

but really, not going to cedar point would have been letting the terrorists win. riding millenium force twenty times in a row as an expression of the indomitable american spirit, etc

God, being at Disney World on 9/11 was such a pain.

They closed the parks. September 11th was supposed to be the monthly open-late night, and they didn’t hold a replacement open-late night (I think they did refund the tickets, but the late hours worked better with our sleep schedule and I was looking forward to that). We were on hold so long trying to find out if our plane back had been cancelled that I took a shift of keeping an ear on the phone because Dad was getting tired, and eventually we learned that it had been. All of the adults were very sad all the time and spent an entire day watching the same two clips over and over, as if it would help anything. My parents wouldn’t come out of their room that night: I had to make myself microwave popcorn for dinner.

(It wasn’t *as* much of a pain as it could have been. The hotel let us stay for free for a couple of extra days until we could make alternate travel arrangements. The rental-car company let us take their car and drop it off at their Philadelphia branch.)

The length of the lines was not what stuck out to me.

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#posts from seven-year-old me #9/11 #Disney #home of the brave #my childhood #reply via reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

earnest-peer:

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #politics cw #home of the brave #(and yeah what Sofi said) #(”wait that’s bret devereaux”)

December 4, 2022December 15, 2022 ~ Brin ~ 1 Comment

tototavros:

tototavros:

if you liked @earlyandoftenpodcast (which is itself excellent as an amalgamation of a century of history, told with an imperceptible amount of fnords), I recommend Presidencies of the United States

it’s a bit slow (it’s taken him six years to cover twenty years of history) but i like it that way

Presidencies of the United States does have transcripts, if you’re so inclined. You can find them at the bottom of the page for each episode, such as the most recent one.

#i couldn’t find it for a while but i remembered hearing the guy insist that he had transcripts #also early and often *was* great and i highly recommend it as a sort of background to Presidencies #the New York episodes in particular helped to set the stage for understanding NY at the time of the Clinton faction #even if NY politics truly is the devil’s own incomprehensibles

Ooh, thank you!

*adds to reading list*

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#reply via reblog #oh look an update #podcasts #recs #history #home of the brave #that excuse for communication called speech

December 4, 2022December 15, 2022 ~ Brin ~ 1 Comment

tototavros:

if you liked @earlyandoftenpodcast (which is itself excellent as an amalgamation of a century of history, told with an imperceptible amount of fnords), I recommend Presidencies of the United States

it’s a bit slow (it’s taken him six years to cover twenty years of history) but i like it that way

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#hmm #I consume very little audio (and am thus already saturated) and this doesn’t seem to have transcripts #but Early and Often *was* great #I suspect that in practice I will never get around to listening to this‚ but hey‚ maybe they’ll come out with transcripts someday #anyway‚ all of you should go read the Early and Often transcripts #(or I guess listen to them if you’re into that sort of thing: I never did) #podcasts #recs #history #home of the brave

November 11, 2022November 28, 2022 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

ultraviolet-divergence:

As of November 9th 2022, the CDC is telling anyone with a weakened immune system, over 65, or who is pregnant to not eat any meat or cheese from deli counters anywhere in the country.

CDC: Listeria Outbreak Linked to Deli Meat and Cheese

You are at higher risk for severe Listeria illness if you are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or have a weakened immune system due to certain medical conditions or treatments. If you are in any of these groups, do not eat meat or cheese from any deli counter, unless it is reheated to an internal temperature of 165°F or until steaming hot.

There have been 16 illnesses traced so far- 13 hospitalizations, 1 death. Illnesses have been clustered around New York State but have also appeared in California and Illinois. As always the true number of illnesses is certainly much larger.

Note that bit about “unless it is reheated to an internal temperature of 165°F”. Basically, treat deli meat as if it were raw: be careful what it touches until it’s been thoroughly cooked.

And, frankly, that goes for all risk groups: if you’re in a low-risk demographic listeria is unlikely to *kill* you (or even require you to navigate an already overwhelmed hospital system), but food poisoning is still well worth avoiding.

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#PSA #home of the brave #food #poison cw #illness tw #death tw? #reply via reblog #(that’s not even counting the possibility that you might not *be* in a low-risk demographic anymore) #(I suspect there’s a lot of people out there with COVID-sequela immune dysregulation who don’t realise it yet)

November 10, 2022November 28, 2022 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

beardedmrbean:

Cory Lee has visited 40 countries on seven continents, and yet the Georgia native has never explored Cloudland Canyon State Park, about 20 minutes from his home. His wheelchair was tough enough for the trip to Antarctica but not for the rugged terrain in his backyard.

Lee’s circumstances changed Friday, when Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources and the Aimee Copeland Foundation unveiled a fleet of all-terrain power wheelchairs for rent at 11 state parks and outdoorsy destinations, including Cloudland Canyon. The Action Trackchair models are equipped with tank-like tracks capable of traversing rocks, roots, streams and sand; clearing fallen trees; plowing through tall grass and tackling uphill climbs.

“I’ll finally be able to go on these trails for the first time in my life,” said the 32-year-old travel blogger, who shares his adventures on Curb Free with Cory Lee. “The trails are off-limits in my regular wheelchair.”

Georgia is one of the latest states to provide the Land Rover of wheelchairs to outdoor enthusiasts with mobility issues.

In 2017, Colorado Parks and Wildlife launched its Staunton State Park Track-Chair Program, which provides free adaptive equipment, though guests must pay the $10 entrance fee. Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has placed off-road track chairs in nearly a dozen parks, including Muskegon State Park. In 2018, Lee reserved a chair at the park that boasts three miles of shoreline on Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake. “It allowed me to have so much independence on the sand,” he said.

Mobility FTW

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#fuck yeah! #proud citizen of The Future #home of the brave #transhumanism