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December 1, 2023December 29, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

ladiesloveduranduran:

ladiesloveduranduran:

I had a lot of fun with my Boston poll so I’m making a new random poll.

You must live in one of these US cities. You make $65k a year. Where are you living?

Please put your justifications in the tags. Yes you have to live in the US in this hypothetical I’m sorry. Maybe if there is a demand I will run another poll with world cities.

Results so far are interesting. Based on the notes, it seems that there is a large faction who is overly concerned with how far $65k would go (the Sioux Falls camp) and a large faction who has given absolutely no thought to the cost of living (the Santa Barbara camp)

Asheville is great but I hear it’s gotten really expensive, not sure 65k would be enough

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#immediately discarding California and Florida for being incredibly prone to natural disasters #Texas and Louisiana also pretty bad on that front #skimming the Baltimore Wikipedia article is…not…dissuading me…from my prior vague impression of Baltimore as #being constantly on the edge of civil war #Sioux Falls vs Asheville is a tough one #I voted Sioux Falls #–largely because (looking at the Wikipedia climate chart) it kind of creeps me out the way Asheville doesn’t really ”have” a ”winter” #(does that mean the air is never breathable? always one pollen or leaf mold or another? I rather suspect it does) #(not to mention rhythms being important and all that)– #but further information could sway me #(under what circumstances are you allowed to leave?) #((the phrasing implies that it’s *not* just ”you can move away whenever you want‚ but you lose the magically protected income”)) #(if in twenty years North Carolina is a climate-changed hellscape of heat waves and mosquito-borne plagues‚ can you flee?) #((I acknowledge the concerns in the notes regarding South Dakota’s reproductive rights‚ but #I figure sneaking off somewhere to get your tubes tied *doesn’t* count as moving away)) #((hmm‚ though come to think of it I *have* heard the Great Plains are pretty agoraphobic‚ so there’s also that issue)) #home of the brave #surveys #tag rambles #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #apocalypse cw?

November 29, 2023February 13, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

nathanielthecurious:

5th century athens tumblr dashboard simulator

💪🏻 theoeikelos because you follow #athenian politics

just a reminder in advance of ostracism season: i know themistocles might not be your first choice to exile (he sure isnt mine!) but being realistic, the only people who have a chance of winning are themistocles and aristides. if you vote for some random guy you hate or write in a joke, thats as good as voting for aristides and we cant take that risk. please please please vote themistocles

#athenian politics #themistocles #aristides

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🍇 symposiarch

hey guys should i go knock the penises of the herms i think it would be really funny

🌌 your-fave-is-aeolic follow

this is probably the unmixed wine talking but yes, yes you should

🏛 generation-of-leaves follow

It makes me so sad to see how this website glorifies impiety against the city and the gods. I have hope that you will find your way back to timē.

🍇 symposiarch

lmao i always forget there’s a cult of hermes side of tumblr

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🐢 aspiringchoregos

guys ive been looking at that most tragic character poll and honestly i think that the antigone side is using bots to vote. the vote count is going up by 100 every few seconds, who even likes antigone?? all i remember about that play is that my teacher made me write prosopopoeiae based on it

#also its just suspicious to see so many antigone votes on the new music enjoyers website #choregos shut up

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🏺 kallias-art-blog follow

finally finished painting this today, im really happy with how it turned out!

like all my other projects, this is for sale at my etsy store! support metic artists :)

#art #artistsontumblr #redfigure #vasepainting #oenochoe #my art

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👁 most-tragic-character-agon follow

MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER AGON ROUND 2: ANTIGONE VS MEDEA

😝 asexual-oedipus

reblogging again because we can not let antigone lose to a character best known from a fucking EURIPIDES play! medea isnt even that tragic she’s just evil

#tragedy agon #antigone

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🏳️‍🌈 harmodogeiton

i keep getting s*cratics following me so i guess i havent been clear enough on here: i do not support oligarchy, terrorism, or corrupting the youth and if you do then i kindly suggest that you unfollow me and also go to the fucking crows

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🐝 bucolic-aesthetic

#sicily #lilybaeum #bucolic #bucolic aesthetic #shepherd aesthetic #selinous #magna graecia #apoikia

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🔱 piercedbyeros follow

i call my dick the thesmophoria because it’s abundant in seed and only for the women

🍇 symposiarch

i call my dick the panathenaea because i parade it through the acropolis

🆕 post-store

1 hemitetartemorion

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the hyperlink on ”my etsy store”) #dashboard simulators #nsfw text? #discourse cw?

November 10, 2023December 22, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

sootpologist:

genuinely curious: if tumblr were to vanish right now, where would you set up your primary internet presence?

purposefully picked tumblr-like social media along with some really bit ones although nothing is really like this tbh

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #surveys #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

October 17, 2023October 23, 2023 ~ Brin ~ 1 Comment

maryellencarter:

calware:

how many digits of pi (after the decimal point, so 3.?????? etc) do you have memorized?

“anyway I am surprised that 5 is such a popular answer, I can understand 2, but why 5, it’s so lopsided” (via @brin-bellway )

I answered 5! In my case, it’s because I once saw a nerdy math cheer that included those digits – something along the lines of “local math team, we’re so fine, 3.14159” – and it stuck.

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#conversational aglets #math #pi #the more you know #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #surveys

October 11, 2023October 23, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

sigmaleph:

sequel to this poll, new approach

Click this link five times, and for each answer the question: would you take the superpower at the cost of never having sex* again?

*since i know people will ask otherwise: ‘having sex’ goes by whatever your personal definition is right now, broadly construed (e.g. if for a given act your current opinion is ‘eh it’s arguably sex’, then it’s banned). the ban does not update if your personal definition of what counts as sex changes

please don’t ask me questions about interpreting superpower implications. use your judgement.

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#hahahaha it offered me a perfect memory and also immortality #(I will assume I get the required secondary powers for no-wish-is-truly-safe-with-a-malicious-genie reasons) #however I will *not* swear never to have sex-broadly-defined in exchange for Fat Attacks #my initial inclination is also to say no to the ability to run across curved surfaces as if they were flat a la Sonic the Hedgehog #though that sounds vaguely like the sort of thing that would have perpetual-motion-type exploits if only I were capable of figuring them ou #the fifth one was so unimpressive that I would need the perfect-memory power to even know what it was #oh right it was some sort of synergy power for combo attacks #but I really don’t expect that to come up #surveys #sexuality and lack thereof

October 11, 2023October 23, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

ineffectualdemon:

Has anyone done the “would you fuck your clone” meme as an actual poll on here yet?

No? Yes?

Fine.

Just to make sure.

*and just get it on with all of them at once because that’s how pro clone-fucking I am.

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#who would know better how to fuck me than me? #surveys #sexuality and lack thereof #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #(I am of course using ”clone” here in the colloquial sense of ”fork”) #(since that’s clearly what was meant in context) #(so don’t @ me about it)

October 8, 2023October 23, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

whatcha-thinkin:

You have the opportunity to travel to a fictional universe but with an important restriction. Which if any would you accept?

roach-works:

mcu: this world but freelance cops can punch through walls. low chance of fucking an alien.

star wars: a thousand different planets to put up with fascists on. democrats somehow even more spineless and ineffective. however, very high chance of fucking an alien.

star trek: a thousand different planets to be a communist on. may get your shit kicked in by swarthy footballers or chicago gangsters. fucking an alien is inevitable

harry potter: this is just england with an even higher chance of getting hate crimed

middle earth: 50/50 chance on if you’ll get a lovely cottagecore lifestyle or some orc lops your head off. elves very unlikely to put out.

battle tech: chances of fucking an alien unknown. chances of fucking a robot not good.

discworld: not worse than our world but definitely smellier. you will be turned down, crushingly, by a beautiful werewolf. not sure i could survive this.

dune: coachella with no bands and no weed and no way home. they don’t let you ride the sand worms.

hitch hiker: you only get to fuck an alien if it is both humorous and sorta damp. not great odds.

narnia: god is real and you get to be a badger. as a jew, im honestly tempted.

fuck it i guess ill stay home: bad dragon dildos are really expensive and the economy sucks shit. reconsider.

fruityyamenrunner:

shit, the Discworld would be a terrible place to live. the only thing that makes it worth living is having the narcissistic magical power of will to turn that shithole into somewhere you can survive. when you get like 3 inches outside the skull of one of the magic-using main characters it’s all misery barely kept at bay by the main character of the disc’s ego-defences.

shieldfoss:

I feel like “Star Trek outside of Starfleet” is the extremely obvious choice? Yeah it’s all communism but it’s communism with the problems solved you’re not going to get Gulaged for proscribed literature because then it wouldn’t be Star Trek, it would be some tankie’s revanchist Star Trek fan fic where they reintroduced the bad parts because that’s the only way they can get hard.

Obviously you might get Borged or Klingoned or Qed or something but IRL you can get hit by a car – we’re not comparing with perfection, we’re comparing with the other options. ST is better than IRL and also better than all the other options.

(That is, for every non-IRL option my first thought would be “Jesus Christ how am I going to survive this?” but for ST my first thought is more like “Ok, time to have a good time. Transporter, one ticket to a great location where I can build my dream house thank you.”

dagny-hashtaggart:

Also if you’re really that into adventuring and exploration I’m pretty sure there are avenues other than just Starfleet. And if you’re not, as revealed preferences suggest most of us aren’t, there’s a perfectly good near-utopia to live a long and comfortable life in.

Honestly even Star Wars probably wouldn’t be too bad. There doesn’t seem to be substantially more poverty than in the real world, life under the Republic was pretty alright and even the Empire seemed to have let the leash run a lot longer than most real world authoritarian states, and you still have a bunch of futuristic technology to improve your quality of life. Somewhat more planet-killing superweapons, which isn’t great, but honestly with there being about a million planets in known space your odds aren’t too bad.

Basically what I’m saying is that in the absence of widespread healing magic and similar (which none of the fantasy settings aside from HP really have), I feel like “access to modern or better medicine and running water” is a pretty high priority, especially if I’m not going to be the main character.

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#surveys #yeah pretty much #(honestly it would be a bigger downside if it were ”you *are* in Starfleet”) #(but even then I could probably get some nice low-level-bureaucrat job and #never get up close and personal with a Negative Space Wedgie in my life) #((whereas with comic-book universes‚ especially‚ there is *no* escaping the Negative Wedgies)) #though I respect the people who are like ”Narnia because then I get to shed this human form” #that’s legit

September 19, 2023October 23, 2023 ~ Brin ~ 1 Comment

calware:

how many digits of pi (after the decimal point, so 3.?????? etc) do you have memorized?

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#…this reminds me of that post going around with the #”which field do you think normal people know one or two feldspars in (and quartz of course)” #me: ”yeah I know 18 is an unusually large number of pi digits to have memorised‚ most people only know 8” #(I had a specific copy of that post I was going to show you alongside this) #(but guess what! Tumblr just up and banned them last night for no apparent reason!) #(my pile of tabs-to-consider-reblogging is *actively linkrotting*‚ so I guess I’d better get a move on with sorting through them) #((particularly in case Tumblr decides to finish the job they did on me)) #(I still have several lizardywizard posts in my queue‚ and Tumblr claims those reblogs will go ahead as scheduled) #(we’ll see) #((with careful use of the right-click ”bookmark tab” button I was able to save all but one of the URLs)) #((so if they manage to get their account back I might still be able to retrieve those)) #anyway‚ I am particularly surprised that 5 is such a popular answer #I can understand 2 #but why *5* #it’s so lopsided #math #surveys #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #amnesia cw

September 4, 2023October 17, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

hug-necromancer-new:

i must know. toothpaste: does it hurt (when used normally)

rb for sample size pls

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#I was torn between ”other kind of pain” and ”no?” but eventually went with ”no” #mint toothpaste *is* horribly cold (last I checked) which is why I never use it #I used Tom’s of Maine for ages until Colgate #finally came out with fluoridated toothpaste in fruit flavours #anyway thanks for reminding me to put more Colgate Kids strawberry toothpaste on my grocery list OP #(the watermelon’s fine too) #((also I *do* like mint sweets‚ but toothpaste was way more intense)) #and‚ uh‚ good luck to ~15% of respondents #I strongly recommend that you investigate other kinds of toothpaste #PSA #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #surveys

August 29, 2023October 11, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

sigmaleph:

Do you have a soul?

The word “soul” is so semantically overloaded that *all* of the first four options are correct.

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#I voted for option 3 because I have an unusually stable personality #I am constantly running into people who are‚ like‚ completely different people than they were two years ago #there’s no *core* to them: everything is in flux #those of them I’ve heard discussing it say they like it better that way #(some of them have gone so far as to say it’s morally obligatory) #but it’s really not my style‚ personally #(you’re probably wondering in what sense do I not have a soul but other people do) #(ideally I would answer with a link to that one post by…was it aspire-to-the-light?) #(in which they describe their quale of having a conscience in a thoroughly alien manner) #(but I cannot find it) #reply via reblog #tag rambles #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #surveys #language