beesmygod:

new thing i learned just now: in like 400 AD there was a monk named simeon stylites who used to live in a one room cell with a window but too many people kept bugging him for religious advice, so he climbed to the top of a pillar and shackled himself to it until he died 37 years later.

this became a cool new trend to the point where there were enough pillar monks of varying viewpoints that they would scream at each other all day

theshitpostcalligrapher:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

hello from the commission stacks:

yall sure do be spending money on some of the things in the world

i’m not complaining, but dang does it make explaining my career to my late sixties chinese migrant parents

difficult

AYO GUESS WHAT’S LIIIIIIIIVE

Buy ya of in prints here! And I PROMMY this is the last print design I’ll be doing for a few months I gotta slow down cuz I’m going insane lol

pansear-doodles:

bluenightcomedies:

dieselpvnk:

pansear-doodles:

dieselpvnk:

pookapufferfish:

zarithial:

no idea whats happening with artfight (kind of? i know a bit but… its given me a headache so im ignoring it) but i am just 

going to go back to animating this revenge

something is up with artfight?

tl;dr staff mass quit bc they were not paid

what the fuck?

QUICK CORRECTION-

the mods are volunteers, they weren’t paid nor did they ask for pay

what they’re upset about is that Takaia is pocketing all the donation money rather than using it to update and improve the site, plus a lack of communication on getting things done yet refusing to let more mods/staff pitch in, so they’re quitting as protest.

the moderators want the event to keep going for the sake of the participants, but ArtFight’s future is dubious unless Takaia cleans up their act.

so the tradition of af being down every year wouldn’t have been a tradition if it weren’t for irresponsible handling of funds…

mario-with-sunglasses:

mario-with-sunglasses:

just got a copy of Mario Sunshine for the secret new Nintendo system called Big GameCube. It’s just a GameCube but bigger. Miyamoto says only I can have one because I’m his special boy

okay I lied. that’s just a normal GameCube disc. Wizard shrunk me to mouse size as punishment for being alive. someone please help me

beakers-and-telescopes:

How to make plasma in the microwave using a grape (don’t)

For those of you who don’t want to watch the whole video (I recommend watching it, if only for the guy’s extremely blase attitude to fire and poisonous gas in his microwave, here is just the plasma part:

And the crazy thing is, even though people have been making videos of this for over 20 years, scientists didn’t actually know why it happens until 2019.

Basically, plasma is what happens to matter when it is superheated enough that electrons start to come loose from the atoms they belong to and just create a soup of charged particles. This Science article explains well how this effect is created by a halved grape connected by a thin strip of skin:

“Water-heavy grapes trap the wavelengths of energy microwave ovens emit because the waves are roughly the same size as the diameter of grapes. That energy starts charging up electrolytes inside the fruit, which then flow from one half of the grape to the other—using the strip of skin like an electrical wire and gaining energy as they go. The current quickly burns through the skin, causing the charged electrolytes to try to jump from one half of the grape to the other, supercharging the surrounding air into a bright flare of plasma—the same light-emitting state of matter responsible for the sun’s rays and fluorescent lighting.”

You can see in these energy diagrams of the microwaved grapes that when the grape halves are moved closer together, alllllll of the energy that is normally distributed throughout the two grape halves condenses down into an extremely small area between them to form a hotspot of radiation. The energy of this area is so great that it can heat the surrounding gas enough to turn it into plasma.

All this to say that this is a super cool quirk of science that you definitely should NOT try at home (the scientists doing the experiment to find out why this happened destroyed 12 different microwaves in the process lol)

flowers-but-gay:

olivia-online:

I must not buy. Buying is the purse-killer. Buying is the little-dopamine that brings total bankruptcy. I will face my wishlist. I will permit the limited time sale to pass over me and through me. And when it has expired I will turn the inner eye to see its impulses. When the mania has gone there will be nothing. Only $ will remain.

sunbitternsong:

Hate crypto-terfs. I really need to be more careful when interacting with posts… It’s just. Exhausting realizing a conversation is just not worth having because it won’t go anywhere lmao

Honestly, I’m pretty sure they saw my response and decided to just mess with me lol. I’m hoping they just leave me alone, I don’t want any rad/fem or terfs to interact with me.

Hate crypto-terfs. I really need to be more careful when interacting with posts… It’s just. Exhausting realizing a conversation is just not worth having because it won’t go anywhere lmao