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wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Including but not limited to "accurately"

*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document

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Because of a convo I had with a friend of mine yesterday, I’m curious.

Would you, or do you, watch a show where a majority of the cast have passed away?

Yes

No

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nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force. the cosmic forces are plotting against me ass situation to be in

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500 KG bombs are for pikers.

REAL Helldivers drop all the barrages and then amble slowly into the Pelican as the shells rain down from orbit.

To all the new Helldivers, know who you're diving into Hell with. See you on the other side.

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Just realised I follow three different nonbinary people named Maia. The nickels keep rolling in.

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Here’s a question for my Scandinavian followers, or anyone who knows more about runes than I do:

I re-read the section of the Hávamál where Odin talks about carving, coloring, reading, and “sending” the runes, and I understand he’s probably not talking about the rune-tokens we use for runic divination today (especially since those were invented in the 70’s). But that got me wondering what he is actually referring to, so I must ask:

Is he talking about carving runes on wooden sticks or poles instead?

Right now I’m thinking about an episode I saw of Hilda. In one scene, she walks into a graveyard carrying a stick covered in runes. She rolls it against the ground, evoking the dead, in order to raise them from their graves.

I remember something similar from the Norse myths as well: When Freyr falls in love with the giantess Gerdr, he sends his man Skirnir to Jötunheim to bring her to him. But Gerdr refuses to accompany him back to Asgard, so Skirnir pulls out a stick, carves runes it, and uses it to curse Gerdr to never find love unless it’s with ugly giants or Freyr himself.

I did a little digging just now and discovered there’s archaeological evidence for rune-poles: The “Bryggen inscriptions,” which are a collection of medieval-era poles found in Bergen, many of which have runic charms carved on them.

If making rune-poles is what the Hávamál is actually referring to, then do we know how they work and how they’re used? Is there any folklore about it? I’m guessing there must be something, given the scene in Hilda.

I also have some additional thoughts that I don't know where to put but relate to my general inquiry: What I know about runes leaves me with the impression that ancient Scandinavians thought about very differently. Today we use it as a medium for storing and transmitting stories (interpret this word in the broadest possible sense here; I'm talking about things ranging from fantasy narratives, to personal anecdotes, to factual reporting). But I’m wondering—and this is just me hypothesizing—if people used runic writing more like musical notation or computer code, in which it represented something that was supposed to be played. This would make “knowing how to read the runes” more analogous to “knowing how to read sheet music” or “knowing how to read JavaScript.” It would also make the concept of “sending runes” similar to the concepts of “playing music” or “running software.” This makes perfect sense in principle...but if this were all true, then the questions remain: How were they sent, for what purpose were they sent, and through what kind of framework were they sent? How does it all work?

Any leads help!

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Will always reblog

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I'm really more of a Ferret.

should i eat first or shower first *has phone in couch time for another 3 hours due to choice procrastination, a behavioral phenomenon observed in pigeons and rats as well*

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"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.

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What gets me about the Mastercard/Visa shit is this:

You are at the grocery store. You pick up a nice, girthy zucchini. You head over to the oils and pick up a thing of olive oil. Then a packet of condoms.

Satisfied with your selections, you head to the cashier. As you place the items on the conveyor, a voice shouts: "DON'T SELL THOSE! THAT'S GOING UP A BUTT!"

And then for some reason, the cashier agrees. Then the guy who shouted, this fuckass guy in a suit, marches up to the counter and starts demanding that the store never sell any vegetables that could be put up a butt. He starts out pointing at the zucchinis and cucumbers and carrots, but you heard what he said: he's effectively banning every vegetable, just enforcing it selectively.

You ask the cashier if he's corporate or something. The cashier says no. The manager? No. He works here at least? No.

Who the fuck is he, then?

Well, the cashier explains, he's the bank manager from the next street over. He's taken up a moral crusade against vegetables that might go into rectums and if they don't obey him, he won't take anyone's paychecks or any money from any store that opposes him. And his bank is the only bank in the region, so it'd be a huge hassle for the business and the employees.

And somehow this dumb fucking scenario is real.

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"A planned community in Arizona has used time-honored Mediterranean strategies to keep temperatures down and attitudes high.

Western civilization has grown remarkably climate conscious over the last 20 years, but not when it comes to building, civic planning, and especially zoning. Perhaps the interiors of buildings are becoming more climate adapted, and in some cases the facades as well, but in a way that’s a little like inventing a freezer designed to keep ice cream frozen while sitting next to a fire.

Wooden or concrete boxes arranged side-by-side across leveled ground with sprawling, largely treeless gardens and concrete sidewalks alongside wide, blacktop roads is simply a culture of construction that has to be abandoned if living in a world of 2°C or higher annual temperatures [or, hopefully, less than that, but nonetheless likely over 1.5°C] is to be tolerable.

Fortunately for Arizonans, change may have finally arrived in the form of a carless, planned community that looks and feels like a Greek island village.

In the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Culdesac has arisen as a 17-acre mixed-use neighborhood from the ground up to stay cool and local, taking the concept of the 15-minute city, where anything a resident might need is only 15 minutes away, and putting a Mediterranean spin on it.

Buildings are tall, thick, and totally white. The residential areas look like they were built atop of the ashes of the Phoenix zoning code burnt in effigy. Crammed together, they create narrow streets and alleys that are almost constantly shaded, through which wind is channeled and accelerated in passing.

Windows open towards each other, allowing wind that enters one building to exit into another, while the total lack of asphalt means that the ground temperatures are a staggering 50-60°F lower than pavements beyond the limits of Culdesac.

No privately-owned cars are allowed to enter the neighborhood, in which electric bikes, robotic mini taxis, and light rail shuttle people around town, to downtown Phoenix, or out to the airport.

The street life is lively—there are no cars to bisect movement between the 21 different businesses and eateries, among which is a James Beard Award-winning Mexican restaurant, DIY ceramic business, and some stores run out of apartments—a big no-no under Phoenix zoning laws.

“Once you pull the cars out,” Architect Daniel Parolek who designed Culdesac, told BBC, “there’s so much more opportunity to make a vibrant, thriving community.”

His inspiration was sun-soaked locales like Italy, Greece, and Croatia, where town centers were designed before the automobile and before air conditioning.

Technically speaking, the entire Culdesac neighborhood is one apartment complex, but the paseos, or little alleyways, open up into plazas of open space exactly liked one would expect in a little village in the Cyclades.

Because no one has to jump in a car to get from place to place, people run into each other, sparking conversations, relations, and breaking through the counterintuitive phenomenon of big city loneliness, which in Phoenix hits particularly hard.

“Culdesac Tempe has shown that people do want to live car-free in the US, even in a metro area like Phoenix that’s often seen as the poster child for car dependency,” says Erin Boyd, Culdesac’s government relations and external affairs lead. “This success has shifted the conversation around what’s possible in American development.”

-via Good News Network, August 25, 2025

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To people with glasses, are your glasses a color other than black?

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I would start by contacting your insurance company and demanding all the details you can possibly get.

Hey, um, medical billing/insurance claim site of Tumblr, can I get a sanity check or some help on this one?

My kid was in a bike accident in may that resulted in him being transported to a hospital to get checked out due to someone saying they saw him pass out after. No concussion, and thank the stars and little fishes for that. But now I have received this bill.

The denial reason doesn’t sit right with me.

Denied due to provider contracted/negotiated rate expired/not on file.

It sounds like they don’t have accurate information on their system and they’re trying to make me pay because of it. But I can’t afford this. I can’t pay this.

What does it mean?

How do I fight it? Do I just resubmit the bill?

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PLAGUE! PLAGUE! PLAGUE! PLAGUE!