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So true

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I always assumed pencil lead was so called because it did in fact used to be made of elemental lead, which was replaced by graphite in more recent times, possibly because of lead’s toxicity. Turns out that assumption was dead wrong. Lead has been used for writing at various points in history, yes, but never as part of any implement we would recognize as a pencil. I’m fact, prior to the early 1500s, the closest things to a pencil that existed were the tools used for metalpoint drawing, which consisted of a wire of some metal, often jeweler’s silver but never, as far as I know, lead, inserted into a wooden rod. What changed in the early 1500s you ask? Well, that was when a large deposit of strikingly pure graphite was discovered in northern England. People quickly began cutting sticks of the stuff and using it to write, but because of its softness it had to be encased to handle. Initially rope and sheepskin were used, but eventually the transition was made to wood and the modern pencil was born.

In other words, pencil lead has always been made of graphite. The thing is, for centuries people assumed that the stuff in this deposit was just some weird kind of lead ore (this is why graphite was archaically referred to as plumbago), a belief which becomes more understandable when you realize that to this day, this is the only large deposit of pure, solid graphite ever discovered. As there was no means of artificially producing solid graphite back then they had no way of knowing of its existence as a unique substance, and lead was the material whose properties most closely resembled those of the stuff in the new deposit. Or to cast it in a completely different light, today we would say it’s wrong to call graphite lead because lead is the 86th element whereas graphite is a form of carbon, but if, prior to this chemical definition, lead was just a colloquial term for any soft, dark gray metallic substance, were they even wrong? Would they have understood if we tried to correct them? Maybe it’s more accurate to just say that the definition of the word has changed.

(As a fun aside, one of the other early uses for graphite was as a lining for cannonball molds, making for rounder and thus more effective cannonballs, and so the deposit was quickly put under the strict control of the crown. This meant that for years graphite for pencils actually had to be smuggled out of the mine.)

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Kobold lunch atop a skyscraper commission for Sushi!

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"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux."

The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've mansplained him to death.”

Editors note:

Unfortunately, I did not pen this cautionary tale about the perils of hubris and Linux nerdery. I am but a mere academic fascinated with the study of “The Tumblr Fake Story” and contributing this piece to the field for peer review. I have not edited the text above, it remains in as pure a form as possible.

This particular specimen was one I pulled from the annals of a discord server I happen to spectate the occupants of, no it’s not creepy you ignorant fools. It’s scientific.

And then everyone in the Starbucks clapped.

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I want.

Gimme

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Yes pleaseeeee

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Mlem

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You slowly walk down the deserted isles of your local grocery store; high-vis vest on, clipboard in one hand, Geiger counter in the other, just measuring products and checking them off on your clipboard. It’s quite a satisfying thing, the little click click of the Geiger counter is somewhat soothing in these eerily empty isles. As you near the seafood isle your Geiger counter gets a little louder, a click becomes a beep and you turn the corner and your trusty radiation detector stops yelling at you. The screen went dark, odd. So you hold it up into the light to get a better look. Your Geiger counter broke, something fried it. You look up from the broken Geiger counter and realize you’re standing in the middle of shrimp isle, as you gaze upon the freezers stacked with store brand shrimp, your eyes adjust. These shrimp are glowing. It’s an almost hauntingly beautiful blue, deep and vibrant. It’s almost calming, you could stare at it forever. In fact, it’s probably the last thing you see. Because that’s Cherenkov Radiation, the shrimp have gone supercritical. The shrimp were radioactive the whole time.

I want a geiger counter for reasons that definitely do not involve going around a grocery store holding a clipboard taking ominous notes while wearing a grave expression

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Astronomical Sphere Ring <-

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Omg gimmie gimmie gimmie

found it here

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I think I ate too much banana bread. Or an anxiety attack is coming soon. I really hope it’s just banana bread.

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They don’t know I’m eating all the pieces when they’re not looking. Unrelated, but does anyone have pepto bismol?

The Dragon asks if we can play another game. They are not very good at this one.

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Very guilty snacking. I’m just gonna eat em anyway and put it on the list. No ethical consumption under capitalism baybeeeee

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That is the opposite of a problem. Never enough pancakes

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Can I have validation for my self hatred pweeeze, I’ll be very nice! Pweeeze validate my self esteem issues! No seriously. Please. I’ll Any kind of validation you have.