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If you were to vacuum up jello through a metal tube, well I think that’d be a neat noise
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classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free
#astronomers are also extremely guilty of this#and they’re actually much worse. much worse.#the humble classicist wants to share knowledge#the astronomer wants you to kill yourself. oh you want to see a list of super specific obscure objects?#you’ve really only got two options here#either you figure out how to bargain your soul away through painstakingly querying simbad or the evil grand vizier#or you have to pray some aging white man dedicated his shitty html website to the exact thing you’re looking for#and usually there will be a shitty html website but it will be completely unorganized#it’s a rarity to even have labels or explanations for the wall of letters and numbers thrown at you#last semester i deadass found a website that had a note left on it that said something like#‘this whole website was coded and maintained by [some guy]. unfortunately he died in november 2024.#he made no plans on how to keep the catalog up after his death. i asked him in october and he said that the website will die with him.#he later relented and told me how to log in but never taught me how this works. sorry everyone.’#i have a love-hate relationship with cds databases#on one hand it’s absolutely INSANE that there’s one place that contains information from like every astronomical catalog since 1850#and that you can find pretty much all the information you would ever need on any object you need#the information will take a huge amount of deciphering and trying to find a specific source they cited is like navigating an evil maze#but the amount of information in those websites are still unfathomable#AND you can find every single paper that mentioned your object through there too??? goldmine#but GOD i wish those websites were functional#vizier would freeze if you made a query that was too large#the query search filters require learning a whole new mythical language of acronyms and symbols#if you want to find any one specific catalog they have stored though…you might as well kill yourself#you’ll just get stuck in an infinite loop of clicking on hyperlinks and being rerouted in circles#i haven’t been on many classics websites but i have faith that they’re more user friendly than this#every single astronomy website is a masterclass in the most user unfriendly design ever#extremely unintuitive ui but there aren’t really any alternatives#and these databases are just things you have to accept. just like you have to accept weird outdated units and notations#a whole field of people stuck in the past but trying to look into the future by also only seeing the ultra distant past. crazy#perseus dot tufts dot edu is a beautiful website in comparison. perseus my beloved perseus
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i genuinely do just think it's transparently regressive in a weird turnaround way that the only way the people of this website enjoy a het ship is if the ENTIRE focus is on how awesome and hot and perfect and unstoppable a woman is and how the man is like there to make googly eyes at her and get like nonspecifically dommed-by-implication and we never get ANY thoughts about what she sees in him or what emotional needs are fulfilled for her besides the implication that what every woman wants is someone whos obsessed with her. you people love to find new creative ways to ignore womens interiority
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they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives
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microdosing my penis envy shrooms and drinking stanley uris tea in my tiny bedroom in beautiful TEXAS 😍
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Favourite dialogue in ENA: Dream BBQ has to be this inexplicable reference to a comment tube post from a year ago.

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Everyone hates on the texture of microfiber but where’s the hate for VELVET. I personally find velvet absolutely abhorrent to the touch, and I always feel like it leaves some evil residue on my hands. Why is microfiber accepted as being universally hated by autistic people when VELVET is out here getting away with being the Worst Texture Of All Time
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