mostly-funnytwittertweets:

jakeowen:

it’s been ten years and i can confirm that everything still happens so much. happy anniversary king

whitepeopletwitter:

rattle-my-stars:

sepiaseraph-deactivated20221120:

uzumaki-rebellion:

wakandamama:

thegreenpea:

blacktabris:

datasoong47:

esoanem:

guerrillatech:

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That’s 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes’ habitats

Wow, I knew they weren’t in “every African country”, but I didn’t realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don’t mind saying “I don’t know” or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it’s so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

relelvance:

I work at indeed.com my job is throwing all of the applications away

headless-horsepossum:

headless-horsepossum:

My uncle is autistic so he has sensory sensitivities, and he’s largely nonverbal so he can’t tell you what those sensitivities Are, so what he does is, if you give him a shirt that is a bad texture, he goes and gets his scissors and he cuts it into tiny little pieces so no one can ever ask him to wear it ever again, and the thing is is that he is so totally right

This post is okay to rb and also if you are neurodivergent when you are In A Situation you are advised to think “is this when uncle matt would go and get the scissors” and if the answer is yes then it is time to put your foot down

solarpunkybrewster:

orcboxer:

Should go without saying but never date a cop and christ never marry one. Rule of thumb if he’s legally untouchable he’s ethically unfuckable. You don’t like that cop, you like buff men in tight clothing. I can show you more of those, better ones. Take my hand.

burned honey knows what’s up

c3rvida3:

ALT

Forgot that we had a deep tissue massage gun and thought my partner was offering to hunt me for sport to cheer me up last night.

thefrogman:

sirfrogsworth:

If you have seen Ted Lasso you may have noticed these unusual microphones used by the football commentators.

Despite being a microphone nerd, I had never seen anything like them before. So I decided to go into research mode and discovered these microphones are quite fascinating.

They are called “Lip-Ribbon” or “Commentator’s” microphones.

They were specially designed by the BBC in the 1950s for extremely noisy environments. Soccer Football stadiums have peaked at 130 decibels so they needed something that would not get overwhelmed in that circumstance.

They use several very clever techniques to make sure only the voice is picked up and everything else is rejected.

First, they use a bidirectional polar pattern.

That means it will accept sound from two directions, but reject any sound coming in from the sides. And since the diaphragm is only exposed on one side, that helps reject sound coming from the other direction.

Next, the microphone is not very sensitive so you literally have to hold it up to your lips (hence “lip-ribbon”) in order for your voice to have enough sound energy to vibrate the diaphragm.

That top part rests directly on your lip and there is a little pop filter to keep your plosives in check.

There is a built-in high pass filter so it rejects any sound below the frequencies typically used by the human voice.

But my favorite trick… a labyrinthian internal baffle system.

(I found a diagram of this when researching but then I lost the tab and I cannot find it again. So you’ll just have to accept this crude photoshop I did in 30 seconds to help you understand.)

Sound is energy. And that energy is diminished the farther it travels. The inverse square law for sound states that the intensity of sound decreases by approximately 6 dB for each doubling of distance from the sound source. Sound also diminishes when it reflects off a surface.

That is a very sciency way of saying… make sounds go through a tiny maze and only sounds with the most energy will prevail.

So if you have your lip pressed up against the front of the mic, your voice’s energy will make it through the labyrinth of baffles without issue. But every other sound in the stadium will have a much harder time getting through.

These mics may even be vuvuzela-proof.

And even more amazing… this microphone was designed in the 1950s and they have yet to create anything better for incredibly noisy environments.

Isn’t that neat?

I think it is neat.

Originally posted by queenofglitch

Oh, and there is a “nostril grille” on top so you can exhale through your nose!

SO NEAT.

cryptid-sighting:

paxamericana:

the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman

but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything

What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.

mr-ribbit:

frankly i just think that we shouldn’t have been putting so much straw on that camel’s back in the first place

pansy2005:

if your job sucks just think about gay people on the clock. they legally can’t stop you

waitineedaname:

I simply don’t think that’s true eBooks.com but thank you anyway

paradoxspaceheater:

kaleidoscope-cosmic-power:

It’s a cold and it’s a broken mamma mia

hallelujah, here i go again

lizzy5ever-deactivated20230604:

This is the last social media platform where u can be ugly and in a foul mood