one time in college a professor spent 90 minutes talking about an example scenario that involved beef and i thought nothing of it until several weeks later when i found out that my classmate had made a minute long compilation of all 125 times he said "beef" in one lecture
when he was a stay-at-home parent to three kids, my dad used snow forts as his physical and creative outlet and now i’m really good at ice and snow sculptures
no i am obsessed with this dude who spends 20 min saying wikipedia is occasionally inaccurate and then presents the alternative of… buying books on amazon. so true, gonna start giving bezos $15 every time i wonder something <3
my grandparents met the 96-year-old inventor of the pop tart at a retiree social event and when they told him “our grandson loves pop tarts!”, he whipped out a sharpie and a box of pop tarts (he’s ready at all times). now my brother’s having the best christmas of his life!!!
TSA stopped me and was like “what is this” and I had to explain that I recently bought an undersea internet cable because i thought it would be a cool thing to have
I need you to know that someone named Linda Skeens swept almost every category at the Virginia Kentucky District Fair and people on Facebook are losing it
the best tiktoker is Mason The Guardrail Kid, a little dude who inspects guardrails and reports violations to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. I find it genuinely moving to see people find infinity in the mundane
recently a family member (whom I love very much) thought my undersea internet cable was trash and threw it away. it was my favorite trinket of all time. I am in the market for a new one!
TSA stopped me and was like “what is this” and I had to explain that I recently bought an undersea internet cable because i thought it would be a cool thing to have
ok i recently became OBSESSED with the "no cussing club," an aughts club that actually got swearing banned in the city of south pasadena. the 14-year-old behind the movement wrote a book about the experience, calling himself "the most cyberbullied kid in the world" (short thread)
i just remembered the time a construction barrel floated from wisconsin to michigan and locals named him "darrel" and took him on a big tour of west michigan. milwaukee responded by saying that his siblings carol, cheryl, and meryl were been "worried sick"
Have spent the past two hours reading 1920s New Yorker cartoons and here are a bunch of the ones I loved. A lot of them are about city life — from 1900 to 1930 NYC's population doubled from 3.4 to 6.9 million!
next time i see an inaccuracy on wikipedia i will not volunteer a couple minutes to improve it for everyone. instead i will pay for a drone to drop off a book in 2 days. can’t believe i hadn’t thought of this before
literally every night he would go out there, sometimes with random household items as tools (he’d iron the slide with a clothes iron), and build. it was the coolest. we were neighborhood celebrities in grand rapids, michigan
yesterday i met a girl at a party who was like "my dad edits wikipedia!" so i asked his username and I literally knew him!!!! then she said "it freaks me out that you know my dad" and walked away
for like two weeks last year I made a venn diagram every day but I quit when I was busy doing shows. I kind of missed it though, so now I'm BACK. it is, once again, day one of making a venn diagram every day
I don’t think anyone here meant any harm at all!! I just think the situation is silly. I now realize that one risk of having a gimmick account is getting accused of wanting to fuck the gimmick
to be fair he also recommends libraries and random single-author websites you find on the internet (?) and Brittanica. which are all awesome. they just don’t hold a candle to wikipedia’s accessibility and breadth imo!!!!!!!
Wrote about how you can download Wikipedia onto a flash drive (English Wikipedia is ~87 GB) and how downloads in Russia skyrocketed after the Kremlin threatened to block it!!