I Hate When Other People Are Funnier Than Me.

I know this site is so painfully western and I know caring about every issue in the world is very fatigue inducing, I just wish that argument wasn't always used when non-western countries ask for help and recognition where western issues are always so prominent they spike worldwide memes which take up everyone's attention.

Before it gets out of hand once again like it did back when we were protesting against Vučić for lying about the COVID epidemic (he called it the dumbest most harmless virus ever and immediately after he got elected inflicted a lockdown and blamed the people for being careless which in turn spiked protests to take him down for lying), right about now there are massive protests against him and his criminal regime regarding the Canopy that fell in Novi Sad that ultimately killed 15 people (there are most likely more). I'm writing this to tell everyone before it's too late. When we were protesting to take him down during the epidemic we did so because his lies killed people, but the narrative he spread to the rest of the world is that we were protesting against the lockdown itself, which has never been true, it was against him manipulating and literally gasighting the entirety of this country. Right now we're protesting once again because his lies killed people, this time even more directly. The reconstructed Canopy was one of his many money laundering projects, reconstructing something with cheaper equipment so that all the money goes into his pockets, and when something disastrous happens they blame it on outdated construction and, their favorite argument, the "Opposition" (my grandparents specifically love this one, they buy all of it). In this instance they said the Canopy fell due to age, but they reconstructed it not long ago. After this happened they went on to erase any and all evidence of the Canopy being renovated, but people aren't stupid, they use the rail station regularly, they would see and know it was renovated.

Enough is enough and faculty students all across the country are getting on the streets to protest the incident and many more of his money laundering projects in the works, theater actors are heavily joining in, farmers are backing them up and also protesting against the Rio Tinto Lithium Mine project that's being pushed by Western Countries. Now mind you he's from the same regime from the 1990's when Slobodan Milošević was president who's leadership spiked the biggest protests of this country. Because he's a lying dictator he has complete control over how this narrative is shared not just within Serbia but to the rest of the world. Before Western Media twists the narrative again to also push the Rio Tinto Lithium mine further, I want everyone that reads this to remember this: The students protesting aren't paid to do this from the Opposition like they are being accused, the President doesn't "care more about the victims than angry protestors" like he claims, he is a heavy HEAVY criminal like his whole regime and all of this is so scary to be happening once again.

The Novi Sad Canopy incident was the straw that broke the camels back, enough is enough. Please support us the best you can by not buying into propaganda, we're protesting against his criminal regime and nothing else, just like how we did back in 1990's with Slobodan (the US happily took this opportunity to bomb us so all of this happening again with the same regime is so scary). Please don't ignore this, if something ever happens to us again due to Western Powers meddling I want everyone to know the root cause.

The West avoids us like a plague, that is, until they have something to blame on us for their personal interest.

A spinner shark shows off its signature feeding strategy

the queen dying is taking attention away from the true great loss of the last few days: thurston waffles' passing. fuck dusty old monarchs, at 15 years my baby just wanted to yell and eat shrimps and he still had a positive impact on more lives than the royal family ever did

rest in peace sweet prince ❤️❤️❤️

EDIT: i'm sorry I gave the impression I'm Thurston's owner, but I'm not! I wrote "my baby" cuz he is, really, everyone's fluffy baby thanks to the gift his dad and his mom gave us by turning him into a cat celebrity. go to @thurstonwaffles and send your love to them ❤️❤️❤️

The world's longest-running lab experiment

The Pitch Drop Experiment

The experiment demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar that is the world's thickest known fluid and was once used for waterproofing boats.

Thomas Parnell, UQ's first Professor of Physics, created the experiment in 1927 to illustrate that everyday materials can exhibit quite surprising properties.

At room temperature pitch feels solid - even brittle - and can easily be shattered with a hammer. But, in fact, at room temperature the substance - which is 100 billion times more viscous than water - is actually fluid.

In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. He allowed the pitch to cool and settle for three years, and then in 1930 he cut the funnel's stem.

Since then, the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that it took eight years for the first drop to fall, and more than 40 years for another five to follow.

Now, 87 years after the funnel was cut, only nine drops have fallen - the last drop fell in April 2014 and we expect the next one to fall sometime in the 2020s.

The experiment was set up as a demonstration and is not kept under special environmental conditions - it's kept in a display cabinet - so the rate of flow of the pitch varies with seasonal changes in temperature.

The late Professor John Mainstone became the experiment's second custodian in 1961. He looked after the experiment for 52 years but, like his predecessor Professor Parnell, he passed away before seeing a drop fall.

In the 86 years that the pitch has been dripping, various glitches have prevented anyone from seeing a drop fall.

- University of Queensland, Australia

i hope all of you get the chance to sleep on the floor of an old university building with current protests we’re all pretty much living in communes a different stranger is making me coffee every morning i’m making toast for four other people i vaguely know almost every night i have a huge sleepover and cover sleeping people with blankets so they don’t catch a cold and smoke in the parking lot with strangers so i don’t disturb sleeping people in my office all of those people became by brothers our professors and staff are just hanging out with us it doesn’t matter if we like each other we have to protect one another in every way possible

I'm thinking of posting my art on here again I really don't like Twitter anymore and I have no need to use facebook, so I figured I could start with this one uwu (also pspsp follow my bestie @muneaj their art is godly and they're just starting with tumblr) More info and icon under the cut

I never posted the full illustration I made that's on my icon uwu it's a bit old now but I'm still happy with how it turned out for the most part The blonde blue one with physics defying hair is called Aoi and she's a fox, and the gray one is Lumi, she's a Serval/Snow Leopard mix And if the humongous glowy heart wasn't obvious it's a queerplatonic flag, we need some more love for aroace and qpr folk They are besties and they are chillin and I added a big heart cause I can't draw backgrounds <3 I'll tag all of my art as "my art" and "kyuu's art" so if anyone wants to filter them out and only wish to see my reblogs they're free to do so

The icon in it's HQ glory

clay-colored billbug, Sphenophorus aequalis! she is so cute....

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