"So It'd Only Work If It's Your Actual Million-to-one Chance," Said The Sergeant.

"So it'd only work if it's your actual million-to-one chance," said the sergeant.

"I suppose that's right," said Nobby.

"So 999,943-to-one, for example—" Colon began.

Carrot shook his head. "Wouldn't have a hope. No one ever said, 'It's a 999,943-to-one chance but it just might work.'"

Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

Terry Pratchett, Mort

all girls are supplied with armor of their choosing ‼️

if you are not a trans girl you can just imagine what you would pick if you were one , that's fine :3

simple things that would dramatically improve this website

content label specifically for flashing

ability to see the image you’re describing when writing alt text

permanent “keep tumblr live off my dash” button

ability to add closed captions on videos

blocking someone filters their posts from ur dash

mutuals only posts

filtered tags filtering blazed posts

switching a blog from sideblog to main blog

sending asks/replies/etc from sideblogs

while blocking someone’s main blog you have the option to also block their sideblogs

not slapping mature labels on sfw queer posts

keep “following” the default tab

get rid of the spambots (not simple but by god would it improve the website)

get rid of the t.rfs/nazis/other bigots (not simple but they could start by actually acting on the reports they get)

some more spiderverse stuff from earlier june

Can we get some cursed facts about this really strange primate colloquially called "Humans" please? I simply cannot remember how to spell the scientific name, and I don't want to embarrass myself in front of you

well I'm AFRAAIIIID that you're going to have to be more specific, because "human" is actually a pretty big group, phylogenetically speaking!

specifically, it's every primate in the genus Homo.

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this means that "human" isn't just the term for the only extant species from this group, H. Sapiens, "human" is also the proper term for all of the extinct members!

H. Neanderthalensis was a human. So was H. Erectus.

H. Habilis, H. Floresiensis, and H. Denisova were all humans.

which makes perfect sense, actually, because Homo is just the Latin word for "human" in the first place! fancy fancy.

but as anyone who's ever had to sit through a 300-level STEM class knows, Homo has another definition, this time from Greek, meaning "same".

homodont. homophone. homologous. homogenized.

but doesn't that also make perfect sense? bones aside, if all of the extinct species of human were resurrected right now and you ran into, say, a Denisovan and a Neanderthal on the street, wouldn't you recognize them?

"You are like me. We are the same."

"We are the same."

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