11 Reminders That the Dating World is a Nightmare
“Dating is amazing and fun and it only gets easier as time goes on.” – Literally nobody in the history of ever. It’s a real testament to the strength of our desire to pair off that we all continue to deal with the dating world despite kind of hating every minute of it. The hope, of course, is that the ends will justify the...
13 of the Best Tweets the Ladies Need to Know About
With everything that’s going on, it can be difficult to keep up with the truly important topics, topics like “What funny things are happening on Twitter?” We’re only human, after all, we can’t be expected to track absolutely everything, even when those things are this vitally important. But worry not, we’ve got...
Tumblr Compiles Compelling “Evidence” That Elves Are Flat Earthers
As a kid, when looking forward to the future, one thing I definitely did not anticipate was that there would be a rise in people claiming, and arguing quite vociferously, that the world was flat. The flat Earther movement is truly a fascinating case study in conspiratorial thinking and how not to do science. People angrily posting rants about ice...
10 of the Choicest Selections from the Humans of Tumblr
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, over 19,000 new Tumblr blogs will have been created. There are literally hundreds of billions of posts on the site, and at least three of them aren’t about Tom Hiddleston. It’s such an amazingly huge and dense place to navigate that it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer...
10 Reminders of Why Tumblr Is Such an Amazing Place to Hang Out
In the modern era, Tumblr is sort of an oddity of the internet. It’s kind of a throwback. A relic, almost. It has the sort of quiet intimacy that used to thrive on sites like Xanga and LiveJournal, for instance. And in an era when social media standardization and website-builder templates rule the majority of the web, Tumblr still has that...
15 People Share Their Weirdest Physical Quirks
What a wonder is the human body. A big, beautiful, gross, complicated, magnificent, usually broken wonder. It seems we all sort of get used to piloting whatever body we end up with, but what if you needed to hand over the controls for a while? That’s the strange sort of sci-fi scenario proposed by user its_not_appropriate on r/AskReddit: If...
15 of the Most Hilariously Inaccurate “Facts” Ever Spread
My favorite “fun fact” from the internet is “There are more stars in the galaxy than there are atoms in the universe.” It’s kind of a litmus test joke, because if you have even the most vague understanding of what atoms are, you know that can’t be true. But it has all the sort of syntax and wonder to it that...
The Worst “Scientific Facts” We’ve Ever Been Told
You don’t have to be a scientist in order to appreciate science. Likewise, you don’t have to be a scientist to recognize when someone is talking complete crap about science. Unfortunately, in the world of the internet, bad science info spreads faster than a literal virus, and it can be really hard to combat and counteract for those who...
15 People Make a List of Universal “D*ck Moves”
We’ve all got our personal pet peeves; some things that bother me a lot may not bother you all that much, some things that absolutely set you off may hardly register with me. But there are certain things which, despite our differences, we can all come together and firmly declare “not cool.” A rather large manifesto of such items...
15 People Share the Worst Dreams They Were Very Glad to Wake up From
As someone who has experience insomnia and related sleep issues most of my life, I’ve had all kinds of experiences that blurred the line between dream and reality, and 99% of the time, it’s a huge relief to finally become fully conscious again and leave that weirdness behind. But you don’t have to be diagnosed with any kind of...