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On 16th June 1882, it hailed in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. The interesting thing about this event was that two frogs were found frozen inside the hailstones. The frogs were likely picked up by a powerful updraft and frozen into hail in the cold air above the earth’s surface. #Meterology

fucked up the aperture, I could've gotten away with a much longer dof while keeping the boke.

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Ok, in the next part Jacob tricks all the men in a city to circumcise themselves, then invades the city and kills them all while they still have sore dicks.

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Humiliating loss for Hamor and Shechem. Fucking cold.

I'm at a loss when it comes to the mysterious man Jacob wrestles all night near the brook.

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Rather, that’s probably the other war around.

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I like how when Jacob encounters Esau in the desert, he sends his entourage in little waves like Gandalf introduces the dwarves to Beorn.

Hmm, should I do chores or spend all day on my X4 empire?

if you do chores for a lady's dad for 7 years, her older sister has to marry you, if you do 7 more years the lady you wanted to originally marry has to marry you too, but too bad, she's barren.

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lots of intrigue about wells and sheep and rolling a stone back and forth, and also wife bargaining.

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Continuing my reading of the Bible. The part starting on Genesis 29 is pretty spicy.

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PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.

Tell me all about how the Starbucks logo isn’t a lady with lobster claws.

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