#tacomanarrowsbridge #pnw #infrastructure

Oh my god this thread speaks to me, I was a very easily scared kid. Skulls, mammal skulls specifically and human skulls most specifically, were my most common problem. I remember my parents visited a shop with diving supplies, and they had a poster on the front of the check out counter with a painted sunken WWII airplane that had a skeleton in it, and I was so freaked out I couldn't even look in that direction or even really exist in the store. Also the commercials for the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie were a pretty rough time (I love it now!). Halloween season was the worst (although balanced a bit by abundant candy).

Speaking of dino related media I read The Lost World in 4th grade and Jurassic Park shortly after and reading about people getting eaten alive by dinos was quite the experience! I was definitely aware of dinos before but quickly spiraled into obsession after reading such vivid and dynamic depictions of them as real animals. I've never really been as afraid while reading books as I have in real life and I think being able to experience things through literature (and pulp) helped me get past some of the things that really freaked me out as a kid. I'm really thankful for the people who were patient with me while I was smol and scared

Oh also I saw part of The Mask on TV at a party as a kid and that was pretty freaky

what is the lamest thing that ever genuinely scared you like either as a kid or adult. i got scared of those halloween cartoon scooby doo ass eye stickers ppl put on mirrors when i was 9 and screamed so hard i fainted

2000-2005

GUNS GUNS GUNS

Possible #liquefaction from an ancient earthquake near #shoshone #nevada

#flower #red

I went to eastern Washington over the weekend to study a fault scarp!

picking up litter is worth it!!

individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.

it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.

If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.

Can't sleep; thinking about watching powerful freight trains pass the windows of the coast starlight observation car, noise dampened but somehow still so intense

And the size, you can see the whole height of a car stacked to the brim with lumber whipping past only feet away at a relative speed of at least 130mph and it's as big as a house

Royal Space Force : Wings of Honneamise (1987)

Mechanical designs from the movie