Month: November 2022

ukulelekatie:

ukulelekatie:

ukulelekatie:

They say money doesn’t bring happiness but I just accidentally discovered that some euro coins are magnetic and proceeded to spend 30 minutes testing every type of coin from around the world I own to see if they’re also magnetic, which severely improved my mood

Here are the full results in case you were curious:

🇺🇸 United States Dollar:

1¢: No

5¢: No

10¢: No

25¢: No

$1 coin: No

Overall rating: Terrible

🇪🇺 Euro:

1c: Yes

2c: Yes

5c: Yes

10c: No

20c: No

50c: ??? (Don’t have one)

€1: Yes

€2: Yes

Overall rating: Mostly good.

🇨🇿 Czech Koruna

1 Kč: Yes

2 Kč: Yes

5 Kč: ???

10 Kč: Yes

20 Kč: Yes

50 Kč: ???

Overall rating: YES EXCELLENT

🇬🇧 British Pound

£2: Yes!

Overall rating: Need more data. I’ve never been to the UK, I found this one coin on the ground in Prague

🇨🇭 Swiss Franc

1 Fr: No

2 Fr: No

Overall rating: Again, not enough data. The only time I’ve been to Switzerland has been during airport layovers.

🇨🇦 Canadian Dollar

5¢: ???

10¢: Yes

25¢ Yes

Loonie ($1): Yes

Toonie ($2): Yes

Overall Rating: GREAT. Yet another wonderful thing about Canada.

Conclusion: The preliminary results of this experiment further supports my hypothesis that America has the most boring money in the world. So far Canada is in 1st place because their $5 bills have astronauts on them and they smell like maple. The bills, not the astronauts. More data is needed to determine whether Canadian astronauts also smell like maple, but it is likely.

Of all the semi-popular posts I’ve made, this one has been the most wholesome so far. People are sending me info about which of the coins in their country are magnetic and it’s making me very happy. I love the internet sometimes

So the reason US coinage is not magnetic is because magnetism is used as an easy rejection rejection test in things like vending machines between real coins and things like washers and various other round pieces of metal.

We DID have one coin that was magnetic, the 1943 penny:

Minted in zinc coated steel, this was made in 1943 only to alleviate the lack of  copper that was needed to make ammunition.

It suffered a number of issues:

1) The vending machine problem as stated above
2) It rusted:

Due to the issues with the steel cents. The US mint went back to using a copper alloy using brass shell casings from 1944-1946

seasaltshrimp:

Two chars from my story ☆

galehowl:

more stuff from Twitt, the og comment was “throws him off a cliff” and I stand by it, so

*throws him off a cliff*

luhbrazart:

A quick tarot design I’ve done of my character Jack, based on both the meaning of the card and his lore. 👀💦

And yes, it is the sexy Lucifer statue pose. 😉

You can find more about Jack on his TOYHOUSE(wip)! ♥

reptile-ruler:

Seeing more and more blogs without a [username].tumblr.com site which means you can only view their blogs in tumblr.com/[username] mode, and I realized just the other day that nowadays you have to manually go to your blog settings and toggle the “enable custom theme” switch to have a browser site activated.

I REALLY recommend activating this! Especially if you’re an artist or if you have a themed blog, like if you reblog fanart for a specific fandom or ship. First and foremostly you can change the whole theme if you want to, you can really just go wild with building your personal aesthetic for your page.

But what I think is even more important, is that you NEED to “enable custom theme” to enable access to your archive! The link [username].tumblr.com/archive doesn’t work if you don’t have this enabled!

If you post art or archive fanart or fandom content of any kind, letting people access your archive makes it so much easier for people (and yourself) to find older art on your blog or to look for something you drew a while ago that they remember loving and want to look at again.

We talk lots about how on Tumblr old art gets to circulate, and the archive is part of how that works. It’s a really useful tool in finding good content that isn’t brand new. And especially if you are good at tagging, it’s very easy to filter the archive to find ship content or meta or fics, whatever you want to find.

mrpinchy:

i’m not too worried about losing twitter or deviantart because these aren’t the first big culturally important sites i’ve seen die in my time and they won’t be the last either. despite how much has changed in the past quarter century i’ve been online, i’m still here. friends i met 20+yrs ago through AOL chatrooms and BBcode forums and angelfire galleries and livejournal are still here. artists are still here. as long as the internet still exists, we’ll all still be here making spaces for ourselves and each other