I'm The Boy Who Lived Not Died

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mothgoop
nadiaoxford

I don’t have a hard time believing this.

onyourleftbooob

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throughablogdarkly

Crows are smart as fuck I don’t even begin to doubt the veracity of these stories

aechlys

A crow perched on a shrine boarder bowed back to me once while I was living in Japan. I was in laughing hysterics and a bit freaked out all the rest of the way home. Crows are fantastic and terrifying.

aceofroses-queenofstars

@thatchedrooftavern crow post!

thatchedrooftavern

CROW POST

markwatnae
jaubaius

Ancient lock mechanism

theoutcastrogue

Oh that’s great! There are many pictures of this type of lock around, but when it comes to locks, you need a video/gif to illustrate how it works, right?

This is ye olde pin tumbler lock, an Egyptian (c.2000 BCE) improvement of an older Assyrian (c.4000 BCE) design:

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It spread out from Egypt and it was used for thousands of years. The modern ubiquitous Yale lock is also called a pin tumbler, since it’s an elaborate (and tubular) version of the same basic concept.

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Originally posted by viejospellejos

heroineimages

Cool!

bogleech

I’d seen the last gif, but I get it so much better after seeing the simpler larger and older version first.

ospreyonthemoon

Locks really are the biggest case of “if it aint broke, don’t fix it” like we invented a lock design thousands of years ago like “put little sticks inside the big sticks. Huzzah” and changed like nothing other than the number and material kf the sticks.