But do the ghosts know that?

she/nanigans

[robertfagden]

actually im doing really well except for the fact that everything makes me sad and the things that dont make me sad make me angry. but other than that im fine

[corellianhounds]

Considering how many times that covert on the dinosaur planet kept having creatures trying to eat Mando kids, I think most branches of working class and fighting corps Mandos probably had a specialized training course focused on “What to Do If You’re Eaten Alive.” It stays in line with Mando’s tendency to just dive face first into Krayt dragons and sea monsters and such so I imagine it’s one of those “ugh Taungsdays, amirite?” moments when he realizes he’s going to have to do it again. Bunch of Mandalorians hear about Boba Fett getting knocked into a Sarlacc? Yeah that tracks. If he’s a good enough Mandalorian he’ll find his way out eventually

Ravanak on the landing gear? ugh come on I just waxed that. Rancor destroying the town? Well if he grabs me he’s one hand down and I have a flamethrower and he doesn’t. Tusken lizard dog eyeing my kid like a hamsteak? Grogu you must be vigilant, sometimes these things happen

[catgirltitties]

Vancouver Public Library

[temprarytattoos]

I LOVE LIBRARIES!!

My library does “stuffed animal sleepovers” where kids leave their stuffed animals at the library overnight. Then the staff lets teenagers in after-hours to arrange the stuffed animals into fun scenes and take a bunch of pictures for the library’s social media. And then the little kids come back the next day and get to see all the pictures of their stuffed animals reading, playing games, riding around the library on book carts, etc 🥹

[n0isemaker]

That is so exceptionally beautiful and wholesome I actually cried reading that.

[miamaimania]

"I Drivhuset" (1980) by Susanne Ussing — Sculpture installed at Ordrupgaardsamlingen

[iftadwascool]

average Star Wars fans

[iftadwascool]

George Lucas’ handwritten notes before starting the rough draft of Star Wars in 1974.

The Empire is like America ten years from now; after: Nixonian gangsters assassinated the emperor and were elected to power in a rigged election; created civil disorder by instigating race riots. Aiding rebel groups. And allowing the crime rate to rise to the point where a “total control” police state was welcomed by the people. then the people were exploited with high taxes, utility and transport costs, gangsters, a cartel made up of power companies, transport companies + crime organizations. Other companies had to pay bribes to stay in business. they increase the crime rate by slowing down the system of justice and punishment.

[starknesskenobi]

George Lucas has been yelling from the rooftops since A New Hope that Star Wars is 100% political

[allsortsoffuckedup]

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

[chillyfeetsteak]

a few doors down from me my neighbors have a squirrel bar nailed to the tree in front of the sidewalk, not exactly this but something like this:

it's been there for years and they never "stock" it so it's just sitting there. anyway, i thought it would be cute to make a little squirrel out of sculpey and leave it on one of the stools in the middle of the night. i also made a little sculpey beer bottle with its own label.

it lasted exactly one day and now it is gone. it didn't fall off, i stuck it on with tape. what do you think happened to it? your most fantastical and wrong answers only, please

[chillyfeetsteak]

HUGE NEWS HUGE UPDATE

squirrel REAPPEARED today... NOW PAINTED

[chillyfeetsteak]

i wanted to provide another update because there has been more activity at the nut bar

a few weeks ago i sculpted a new patron:

and put him in the bar. the next day he was gone. a couple weeks later he reappeared painted... but with ANOTHER new guest: a 3D printed squirrel based on the first one i sculpted (with a bottle!)

:)

[bearloonz]

”how do i get people interested in my ocs” TAG THEM. BY NAME. HAVE AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER TAG I CAN LOOK THROUGH. PLEADE. SOURCE TAG AND THEN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TAG. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE CLICKED THROUGH THREE DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF “#OC” ON SOMEONES BLOG TO GET THE FULL EXTENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL CHARACTER ART I REALLY WANT TO SEE. TOO MANY. THREE HUNDRED POSTS HIDDEN BECAUSE I WAS GOING THROUGH THE “ORIGINAL CHARACTER” TAG AND NOT THE “OCS” TAG ON THEIR BLOG. YOU MUST DO THIS FOR ME.

[painted-bees]

this week has been way too exciting [negative]

I had just gotten back from my dog's neurologist appointment, which was...4 hrs long and stressful😭 Planned on eating a nice lunch and then getting some work done while there was still time in the day.

Only to watch a myna with a fat grub in it's beak land by my back door and then deliberately drop said grub and stare at it for a moment before flying off with a little "bwee" sounding coo.

And then I watched the grub move.

And then the horror dawned on me that it was not a grub.

it was this fucking thing:

I had a very ugly reaction that I will not describe in detail but fuck me 😭 I did not need this rn.

because I knew. I KNEW no rehabber here would take a myna hatchling. And I was right. Was basically told "congrats, it's urs" or "let nature take its course". It's such a strong, spirited little guy, if he's gonna die, he's gonna die warm with a full belly. Got a heatlamp and the appropriate food.

Let me be frank, I have no hope for this guy.

I have hand reared chicks before, but never this young. I hated doing it back then and I never wanna do it again. but this guy...He is like..1-5 days old.

SO, my life for the next week is gonna be waking up at 5:30am to feed this guy every 30 minutes until midnight. All day, every day. Assuming (biiig assumption) he doesn't just die overnight.

But he IS eating and pooping very well so far...so maybe he's gonna force me to live like this for a while after all 🫩 I give it a 50/50 chance, very generously. There's still a matter of diseases n' shit. He looks and acts healthy but who fuckin' knows what's going on under the hood.

It will be what it will be and all I can do is my best.

[painted-bees]

So, I have 2 plausible theories abt this

usually, when a parent kicks a chick out, it's because the chick is obviously very unwell and tending to it further is a waste of resources.

This chick, however, is very strong and determined AND had apparently been fed prior to abandonment. So--not unwell and not a waste of resources.

my first plausible theory is that these are first time parents who are very stressed by the monsoons and LOUD construction taking place across the street. Filicide can occur under such conditions.

My more plausible theory, however, is that the myna I saw was a home-invading kidnapper--not the actual parent of this particular chick. Mynas will kill rival nests, and evict chicks in order to claim the nesting site for themselves. And I think that's what happened here 😩

[painted-bees]

survived the night :V

Ate a fuckton of breakfast.

comfy.

[painted-bees]

lil dude has officially been with us for 24 whole hours...which might be most of his life, at this point!

So it's time to

get weighed, idiot!

9 gram.

Grub is currently 1 AAA battery large.

[painted-bees]

folks are already vested in Grub and I'm so nervous abt this being a sad ending. Please don't hold your breath for this little guy, the odds stacked against him are monumental.

When I weigh him tomorrow, I wil be able to get a clearer picture about whether or not he is on a trajectory of healthy development or if his growth is stalling and he is failing to thrive.

He can look good and strong, but if he can't absorb the requiered nutrient load and grow, then that could very well be the end for him.

I've been watching him around the clock and his behaviors seem good so far as my eyes can tell me...but more importantly, pls look at his tiny feetie claws

you can also see the eggtooth still clearly present at the tip of his beak here.

[painted-bees]

He hasn't been food begging in a little too long... this is the longest he's gone without gaping and I can't get him to do it. The last I fed was just before the previous update. Very worried that this might be it for him, as there's really no way to safely force feed at this stage. Not sure what happened. I'll continue keeping an eye with food at the ready--but this might be it for him.

[painted-bees]

my husband woke me up at 5am

"guess who's hungry!!"

How does this happen? Terminal lucidity???

Anyways, I fed him. Slowly. Over the course of an hr. As much as he begged for. He ate a lot.

we'll see.

like...he was GONE gone when I fell asleep last night. I mourned the little bastard.

He went 14 hrs without food. I don't where he got all this enrergy from at 5am.

I hate had rearing baby birds

Neonates are a whole other hell😭

[painted-bees]

Hungree

also, I like to think this looks like some development:

but it could just be the lighting hah...

Tho...even just looking at the size of the fibers on the towel compaired to the size of his head...hm.

Wigh time is in another 2 and a half hrs, but I'm realizing a critical flaw: I should be weighing him in the morning when he hasn't eaten for a few hours. Not in the afternoon after eating all morning. Oh well.

I'll start weighing him properly in the morning if he wakes up to see another sunrise tomorrow. But I'll also keep up the 1pm weigh-ins as well.

It's been a long time since I've had to do anything like this.

[painted-bees]

well, that's not insignificant, actually.

[painted-bees]

just ate a nice meal for me.

This time yesterday, he wasn't eating at all...so I am very happy not to repeat that situation today!

[hangingfromchandeliers]

ladies if youre a kpoppie, please occasionally take the time to remind yourself that you are a fan of just some guy

[hiveswap]

ladies if youre into mcyt, please occasionally take the time to remind yourself that you are a fan of just some guy

[hangingfromchandeliers]

ladies?

[hangingfromchandeliers]

minecraft youtubers.

[rabidvampdude]

No one ever expects the spanish ministry of science and technology

[hlas-lidu]

Protože mám pocit, že je nás tu na čumblru nějak podezřele mnoho...

Jste archivář?

ano, pracuji v archivu/studuji archivnictví

v tom oboru jsem se pohyboval*, ale už je to minulostí

ne, ale mám v úmyslu se archivářem stát

ne a nemám v úmyslu se archivářem stát

extrakt z prachu a plísně

jste archivář?

ano, pracuji v archivu / studuji archivnictví

v tom oboru jsem se pohyboval*, ale už je to minulostí

ne, ale mám v úmyslu se archivářem stát

ne a nemám v úmyslu se archivářem stát

extrakt z prachu a plísně (ňam!)

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[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, being spent on species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[kosmogrl]

oooh I get it it’s always gonna be because of the environment I grew up in

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[anaryllis]

reminders i need to like, tattoo on my brain:

1. if you feel judged and hurt by others, try sleeping

2. if you feel judgmental and resentful of others, try eating (the classics)

3. if you feel uncomfortable, try showering

4. if you feel directionless and afraid, go sit outside for a bit and maybe then you'll calm down. maybe even a walk if youre feelin crazy

5. take it easy, but by god, take it

[anaryllis]

oh and how could i forget. final boss. take your fucking medication

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[blumineck]

I have done some weird trickshots, and some difficult trickshots, but that last one is the most of both I’ve ever put together!