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circles you because you are friend circles you because you are friend circles you circles you circles you circles you circles you circles you circles you circles you circles you circles you circles you

newsiesiswhyimhere

Me to the moots

weirdlandtv

Italian novelist/artist, Dino Buzzati (1906-1972).

#i wanna visit one of these #they look delightful

abuela, following a long and rambling speech about the many troubles of her day, the city, and the world at large: "pero por lo menos ganaron los Marlins!"

but at least the Marlins won! and so they did

#mine #life #abuela #baseball

evilscientist3

the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

we were just as smart then as we are now

we are just as stupid now as we were then

amarguerite

honestly I think there's a huge generation of readers who read 'the song of the lioness' at an impressionable age and it rewired their brains

#hello! it is me!#also all the rest of her stuff #Circle of Magic probably had the biggest effect on me as a teenager

wtf-scientific-papers

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

dragongirl-casca

#oh my word

peach-pot

anyone wanna guess what this doesthedogdie tie is for?

peach-pot

thaaaat’s right!

peach-pot

this is kind of a gold mine

yupokaysuremhm

Another one that tickled me

sequestering

Sucker: my year as a degenerate gambler by McKay Coppins (The Atlantic)

chthonicrose

Paywall skip link.

This is very worth reading.

#this is one of my favorite articles #I talk about it all the time #prev is right:#to me this is a definitive sports betting piece #almost every paragraph it touches on a novel way that sports betting is rotting the soul of something beautiful #every thirteen seconds

an-admiring-bog

inspired by @love-elevated -- I wanna get back to letter writing! past and present penpals include my 3rd grade teacher, 10yo student, and college roommates who moved far far away. dm me if you want to swap pretty typewriter and handwritten letters and stickers and things like that <3

an-admiring-bog

who else wants to be my pen pal?! it's the beginning of the school year which means i have a great urge to do anything but school. including write letters. come write letters with me

#mine #life #penpals #it's fun writing letters!#i need more low-time-sensitivity communication in my life #i think we all do #this goofy life of constant mourning

valtsv

i like the term "gallows humor" because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like "i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution"

valtsv

autisticandcatholic

The Story of St. Lawrence's death, patron saint of comedians

The prefect was so angry he told Lawrence that he would indeed have his wish to die—but it would be by inches. He had a great gridiron prepared with coals beneath it, and had Lawrence’s body placed on it. After the martyr had suffered the pain for a long time, the legend concludes, he made his famous cheerful remark, “It is well done. Turn me over!”

ahopefulbromantic

Always reblog St. Lawrence's execution!

portraitsofsaints

Saint Clare of Assisi

1194-1253

Feast Day: August 11 (New), August 12 (Trad)

Patronage: eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders

Saint Clare of Assisi, an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life—the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. In art, Clare is often shown carrying a monstrance or pyx, in commemoration of the time when she warded away the soldiers of Frederick II at the gates of her convent by displaying the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling in prayer.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)