perpetual disarray

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[butchtoks]

[cognitohazardous]

dogs love using their horizontal nature to stand in front of you

[snootrag]

has anyone done this yet

[crreature]

portraits of butches of color pt 2. via butchisnotadirtyword

[lakefama]

birding yaoi part 3 🕊️🌈

[klapollo]

if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite

[klapollo]

Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.

[rayj4ck]

Also of note, you CAN be re-infected after getting it and it passing (SOURCE). You don't develop an immunity or resistance to it like bacterial or viral infections

[grickle14]

Feeling the breeze.

[spoodsburgh]

Check out Spike's spin move as she does hammock maintenance...

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[what-even-is-thiss]

I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.

[boybeetles]

I think this is the funniest 404 error page I’ve seen

“I hope you’re hungry… for nothing!” Give me my stuffed marshmallows you freak

[catmemey]

ohhh my god I'm not going to comment but iNat is infuriating sometimes

- someone IDed a (dead) bird as a snipe that does not live in NA

- someone else IDed to a snipe that does live in NA

- very obviously though it is Not A Snipe so I leave a comment clarifying it's Definitely A Yellowlegs and gave the reasons why

- despite all of this someone decided I guess not to read. or ignored me. and IDed as a snipe.

[astra-the-dragon]

if you go to the yellowlegs page you can see who the top identifiers of the genus are. same for snipes. if you politely tag them explaining the predicament they'll probably help.

[thylocalbard]

shout out to the inaturalist user in my area who classified their find as this

i think we should all take this attitude of having a go anyway. the only qualification for citizen science is the ability to start.

[astra-the-dragon]

sometimes... you just dunno...

[batsandboba]

do not start gambling. go outside and locate a bug. now post it on inaturalist. bam. nature's gacha game

[paulandersonxo]

do nuns have pockets

[paulandersonxo]

question answered thanks #MediaNun

[salticidaeily]

(Arasia eucalypti, via Salticidae.org)

Happy flat friend Friday!

Though described in Gardzińska 1996 as "lighter colored" than its genus' type species A. mollicoma, this aptly named Papuan salticid, which indeed makes its home beneath eucalyptus bark, may in all likelihood be easier to casually distinguish from its Australian cousins by geographic distribution, as the spiders may exhibit a certain amount of natural variance in coloration.

[bogleech]

The christian family in these memes (which are absolutely all over facebook these days) genuinely do always look miserable. Who the fuck is relating to these stock mormon farm cultists. That is a couple who made love only once in pitch darkness with bags on their heads then celebrated the pregnancy with a feast of uncooked potatoes and warm tapwater. The baby seems intrigued though. Maybe only by the bottle of pills??

[sunshine-tattoo]

Could not leave this in the tags <3

[kashe86]

These memes aren’t meant to be funny to anyone who doesn’t fit the very narrow definition of christianity used by whichever church or religious organization first generated it.

Much like the right-wing anti-communist/ant-socialist propaganda (which, incidentally, often makes communism and/or socialism sound rad as fuck), it’s meant to reassure members of a particular ingroup and reinforce their “our way is the best way” message.

This is also why evangelist groups send people to proselytize in places that might be seen as “unfriendly” to the groups message. The idea is for the evangelist to go evangelize, get a lot of rejection, and receive a lot of positive reassurance from the group. This process draws the evangelist further into the groups specific ideology, reinforcing the strength of the group as a whole.

[astra-the-dragon]

thing is, I know a lot of people and families who look a lot like the right couple... but as they're Jewish, thus not members of a prostletizing religion, there's no reason for them to be seeking conflict. some are more accepting of queer or leftist lifestyles than others, but it's more generally accepted that people will be as religious or a-religious as they like, wear different kinds of clothing, eat different kinds of food, and that's just a personal choice.

this isn't to excuse prejudice, but the idea that "because I have this belief, EVERYONE must have the same belief" is so wild and alien to me.

[headcanon-fodder]

Just get 'em in the back of the knees and they buckle no problem