Sugar Water Bitch

call me nina or tardis. 30, this is an 18+ blog. they/them. seeking individuals with cerebellar hypoplasia, tell all your friends. my chronic illness blog is @counterspin

[yeehawpim]

favorite word?

In no particular order: the top 3.

[alphynix]

Kalakocetus aurorae was an early cetacean that lived during the Eocene, about 50-48 million years ago, in what is now the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent.

It represents the (currently) most basal known branch of the whale lineage, with teeth that are transitional between the crushing herbivorous-omnivorous molars of the closely-related raoellids and the shearing carnivorous molars of later archaeocetes.

Only known from a lower jaw and teeth, its full life appearance is unknown — but based on the body proportions of other early cetaceans it would have been a roughly cat-sized animal, around 60cm long (~2'), possibly resembling a smaller version of its better-known relative Pakicetus. It was also probably similarly semiaquatic, wading into rivers to hunt fish and other small freshwater prey.

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References:

Gingerich, Philip D., et al. "Astragali of Pakicetidae and other early-to-middle Eocene archaeocetes (Mammalia, Cetacea) of Pakistan: locomotion and habitat in the initial stages of whale evolution." PalZ 91.4 (2017): 601-627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0362-8

Waqas, Mohd, et al. "A basal representative of Cetacea from the Eocene of India." Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03055-9

Wikipedia contributors. “Kalakocetus” Wikipedia, 07 Jun. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakocetus

Wikipedia contributors. “Pakicetidae” Wikipedia, 07 Jun. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetidae

[latinotiktok]

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[hug-your-face]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[m0thmancore]

it’s genuinely fucking absurd that cis people have any goddamn say at all on trans healthcare

[m0thmancore]

“oh yeah i mean im not diabetic but i dont really know how insulin works and i think its kinda freaky that you gotta poke your finger all the time so im gonna go ahead and say insulin is illegal”

thats how it sounds.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you will not feel stuck forever. you’re actually slowly but steadily moving forward in ways you don’t always notice.

[bedupolker]

Storytime with Granny

(Feat. An extremely abridged version of this folk tale)

[mortalityplays]

you can stay indoors all day when the sun is out, and sometimes it's nice like a cool draught from a tranquil spring, but watch out because if you stay indoors for two days in a row while the sun is out you start doing odd gothic literature things, stalking the halls and passages and muttering to yourself and parting the blinds to gaze down at your neighbours with a haunted look before turning away to contemplate your mannequins #yourmannequins. three days and you're basically fucked. you have to throw a towel over your head to scurry as far as the store for milk and people jeer at you like frankenstein's monster.

[raccoonmilf]

Got to check one of my dream milfs off of my milf list today! The red fringed emerald!

(milf, in this case, stands for “moths I’d like to find”)

[likesplatterpaint]

11 years ago, we brought "Tiny Baby" home, and settled on the name Burd.

Second in line to the blimp throne only after Feather, Burd has a brought us a decade and more of sass, songs, criminal activities, and joyful snapshots of puffer shenanigans.

Happy Burday, Burd!

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

[bakasara]

the people yearn for the 4-day work week

[teaboot]

I think that if you had enough daughters AND played your cards right you could spring Mambo Number Five out at the EXACT right gathering and shatter your entire family's trust forever

[teaboot]

The secret is to name them out of order with the lyrics so by the time anyone catches on it's too late

[teaboot]

For me personally the ideal gathering would be my funeral

[teaboot]

A little bit for Monica, she's my wife

A little bit for Erica, for her strife

My books all go to Rita, cause she reads

My greenhouse goes to Tina, she plants trees

The furniture is Sandra's, on my lawn

Jewelry for Mary, she can pawn

Ashes go to Jessica, that's my plan

A little bit of me inside a can (ah!)

[msbarrows]

I hope I'm online when it happens. I want to see a sudden flood of crab rave memes right after refreshing my dash, and in the middle of it all, the Castiel news meme. That's how I want to learn of it; not through anything solemn or serious, but via overwhelming silly celebration.

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[vintar]

[academicabyss]

[foxes-in-love]

[pangur-and-grim]

all books should be written by deeply damaged autistic perverts

[cherryaire]

Says the person who made all their sex scenes fade into black.

[pangur-and-grim]

hey I’ve listened and learned and grown as a person! in my new book, a giant spider holds a small man down and anally penetrates him! okay? and you see it all. I imagine everyone will be very happy with me now.

(link to pre-order sites and also a nice drawing of the spider)