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@awlwren
She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it.
[id: watercolor-like illustration of the queen of Attolia in a green peplos decorated with gold and rubies. Her face is in profile, showing off her crown, her hooded gaze, aquiline nose, pensive expression, and earrings.]/end id.
SUPER TOP SECRET WORK HACK!!! If you explicitly tell people, "You are an adult and a professional, I trust you to do your job; just keep me in the loop and let me know if there are questions," then thank and/or praise them when they accomplish your mutual goals? they will keep doing things for and with you. Sometimes they will even side with you over other people in the organization, because you've taken the time to establish that baseline respect and trust! hashtag winning or whatever
I just want to say this can work with kids too, mostly because of the 'respect' thing.
This past month, Parks & Rec has been doing a lot of work on the field adjacent to my school. They have trucks with flatbeds, mowing/tree-cutting/postholing machinery, etc. And when they arrived, I (campus monitor) was told I would need to herd the kids away from the trucks/machinery and basically prevent them from creating a dangerous situation.
So when recess came around and the kids stampeded out the door I held them up and I said (being funny but at the same time serious, you know how it is, kids listen better if you're funny)
"Okay, I know that you're all smart AND mature, right? And talented and good looking? Definitely the smartest and most talented class in this school? (I say this to every class, they're all 'my favorites'.) And because you're SO intelligent and mature, I don't need to actually TELL you that these guys have vehicles and machinery that you need to stay clear of, right? Because I know you figured that out already, and I also know that YOU know how sad I would be if any of you were run over, or squashed, or had a pole fall on you. I would be SO SAD, like, I would probably have to lie down on the floor and cry. So you're not going to make me cry, right? I can trust you to stay away from the trucks and machines no matter where they are on the field? Because you're wonderful and amazing? My favorites? My inspiration?"
And they're laughing at me of course, because I'm being so dramatic. Some of them are "Yes, and-"ing my dramatics and inventing more involved mourning processes I should undertake if any of them get run over. Some of them are yelling at me that they are NOT mature yet and they are VERY STUPID and I should know this.
It's been three weeks. We had one conversation about it. None of them have gone anywhere near the trucks. This is actually in excess of the typical elementary-schooler's working memory and I'm very proud of them. I haven't had to blow the whistle at ONE person for getting too close even when the trucks were literally 40 feet from the actual playground.
"I know I can trust you to do this", even when phrased with humor, is like a magic key that unlocks teamwork+cooperation.
I usually phrased it to middle-schoolers as, "I was a weird artist before I was a teacher, so I don't understand how children work, really. So I am going to treat you guys like adults unless and until you give me a reason not to." It's amazing how far they'll go to keep that adult status.
Enchantress: I turn you into a hideous Beast. What are the names of your servants?
The Prince: Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts -
Enchantress:
[id: gif of Tom Haverford looking up in delight and grinning hugely.]/end is.
Very important news for my friends and mutuals and anyone looking, really:
The cat distribution system has struck. Pulled this little guy out of a storm drain. He’s so friendly and curious already I’m going to explode from how cute he is
002 Ivysaur (2022) Illustrator: HYOGONOSUKE
[id: digital painting of an ivysaur snoozing at the edge of a sunny field, just inside the shade cast from a few trees and a wild hedge of bushes.]/end id.
pride month!!!
Is that a miette?
Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!
you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
[id: photo of a cat that greatly resembles Miette holding a small pride flag sideways in her mouth by the wooden dowel.]/end id.
Dragon Door Handle - Simontorya Castle Hungary
THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT BABEY!!!!!
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) Dir. Irvin Kershner
[id: gifs of Luke with his lightsaber out in the belly of Cloud City eyes focused and saber at the ready, but breathing somewhat heavily and shifting his grip finger by finger.]/end id.
pourquoi du pain est masculin mais la baguette est féminine....... la baguette est transgenre ?
je vais laisser la communauté parler:
la baguette, icône trans?
oui
non
eh bah
10k notes pour un post francophone sur tumblr macron où est mon poste de ministre de la culture
[id: trans flag overlaid with a basket of baguettes, flames along the bottom, and the all caps text: “Oui je suis LGBT. Lets Graille Baguette Tous ensemble. tradition? plus comme transition. mmmmngsm I am le pain 🥰😋”]/end id.
松の木にねこさんが登っていました。
[id: three photographs of an orange cat looking back over its shoulder while crouching on a pine tree that twists over the water.]/end id.
according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.
eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??
turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.
sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around
and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start
headstrong and foolhardy medieval king: never shall I bend the knee!!!
physical therapist: okay well if you keep lifting with your back you are just going to get hurt again your majesty
Went to a 2000 year old Roman temple in Nimes. I thought it had been reconstructed, but no, it’s been standing, pretty much unchanged since 5 ad.
I went to but my 6€ ticket to go inside and read all their informational material and admire their scale model and the guy in the ticket book was like “you know it’s just this one room, right?”
Trust me when I say it would be cheap at twice the price.
[id: photograph looking up the stairs towards the portico of a Roman temple and the blue sky above it. Though there are small signs of damage to the columns and possibly missing carvings around the pediment, the carvings on the capitals and rosettes underneath the roof.]/end id.
Bank of England are letting you vote for what animals you want on their new bank notes: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes
Pine martens are an option!
PINE MARTENS??!?
Oh my god, you can choose up to two from each category:
HOW CAN I NARROW THIS DOWN
I chose the fox as one of mine, it's an obvious choice but it'd be nice to celebrate an animal so commonly denigrated. Not that old 'foul mart' has had much of a fun time of it historically either.
Some interesting options here in general, they've not just gone with the obvious animals.
I ended up not choosing the fox, purely because I actually reckon it's going to romp home - for all the controversy, it's the most common wild mammal people see in urban centres, and it's charismatic
I went pine marten, as I've been involved in helping their reintroduction to Wales, and then I wrestled with myself for an Age before finally going hedgehog.
Birds: puffins were the easiest choice. The UK - and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in west Wales specifically - has a significant portion of the global breeding population of puffins, thanks to Skomer and Grassholm islands. In a country with the biodiversity depletion we have (bottom 10% of countries globally for biodiversity), the islands of Pembrokeshire are almost obscene in how high their biodiversity is, and it's for breeding specifically. We can be justly proud of those. Plus, puffins are fun clowns.
And then I agonised about the others until I finally went for the Great Spotted Woodpecker, a bird I do periodically see and get excited about every time
The Lumped-Together-Others: the bumblebee, you have to. I adore bumblebees.
And then I went for the marsh fritillary, because it's super endangered and I'm an environmentalist with a specialism in habitat management and ecology, and therefore spend a non-trivial amount of my time explaining how to manage for the little assholes.
But MY GOD it took me a while
[id: text box divided into three columns: -Mammals: bottlenose dolphin, brown hare, European hedgehog, grey seal, pine marten, red fox -Birds: Atlantic puffin, barn owl, common kingfisher, Eurasian curlew, great spotted woodpecker, white-tailed eagle -Amphibians, insects & fish: Atlantic salmon, basking shark, buff-tailed bumblebee, common frog, emperor dragonfly, marsh fritillary butterfly]/end id.
Just vaccinated three kids and got kicked thank GOD I am selling them today
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THIS IS A POST ABOUT GOATS!!
Carpe cibum. Seize the food. It's like carpe diem but for food because I just REALLY sadly had to throw out 3/4 of a jar of really nice butternut squash pasta sauce because I didn't eat it fast enough because I didn't know what to put it on and it got moldy. Like I was really sad about this because the sauce was really good I just didn't eat it because who knows why. Carpe cibum. Eat that food you got because otherwise it will get moldy and you will be sad
Crested Tit/tofsmes. Värmland, Sweden (January 16, 2022).
[id: photos of a blue-gray bird with a tufted crest hopping around a forest floor.]/end id.
