Baker Street Doctor

Julia/29/Germany. Mostly just trashposting with some feminism, animals, science and fandoms strewn in. Great Northern War enthusiast. Idk I've been on here for too long, this site has ruined me. DNI Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, supporters! Yes, I'm a Slytherin. Ex-edgy teen. Unironically straight edge. If you need anything tagged, message me! I'll do my best about it. If you want to avoid seeing my blorbos please block 'max and karl', any post by me is tagged 'personal'. My inbox/IM is always open to all of you and I appreciate every message I get. It's to be seen if you appreciate my answer though.

[bakerstreetdoctor]

In my freak era

Educate yourselves

[abandonedography]

Old abandoned grocery store repurposed as a library

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[azzandra]

"Hey, we need to renovate this grocery store into a library."

"Okay, I got you."

*Removes the B from the BREAD sign*

"Done"

[erarg]

wheres the gif of the guy on fire but then he eats a watermelon and hes fine

[selkiecide]

[skelecola]

this is what summertime is like

[s0fich]

me and my wife plumping our way to work (we're both seals)

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

They didn't give Grace a choice of how to die. Like obviously they couldn't (he'd have said “old age” and then tried fruitlessly to escape again) and he already knew how Dubois's nitrogen plan worked, so he'd definitely be capable of giving himself a quick and painless death if necessary.

But also like… they gave Yao extra bullets. They gave Yao extra bullets explicitly so that he could shoot Ilyukhina or Dubois if their suicide methods didn't work out.

Grace didn't want to die. Yao wouldn't have wanted Grace to suffer. Do you think Stratt spent a few years imagining Yao having to sneak up on Grace, put a bullet through his head while he's sleeping, maybe even chase him around the ship?

[captain-price-returns]

[ckret2]

would you look at that, fandom.com has started adding completely content-blocking popups to their page that totally prevent you from using the site unless you turn ad block off.

it sure would be a shame if people went to their URL bar and typed "anti" in front of "fandom.com" in order to go to the antifandom.com mirror of the page they were trying to reach, which shows all the same content but without any ads,

[sawed-on-shotgun]

hello my name is Stray Hair snd my big dream is to play the itsy bitsy spider on broadway. doyou mind if i practice on the side of your head.

[basedandbirdpilled]

it would be soooo awesome to have a horse best friend but i dontttt have the means to care for a horse best friend. it just makes me sad to think about

[swagyna]

hm... i wonder what my dear mutual birdpilled could possibly be posting that's mature content

[willgrahamscock]

AI companies have started training their models on antique books and destroying them after because it becomes fair use if the original is destroyed and this is how we are rapidly degreasing as a society

[willgrahamscock]

(article)

[mysterycat-official]

[liberate-women-now]

Since 2005, there are more registered female drivers than males and for the past 30 years male drivers account for 70% of all fatal car accidents.

[bikinibottomfemme]

sixpence not posting since 2024 makes sense but i also kind of imagined she would've been hooked up to her computer posting forever

[escuerzoresucitado]

[bogleech]

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

[bogleech]

Oh some of you don't know about the squids. I talked about them in another thread that went kinda viral somewhere or other but one of the reasons you should not swim in the open ocean at night in many parts of the world is that the water starts teeming with these:

And as you can see it is not like instant death, they too are just animals and they are often just gently curious about the presence of humans! But people who study and dive with sharks will tell you you're safe as long as you stay calm and know what you're doing. The world's leading professional night divers and experts on these squids, specifically??? Stress in every interview and article and paper they write in that you simply do not fuck around with these squids. They know what they're doing and they still all have at least one story of being attacked, in some cases having to be hospitalized. Considering just how rarely anybody puts themselves in the pitch dark nighttime ocean on purpose, let alone during a squid feeding frenzy, it sounds like they're quite a bit more likely to consider you potential food than other marine predators. We also don't know how many fatal attacks might have ever happened, because what humboldt squid like to do with large prey is just drag it away into the darkness forever. The two worst attacks ever proven involved two or three squid at a time latching on to a diver (in BOTH cases they were professionals and knew the risk!) and jetting straight downward with enough force that both divers suffered injury from the sudden pressure change alone, including burst eardrums, nearly passed out and they probably would have died if they hadn't broken free. In general, people who die drowning in the dark open ocean are either never found, or they're found in pieces picked over by enough scavengers that the precise cause of death can only be narrowed down to "the sea." But now you know ONE of "the sea's" possible murder weapons :)

There's a short section on Humboldt squid in Wikipedia's entry for Cephalopod attacks on humans:

Cephalopod attack - Wikipedia

And if you can get past some of Animal Planet's hokey presentation style, this video includes a bit of interview with one of those professional experts who still got nearly squidded from existence:

There is of course some debate about all this, with some arguing that all proven documented attacks occurred on people with reflective diving equipment, which they say the squid must have mistaken for the shine of fish. However, there are lots and lots of people who have to fish around these squids to survive, who do not have access to that kind of equipment, and also have a consensus that if you fall in the water when big squids are out hunting you might disappear without a trace or perhaps just get your head bitten open. With many modern science guys agreeing with this sentiment, this is one case where the "they're just misunderstood sea friends" crowd is kind of outnumbered. The sea at night is theirs and not ours is all. It's not ours during the day either but since we are neither marine nor nocturnal animals we are double fools in the eyes of the squids, which by the way are these eyes:

No for real:

[my-ants-are-anxious]

Absolutely! Also, the Humboldt squid will hunt in packs, sometimes with one flashing brightly to draw attention while the others approach in near unseeable camoflage!

[bogleech]

Beautiful footage of the nefarious sea demons also :)

Also because I can't reblog every addition together:

Okay where's the other 1199

[spiralshellsreblogs]

I absolutely adore Humboldt squid. I saw a doc once where a scientist was cage diving to study them, and one of the squid squeezed it's entire massive body through the cage bars, bit the guy and squeezed right back out.

[bogleech]

Why isnt this an animal that's already long gone viral like honey badgers once did. This is the animal that actually gives no fucks. People really are just that obsessed with bigger squids I guess? But the bigger ones frankly come across as big softies in comparison. One big sea monster can never be as intimidating as a thousand coordinated man sized sea monsters.

This is why I thought that if mermaids had a cultural equivalent to lycanthropy it'd be weresquids. Fun fact nocturnal marine life increases activity on the brightest nights ie the full moon.

[lasrina]

This is all fascinating but I'm reblogging it exclusively for the phrase "got nearly squidded from existence."

[potatoesdauphinoise]

Potatoesdauphinoise's Potatoes dauphinoise

Ingredients:

Approx. 1/4 cup of milk, cream if feeling fancy.

Approx. 1/2 cup of salted butter

Six large potatoes

salt

pepper

1/2 cup of grated cheese.

Directions:

Wash and peel Potatoes. Using a mandolin, slice potatoes very finely.

In a large, oven-safe dish, evenly place five very thin pats of butter, spaced evenly. On top of these, place a layer of potatoes, interlocking just a little. Add a few grinds of salt and pepper.

Place the butter again, in a different configuration to the first. Thin, thin slices, evenly distributed. Layer potatoes, then salt and pepper, then butter again.

Repeat until dish is full, or you are out of potatoes. Pour in a splash of milk (or cream), making sure a little gets everywhere. On top, grate a layer of cheddar cheese. You can also put a little between the layers if cheese isn't 20 dollars a block where you live.

Bake at 180 for about 40 minutes, or until top is golden and crispy and potatoes are cooked through. Serve immediately.

[horrifyingsludge]

i'm just posting this to flex that i followed her before she went private but this really is an all timer