Bat Backstage

[cryptotheism]

Can I hit or do I have to pay tribute to the rest of your polycule first

[cryptotheism]

Twenty bushels of millet to milady with the neopussy. Twenty five to the it/she because it does the dishes most often.

[marithlizard]

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.

[makrustic]

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[what-even-is-thiss]

What would a Yankee Candle go for in ancient Greece?

tbh the most confusing thing about it to them would probably be the glass that the candle is contained in. They might try to buy information about glass from you.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah basically

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I should’ve clarified (pun intended). They had glass in the ancient world especially in Rome and Egypt but it was basically super heated sand and color additives put in a mold and often looked opaque and kinda lumpy. Even if it was blown like it was in some regions it wouldn’t have looked like modern glass.

Clear blown glass like you’d see a modern scented candle contained in wasn’t invented until the late Middle Ages and certainly wasn’t mass produced until the 1500s and even then places like Venice that had knowledge of these techniques literally forbid their glassmakers from leaving their city or region so other people couldn’t make it, forcing artificial scarcity and making it a very expensive material.

So if you showed a yankee candle to an Ancient Greek, especially one from a city or something, they’d be like burning scented wax okay not something I’d do but it makes sense. Also how the fuck is that glass transparent.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Like imagine if someone brought you something weird but understandable contained in a material that they said was made out of wood and you could tell that it’s clearly made out of wood they’re not lying about that but it was also completely transparent and see through with no visible flaws. That’s about the level of weird we’re talking about here.

[animnightmare]

It isnt flawless, but transparent wood does already exist actually

[what-even-is-thiss]

What the fuck I feel like a medieval peasant seeing an iPhone

[unyieldingsilence]

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[what-even-is-thiss]

Who goes there

[undyingdevotee]

I've been demotivated from art right now so you guys are just getting slop sorry

[animentality]

[slipng]

bats. 𖥔 ݁ ˖🦇 ݁˖ ݁𖥔 .

[thebibliosphere]

I am down with a migraine. Very dizzy. Expressed a desire for potato chips because I thought the salt might help.

Holly Mop who was beside me in bed got up and trotted into my office. Came back into the bedroom and very daintily spat out a single potato chip.

Which has revealed two things:

A) that she does understand more of what I’m saying, and in true Shih Tzu fashion,chooses not to listen and

B) there’s a stash of stale potato chips somewhere in my office I’ll need to find tomorrow.

Emphasis on tomorrow

I’ve got a Dogtor to cuddle today.

[creekfiend]

you're not supposed to wander around appalachia at night bc you'll fall off a sheer drop that you couldn't see coming. this is also a major risk during the day. you really have to watch out for the sheer drops that you don't see coming due to the undergrowth. I suspect 100% of spooky missing persons cases in appalachia have the spooky explanation of "sheer drop disguised by undergrowth"

really cannot overstate how many utterly invisible ravines we got here and also how big the woods are. they can't find people because the woods? are big

[delinquentbookworm]

one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.

[dumblr-account]

i have seen fish/eel Simon. i have seen wolf Simon. i have seen dog Simon. i have seen cat Simon. i have seen lamb Simon. i have seen goat Simon. i have even seen a deer Simon once. would anyone care if i got self indulgent and said bat Simon?

Mistaken to be more aggressive and violent than they actually are, are actually quite gentle by default and just are trying to survive, should be more associated with trees and plants than blood, often going through ItTM in the face of extinction, needing to be nursed back to health after going through said ItTM-

but more importantly i want to make Simon my childhood favorite animal!

[slutdge]

it is once again... binturong appreciation hour

[littleguysdaily]

[vigilantsycamore]

Binturongs are also known as bearcats. Their scientific name is Arctictis which roughly translates to bearweasel. The name Binturong comes from Borneo and comes from a Western Malayo-Polynesian root, *ma-tuRun; other names for it that come from the same root include benturong and tenturun, both used in the Riau province of Sumatra, Indonesia

Binturongs come from Southeast Asia, including Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Laos, Vietnam, parts of Thailand and Myanmar, Bhutan, and the part of India east of Bangladesh

Binturongs are a type of viverrid - these guys

which themselves are a type of feliform, putting them in the same group as cats, mongooses, and hyenas, among others

[enba-and-luka]

[cashytouille]

[whomst-the-hell]

'emily axford does an absurd amount of damage in a single hit' is a delight that happens at least once a season and is always a highlight for me but i think we peaked with "roll as many dice as you can hold in two hands"

[neverendingfanart]

I know the end.

[escapedangels]

Are you man enough?

But it’s Eva Stratt standing in front of the judgmental eyes of world leaders for the first time, who all think she’s incapable of doing her new job, unable to make eye contact with any of them, or able to read the general atmosphere of the room, and using nothing but the strength of sheer will to keep her knees from shaking.