dazed and distracted

18+ only please. Far advanced into the veil of life (30s), they/she, queer, tired, spoonie, witch, heathen, writer. Hate trying to think of profile bio stuff. Loves coffee. Life goals: meet and hug a penguin; be hugged by an octopus. I try to remember to tag nsfw but forget sometimes. (Book blog is @caffeinated-bibliophile) (Witchy blog is @battythewitch) I've been here more than a decade ✌️

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[elizmanderson]

I thought I was getting a kitten this week but apparently I got a greyhound bc look at this. this is a tiny greyhound

her name is Winnie btw after Winifred Sanderson since my little old man is orange and named Halloween and obviously we had to stay on theme with the tiny void

[battywitch]

🥹 omg

[mammalianmammals]

When ranchers in Utah's Rich County found eighteen sheep killed in March 2022, they assumed coyotes. USDA Wildlife Services flew a plane over the kill site and found something feeding on the carcasses that had only been confirmed in the state eight times in forty years. It was a wolverine. Utah sits at the extreme southern margin of the wolverine's North American range. The animal is built for the deep snow and high alpine of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, country above ten thousand feet where the winters last eight months and the terrain rejects everything that is not specifically engineered to survive it. A wolverine showing up in Utah's ranch country was not a routine predator complaint. It was a biological event. State wildlife managers had no protocol for it because they had never needed one. Biologists set specialized barrel traps near the sheep carcasses. Catching a wolverine in a live trap is considered one of the most difficult captures in North American wildlife management. The animal is trap-smart, solitary, covers enormous distances daily, and operates almost exclusively in terrain that humans struggle to access on foot. The odds of a wolverine walking into a barrel trap were close to zero. The next morning, a sheepherder found one of the trap doors dropped. Inside was a healthy, twenty-eight-pound male, estimated at three to four years old. It was the first wolverine ever live-captured by biologists in Utah's history. The team sedated him, packed his body in ice to keep his core temperature stable during the examination, fitted him with a GPS tracking collar, and released him into the deep snow of the Uinta Mountains. For researchers who had spent careers studying an animal they almost never got to see, that collar was the first real-time data source on wolverine movement the state had ever produced. The data that came back over the next twenty-five days confirmed what wolverine biologists in other states had documented but Utah had never been able to verify on its own ground. The animal logged over 195 miles of travel in less than a month. He did not drift south toward lower elevations or leave the state. He locked into the high peaks of the Uintas above ten thousand feet and ran massive looping circuits through avalanche chutes, rocky ridgelines, and snowfields deep enough to bury a man standing upright. The daily distances he covered would qualify as an endurance event for a human athlete on flat ground. He was doing it through the most physically punishing terrain in the state, in winter, alone, at elevation, without stopping. The eighteen dead sheep that started the whole sequence were never repeated. The wolverine moved into the high country and stayed there, operating in a landscape so remote and so hostile that the only evidence of his existence was the GPS signal pinging coordinates from ridgelines that no person had visited in months. The collar proved what the forty years of scattered sightings could only suggest. The wolverine was not passing through Utah. It was living there, quietly covering nearly two hundred miles of frozen alpine rock in less than a month, completely invisible to every human being in the state.

Source: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources / USDA Wildlife Services

[battywitch]

🙃

[nondelphic]

writing is just sitting in front of a computer and making up problems for imaginary people while ignoring your own. fun and casual hobby.

[rylandgraces]

there’s a friday ass vibe about this wednesday boys keep your wits about you

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[reading-writing-revolution]

[yesornopolls]

Do you like the crust on cakes

(maybe add a "haven't tried that" option because most store bought cakes have the crust cut off. it's just the browned part on the top and sides which i ate a lot cause i grew up w bakers)

Do you like the crust on cakes?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

[tj-crochets]

My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember”  And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out” I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”

[tj-crochets]

Update: I gave it some thought and my estimate was wrong. Of the grandkids that are out, it’s 1/3, not ½

[tj-crochets]

I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!”  So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess? *if you want an honorary grandma, that is

[tj-crochets]

Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said “That’s okay, you’ve never been straight!” and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone

[tj-crochets]

Happy almost pride month! Have my confused-but-supportive grandma!

[tj-crochets]

An update: my grandma just called me to ask if I knew it was pride month

[tj-crochets]

Happy pride month!!

[depsidase]

[anushkawrites00-blog]

I vote that your writing continues to be:

self indulgent

cringe

weird

bizarre

long

short

sappy

only for your eyes

obnoxious

You're allowed to have your own voice. You're allowed to write something only you want to read. Seize the freedom you were never given in your 8th grade English class!

[spicypolls]

People into sideburns: which would you rather bring back?

Victorian-era, regency, etc. sideburns.

60s, 70s, 80s sideburns.

90s and early 2000s sideburns.

I love all sideburn!

See Results

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[treasures-and-beauty]

Zapakasa Burgundy Velvet Dress and Cape

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

Since someone asked about rottmnt... Do you like the 1987 TMNT cartoon? (It's the only version I really like and I can't find any fans 😭)

- Yes

- No

- Meh

- I haven't watched it so...

- Results

^

yes

no

meh

I haven't watched it so...

results

Remaining time: 6 days 14 hours

[ms-demeanor]

How do you feel about driving?

I can drive, I am good at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am good at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I think I would enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I do not think I would enjoy driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I enjoyed driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I didn't enjoy it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I enjoyed it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I didn't enjoy it.

Remaining time: 23 hours 38 minutes

[covid-safer-hotties]

[rikaklassen]

Image description: A white N95 is positioned under a banner that reads “what your mask tells me”. 7 speech bubbles around the mask read “you deserve access to this space, I do not assume those around me are able bodied, I acknowledge I could be carrying COVID even if I don’t feel sick, I appreciate my community, no death is acceptable when it can be easily avoided, I take my role in public health seriously, your life is of worth.” At the bottom is a collection of items used for COVID mitigation: an air purifier, a mask, a sticker that says I am vaccinated, a nose spray, a COVID test, hand sanitizer, and mouth wash. The colours are warm, cozy, and pastel. Watermarked by @graesalisbury

Note: alt-text from Bluesky. Free download from their shop.

[otternottertv]

poke you with my noise

[shinraalpha]

*sniff sniff sniff* ah, i see. you are not an ant.