Idk rocks and shit?

Eh saw someone complaining about bots so yeah im not a bot. Danish geology student if you must know, currently obsessed with spyxfamily. Yes i like cats how could you tell?

[schnee-dust-co]

Goat man bridge

[friendly-neighbourhood-wet-cat]

WAIT WAIT WAIT GHOST HUNTER BEES???? OHHHH MY GOD.

[ifyouknowmeirlgoaway]

Turned on TikTok today and got a video from Spiders Georg. Amazing.

[shanedevotee]

[mikkeneko]

Regret that I didn’t think of publishing this one in time for Spiders Georg birthday 😔

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[probablysomethingtm]

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

[probablysomethingtm]

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

[probablysomethingtm]

[veryberryskye]

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.

[the-stew-goblin]

I shall prepare a stew for the wedding! Extra salt!

[veryberryskye]

wait wait wait stew goblin wait

[peachdelta]

get ready for the wedding

[kitsuneharmony]

one year into the marriage

[morphmaker]

are there palm tree Ents

[morphmaker]

Palm Tree Ents: The Appendices

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[charlesoberonn]

How to tell if the scientist you're talking to is a chemist or an astrophysicist: Ask them if carbon is a metal

[charlesoberonn]

^chemist

[al-gatone]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursed_chemistry/comments/jl80rx/dont_come_to_the_ism/

shit gets weird when there's no other atoms in throwing distance and you're at like 10 kelvin

the three genders of space: hydrogen, helium, metal

[pukicho]

A man was in our backyard at midnight looking for amphibians tonight.

[pukicho]

Mother was afraid, but surely no more than the frogs

[pukicho]

I get that it sounds like a joke but there was an actual man in my backyard hunting for wet toads last night and I am being fully honest

[behold-a-cat]

@markscherz

[markscherz]

to herp, verb.

the act of searching—often largely without success but nevertheless with enthusiasm—for amphibians and reptiles (‘herps’).

[funny-tik-toks]

[yihsch]

Mission 1: Unexpected Guest (part 11)

[Start] [Part 10] <- -> [Part 12]

@cyberghoulxxo 🖕🖕🖕

It's all good she likes him pathetic

@witless-winion1 @im-not-a-porno

[thickness-protection-program]

No y'know what fuck you I hope your flop post gets 50k overnight

[thickness-protection-program]

To everyone in the notes who tried deflecting my curse back onto me

You missed!

[bace-jeleren]

[were--ralph]

[exhausted-cryptid-deactivated20]

when it takes you a while to process what someone is saying and you realize they asked you a question

[doughfox]

I cannot fucking believe I am drunk, past midnight, and tumblr is throwing fucking saturated fatty-acids at me

[musicprincess655]

Listen here friendo I didn’t sit through a year of organic chemistry for you to come into my house and call a carboxylic acid a saturated fatty acid you respect that hexadecanoic acid

[bismuthcladbattleship]

And I didnt get a degree in biochemistry to hear you say that carboxylic acids with aliphatic chains arent fatty acids. That hexadecanoic acid IS a saturated fatty acid!

[mutttooth]

[couldtheycatchkira]

What color is Kira thinking of?

Blue

Green

Red

Burnt Siena

Peridot

Olive

Chartreuse

Pine

Jade

Clear

Voting ended onMay 14

[couldtheybekira]

Okay I have no fucking clue what L’s plan is here. Red is the color most commonly associated with Kira, is that what he wants me to say? What if I say blue?

[couldtheycatchkira]

Of course, he'll immediately want to avoid any colors associated with aggression, so he'll default to a cool color. However, he'll no doubt have noticed the sheer amount on offer. Which means he'll know I'm leading him to pick blue, since green and any derivative thereof is the obvious trap.

[couldtheybekira]

Damnit! He was leading me to pick blue, wasn’t he? It’s fine, anything he could say to indict me, I could also use to justify my choice! We’re asking what *I* think *Kira* would choose, after all.

[couldtheycatchkira]

Impressive... He's figured out my little trick. It ultimately doesn't matter what color he picks, it would be impossible to know what color Kira's thinking of at this exact moment... But he's still hesitating. He knows I've misspelled sienna. And when he remarks on that instead of clear not being a color... That's when I'll have him.

[pwlanier]

Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)

Courtesy Alain Truong

[redscharlach]

I feel you, Neolithic hedgehog. I feel you.

[venndaai]

Scariest object in the Solar System

The Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Neptune

One of the dwarf planets

One of the moons

An asteroid or comet

Other?

Voting ended onMay 16

Which one gives you the biggest willies to think about. Making this poll because I'm wiki surfing and I have an Opinion

[venndaai]

#I don't get Jupiter though is it the storms? It's all the way over there those cosmic storms aren't gonna do anything

I can only speak for myself but while the Sun is of course a cosmic horror beyond imagining that can easily kill us with its cancer rays, it's a star, it's supposed to be like that. And it's really so big and deadly that the brain can't really comprehend its bigness or its deadliness.

Whereas Jupiter is a planet, and planets are not supposed to be like that, as far as I'm concerned. My brain still can't fully comprehend the scale of a planet with 1321 times the volume and 318 times the mass of Earth, but it can get a lot closer, and therefore it can instill more cosmic dread in me. What do you mean Io is so volcanic because Jupiter's gravity is stretching it like playdough. What do you mean the Jovian magnetosphere is 20,000 times stronger than Earth's and its tail extends into the orbit of Saturn and if you stood on Io you'd get a fatal dose of radiation in less than 2 hours. What do you mean it has over 100 moons. What do you mean its core is 3x as hot as the Earth's. What do you mean 335 mph winds. What do you mean its lightning strikes are 100x as powerful as Earth's. What do you mean it has helium and neon rain. What do you mean the Great Red Spot is a centuries old storm that's bigger than the entire Earth.

This means nothing to me. Brain can't comprehend this size ratio. Meaningless.

This though. This is scary. I can visualize this. This wants to eat me.

[isleofair]

I also picked Jupiter after a bit of consideration, because of all of the above but ESPECIALLY because it will kill you in a much subtler and much more fucked up way than all of the others.

The Sun will fry you before you can even really get close at all. Venus will crush-boil you like you're in a cosmic-level pressure cooker but at least it will be relatively quick. The area around Jupiter, however, is RADIOACTIVE AF. If you approach Jupiter the wrong way, you will be dead. And you will be dead in a really horrible way. But you may very well have no idea that you are functionally a walking corpse for a little while yet, because radioation is a sneaky bastard like that.

And that to me is a lot scarier than all of the rest.

[turing-tested]

contrary to popular belief not everyone has an innate sense of internal gender or care to have one or seek a name for it, some people go their whole lives without questioning their occupation in one of two gender roles, but for some people, if pressed, they don’t feel that internal sense of ‘i am a woman’ or ‘i am a man’, and in that case i feel the switch over to transgender vs cisgender relies on active identification of a gender other than the one they were assigned. if someone’s like ‘idk dude I just work here’ then that’s valid

#i would describe my gender as not exactly ‘idk dude i just work here’ #more like…..when someone assumes you work somewhere that you don’t #but you know how to help them so you do it anyway #my gender is wearing a red shirt at a target

These are the best tags

[cobblepottery]

A portion of people in the notes are like ‘but that makes you trans. That’s called being agender’ and another portion of people are going ‘this is how the majority of cis ppl feel and it’s NOT agender’ and personally I feel like both of them are missing the point here. Yes a lot of people identify as agender because of this feeling. Yes a lot of people with this same feeling still identify as cis. These are not mutually exclusive experiences and it doesn’t mean the agender people are secretly cis or the cis people are secretly agender. It just means they have very similar experiences of gender that they choose to conceptualize and label differently, and neither of them are mistaken or wrong to do so.

[toastybugguy]