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Hey, we’re in line for some absurd temperatures here in the southwest this week. This is very important to know and keep in mind. Be safe, stay hydrated, stay out of the sun as much as you can.

[katajainen]

For my fellow Europeans south of us who are currently suffering from extreme heat. Stay safe!

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I’d also like to add this

Additional you can also put them on your palms, also, make sure to always use a light towel or kitchen paper and don’t put the ice bags directly onto your skin!

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reblogs were off

[simplysnaps]

Hannah Montana is fucked up because its entire POINT as a show is that children should be protected from fame and exploitation, but it stars a REAL little girl that's being exploited. Nearly every episode carries the looming threat of Miley being outed as Hannah and losing her peaceful teenage life to the ravages of fame. Her father in the show (played by her own father in real life) wisely protected her from the trauma of fame by making her wear a disguise and live a rather quiet, interview-free life. Meanwhile the REAL Billy Ray Cyrus sold his daughter to Disney Channel when she was 11 and forced her to read dialogue about how terrible it would be to face the public eye. Like... Jesus, dude. The fictional Robby Ray is 10x the father, and it's not even close. (It's also IMMENSELY funny that her dad doesn't use his real name in the show, while she does. Almost like he wanted a bit of a disconnect between his identity and his character. Something Miley didn't get.)

[momoartworks]

There's a dissertation somewhere about the girl from Bolt being voiced by Miley also being a deliberate choice to comment on children in the entertainment industry.

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Someone just reblogged my dancing ghosts with “#digital art” and it doesn’t matter at all but I’m still fighting the urge to dm them “they are very much not digital! They’re chicken wire, tore my jeans, and left me covered in small, bleeding scratches! I got a tetanus shot about it!”

No computers were used for these - partly because I like using my hands and partly because I have genuinely no idea how to do digital animation anyway. It seems like witchcraft.

These are life-sized because I have very little experience with figure drawing/sculpting so I just used my husband and I for proportion measurements. (Which meant I was chasing him around going “come back! Let me measure your femur!”)

Video description: green light on a chicken wire sculpture of a dancing couple. It’s turning in the wind outside at night so they (hopefully) look alive.

[aplpaca]

PSA for anyone in Florida who likes animals and can reasonably access nearby beaches: Florida Audubon and the Florida Shorebird Alliance are looking for volunteers to sign up for timeslots as shorebird stewards! As a shorebird steward, you can take shifts monitoring the nesting areas of shorebirds like terns and plovers to make sure that random beachgoers don't disturb the nests (these areas are generally roped off) or accidentally harm the chicks.

So you would get to hang out on a beach for a couple hours and see some of these guys and also help keep them safe! (And also get something volunteering and wildlife-related to put on a resume if you need/want that)

(Least Terns, photo by Dann DeBlois)

Shifts are whatever you can sign up for, so you don't need to have the same time available every week (or even take a slot every week) and Audubon provides training, so there's no prior experience needed!

You can sign up here for more info if you're interested!

Pls reblog if you can, since they're really in need of volunteers atm

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You ready for EELS?!

It's that time again- Advent Calendar time!!

Wanna learn about eels for 24 days STRAIGHT? Maybe leading up to Christmas, maybe leading up to Halloween, or your birthday, or your dog's birthday, or any number of auspicious days?!

Boy do I have the calendar for you.

Get one here!

Scratch off one orange box a day to reveal a fact about eels. it's like a lottery ticket, but you win every day because it's always facts about eels.

These calendars are the primary way that my science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist, keeps the lights on. Calendars are totally critical for us to keep existing, and also share a bunch of cool science! It's a beautiful thing.

Skype a Scientist matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops libraries, and others for online Q&A sessions all over the world. We serve about 4000 classrooms a year and offer our program for FREE. We can offer it for free thanks to these advent calendars. It's a weird way to fund a nonprofit, but hey, it works.

We also run events in our hometown in Philly that often center art when communicating science! We host moth nights in the woods and in city parks to connect people with nature, and host events like Climate Change Crafting Night where participants create art that communicate important environmental messages! When we have enough money we even create community science murals!

You can always donate to support our org without buying a calendar here.

Reposts are incredibly appreciated. Running a nonprofit is a challenge! Tumblr helps a LOT!!