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Official tumblr page of the holiest one, our Lord and saviour, Clippy 18+

[amygdalae]

despite all my dread i am still just a rat made of thread

[regularlesbian]

come on

[margbarcis]

this is fucked up 

[ripleyandweeds]

something about this bird just unlocked something insane in scientists’ heads

[regularlesbian]

this is unlocking something insane in my head to be fair

[givemearmstopraywith]

you are not unloveable you are just sad and a little bit angry. let’s go have some soup

[thyrell]

if i was a medieval peasant and some weird guy from the future tried to give me doritos i would share a stew and beer with him. come man surely these frail dry flatbreads will not nourish you as well as a hearty meal. eat with me

[thoodleoo]

purchased a sans undertale plush for my classroom and i've been torturing my students by pretending i don't know who he is

[thoodleoo]

the look of pain on their faces when i tell them his name is sam is worth every dollar i spent on him

[thoodleoo]

tomorrow i'm going to tell them that he's from overwatch

[thoodleoo]

GOT ANOTHER ONE WITH THIS ONE LADS

[manga-and-stuff]

As it becomes winter again... and as somebody who once popped out his kneecap by slipping on ice, I would like to remind my followers that slip on shoe spikes exist.

You can usually get ones like these for around $10, and they're really worth it. They're made of rubber, so you can just fold them up, and I've been using mine for a couple of years now.

[spectral-cervid]

And if you use a cane, don’t be afraid to get one of these bad boys:

[Image: The bottom of a cane, with an ice grip attachment. The end has several metal spikes for gripping ice and snow.]

The tip is on a hinge. You pinch the white knobs together and the ice tip just sorta flips around and up against the cane, so you can use it on dry floors indoors without removing it entirely! This thing has saved me from so many falls in the winter.

[manga-and-stuff]

It's not quite winter again, but here we go again

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Electronic advertising commemorating Queen Elizabeth, partly destroyed by something hard. London, 2022.

[official-kircheis]

Found art

[loki-zen]

suck it Banksy

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[botanyshitposts]

Mayhaps baobabs and that neotropical walking palm also qualify as beasts

i have nothing but respect for baobabs and the fact that theyre incredibly silo-shaped for optimal water storage but idk they dont quite hit the same beast vibe imo..... same with redwoods and giant sequoias..... enormous Dudes, definitely some of the plants of all time but somehow not quite beasts....like i look at them and they are shockingly large but my brain still recognizes them as trees from a distance. i simply do not feel threatened enough.

Socratea exorrhiza, the walking palms, however. THOSE are beasts, yeah. they dont actually move but the stilt roots look like they SHOULD move to the point where i think if i was walking alone at night near some i would check over my shoulder, you know. like. VERY disconcerting and the texture of the roots REALLY doesnt help. distressing pics for reference

[botanyshitposts]

What would you say the plant version of a beast is? Thank you.

ive mulled this over for a few days now because its like, i can either answer what i think the plant equivalent of the term 'beast' is or what plant i think embodies the term 'beast' the best, but in the end for both of them... i think welwitchia mirabalis

ive talked about these before, would give context but theres really not much to give. native to namibia and angola. can get to be a couple thousand years old. all the leaves are actually just two leaves that grow endlessly from the base and get shredded into strips that go everywhere over the plant's lifetime, so for instance the dying brown ends in this pic are significantly older than the newly-grown parts of the same leaf at the base. each plant is either male or female and makes funky cones to match. this one is 13 feet in diameter. looks like a pile of something. what are you gonna do

[t-poserat]

If you can, please donate to the Internet archive, links in the description. The loss of the archive would be devastating for dozens of reasons.

[definitelynotcecelia]

I know the Library of Alexandria comment sounds like an exaggeration. It absolutely is not. As of May 7, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 7.9 million movies, videos and TV shows, 842 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 237 thousand concerts, and over 682 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. It’s been operating since 1996, the loss of knowledge would be impossible to ever completely come back from.

The lawsuit from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley Sons, and Penguin Random House alleges there have been significant revenue losses because of their controlled digital lending program. For context, most libraries in the US also use CDL to distribute books to their patrons wherever they are but those programs are run through for profit companies and the libraries are often paying a very high fee to so their patrons can have access to digital books. The Internet Archive’s program is completely free but they have a policy of not digitizing and lending anything less than 5 years old.

The lawsuit goes on to note that authors often own larger shares of their revenue of digital vs. print copies of their books. So the publishing companies, seeing that they’re underpaying their authors, are essentially blaming a library for being free instead of bumping up what authors earn on print copies. The Internet Archive’s 5 year policy is designed to protect authors anyway as that’s when books typically make the most money.

[definitelynotcecelia]

Hey by the way The Internet Archive is also one of the most cited places on Wikipedia. If it goes down a good chunk of Wikipedia will go back to “citation needed” or citations will lead to dead links.

[burninglights]

well. this has been the wildest 48 hours in modern geopolitics for quite a while huh.

[phoenixfeathersinfall]

⬆️ from thestraggletag

WAIT I JUST WOKE UP I HADN’T HEARD ABOUT ARGENTINA YET

[fromrusholmewithlove]

it hasn’t stopped yet

[guerrillatech]

[fullmetalfisting]

Not true! My life would be greatly improved actually

[botanyshitposts]

Apparently one of thoes giant lilypads at kew is an undiscovered species but nobody noticed

THE PLANTS CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS DUDE OH MY GOD THEY CANT JUST KEEP DOING THIS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[whirlybirbs]

objectifying men in armor will literally never get old. like, work it shiny boy. hit ‘em with that old razzle dazzle you fuckin trash can. hottie! (tucks $5 into your cuirass) 

[shambling-under-moonlight]

Throws in some gold coins at the neck opening and hear it rattling all the way down.

[demigodgooglesearches]

you know where some campers can talk to animals you’d think they’d develop more human relationships with the animals like… im so surprised percy doesnt have a friend group thats just a circle of crabs. why doesnt he have an underwater friend group. i love crabs and im pissed. blackjack is great and all but just give me some fuckin crabs some fuckin crustaceans

[lifeofroos]

Chiron: ‘percy, this is against camp rules.’

Percy, about to enter a training battle with his team of crabs around him: ‘show me where that’s written!’

[demigodgooglesearches]

i think the comical thing im picturing is the crabs are all really small so all they can do is snap at your ankles

[shattered-dominion]

Crabs with Butterknives

[demigodgooglesearches]

crabs with butterknives

[ominousvengabusnoises-deactivat]

[demigodgooglesearches]

“percy cant even–”

“wot the fuck did ye say about me mate you lil wanker?”

[nickyflowers]

elon musk fans when their tesla explodes and kills them

[constructedparadox]

There's a guy right now with a melted Model X in his driveway that's still hyping the Tesla brand while the company is deliberately ignoring his calls and tweets for some kind of customer support

[kineticpenguin]

[butterbeanchu]

how blind do you have to be to have your car burst into flames in your drive way and then be like “they make good cars” 

[magdids]

In 2019 this guy crashed his Tesla in Tyrol

Because the battery cought on fire too, the fire dept. had to order a special container to put the car in and fill it with water.

According to Tesla, you need about 11.000 litres of water to extinguish their batteries completely. A normal fire engine can fit up to 2.000 litres in their tank.

They also had to put the still hot wreckage in a cooling container for 72 hours after the initial fire went out.

Oh and when the owner of the car, the fire dept., insurance guys and journalists contacted Tesla about their driving bombs they just... never responded :)

[ysabelmystic]

I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.

[martianaviator]

Purgatory

[sharper-and-bigger]

The Garden of Death

Watercolor and gouache by Hugo Simberg, 1896