Flippant and Unprofessional

She/Her. Professional dabbler. I used to fold DNA into shapes for a living. Ask me about cyanobacteria and how to correctly pronounce "axolotl." My dog wants to be your friend. I probably do too.

[clonemaster-general]

HERON FALKOR WRAPPED

1. You slapped mommy with your paws 1,825 times.

2. You tried to launch up like a furry missile and kiss guests on the mouth 48 times.

3. Your favorite genre is spray cheese.

4. You went to the dog park 116 times. Of these, you preferred to be pummeled by bigger female dogs 102 times.

5. You drank from the toilet 5 times, and were surprised to get in trouble about it every time.

6. You snuggled in the hammock 32 times.

7. For the past nineteen months, your favorite person is whoever you just met, unless something scary happens and then it is mommy.

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[goobra]

my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

Girl……

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!

[elidyce]

BEING INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IS STILL BAD.

It was obnoxious when it was youtube.

It was obnoxious when it was music.

It was obnoxious when it was the radio. 

It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.

Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy. 

Wear your damn headphones like an adult participant in the social contract.

[10thingsihateabout-all-yall]

Best art history lesson ever, thank you

[hazeldomain]

[goth-queen]

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[ruinedchildhood]

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[pennaraptor]

emotional responses are deeply evolutionarily advantageous in any animals that are making complex decisions and behaviors (in many vertebrates, say) because they act as a reinforcer for a behavior. a bird taking a vigorous bath in a puddle is probably happy because if that behavior didnt elicit a positive feeling they wouldn't do it (it is dangerous to be on the ground and wet!). if an animal can feel fear, which i think is a less contested assertion to make, then it can certainly feel the opposite, that is, happy.

[pennaraptor]

Bernd Heinrich in his book Nesting Season

[littledaisybell]

Lesbian kiss in 1930’s pre-Hays Code film Morocco.

[flutterbvnny]

daddy has regretfully informed kitten that we need a dual income household to survive

[flutterbvnny]

daddy has regretfully informed kitten that we need a dual income household to survive

[vexheart]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[snoomfies]

snoopy stamps!

[peanutsgifs]

[prokopetz]

I understand that this is probably an Old Man Yells At Cloud opinion at this point, but I feel strongly that if I hold a t-shirt up to a window on a sunny day I should not be able to see through it clearly enough to make out the outlines of the trees across the street.

[neige-leblanche]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]