3 erasers, a dead battery, two bent pins, and 72 c

Andi | they/he | aro/ace/agender

[abdulraveman]

[yassmines]

im losing my mind….shes jus a lil baby…

[jenniferrpovey]

She’s oiling!

Sea otters have oil glands in their cheeks, and the vigorous rubbing is how they extract the oil, which then forms a layer on top of their fur.

(And yes, she is adorable).

[bastardizedmilk]

this bitch got a skincare routine! she is THRIVIN!

[saintdollyparton]

Sea Otters have a SERIOUS skincare routine. Or rather, hair care! They’re the only marine mammals without a thick layer of blubber, so in order to stay warm in the frigid waters of the Pacific, they have to keep their coat in perfect condition. They have the thickest fur in the animal kingdom… over a million hairs per square inch! (It is insanely soft.) Their skin never gets wet because they oil/clean/groom their coats so well that it repels the water. (On average, they spend about 5 hours a day grooming.) They also eat like 25% of their body weight in seafood every day to keep their energy and body mass up.

And these little guys are a keystone species. Without them, kelp forest ecosystems would collapse, which would contribute even more to global warming.

So yeah, self care is important! Take it from the sea otter.

[softboyshaven]

Thinking about the Holmes story where a blind girl goes to him and is like "My fiancé is missing and he kept telling me the week leading up to his disappearance that he would always love me and come back for me,were anything to happen so I think he knew he was in trouble and I love him so much and I'm going to wait for him but I'd like to find him faster,ya know?" And Holmes figures out that it was this girl's parents to scam her out of money she was owed from an estate which she gave to them because she was still living at home,which she wouldn't be if she ever married,so her step father PRETENDED TO DATE HER for MONTHS to keep her from ever getting engaged to a real person and when Holmes finds out he confronts this man and this man is like "Well,you caught me! But it wasn't illegal:) so:)" and Holmes is like "No,but it was sickening and cruel and if she had a brother or good male friend he should post you up and whip you but she doesn't." And the man is like "No,she doesn't." And does the Victorian version of sticking his tongue out and Holmes is like "Well,I guess I'll do then!" And HE PULLS OUT HIS HUNTING WHIP.

[darthlenaplant]

Holmes really went:

[getvalentined]

This is what we mean when we say everyone should support people with disabilities

[burnbrighterthanever]

Be the Sherlock Holmes chasing domestic abusers with a riding crop that you wish to see in the world.

[jeza-red]

He doesn't have to chase them.

Watson will hold the guy in a headlock for however long he needs to;)

[luffysfakebeard]

Murderbot fights like a little feral alley cat as far as other SecUnits are concerned

[ineedlelittlespace]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Murderbot went to the Captain Kirk school of combat.

[wizard-dax]

Rereading "Network Effect" and I can't stop thinking about how Murderbot fights like Kirk now. THESE ARE THE SAME ACTIONS:

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[the-universe-and-everyting-in-it]

It is a start. If you are going to go after somebody, then you attack his / their wallet. ~ wakeup - stand up - RISE UP

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I've talked about this before but drink whatever you want to hydrate yourself. Water, juice, milk, hot tea, bottled tea, flavored water, Gatorade, lemonade, homemade electrolyte drinks, sparkling water, etc. Buy cirkul catridges or electrolyte packets, infuse your water with fruits or herbs or whatever, make seven smoothies a day, as long as it gets liquid in your body. ALL of that provides hydration because it's all made from water and despite some very persistent myths, it takes A LOT of sugar to cancel out water.

If you don't like plain water, and a lot of people don't and that is FINE, then it is a million times better to find beverages that you will actually drink than to be dehydrated because you keep trying to force yourself to drink something you don't like.

Obligatory disclaimer that this does NOT apply to alcohol. Another less serious disclaimer that caffeine is more complicated; coffee and energy drinks and the like will still hydrate you to a degree but less than non-caffeinated beverages and you should also be drinking other things too. Only getting your water alongside caffeine, especially if you don't eat a whole lot, can seriously fuck you up both mentally and physically. No, I'm definitely not speaking from years of experience, why do you ask?

[a-kinky-introvert]

My main question is how this works with tea? Does the caffeine in my black or green tea make the hydration less effective like with coffee?

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Tea is still mainly water. The main issue with caffeine and hydration is that caffeine is a diuretic, so you urinate a lot more when you drink caffeinated beverages than non-caffeinated ones, but it takes a lot of caffeine to outweigh the benefits of the water in drinks like tea and coffee. From what I can find, you'd need to drink about 500 mg of caffeine for it to start dehydrating you, which is why ONLY drinking tea and coffee is dangerous but not when paired with non-caffeinated drinks throughout the day. So continue enjoying your tea, just grab some other drinks too :)

[uovoc]

"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

[pusheenthenerdcat]

also "if this consistently does the opposite of work look up PEM because it's supposed to"

[imjunebitch]

yk guys I think a lot of ppl when arguing against the death penalty go for a like "people don't deserve death, etc" view and I get why ppl argue for that I rly do! but it doesn't matter. I don't trust the government to do it, I don't trust them to decide who should die, I don't trust them to determine who is mentally competent, I don't trust them to not be bigoted and discriminatory in their practices, I don't trust them to have the right people, I don't trust them to execute it in a humanitarian way. and I've had discussions with ppl who otherwise have similar viewpoints to me in many ways but can think of people they think deserve to die, and I think if abolishing the death penalty is like, a super important cause to u the same way it is to me, the argument u use shouldn't be "well these people deserve to live" (although in some cases I think yeah the death penalty is done to people who totally don't "deserve it") because that's so subjective, it should be "do you trust the government to do it?" like, do you trust the people who cant even fill potholes on your road to determine who should and should not live

[hollanderthoughts]

I’ll be honest if I heard Tracy Chapmans fast car right now I would just have to jump off the nearest building

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

[frustratedasatruar]

Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.

Likes charge, reblogs cast.

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

number one rule! never believe ur thoughts after 10 pm . unless its about The Character then believe all of your thoughts wholeheartedly

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

u guys scare me this is an untagged post Where are u coming from

[bebsi-cola]

actually pigs shouldn't be at pride even outside of uniform. fuck those guys

[bebsi-cola]

if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig

[pekkhum]

I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.

The sexuality of a police officer is cop.

The gender of a police officer is cop.

When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.

If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.

[libraford]

Are YOU gonna let THE GOVERNMENT tell YOU what YOUR GENDER is? That doesn't sound like Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to me! PROTECT your individual FREEDOMS and call your senator: we want the GOVERNMENT to stay OUT OF OUR PANTS! GENDER FREEDOM NOW!

[libraford]

Two men in your neighborhood are married... to EACH OTHER? Congratulate them for exercising their AMERICAN RIGHT to follow the footsteps of our FOUNDING FATHERS! They've got a fully AMERICAN spirit of FREEDOM and REBELLION! GOD BLESS THE USA.

[libraford]

Your coworker has a different RELIGION from yours? Well, that's just INTERESTING and you should talk about it on your UNION-APPROVED LUNCH BREAK. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was FOUNDED on Freedom of Religion and ANYONE should be allowed to seek the AMERICAN DREAM!

[libraford]

You think someone might be in this GREAT country ILLEGALLY? NO YOU DON'T! No one is in this country illegally! The minute anyone steps on our SOVEREIGN SOIL they're your FELLOW AMERICAN and where they come from is NO ONES BUSINESS.

[rosslynpaladin]

it's funny yeah, but guys this is actually how you reach the people who prefer these terms to frame all things Good and Correct.

[depsidase]

[pirateprincessjess]

I was told that I’d get used to not having a headphone jack. I still want a fucking headphone jack. I hate that phones don’t have them. It’s stupid and awful and I hate it

[segamascott]

[wolf-head]

How does a country collapse, all while the citizens looked on— some in horror, others in resignation?

In his book "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation", Alexei Yurchak defined the term hypernormalization: "everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society"

Meaning: people in the USSR kept pedaling even though they could see their bike falling apart until one day the wheels fell off.

Because no one took decisive action to course correct, not enough people stood up and said "hey, we need to start fixing things now", no movement coalesced to organize and prepare, collapse became inevitable.

Now think about how we are watching the federal government implode. Agencies that help ensure we have clean water to drink and safe food to eat have been decimated. Organizations that help monitor and stop outbreaks across the world have been hobbled.

The president and his allies are enriching themselves by robbing the rest of us. Taking advantage of a sinking ship to loot everyone on board before getting away with their multiple passports and bunkers.

All while Americans think "if it was truly bad, someone would do something." "America is special, stuff like that could never happen here."

We need to do. something. Now.

Otherwise we are going to fall just like they did.

(Think really hard about how likely it is you'll have access to healthcare during and after a collapse. Can you afford to get sick? It's time to start regularly wearing a respirator to protect your health. Cause fuck knows the government is not going to protect you.)

[skipppppy]

So can non-disabled people stop doing that thing where they act like it’s morally righteous to force yourself to work while you’re sick and assume taking sick days automatically equates to laziness. Any time now. That’d be great

[skipppppy]

The leader of the scout group I help out at approached me out of hours while I was walking to work to tell me that people have been talking behind my back because I missed more sessions than I attended this term (on account of having Covid twice) and was like “We all show up when we’re sick because we take responsibility” and I felt really shitty and guilty and cried the whole workday then I got home and told my mum and she was like “So they want you to throw up on the kids? That’s dodgy. They don’t even pay you. Stop going” and a wave of serenity hit me like a bus

[cheaphalloweencostume]

yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes

“there’s that penny again, pa!”

[secreteggplantbaby]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes

[morgannalefey]

I sincerely hope that the OP realizes that gramma was very likely quoting that cartoon.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the cartoon that was drawn and posted based on my post? probably not, but i guess we can never know

[bettedavisgf]

this year we are not talking about “girl dinner” we are getting real we are eating full meals and having fun doing it. we are cooking up a protein and a carb and a serving of vegetables and maybe even some dessert too