Depressedcow

sondheim nut | I don't post much They/them

[megafaunatic]

see her fabulous

[just-otter-thoughts]

See her fabulous!

[gayteensupreme]

SEE HER FABULOUS!!!

[jadeseadragon]

[lectorel]

Let's not cooperate with mama

[moonsheen]

Always lovely to see how universal the experience of getting a very unwilling and strong minded toddler into the car seat can be.

[hymnism]

making a collection

[putridghost]

Wait I have more

[acemingo]

[syekick-powers]

[desinteresse]

My boss was like “Do you have any idea how much money we’re losing” like who cares, it’s not like they would give it to me otherwise

[desinteresse]

Have our investors tried making coffee at home and not eating out so much?

[helenvaughans]

"crime" for conservatives is basically just existing in public as a person of color

[dragon-in-a-fez]

always thinking about that Oxford study that found half of adults define "young people hanging around in groups" as "anti-social behaviour"

[stantler-and-walrein]

>"anti-social behaviour"

>looks inside

>socialising

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tried to hatch an easter egg once

[dr4g0nwh1sk3rs]

I- I don’t think I wanna know

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

didn't have a heat lamp so i kept it under my armpit for a week

[antifa-furry-soldier]

If this were anyone else I'd be confident this is a bit

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it was elementary school. the year before our class hatched a batch of chickens in an incubator, i knew they needed heat. plus i didn't want an adult to confiscate it. during class i alternated between my hoodie pocket and my armpit (warmer). solid logic

[webber-da-spider]

Was it a plastic one or a painted one?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

well see that was the big issue

[webber-da-spider]

Answer the question gaud

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this happened in June. Easter had been over for 2 months. Easter was not on my mind. so when i found a single perfect intact egg (not hollow) just sitting on the ground under a tree, it did not occur to me that

the tree was next door to a church, places infamously known for organizing easter egg hunts

a single perfect white chicken egg rarely appears in nature nestled against a suburban tree trunk

to read deeper meaning into the small splashes of color on the base (thought it was pollution or smthng)

no, i did not see a forgotten easter egg that had been left for 2 months to weather the elements. i saw a random egg, in need of hatching.

[rhynereads]

You see Gaud, I don't believe you. You absolutely saw a forgotten Easter egg and tried to hatch it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*sighs* let my motives be washed away by the tides of time. whatever my intentions, I tried to hatch a rotten easter egg under my armpit.

tragedy, naturally, struck.

[androgynousmushroomlad]

I hatched a goose egg with th3 armpit technique once

[androgynousmushroomlad]

Her brother is also there, but their mum actually managed to hatch him. Her name is Riley and his name is chucky

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

well see now i feel cheated

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree

[peppermintsolarpunk]

Let's play: Is it AI or Real?

Red flags: Unbelievable nature you've never seen before!, no external source cited, low image quality could be hiding AI artifacts, lacks scientific name for plant, OP is an aesthetic blog (no offense, I see you credit most of the artists you post, OP <3).

Green flags: Common name of the tree provided (although the leaves don't look like any olive tree I've ever seen).

Reverse image searches and citation trails all seem to lead back to now-deleted Reddit posts. Google Images says it's this one in r/NatureIsFuckingLit, and TinEye says it's this one in r/interestingasfuck. Both were posted back in 2020. This is important because the rise of AI images was in 2022.

People in the comments of places this image is posted throw around botanical terms like "dichotomous branching" [branches split into two at the nodes] and "divaricated" [branches grow far apart from each other], which are cool, but don't tell me what the tree is.

Searching up "Black Olive" on iNaturalist finally got me some answers, and it turns out that YES. This is a real tree! This tree is a Dwarf Black Olive (Terminalia molinetii, Formerly Bucida spinosa). The above photos are some particularly nicely framed shots of a tree with particularly small leaves, which really highlights the branching structure. I really wish we knew the photographer's name. Here are some more photos of the same species:

Terminalia molinetii by jriveracruz50 on iNaturalist, posted under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

This tree is native to Southern Mexico, Belize, the southern tip of Florida, and Cuba. Dwarf Black Olives are completely unrelated to Olive trees in the Olea genus that I'm more familiar with (the former is in Order Myrtales [Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies], and the latter is in Order Lamiales [Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies]).

Stay critical, and –more importantly– curious, y'all! The world is a beautiful place, we don't need fictional plants passed off as real ones for that to be true.

[byjove]

the worldwide moose belt

except for Britain and Ireland, where moose do not meese

[toesucker]

If I were a children’s show animator I would simply not be a pervert

[rose---child]

Thanks toesucker

[toesucker]

Oh I forgot

[toesucker]

[littlemissminu]

TW SCARY

did i scared you

[catgirltoes]

What the hell happened to the energy around gender neutral bathrooms. Remember when we were fighting for all bathrooms to be gender neutral. But now we can barely argue that people can use the gendered bathroom of their choice. Maybe there's some single stall bathroom tucked away in a basement somewhere.

[itsapmseymour]

They got new photos of the moon,

I knew she had colors hiding in there 🥹

[wildehacked]

things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:

the city of los angeles

the city of new york

sex

how drinking alcohol works

how getting high works

how a child of any age speaks

how nuclear physics work

how [my job] works

how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is

how hypothermia works

things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:

what french toast is

[zvaigzdelasas]

Sure since adopting self checkout they got rid of 99% of grocery workers and if something goes wrong you gotta just stand there for 20 minutes while the employee managing 30% of the store singlehandedly tries to juggle helping you with their other responsibilities. But at least groceries are less expensive now right. Why are you trying to whisper in my ear I have a girlfriend

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

the stores are flithy and disorganized and I've run into expired products on more than one occasion and there's often a grand total 3 employees for a 5000 square foor supermarket doing their best but at least they paying those guys well with plenty of benefits. folks I just recieved a memo

[logorrhea5mip]

The notable thing here before luddite Tumblr shows up is, there's absolutely nothing fucking wrong about with self checkout machines. I love them. They save time, since instead of me waiting while the cashier scans the stuff im scanning the stuff while noone is waiting.

The problem, as always, is the capitalist mode of production, where instead of that improvement being passed onto the workers (say, you still employ the same number of people, but they work shorter hours for the same pay and also provide a better service) it's passed onto the capitalist class, while the worker is even worse off.

[ravenlynclemens]

calvin and hobbes

[rocktopussy]

[pomme-poire-peche]

"You misspelled Weltanschauung" is one of the funniest punchlines I've ever encountered.

[blessedbycoyotes]

[werothegreat]

one of my faves

[dittoexodus]

[lapsedmathematician]

but don’t worry folks, he DID hate the business world more than the art world. barely

[charrfie]

Sparkle on! It's Wednesday! Don't forget to be yourself, Jerma!

[charrfie]

Every now and again someone reblogs this and I am haunted by the fact that almost every big name streamer and jerma himself and notable voice actors and apparently the fucking spongebob squarepants art team have referenced this picture I made and I only have 4k notes on it

[tallgayclownboy]

Gargantuan lore drop but I NEED a source on that SpongeBob one

[charrfie]

You got it boss. From the episode "bubble bass reviews" in 2023

[ominous-signs]

Using my power as a gimmick blog to spread the ORIGINAL post even more far and wide because how the hell does this only have 5kish notes. Please. What.

[seven-winged-liar]

they should invent a laying in bed where you dont have class or assignments