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|| J. ≥25/F/USA. || Style, sass, science, and things of unusual size here. My likes and @juneifimay show everything else. Other socials are linked on desktop. || Chaotic neutral. Yes, I'm judging you. || I speak English. Hablo español.

[fashion-runways]

RAHUL MISHRA Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[localfriendlyeldritchthing]

today I learned that it's recently been discovered that the droplets of moisture in fog contain living bacterial ecosystems, and that they help break down pollutants in our atmosphere.

THAT IS SO COOL.

gonna give fog a round of applause next time I see some

also I low-key want to study fog now, whoops.

The fog is alive: Droplets host bacteria that clear toxins from our air

What if fog isn't just misty air, but a living ecosystem? This question hung over cloud researcher Thi Thuong Thuong Cao. As a Ph.D. student

(Also, the line 'This question hung over cloud researcher Thi Thuong- ' made me smile. writer could have gone with 'cloud researcher asked this question' or 'so-and-so decided to seek answers to this question' but no.

both writer and editor went the whimsical and fun route, and I shall applaud that too.)

[velvetcloak]

PSA

Open the Instagram app, go to your Profile and tap the three-lined Menu button in the top-right corner. Go to Sharing and Reuse and navigate to the section called Allow people to reuse your content on Instagram and with AI features at Meta. Here, disable the Posts and Reels feature.

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[size-diff-enthusiast]

Something I love from giants is the thudding and shaking from their impacts. Like if it's a giant in a city they don't to mean cause so much fear and disturbance by walking around and they try to minimize it but there is still thudding and shaking. The tinies, even though they trust the giant, still get nervous and afraid hearing and feeling the giant. Or maybe if it's like a borrower situation, the giant going about their daily life, their footfalls and noise from setting things down or hitting something is felt and heard and can startle the borrowers within. But maybe it can also be used in a positive way where it's like "I'm here". Like a giant walking around their home and their tiny partner hears and feels them approach and gets perky and excited the closer they get.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

with a little help from his older brother, Hank Green has invented an absurdly enjoyable word-spelling game called smush.

[fashion-runways]

IRIS VAN HERPEN Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[gavinnersband]

Attention:

The Gavinners have released the following public statement regarding the Sunshine Coliseum concert:

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[tboytummmy]

Ocean date

[regalbastard]

ID: Digital art of a whale mermaid and her tiny human girlfriend. The whale lady smiles contently as she floats on her back, with her girlfriend kicking her legs while lying on her tummy. (End)

[femmeberlin]

Me, fourteen and making OCs: okay she can’t be a Mary Sue! I can’t make her too cool or everyone will think she’s unbelievable and hate her :((

Me, thirty-two and making OCs: Every person I think is hot in this video game is into this OC and also she gets to be a Special Princess. I’ll commission a propaganda portrait of her as an imperial saint.

[nostalgic-teddyy]

[jaylajae]

[jaylajae]

Ladies, the next time you receive an unwanted DM or unsolicited dick pic, send them this. No context.

[sundaidivine]

Can I be your houseplant? 🥹🪴

[chuwenjie]

Official stills from the crew of the Avatar Aang movie, releasing July 25th on Paramount+!!

[moon-fence]

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign sign sign sign sign sign sign si

[fashion-runways]

IRIS VAN HERPEN Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

The Fractal Universe look was charged inside a particle accelerator and cryogenically preserved days before the show. This transformed the dress into a metastable reservoir of energy, containing billions of trapped electrons that generate an intense electric field held within its structure. In the nights leading up to the show, the dress began to decharge, branching flashes of lightning spreaded across its surface as the lightning etched microscopic hollow channels through its three-dimensional structure. The fine detailing belonged not to the hand of the maker, but to lightning, exploring the thresholds between body, matter and energy. The lightning that autonomously finished the dress are temporary columns of plasma - the same state of matter found in lightning, stars, nebulae, the solar wind, and much of the visible universe.

[acewatney]

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