Science Junkie;

She/They Trying not to be a pedant. Bettering myself in my 30's. Coming here for calm.

[noahnomore]

[clauonacloud-deactivated2022071]

[latinajedi]

[gay-jesus-probably]

YOU GET THE FUCK BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN THAT RIGHT NOW

[riluri]

well damn

[ospreyonthemoon]

[letslipthehounds]

Every time, I know what's coming, but every time, I just lose it at "Uh. That"

[kyraneko]

I already lost it at "that time we ate our prime minister" and "Uh. That" didn't really help.

[windynebula]

I'm gonna say something incredibly 30-year-old and I'm going to ask you to not judge me while I'm trying to be genuine and real. Okay? Here's my truth.

A piece of lettuce can really elevate a sandwich. The fresh crunch? Unrivaled. Peak. Poetic cinema.

[epithanyrae]

At the same time a piece of lettuce can really destroy a sandwich. The soggy wilt? Disgusting. Vile. Ultimate betrayal.

[wolvesintheflowers-deactivated2]

I laughed to hard at this fucking thing.

[nattousan]

[talldren]

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[wordfather]

i had a twisted dream this morning when my alarm tried to wake me up where jeff goldblum said 'Actually if you sleep a bit Longer you'll have More time to get ready It's called the Goldblum's Law and it works just go back to sleep' and i believed him and i overslept

[wordfather]

hey boss sorry im late. i got Goldblumed

[systlin]

Note as someone who has visited and driven in most of the 48 lower contiguous states of the 50 small countries in a trenchcoat that make up the USA;

The drivers of all states suck, of course, this is a given. HOWEVER. There are some very special places that stand out among these. In order of how in fear for my life I was.

3. Houston. Drivers in Texas in general treat speed limits as a lower limit for how fast you should be going and the drivers in Houston show no regard for life or limb.

2. Atlanta. The drivers of Atlanta do not fear death for themselves and would rather you both die than let you merge.

Fucking. New Jersey. If I never drive I-95 or the Turnpike again I will die happy. You've never known fear until you see someone neglect to use turn signals and Jersey Slide through 4 lanes of near bumper to bumper 80 MPH traffic and cut in front of you to make their exit as you slam the brakes on and miss rear ending them by about half an inch.

On the flip side, the BEST driving I've ever seen? Suprisingly, New Orleans. Now, I went NOT during Mardi Gras, but I found the drivers there to be courtious and cautious with a very few exceptions. 10/10.

[systlin]

Side note; New Orleans also has the best food, hands down bar none. Ya'll down there know how to COOK.

[baronmagikcarp]

I've never driven in Houston (and plan never to do so) but I can confirm that Dallas traffic is similar. It's absolutely ridiculous. The description of Atlanta is spot on. I made the mistake of using my turn signal and I swear five cars sped up to keep me in my lane.

As to New Orleans, agreed. It was an absolute pleasure driving there though going up a two hundred foot tall bridge is a bit nerve wracking.

[systlin]

Legit was filling the car up and one NOLA resident heard us talking about where to get lunch, and the man wandered over, introduced himself, gave us a reccomendation for a little resturant, detailed directions, and offered to lead us there.

We found it without him leading us there but like, great city, great people, and the food was in fact fantastic. Some of the best biscuits I've ever eaten.

I thought the huge bridge was cool, but then I'm used to driving enormous bridges over the Mississippi!

[phantomrose96]

I want all animals to become sapient enough to produce art specifically because I want to see what sort of sex homunculus caricature each species would create if given the ability to draw

[phantomrose96]

Like we've already got the anime waifu with the needle-waist and watermelon-bazonkas and borzoi-legs and bug-eyes. Now show me a fucked-up stupid beetle as drawn by a horny beetle. I want to see what a cartoonishly sexy lion looks like according to lions. I want to see the most ridiculous drawing of a peahen that would have the peacocks squaring up by the fountain.

[phantomrose96]

We give this power to ostriches and they just start drawing people

[wizardarchetypes]

I MET A DOG EARLIER 3 MILES FROM HOME WHILE I WAS BIKING BY A FARM AND I STOPPED AND PET HIM AND NOW SEVEN HOURS LATER HE'S JUST WALKED INTO MY FRONT DOOR AND TOOK MY DIRTY UNDERWEAR OF THE FLOOR?????????

[wizardarchetypes]

HOW DID HE FIND ME 😭😭😭😭

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

why is your front door open? i mean obviously there's a moderately sized fish [dog] to fry but, this is a good question I feel

[wizardarchetypes]

it's a beautiful sunset on a seaside cliff

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Look I don’t mean to judge but in a situation where your front door was open (i.e. anyone could just walk in), why were your pants on the floor?

[wizardarchetypes]

typically if a stranger hikes a mountain to walk in my front door without asking i think the onus is on them to explain their business in my living room, not on me to explain my laundry

[precious-silly-thing-deactivate]

Candle clocks

[capillaries-burst-from-boredom]

same energy tbh

[theotherwesley]

I love baby foxes. Nothing has ever had less of an idea.

buffering

[theotherwesley]

feather obtained, purpose unclear

leaf obtained, purpose unclear

ground:

unclear

sibling obtained, purpose: biting

[wild-e-eep]

Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

No: it's mostly weirdly hinged rectangles.

There are a few normal looking cylindrical algal filaments in there as well.

[revretch]

Further proof that algae are making shit up as they go just to test me

[wizardarchetypes]

it's so fun knowing so many of the captains around the islands. when my mom finally visited me last summer, she was rly hoping to see orcas but we didn't make any specific plans. we took her out on my friend's boat, then we started tracking nearby sightings secretly, and when my mom thought we were going home, we actually took her to see some of the whales. while we were stopped and watching them, my friend walked out onto the deck of a nearby boat bc he saw us. i looked at him through our binoculars and he was thrilled because one of the whales was his all-time favorite and he put his arms up in the air and yelled across the water

"DID YOU SEE MY BOY!!!!!!!"

[wizardarchetypes]

i think there should be a program to pair me up with people who have a rly hard time talking and want to get more comfortable in conversations but don't know 'how' to talk.

you know how dog foster organizations are like 'ideally Zeke the Puppy will be placed in a home with a confident, social dog that can teach him how to be a dog with lots of play and gentle corrections.'

there should be a that for me where people spend like 2 months following me around to the bank and parties and stuff where i just don't shut the hell up & sometimes i'm like 'yes exactlyyy gooo onnnnnn' and sometimes i'm like 'that's not a very kind thing to say, let's try again' and then one day we're having nonstop great convos and i'm like 'you're ready' and they get adopted by their own friend group.

[wizardarchetypes]

the temptation to foster-fail and keep everyone for my own friend group would be nigh impossible to overcome but i must persevere to keep having new shy convo partners

[venndaai]

Big fan of calling male characters babygirls but I think we should start calling female characters babyboys too

[venndaai]

I’ve seen people on here rail separately against calling male characters babygirls and calling female characters little guys, and while I think they’ve correctly identified a problem (“girl” has sexual or demeaning or childish connotations while “guy” is an example of masculine-as-neutral-default) I don’t think the answer is to get more essentialist in our language use but rather to freak it up more. he’s just a little gal. she’s my sweet baby boy. she’s my boyfriend. he’s my special girlie. she’s my beautiful husband.

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[feldfrog]

If a fantasy world has an ancient tree of wisdom, that means it must also have young trees that are dumb as shit. Just giving terrible advice like, "the evil wizard is kinda hot"'

[great-tweets]

We just knew.

[awed-frog]

As a reminder, this is what she looks like:

[yougetsomekisses]

[larkiethings]

Also I hope everyone knows that Miette was fostered before she was adopted, and her foster mom loved that little kitten so much and always hoped she’d gone to a good home. this tweet got so popular that she recognized Miette and reached out to her current mom, and was able to share previously unseen baby pictures

[darthmelyanna]

You mean, she saw Miette was kicked like the football and did nothing to help put Mother in jail for a thousand years? I am appalled.

[tigerses]

her!!!

[madeofstarsandfairylights]

Baby Miette!!!

[ottermatopoeia]

Babe wake up new Miette lore just dropped

[devil-with-three-heads]

IT’S MIETTE!!!!