[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[spindercatscher]

@crabussy

[moonshynecybin]

have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out

[moonshynecybin]

[devilishdescent]

[is9vhl]

this movie made me sad a lot guys

[str-ngeloop]

your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate

[toasthaste]

[easyvirgin-deactivated20160413]

happy Thursday the 20th

[askjennaflorida]

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

[mx-mythical-deactivated20260319]

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

[triedandtrued]

TODAY

[captain-of-the-historicfuture]

Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

May 2021

January 2022

October 2022

April 2023

July 2023

June 2024

February 2025

March 2025

November 2025

August 2026

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

[quasi-normalcy]

What's the word for the fallacy or cognitive blindspot of just kind of forgetting that a cameraman exists? Like, you see a video online and you take it as an unmediated representation of reality and forget that there's someone there recording it? E.g., seeing a video of an ill-tempered child pitching a tantrum over a Christmas present and you leap to thinking that they're just very naughty without remembering that their parent is literally there publicly humiliating them for clicks.

I think that a lot of of our media is just kind of structured around this elision of "the cameraman", broadly defined. Like how many hundreds of hours of footage do they take for reality TV and what makes it into the final cut and why? The editor's not neutral; they're making decisions. What stories make it onto the news? What posts does the algorithm deign to show you? Our lives have never been as mediated as they are now, and yet this mediation is largely invisible.

[tsaktahis]

Three Geese

Benjamin Chee Chee, Ojibwe, 1974, photolithograph

[thememedaddy]

[a-book-of-creatures]

To be fair you usually don’t grind a burrito into digestible mush with your fibula

[dopeeeeeeshxt]

Ayeeee

[lightspeedsound]

Adorable, beautiful magic

[green-loaf]

Guys, I think I might be gay

[livsalot]

[nateconnolly]

These days, lots of public libraries have a "library of things" collection where you can check out kitchen appliances or yard tools or toys, and, as a children's library assistant, the most popular library of things item that I handle regularly is a plastic scepter thingy called like "unicorn princess magic wand". And whenever I check it out I make a big show of looking at the little kid and being like "do you solemnly swear to use your unicorn princess magic powers only for good and never for evil?"

And pretty much without fail, the little kid will get the world's most mischievous grin and go "I'm gonna use it for EVIL!!!"

[64mpg]

“what is the target audience of this post” what?????? does your diary have a target audience

[64mpg]

the target audience of all of my posts is me

[shaelit]

I'm trying to collect a list of good niche weird animals. Emphasis on niche.

I'm talking

Greenland sharks

Strawberry squids

Pallas cats

Strawberry squids

Mola molas

What niche animals do you like and why are they so weird and cool?

[shaelit]

Much obliged to those who have reblogged and given cool answers. Added to the running list for me to research:

Desert rain frog

Flamboyant cuttlefish

Tibetan fox

Potoo (various)

Bush baby (nagapies/galagos)

Siphonophores (ex: praya dubia)

Sea hares

Leaf sheep

Pygmy marmoset

Quagga

Least weasel

Common swift (with that name, sounds like it should be disqualified but the submitter 🎉followed instructions🎉 and included why!)

Hyrax

Pea puffer

Vaquita

Jaguarundi

Pipefish

Bristle worms

Klipspringer

Dwarf caiman

Aye-aye

Barreleye fish

Brahminy blind snake (real weird to see the local nosey neighbor on the list, won't lie)

Fried egg jellyfish

Giant isopod

Serval

Keep them coming! Teach me new things, animal obsessives of Tumblr!

[shaelit]

Even more:

Cloaked warty leaf beetles (Chlamisus or Fulcidax)

Western fence lizard

Magnapinna squid

Black-footed ferret

Binturong

Coatis

Slow loris

Wobbegong

Hellbender

Sea dragon

Iriomote cat

Bay cat

Pampas cat

Guiña

Andean mountain cat

Escumasia

[shaelit]

Antarctic krill

Spanish ribbed newt/ sharp-ribbed newt

Horror frog

and courtesy of the IRL friend who I forgot followed me on here and scared me by referencing this post out of nowhere via text (💙):

Japanese serow

[everything-you-feel-is-real]

my happy place

[lamine-19]

scientific fact

[penelopepennington]

It's the Royal Academy of Art Young Artist's Summer Show. One of my favourite exhibitions of the year. Like. Not only are the older kids insanely talented, the younger ones' artist statements will just punch you right in the face.

Jeffrey is my cat and he feels like my heart

Click [here] for the full online exhibition

[mckitterick]

Deadly egg recall

The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

source: X

[prof-grace-aspen]

Recalled eggs were shipped to foodservice and retail customers in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.  Recalled eggs were available to consumers at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana; Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and other smaller retail and foodservice outlets in these states plus Mississippi and New Mexico.

Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico are the currently affected states.

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]