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Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog
It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!
They're traditional Finnish toys, little cows made out of spruce cones, on their way to see the world from one tumblr blog to another
@elodieunderglass not horrible, but things with legs?
I’ll send them on their lovely journey, thank you!
Not enough cow girl images are fat. It's cows. Be fatter
*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king
this is the perfect reblog post cancelled
why are you a cunt
to honour my mother before me and her mother before her and so on and so forth
Transphobia is being signed into law in the UK. Let's fight it together.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the rescheduled Mass Lobby at Parliament, now on Wed Sept 9th, 1pm-5pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a con
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It became statutory guidance in the UK on August 5th, 2026.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Our demands have changed. Ask your MP to:
Write to Ministers and Prime Minister Andy Burnham to say they are profoundly concerned by the rolling back of trans rights, and that they believe that it is time for Parliament to legislate to protect equality for trans people.
Ask parliamentary questions focused on protecting trans people’s rights and defending trans people’s abilities to live safe and dignified lives.
Speak up both inside and outside Parliament in defence of trans people’s rights.
Meet regularly with trans constituents to understand their lived realities.
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
We have already had some wins because we took action. The 2026 EHRC guidance has already rolled back its most harmful elements because of mass campaigning by individuals like us, and groups like The Good Law Project. This summer, 166 MPs signed the Early Day Motion 240 to reject the EHRC Code of Practice, because of our campaigning. That is 1 in 4 MPs.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Do you have a LEAST favorite bicycle? One that was unkind to you? Is this possible?
all bicycles are born with kind souls but some of them are built for a person with proportions I have yet to see in the big wide world and trying to ride said bike is a lot like a brand new baby horse trying to figure out the whole "six long legs and a proboscis" thing on day 1
I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE REST OF THE SENTENCE TO BE ABOUT HORSES INSTEAD OF BUTTERFLIES,
you know what yeah this IS how it feels
Thank you @chiropteracupola no I get it
One of my favorite things about having a degree in biochemistry is going undercover at a store like Sephora. I can read the composition of the cosmetics and actually understand them. There’s no words to describe how great it feels. It’s like being in on an inside joke or secret
The main thing I observe is that a lot of employees recommend makeup that is chemically incompatible. For example, if you ask them to recommend you a foundation and concealer, a lot of times they’ll pick two products that are chemically immiscible, so they’ll NEVER blend together successfully.
Generally foundation/concealer is either water or silicone based. There are upsides to each based on your needs. However, water and silicone are immiscible, and so if your foundation is water based but your concealer is silicone based, you will never get a good blend between these products. You’ll have to go back to switch to something that works.
If you want to test for this in-store, mix the two on the back of your hand. If they form a uniform mixture, they’re miscible. If they separate, they’re chemically incompatible, and should not be used together. You can do this for any number of skin products. Primers, moisturizers, foundations, concealers, contour sticks, etc etc. Anything that comes in liquid or paste form.
You don’t need to understand all the chemicals on the label to run this experiment!
As someone in pharmaceutical sciences I also experience similar things, so a hint from me: collagen is useless. In a cream it will not penetrate the skin, so doesn't do anything. As a food supplement, lemme tell you a secret: collagen is a protein. And when you eat protein, your stomach thinks its food and chops it up, so it can be used to make your own protein. Collagen is just expensive protein powder, and doesn't do anything meat or a veggie substitute does.
I am operating on levels of unfathomably stupid obscure puns far beyond your comprehension.
Aaand the winner is @kallonkutittaja who appears to be the first one who put the whole thing together.
In finnish, the handheld bidet showerhead is colloquially known both as "pillupuhelin" (pussy phone) and more rarely "pyllypuhelin", "butt phone", due to the shape resembling an old-fashioned handheld house phone, and what those things are generally used for.
Also the name Persephone.
in conclusion, I am alive because it's currently illegal to hunt me for sport.
I just had the best encounter with a child at Kmart. I was in the aisle shopping, and this girl and her dad come around the corner. The girl sees me and excitedly exclaims “There’s a human here!!” to which the father replied “Yes, there’s humans everywhere.”
It has officially been one year since I met aliens at Kmart and the Kmart in question no longer exists.
The Aliens took the K-Mart back home with them?
THAT WAS MEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Literally me!!! Little girl!!! That was me!!! (I’m a guy now but that was me!!!)
Okay for context, long story short,
Our family is really weird. Really weird. We’re not aliens (at least not that I know of although it’d explain some things) and yet I was a weird kid. Normal autistim child. Mom says that I called everyone ‘humans’ which is really funny — shes always told me that humans are humans, and yet you dont have to be human to be a people (example: cats, bunnies, dogs, et cetera — not human, but still people). Aka mom never corrected me because i was right. Of course she also calls humans humans because we are. I still call people humans but yes. Back to story. Went off topic there.
A long while back, like maybe five years ago, I asked mom if I’m anywhere on the Internet, because given how weird our family is, that wouldn’t be surprising.
She replied that yes, she believes so, because she found a tumblr post that happened earlier that day mentioning an alien encounter in K mart. This exact post.
When she saw it, she was really confused, because wait. My child. With my husband (who transitioned a few years back so is now my other mom!!!). Earlier today. At K mart.
She checked with mom and yes, that interaction did happen, they laughed about it and went about their day. When she told me about this a few years back, she didn’t remember what store, only that it doesn’t exist.
Finally, it recently circulated in conversation again, and since mom remembered the name I have found the post!!!
TLDR; I’m the alien, and hi :) we’re doing fine
Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.
He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"
"What?"
He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"
"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."
Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.
Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.
#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty
Behold, Dorothea
(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)
I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.
He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"
So Dorothea's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.
So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.
Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.
The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).
The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.
But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.
Conservation is so fucken sick
We're doing the same in Whitby, England, and there's a little aquarium attached and it ROCKS. Huge recommend to anyone in England looking for a little fun in the town that made Dracula.
They have a bunch of very happy "berried hens" (i.e. mother lobsters covered in eggs), a set of (essentially) aquatic centrifuges that rock the baby lobsters around to help build their strength against the currents, and a GIANT 35-year-old blue lobster named MELVIN who wanders around in a big tank living his best life, with a couple of sharks for room-mates.
It's a MARVELLOUS time and they're on course to release 100,000 lobster babies a year!
Marine conservation charity in Northeast England. Aiming to conserve, educate and research. Home to Whitby Lobster Hatchery. Releasing 100,0
I wish age gap discourse hadn't spiraled the way it has because I want there to be a safe space to say "Men in their 40s who date 25 year olds aren't predators, they're just fucking losers"
... honey you just described a predator LOL
No, I said what I said. But thank you for providing an example of how this topic has become insufferable on the internet.
i am honestly burningly curious about how a 40 year old man who fucks around with college grads is not a predator
"College grad" is not a developmental stage, nor is it what I would describe a 25 year old as. I was 4 years out of college at 25. My mother had two children at 25. You can be a fucking congressman at 25.
There's a difference between a man who is immature and buys into misogynistic views of beauty and aging and one who is a predator. Also, many actual predators? Not losers and able to move through society pretty freely being seen as cool and the ideal, so conflating the two isn't helpful.
This is going to be my final response to any attempt at discourse. You're welcome to continue amongst yourselves.
also sometimes a 40 year old and a 25 year old just weirdly find each and it's a perfectly normal relationship - like all human relationships are complex and situational, it's so rarely an either/or thing let alone just one thing only
if a 40 year old dude only dates 25 year olds, DiCaprio style or something adjacent to it, then yeah he's a loser
if a 40 year old dude meets a 25 year old through social event or friends or whatever and they happen to hit it off and make a go of it, and this isn't some sort of reoccurring pattern for the guy, that's just a relationship with an age difference
being predatory means something specific, and man I agree w/ OP and really wish people just stopped ascribing it to any and all relationship dynamics they personally might not like
predator and groomer - two words that need to go up on the "can't use till you learn their meaning" shelf
Something I find really stressful is this seemingly endless creep of infantilisation and removal of autonomy from young people. Like, not to be all “in my dayyyy” about it, but… at 16, my friends and I were expected to be broadly responsible for our presence in the world. Most of us had jobs, we navigated public transport, looked after younger siblings. We were expected to make informed decisions about our future careers and our sexual partners. We were allowed to leave education and work full time (this was not necessarily good thing - I think increasing the school leaving age to 18 was broadly for the best). Most of us were smoking, or drinking, or both - again, not good things, but just facts - and many of us were sexually active. Many of the AFAB people I knew were on the pill. Legally, we could live independently, or get married with adult consent.
Legally (I live in the UK) we were not minors, although we inhabited an odd legal limbo until we turned 18, and we were certainly not “children”. Intellectually, socially, though, we were considered (young) adults, or at the most “older teenagers.” We were expected to read mostly adult books (rather than middle grade or YA), watch the news/read papers, watch mostly adult television.
And I do think we a bit under-protected, under-supported, and in some cases - neglected and financially exploited - and I’m not necessarily advocating that. But it did make us feel, I think, in charge of our own lives, capable and competent to make decisions.
At 16-17 my parents knew they could leave me alone overnight/for a couple of nights, and I wouldn’t starve or burn the house down. I felt comfortable getting cross country trains on my own, or booking and staying at a hotel (yes, with my boyfriend.)
Then there was this… creeping of sentiments that we were all Too Young to trouble our heads about certain things. A lot of it was good - more stringent licensing laws, raising the school leaving age, raising the minimum smoking age(!) - but some of the broader cultural stuff was… a bit patronising? Eg, the introduction of “New Adult” as a category of books aimed at 18-25 year olds, the way cartoons and books written for the 9-12 age group were being marketed as for the 12-15 age group, referring to late teens as “children,” etc etc.
Then, in 2008, there was the big financial crash and suddenly my generation were (broadly) robbed of all the usual markers of adulthood and success, meaning that we got ‘stuck’ in the lifestyles and modes our late teens/early 20s. And suddenly, all the emphasis shifted from social and legal protections for late teens/ younger adults, to legal restrictions on their freedoms/rights, and strange philosophical protections on the emotional states.
So, OF COURSE a 23 year old can’t buy a beer without carrying an ID card, and a 17 year old can’t have a crush on a 16 year old, but also, because you’re *children* you don’t need to live like adults. So the UK government got to save money by saying “18 isn’t a proper adult,” then “20 isn’t a proper adult,” and “25 isn’t a proper adult” because it meant they could refuse to give single occupancy housing benefit rates to people of those ages (I think they’ve raised it over 30 now.) Or by refusing to clamp down on exploitative temporary/zero hours contracts - because they’re just “temp jobs for young people!”, or by raising the retirement age because “60 is far too young to retire. You’re not a real adult until 35.”
And it means the discursive environment is such that you can claim that a 21 year old trans person is too young to make their own medical decisions, or a 15 year old is too young to consent to the contraceptive pill.
Meanwhile, they are not offering additional *protections* to these newly infantilised adults. 18 year olds are still encouraged to saddle themselves with enormous educational debt, or allowed to have credit cards, or expected to pay rent, or no longer receive child benefits. You still have to *work*. In fact, in the States, they’re looking to removed child employment restrictions - but that’s fine, because 20 year olds are being protected from making their own medical decisions, and adults get to say which books their teen kids are reading in school, and kids aren’t allowed to change their name or what they wear without parental consent.
We can see what these people are doing to the rights of children - so why are we being so complacent in expanding the definition of ‘child’?
Regardless - 25 is VERY CLEARLY an adult. At 25 I was married, had two kids, an overdraft, rent to pay, and experience of living in the world for 6 years. I had more in common with someone of 40 than I did with someone of 15. Hell, at*20* I had more in common with someone of 40 than someone of 15. Any sexual or relationship decisions you make at 25 are your own to make.
Of course there are likely to be power imbalances in a 15 year age gap - which is why most 25 year olds don’t date 40somethings - but not actually necessarily. And yeah, a 40 year old who only dates 20somethings is a skeeze - just like a 30 year old who routinely ingratiates themselves with rich 80 year olds is a skeeze.
But if any young people are reading this (doubt it)… your rights are much, much more important than your protections.
Yes, young people should be protected, but if someone claims they’re protecting you while denying you access to personal autonomy, financial stability, intellectual curiosity, or sexual self-determination because you’re “too young” to need, or understand those things… be very suspicious of their motives.
And if you’re legally an adult, ask yourself why you don’t feel comfortable defining yourself in those terms.
This thread is from 2023, and now with the Cass report we have seen the real, tangible danger that comes from infantilizing adults in their 20s.
“Your love for him... was the messiest, silliest, most predictable thing in the universe.”
Okay hey…I’m back. And I think I’m through my Good Omens finale meltdown, thanks in large part to the absolutely feral Reddit community and the insane number of threads/comments/screaming I read through.
It’s time to discuss interpretations, y’all, and all the sweet, cute, funny parts we did get.
Let’s just acknowledge that from the beginning, our satisfaction in Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship was coming from the subtext, and the tiny actions. We’ve lived on those this whole time, and the finale stayed true to that.
Like Crowley living in an alley so dramatically was very on brand, and the fact that they were overt about how much he went through to protect the bookshop is kind of everything. He said out loud “You weren’t here. I wasn’t going to lose this place as well.” But he was PERFECTLY FINE letting Bentley go, he’d even told the ridiculous gangster to take it without even playing the game. And we know how deeply he cares for the Bentley.
Anthony J’Acts of Service’ Crowley, forever. It’s baby girl’s love language. And it’s his most solid announcement of feeling in the entire episode. It’s flawed, but it’s ours.
And Aziraphale being so excited about getting to come to Crowley’s rescue for once. And continuing to insist it was ‘our car’. “I’m rescuing you! And I’m liberating our Bentley!” In his own way proving that he can contribute, he can show he cares instead of letting Crowley do all the heavy lifting. Mrs. Sandwich wasn’t completely wrong when she said that he was a taker, but Crowley was happy to let him be that in their dynamic and he knew that, but things change. And it might have been a small thing, but it was a thing none the less.
We also have to solemnly acknowledge Crowley’s heaven look because it was fucking fire and if we take nothing else from this, we’ll always have that incredible outfit. I’m not entirely sure why it’s doing it for me but holy hell, it really, really is. The jacket, the pants, the boots, the color palette. Everything just…swoooon.
ALSO, holy crap Lord Slorch The Vile. Absolutely incredible. That was some of my favorite bickering of the finale; Aziraphale declaring he was a master of disguise and Crowley quick to argue, to then see his demon teeth and announcing, “Oh that’s actually rather good”. Why did that make my heart so happy? For once in the angel’s long life, he nailed it.
And of course, the conversation wherein Aziraphale tells Crowley he chose to go to heaven BECAUSE of him. Telling him that Crowley had made him brave, made him want to stand up for what he believed in. Crowley has been slowly nudging him that way for literal centuries, never forcing, just little prods here and there. And I appreciate that he said it out loud, it was something Crowley absolutely needed to hear.
I know it’s disappointing to not get some perfect declaration of their love but if you think about it, Aziraphale said more to Crowley about his feelings for him in those 90 minutes than he probably ever did in their 6,000 year history.
And this: “Why give me Crowley? Why make me complete and then take it away?” Crowley doesn’t even flinch at this, because he already knew.
The more I think about it, both of them knew. Crowley said what he said in season two only because he wanted to stop Aziraphale from returning to heaven, not because he thought the angel didn’t know. All throughout the finale he keeps harping that Aziraphale chose heaven over him, now it feels like it was just about that singular choice, I don’t think it was about everything.
He threw a fit, sure, but he protected the bookshop. He was angry that the entire game was fucking rigged, but I don’t think he ever doubted Aziraphale’s feelings for him. When Aziraphale asked for his forgiveness he rolled his eyes because he’d already given it and Aziraphale knew that. He just wanted to hear it, because he’s also a dramatic bitch.
I’m coming around to the idea that their relationship was a lot more stable than we ever understood. And as much as I wanted the obvious romance, subtle is just their dynamic. And I have fanfic for the rest of it.
Meanwhile, let’s talk ending interpretations. It’s devastating that they chose what they did, but I don’t think it’s out of character. Aziraphale had that whole speech about Crowley being an artist, that he just “wanted to understand, to make better art”, and a truly free universe is that better art, is that understanding. Crowley had been begging the angel to run away only because that felt like the remaining option in such a broken system.
But when faced with a choice, a REAL choice, a REAL opportunity, I’m not surprised in the slightest that he wanted to give humanity what it deserved. Yes I know it won’t be the humanity Crowley knows, but that’s not the point. He just wants humans, any humans, to have an honest chance and I do think that’s really beautiful.
And that little finger kiss? I'll take it. It's like Aziraphale is giving back the moment he held onto since he left for heaven. And the smile on Crowley's face is everything.
I hate that it cost them their happy celestial ending, but I’ve seen some theories I really like: their love for each other and the world was the big bang for the new universe. Their souls are a part of it. They are born throughout human history and they find each other again and again.
They may not have their memories, and that GUTS me, but I have to believe they’re tied together in every universe. We’ve always thought they were soul mates, this is just another version of that.
And I do see Aziraphale and Crowley in Asa and Anthony. Asa wrings his hands while asking for Anthony’s number. The way Anthony yanks off his sunglasses when he enters the bookshop. Anthony has angel Crowley’s enthusiasm. It’s them, just unburdened by six thousand years of fear and anguish and circumstance neither of them could escape. They have the opportunity to experience something that Crowley and Aziraphale never would have gotten to: uncomplicated love.
Anthony gets to express his love freely, they have their cottage, and we get little easter eggs like the snowglobe to let us know they're in there, somewhere.
I need Crowley and Aziraphale to be out there in the world eternally, and I choose to believe they still are.
And as a lover of human AU’s, selfishly, I kind of love the idea of the multiverse being canon.
I know everyone feels differently, and all of our feelings are valid. These two and this world became so big, so meaningful, and I just hope that the fandom can continue to love it, in any and all ways that make sense to us. I know I’m not going anywhere, what they’ve come to mean to me is too important to give up.
It wasn’t perfect, but it’s what we have, and I’m thankful for that. Aziraphale and Crowley truly are the best of us.
Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.
"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that
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hi it's me the thing from the drawing. i will be homeless in 11 days if i do not scrape up the money to move across the country where my partner is doing all that they can to prepare to house me but the job search is not going great if you can imagine. i know we are all in dire straits which is why this drawing did numbers but if anyone can help out i would really appreciate it. thank u
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