[afeelgoodblog]

I think grandpa has a new grandson

[ddejavvu]

Just saw a TikTok complaining about ‘kitten’ as a pet name in fanfiction and while I do agree with their discomfort on that one the comments were FULL of people mentioning all the other common pet names ?? Like honey babe baby sweetheart etc ?? Is your partner just supposed to call you by your name the whole time ????????

[ddejavvu]

God SORRY to drag this out bc I’m not doing this to like screenshot and expose people for having opinions I don’t like BUT I rounded up the wildest ones I found and blurred the names so no one can be mean to them for it I hope that’s okay 😭

Yeah a very common and go-to pet name is actually just one big joke. Everyone was tricking you the whole time!! Pranked <3

I can’t imagine the horrors that this would entail… I don’t wanna hear my name unless you’re reading off a legal document

“TW: British People”

Lettuce gives me such a big ick in salad I swear 😭

WHAT DO U WANT TO BE CALLED 😭 PLEASE YOU HAVE TO GIVE US SOME OPTIONS 😭

[normal-horoscopes]

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

[theslowesthnery]

ohhhhhh my godddddd

[mindflamer]

original by clairetablizo

[darklight-owl]

@sepiamestus is this how it's supposed to be done

[creatorbiaze]

oh. oh dear.

uhm. yeah that.. that explains it.

[autumn2may]

fruit-in-jars 101 by stacynguyen

"What is jam? What makes something authentically jam? Can bacon really be made into jam?

It was all very Existentialist.

The answer to those questions is a bit complicated and non-definitive. The U.S. FDA has defined jam and jelly in very specific and mathematical terms (such-and-such percentage of juice to fruit to water to sugar = jam/jelly); it also uses jam and preserve interchangeably, for the most part. While interesting, the FDA’s definitions did not matter much to me because the FDA wasn’t really using the terms in the way that we usually use the terms. Also, the FDA wasn’t comprehensive in its definitions. It didn’t tackle other fruit spreads like marmalades or curds, for instance.

The more I looked into, the more I thought, dude, this information would make a good infographic."

[spacedace]

Had to explain this to someone from England once. Can't remember how it came up but i remember her rolling her eyes and going "What is it with you Americans insisting on calling jam jelly?" In that usual "Americans are so stupid" way.

I'm still not sure if it was the fact that she was from England and it was a cultural difference in canning/how canned fruit is referred to over there or if she just didn't know and assumed Americans just insisted on using the "wrong" (in the sense of it being different from what she used) word but I was happy to ramble at her for way too long about the differences between types of preserved fruits.

[joaniejustwokeup]

There are some fruit butter recipes that use actual butter.

Do not can those.

You will get botulism.

[vaspider]

Or eggs. You can't can eggs. No at-home-canned curd.

[luckyyyyyyyyyyyy]

[ravenstagged]

I’m not usually one to add to posts but I need everyone to see OP’s hand for scale

[godisafujoshi]

[thelovingend-deactivated2025073]

[false-pyre]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[injuries-in-dust]

Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in China and Japan did, they were called “musical floorboards.” Designed to squeak when stood upon. A person could make noise all the way down a corridor.

The residents and servants knew which floorboards made a sound and avoided them. But a burglar, or assassin didn’t. If you heard the creaking of floorboards, you knew danger was coming.

Even better, despite what movies may show, a lot of the old west was founded by Chinese immigrants, so there could have been carpenters around who knew how to make the musical floorboards!

[apocalypticvalraven]

They were also called Nightingale Floors, and looking up to make sure I had the right term, I found they were super clever! They were more than just ill-fit boards or whatever makes floors creak normally, they actually used little metal bars under the boards placed into small holes in the boards to cause the creak.

[swan2swan]

The best things on the internet are when someone makes a joke and then Miss Frizzle rolls up for an educational adventure.

[immortalbeingz]

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]

when the fit is straight up peculiar

[minmos]

there's just something so funny to me about shitty harvests

[littlestpersimmon]

I live in complete poverty and disability. Trying to make art to sell as prints as I am not getting commissions the way I used to. I am disabled and diabetic, immunocompromised from recent surgery, and I live in a traditional filipino house partially destroyed by storms and termites. I work 3 jobs, but they are all very unstable. Please please please, if you've ever derived joy from my art or insight from my posts or book recs, if you could pick up a print, send a tip, or subscribe to my patreon where I have 400+ exclusive drawings / early access, it would help keep me alive, in the most literal sense. I have been given a second chance at life, and I would like to keep living. Thank you so much

Inprnt / patreon / ko-fi tipping jar / paypaI tipping jar

[littlestpersimmon]

Many new art on my patreon. Running out of thyroid medicine. If anyone could please help out. Would appreciate it forever

[paper-mario-wiki]

hey! i've been in talks with Mohammed/@help-mona.

their campaign (verified here) has been going on for quite a while, and donations have significantly slowed down.

i've been a bit destitute lately, but i was able to chip in 50 euros.

i'd love to see someone match my donation, or even match 10% of it.

if you can't, i'd greatly appreciate it if you could help spread it around.

Donate to "Escaping Genocide: Gaza Evacuation for My Family", organized by ahmed elwadya

Hello everyone, Welcome, friends who cherish life and spread hope… ahmed elwadya needs your support for "Escaping Genocide: Gaza Evacuat

even with small donations, little by little we can build bridges to safety.

but only if people are willing to help lay the bricks.

[paper-mario-wiki]

Mohammed's campaign has been slowing a bit recently. A few donations would go a long way, please consider giving something if you can!

VETTED

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i watch severance and i’m like ok yeah, this is a fun show, but apparently their whole town and possibly even their whole (fictional) state seems to center around (maybe even was founded solely because of) this weird cult that was invented by a random u.s. american white man in the 1800s who wrote feverishly and obsessively about human morality and righteousness. like, the show is great, but that’s not something that would actually happen.

and then i remember utah exists and im like. oh right.

[insert-content]

foolproof plan

[asteria-3d]

I showed this to a family member that works at NASA. Honestly terrified.

[artsy-biggirl]

Mobility assistance

[kittensforbrowncoats]

Roll Mobility

Roll Mobility

[bilgisticallykosher]

Woah, what a great idea!

For people that couldn't watch the video, it's a way to rate public places and businesses and share info on access for wheelchair users.

[zjofierose]

i appreciate that i saw both of these on my dash within about five posts of each other. we’re gonna need both moods going forward, tbh.

[nadas-dirthalen]

the hero of ferelden vs hawke dragon age