frog bound

college graduate

[froggo-friend]

[witchofanguish]

[mahead-ithurt]

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales - Engadget

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU

[rabbitindisguise]

Plus this one:

Study Again Shows 'Pirates' Tend to Be The Biggest Buyers of Legal Content

A new report out of the UK once again deflates the common narrative that pirates are exclusively looking to obtain free stuff.

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[queer-reader-07]

[hellenhighwater]

Water goblin

[hellenhighwater]

Wet Beast Wednesday

[wovi]

[roooooosssssse-deactivated20260]

peggy oki // original z-boys

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Someone on my town's local facebook chat is asking if anyone knows a good private local GP and we're all like "literally anyone who has time to slot you in is our 'good local GP'" and she's all like "nono they're not good enough, I need specialised care, the couple of local bulk billing places are too rushed, I need to know who the good local private clinics with lots of free time are" and we're all like. "You are not understanding us. This is a country town. If you can get a fifteen minute appointment in one of those 'bulk bulling places' then you are very lucky and need to jump on that opportunity immediately. The doctors you are seeking are all in the capital city six hours away."

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My GP moved away very suddenly for a 'family emergency' about six months ago, claiming he would be back at Some Unspecified Time, and it's been a topic of ongoing gossip and speculation ever since. Everyone is obsessed with this guy and when he's coming back. Not because his life is at all interesting or even because he was a particularly great doctor (he was mostly fine I guess), but because he was one quarter of our local non-emergency healthcare system and some people are holding out a desperate hope that we might get that quarter back at some point.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WELL THAT'S A VERY DIFFERENT POST

I have no idea how the local prostitution industry is doing but I very much doubt you have to drive six hours for one.

[myopinionisimportant]

Actually as far as I can tell all Victoria's brothels are in Melbourne, so most of your options on that front are six hours away too.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The doctor never came back btw

[delgrosso]

I was wondering when you were finally gonna circle back to that part.

[carbon-ate]

[transjester64]

Adding this from the comments...

[bugkeeping]

why he standing like this...

[herpsandbirds]

Oviedo Fire Salamander (Salamandra s. bernardezi), family Salamandridae, northern Spain

This subspecies of the Fire Salamander gives live birth to fully formed terrestrial offspring!!!

This subspecies is also highly variable in pattern and coloration.

photographs by Bryan Maltais

[sealsandlacenet]

sau sage

[howloopyisthat]

From a gifset on campesine-moved

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“everyone is mad at me and they just won’t tell me” —> “no one has said anything about being mad at me and i haven’t done anything to warrant being mad at so if someone is silently fuming about me and not saying anything that’s their problem and actually quite weird of them and i can effortlessly move on with my life”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this took SUCH a huge deal of unlearning because, like so many of you, i came out of a home where being quietly in trouble WAS the default state, and i DID grow up not just with the assumption but borderline religious conviction that Everyone Is Mad At Me, I Am Bad, I Must Exist In A Constant State of Attempting to Pacify The Natural Rage I Inspire In Everyone. and no it actually turns out that my family are the freaks . and yours are too

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“this isn’t true because i DEFINITELY silently fume at people in the hopes they’ll figure out what they did and apologize” that’s not good. you shouldn’t do that

“this isn’t true because the ex-friendship that traumatized me ended explosively after they were mad at me and never told me why” that’s not good. they shouldn’t be doing that

“i don’t think this is true because my current friend group is constantly icing me out until i figure out what ive done to upset them and properly apologized without being told” hey thats not good. they should not be doing that

if the peacefulness of your relationship with someone (familial, romantic, friendly, anything) can be destroyed by effective communication/asking them for effective communication, you have got to get out of there. if you can’t get out of there, you’ve got to throw away any ideas about what that person thinks of you because they have their own shit to figure out before they can accurately read anyone else

[alphynix]

Lentamanusuchus hubeiensis was a small marine reptile that lived during the early Triassic, about 248 million years ago, in shallow tropical seas covering what is now southwestern China.

It was part of a group known as hupehsuchians, early cousins of ichthyosaurs that had toothless jaws, paddle-shaped limbs, eel-like tails, and distinctive bony armor along their backs.

Around 1.2m long (~4'), Lentamanusuchus had particularly broad flippers with extra bones in its hands, a transitional state between its ancestors and later polydactylous hupehsuchians.

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References:

Qiao, Yu, Masaya Iijima, and Jun Liu. "A new hupehsuchian (Reptilia: Ichthyosauromorpha) with widely spaced autopodium from the marine Lower Triassic of South China." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23.1 (2025): 2560884. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2560884

Wikipedia contributors. “Hupehsuchia” Wikipedia, 25 May. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hupehsuchia

Wikipedia contributors. “Lentamanusuchus” Wikipedia, 10 Oct. 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentamanusuchus

[torstherapy]

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

BREAKING: Increased "Pjackk" sightings across Tumblr are being reported as many users claim to have seen a "disgusting metal object" interact with posts as recently as three hours ago, yet witnesses report that the blog in question remains inactive. Are these real sightings of the famed "Prototype Jack," or is this just an elaborate Tumblr hoax? We will report as more information becomes available.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Literally our fucking Loch Ness monster

[parkchanwoohoo]