Ya'll motherfuckers need Talos.

FruitBird here! HUGE ratchet and clank fan and avid fan fiction writer. Drop me a line, I don't bite!

[parkchanwoohoo]

[queer-as-city-folk]

Animals: a guide

[queer-as-city-folk]

One side has monkeys and tigers and elephants and capybaras, the other? Squirrels and deer

[queer-as-city-folk]

I forgot Bison and Sea Otters

[salekinj]

Have you seen a moose, megafauna are cool.

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

I DO NOT!!!

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

I am sorry

[captainlordauditor]

I live in the US and one of the things that really reframed the way I think about animals was when someone I knew in Brazil posted a picture of a marmoset hanging out outside their window and I realized that monkeys were to them what squirrels are to me. Recently a friend in Hungary sent a picture they took at the zoo of a raccoon and it was like my worldview was being shifted all over again because what was to me the mildly annoying, somewhat cute, critter that makes weird noises behind my house at night was a wonder to someone else. They have little hands and bandit masks. They wash their little hands. How is that NOT a wonder? All animals are cool I’m just used to raccoons.

[headspace-hotel]

Everything is cool, it's just that when you're familiar with something you can become desensitized to its coolness.

[noelle-ism]

That's Not What Unc Means

You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

Really good write-up on the origin of "Unc" as a term used in AAVE, and how it's been turned into a generic disparaging term when it didn't even have negative connotations to begin with.

[fruitbird15]

Item: Your First Video Game Rarity: ⏶ Common

What was your first video game?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Word quest, back in the old DOS era!

[herpsandbirds]

Lesser Caymans Iguana or Sister Islands Rock Iguana (𝘊𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴), family Iguanidae, found on Cayman Brac and Little Cayman in the Cayman Islands

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

Also introduced onto Grand Cayman.

A subspecies of the Cuban Rock Iguana.

This individual is what herpetologists call a "Chonkosaurus rex".

photograph by Will Burrard-Lucas

[small-puddle-oceanographer]

A boomer at work recently was like, "we all wish we could have our fist car again :)" and I had to be like, hahaha, no way in hell do I want a ford focus with cigarette burns all over the seats and a key that you can take out while driving.

So anyway, check this mans privledge with me

Do you wish you could have your first car again?

yes

no

nuance

bald/show results

Voting ended onMar 11

Add the car in the tags if you want, I'm curious

[steven-scribbleverse]

[steven-scribbleverse]

This was just me being funny but you're all so correct and your brains are wrinkly

[stitchposts]

what is your LEAST favorite stitch?

I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.

[rabbitindisguise]

reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

[stitchposts]

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.

[the-dragongirl]

Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot

[stitchposts]

Don't you dare malign my girl again

[im-a-dream-wizard]

Ok the french knot is very useful but it is a BITCH to do it consistently

[stitchposts]

[ao3-anonymous]

We talk about how this website’s hate mail game is insane, but this might just be a new level

[talbatross]

"skill issue" made entirely from French knots is a next level roast. no coming back from that one. damn

[fruitbird15]

"Socks are so hard! I hate making socks! Knitting on double pointed needles is the worst!"

Skill issue, I've made three pairs of socks and am actively making a bag on double pointed needles, get on my level.

[rimonoroni2]

crazy how tying the specific knots you want to make in fibercraft is so painstakingly difficult and easy to fuck up but if you take your eyes off yarn for four seconds it’s somehow finagled itself into several Interlocking Double Loop Fwip Form Uber Nooses when you weren’t looking. insufferable!

[rimonoroni2]

string (of all forms and types) should have an HR manager i can yell at. i should be able to put string in a corner as punishment for breaking it down gordian style every ten seconds. this is a level of angry at inanimate objects ive only ever felt towards a malfunctioning toaster, except worse because where a toaster is simply a poor fool being acted upon by the whims of fate, you can actually feel when string is being intentionally malicious. what a tempestuous mistress. it’s not often i’ve encountered an art form in which the pencil feels capable of hatred

[49wasagreatyear]

[fruitbird15]

Been getting really into dinosaurs lately

[fruitbird15]

On the subject of the many crab raves I've been seeing, I've got plenty of crabs waiting for my own nemesis: Ruth Richardson. Think a kiwi Margaret Thatcher. And also the woman who starved my mother. I am gonna be SO tasteless when she carks it…

[old-manrupee]

As a car driver, let it be known that the most optimal position in a (moving) line of traffic is right at the back. Let me elaborate for a second.

First, let us consider pole position. At first glance, it seems like you are the leader, the king of traffic, with nothing but wide open road in your way. But caution: heavy is the head that wears the crown. You are only really in front of a line of traffic if you deign to allow traffic to pile up behind you! Even if it seems like random happenstance, in truth it is proof that you have failed at driving somehow. It matters not that you're driving normally: somehow, in some way, you are in the way of all the nice people behind you. At a moment's notice, any one of them could manoeuvre to overtake you (giving you earth shattering side-eye all the while). That's right, a king can so easily be usurped.

Next let us ponder on the middle. In a word: suffocating. What if the worst were to happen, how would you escape when you're boxed in from the front and behind? And at all times you must remain constantly vigilant of distance. It's a delicate balancing act of keeping safe length from They Who Are In Front, while also not slowing and straying too much towards They Who Are Behind. And yet perish the thought of being momentarily zoned out when the traffic has collectively rested at lights, only to zone in again a mere few seconds later to find that In Front has moved when you have not! Remember: a gap in the line is evidence of an embarrassment.

And so we turn to the rear. Yes, you cannot see the lofty pack leaders from back here in the doldrums, but would you want to see them? Do you need to? What is a king to an ant but just another sandwich to steal. Here at the rear there is an ample emergency escape route, albeit in reverse. You can go at your own pace and be perceived as the lovable younger sibling waddling to catch up to the family. And in that we see the glimmer of deeper truth: a glorious lack of responsibility. Yes it might take slightly longer to get to your destination but there is nothing to be done about that, so why not let go of situational control and embrace it? "Sorry boss, the traffic was murder! But what can you do eh?"

[old-manrupee]

I wrote this when I was half asleep last night and it's an interesting experience to reread...

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Pole position is where the blue shells go

[yupthatexists]

Where y'all digging to?? https://www.antipodesmap.com/

[tothechaos]

did you end up in water

yes

no

Voting ended onSep 16, 2025

[rabbiteclair]

the Ever Given was March 2021

the Titan submersible was June 2023

circa September 2025 we're due for another round of the internet's favorite game show, How Fucked Is That Boat

[ceescedasticity]

Of these options, which is the most likely kind of bird to make off with a french fry dropped in the street in front of your home?

Pigeon

Crow

Seagull

Goose

I know for sure what bird is most likely and it's not one of these (what?)

Not sure / show results

Voting ended onAug 22, 2025

[bumblebeebats]

I have come to admit that my own toxic trait is that i DO hold a quiet disdain for people who think that putting flatpack furniture together is hard. Why is IKEA furniture in particular regarded as some Ultimate Test for Couples - "If you build it without killing each other, he's the one, haha!" ???? Like, listen, I get it, i've got a fuck'd wrist nowadays so I DO find that hammering peg A into slot B is considerably more difficult than it used to be, but the task ITSELF? It's like building lego, y'all. Except that at the end of it, you end up with not just some sort of miniature spaceship (admittedly very cool, if not particularly useful) but a functional and stylish side table. It's the perfect enrichment. I smashed together three Billy bookcases last summer with nothing but a screwdriver, a pencil, and the love in my heart, and I had the time of my life. Do you, too, not feel a thrill in your heart at the satisfying feeling of a cam lock twisting into place? Do not the tiny little crinkly bags of screws remind you of candy wrappers to be torn open and piled gleefully upon the floor, like a child at Halloween emptying your haul onto the living room carpet? Am I the freak, or are you? I am willing to accept the former but i die on this hill regardless