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[girlcaligula]

god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy

[girlcaligula]

this one. absolutely in love with this definition. give me a character who thinks like this and I’ll love them to pieces

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

This hippo

I love this hippo and I hope it catches the dream it’s chasing! What dream do you think it is?

[ovopack]

司書くんたち

[ovopack]

ネコ商人いろいろ

[wlw-whump]

I'm a BIG fan of low ranking characters suddenly thrust into a position of authority they're unprepared for. a young princess, too far down the line of succession to merit any training, forced onto the throne when her whole family dies in one attack. a lowly technician on a team who finds themself the defacto leader when a mission goes wrong and every single person above them is captured or killed. a group of strangers comes together for survival, and the only person with any assertiveness gets assigned a leadership role, even though they have no special skills. do these characters rise to the challenge and lead their respective groups to victory? do they crash and burn under the pressure so hard no one ever trusts them again? do they massively restructure their whole society because any system that puts them in charge can't be doing things right?

[lesbianshepard]

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

[lesbianshepard]

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

[key--lime--pie]

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

[notaflippinmermaid]

No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.

…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

[dinosauriaawesome]

I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them

[thesaltofcarthage]

I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic. 

[wholesome-dragon-lady]

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.

[depsidase]

[hubblegleeflower]

Someone cut down and stole every Flock camera in this Minnesota town

Police in Minnesota are investigating after their eight Flock license plate reader cameras were cut down and stolen.

[wheeloffortune-design]

my publisher: Good morning! Huh did you advertise for the pre-sale yesterday? Because we launched twelve hours ago and we already made sales!

me: yeah, i posted on tumblr

publisher: .........tumblr?

me: that's where the gays are.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update

publisher: And what is your marketing strategy on... tumblr?

me: idk, i shitpost at 2am?

publisher: .....and it works?

me: depends on what the gays find funny at that point in time.

publisher: Could I have a link to your tumblr?

me: .......absolutely not.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western where 50 year old women kiss and murder)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update!

publisher: I've been looking into tumblr, have you thought of using Blaze to promote your book?

me: NO

publisher: But it seems like an efficient way to get this in front of more eyes-

me: people on tumblr hate Blaze.

publisher: There is no algorithm and you can't pay to promote a post? I don't understand how anyone advertises anything on tumblr.

me: That's the best part. They don't. They can't.

(trying to make him understand that we do not control the attention. We just have to show something shiny and gay enough and if people are interested, they'll reblog.)

(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a deconstruction of the colonialist cowboy mythos dressed up as a sapphic romance.)

[velvetcloak]

[vaspider]

I think it's really important to point out one of the major flaws in that highway analogy:

Eminent domain requires payment.

The government cannot come in and merely seize your land under eminent domain and pay you nothing. There is a process & they have to pay you market value for your land and the buildings on it. A couple of my former clients went through this about 15 years ago when the 202 Bypass went through in Montgomery & Bucks County in Pennsylvania. Their houses and land were taken via eminent domain so that the highway could be built, but, I need to say this again: they were paid.

They were paid and there was a process in which they were informed ahead of time. They didn't just drive home one day and find out their home had been snatched, too bad, so sad, no money for you, you should have put your house in a bank vault.

Just taking someone's shit like that without compensation has a name, and it's not eminent domain or anything like it:

It's fucking theft.

(I'm not interested in hearing the same tired shit about how copyright is inherently bad and only protects corporations, because as someone who deals with protecting my livelihood from scammers and scrapers via copyright every goddamned day, this isn't a fun mental exercise/philosophical debate for me, and you're absolutely wrong. Fucking save it for someone ignorant enough and with time to waste on that.)

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[liberalsarecool]

Stay engaged.

[romanceyourdemons]

rip to the guy who posted his very expensive yixing teapot to r/tea, only for the comments to be not compliments on his taste as he expected, but instead GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY and I SHOULD CALL HER. he then crossposted it to r/gongfutea, which is ordinarily more dignified and self-serious, but was it? was it?? of course not, because this is reddit, and this was the teapot

[mrsterlingeverything]

PDFing my eclipse experience

I had a super hard time planning the viewing because there were so many factors to consider in transportation with crowds and an unknown place (mallorca, large island off of spain) etc. Anyways so i was like ok lets go to the west coast on the other side of the mountains and then we will be able to see it over the water 💯 no prablem. So an uber would have been €300000000 and they might not even show up if its too busy which it would be so i was like ok we are gonna leave super early and take the bus with one transfer, itll take two hours but the bus is kinda nice and its €4. So we diiiid and then we got to the transfer and then were in a line if maybe 100 people for one bus. BUT we were in the front 30 because of our gay teamwork, together realizing a line was forming and where we needed to be in time etc. And we counted the bus seats and found there were like 48 per bus. So we stayed in line like yay we are going to make it boyfriend :). And then the bus scheduled arrival time came. And then 15 minutes passed. And then 15 more minutes passed. And then 15 more minutes passed and we are in a hot subway type tunnel and there is no air conditioning and the bus has arrived but it is off and the driver is MIA . So we wait until a bus driver arrives like 45 minutes after the scheduled departure time and we are like ok lets go..? And then the driver (only to the front of the line.. fuck the back 90 people) says “you can get on but the bus line is shortened its not going all the way to the coast anymore. Fuck you die.” So the bus is going to a stop in the middle of fuckang nowhere near a town called esporles (map for your viewing pleasure) we were in palma at the time.

And my boyfriend is like should we go anyways..? And im like i have a feeling we should just make it work. So we get on anyways and take an almost empty bus to this fuck ass bus stop in the middle of nowhere still on the wrong side of the mountains. But towards the end of the trip my boyfriend overhears someone talking about a hike and asks him what their plan is, the guy says “we are going to hike two hours to the mountains above Banyalbufar to watch the eclipse :D” and he asks me if im down for a hike (i recently went hiking insane because of the game Cairn and was trying to make a hike happen on our trip but its been 35 degrees. celcius bitch. Every day. So the internet said do not fucking hike in the summer you will die. So that made me sad but opportunity found me and our other option was the devil uber. So i was like hell yeah lets hike. And two other dudes were already teaming up with this guy so we joined up with their adventuring team and got off and started our impromptu hike up and across a mountain, on this unesco stone trail thing idk. Anyways it was hot and it did try us but we were like 5 fit enough adult men and we did it in like 1:30 we were fucking booking it jogging at times. And we got to this spot overlooking the ocean and people had cameras set up and stuff and we were like this is it this is the spot. Got there 20 minutes before the partial eclipse started. Got all set up and i was like yall mind if I play an album during this ? They played it during the one in 2024 and it blew my fucking mind. And they were like go for it!! And i started playing dark side of the moon 42 minutes and 10 seconds before the eclipse like the internet said to (next time i will time it so that the great gig in the sky is whats playing during totality tbh, but it was still nice). The guy who invited us was like omg. This is my favorite album of all time. So we sat and enjoyed the partial eclipse with perfect viewing conditions and listened to the album. And then the total eclipse began and a damn cloud kind of got in the way of the corona viewing experience. Which whatever. It was so crazy beautiful anyways and it was unique in that we saw a circle of the moons shadow pass over the clouds and it was enormous. Like the scale was incredible and unlike the last eclipse i saw (cope kind of bc the corona was favorite part in 2024) anyways the total eclipse ends and the sun is now mostly behind clouds and going down towards the horizon. We are like all mind blown and sharing pictures and being new friends. And then the clouds move out of the way and fucking part 2 begins. The moon is still covering a significant amount of the sun but the sun is like visually widening as it sets and turning like red. Its making a crazy ass shape. And we take our photos and probably stare at the raw sun for too long but we are speechless at this point. Anyways here are my photos and thank you for listening to my story.

[cheglok-art]

Kākāpō believes in you ☀

[fluffysheeps]

Flower cows! 🌼🐄

[kittiescatlover]

Kitties dont relly have Breeds like doggies do but they have special types like Weird Baby, Angry Head, Sleeper Fatty, Yappy Meower, Orange, Sweetie Playful, and The Creep. If you collect them all, well. You will probably have too many kitties.

[b0nkcreat]

you can collect them like pokeymans

[kittiescatlover]

Wow this is actually a perfect drawing of some of the types of kitties. Thank you

[henk-heijmans]

A natural wave is formed on Lake Michigan when the riptide meets the incoming tide and explodes upward, 2014 - by Michael Bernhardt, American