I said I'll change this later you know like a liar

Al-he/they-Too many fandoms to count-occasionally posts fanart/fiction

[astraldemise]

just found out that stoats hunt twice the size of them like rabbits by aggressively and eccentrically dancing around it with their little slinky rigatoni bodies so it can confuse the absolute fuck out of its prey until it can get close enough to jump on its back like some shadow of the colossus shit and take it down

[astraldemise]

oh my god its called the weasel war dance and they just go off the shits apeshit little animals

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Clowning towards you with incredible speed and murderous intent.

[the-haiku-bot]

Clowning towards you

with incredible speed and

murderous intent.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

@supreme-leader-stoat

[quillyfied]

For those of us who required a visual immediately upon reading:

[grison-in-space]

The weasel war dance works by being so fast and confident that prey (like the rabbits) can't predict where the weasel will be coming from next. All the chaos and misdirection makes it impossible for the rabbit to defend itself against the weasel.

It, along with mobbing (another way to cognitively overload an opponent and prevent them from focusing on a single threat at once) has been on my mind lately for some reason.

[onetobeamup]

Anyway. When I’m at work I shall draw Klingons Kissing

[onetobeamupart]

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

I will never understand how normalized it is to put cameras in your home now. I can recognize some scenarios where it makes sense- if I had a stalker for example, but like. It would have to be That Big for me to consider it. People today use it to tell their kids it's time to stop playing video games and do homework like. Like?? I do not understand how you don't understand how harmful it is to raise kids with the sense they're always being watched like why does anyone under normal circumstances invite this into their home

[wizardarchetypes]

saw a video recently, recorded by a camera in a child's bedroom, of a toddler reading her favorite book after bed time. her mom went in and told her it was time to sleep, and she said, 'but i just love reading so much.' her mom laughed indulgently and told her to sleep once the book was finished. she agreed, but before the video ended, she said, 'you're so silly for watching me!'

she was smiling when she said it, but i found that one sentence so abysmal. that toddler knew her mom didn't just happen to come and check on her. she understands that there is a camera in her room by which her mom (and as far as she might comprehend, any adult) can access her in her private space, in her private time, at all times.

can you imagine? never on your own. can't sleep? too bad. you're a child and the grown ups are watching you. lie in bed in the dark. pretend to sleep. behave.

it's 10 pm and the rest of the house is enjoying winding down after a long day. your parents don't need to worry about putting on a professional face like they do at work. your older siblings get to be themselves instead of who they have to be at school. everyone gets to relax. but not you.

it's 10 pm, and you're three years old, and you must continue to do everything right, because they are watching you.

oh, and when you don't behave, if it's cute enough, your mother will post footage of you in your bedroom for millions of strangers to watch!

[heyscaredycat]

some pages from my 2024 zine 'neurodivergent pop-ups'

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

Image description: four pages of a digital zine with text "Oh no: social cue not found", warning signs and speech bubbles laid right over each other that say "a random alarm is going off somewhere", "and then he did", "what the fuck?", "it is so bright in here", "you have no idea what they are saying," "you are too hot", "your clothing tag is itchy", a browser screen popup "warning: you are not talking enough, warning: you are talking too much" and "hang on: are you sure you want to interrupt?" with yes or no option.

/end description

[sioltach]

watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)

[loth-catgirl]

[batbetbitbotbut]

A minor stress of yarncrafts which I don't see discussed much:

There is a small tangle in your yarn. Topologically you know it must be a slipknot; if you give it a good firm tug, it should come undone.

Just how much force are you willing to stake on that?

[leonardslee]

Here’s one my mother taught me long ago that works more often than not: if the knot has a loop sticking out of it, and the loop is pointing in one direction along the yarn, put a pin in the loop and pull it the other way, then tug on the other end of the yarn (the way the loop was originally pointing). The slipknot usually comes out smoothly. This works with sewing thread as well.

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[punishedsaints]

[anachronic-cobra]

I cannot emphasize enough how exactly accurate this is to working in production

[formerly-known-as-shift-rip]

You people are normal right. If I learn how to be a person from you it would be fine right

[lerios]

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[sexy-necromancing-bird]

Is the guy in the cuck chair supposed to stay quiet or is he allowed to clap and cheer

[foxgirlmindcrank]

he's supposed to take notes and make an intrigued hum when an interesting plot point occurs

[conspiracydeerist]

[kotortwo]

oh that gap in my resume? i was imprisoned by the lizard king for a few years, it was a whole thing. big misunderstanding, completely exonerated. but that ties into the next item on the list, 2 years as consort to the lizard king. that was actually a volunteer situation

[meow-moment]

creating a new OC. He's a doctor who treats weird kink furries. his bit is that every patient who comes into his office he has to figure out how to complete the checkup while working around some weird toon-logic contrivance. He's like the doctor house of kink because he's the only one in his field capable of getting results. He's massively overworked and he's been IP banned from the e621 forums.

[meow-moment]

His name is Doctor RJ Yiphman and he's one wrong move away from getting fired.

[meow-moment]

Doctor Yiphman treats more patients

[meow-moment]

Yiphman's back

[meow-moment]

[prokopetz]

Fantasy setting where the calendar has exactly twelve months of thirty days, but the year is still 365 days long; the remaining five days are nameless, numberless, considered to be part of no month or year, and may strike at any time, being impossible for mortals to predict in advance – you just wake up in the morning and see the Signs. Sometimes they're widely scattered throughout the year, sometimes you get two or three in a row; all five in one go is either a very good omen, or a very bad one. Some years have six nameless days rather than five and nobody knows why.

[hypokeimena]

#interested by this idea of the calendar as something that Happens To You rather than something you create #& what that means for how spacetime would be perceived (via @alonewildbird)

[wordfather]

being made by vitro fertilisation (IVF) is so funny. my parent didn't have sex, my parents conducted an experiment with a scientist. my humble beginnings can be traced to a petri dish. some person i dont know clocked in to work and then just made me. i was made in a lab and i didn't even get any cool powers or anything. im just a girl that has to work 9 to 5

[wordfather]

a tag mentioned how likely it is for ivf to produce twins and it reminded me of the fact that i ate my twin in the womb. so maybe my secret power is eating people

[sorryfortheraybans-deactivated2]

if i was a guy in the middle ages i would say “they’re called the four humours but i’m not laughing”

[shadowblade8192]

9/11 could never happen today because the twin towers arent there anymore for some reason

[parasocialanxiety]

9/11 could never happen today because it's January

[cannibalchicken]

[starlightbelle]

[thelockenessmonster]

You should be allowed to leave work early