A Squid with an Internet Connection

The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) is a large marine invertebrate living in the waters of the Humboldt Current in the eastern Pacific Ocean. 30s. Any pronouns. Animals. Animation. Theater. D&D. Horror. Pokémon.

[acorviart]

seal

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[acorviart]

made a frog

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[breelandwalker]

You have been visited by the Badger of Executive Function!

May this tenacious beastie grant you the strength to break through whatever is holding you back from completing that important task you've been meaning to get to, and the energy and motivation to

Do The Fucking Thing.

[dorothylarouge]

Does the Kids Next Door qualify as a liberation army? Is Numbah One a revolutionary theorist?

[valtsv]

me: BRING OUT THE DEATH RAY!!!

*my henchmen wheel a large glass tank containing a tiny stingray into the room*

[valtsv]

captive hero: aww!

me: QUIET! this is the deadliest ray known to man. one milli milli milligram of poison from its sting is enough to stop a grown man's heart in under a minute! and he answers only to me! behold your DOOM!

stingray: *nudges my hand*

me, getting down on my knees in front of the tank so i can look him in the eyes: Mortimer, please. i'm trying to be intimidating here.

[valtsv]

you will

[dreamlogic]

asked one of my coworkers how she's doing today and she goes "could be better, could be worse," and another coworker nearby who was eavesdropping chimes in with "could be a lil bit o' alligator curse!" i have no idea what he meant by that but i do know that it has been immediately added to the lexicon.

[humboldt-squid]

idk who needs to hear this but something "sounding ridiculous" to you personally is not, in fact, evidence of anything

[humboldt-squid]

there's this particularly smug rhetorical device that boils down to "to tell if arguments on [controversial topic] are valid, I reword them slightly and see if that makes them sound absurd"

And, even ignoring the fact that you can make anything sound absurd if you try hard enough, what sounds absurd to you is going to be based on your subjective experiences and preconceptions, so this is not a valid way of evaluating a claim. people understand that, right? [padme in the field talking to anakin] right?

[humboldt-squid]

idk who needs to hear this but something "sounding ridiculous" to you personally is not, in fact, evidence of anything

[theragamuffininitiative]

Alright I want to know something here:

the 🙃 emoji means (approximately)

silly!*

ugh!*

secret third thing you will explain in tags*

Voting ended onJul 10

*if comfortable doing so, you may include your age range/generation in the tags for helpful demographic data

kindly reblog for bigger sample size, thanks!

[purronronner]

[chickengeak]

The Thing

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Poof! You’re a mermaid now. Spin to get a type of mermaid! How we feeling about this?

You have been turned into this type of mermaid!!

What do you think?

I love it!!

it's alright

Ew

EW

oh cool I didn't know this type existed!!

Result/other

Voting ended onJul 12

(I do not know much about mermaids, forgive me if I made any mistakes. Do not drown me.)

[humboldt-squid]

[doctordisaster]

Seeing all these posts about the USMNT and frankly, I didn't realize other countries had mutant ninja turtles

[humboldt-squid]

it pisses me off when people talk about "our culture's few remaining taboos" when usamerican culture has plenty of "taboos", you're just looking in the wrong places. instead of "what words you can say in movies" maybe take a look at "who is allowed to describe their experiences and how"

[kaibacorpintern]

in the Egyptian wing of the museum and my boyfriend is like "what are all the time periods of ancient Egypt" and I'm like predynastic, early dynastic, old kingdom which is when the pyramids were built, first intermediate, middle kingdom, second intermediate, new kingdom which includes amarna period and yugioh, third intermediate, and then all the late period stuff and macedonian and roman eras. and he's like run that by me one more time

[humboldt-squid]

It’s interesting that Travel is considered educational and even inherently morally edifying, while being a Tourist is near-universally considered cringe and bad. So you get people who want to publicize the fact that they Travel without being perceived as a Tourist. Now, this would not be a bad thing if it took the form of, for instance, thinking about the impact you have on the places you visit, or the role of tourism in a colonialist society, but unfortunately it’s just resulted in people being smug that they went to a lesser known beach than you.

[humboldt-squid]

some people see a level playing field because they are on top of a playing mesa.

[romanceyourdemons]

guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone