There's Lots of Trash in the Sea

Chronic queue blogger, a necessary part of this ecosystem. Check back in 2-3 work weeks to see if your posts made the cut lol

[i-amtheweirdo]

I’VE BEEN HERE FOR TEN YEARS?????

Edit: Apparently in the same day I’ve also earned the ‘over 100 posts made’ badge. Lot of landmarks happening apparently

[slygirlboy]

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[depsidase]

[olicrosse]

[cephalopodvictorious]

fixed it

[star-thief]

[tsunflowers]

I feel bad for people who’ve never experienced a corn maze bc it’s not even fun but you just have to do it

[tsunflowers]

I'd like to reblog this with some tags and comments bc I've really appreciated reading them

people who get what I mean:

people who have found a way to have fun in the corn maze but who I'm a little worried about:

person who we are going to put in the corn:

[leggywillow]

We did a haunted corn maze one time, and a thing about corn mazes is that there’s also just loose fallen corn on the ground. My friend picked up a cob (is that what you call it, idk) for a souvenir, and a scare actor grabbed it from her and chucked it as hard as he could. There was an unrelated popping exploding sound at that very moment, and the actor just goes “better watch out.” 10/10 experience

[edderkopper]

Today I learned that cuttlefish experience REM sleep, and that it makes their skin flash random colors. This is the cutest thing ever.

[blackbearmagic]

The electric eel at my aquarium has a voltmeter attached to his tank, and whenever he pumps out a burst of electricity–either when he’s navigating his tank or getting fed–the meter lights up and makes noise. Sometimes, I’ll walk past him when he’s snuggled up and totally motionless on his log, and see the voltmeter going crazy.

I am left to assume that he is dreaming, and is sleep-zapping at the things in his dreams.

[arachnospooky]

I am absolutely delighted to learn that electric eels dream of kicking ass.

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

[saja-star]

a phrase that kinda bothers me when talking about women's historical roles in europe is "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear it so often, those exact words in the same order even. and once you learn a little more you realize that the massive gaping hole in that list is fiberwork. im not an expert and have no hard numbers, but i wouldnt be surprised if fiberwork took up nearly as much time as the other three tasks combined, so it's not a trivial omission.

it's not a hot take to say that the mass amnesia about fiberwork is linked to the belittlement of women's work in geneal, but i do think there's a special kind of illusion that is cast by "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear that and think "well i cook and clean and take care of children (or i know someone who does) and i have a sense of how much work that is" and you know of course that cooking and cleaning were more laborious before modern technology, but still, you have a ballpark estimate you think, when in fact you are drastically underestimating the work load.

i also think that this just micharacterizes the role of women's work in livelihoods? cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children are all sisyphean tasks that have to be repeated the next day. these are important, but not the whole picture. when we include all kinds of fiberwork—and other things, such as making candles or soap—women's work looks much more like manufacturing, a sphere we now associate more with men's work. i feel like women's connection to making and craftsmanship is often elided.

[queeranarchism]

And part of 'cooking' was brewing, pickling, preserving, fermenting..

Also memory-holed is how incredibly time-consuming laundry was and how much of it relied on physical strength.

[digitalmyyth]

What is forcefem question

[hotvampireadjacent]

[deedis]

norp

[deedis]

nop i dont tink so

[shrugsinchinese]

Rocky was in space for 50 years of course the recuperation period is long and hard

[kerofroggo]

Another shrimp painting

[totallynotgayforyou]

[petrichordiam]

@solipseismic thank u for the insight 🫡

[empire-of-light]

what a dystopian ass premise for a romcom

[drtrinitysantos]

girl help they're making a porn parody of the purge but without the porn

[thememedaddy]

[tvguts]

something about Toy Story toys is so strange to me. versions of animated characters based on real world toys, turned back into toys that are slightly different than the actual toys. slinky dog with a rubber spiral instead of a classic metal slinky. the porcelain bo peep and cloth woody turned into jointed plastic action figures. when toy story 4 came out and i saw a $30 talking action figure of forky, a character made out of a spork and a pipe cleaner, i stood in the walmart toy aisle staring at it like cameron from ferris bueller's day off staring at that painting in the art museum