percabeth

[shencomix]

[schmergo]

Confession: The letter “t” key on my laptop has been broken since 2024. From what my research tells me, they can’t fix individual keys on that model, and my laptop is no longer under a warranty, but it seems foolish to fork out over $900 for a new computer, so instead I’ve trained my brain to hit ctrl+v every time I want to hit “t.”

But sometimes I have to copy-paste something else besides “t,” which means I need a readily available place to copy the “t” from.

My first thought was to search “tiger” on Google, but if you can’t type the letter “t,” you just get search results about Bob Iger.

I realized words that end with “t” are easier for Google to autocomplete, so the first one I thought of was “crypt.” But wouldn’t you know, googling “cryp” takes to you to cryptocurrency results, and I REALLY don’t want my algorithm thinking I google that multiple times per week.

Then I remembered a cool place I went in London, called Cafe in the Crypt. It’s exactly what it sounds like and located below St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. When I type in “Cafe in Cryp,” Google does indeed autocomplete it effectively! So I either keep that search result open in a tab or Google it every day.

So, that being said, if anyone works for St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church’s marketing department and has been utterly flummoxed by an IP address from Virginia that has googled their cafe hundreds of times over the past 6 months… that wasn’t a bot, that was me.

I am the Spiders Georg of Cafe in the Crypt.

Anyway, it’s a pretty cool place to check out if you’re ever in London. Just maybe not cool enough to Google it on a daily basis for months straight.

[despazito]

Nosy ass plant

[teethsmoothie]

[pastelroyalty]

This is the funniest email I have ever received from a professor

[surprisebitch]

also most considerate

[goat-yells-at-everything]

For context from someone with chronic migraines: short reply in large font means I dont have to look at the screen longer than a second to see what the professor said.

Extremely considerate and I assume the professor probably has migraines sometimes too or someone close to them does.

[todaysbird]

when i was 6-8 years old, long before i understood more than basic genetics, i ran an unsanctioned isopod breeding project in my backyard. it brings me comfort to think the “special” isopods may still be in the yard of my childhood home

[todaysbird]

how this worked: i picked out ‘rare’ brown isopods from the typical gray colored isopods i found. they tended to live in this old play house thing we had, and i essentially created an isopod paradise where i provided them with fresh food and water. eventually this expanded to albino isopods (!) and isopods i found that were regular, but very big, which is impressive. so essentially there was no strict goal, but i ended up with a bunch of various colored large isopods, and i was happy.

[holdtightposts]

There’s so much to unpack here:

Pack of Beakers

Goth Beaker

The Beaker snitching and pointing out the photographer

The Beaker that’s about to unload on the photographer

The terminator strut before the ass whooping and you know he’s moving at speed because of the blur

The ominous feeling that you know this is 3 in the morning

[victoriousflappage]

Gods I fucking love this post. So hard. Fuck.

[cafiffle]

[kleefkruid]

The fun thing about picking up a cat from the street is that they know a negative amount of rules and will commit entirely new crimes

[foolsdiamond]

same crime

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black with low white spotting, black classic tabby

[peeznutz]

@kittybroker

[kittybroker]

Ready in just 30 seconds! These pre-cooked kitties the perfect treat on a cold day! Pick up these instant kitties for only $6.99 today!

[penstab]

i have a horrible misogynist rooster who only likes blonde hens so i always have to make sure i have 2-3 yellow hens around so he doesn't run anyone ragged. i didn't know this was a problem someone could have but i've had macklemore for eight slutty, slutty years and he's been overly obsessed with the blondness level of his lady friends for the entire time with no sign of slowing down so, like. props to him for sticking to his guns.

SIR, PLEASE,

[penstab]

YOU CANT JUST CASUALLY LEAVE THIS IN THE REPLIES AS IF THIS ISNT A CRUCIAL ELEMENT OF THIS HARROWING STORY

SIR!!!!!!

[cute-animals-only]

[marinebiologyshitposts]

deploy the boy

[cute-animals-only]

[marlynnofmany]

I hope this photographer won a prize

[liberalsarecool]

DEI does not mean lower standards.

You are thinking of white privilege.

[guerrillatech]

[esoanem]

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

[datasoong47]

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

[blacktabris]

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

[thegreenpea]

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

[wakandamama]

Masai giraffes look cool af

[uzumaki-rebellion]

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

[sepiaseraph-deactivated20221120]

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

[rattle-my-stars]

[slimewizaaard]

This switched gears from a post about white ignorance to a giraffe appreciation post. Such is the nature of tumblr.

[dietspam16]

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

An update - as of July 2023, Angola has now reintroduced the Angolan giraffe into Iona National Park from the surviving population in Namibia, and reinforced the population with a second group in May 2024. Giraffes are ecosystem engineers in Angola because of their grazing habits, so once their population grows enough, they'll boost other species diversity too. It's still early days, but we're on the brink of that map needing to be expanded, which is lovely

[collapsedsquid]

[writterings]

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

[valtsv]

i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

[valtsv]

[rohirric-hunter]

“You are not better than Icarus just because you have the benefit of his example” go off

[docdufresne]

Had a dream last night that i was a knight and this bigger scarier knight had me on the ground and right before he swung his sword at my neck he said smth like "i mourn the loss of life for the tree who will become your coffin" which shouldnt have turned me on like it did but alas

[homunculus-argument]

Hey you all know about that fungus that possesses ants to make them climb on the tip of grass blades in hopes of getting eaten by a cow, so that the fungus can continue its life cycle in the cow's guts? Because I think that's the kind of thing that's wrong with cave divers.

We don't know what's down there. We don't know what's gotten into their heads that makes them so determined to physically, personally go down there to find out. But I wouldn't entirely dismiss the possibility that whatever has gotten into them is very invested in getting eaten by whatever is down there.