Narwhals.

I like narwhals. Not a minor. Icon ID: A happy grey cartoon narwhal.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I hate that certain types of reality tv are entertaining to me. Turns out I'm a human who finds the same kind of bullshit compelling as other humans. I'll be ike "ha, I would never watch The Bachelor or Love At First Sight, they hold no interest to me" but that's just because I don't care about romantic relationships. Give me a show about revamping failing restaurants and I'm hooked. I've spent the last 3 days watching a guy help people in debt budget and learned nothing because the show is not about accounting, it's about a fed up man swearing at people for booking too many Disney trips. This is trash and I'm watching hours of it. I Am Not Immune.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Me: I should enjoy something with depth

Media: We put some petty drama in front of a camera and exaggerated the mistakes of strangers so you can be amazed at their behaviour

Me: Fuck it I'm in

[shittysawtraps]

calling the night out saw (2004) the way i’m crawling out of a bathroom after having a gay experience

[shittysawtraps]

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[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[persbaderse]

before my egg cracked, i had noticed that trans people were often pro-accessibility and up-to-date on the needs of disabled people, but i hadn’t seen any inherent connection between the two (other than the obvious minority-looking-out-for-other-minority thing). but now that i’m trans and medically transitioning, and i have to constantly repeat myself while talking to doctors and nurses, and explain things about my own anatomy to medical staff who should already know this, and having every single problem i might have blamed on my “condition” so nothing i say is taken seriously, all of the sudden i have a little sneak peak into the life of someone who has to deal with this all the time. like shit bro, being disabled probably sucks ass, someone should do something about this

[persbaderse]

happy disability pride month, we all deserve autonomy and respect and access to medication

[alexanderwales]

Apparently if you log Obsession twice on Letterboxd you get short video message from Michael Johnston, who plays Bear, plays. It scared the shit out of me and came, but he just said thanks, shared some trivia, and the normal page resumed. Just a nice bit of presumably paid brand promotion.

But of course, this opens up the possibility that if you log it a third time, or a fifth time, you might get some different message, and I have to admit, I'm tempted to see how far they pushed the gimmick.

[softest-punk]

The Story Keepers

Do you want:

nb4nb not-quite-star-crossed lovers

mid-future solarpunk setting

frankly the coolest facet of Irish mythology turned into speculative religious practice

short enough to read in one sitting

✨FREE✨

Then The Story Keepers is for you! Read it on my Patreon (for which there is only a free tier and I would love it if you signed up for it. There will be more stories coming. Time travel! Disability and superheroism! Aroace ghost hunters! etc. etc.)

[hiveswap]

Not now, kitten, m- da- m- your parental figure is in the middle of a gender crisis

[innerchildabortionclinic]

uppies-seeking behavior

[mxjackparker]

Sports reminder: You don't have to specify gender when you're talking about women's sport, treating men's sport as the default. You can say men's football or men's rugby or men's hockey. You can ask "did you watch the football tonight?" about a women's game with the same confidence that the other person will know what you're talking about as people do when they talk about the men's, and you can refuse to let women's sport be treated as secondary or lesser.

[sea--burn]

feng shui sabotage by placing thousands of tiny ball bearings in a bag under your couch you won't see them but you'll feel the clutter

[foone]

I like my socks like I like my women:

[lo1bits]

Please finish the sentence I have no idea how it’s made to end

[foone]

the original meaning that prompted this post was "not on my feet while I'm trying to sleep"

[everest-81]

Mmm yes delicious I feel absolutely nauseous. Onionless and pepperless guacamole and hot sauce on taquitos to warm the soul .tome to wash it aaaaallll down with sugar water

[rainbowgod666]

Did @derinthescarletpescatarian cook for you or what

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I would never leave onions out of something that could reasonably contain onions.

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

ttrpg games are insane and make you insane in ways that are fundamental and irreparable. sometimes the best piece of fiction you will ever experience will happen to you and your friends over two to five years of your life. it will be your work and their work and yet somehow exist between and beyond you all. there will only be like three or five of you in the room and nobody else will ever be able to experience this in the way you did. it will be ephemeral and immediate and it will occasionally make you feel so bad you see hell. fuck. what a concept

[bod-5arts]

I hope my chronicle feels like this to my players because it does feel like this to me :>

[waystatus]

One of the best moments of my life was a one-shot in an obscure system with people who are no longer speaking to each other. And that fact drives me kinda nuts. Not only have I peaked, I peaked playing fucking Ah, Dang! Mothman Won't Move Out (He Said It Was Just For The Weekend).

[onlessdev]

One of the few games I have gotten to enjoy as a player instead of GM/host/guide was also Ah, Dang! Mothman Won’t Move Out (He Said It Was Just For The Weekend); also with people who are no longer speaking to each other. I run games still, of course, but now I’m so strongly nostalgia for that one night where we played goofy housemates dealing a quirky Mothman and asshole landlord! I played a bigender ginger werewolf who worked as a waiter trying to save up for something like starting an animal rescue or veterinary training :3

[junkratsadstuck]

here at the sandwich shop, we’ve started to notice some people who are new to sandwiches aren’t used to meat and cheese between two slices of bread. they find this practice strange and confusing. that’s why we’ve decided to cut the bread out all together. from now on, we’ll just serve slices of meat and cheese on a plate.

[junkratsadstuck]

we know that many of our loyal sandwich shop customers have been coming here for years to buy our delicious sandwiches. but some people don’t “get” sandwiches, and we need to try and appeal to them with an easier-to-understand meal format. we will no longer be serving sandwiches. all of our food will just be cold cuts on a paper plate. we love our customers and appreciate your understanding <3

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yes we know Craig's Cold Cuts down the street does cold cuts better than we do and has millions of customers. That's why we need to switch to cold cuts, to get their customers. We hope that our long-time sandwich loving customer base will be patient in this transition to cold cuts and welcome the certain influx of Craig's Cold Cut customers who will surely come here to enjoy our worse cold cuts with you, our sandwich-deprived customer base, whom we value so much.

[nitewrighter]

Spice grows from the ground, erotica grows from the ceiling.

[prokopetz]

Honestly, a big part of why I'm excited about @jdragsky's Seven Part Pact is that it'll be nice to have a baroquely maximalist tabletop-RPG-meets-board-game actually available in print that isn't Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine.

[prokopetz]

(Like, not that I'm sick of CMWGE by any means, but it would be good to have an example of the type I can recommend to people who would prefer to at least occasionally roll dice!)