There Are A Lot of Cats

64 || USA, Oregon ||🖤🩶🤍💜|| She/her || I like animals || slash fiction || GLORIOUS NERDERY || my politics are centrist with occasional gusts of ANARCHY || avatar credit thatrobert

[fuinle-archive-deactivated20210]

softly the waves are trilling

[justalurkr]

Have a rest.

[luckyybones]

anybody else just… mentally exhausted sometimes about keeping vigilant about AI?

[justalurkr]

So, if your book of essays on fishing debuted March 31, 2026, and the Kindle edition is on $3 deal today (June 3, 2026,) does that mean it sold very, very poorly?

I mean, you can't really remainder ebooks.

Can you?

[justalurkr]

Reblogging to update: apparently, this is a strategy to get more eyes on the book. The Google search focused more on giving this advice to self-published authors (which I'm pretty sure Mark Kurlansky is not,) so I'm still a little fuzzy on what it means for initial sales.

[justalurkr]

So, if your book of essays on fishing debuted March 31, 2026, and the Kindle edition is on $3 deal today (June 3, 2026,) does that mean it sold very, very poorly?

I mean, you can't really remainder ebooks.

Can you?

[justalurkr]

Is it

Auntie = Anty?

Auntie = Unty?

Auntie = some secret 3rd thing I will sound out in notes?

I just wanna see how this plays out

Remaining time: 22 hours 4 minutes

[justalurkr]

Nicked from xitter

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[blumineck]

How to spring-load your bow!

This information is freely given. What you do with it is up to you! 🏹💐🧚🏼

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[shaffyreads]

I believe fully that one significant reason there always is some great effort to push Black people out of geek/nerd/alternative spaces is because white people in these spaces are forced to come face to face with the fact that whatever harshness they had to deal with for being who they are, Black people have to deal with that plus racism, and because everything has to be a contest, their response is to be cruel and make Black people unwelcome.

[sleepynegress]

The empathy gap is caused by defaulting. So, unless white person grew up in an exceptionally empathetic household. It's a handicap white people have to actively combat to come up to the baseline Black people grew up with because we have to assilimate.

There's also the very effective block to this, that is feeling blamed/like the bad guys.

Hate groups have weaponized that feeling and used it as a recruiting tool, along with mainstreaming the idea, that humanity is debatable.

[imaginarylands4000]

[justalurkr]

Samsung News

Senate Republicans Strip Trump Ballroom Funds from Spending Bill

GOP is feeling the heat. Or, they're not convinced the midterm fix is in.

[justalurkr]

Why would you, a good Catholic family, name your child John Rock when Peter Rock was right tf there.

[justalurkr]

Finding out that Margaret Sanger hung out with eugenicists because eugenics was a more respectable reason to pursue birth control than women's autonomy by [no distance measure big enough] has me needing a cup of tea and a sit-down.

Also, eugenicists had money to pay for research into a medication (1) for women who weren't sick; and (2) that was illegal in, like, 30 states at the time.

Still not a great look, Maggie, but slightly more understandable in context.

[erzvolnes]

immortal words

[justalurkr]

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I'm never getting over the fact that romance as a genre, as the HIGHEST selling genre, exists largely because straight women fantasize about being loved and treated kindly by men and men constantly make fun of this because they think it's just that unrealistic that they could cherish women and that women are stupid in the first place for wanting such an impossible thing

[justalurkr]

Reblogging because I'm still not over it, either