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Ancient in years. Geek. Mother. Tea drinker. Australian. cis: female. pronouns: she/her/they/them. Loves: Art and Crafty things, Science, Sci Fi. Please let me know if you need me to tag something for you. This is mostly a place for me to reblog stuff I'm interested in and follow interesting people and cool writers.

[amateur]

[johnwickofficial]

I finally found it! You can get the shirt HERE

[nearlynova]

i want thiiiiisssss

[beachduck]

Every child in music class should be gifted this once they’ve mastered this song we all seemingly had to learn.

[skywitchmaja]

when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language

[blooming-conifers]

I was eating alone at a mexican restaurant once and a group of college kids were chatting over tortilla chips. There was some jabber and then..

“ ..we had to climb over the bob wire!”

“Dude, did you just say ‘bob wire’?”

“Yea man, that spiky shit!”

“You actually think it’s called bob wire? Like fucking Robert wire? You think it’s called Robert wire?”

“Well what the hell do you think it’s called?”

“It’s BARB wire you idiot! Like Barbara wire!”

*the third guy* “Oh my god. You guys. BARBED wire. Because the wire has barbs, it is BARBED.”

“Oohhhhh!”

“Fucking Robert and Barbara wire. Fuck you guys.”

[calamitycons]

I hope Robert and Barbara Wire are in a happy and committed relationship.

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of “picky eaters”. no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don’t like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they’ve said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to “trick” them into eating it anyway

[sepulchritude]

Things that actually help picky eaters try new things:

“Do you want to try this off of my plate?”

“It’s made of [ingredients], I think you’d like [x part]”

“If you want to see if you like [x food], this is pretty good representation of it”

“You won’t like this, it tastes like [description]. Do you want to try it for fun?”

“Do you remember trying/have you ever tried [x food]? This is like that, but [differences]”

“I think you’d like the taste of this, but the texture is iffy. It’s [description]”

Make sure there’s other food they can eat if they don’t like the new one

And most importantly, build trust with that person by listening to them, showing that you take their concerns into account, and being cool if the answer is no. No is always an option. This isn’t something you do once, it’s a pattern you have to stick to if you want to establish that you are a safe person when it comes to food stuff

Basically: offer the food, explain what’s in it and why you think it’s worth trying, and then be cool with the answer you get. No pressure, no trickery, just be straight up with people

[growrotten]

hey y’all do you want to see a dragon that i drew

[growrotten]

of course you do here he is

[ida-backwards-intherain]

i definitely did want to see this

[oldschoolfrp]

Truck Carrying Gaming Dice Spills Onto Highway, Rolls A Perfect 756,000

“Though unfortunate it happened, nobody got hurt and we now own an unofficial world record for the largest dice roll in history!”

[atalana]

okay but this is the best part of this article

[insomniac-arrest]

Convergent evolution is wild, bc like, crabs keep evolving to look the same but aren’t closely related, nature is just like: BIG MEATY CLAWS, little legs, pincers, head, tiny eyes, let’s do it again!

and trees look the same but oak trees are more closely related to rose bushes than they are pine trees, fucked up

nature just likes these damns shapes:

but on the other hand, mammals flying with powered flight?? That shit only happened ONCE and it had to do some janky shit to get there, especially with bat immune systems

like bat’s immune systems are HYPER-POWERED as well as repress most of their inflammatory reactions because in order to fly they needed a bonkers-high metabolic rate which unfortunately also create waste products from the process called “free radicals” that damage cells

however, despite these free radicals they manage to live up to FORTY YEARS, which is super long for a species their size, because their immune system are basically always ON and in an anti-viral state that make them incubators for disease due to warfare between their jacked immune systems and disease 

bats are so gdamn weird, I love them, no other mammal has been able to copy off their homework and accomplish the same shape, and for that they are the anti-crab of the natural world, God bless

[weaselle]

It really worked out for them too, like it’s a hell of a lane and they have it all to themselves, so they’ve really filled their niche.  There are more bats than almost any other kind of mammal. Like, there are a higher number of individual bats, but also the most KINDS of bat.

For example there are about 30 million white-tailed deer alive in the world, whereas there are 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats living in ONE single colony in Texas. But also, there are about 43 species of deer on the whole planet, 38 species of feline, 34 species of canine…  and about 1,300 species of bat.

It is estimated that one out of every five living mammals on Earth is a bat, or, to put it another way, if you took every single mammal on the planet and counted them as individuals, 20% of those animals would be some kind of bat.

[natto-axolotl]

@apollysabyss

[tiltedneedle]

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you, I do like a good bat! I love how upsetting their immune systems are 🤗

[stupidpetface]

[oceantoyz]

[dragon-ear-pendants]

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[monochromaticvisions]

This is pretty af holy shit

[torpedo-peach]

oooh wowie!!!

[literary-squagon-deactivated202]

That’s beautiful

[accidentallylita-deactivated202]

so pretty! aaahhh I need that— hey @dragoneyes618

[themysticalbeing]

I NEED THIS!💖

[t-emma]

I just ordered all of them!!! ✨

[sparklezoi]

I like these but am trying to be better with money. So pretty, though.

[wingwhistle]

@catlock-holmes smaugrings

[chitaqua-toast]

[huffylemon]

[sigynpenniman]

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.

[slowspinningredemption]

“Sunset at the End of My Driveway (Excluding Pavements Covered With the Shite of One Million Dogs)” by me.

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

“Sunset from My Front Yard Taken on an iPod Touch in 2010″

[hydrojinn]

“Sunset in Nov 2021 Taken in the Parking Lot of the Pharmacy”

[judygemstone]

“sunset from the parking lot of the diner taken on an iphone 5 in 2016”

[vimbry-moved]

the view across the road partially eclipsed by house, 2017

[xxtc-96xx]

Taken from a stepladder putting up Christmas lights

-2014, front yard

[beammeupbroadway]

Supermarket parking lot, 2018

[childhoodruiner]

[amateur]

[theyboldlywent]

Some photos of Leonard Nimoy at the Pear Blossom Parade (Medford, OR; April, 1967.) This was one of the only times Nimoy went out in public, in costume.

[algorizmi]

paprika hendl

This is the recipe I’ve been using for years for Paprikash. (a.k.a. Paprikás Csirke / paprika hendl) In respose to the current hype, I figured I’d share it with you all. Makes 6 servings.

Ingredients

Oil, butter or lard – 2 tablespoons

Chicken thighs, deboned & skin-on – 2 ½ to 3 pounds

Onions, thinly sliced – 2 (or 3 if small)

Hungarian sweet paprika – ¼ cup

Korean chili flakes – 2 teaspoons

Pastry flour – 2 tablespoons

Poultry stock, unsalted – 1 ½ cups

Red bell peppers, diced – 2

Salt and pepper – to taste

Sour cream – 1 cup

Lemon juice (optional) – 1 tablespoon

Directions

Heat the oil over medium-high flame in a large cast iron skillet. Add the chicken skin-side down and brown until skin is crispy, about 7 minutes. Remove to a board, and cut into bite-size pieces.

Remove any excess oil leaving about 2 tablespoons and add the onions. Sauté the onions until wilted and beginning to brown. Stir in the paprika and flour and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.

Whisk in the stock in portions, breaking up any lumps. Add the browned chicken pieces, bell peppers. and the salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and tender.

Stir in the sour cream and lemon juice if using. Adjust seasoning and reheat over low flame. Serve hot with noodles or gnocchi.

Variations

Mushrooms can be added with the stock.

Kosher version: Instead of sour cream, use 50% more flour and 33% more lemon juice. For passover use potato starch instead of flour.

[stitch-n-time]

THIS!!! This is almost exactly the recipe I use, but without the pepper flakes, and it gets baked in the oven instead of simmered.

This stuff is amazing, and disappears when put out in a crowd.

[dduane]

cc: @petermorwood

[catchymemes]

[memewhore]

[the-rattking]

[oraclepng-deactivated20170521]

Imagine being like a college student or whatever in Gotham and like one day you turn on the news and your ex psychology professor is running around with a burlap sac over his head screaming bullshit like HAROO HRAA , like how do you cope with that

[akumeoy]

it’s like that sometimes

[elionking-deactivated20191020]

*sends email* does this mean class is cancelled?