Sanity

This is a place for me to put things that make me happy or piss me off. I am a mixed Native with passing privilege, bisexual, feminist, activist, and writer. A classics loving theater nerd, comic book geek & dance freak. You'll see those pieces of me here, and if any of those things seem questionable to you, it's best to move along now. P.S - If you followed me just so I would follow back your loft/ad agency/band blog, you are out of luck. I do not do follow backs to people I don't know who are just looking for big follower #'s. Kindly unfollow me and move along.

[socialmaya]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

theyer old enough that they used to connect 

[finnglas]

They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.

[galladegamer]

[headspace-hotel]

They used to be as tall as the Himalayas.

[purkinje-effect]

[dragoninahumancostume]

Okay but are they older or younger than sharks?

[iota-andromedae]

THEYRE OLDER THAN SHARKS BY LIKE THIRTY MILLION YEARS

[azures-grace]

@nyarevar pookie your mountain range is cool

[nyarevar]

older than blood, bones, sharks, AND the rings of saturn!

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

they began forming during the Ordovician and finished forming during the Permian (the Appalatchians were formed by a couple of different Orogenies)(an Orogeny is a Mountain Building event)(these were the Taconic, Acadian, and Alleghenian Orogenies)

btw Geologists tell me if i got anything wrong

[sandmandaddy69]

[depsidase]

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

[libraford]

It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

[rahjin]

It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.

[libraford]

I think people want to help the environment in small but tangible ways, which is hard right now because of.. well... because of The Horrors. And being able to say 'wow! I helped this creature cross a dam' makes you feel good.

I also think that most people can relate to a small, helpless creature trying to get from one place to another and there's a FUCKIN WALL in the way.

But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.

Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:

Foldit (folding proteins)

Fathomverse (sea animals)

Project Monarch (butterflies)

Bioblitz, an event where citizens identify as many species in an area within a period of time

Species Watch (animal species)

BOINC’s Compute for Science

Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects

Label trees in aerial photos

Count cells in fossils and modern leaves

Digitize Atmospheric Data

Count penguins

US-based Citizen Science Database

eBird (bird identification)

Merlin (bird identification by sound)

iNaturalist (nature identification)

MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data)

Smithsonian Archives Transcription Center

[helenvaughans]

likes to charge, reblogs to cast

[breelandwalker]

KEEP GOING 😈

[lun-rk800]

Several documentaries publically treating Luigi Mangione as guilty before his trial even started got released over the past 2 months.

Here's the billion dollar companies behind them.

[technofeudalism]

while this is a completely valid warning... i just want to take a second to remind everyone that you could literally say this about almost any movie, documentary or piece of media made since 2011. 90% of the United States media is controlled by 6 companies who create over 50% of the content.

and if you want to take it a step further because Vanguard and BlackRock were listed on the original graphic, their reach is lightyears beyond just media. BlackRock and/or Vanguard are among the three largest institutional investors for 505 out of 505 of the S&P 500. (100%). one or the other is the single largest institutional investor in 422 of these (84%). they, along with State Street, control about 23% of the votes of the S&P 500 single-class companies.

the truth is that virtually all corporate-backed media that you consume in 2025 from top to bottom is going to be subject to the oversight of the board of directors for one of these 6 mega billionaire-controlled companies. you should have that fact in mind basically at all times.

[depsidase]

[lurker-no-more]

Gonna be singing this (and this) all night.

[sugarplumfuckwit]

If Levar Burton is hitting someone that person needs to be hit and I will hold his coat

[padnick]

That is the premise of an entire Leverage episode

[breelandwalker]

And for those wondering, YES, the episode revolves around books and Levar Burton plays a librarian. It's AMAZING.

[napoleoninrags]

There should be no billionaires.

[cthulhulovesewe]

Start killing billionaires.

[browsethestacks]

Still Can...

[elf-kid2]

Beautiful. The composition. Colors. The lamp. The fact that the photographer managed to make the moon look GOOD (not all cameras and photographers can achieve that).

Absolutely spectacular. Ultraluminary. Yes.

[wilwheaton]

[bronzetomatoes]

the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

[la-vie-en-lys]

#you have to know the rules so you can break them with intention and precision#otherwise your work will never be truly transformative

[kakita-shisumo]

literally the first step in jazz is to get the original piece down, that's the only way you can riff in a way that works

[zackbuildit]

Our favorite phrase for advice for people is "you learn the rules so when you break them it means something" and it's very nice to see other people getting this idea

[sixpenceee]

Well I really shouldn’t have read these at 1 AM. But reposting these because being creeped out is what I specialize in. If you guys liked this, you may also like:

Real Ghost Pictures

Genuine Ghost Pictures

Creepy Japanese Urban Legends

Creepy Things Said by Kids Part 1

Creepy Things Said by Kids Part 2

Creepy Things Said by Kids Part 3

Kid’s Imaginary Friends

Dark & Disturbing Myths

[traceurr-deactivated20160514]

FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK 

[natsu--moon]

It’s 11am here and I’m scared af.

[lovelovelovesun]

[maraud0rks]

[jheengafriedrice]

Omg this is hilarious

[fingerribbon]

A Timeline

• Black kids get murdered by the police.

• #BlackLivesMatter begins to raise awareness.

• #AllLivesMatter begins because white people feel threatened and excluded.

• White teenager Zachary Hammond is murdered by the police.

• #BlackLivesMatter condemns the act and helps to raise its profile.

• #AllLivesMatter: *crickets*

In case you were unsure if #AllLivesMatter was about equality or just a sad ignorant #NotAllMen redux, there’s your answer.