[magicae]

i keep track of every time i cry and i haven't been able to fill in my spreadsheet since my cat died. reading all the reasons since then is making me relive it so i'm honestly glad i waited. but i'm also glad to get to spend some more time with her in a way?

[magicae]

oh also realised i'm so lucky i saw hamnet a month before she died. i already cried harder during that film than probably any other, i can't even imagine what seeing it with fresh grief would be like...

[magicae]

i keep track of every time i cry and i haven't been able to fill in my spreadsheet since my cat died. reading all the reasons since then is making me relive it so i'm honestly glad i waited. but i'm also glad to get to spend some more time with her in a way?

[robothell]

there was a cloud shaped like bart simpson in 1852 and nobody recognized it

[yuckiee]

[shittttyproblems]

not today...

[magicae]

so we're dogsitting for two weeks and miss minou randomly went into heat way before she was due??? so now we're improvising with one of medi's post-surgery onesies, a pad cut in half and a safety pin to make the onesie fit...

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[a-glittering-universe]

thank you op, this post gave me such reality whiplash that I had to go read the wikipedia for diatoms and now I have Learned Things :D

[crabussy]

hooray!!! let’s all Learn Things every day [:

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

was your pet expensive to get?

yes

no

not the most expensive but not the cheapest either

for free

it was a gift

found it outside

traded for something

results

Remaining time: 1 day 9 hours

[a-book-of-creatures]

Is it socially acceptable to use opaque watercolors, or is that considered gouache?

[magicae]

i got a passing grade at the dentist today yay!!!!

[magicae]

went to the beach with a friend today and met my grandparents there. #blessed

[magicae]

grandma asked us "remember when i was a kid when we...?" with her full heart before realising her mistake, that we do not in fact remember the thing

[capybaralovers]

[magicae]

went to the beach with a friend today and met my grandparents there. #blessed

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[twinflamedreams]

Don’t forget that most the buildings and all are stone made for cold climate (especially if you’re in any of the cities.) the radiation is hitting those buildings and streets all day long and its a giant solar oven and neither the ambient temperature nor buildings cool enough in the short nights, so its also kind of an accumulative effect, which becomes harder to tolerate when you literally do not cool down at all for long periods of time.

The fact every time one of these heat waves hits, buildings AC units, store freezers and everything else also fail should also tell you how bad and stressful on systems it is, things cannot handle 24/7 heat to those degrees, biological or mechanical.

Living in other countries where it gets hotter it’s so easy to think it’s not that bad, but it is. It’s not the same thing at all.

[pmamtraveller]

By Ellen Jareckie

[badxwolf]

Where is "rose is watching her planet die while the doctor is slaying in the corner" I haven't seen her on my dash in a while I miss her

[fenrirscarsback]

[magicae]

no one tells you genealogy research involves so much reading of wikipedia articles trying to figure out what country (and sometimes county!) a certain place belonged to.

[magicae]

and then there's hamburg, a city state. you guys... this is just like in civilization

[magicae]

no one tells you genealogy research involves so much reading of wikipedia articles trying to figure out what country (and sometimes county!) a certain place belonged to.