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22 - they/them ☆ hi, im thingy. [sometimes nsfw]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Chironius

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[tam--lin]

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

[freakoutgirl]

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.

[freakoutgirl]

and love..........

[kosmogrl]

august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good august will be good

[hope-for-the-planet]

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.

Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.

After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.

For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.

Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

[pansyfemme]

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

[crapbirdphotography]

this might count as good bird photography, but i think the bird itself is sufficiently horrible

(great egret, fishing)

[goldcrescent]

My new pet peeve is people completely misunderstanding the term Male Gaze and making the term female gaze based entirely on that misunderstanding

[goldcrescent]

the white boy of the month pushing his hair back and reading poetry for the camera is not the equivalent of the dehumanization of women in visual media by way of presenting them primarily as vessels for sexual gratification

[offshoreoilrig]

What jobs even exist

[corrodedparadox]

You’ve chosen to omit this memory

[c-53]

Please take my white ass to anor londo

[shadowysiren]

*grabs you with my long gargoyle-like arms and flies off witj you*

[c-53]

Oh thank god hold me tight you scary motherfucker

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

I feel like telling a story and also it’s honestly probably the best method of convincing people to not do drugs or alcohol so here’s a story from a couple years ago

Okay so I hate the taste of alcohol but when I quit doing weed I drank a lot until I felt better, basically if the cravings got bad I’d get drunk and it was mostly vodka I was using

So one night I was gonna go downtown on the night bus and decided to drink but didn’t want to walk to the bus drunk so I pounded back 5 shots of 35% alc vodka and ran to the bus stop before it hit, I felt normal for a bit but it was a while before the bus came so I can remember ditching my shirt for a bit and just sitting there in my binder trying to figure out what I was doing before I saw the bus pull up and my next memory is waking up at home, no clue what I did or how I got back

There were also a couple times I got drugged weed, I think the second worst I took a normal dose and then woke up 2 days later with some faint memories of hallucinations

The worst time I knew it was drugged but didn’t want to deal with what had been going on in my head so I kept myself out of it for like 3-4 days, I don’t remember anything from around 3 days of it just the beginning and the end of it, I know I talked to people, went places but I have no idea what I did for 3 days

Greening out on weed you know is drugged is more terrifying though, did that once and wasn’t totally sure if I was greening out or over dosing but I had a smart watch so I checked that, my heart rate didn’t go below 210 bpm for 10 minutes so I just layed down since I refused to go to a hospital, I figured I’d either wake up feeling better in the morning or my roommate would find my corpse, but I didn’t know what was in it so I didn’t know what else to do since I couldn’t let anyone know how bad I was doing at the time

All that started when I was 19 and I stopped doing weed not long before I turned 21, I’m 22 now and I don’t even like drinking or doing anything like that now, it’s weird how people change, but seriously if you have a problem call someone, don’t do what I did, don’t risk being a body for someone to find in the morning, and don’t drug yourself so you don’t remember, it doesn’t last, and it’s not fun not knowing what you did for days at a time, I don’t know how I didn’t get kidnapped or anything but if something bad happened to me during that time I wouldn’t even know which is horrifying

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

And to anyone dealing with repressed memories coming back to haunt you substances aren’t the answer, it’ll just make new periods of your life that you can’t remember and it’ll turn into a cycle, it’s not fun trust me

[villiedoom]

Stylized and surreal illustrations for my fantasy world.

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

to me the thing about deification is that something fundamental is lost in the process

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

people can’t be immortal. so in order to be immortal you can’t be a person anymore. you have to be distilled. stripped of everything. till you come out the other side as an abstract concept.

[paleostock]

Kulindadromeus

Kulindadromeus was a small ornithischian dinosaur found in Russia. It had complex feather-like fibers over most of its body, but its tail bore large scales.

https://paleostock.com/resource/kulindadromeus-stock-photo

Illustration by Corbin Rainbolt

[viralfrog]

[just9art]

An important time in the history of life, the triassic boasts a greater diversity in life than most people realize and it’s much more than just the rise of the dinosaurs.