Let every eye negotiate for itself

German, adult for quite a while now, biologist, book enthusiast, fan of a lot of stuff. English is second language. Sideblog: assassinsread

[s-t-a-r-c-o]

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

[sator-the-wanderer]

I raise it to

[tanadrin]

I hope there’s an afterlife so that whoever made this pot 2,000 years ago can brag that their cookware is so good it’s still usable literally millennia later. Something about this object being lost for centuries and then rediscovered, and being put (successfully) to its original purpose again is so pleasing to me.

[emziess]

SPIRITED AWAY 2001 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[nitewrighter]

Couple + Sibling/relative third wheel is honestly an S-tier trio dynamic and I wish we saw more of this in media.

"You are my soulmate. We are forged together by battle and tears and love. Also my brother's coming along."

"Yo."

[nitewrighter]

Bonus points if the non-related half of the couple is just as committed to keeping the third wheel around as the related half.

"Isn't it weird that your brother in law is always hanging around?"

"You've got a problem with Andrew?"

[notebooks-and-laptops]

[redstonedust]

love when a character is a scientist and their speciality is science and they do science in a science lab. no specifics no clear goals no clue where their funding comes from. dont even worry about it. science.

[clementiens]

[joomju]

Reblog so she lives forever.

[terminusverge]

20 years. If this gets posted and we all survive for another 20…things might be alright.

[plantnerderyallday]

Annual deer post:

If you see a fawn laying down on the ground all alone, leave it alone. It is not lost, it does not need your help, do not pick it up, do not move it.

This behavior evolved to keep deer young safe. The baby is very small, very quiet, and hard for most predators to see. A young fawn cannot keep up with a fleeing mother deer, which is their primary problem-solving strategy. So while the mother goes elsewhere to graze, the fawn stays safe and hidden. The mom will be back.

Leave the fawn alone.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

This is always good to pass around this time of year, but I would like to add something for the few of us who might be encountering the moose kind of deer.

Moose are deer, but moose have the opposite strategy. They stay close to their babies, and their primary response for anything getting close to their babies is immediate violent murder. If you do see a baby moose by itself, leave. Leave the baby alone and leave the area, preferably quickly. Momma is at most 30 yards away and has already kicked on the kill bill sirens.

[unqualified-therapist]

Slightly related.

If you see a young/baby seal or sea lion on the beach, stay far fucking away. You are too close if you can hold out your arm straight, put up a thumb, and still see it.

Not only is it important for seals/sea lions to not get used to humans for their safety, but if the mother sees you too close to the baby, she will leave and never come back for the baby.

Keep your pets even further back from the animal. Let the baby sit on the beach, they’re waiting for mom to get back with food. You can admire their cuteness from afar and fantasize about their fluff.

Do not doom a young animal to death. This is especially important now, as many sea lions were born in June, and are still with their mothers, and will be for a while.

(Sorry if this is too off-topic for this post, it’s just also very important and I felt related to the subject.)

[mswyrr]

What Happens When Young People Actually Read “Disturbing” Books

Something is missing from the debate over educationally suitable literature

[vergak]

[shadow-posession-jutsu]

for those interested in cowboy hat pet pics

[blondebrainpowered]

Two children ignoring the artwork at the San Francisco Museum of Art. ca. 1960s

Photographer: Herb Slodounik

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

Source

[virtualgirladvance]

[charlesoberonn]

Don't open a PM with a stranger with "hello".

1. You sound like a bot

2. You don't give anything to respond to

Try to say something nice and ask questions that the other person can respond to.

[charlesoberonn]

I was talking about tumblr but I suppose it also applies to this

[charlesoberonn]

Remember Inigo Montoya

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[terastalungrad]

They made a new product

Did you see?

It's in the shop

It's in every shop.

I don't really need it

I don't think anyone does.

But they made it.

You can buy it.

I might buy it.

I dunno.

It's new.

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[briwhosaysni]

To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade