Never Mind the Wanderer

Just pretty pictures, fandom stuff, and things I think are funny. This is a main blog if you're confused about something one of the sideblogs is doing.

[riverwindphotography]

A mossy glade

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, June 2026

[camblogarchive]

nature documentary but the narration is just weird enough to make you question it

[camblogarchive]

“Some fish can walk out of water, so remember that next time.”

[camblogarchive]

“You might think you’re safe, but horses are omnivores”

[toxicglooo]

please watch the round planet on netflix it’s exactly like that 

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 Balto and his sled driver Gunnar Kasson at the unveiling of Central Park's Balto statue. (Balto, Gunnar and their sled dog team brought life-saving diptheria medicine across Alaska during an outbreak.) From New York City Images: 1850-1980, FB.

[fjordfolk]

People in the notes saying they didn't know we had pictures of Balto and Gunnar Kaasen - there are a few!

[theaxrat]

We also have pictures of Seppala, who actually owned the dogs that Gunnar ran. Balto's team didn't actually do the entire distance, just the final leg of it -- so of course they got all the credit. Not to diminish what they did, but credit where credit is due and all.

Here's Seppala and Togo, who ran the longest distance out of all the teams on the serum run relay

The exact order of who went where is unclear because a lot of it was retold through word of mouth and written accounts afterwards. The list as far as I can source is "Wild Bull" Shannon, Edgar Kalland, Dan Green, Johnny Folger, Sam Joseph, Titus Nikolai, Dave Corning, Harry Pitka, Edgar and then George Nollner with the same dogs, Charlie Evans, Tommy Patsy, Jackscrew, Victor Anagick, Myles Gonangan, Henry Ivanoff, Leonard Seppala, Charlie Olson, and finally Gunnar Kaasen.

Kaasen crossed the finish line with Balto and/or Fox in lead (Seppala disputed that it was Balto in a statement he made in 1927 and claims the press printed Balto's name because they liked it more than Fox but I can't find a statement from Gunnar as easily), and Balto became the poster child of the serum run. Seppala was not thrilled about this taking the credit away from Togo.

I like to think he'd be pleased to see Togo getting more attention in recent years, but this really was a relay with many mushers and many more dogs involved.

[iamnotlanuk]

[dahliavandare]

You’re just not ready. At no point in this video when he says the next thing are you ready.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[uncahier]

Since you don’t respect my opinion anyway, quit pestering me to fill out a survey after every single consumer experience. I keep wondering who looks at these surveys. Is the CEO sitting in his wood-paneled office, reading each individual response on an old-timey stock ticker? If so, you can keep doing this. If not, I rate this experience zero stars out of infinity.

[grungekitty-77]

It's happening again, so just to remind everyone:

TUMBLR ADS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO AUTO-PLAY AUDIO! THAT IS A BUG AND YOU SHOULD REPORT IT!

"This ad is auto-playing audio" is literally on the drop down menu for reporting an ad. Tumblr isn't trying to implement this! Don't protest this "new policy", cause it's not one.

Report the broken ads.

Thank you.

[jackson-imbecille]

They are not supposed to automatically redirect you without you clicking them, they are not supposed to cause a pop-up, they are not supposed to freeze your screen.

This is all bugs or malicious advertising which is also against tumblers ad policy. You should report all ads which do this.

Let’s get rid of those horrible monopoly ads, together.

[crippled-peeper]

“people won’t be friends with you if you’re mean to them” is something you have GOT to learn in adulthood if you never learned it as a shut-in internet-socialized youth. you can’t just go up and say to ppl to shut the fuck up and kill themselves all the time and then expect people to genuinely care for you.

[astercontrol]

SO TRUE.

And yeah, this doesn't just mean "be nice to the people you WANT to be friends with."

If those people see you being a jerk to lots of other people for flimsy reasons, they are going to think: "what mistakes on my part might involuntarily turn me into this person's enemy? What does this person say about me behind my back already?"

And then they won't want to be friends, probably.

[bisexualbaker]

Posts that make me kinda miss the Five Geek Social Fallacies...

[rosieandthemoon]

Round Tower of Glendalough, in Wicklow Mountains National Park, Ireland

[maureen2musings]

Spring in the English countryside

journeyswithjon

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Sunny day at Satoyama garden.

Yokohama, Japan.

[fu-boss]

Real life Road Runner

[sahonithereadwolf]

Looney Tunes is real and happening outside.

[dancing-crow]

good lord its feet really do spin around in a circle when going fast

[6qubed]

meep meep

[reginasphalanges]

Clueless (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling

[whetstonefires]

easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.

[libraflyter]

Note: after the end of Roe v Wade in the US, the maternal mortality rate (and the infant mortality rate) are showing clear increases in the states with the strictest anti-abortion laws.

Forcing people to carry high risk or non viable pregnancies to term kills.

[revizyonist]

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

[revizyonist]

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

[ancelineonline]

I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.

[bowditch]

i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!

[arctic-turtle-cassiopeia]

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills

[rherlotshadow]

Bluebells

[vampirewillowrosenberg]

This can't be fucking real oh my god.

[beardedmrbean]