Bodldops

She/her, nerd for life

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

[labelleizzy]

If you do a lot of GRASPING make sure you do the SPREADING WIDE counterstretch. Whenever I crochet or handwrite for a long time I gotta do that one frequently

[rhinozilla]

You know what I'm a slut for? When a character visibly drops a ruse. Like, the way their face changes the moment they give up a facade and reveal themselves.

This applies to revealing love, apathy, anger, evil intent. I mcfuckin love it.

[bcgphoenix]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 1 day 7 hours

[gamegem92]

TWO SWORDS! Nice!

[citragranate-arts]

BOW TIME

[percytheperidot]

GIANT HAMMER GIANT HAMMER GIANT HAMMER

We're getting toony now

[netscapenavigator-official]

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

[jimxugle]

There was an entire website, super simple hand-coded html with no javascript, that had a bunch of middle earth inspired recipes on it.

It had a recipe for the BEST damn lemon loaf I've ever had.

And I haven't been able to find it in years.

[jimsjorts]

It's not this site, is it?

[jimxugle]

YES

[woodsdyke]

im swimming at the lake and accidentally kicked a fish. this has never happened in my many years of swimming. sorry man

[sootandspine]

there used to be an old mine near where i'm staying. it's flooded now, so all that's left is this round opening in the rock filled with water. the rock walls surrounding it are steep, and people like to climb up and jump into it. the water is dark that even though it's crystal clear, you can't see the bottom. it's just this endless black void beneath you.

well, one night a friend and i decided to jump in without bothering to check the water first. it was late, nobody else was around, and we figured it'd be fine.

it was not fine.

we hit the water and immediately realized we'd landed in what i can only describe as tadpole soup. i am not exaggerating when i say it felt like swimming through boba tea that was 70% pearls. every stroke meant hundreds of tiny, squishy little bodies slipping between my fingers.

1/10 experience. one point awarded solely for the fact that it was, technically, an experience.

[rqbossman]

Out-of-pocket crossover

I'm just going to kick the hornets nest and say it: A Grace, Rocky, Jon, Martin road trip would eat with no crumbs.

[mossiistars]

ok

[rqbossman]

[neverwalka1one]

[terpsikeraunos]

on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism

[catastrophic-success]

Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.

[nl]

hey man i think you might just be dumb

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[millenniallust4death]

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

[millenniallust4death]

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

[psycorax]

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

[millenniallust4death]

Thank you to everyone who commented in their tags or messaged me. Indeed, today is “Martin and Bosco Day”. I originally whimsically blazed this photo on 13 July 2022. I never expected Martin and Bosco to travel so far and make so many new friends. The experience has been such a gift for me.

[talesfromtreatment]

you said you used to work at a "kill shelter", for lack of better wording. how often are animals actually put down to free up space?

I did not work at an open intake shelter. I worked at a very well funded limited-intake shelter.

But i am a huge supporter of open intake shelters and their staff. They do extremely vital and often heartbreaking work while getting shit on by lots of people. I will defend them and what they do to my dog breath.

I don't know often animals have to be euthanized for space. It's going to vary based on time of year, shelter size, funding, foster programs, etc.

The numbers of frenchies and doodles entering the shelters is definitely starting to increase, so all these indiscriminate breeders going for the next greatest trend are actively contributing to that happening though.

[neverwalka1one]

I _did_ work at an open-intake shelter, aka 'kill' shelter. We were the shelter that animal control brought all the animals they found in the county, we were one of the only local shelters who would accept any pet people wanted to abandon, we were responsible for housing all of the animals being held in court cases (fighting rings, dogs found during drug raids, hoarders, etc).

We tried so, so hard to get every pet out alive that we could.

But there'd be days, very frequent days during the summer, where we'd literally take in more pets during a day than we had cages in the entire shelter. Some pets would leave every day, of course - adoptions, some taken by rescue groups, some taken by 'no-kill' shelters looking to fill their spots with cute, adoptable pets.

But then there were the rest.

The ones that were too old, too shy, to sick, too angry. The ones that for one reason or other never caught anyone's eye. Then what do you do? There's one kennel, and two pets. One just got there. The other has been there for weeks. Both are super sweet, super cute - there's nothing wrong with either, they just don't have a home.

A lot of shelter staff ended up with multiple pets because of this. But even then. There were so many pets.

So please don't disparage kill shelters. If you don't want that situation to happen, help, damnit. Help with TNR programs. Spay and neuter your pets. Don't buy from backyard breeders. Donate to your local shelter (the one I worked for way back finally got enough funding to build a new, bigger facility - doesn't solve the problem for sure, but it took some of the heat off). Even doing things like volunteering to socialize the pets in the shelter can help those pets keep enough of their sparkle that they'll get adopted. Stop bitching about the problem and get in there.

[x-arlecchino]

Looked back into this ask I made and i wanted to say thank you! I wasnt bitching, I was geniunely asking because as many people have pointed out nobody wants to put down a perfectly healthy animal, abd theyre so demonized I wanted to get some real statistics!

[neverwalka1one]

No worries! It's a little hard to get that exact stat, because as you can imagine if a shelter advertises that 'we put down x healthy happy pets a year', they're going to get crucified. From personal experience, at least at that shelter... it was every day. During kitten season, it's a LOT of pets. Unfortunately a lot of very young kittens - they take a lot of care, and there's only so many volunteers who can take care of bottle babies. Every year quite a lot of people quit just because of the emotional strain. :\

[huffylemon]

[sigynpenniman]

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.

[slowspinningredemption]

“Sunset at the End of My Driveway (Excluding Pavements Covered With the Shite of One Million Dogs)” by me.

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

“Sunset from My Front Yard Taken on an iPod Touch in 2010″

[hydrojinn]

“Sunset in Nov 2021 Taken in the Parking Lot of the Pharmacy”

“sunset from the parking lot of the diner taken on an iphone 5 in 2016”

the view across the road partially eclipsed by house, 2017

[xxtc-96xx]

Taken from a stepladder putting up Christmas lights

-2014, front yard

[an-autistic-with-personhood]

“Brewing Storm on an Evening Commute”

And “Finally, no Power Lines”

-Sept. 30, 2020, passenger seat of a moving Buick

[naamahdarling]

Behind a near-defunct mall in super small-town OK. HUGE rays.

Park And See The View 2020

(it took seconds to happen)

Waiting for The Pharmacy Line to Move, 2021

Outside the McDonald’s Drive-Thru Window, 2018

[not-a-salty-christmas-tree]

Sunrise in early Mars 2022 at 05:09am, Walking Home from Work

[madphantom]

Sunset from the commie bar I occasionally volunteer at, 2023, taken five minutes before someone tripped down the stairs with a glass bottle in their hand while singing the Internationale

[whiskeytiddies]

Marble sky before I storm on my walk to the grocery store - 2023

[ilackallhonour]

some nondescript residential area that could be anywhere in the Netherlands - 2022

[old-long-john]

Sunset mackerel sky in Surrey, 2022

[beanarie]

queens boulevard, 2018

[sreyeh]

Sunrise over my high school’s football field (walking the track for gym class), 2021

[eldritchcorvidae]

Sunset from my front porch, circa 2010

[bumblebeerror]

Front stoop sunrise, October 2024

Being driven to work, September 2024

Back patio sunset, December 2023

[stinkweed-imp]

The car wash in town, 2025

PLEASE the sky is always so pretty

[blueartistic813]

Sunset from Sep 2025 on third floor apartment window, taken on iPhone 14, in The Netherlands

[inkyshark]

Cloudy Sunset in the Weed Store Parking Lot, Feb 2025

[derived-centrosaur]

Derecho approaching, 2020

[cripberry-pie]

a rainbow after a storm, seen from my balcony (June 2025)

[pamrak]

Sunset from the bedroom window, partially obscured by my neighbor’s house and apple tree (October 11th, 2025.)

[dairy-godmother]

Iridescent clouds from… McDonald’s with my estranged father.

[magical-xirl-4]

“On a Walk”

[littlethingwithfeathers]

“Off the back porch” -North Alabama, Jan 2024.

[neverwalka1one]

Spring sunset on my way out of work

[neverwalka1one]

Aaaaaah that time of year in the PNW when I pause while walking through my house and go '.... I smell smoke. Is this an inside-the-house smoke problem and I should grab the pets and the go bags, or is this the annual outside-the-house smoke problem and I should go check the fire maps?'

Pretty sure it's an outside-the-house problem. Goddamn it people usually we make it to August at least.

[anarchistmemedistro]

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

link to story

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[ralfmaximus]

do NOT google "omega heat"

[chocomiking]

prayers for the people googling "omega heat" for the first time

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[emilysidhe]

Every time this crosses my dash, I spin, but I’ve never known who both characters are

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have won a lifetime supply of this

How do you feel?

good!

I CAN SELL THIS AND GET RICH

im drowning in my supply help

Eh it's okay

BAD. VERY BAD

results/other

Voting ended onJul 15

you would receive the supply once a month

the brand/type will vary so you could

you can sell the things you get/give them away but they will keep coming until you die

[prismatic-bell]

....fish tanks?

Unfortunately, "baffled" is not an option. How many am I getting every month? Are they like, fully set up or just the glass bit? Are they big ones? Small ones? Are there fish?

YOU CAN'T GIVE THIS ANSWER TO AN AUTISTIC PERSON I HAVE TOO MANY QUESTIONS

[yraelviii]

If I've won a lifetime supply of spoons can I please request that they be the metaphorical spoons rather than literal eating utensils that will not need to be replenished monthly?

[neverwalka1one]

I am also somehow getting a lifetime supply of fishtanks, and I too have questions.

Is this like, as many fishtanks as I can get through with effort (aka if I sell these suckers somehow I'll get more or is it how many I would have used in my lifetime (zero, because I'm terrified of the idea of keeping a fish alive)

I would also like to know the dimensions of said fish tanks.

That said can I specify the fish tanks and their placement because I could get into custom fish tank building and that could actually make a decent amount of money

Or is this like a Star Trek: save the whales thing where we're making a new element to make really cool fish tanks for whales and we can sell that element after the fish tanks are done?

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Rocky found out about motivational posters sometime on the journey to Erid and had a go at making some on the computer for Grace.

He's sure they're very helpful!