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manatee(s)  Hello, and welcome to my blog.  My name is Rhi.  Almost all my reblogs are from a queue. So I may not be online, even though I'm posting. I do check in fairly often though.  Feel free to shoot me a message sometime.

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[zipstick]

tbblobnoern tuesday

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tbblobnoern tuesday

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twednesday

[the-radio-star]

Finally some good fucking news

[rock-fish-deactivated20201231]

they concluded that the rats were having fun partially bc the rats voluntarily initiated games, hopped around joyfully and teased researchers by pretending to come close and then skittering away. rats are Very Good

[sindri42]

These scientists are getting grant money to play games with rats all day and that is just, living the dream.

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@sigmadecay

[snootyfoxfashion]

Halloween Cat Art Prints by RytasArtWorld

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[hrefnatheravenqueen]

Being a supportive parent to your trans daughter AND standing up to her trolls and mocking them openly. Good parenting.

[siilkeye]

How could you leave these out?

[tdwhisperer]

In this house we respect Colin Mochrie

[adaswordlace]

Saw an op-ed that was on the surface a complaint about kids not wanting to take on family heirlooms but read like an elegy to dying traditions. The hardest part was the anxiety without recognizing that they didn’t pave the way for the decisions they assumed their kids would make.

(This is written entirely within the dominant white/western culture - about traditions that have neglectful stewardship rather than those actively suppressed)

The anxiety makes sense. You’re seeing, too late to do anything about it, that there’s no foundation - no space - for the traditions you expected to pass on. Your kids _can’t_ take your mom’s fine china. So now instead of enjoying what you have you worry about its future.

I see a pattern in these op-eds though - a pattern in what’s left unsaid. There were responsibilities tied to these traditions. You collectively assumed they _would_ be passed along. So collectively, what did you do to ensure those traditions _could_ be passed along?

Op-eds never speak for everyone, but it’s worth acknowledging the pattern in what speech is deemed worth sharing widely.  And in this particular pattern, there’s an answer: that answer looks like “nothing.”

You want the china passed down but your kids have no room in their rentals. You want grandkids but your kids don’t have the financial stability. You want that cross-country RV neverending road trip but you’ve had decades of wanting lower taxes more than you wanted infrastructure.

The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them. The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?

I kinda think that world-defining assumptions are always gonna break without maintenance. So rather than getting mad at whoever’s next for not carrying on the norms we didn’t do upkeep on, when it’s my turn, I hope I’m introspective enough to help instead of externalize & blame.

[greyhairedgeekgirl]

This.

The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them. The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?

I follow a Facebook group of “Memories of …” for my hometown - a rustbelt community that has gone from a thriving hub of industry to a much-less-thriving place.

The group is a collective lament.   Decades-old pictures of well-kept churches.  Aerial shots of the main intersection downtown, lined with big cars.    Scanned advertisemetns from local stores featuring pictures of their interiors.   These alternate with the drumbeat of news:  the Catholic diocese is closing churches.  Selling them.   Tearing them down.   STores downtown are closing.   The traffic light has been replaced with a four-way-stop.

“That’s the church my parents were married in!” “How could they tear down that beautiful building.  Such memories!” “All the businesses are closing.  It must be the taxes.” ”They’ve sold the old lodge downtown.” “They’re not opening the skating rink this year.  We always used to go.”

And sometimes I chime in. 

“Do you attend that church?  Do you give? Or do you just want the building to look pretty for you? “ “Do you volunteer at that park?  Why not?” “Did you vote for that recreation bond issue?” “Are you a member of that Lodge? Why not?” “Do you shop downtown?   Or did you start shopping at Walmart and Amazon to save a few bucks?”

If you feel something is worth preserving, why do you not participate in its preservation?  

Community is not a spectator sport. 

[amarvelousplace-atempsideblog]

Community is not a spectator sport

[norisus]

This is an attempt at drawing how “pattern glare” (and visual snow) make certain patterns appear to my eyes. 

I can’t even tell how good of a job I did representing this because of the pattern glare. :’)

Keep reading

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[image: artwork of a zebra with dull orange and soft yellow traced around the black stripes to represent a pattern glare visual effect with noise or static over top, the background is gray. end ID]

[etereasa]

absolutely obsessed with these three georgian girls called trio mandilli (source)

[hardcoregurlz]

Trio Mandili: website, Youtube

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

When the whole squad is in on your shitposting shenanigans 

[melthehoneybee]

My aesthetic tbh

[skyheartstar13]

[The band cycling on a large multi-person bicycle plays “The Entertainer” as they ride.]

[why-i-love-comics]

It’s Jeff! Infinity Comic #5 (2021)

written by Kelly Thompson art by Gurihiru

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

JEFF IS HIDING IN THE TALL GRASS

[elosilla]

Pixel art by Mark Ferrari (*) (**)

[sabertoothwalrus]

hold the fuck up I just noticed there’s an apple juice emoji

🧃

[circusbattery]

SCREAMING

[t4tsonadow]

Thats a GRAPE JUICE BOXBDBDBDND

[circusbattery]

OH SHIT.

[compleatedsadboy]

God I wish I could have some apple juice :(

[tigwex]

what the shit is this????? boiled egg????? boiled egg juice???

[im-extremely-scottish]

its orange juice clearly

[polyam-bug-wannabe-deactivated2]

🧃

Is appl

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[dualclock]

J Ü C E

[spelledslots]

Juicebox tower of Babel

[hisuian-samurott]

Some people have sunny juice even

[gayluigi]

Can we talk about how OpenMoji has people straight up drinking lemon juice from a juice box?

[owiez]

Lemonade ..... youre talking about lemonade

[terminallybutch]

Everyone in this post has brain damage

[taboo-delusion]

*Drain Bamage

[boogalooonline]

Yes but we are ignoring the fact that Emojipedia is drinking HUMAN JUICE

[luischocolatier]

It's not human juice! It's happy juice

[singingfrogs]

[ahraeyah]

This is my favorite meme on the internet. More compilations please.

[sen-thebootbimbo]

Sometimes humans are just. Good.

[historical-gays]

From frog to Bossa Nova 🤌🤌🤌

[szuddenly]

you think you want me to shut up? i have to listen to myself even when im not talking

[tooiconic]

wow this is a fucking mood

[vethyourhalflingmother]

my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

[fromwolfsandgods]

Chaotic good

[swordshapedleaves]

NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn't just mean cheeky!

[dragkingandreweldritch]

this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work

malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism

[dracogotgame]

Always reblog for malicious compliance

[bunjywunjy]

got any cursed fossa facts? they’re like a cat but stretched out. a ferret but huge

the fossa’s scientific name, Cryptoprocta ferox, literally means “fierce hidden anus”! 

this is because fossas keep their buttparts in a special pouch which conceals them from view all polite-like, which apparently really impressed the scientists who were naming it more than any of their other fossa attributes. who signed off on that grant?!

tell all your friends! tell your mom! tell your coworkers! (don’t tell your coworkers.)

“fierce hidden anus” is here to stay!

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Boppin’

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music videos set in a surreal cgi desert (1999-2002)