Pastel & Positivity

call me G or Pastel ◦ she/they ◦ 27◦ lesbian ◦ white ◦ anon and dms are always open! ◦@sincerelygrayscale is my bff

[lesbianherstorian]

excerpts from an interview with kathee muzin about the first time she fell in love with another woman, published in the montreal gazette, december 1991

[moonflowero1]

when are game devs going to be brave and add customizable wheelchairs as functional player character features/props

[moonflowero1]

this post is randomly taking off today and all I can say is godspeed. spread my disabled agenda!

[mostlycatsmostly]

Dragon’s Claw (by Jak O'Dowd)

[genderfluid-druid]

[ID: Photo of a small dragon statue. The statue has one claw upraised, and a tabby cat is using it for cheek scritches. Both the dragon and the cat have pleased expressions. End ID]

[katmaibearfan]

Here's the latest statement from Mike Fitz -- the Resident Naturalist with Explore.org, which hosts the bear cams -- about when the cams will go live.

For a bit of background, Katmai National Park is extremely remote, and there is not enough infrastructure to stream directly from there to the internet. So, there is a repeater on top of Dumpling Mountain that sends the live streams to a facility in the nearby town of King Salmon, and the live streams are sent out from there.

Usually, the Naknek River Cam runs year-round, and i believe the Dumpling Mountain Cam is usually up and running by now as well. The fact that Naknek went out and Dumpling Mountain isn't on indicates that there is some pretty significant damage done to the system, likely by a winter storm.

Additionally, getting qualified people and repair parts to the relevant locations is a massive logistical challenge, which can delay things. Brooks Camp is only really accessible by float plane, the repeater is on top of a mountain, and there are many large animals that must be respected and avoided. Its all possible to do, obviously, but there is a lot of unavoidable waiting involved.

As always, we are forever grateful to Explore.org and their technical and maintenance workers for doing everything they can do to get these streams up and running.

[measured-words]

In the past several years, they use Starlink to send the signal directly from some cams, and only some of them go through the repeater.

I keep waiting for them to decide to go all in on Starlink to save having to deal with the infrastructure stuff, especially since Starlink is supposed to be introducing a new 'back country' package this year with better upload capacity.

So far I have quality over starlink tends to be shittier, plus of course, the whole elon musk of it all.

[katmaibearfan]

thanks for the additional info!

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[glassgrayve]

snail tiffany lamp

[parakeet]

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

[crowcryptid]

[awheckery]

from the above-linked ebird.org:

Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills, typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups.

oh my god

[roach-works]

groove billed anis are a hilarious cuckoo situation where they ended up laying their eggs in one another’s nests instead of anyone else’s. they hang out together in groups of up to five pairs until a nest gets built (sometimes by committee, sometimes they just hang around hopefully until someone does it all on their own) then they start sneaking over and laying an egg in at a time. the females who lay for the first time will sometimes flip prior eggs out of the nest like ‘oh i KNOW this one isn’t mine! away it goes’ but eventually everyone’s laid a couple eggs in there and is stuck with the mutual hostage situation. then they take turns incubating until all the kids hatch and everyone pitches in on feeding them, because no one knows which of the kids are theirs so they all might as well.

they also like to do a team handshake where they clump up and mutually make a low bubbling noise together, to signal group affiliation. go team!

[keeskiwi]

Also their eggs are incredibly beautiful. They’re a very pretty blue color, but covered by a white chalky outer layer that is easily scratched off, so they end up in various stages of in-between.

(Photo © Henrique_Anizio, shared under CC BY-NC).

[kloperslegend]

Okay,I just want to share the super cool fucking site I found

Ever wanted to exercise more, but didn’t know how/didn’t have a plan/were overwhelmed by the insane number of choices online/no money?

Look at darebee. All of their workout plans are FREE, come with timers and checkboxes right on the page, and even better, ARE OFTEN RPG THEMED so you can fucking role play while you exercise wtff (and yes, the story and the workout changes with your choices)

They have programs for if you only want to do seated exercises, programs if you don’t want to get on the floor, and programs for ALL levels of fitness, including injury recovery.

Plus, if like me, you get anxious about making sure you’re doing it right, they have a full free library of videos for each exercise.

AND ALL THIS SHIT IS NOT JUSTS FREE, IT'S AD-FREE

Go forth and defeat your enemies

[rapidashrider]

No lie, I am on day 5 of this and it’s a game changer.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 7,532 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

great news! 7,556 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry, now there are 7,576 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

excellent news! 7,591 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth

[werewolf-transgenderism]

guess what! 7,624 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry, 7,645 species of frog on planet earth, ok? peace and love on planet autism

[werewolf-transgenderism]

great news! 7,653 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,670 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

new year new frogs! 7,678 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,683 species of frog in the world, ok? ❤️

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,698 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don’t cry. 7,701 species of frog in the world, ok?

[wandering-aloneo-o]

@markscherz how many of these do we get to thank you for again?

[markscherz]

95 at present, more on the way :)

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 95 species of frog discovered by tumblr's own frog scientist dr. mark scherz, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,758 species of frog in the world, yippee!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,806 species of frog in the world, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don’t cry. 7,817 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet autism 💖

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,836 species of frog in the world, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,864 species of frog in the world, yay!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,935 species of frog in the world, yippeeeeee

[werewolf-transgenderism]

HEY DON'T CRY. 8,008 SPECIES OF FROG IN THE WORLD PER AMPHIBIAWEB AND THE 8,000TH FROG WAS DESCRIBED BY TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR. Scherz, ET AL., PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH ‼️‼️‼️

[tsulasgi]

5 Strawberries for 5 sisters 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

Cherokee Double Wall Baskets

When I went up to one of the reservations up north I made a few friends, one of them asked me to make five strawberries for her and her four sisters. None of them are exactly the same, I set out to make each one just a little bit different from the other.

two more purses and then I'm done with strawberries for a while 😭

[creekfiend]

How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness

Antibodies mistakenly attacking the brain are linked with conditions including schizophrenia, dementia and OCD, prompting a revolution in ho

it may interest some of you to know that there is likely an autoimmune/inflammation component of many mental illnesses that we do not fully understand yet. the immune system and the nervous system are very connected both to each other and to all our other systems in ways that, again, we do not fully understand

reminder that psychology is both a very new and also a very SOFT science. if someone in psych is confidently positing that science understands the way the brain functions and malfunctions, they don't know enough to know how little they know. we do NOT understand the brain like we act like we do.

[pbeeanjay]

fish out of water

[eroscestlavie]

What do you guys do for work. Job share time. I want to know

[soleilsplanet]

do you ever just … picture a whole scene, a whole fanfiction in your head, you know how to place every single word of the english dictionary that you need (or your language dictionary), you know how to structure your sentences, you know just what your characters are going to say to each other and then… and then you just open microsoft word.

[the-adults-are-talk1ng]

Its the doc! The blank document steals the ideas from. Your brain!!!! If you want to keep your ideas,, do NOT look at the doc when you open it, look STRAIGHT* AT THE KEYBOARD and write the first words to pop into your head! Once the document isn't empty it, takes away its evil power over you

[rabbitindisguise]

two things:

the mental image of that is hilarious

it might just work

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[secondlina]

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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[wizardarchetypes]

anyway every time i post about ocd people start tagging the post like "wait this isn't normal?" and i always like to remind people that intrusive thoughts are normal. pretty much everyone experiences them. "what if i jumped off this balcony?" "what if i crashed my car right now for no reason?" "what if i yelled a curse word in the middle of this wedding?" everyone thinks these things from time to time. it's disordered thinking when the distress starts becoming intolerable.

"am i normal" is not as helpful question to ask as "are intrusive thoughts causing me frequent distress?" and "would my life be better if i could find a way to feel less distress/learn to tolerate the distress?"

millions and millions of people have ocd. having ocd is normal. you're normal. but what if you could feel better? what if living everyday in your own mind and body could be tolerable? is that something you want? need? these are questions to ask.