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When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

party-gilmore

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

greatmountainfloofsquatch

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

#tis the season for los jibbities #queer matters

ximenasbrokencd

can't wait to say "during pride month?" at every minor inconvenience all of next month

#the weather is being homophobic to my lavender right now :/#queer matters

honestlyvan

Another thing fandom needs to start doing more of is projecting on tops.

There are delicious amounts of psychological distress you can inflict on that guy once you get into his head. The brainworms of forcing agency and initiative on someone who genuinely is Not Fucking Ready For It are exquisite.

honestlyvan

To quote myself: Domtops in fics are always written to have such uncomplicated and healthy relationships to their sexualities and for my mental health I need us to collectively start giving them complexes about being some kind of monstrous predatory freak of nature instead.

Make that guy have a panic attack b/c someone in his daydream told him to stop and he kept going anyway.

honestlyvan

New and improved! Sad Wet Dog of a top is thinking about how he wants to hurt you but doesn't want to hurt you and the contradiction is slowly and steadily making him Lose His Whole Fucking Mind.

#me as that one sicko comic #yes... yess!!!!

tiny-forests

moss mfriday #3: Glacier Mice

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That's right - it's glacier mice. One of my favorite things maybe on the entire planet. Let's talk about these freaky fuzzy little rats!!

Glacier mice are balls of moss that live in large herds like this in a few select glaciers. They are moss all the way through, with a center consisting of dead moss matter, implying that they begin as small growths of moss and simply accumulate over time, like snowballs. However, their outside surface is alive and well on all sides. Glacier mice have been observed, through tagging and tracking, to roll across the glacier like a majestic herd of wildebeest, exposing all of their sides to the sunlight. They trundle along at a pace of about 2.5 cm per day. That's 30 feet in a year! They're really schmovin'! Certainly further than most mosses can claim to travel.

What's really exciting, though, is that they all move in the same direction, and we're not sure why or how. Scientists experimented to try and attribute their coordinated behavior to wind, sunlight, and the direction that their grazing ground slopes, but to no avail. They speed up, slow down, and change direction in unison, based on some mysterious moss code that we haven't cracked yet.

Cross-section of a glacier mouse. Note the dead moss matter inside, and the short gametophytes on the outside, adapted to harsh winds and sunlight. [image credit]

We have figured out how they roll, though - while the moss ball sits on the ice, it insulates the ice directly underneath it, protecting it from melting. This forms a little pillar of ice that the moss eventually rolls off of. The insulating power of glacier mice also gives it the wonderful ability to host all kinds of microorganisms that otherwise wouldn't survive the glacier's harsh conditions, and their ability to move makes it possible for microorganisms to spread from one habitable spot to another. They're like a bunch of little tardigrade passenger ships, braving the dangerous glacier to go where no water bear has gone before!!

Glacier mice have been found to consist of several moss species, most of which must reproduce asexually in order to survive in the dry climate. They've been observed to live for at least six years, but are projected to live much, much longer. I love them. So much. I hope they know that I love them!! I LOVE THEM!!!!

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ospreyonthemoon

Oh.... the glacier mice...

#knowledge!#science!#we love the glacier mice in this house

luminouslumity

#this feels like the kind of pornography the feds want your driver's license for #video #the chocolate guy

jabberding0

Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist

#love how this shows how sometimes art involves lots of exertion in silly positions #yes you get a fancy gorgeous tree at the end #but first you gotta hump the 40 pound wire log while pulling a muscle in your back #art of other people #video

atyourperil

is anyone here ready for fat transgender summer can we give it up for fat transgender summer

#save us from our sins fat transgender summer #transport us to the fat transgender land of whimsy and afternoon thunderstorms #amen and hallelujah and all that #queer matters

darkskinwomen

Anok Yai at the Met Gala 2026 🖤✨

Wearing Balenciaga, her look was inspired by Mater Dolorosa, the “Sorrowful Mother,” a symbol of grief, strength, and emotional endurance.

A powerful and deeply fitting moment following her recent health journey.

#oh that's a look #she could be a boss in dark souls (complimentary)#fashion #met gala

courtesanofdeath

Watch out for what? We're made of stone.

#the tables have tabled #daemons of the shadow realm #oh she's lovely #media matters

cripple-punk-dad

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

fandomshatefatpeople

Sharing for accessibility

catgirlwheels

Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

wishuponastarion

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

stormofneurosis

! This is fucking amazing and I love it!!!

#do love me some redneck ingenuity #it's the grease that makes the world's wheels go #so to speak

sapropel

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

diet-poison

asked the skyrim bandits why they were living in a cave and they explained the war effort has buried the economy so they can't find work and lost their homes. I use my shout to blast them across the cave and find a preeeetty nice sword among their belongings

sapropel

The bandits and savages attacking on sight with innocent corpses in their lairs are part of my apolitical worldbuilding to avoid all messages in my video game

another-cliche-title

#this one group of people with their own advanced (foreign) society is made entirely of evil violent murderers who attack you first #there are no possible implications to this #we can draw no parallels to any real world justifications for waging war on foreign cultures with resources we want #propaganda only exists when and where the masses want it to etc etc #media matters

the-big-mood

During a high speed car chase pursuit, the FOX 11 Los Angeles helicopter had an unexpected moment when they spotted a rooster and a chicken casually walking down the sidewalk right in the middle of the pursuit.

#no this is very important news and he should say it #video