salty little nothing

i like star trek, homestuck, and about three people who probably aren't you - they/he/it - getting anon hate makes my dick hard

[qthewhatever]

I am immune to suicide bait and delete it on sight without posting, so if that's why you're here then you can save yourself the effort.

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I don't have a BYF, but I am an egomaniac, so here are some things about ✨me✨:

call me Q

they/them or it/its if you're cool, but i'll answer to anything but she/her

butch transmasc bi dyke, furry, kinnie, too old to care about being cringe

autistic, adhd and ocd, not that it's any of your business

system

semi-verbal, will explain tone or clarify if needed

I will tag by request, so send an ask if you need things tagged and I'll do my best to accommodate (I don't judge, so feel free to ask for weird things)

this includes custom tags for individuals ("x don't look" or something)

however I probably can't tag spoilers beyond the name of the thing, because I don't really consume a lot of the media I reblog stuff about

do keep in mind I have a bad memory

firmly left-wing but I do not identify as a Leftist and will be mildly offended at the accusation

no DNI, but I block anyone who mildly irritates me the way one would instinctively swat flies

please @ or dm me if you want me to see something, I don't always catch up on my whole dash

if your DNI includes proshippers, people with paraphilias (i.e. "pedos/zoos"), or men, you will find the block button somewhere in the top right. don't come whining to me if you can't figure out how to use it.

last updated 2025-06-08

[boobookittenartblog]

Ischigualastia jenseni a dicynodont therapsid that lived during the Triassic in Argentina. These herbivores could reach a length of about 3.5 meters.

Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto

[alphacrone]

work gave a presentation today on how we might be able to use ms copilot for our daily tasks and every example was followed by “but the results aren’t great and have to be sifted through” or “but it takes a long time to properly write up all the necessary context to get anything usable” like babes i could literally just do the work in that time why would i even begin to need the incorrect pollution machine

[alphacrone]

they officially launched copilot this week and in a meeting yesterday one of my coworkers kept yapping about it and trying to convince us to use it and at one point she told our writer that she ran her copy through it to have it check it against our style guide and said “it flagged a bunch of errors, but when i double checked myself none of them made sense, so you don’t actually have any style guide issues” and i had to mute myself from being cruel because oh my god you didn’t save anyone any time you actually wasted your own time

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[billymayslesbian]

i think this post is improved by the knowledge that i got renamed "punished ant" after getting banned for posting a gift of optimus prime twerking, completely forgot that was my nickname, and didnt understand why i was getting yelled at for typing

[catastrophic-writer-deactivated]

Story Time:

Working in retail is really fun, and the times when major fuck-ups happen, they can be either anxiety-attack inducing, or make it possible to get through the rest of your god-awful shift with a smile depending on the customer. My all-time favorite absolute fuck-up is as follows:

This kind woman is just doing her thing. She scans her membership card from her keychain. The register beeps to acknowledge the scan. We continue as usual. Neither of us notice right away, but after I’ve scanned a few more items, I hear a very quiet, “Um,” from the lady, very polite. I look at her. She is looking at the screen of my register, blinking. I, too, look.

And lo and behold. There is a charge of over four-thousand dollars ($4,000) worth of garlic bread staring us in the face. There are no words for a minute. We’re just… in awe. How did this happen? How the hell did this happen?

She didn’t even have garlic bread in her cart.

I sputter a partial apology - I was incapable of forming actual sentences in the moment - and try to void the garlic bread. Since there was no garlic bread to scan, I try to manually remove $4,000-some from this transaction.

Well, the registers don’t like it when you try to void off more than five dollars ($5) from a transaction, so naturally it pings my manager for confirmation, but she’s not by her pager.

At this point, both myself and the lady are just… dumbfounded. She’s not even mad. I’m not even all that embarrassed. Both of us are just looking at the screen. There’s a bit of laughter, but it’s mostly just… confusion.

I have to call through the whole store for my manager on the intercom because she’s not answering. She shows up, ready to override and void it, when she too, sees what exactly is being voided.

“What… did you do?”

“I genuinely. Have literally. No. Idea.”

She voids it, and I go to finish the transaction and tell the woman her total (minus the garlic bread). My register pings. It tells me that she hasn’t scanned her membership card. Odd. I distinctly remember her doing that. The woman goes to scan her card again, and I notice that her library card is stuck to her membership card. I tell her gently, and she separates the two and scans her card.

My manager, hovering nearby still, sees this and says, “I think it mistook the barcode of her other card for garlic bread, and the remaining digits were read as the price.”

And that’s when the laughter really came over us. There were no hard feelings at all. In fact, the woman was incredibly glad that the receipt still showed the garlic bread and the voiding of. I will remember it until the end of time, my only regret in the entire situation being that I didn’t take a damn picture, because she has proof and I don’t. But I swear to God it happened.

TDLR; Library Card Charged $4,000 of Garlic Bread.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

that’s just how valuable library cards are. each one is worth at least $4000 of garlic bread

[nudityandnerdery]

A picture is worth a thousand words, a library card is worth $4000 worth of garlic bread, if we can figure out how many words the average library card can check out at once, we can probably work out a picture-to-garlic bread conversion here, too.

[nebulae-d]

"okay, but are you a nonbinary woman or a nonbinary man" im going to nonbury you in a fucking hole.

[apocryphics]

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

Photo from a 1910s postcard showing a group of college men kissing.

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[rocketsnacks]

Comet ECSTATIC to be back at the beach after her foot injury (2026)

[avyc02]

Mulan and the girls~ 🪭

[empress-runner]

I love you Bamf but that was just dumb

[balaclava-trismegistus]

if i dont respond to a message from you i can basically guarantee its not because i dislike you. im just getting attacked by imps and shit all the time genuinely.

[definitely-not-lordenglish]

Starting a collection

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[home-and-having-tea]

[possessable]

it's fine i don't even need to be part of social groups or friend groups anyway (giant hole appears in my chest spontaneously) ? what's that

[laur-rants]

I love when my borzoi does the thing

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick