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Geologist with minimal paleo background, despite the love for coelacanths. Likes Kyanite. Entirely unfocused blog - expect no coherent theme.

[catchymemes]

[partywithponies]

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

[nateconnolly]

*hefts my cartoonishly large shovel* It’s gotta be buried down there SOMEWHERE

[calimckay17]

"Two pictures, same venue, same sport.

1st was taken Dec 10, 2022 at the PWHPA All-Star game in Ottawa (@BillieJeanKing dropped the puck).

2nd is May 18, 2026 of Game 3 of the Walter Cup Finals.

Oh how far we’ve come 🥹" #PWHL

- Claire Hanna (@clahanna), TSN reporter from Ottawa

[idlelizard]

shapely sugar bowl

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[rocketbirdie]

there desperately needs to be a separate option to report ads for hijacking your touch screen or automatically launching your browser/app store the moment you scroll past it. "malicious" is not a strong enough word. i need the "go fuck yourself and die in a pit of boiling acid x10000" option

[animatedjen]

to be a jedi. (maul: shadow lord spoilers)

[annabelle--cane]

tragedy protagonist categories:

yknow what yeah I think that's just about how anyone would react in this situation. fair enough.

alright this isn't how just Anyone would behave in this situation but I'm humble enough to admit that there have been times in my life when I was doing badly enough that I'd probably also fumble it like this

babygirl what the hell are you even doing

[annabelle--cane]

thank you hamlet prince of denmark for being the character ever for the 437th year in a row

[notursneverwasx]

why are you into girls? ....

have you seen them

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[melodypowers65]

What.

[victoire-ious]

nobody:

literally no one:

that one friend who’s a pwhl fan: it’s a royale tiger towel paper towel power play (power through tough messes)

[the-big-mood]

[wizardshark]

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

[sexshopshenanigans]

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

[parakeet]

You will not die at the hands of quicksand. Ask me how I know this

[bearthethirdwheel]

Please, how do you know this?

[parakeet]

quicksand does not have any hands

[frankensteins-mt-dew]

[skarnish]

come ONNNNN how is he so cat

[herpsandbirds]

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), GETTIN' PUFFY!, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

photograph by Anna Knaeble

[loudestlibrarianongodsgreenearth]

possibly my new favorite piece of Percy characterization of all time: during and after the battle with Sondur he won't shut up about his disdain for people who say things like "we're not so different you and i" to their enemies and outright says it's "usually the sign of a terrible person"

and then when he's left alone with Raishan for five fucking minutes:

[charlesoberonn]

If you threw a single ibuprofen tablet into the sea, it would make the world's oceans have an ibuprofen concentration of 1 in 2.92x10^25.

Which is 3.42x10^35 times greater than the concentration of the average homeopathic medicine.

[charlesoberonn]

I like the description on wikipedia