scrub daddy evangelist

"A True Pal": sometimes things; mostly just filler words.

[taragrimface]

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

[taragrimface]

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

[taragrimface]

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

[taragrimface]

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

[serenity-bitty]

ouch

[velvetys]

Stop trying to be influencers we need good tumblr gifers now more than ever

[utopicwork]

Animated gif tools

Easy to use online animated GIF maker and image editor. Upload and edit GIF images for free. Create, crop, resize, reverse, optimize and spl

[trash-slvt]

EZGIF outperforms just about any other tool for reducing the size of a gif while keeping the quality. very recommend for when you need to upload a gif to a site with filesize restrictions from the 90s (looking at you, tumblr)

[protectoursharks]

The body shape of a fish can tell you a lot about it! It can tell you where they like to hang out, how they hunt, what they eat, and more!

Let's use the Asian Arowana (Scleropages formosus) as an example!

Based off the rounded caudal fin (the "tail"), this fish is not a very fast swimmer

Having the dorsal fin and anal fin right near the end of the fish's body suggests it is an ambush predator

The flat head suggests it hunts at the surface

The upturned, large mouth suggests it catches its prey from below

Arowana are ambush predators that hunt at the surface!

They don't need to go very far very fast, hence the rounded caudal fin (which is the slowest moving fin)

Having posterior dorsal and anal fins are a common trait amongst ambush predator

They primarily hunt at the surface! They will sit near the surface and grab small fish, bugs, crustaceans, and even occasionally a bird!

4. Fish that catch their prey from below sometimes do it via suction. They'll open their large mouth, and as the water gets sucked in, so does anything in the water. And the larger the mouth, more water will more quickly fill into the mouth, catching larger and faster prey

[cat-cosplay]

"Don't go where I can't follow!"

[arctic-hands]

I'm not upset discussions of Sally Ride these days don't leave out the fact that she was a lesbian and therefore the first known queer person in space (albeit a fact only known after her death), but I hate that the fact that what is left out is that she, while part of the Roger's Commission after Challenger exploded, was the whistleblower who made sure the information for the defects of the O-rings made its way to Richard Feynman, who then famously, publicly, and on camera demonstrated how icy coldness (such as the cold and icy weather the morning before Challenger launched) could critically deform the O-rings used and keep them from forming a seal. This was also only revealed after she died. (x)

Whenever Sally Ride comes up these days among my (overwhelmingly queer) friends, we all acknowledge that she was a lesbian and celebrate what a role model she was not just for girls but for queer kids (and adults) too, but everyone is always surprised when I bring up the whistleblowing thing, which I think is damn shame and a disservice to her legacy.

[polpotpie]

What if water didn't have surface tension and whenever you spilled some, the whole floor of your entire apartment was covered in a 2 micrometer deep puddle

[teaboot]

you've taught me to count blessings I didn't know were mine

[strawberry-crocodile]

funny how the popular conception of reptiles is that theyre like, slimy and wet. meanwhile they have smooth dry scales, while we mammals are covered in glands that secrete water and oils and other chemicals. where do we sweaty greasy synapsids get off calling lizards slimy

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

remember when i said every presidential election comes down to the absolute most checked the fuck out people in the country

[juniepops]

if you hired a galapagos finch as a linecook it would perfectly evolve a beak to optimally smoke cigarettes behind the dumpsters

[ottisbuns]

Did you know

If you perform action Harmlessly Bother Cat you can receive Sounds

[ottisbuns]

If you perform action Ignore Cat you can also receive Sounds, with a percentage chance that they will be Noises instead

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Not "I can fix him (romantic)" or even "I can fix him (platonic)" but "I can fix him (with an air of soul-deep weariness, taking on a great burden)"

[frigidmusings]

“It IS rotten work. ESPECIALLY to me. ESPECIALLY if it’s you. I’ll fucking do it but Christ ALIVE.”

[artistbriefcase]

[ittybittytoasty]

transmasc using a menstrual product? call that a bachelor's pad

[pantheraleo04]

I was trying to check when the great English vowel shift happened and got the strangest ad I've seen lol

I'm now obsessed with the idea of buying a phonological change. Like, popping down to the store and completely changing the way you speak.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[rethrone-deactivated20250221]

New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction began

According to the expose by ITV, more than 21,000 workers have died since 2017 while working on Saudi Vision 2030 and NEOM.

21,000 labourers confirmed dead. Over 100,000 missing or unaccounted for/trafficked in building this thing.

[tajrishgp]

tags by @/queen-mabs-revenge

[obtusecrimes]

this orb pondering could have been an email

[argumate]

Saruman, sighing as the nazgul shows up at Orthanc: why do I even have this palantir

[tallymali]

im always thinking about that post where someones grandma said “some people have never cleaned a bathroom and it shows” bc it does show

[cazort]

when i was a kid, in 2nd grade (age 7) i and some other kids made a mess in one of the bathrooms at school and the teachers instead of doing the normal canned "punishments" like having to skip lunch recess and sit still inside doing work, had us sit down with the janitors and they talked to us and the janitors explained the work they normally needed to do every day to clean the bathroom, and how what we did created extra work for them. and they took us into the bathroom and showed us what they do and how what we did made it more difficult.

and then they made us clean it all up (with help from the janitors because we were small kids and couldn't even reach everything, we had like thrown toilet paper high up and stuff) and they were very nice about it and there was no further punishment or mention of it again

and the things i took from this experience were:

i never trashed any shared or public space ever again in my life, even in the smallest way

i developed great respect for janitors which i have kept to this day

i think there are a lot of people who could benefit from this sort of experience.

our society often has so many problems not only because we insulate some people from the implications of their actions, but also because instead of facing them with those implications, we impose outside "punishments" that are often unrelated to the original wrongdoing.

like if they had not done what they did with us, and instead had just taken away our recess and made us do something boring and unpleasant, we wouldn't have learned what we did and we would have just learned that we need to get better at avoiding getting caught, which is generally how people respond to punishments that are divorced from explanations of how and why what you did was wrong and hurt people. if instead you confront people with those things, they will change of their own accord.

some adults out there are like full-grown children who never learned this stuff. but the solution isn't harsh punishment like putting them in jail and mistreating them there, the solution is that people need to be sat down with the people who are harmed by their actions and then they can work together to undo the damage, and see firsthand how hard it is.

it's transformative.

[meganwhalenturner]

This is restorative justice. This is what some people are trying to introduce into schools. Restorative Justice is not a magic bullet and it's not a get out of jail free card. It can be handled badly, but that's true of every discipline system. When Restorative Justice works, everyone benefits. The janitors get a chance to have their say. You see the consequences, really see the consequences, of what you have done. Everyone benefits when you become a better person.

[shoyohnt]

sorry for how I acted when there were multiple noises happening at the same time