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just found out that accidentally in love by counting crows was literally made for shrek. they didnt just choose it. it didnt exist before. they asked counting crows to make a song for shrek 2 and thats how we got one of the best songs ever made. insane.
counting crows knew shrek 2 would become one of the best movies ever made and had to act accordingly
tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”
“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”
i needed this as a background
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
While I regret to inform you "lobling" is not yet a technical term, I wholeheartedly support it going the way of "thagomizer" and becoming one, as "larval lobster" is both unwieldy and lame.
You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.
Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌
Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.
I mean this with all due respect:
You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.
Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.
Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.
If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.
You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.
Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer
Over 4000 employees related to food safety between FDA, HHS and USDA have been let go, despite public health, consumer and food industry groups begging for better staffing.
and where is RFK Jr? Trying to devote a quarter of NIH's decimated funding to fucking vaccine autism studies.
exactly
Grace remembered that he was forced into the ship after he entered Rocky’s ship by his own volition.
No I don’t think you heard me
GRACE REMEMBERED. THE REASON HE WAS ON PHM IN THE FIRST PLACE. AFTER HE WILLINGLY ASKED TO SEE ROCKY’S SHIP. AND WAS WELCOMED INTO THE COOLEST THING HE’D EVER SEEN ATP. They put that memory and Rocky’s ship next to each other to contrast. They contrasted one of the worst moments of his life with (arguably, at least at that point, pre-Erid) the coolest. They put together the scene where Grace had No Reason and Every Reason.
I’m going to be sick
the thing about being "good with kids" is all it takes is literally just not trying to control and mould them with every interaction. it's just being a normal person and engaging with them through normal interactions like having conversations and playing games. it's just being genuine and friendly and not perceiving them as lumps of wet clay you are there to shape. "oh you're so good with kids" thanks it's because I think they are people
like people like you when you treat them with respect who wouldve guessed it
I have been thinking this a lot.
My kids are often told by their mother and by quite a few other adults that they are spoiled by me. That my lack of rules is fun but ultimately bad for them and that's why they shouldn't live full time at my place. The part that doesn't get said aloud is that it's also because I'm a trans woman who lives an immoral life by being openly polyamorous, but that's not even the point.
The point is: I look at my ex, I look at people who used to be my friends and see how their lives as patents is a constant struggle. The amount of rules, punushments for disobedience or mistakes, a default mistrust towards their own kids...and it doesn't fucking work. I know, I was the eldest and easiest child myself, and tried my damnest to mold myself according to given rules and it gave me absolutely nothing.
I refuse to continue this cycle.
My eldest just turned 15 and flat out announced that he would live with me from now on. All the typical guilt was piled on him and the bottom line was "But you have to have RULES! That's how parents show their love, spoiling you will cause trouble in the future!" But the kud couldn't be swayed and I couldn't be more proud about him. It was two months ago.
You know, I do have rules. They are simple and there isn't many of them.
1: as human beings who share a home we need to build everything around mutual respect. We talk about issues, I do my best to listen. Growing up is a group project. I'm not a god, I make mistakes and when it happens, I apologize and try to fix my behavior.
2: To make living as cozy as possible, we need to share the load of maintaining this home. He cooks every now and then, we share the dish washing duties, feeding and walking of pets, we clean together.
And that's about it. And it has worked very well. I try to be patient with him, learning to take responsibility about things is new and I can see how he flinches whenever he makes a mistake, awaiting to be punished or berated. And I just sit him down, explain how the particular mistake can be fixed and then we try again. I wouldn't be angry for myself about the same mistakes, why would I do it to him?
One could think that this would only lead my kid to lie to me and to abusing my trust. I'm not really worried about that. Why lie if you can talk about the thing peacefully, kniwing that you are treated with respect?
And here's the thing.
Really, it all boils down to respecting kids as whole persons. All of ys desire respect and feeling valuable to others, it's a basic human need. And so very rarely given to children. But when they are respected, when they KNOW that they are respected, it makes them want to show that they are worthy of that respect (not that it could ever be qyestioned by me, it's a self-respect thing).
Really, the kids are alright, you just need to give them a change.
Double Income No Kids used to be seen as a kind of lavish lifestyle, now it’s like…a requirement to have any remote chance at financial stability
This post is getting notes again so I see we’re all handling the cost of living crisis well 🙃
Sometimes I really want to take everyone under the age of 24 (as of 2026) by the shoulders and say:
"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."
Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.
It's terrifying. I know it must be terrifying for a lot of the young people on Tumblr too. I hope one day we're able to bridge all of those complex feelings into something collective and positive so we can do our best to prevent similar traumas from happening to future generations.
and, look, I’m not complaining, not at all, but this is why it’s very important to be abundantly clear and specific with your Etsy witch.
Verified: Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Trump ally and foreign policy hawk, dies at 71 (NPR - July 12, 2026)
Kevin R Free dragging Lindsay Graham in the WTNV year four script collection
In honor of Lindsey Graham not living to regret any of that shit--
If anyone wants to know what a leopard seal sounds like 🦷🩸
Leopard Seals are what happens when god needs a lizard and all he has is a mammal
I'd recommend turning the sound on. The seal is not screaming. It's not very loud at all, actually, but the noise it's making is Much Worse.
trans clown getting top surgery and the surgeon pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his
Genuinely hysterical that they’re pretending Mitch McConnell isn’t sitting next to Charlie Kirk in hell right now but announced Lindsey Graham’s death at 2am like fuck it
