Furby choir rise

let's go meet em in the skies... personal and fandom blog. committed to treating people with respect. expect cheerful yelling in the tags! suz, she/her, mid 20s. ao3: Suzzz. turtle sideblog: snoftshell-snurtle

[space-mouse]

btw udm14.com is like the google search bar but it gives you web results without an overweening box of predictive text

newpipe.net is an app that accesses youtube without the ads. i periodically have to install the latest version when it stops working but i live in a world of free ad-free youtube.

[space-mouse]

Space Chain Factory Purgatory is tasty free real estate imo. what did grace and rocky talk about while making endless chain? can eridians get repetitive motion injuries? how was rocky doing with the eridian attention span thing in conflict with the all-encompassing relief of making tangible progress? why did they observe the eight hour workday (union man ryland grace?)

[kaomojiloser]

drawing possibly one of the funniest moments in the book. chain… must chain……. quote below !!!!!

“Chain, chain, chain. If I ever see another chain in my life, it will be too soon. Ten kilometres of chain—each link just 5 centimetres long. That’s two hundred thousand links. Each one connected by hand or by claw. It worked out to each of us working eight hours per day for two weeks doing nothing but connecting links. I saw chain whenever I closed my eyes. I dreamed of chain every night. One of my dinner packets was spaghetti and all I could see were smooth, white chains instead of noodles.” Project Hail Mary: Chapter 19, pg. 308

[twistedhellknight52]

*wiggles*

O its earthworm … Ok *Steps ovee your carefily*

[wakingfromthewater]

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation in northern Ontario surrounded by wildfire as members flee in boats - ICT

‘We literally had minutes to get on the boats,’ says member of the community.

Four First Nations in northern Ontario are under a mandatory evacuation notice according to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and one community, Namaygoosisagagun was being engulfed as residents fled. “I had time to run home and pack a bag and get to the beach where the boats were waiting,” said a member of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins). “We literally had minutes to get on the boats and flee before it took our town. “Once we left my house finally after packing what I could in a pack sack, the fire was right behind our place. We had to run to the beach and once we got there, it was only moments before the fire had jumped over the (train) track and was coming for us.” Members of Whitesand First Nation, Lac des Mill Lacs First Nation and Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation have also been ordered to flee ahead of wildfires in the area.

(more at the source)

[casgirl]

Posts in conversation with each other

[itsgotgills]

It’s impossible to convince everyone to retroactively use the tag system properly but as a fix-it I’m going to start tagging all my non-crossover Iron Lung posts with #just blood if anyone wants to join me?

(no hate to hail mary but the shipping has eaten the smaller fandom alive & it’s legitimately impossible to search for anything else atp)

[itsgotgills]

what a great idea!

[beanswithbones]

what PHM fans see

what iron lung fans see

BROWSER ADDONS MADE TO HID FILTERD POSTS WILL CUASE YOUR SHIT TO LAG SO HARD BCS OF THIS!!! THUS WHY WE HAD TO MAKE A NEW ADDON TAG!!!

[divviren]

[stabbyflower]

FYI to save a life: tumblr search does allow boolean operators now, so if you search just iron lung you'll see the above BUT! you can filter out almost all of it if instead you type: iron lung -"project hail mary"

(i say almost because in my test that still showed people who tagged "phm" and "the project hail mary" but NOT "project hail mary", but nothing is perfect and this will at least get MOST of the wheat from the chaff.)

Go forth and be free to curate your fandom experience, my friends!

[garou-art]

🦈 Basking Shark 🦈

"The second-largest fish, this gentle giant gets it's name from drifting along the surface and "basking" in the sun while filtering for plankton with it's huge mouth!"

[buried-in-stardust]

Setting up a new yurt for friends to live in during the summer in Inner Mongolia, China. OP has noted in comments that a yurt costs around RMB￥20K.

*Khatas are traditional, ceremonial scarves. Mongolian khatas are usually blue, symbolising the sky.

[eng by me]

[kosmogrl]

[obstinaterixatrix]

and that dango seller? @red-hot-kick. forever grateful for their contributions to foxskull nation <3

happy ryukita week day 3, festival! I sprinted to get this comic done on time... inspired by this iconic tweet

[queenlua]

all engineers are brothers (found attached to a steamship's engine):

1. 'The Squeak' apparently is originating from the Low Pressure (LP) valve. This is a large "D" slide valve with a lot of metal to metal contact. 2. We have inspected the valve, seat and LP cylinder and piston numerous times. We can find no evidence of rubbing, galling, burnishing, or any other sign of metal to metal contact. 3. 'The Squeak' is dependent on engine speed and temperature; as the engine heats up 'The Squeak' increases. Inexplicably, as the speed increases the sound decreases. 4. Suggestions about using WD-40 or needing sewing machine oil are not helpful. 5. If you wish to discuss 'The Squeak' with the Chief Engineer please donate $1 to The Squeak Abatement Fund to aid in construction of a new LP valve. If too many passengers speak with the Chief regarding 'The Squeak', the donation may be diverted to the Chief's beer fund.

[whereserpentswalk]

It's a debate amoung many scholars if humans ever got a chance to explore their moon.

Since it's been hundreds since any sovereign humans state has existed, and almost all humans were expelled from the sol system only a few generations after the conquest of earth, outside scholars didn't have as much of a chance to see humans in their native environment as they wanted to. So for those who are studying the sol system after its resettled (useally referred to as auxus by the new settlers) they have mostly archeology to go on.

Now, some have tried to consult the humans for their own cultural memories of such things. And though the human diaspora is very large, serving the role of "middle man minority" in a lot of planets, and taking especially well to spaceships, that doesn't mean anthropology should trust their history as they tell them. Because of how primitive humans were at the time of the conquest, their history as they wrote it is thought of as more of a mythology then a history, important for analyzing the character of humanity, but not an objective account. And unless archeological research backs something up, human primary sources are assumed to be myth.

Now. There is archeological proof that someone was building spacecraft in the sol/auxus system around the time of conquest. We've seen examples of the human homeworld Nexcur (called earth in the human's language) having strange and unknowable machines orbiting it as artificial satellites. And Nexcur's moon has objects such as a flag planted on it, and the closest planet to it has some small unmanned vehicles. It's unknown who made these and why, and has been a mystery since its discovered. Some people think the nearby gaetgians or trinurians built them, others think that the iiriu built them long before the humans evolved. There's even some theories that the yethyy empire built them in preparation for the conquest of earth. There's even more crackpot theories about divine beings or ancient interdimensional entities making them on some corners of the internet.

Of course. The humans almost all claim their ansestors made them, pointing to their own myths. Scholars are just starting to take it seriously, though many remain rather skeptical. The humans were known to be a primitive and warlike species on their homeworld, with no ftl capabilities, the idea of them sending anything to space is laughable to a lot of academics. And it very much differs from the image of humanity that most people have when the think about that time period. Humans have a reputation for taking their mythology a bit too seriously, such as claiming heritage from mythical kingdoms such a King Arthur's Britain, the Odyssey's Greece, or Journey to the West's China.

There is also the obvious problem with any archeological research around what is now auxus which is its religious significance to cultures such as the yethyy and aeretiel. While we try not to offend their religious ideas, and treat them with respect, it is often a problem when their religious ideals of an ancient significance in auxus clashes with the archeological reality that before 1458 SD there is no evidence of non human civilization. For example the mummified body that many yethyy claim to be their prophet kkayykar (despite not even possessing the right amount of eyes or arms to be a yethyy) was recently identified as the mummy of the human king Lenin. However, it's still in a yethyy temple, and still in the power armor the yethyy added to it (partially to make him look more like their own race), as archeologists don't want to offend yethyy heritage.

Still, as no religion has fully claimed the ancient evidence for human era space travel as their own, now is the perfect time for archeologists to learn more about them. More and more of human mythology is being proven plausible, especially as the human mythological creatures known as "dinosaurs" have finally been proven to have some basis in paleontological reality in recently. Science still waits to find out more about auxus's fascinating history and prehistory.

[celebrityho]

[rate-my-reptile]

Reach WITH IN To your LOCAL dirt and you may find A Friend And Boy…

[lilhoneycat]

[neoyorzapoteca]

“I am astonished in my teaching to find how many poets are nearly blind to the physical world. They have ideas, memories, and feelings, but when they write their poems they often see them as similes. To break this habit, I have my students keep a journal in which they must write, very briefly, six things they have seen each day—not beautiful or remarkable things, just things. This seemingly simple task usually is hard for them. At the beginning, they typically “see” things in one of three ways: artistically, deliberately, or not at all. Those who see artistically instantly decorate their descriptions, turning them into something poetic: the winter trees immediately become “old men with snow on their shoulders,” or the lake looks like a “giant eye.” The ones who see deliberately go on and on describing a brass lamp by the bed with painful exactness. And the ones who see only what is forced on their attention: the grandmother in a bikini riding on a skateboard, or a bloody car wreck. But with practice, they begin to see carelessly and learn a kind of active passivity until after a month nearly all of them have learned to be available to seeing—and the physical world pours in. Their journals fill up with lovely things like, “the mirror with nothing reflected in it.” This way of seeing is important, even vital to the poet, since it is crucial that a poet see when she or he is not looking—just as she must write when she is not writing. To write just because the poet wants to write is natural, but to learn to see is a blessing. The art of finding in poetry is the art of marrying the sacred to the world, the invisible to the human.”

— Linda Gregg, The Art of Finding | Academy of American Poets

[inatarachnids]

Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider (Uloborus walckenaerius)

Observed by mikele718, CC BY-NC