[toastbutteregg]

[astrodidact]

[aenariasbookshelf]

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

[drek-odradek-deactivated2022031]

REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

[catchymemes]

It seems pretty windy

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Heat seeking spear autolocked onto a mammoth two valleys behind you

[catchymemes]

[debellatis]

This is.... Absurdly cute. What the fuck.

[gallusrostromegalus]

It's worth noting that the reason the beaver wants the water to be deeper in the first place is that the Beaver is using the deep water as a pantry:

All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it's negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it's lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it's cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.

So it's less "there's a leak in my house" and more "OH SHIT THE FRIDGE!!"

[mysharona1987]

The French really don’t fuck around.

[ekftff]

saw this comment on a cricket noise video and felt like something changed in me idk

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is one of the biggest threats facing us over the next 50-100 years. Antibiotics are honestly one of the biggest things that have improved life expectancy and reduced child mortality over the last 70 years or so. The less effective they become, the more we are screwed, especially but not only the immunocompromised.

If everyone can get antibiotics every time they have a cold without going to see a GP, this has potentially disastrous consequences.

In general, I’m very much against gatekeeping things, but antibiotics are precious. 

If, instead, we improved GP working conditions, funded the building of more GP practices, supported junior doctors more so they could actually last long enough to become GPs, this would be a non-issue.

[curlzformetal]

Yeah, no, as someone who works up close and personal with antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, this is terrifying. When a wound becomes infected with something we can’t treat, we have to physically cut out the injected tissue…if it’s in a place where it’s viable to do that. And if you get that infection into your bloodstream? Forget it.

When bacteria is able to shrug off every potential avenue of treatment, you are, and I cannot express this enough, absolutely fucked. Doctors have been so willy nilly with antibiotics (and the general patient population isn’t finishing the courses consistently) that these bacteria are becoming supercharged.

Have you ever dealt with a wound that had MRSA in it? It’s nasty. That’s not to mention the infections that become necrotic, or when you go septic. They’ve isolated whole floors of hospitals for a single patient that has a drug resistant strain of pneumonia, and speaking of! Drug resistant pneumonia? Yeah, that’s a lung transplant or death. Those are your options.

This is fucking terrible idea. Antibiotics are already relied on too much as is, and they’re losing ground fast in their ability to be effective. This is a fucking shitshow if this gets through.

[eroscestlavie]

Sometimes I wish I had the confidence of an online polyamorous white genxer from the Pacific Northwest who just got a new crystal necklace and is using it as an excuse to post a tit pic to a chorus of praise from excitable bearded pagans & bisexual barnes and noble employees who do burlesque

[jumex]

I love reading this each time I see it it’s like the golden ratio of words

[embroiderycrafts]

My new embroidery to hang over my work desk by happyeight

[puckgoodfaggot]

[id: an embroidery hoop with white fabric in it. the fabric has black embroidery depicting a stressed-looking angel with a massive book in front of them and the text “every day i get emails” above them. /end id]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

favorite kind of tweets that make me love people a little more

[sublingualspiro]

technically u cd fill it with neutron degenerate matter and change your problems from exceeding the weight limit to all the consequences of somehow having a piece of a neutron star on earth

[podplease]

Funnily enough

[ectoimp]

[anxietyproblem]

[wildlifewednesdays]

A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)

[docwithtardisfez]

I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds

[11213372-deactivated20160412]

[nightonblogmountain]

THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?

UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE 

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises. 

One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound. 

[typhoidmeri]

Omgggg the sounds.

[gigi-tastic]

Teddy is back on my dash and all is right with the world

[bears-official]

WE ALMOST TO OCTOBRE POST OF PUNKINBEARS

[wafflebloggies]

HI TEDDY I MISSED YOU

[soothifying-sounds-asmr]

Moths in Slo-Mo by Ant Lab

[floridianfireflyfaith]

@onenicebugperday

[lemonsweet]

[spiced-wine-fic]

[babyanimalgifs]

This praying mantis standing its ground 

(via)

[dustflier-deactivated20210913]

The thing about this that absolutely kills me is the person operating the excavator is gently trying to shoo the mantis away with the giant machine and the mantis is still trying to pick a fight with it

[cipheramnesia]

I get the same way when people try to help me.

[abrieftasteoflove-deactivated20]

[adultwednesdayadams]

Something Rotten!

[ariaste]

omg a musical song about COMPLAINING ABOUT WRITING My whole life I have been waiting for this. MY WHOLE LIFE.

[once-upon-a-reblog]

OH MY WORD

[erebusodora-deactivated20190104]

YES.

[catdaggers]

@tinydadman

[bambis-baby]

I REBLOG THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME IT COMES ON MY DASH AN I HAVE LOVED IT EVERY TIME

[schmergo]

I saw this show live on Shakespeare’s birthday and it was amazing!

[satellite-shakespeare]

They always leave out my favorite part of the song:

SO YOU WRITE DOWN A WORD

BUT ITS NOT THE RIGHT WORD

SO YOU TRY A NEW WORD

BUT YOU HATE THE NEW WORD

AND YOU NEED A GOOD WORD

BUT YOU CANT FIND THE WORD

OH WHERE IS IT

WHAT IS IT

WHAT IS IT

WHERE IS IT-

*INCOHERENT SCREAMING*

[killerblackberrypie]

@petermorwood on the off-chance you haven’t seen this yet

[petermorwood]

Like it…

And I’d like to have heard the missing bit as well, an evocation of those times when neither dictionary nor thesaurus nor synonym finder are of any help at all…

[inqorporeal]

You’re in luck, they made a music video for it!

[7eselt]

@alrtist

[spag-hetti]