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My name is Bun And when it's night I see no need To hide in fright Like megastars in Broadway shows I find a light And strike a pose

platypusinplaid

Everyone please look at this snapping turtle, walking to the pond outside my house, still groggy from a 6-month nap.

saint-batrick

the music made this one of the most hilarious things i have ever seen, thank you so much.

theinfiknight

GJJGJRKGNH THE MUSIC GOES UNDERWATER WITH THE TURTLE

taraljc

sound on sound on sound on

picsthatmakeyougohmm

hmmm

rubykgrant

You BEHEAD Marie Antoinette?

commodorecliche

you CHOP her head like the GUILLOTINE??

quadradaz

OH OH CHAOS FOR FRANCE! CHAOS FOR FRANCE FOR 1000 YEARS!!!!

petermorwood

Pity I hadn’t seen this closer to Bastille Day… :-D

makingtrouble

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

makingtrouble

Actually I've decided this is a poem

cricketcat9

Definitely a poem. Happy Birthday, cat formerly known as Timmy! 😻

maureen2musings

noah_photobook

important-cat-pics

spin-the-wheel-polls

You wake up as the protagonist of This Anime. How fucked are you? https://wheelofnames.com/qef-dsg

You have become the protagonist of this anime!

How fucked are you?

this is amazing actually!

This is good!

Eh it's okay

BAD.

SO BAD IM SO FUCKED.

I'm not the one who's getting fucked ;)

Results/other

Remaining time: 6 days 23 hours

#soul eater?#i have no firsthand knowledge #but based on title alone i am probly fucked...?

maureen2musings

Goldfinch in a Golden Field

johann_holdt photography

yesornopolls

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

Remaining time: 5 days 23 minutes

#uhhhh #i'm gonna make a wild guess and say the nos are overwhelming

runawaymarbles

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

zz9pzza

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

runawaymarbles

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

kyraneko

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

jeffsatyr

(ID in alt)

elodieunderglass

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

vampirefabio

what kind of vacationer are you?

sightseeing—landmarks

sightseeing—museums

sightseeing—hiking

swimming

scuba/snorkeling

boating

shopping

im just here for the food

im not leaving my hotel

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

yes yes ideally you’ll do multiple, but if you have to choose one.

#gonna say sightseeing hiking #bc that could mean the mountains or the beach or a botanical garden #there are a lot of options

tokkibean

nothing reveals typos better than the ao3 publish button. who needs spellcheck honestly

pikaole

Tag yourself and learn about your bees🐝

I drew 100 bees, but there are over 20000 species of bees! Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests.

Search for your favorite bees to find photos and information!

mbkieran

spin the wheel and make a story!

asterisk (*) = optional

the main character's: gender species/race occupation*

the setting: primary secondary*

the genre: primary secondary*

and finally: the main conflict

spin-the-wheel-polls

South American cyber city Intersex giant butler who kidnapped someone babeyyyyyyyy

#male giant detective investigates a restaurant on the tundra and comes back wrong...

rook-of-the-woods

saw a post with a small list of mythological creatures so. I made my own. About 60 of the creatures were off the dome but those were mostly Celtic mythology, Greek mythology and Generic Creatures so I looked up some others from other cultures. I’ll link some of my sources below.

Disclaimer: I will not have every single creature from every single mythology but I am trying to have a good amount from a multitude of mythologies. Sometimes there were creatures nearly identical from different cultures, so I only kept one.

if you don’t know what it is, Look it up! All of them are very interesting. I had a great time making this.

Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.

If you became this Mythical Creature, would you be happy?

Yes! I love this!!!

it’s cool! I’m happy

It’s okay but I’d prefer something else

I’m ambivalent

Not ideal but it’s fine

I do not want or like this

This is the worst thing that could have happened

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

African mythical creatures booklet

list of Yokai

10 creatures from Native Folklore

mythical creatures of India

spin-the-wheel-polls

really really cool wheel!!

#a makara #so TIL what a makara is

todaysbird

the henslow’s sparrow is a small passerine bird found in north america. they are often found in brushy grassland habitat along with marshes. during the breeding season, they are found in southern canada and the northeastern united states; during colder winter months, they migrate to the southeastern united states. they are omnivorous feeders that eat insects, berries, and seeds. their call is a quick see-lick.