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i love when you’re talking to someone who’s not from florida and you just casually mention a thing that only happens in Florida and it ruins their whole day

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one time i was talking to some guy and he was like “haha how do yall get alligators in your backyard? do you not have fences?” and i had to inform him that gators can absolutely climb fences

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omw to go sit in your pool

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this is why kennedy space center had to install fancy outward-curving fences around the launchpad, bc gators climbing over regular fences and getting on the launchpad could be very dangerous

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I’d like to think that the “STOP 🛑” sign is also for the gators.

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The gators don’t abide by our petty laws. They are…instigators.

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turns out they climb trees too. Like regularly. they tend to do it a lot less once they reach certain sizes, but like several crocodilian species turn out to have a whole development period where they spend a lot of time in trees, and we just never knew that until like 2014 because, understandably, nobody who was studying them thought “i wonder if I should look for a bunch of crocodiles up in the trees”

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new phobia just dropped

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haters will see multi-talented queens and develop a phobia

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Howling Wolf Figurine from Siberia, c.500-200 BCE: this carving measures just 11 cm (about 4 inches) tall, and it was created nearly 2,500 years ago

The figurine was crafted from a piece of wood and decorated with bits of shell inlay.

According to the Cleveland Museum of Art:

The subject, size, materials, and naturalistic style suggest that this small sculpture was made by one of the nomadic peoples of Western and Central Asia—perhaps the Scythians, who, with the Medes, conquered the Assyrians.

Sources & More Info:

Cleveland Museum of Art: Howling Wolf

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Reject modernity (feeding capitalist companies), Embrace tradition (supporting indie studios)

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the speed limit for ghosts is also 25

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Official silly sign

Hinata Hyūga during the war is honestly a combination of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" and "wise men run when a calm man goes to war."

#naruto #hinata hyuga

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Mechu-Deru: Anakin's Relationship With Machines and The Force

Mechu-Deru is a Force ability that involves machinery. It is quite rare as technology isn’t alive and most Jedi would struggle to interact with it using the Force. The principle behind it is that one places one’s own Force energy into it and thereby communes with the machinery.

Unsurprisingly, Anakin is significantly skilled at mechu-deru. It is one of his greater areas of strength in the Force and he has used it, instinctually, from a young age. Anakin finds that beyond his skill in programming, mathematics, engineering, and just being a general grease-monkey and gear-head, he can place his hands on any machine, channel the Force into, see what’s wrong and know how to fix it. Better yet, he can see how it’s been made, how it should be, and how to go about making it better. He loves doing it. It’s just so satisfying.

I would say that Anakin appreciates mechu-deru on another level, however, that goes beyond mere enjoyment. As discussed in this post, Anakin struggles a great deal with ‘excess’ from the Force. Being able to channel the extra Force into machinery must help him manage being as powerful as he is. He probably keeps things to fiddle with in his pockets for those times when he’s overwhelmed and doesn’t know how to channel it. In fact, you can tell when Anakin is getting too much ‘background noise’ when he pulls out a tiny project from his belt, his comm if he’s desperate, and starts fiddling with it to drain away the surplus Force. This is why moving meditation is Anakin’s favourite form of meditation and why he goes straight to his Starfighter when he needs to focus, because when the Force is pounding him, (and he was never taught how to handle that), he can relieve himself of it, to a small extent, by pushing it into the machinery he works with.

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