I’m trying to change

pshhhhhhhh

[depsidase]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[canoonbolk]

Thank you, random Puerto Rican lady, now I know more about the world.

[flootzavut]

"Oh, no reason" took me out 🤣

[wanderingthunderstorm]

@lierdumoa I said I would be back for peer review, and here I am!

#this reminds me of that time my mom (who grew up in an island in the Caribbean)

#was telling me a story from her childhood about her neighbor attacking another neighbor with his cutlass

#and I was like “what he just had a cutlass lying around?”

#and my mom was like “of course — everybody had a cutlass!”

#and I was like “???????”

#and my dad was like “they didn't have Home Depot when we were growing up - if you needed to chop something you used the family cutlass”

#and I was like “??????????????”

#that was the first time my brain actually processed the fact that the Caribbean my parents grew up in

#was the same Caribbean they make pirate movies about

[violetsparkzzz]

[psshaw]

[lilifred]

everyone's talking about the ibs/autism haha funny comparison thing while I'm still stuck on the concept that hamsters exist in the wild. like naturally

tf do you mean they're a wild creature. you find those ankle-biters at the pet store

[psshaw]

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

[thesecretuncle]

Shit. This dude knows an extreme amount about a niche subject. Crazy what you can accomplish when you have treatment resistant IBS

[psshaw]

I want it on record that I shit mostly normal.

[graves-yard]

Everyone and their alien best friend has made this joke, but I wanted to. Plus (pointer finger) nothing can stop me when I’m hyperfixating.

Rocky has to fight the cuteness aggression now whenever Grace does silly human things.

[ramenyul]

project hail mary is like i'll make you believe that friendship will save the world. i'll make you remember that our society rests on the backs of teachers and scientists. i'll make you see that even the most cowardly can be brave. i'll make you horny for sandra huller. thank you greatest scifi film of the last 10 years

[owenhcrper]

i just love all the stories about production on project hail mary. they didn't use a single green/blue screen in the whole film. they built the whole interior of the hail mary. the petrova line scene was done practically by putting infrared lights on a chicken wire cage. rocky's voice was one of the puppeteers because he did such a good job during filming that they couldn't imagine anyone else voicing him. and rocky was a practical puppet/animatronic! sandra huller picked sign of the times as her karaoke song and she asked her daughter if it was still a cool song. i just feel like there was so much love making this film and im obsessed

[aroace-ryland-grace]

hottest fucking thing one can read, really (x)

[normal-horoscopes]

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

[theslowesthnery]

ohhhhhh my godddddd

[memewhore]

Penguin escapes killer whales by jumping onto a boat.

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

Antarctic penguins (and most other Antarctic animals for that matter) are very interesting because they lack a natural fear of humans since, of course, humans are not a natural occurrence on the continent. It is one of the few places on earth where it is completely normal for fully wild animals to be comfortable around you. In fact, most react as though humans are just especially large penguins as those are the only flightless biped native to the area.

As far as this gentoo penguin is concerned, it was saved by a float of large yellow penguins also hiding from orcas.

[crystalepicness]

[sarkos]

Penguin Diogenes

[mysharona1987]

[brightlotusmoon]

[weaselle]

they deal with human shit, dog shit, body fluids, razors and broken glass, hazardous chemicals, dead animals, live animals, flammable, corrosive, and poisonous substances, they are more likely to get cuts and punctures than most jobs, and those cuts and punctures are more likely to get serious or exotic infections...

and if they didn't do it for like just a few days, your city would be unlivable.

Garbage collectors went on strike in Memphis and within only 3 days Memphis had an estimated 10,000 TONS of garbage piled in the streets

That strike should have been taught in school and is worth reading about, to remember how hard people have fought to get as far as we are, and how hard we have to continue the fight to get where we need to be

[authenticstains]

[sexwitsockson]

[repent-zoomer]

[dogsuffrage]

memes that get you unfriended by relatives on facebook

[technofeudalism]

memes that get you unfollowed by randoms on tumblr

[thebrazenphlegmatic]

[owa-tagoo-siam]

[gangst3rswife]

Finally watched the Addams Family Values recently! and honestly. my main takeaway is

Debbie slays. And Joan Cusack is a QUEEN

[vbartilucci]

Joan Cusack has never appeared in a film that she did not steal.

And as for Debbie, I will always repost my stance on her end.

I’ve said it a million times - if Debbie had listened to what the Addamses were saying in response to her tales of woe, she’s have realized that they understood completely. She had found her people, and was too wrapped up in herself to realize it.

If they could have, they’d have burst from their bonds, hugged the stuffing out of her, bought her a Bentley (and a vintage Ballerina Barbie) and declare her an Addams.

She could spend the rest of her life trying to kill Fester, and he’d love her all the more every time she tried. And the rest would keep offering helpful suggestions. “No point in trying poison, Debbie my dear - he’s been putting strychnine on his cornflakes since was seven”.

[payasita]

they would have been such good friends

[elleldoe]

grammar this. grammar that. sometimes 'grammatically correct' just doesn't hit the spot. the vibes are telling me to laugh in the face of the english language and that's exactly what I'm going to do, one incorrectly structured sentence at a time.

[pizzafelony]

nothing has fucked me up more than knowing the australian white ibis has a near-identical sister species called the african sacred ibis. the african sacred ibis is associated with thoth, ancient god of wisdom and reason. the australian white ibis is most commonly referred to as a “bin chicken”.