loverboy and gnomewife

h.b. || 23 || any || various interests

[asteroidtroglodyte]

TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

[iheartvelma]

There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world

[skygenders]

turning point usa is kinda performance art like lets consider that the other founder died from covid in 2020.

[geminisee]

>two people start a conservative organization to push covid conspiracies and pro-gun ideals (among other things)

>one dies of covid

>the other dies of gun violence

it’s so on the nose that it’s actually cliché

[molabuddy]

i love when cats roll around all cutely and then they look up at you like ₍^. .^₎ umm hi did you notices how cute i just was? did u see?

[pkaykim]

[mediaseriesfilm]

[kaity--did]

you dumb dumbs don't need AI to come up with ideas, you just need a husband who's had 2 glasses of wine and an innate desire to make you happy.

[kaity--did]

"I asked chat gpt" yeah while I asked my husband how I could build a Halloween arch and now he's on the porch with a glass of red wine and a measuring tape at 10:30 pm on August 2nd

[dan-tad]

did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

[thebingremlin]

The funniest thing about season 3 of Bridgerton is the tonal shift between Cressida’s scenes and everyone else’s. Homegirl is fighting for her life in a genuine horror movie while everyone else is flitting about in a rom com.

[localgasmaskliker]

Knightfuckers and robotfuckers actually have alot in common. for example:

CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG

[brookebitch69]

NEEED to have a lifelong creative partnership.. and if it gets a little homoerotic.. well I guess that would be okay too !

[sandersstudies]

Me: my weight fluctuating is totally morally neutral. I don’t need to dedicate large portions of time to gaining or losing weight because my weight doesn’t define me. As long as I eat nutritious food and get in some movement, my weight isn’t important :)

Also me: my fouckingPAMNTS

[sandersstudies]

Me: yayyy buying sustainable clothes that will be in wearable for a long time and not resorting to fast fashion :)

Me when I shift two sizes by the following year: :,( m y… fouking panms

[thescaryjokes]

woah dude you hit your head pretty hard. 2025? president donald trump? "labubu"? haha no clue what youre talking about dude its roughly 1pm august 8th 2004 and we're about to take a chicago boat tour and i heard dave matthews band is in town and

[teaboot]

Being like 25+ is wild shit they play music in the Grocery store you only used to hear at raves in the woods at 2am while your buddy was hurling in a porta potty

[teaboot]

“A dorito would kill a Victorian child” the tunes in this pharmacy would give a 15 year old from 2007 a contact high

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

outta my way i'm about to become a ye olde furrie

[english-history-trip]

Presumably based on this lil guy!

[justgarb]

Oh heck yeah! @english-history-trip for the win!

I went down the rabbit hole and best I could find is this illustration was from Latin 1393 from 15th century France

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[ziptiesnfries]

i feel like an often overlooked downside to 10-episode seasons and the death of the "monster of the week" format is that we get way less whump variety nowadays. used to be that there'd be dozens of opportunities for your fave to get punched or kidnapped or hypnotized or what have you. these days if it doesn't fit into the main plot, it just doesn't happen. this is a tragedy. we should be protesting.

[veryimportantgifs]