Turtles?

Usually Bemused and Confused | Agender/Nonbeenie | 25 | A burgeoning Himboy

[desertbroadd]

[useless-catalanfacts]

[useless-catalanfacts]

[penny-anna]

insp by this poll

Folk music enjoyers: how old is the oldest song you listen to regularly?

20th century (1900s)

19th century (1800s)

18th century (1700s)

17th century (1600s)

16th century (1500s)

15th century (1400s)

14th century (1300s)

13th century (1200s)

12th century (1100s)

11th century (1000s)

10th century or older

Pre first millenium (1st century BC or older) (???)

Voting ended onDec 4, 2023

[penny-anna]

if enough ppl tag their Oldest Song on this i might put them all on a playlist <3 mine is summer is icumen in!!

[penny-anna]

ok i have made the playlist w songs off this post & the tags on the other poll:

sticking to pre-20th century and trying to avoid instrumental stuff but i think one or two might have slipped on. i hadn't heard of all the songs ppl put in the tags so if you tagged a song and i've added something completely wrong let me know. i have to go out shortly but further suggestions welcome!!

[foreboding-monolith]

Had to steal, since reblogs were off.

[thievesandbeggars]

[thievesandbeggars]

So many people have reblogged this with such intense yearning in their tags and it makes my heart happy every time.

[jaubaius]

Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

[waffilicious]

imagine if a fuckin……. giant alien just showed up and stuck a huge hand in front of your face and then proceeded to offer you three different houses and wouldn’t stop until you moved out of your old shitty apartment and then helped you fuckin move

and then just left

[glitterary]

I first saw this on twitter and COULD NOT get over these comments:

Twitter link

[everlastingrandom]

👉🏽 girl help I can’t stop drawing connections between ghetto fabulous fashion and other cultural attire because it gets a bad rep in western aestheticism for being too loud, gaudy, and ostentatious despite keeping the art of adornment alive 👈🏽

like look at them. they are sisters. to me

[everlastingrandom]

Ghetto Fabulous is literally the name of the fashion subculture. I’m clawing at the walls in here because people are wondering why I am calling the style ghetto. According to the dictionary definition:

“…denoting or exemplifying an ostentatious or flamboyant lifestyle or style of clothing of a type associated with the hip-hop subculture.”

The fact that the word ghetto itself is a negative connotation is because of the intersection between poverty and racial minorities. But as an art it’s liberating, expressive, and campy even. As someone who was raised to distance myself from it, I love when other people are able to express themselves in the style wholeheartedly.

[swarnpert]

love that kids are emo again. i love walking into the grocery store or goodwill and seeing some teenage emo kid all decked out walking around with their mom or something

[anotherknifeinmyhands]

[hymnism]

my one wish for studio trigger is that they don't draw laios like a dehydrated twink when he takes his shirt off if he doesn't look exactly like this in the anime i will cry and scream

[hymnism]

listen i can't watch people in the tags talk about how chubby or soft he is anymore like im sorry to inform you but this is not what a fat man looks like. brother is absolutely stacked he just happens to not look shrinkwrapped please learn what actual fat people look like

[anexperimentallife]

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

people commenting "I didn't have to pay that much for a plane ticket" are I guess unaware you have to spend money at your destination too?

[fishing-lesbian-princess]

Sometimes the autism thing isn’t being oblivious to when someone is hinting at something but instead being unsure of whether the thing you think they’re hinting at is actually something they’re hinting at or if you’re reading into it too much so you just ignore it anyway because you don’t want to be wrong

[spooniestrong]

[angrypsychologist]

I’ve been saying for years that in the United States there are two perspectives on healthcare and ONLY two: you either believe healthcare is a right for everyone or you believe it’s a privilege for those who can afford it. There is literally no in between. And I’m using “literally” correctly.

[writing-prompt-s]

The hero’s identity was accidentally revealed, but it turns out they are moderately poor, have no friends or family, and their civilian life is frankly…sad.

[wiig66]

[lamignonette]

[floridensis]

uh yeah no problem i literally live for this

[great-and-small]

Something similar happened to me with a weird crustacean I posted and I was dancing on the wind for weeks

[omusa-inola]

OP can we see said caterpillar?

[floridensis]

[omusa-inola]

Imagine seeing an insect - it happens all the time, not a rare or wondrous occasion by any general sense, yet... Between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, half of those discoveries being insects.

That spider in your home, could be unidentified, new. The flies on your windshields, fresh creations.

Years ago I found a huge grub in a friends garden. Took it home in a jar speared with a fork for breathing holes. Put it in a bowl of dirt - Moth larvae will bury underground to metamorphosize - I carefully dug into the dirt when the leaves were falling. A beautiful umber leathery cocoon sat, quietly greeting me. All winter I kept it inside, warm. Carefully moved from one room to another. Come spring, I thought they would not come out. Come summer, I was left with a casing I thought empty. One night, one breathtaking night, a moth larger than my partner's hand, or mine appeared. The Pandora Sphinx Moth was free, and she spread her wings and took to the night sky. I never knew a moth like her could exist in Colorado.

At any given moment, it's estimated there are 10 quintillion individual insects alive. Be curious! Who knows what we will discover next. There in your backyard, local park, leaflitter in the city, some new, wonderous thing lives.

[floridensis]

heres the first ever picture of an as-of yet undescribed leaf miner moth! featuring my dog! i just took him out for his walk one day and saw something on a leaf, i didnt even know it was evidence of a bug, i thought it might be a fungus or something. i posted it to inaturalist and after identifying the host tree, a leafminer expert informed me that that tree was not a known host of anything this might be, and it was almost certainly an undescribed species of moth.

i eventually collected some more leaves that still had larvae/pupae living inside to mail to him so he could raise them to adulthood and work on classifying them

look at that!! a whole new moth!!

theres just so many bugs in the world!! you just never know!!

[onenicebugperday]

This is why you should upload your images of bugs (and other plants and animals) to inaturalist.org! It really does help scientists! It’s also helpful if you list those images as public domain or at the very least only require attribution to share.

[clocks-divorcing-ticks]

I love iNaturalist and have been uploading almost daily to it for over a year now. I do want to encourage anyone using it to make use of the "obscured" location visibility option, which gives your identifications a general radius rather than specific location. It protects both you from doxxing yourself, as well as the location of any rare plants or animals you find from being poached or trafficked. (iNaturalist will automatically do this for some particularly vulnerable species) Citizen science is so so valuable to our understanding of changes in the environment. As someone with an ecology background I cannot possibly overstate how useful it is to have people providing extra data points. We were constantly brainstorming ways to get the public involved in our research projects due to how invaluable it is. So far via iNaturalist I've identified 2 newly introduced insect species in my state which weren't thought to have spread this far until I IDed them, as well as a host of as yet undescribed native species (including a new species of blue banded bee which I'm still very excited about). And this is just in one year taking pics in my own backyard.

That's without even beginning to talk about the mental health benefits to being outside and involved in the natural world around you. I normally stop shot of recommending a specific app, but since this topic came across my dash I figured I'd jump in and vouch for this one.

[floridensis]

[headspace-hotel]

Oh my godddd new moth just dropped!!! With an incredible fluffy butt, no less!

This is a perfect example of why you don't burn/shred/landfill your leaves. Leaf them alone!

[anarchosurfism]

speak softly and carry a big dick

[amishsicario]

i do one of these. won’t tell you which.

[westpal]

YEAH ME TOO

[brightlotusmoon]

[spell-of-the-rain]

This is from the book "What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic" by Annie Kotowicz! (x)

[lingonberry24]

[ID: A paper book with section title: "Power Move". It wasn't until my thirties that I learned some people correct factual errors as a power move. That explains why teachers rarely appreciated it when I pointed out their mistakes - they saw it as an attempt to usurp their authority. I also got similar reactions from classmates, colleagues, and others whose authority was equal to mine, because they assumed I was flexing on them.

Nothing could be further than the truth. For me, showing someone where they're wrong feels like keeping them safe from the consequences of their mistake. It's a collaborative pursuit of truth, not a power move. End ID]