Out Here Grinding, What About You?

Greetings Goodfellows. Here's some content that makes me giggle, smile, feel good, or puzzles my brain. Stay for the show if you'd like

[prole-log]

[murderessdominatrix]

via @quasi-normalcy

[lyricvl]

[dudepositivity]

[ID a large sign that reads, in all caps, “I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it” in white letters over a black background. End id]

[displayheartcode]

[only-cat-memes]

[wondertrio]

drew them

[silvergryphonart]

That’s it, that’s distilled to their essence

[anxietyproblem]

[redbudbutch-deactivated20221003]

This is a lesbian sex party invitation from 1970s San Francisco. I love that it has coffee stains on it, like it was left out on a table for a while.

[thisrobotbeatcaptcha]

This sounds amazing

[byjove]

It’s interesting how many cis dudes do not want children but are against vasectomies because they consider them to be emasculating. No medical reason just that they think it would make them less of a man. Manhood is stored not in the balls, not in the brain, not in the soul but in the vas deferens only. Apparently. According to them.

[hitmewithcute]

Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.

[scixerboa]

Best picture in the world

[fourofdaggers]

Feelings tonight

[heedra]

i told one of the preschoolers i was going to take a nap when i got home and she asked me three times if i was joking and then afterwards just flat out refused to believe me

[heedra]

i told her today that i did in fact take a nap yesterday afternoon and she sternly said "you keep messing with me."

[rubeau-art]

I completely forgot to post these!

Half a chess set and a round bird from ceramics

[sonofshermy]

[georgedontdothat]

carcass acres

[inatcanids]

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Observed by irkuem, CC BY-NC

[foxpost-generator]

where the fuck did you get that

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

NO WAY

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I’ve been doxxed 😨

[thetetra]

I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down...

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!

It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like

[silent-calling]

What in the Skyrim

[jenroses]

been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.

[fitzreiley]

We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?

The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.

[bogleech]

I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I'm gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

!!!!!!!!!!

[headspace-hotel]

Finally

Cryptobotany

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

And so this post floats back to me. Pure poetry.

[ameliafromafairytale]

Somehow no one has mentioned yet that Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the U.S, and the 10th deepest lake in the world. She Is Deep And Full Of Secrets guys, perfect wizard territory

[sandmandaddy69]

[brionysea]

usamericans, do you remember in the incredibles when syndrome made the robot go haywire just so he could swoop in and 'save the day'