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In House of Leaves, Navidson spends huge chunks of the book stuck in his home, while in Homestuck, John leaves the house almost immediately. Really makes you think.

decomposingfungi

fandoms are obsessed with giving children to characters who would HATE being parents

it's strange to think that if it weren't for diseases and horrible itchy immune reactions, I would probably have a radically different attitude toward ticks and mosquitoes

"how wonderful that they only take a drop of life from another and then leave, rather than snuffing it out in its entirety like so much of the animal kingdom does. by all means, take your microliter of blood; I have plenty to spare," rather than "die die die fuck off and die forever"

spring birdwatching so far is I'll be tracking a warbler around trying to get one sufficient identifiable shot through five layers of greenery while it flits off to a new position every second, and then a kingbird will land on a bare branch in a wide-open space nearby and be like "make sure you get my good side :) just kidding, they're all good sides"

#'hey do you want to see me do some dope aerial maneuvers? get your picture first I'll wait'

google becoming increasingly useless as a search engine

highonlife22-deactivated2026021

using your city as a personality trait is such a funny phenomenon thats only allowed when you're from like 5 super well known american cities. imagine if like.. a polish person was like thats how we do it in kędzierzyn koźle

syrenki

you know that excitement when you realize you're in a location from a famous song. this is how i feel right now

#for me around the 10k-20k population mark it switches from 'oh hey I know that place' to the sense that I've been doxxed somehow

the cheetahs and dwarf mongeese can see into each other's zoo enclosures

#there's a pit on the other side of the wall in the cheetah zone #not sure what's stopping the mongeese from hopping the wall as at least one has seemingly learned to climb it

rederiswrites

Something I only learned last year, which should be far more common knowledge, is that there is an American native lotus. It's lovely, it's tough, and it's an indigenous food source, and yet no one seems to know about it. I learned about it accidentally on a YouTube foraging channel. Pretty sure it was Feral Foraging; check him out, I like him. Anyway, yeah!

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Like, what the fuck, that's awesome. And since I have a pond, and it desperately needs plants, I obviously immediately went and found me some seeds (got mine on Etsy).

The instructions that came with the seeds say you need to scarify them--that is, to scratch or break the seed coat to permit germination. They suggested a Dremel or a fucking belt sander. And that sounded extreme, but hey, I have a Foredom tool, which is a Dremel's big daddy, so surely this will be no problem!

Guys. They were not kidding.

Each tiny white patch on a seed on the left is a result of significant time power sanding this rock-like seed coating. I now fully understand how these can lie dormant for decades before germinating. I had to take a break. I may have to take more breaks. Damn, dude.

zooarchaeologyatdinner

But it's worth it!

Red's already got the technique but for anyone else: make sure you're sanding the sides of the seed, not the pointed end. Don't damage that bit!

#I also learned about these last year because I found a bunch of pods in a woodland pond and was like 'where the fuck did you come from'

asked whether my hair is a natural red or dyed that color by a cashier who was ringing up my purchase of one bottle of spf 70 sunscreen in march

shoezuki

obsessed with the canadian ghoulmaxxing acecel

#the urge to learn how good at this I could be if I were doing it on purpose does sometimes arise #as it is. I will be vibing. in totally appropriate places and not 'unexpectedly up a tree' or anything. open clearings. laundry room. bench #and people with no situational awareness will come up to ME and then notice me and scream #I feel like I could do numbers if I went pro

I've joked about changeable midwestern weather, but "high of 70F around lunch, possible tornadoes in the afternoon, snow in the evening" is one of the weirder forecasts I've seen

the downside of accomplishing some minimal amount of cardiovascular activity on a regular basis is that I now have the ability to sprint for short distances, and am impatient enough to be using this new skill at unusual or inappropriate times

adz

#early to dead and early to rise gives you new problems to face post-demise

bloodydamnreaperofmars

The Catalan Discworld edition is the best edition ever and you won't change my mind...

LOOK HOW PRETTY THEY ARE!!!

#damn alright #discworld

grootficguy

“Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite” I’m making a spreadsheet to see if this is true. Reblog with your favourite Pokemon in the tags.

Here’s the spreadsheet in-progress

grootficguy

Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.

#probably the already-recorded haunter 'cause I'm a basic bitch but. I'm shocked by the lack of spheal?#pokemon