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thatsbelievable

ecoharbor

📍Alaska, USA 🇺🇸

scoutingthetrooper

great-and-small

Sheep tail go down goat tail go up that’s all you need to know

great-and-small

Left is a goat and right is a sheep you can’t go off vibes alone. I’m telling you trust the tail

onenicebugperday

Green flower chafer, Ischiopsopha wallacei, Scarabaeidae

Found in Queensland, Australia

Photos 1-2 by Graham Winterflood, 3 by dhfischer, 4 by deemc, 5 by kerrycoleman, 6-8 by danicalockett, 9 by beaniana08, and 10 (beetle party) by pennytaylor

thistoowillpasss

platycryptus

a mess of mature promethea moth caterpillars (Callosamia promethea) wriggling plumply after spending a little less than a month fattening up on wild cherry leaves

a smaller relative of the cecropia moth, these are one of the less well-known giant silkmoths in the US, but they might just be my favorite species to raise.

(Massachusetts, 8/20/23)

planet-motherfucker

ralfmaximus

“Where you been all day?”

“Fishin”

#weapons

froggybangbang

Have you ever seen a poster and thought.

Wait what.

I just did so i googled

Huh. That seems.... not that far? What about...

Okay. Okay that's... still.... but maybe I'm seeing distances wrong let's try what the poster said

.....

Huh. That's. I'm. Wait what is...

Okay so the international space station is roughly 10 times closer to me than the west coast is that's fine this is fine I'm fine what

ignescent

Up is very very near by, it's just hard to get to, because the planet loves us very much and hates to let go.

gearboxpraexology

I feel a strange sense of comfort knowing I’m closer to the cold vacuum of space than I am to California.

fictionadventurer

Modern takes on romance and fairy tales can give the idea that “true love” describes the quality of the love: This love is true because it’s the real feeling, not false or faked. There’s some mystical connection that makes us the perfect set of soulmates. But I think it more likely that “true love” originally meant true as in loyal. Remaining faithful to this one person your whole life. Not abandoning them for someone else. Repairing the relationship when things get difficult.

True love isn’t what drives you to marry, it’s what keeps you married. True love isn’t the passionate connection that drives you to leave your husband for another man; true love is staying with your husband despite those temptations. Traveling east o’ the sun and west o’ the moon wearing iron shoes to save your beloved, not kissing the princess awake. (And if it does kiss the princess awake, it’s not because of the abstract “strength of your feelings”, but because you braved the brambles that have killed hundreds of men before you in order to rescue her). Action, not emotion. Not one moment of connection but a lifetime of loyalty.

lamus-dworski

Misty morning. Ethnography museum in Nowy Sącz, Poland.

Photo © bagafarna-foto.blogspot.com

its cold outside

Lame

French Deep sea diving suit, by Théodore Carmagnolle 1882

H. 190 cm, W. 92 cm, D. 97 cm, Weight 260 kg - Seated height: 172 cm

#history

locusimperium

swan-archive

locusimperium:

A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic.

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day.

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy. Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour.

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick. Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

brawltogethernow

So I tried this recipe.

And it is GREAT.

It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.

davetheshady

Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt

mxxnlit-witch

I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Let’s see how long they last with six people in the house!

dduane

Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably won’t do a grocery shopping till the weekend).

amyamychan

The OP version of this has become my go-to cookie for basically all things and I have a whole cohort of friends and colleagues who would murder each other to get them. Haven’t tried any add ons yet, since the base recipe is SO GOOD.

#recipe