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[thetragicallynerdy]

Oh! Wow!! It seems you found a little creachur!

What kind of little creachur did you find?

A lil lizard

Hmm seems like it's got wings - a bird? A bat? Who can say

The softest little bunny rabbit

A glossy beetle

Frog :3

Teeny tiny hedgehog

Mouse with the biggest ears you've ever seen

Fish in it's little fish bowl

Fox with a fluffy tail

Snail friend :3

Snake that winds around your arm

Sentient potato

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

[thetragicallynerdy]

You pick the little creachur up and notice something really neat about it – what did you notice?

It's got wings! (An extra set if it's a creachur that already has wings!)

Bright neon rainbow spots!

Tiny little antlers!

It has eight eyes!

There's an extra set of teeth in that cute little mouth!

It purrs!

It's carrying a little briefcase marked 'top secret'!

It glows softly when you pet it!

It's leucistic or melanistic!

Those claws are made of metal!

Something else - tell me in the tags!

Nothing extraordinary about this creachur, but it's still very special to me <

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

[thetragicallynerdy]

The little creachur climbs into your pocket! (Yes, even the fish, don't question it.) Seems like it's following you home - would you like to give it a name?

Let's call it...

Spot

Georgette

Dill Pickle

Charlie

Ser Butters, Knight of the Dairy Kingdom

Sourdough

Raspberry Tart

Bear

The Great Destroyer of Worlds

The creachur already has a name, it's (put it in the tags)

Hmmm none of these fit that well, it's name is (put it in the tags)

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

[thetragicallynerdy]

As soon as you make it home, the creachur settles right in with you.

Where does it make it's bed?

Your pillow :)

Pile of scrap fabric you've been meaning to use

On top of the fridge

In your laundry hamper

In the tiny space between two books on your shelf

Underneath the couch, where you can hear it making happy noises

In your coziest winter hat

Nestled among all the art supplies

In the Lego pirate ship on display

In your backpack so it can go with you everywhere

No particular spot, because it curls up beside you wherever you sit

It hides so well that I can't tell, but I know it's there :)

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

[thetragicallynerdy]

Well, seems like it's settled in for good. One last poll, to help you and your new creachur remain best buds -

What becomes your creachur's favourite thing to do together?

It loooves little snacks, all suited for it's diet of course!

Being pet - it especially loves chin scritches!

Playing with it - it especially loves chasing toys!

Cuddle time <3

Trips outside - it loves going on adventures with me!

Snacks but specifically the kind it steals from me!!

It just loves being around me, watching tv, hanging out while I read, etc

Bedtime! It sleeps right beside me all night long!

It really seems to love music, especially my favourite band!

Visits to see friends or family - it's a social little creachur!

Sitting outside in nature and just soaking it in <3

Watching movies - it's especially fond of Columbo???

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

Good luck with your new creachur!!

[camelidae]

If you’ve been wondering why getting a dragon as your wizardly familiar is so often discouraged, please understand that it isn’t so much that alchemical experiments and curious dragons don’t mix, it’s that they WANT to mix SO badly.

[lumsel]

sometime's you'll be reading the wikipedia article for Marshton's Ant and halfway down the page you'll see "marshton's ant is omniscient and very small[1]" and you'll go what the fuck so you click omniscient and be redirected to a page called Omniscience (ant biology) that tells you "in ant biology, an ant is considered omniscient if it knows what its own ass looks like" and you're like oh okay and the disappointment follows you for the rest of the day

[breelandwalker]

Hey. Hey you. Yes you. Reading this right now.

Just in case you need it today....

Shit's rough all over right now. You are doing the best you can. And I'm really proud of you.

Keep going. I'm going to. And I hope you do too.

One day at a time. 💜

[westwardsongsblog]

Applied for a retail job at a store that carries very niche products that I somehow??? Have past experience in??? So I'm fairly certain that I will at least get an interview.

It's just that the last place I worked at things didn't end on good terms (although I wish everyone there the best, it was...a mess, behind the scenes) and I don't exactly know what I'm going to do if they ask for references from that place or call the store directly, because. Ha. Hahahaha. Yeah.

Still worth applying to though, it's an interesting thing to learn about and I'm not half bad at people-facing jobs.

[plaguedocboi]

The Great Lakes should have their own very small species of whale

[creepy-wheat]

hhhrrrnnffgg,, STURGEON !

STURGEON !!

[sugarfishsushi]

Those pictures do not do them justice these fishies are humugajigajungous

[evilscientist3]

‼️STURGEON‼️

[fluffiest-bugs]

@fishyfishyfishtimes

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

STUGGON!!!!!!!

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

My friend, are you in for a treat! The lake sturgeon, which is the sturgeon found in the Great Lakes, can grow to be two meters long and weigh 90 kilograms! It is the biggest fish found in the Great Lakes!!

But, see, the lake sturgeon isn’t the biggest sturgeon species. That would be the beluga sturgeon, which regularly grew to be four to six meters long before overfishing took a toll on their populations. Belugas are a lot younger on average nowadays — these fish can live to be over 100 years old — and seldom exceed three meters, but I mean, even that isn’t anything to scoff at. The very biggest beluga sturgeon ever caught was a jawdropping 7.2 meters long, and weighed 1 571 kilograms!! Other beluga sturgeons of such sizes have been caught too, and some unverified sources say that there has even been belugas that exceed 10 meters! They are the biggest freshwater fish in the world, and are up there among the biggest bony fishes in the world. That’s so big, it’s hard to even grasp or imagine. Seeing pictures of sturgeons puts it in a better perspective, I think. Here is a 800 kilogram sturgeon, a bit more than half of what the biggest sturgeon weighed:

Like, look at that. You see this?? That’s so fucking insane!!! Sturgeons never cease to amaze me with how… impossible they seem. These fish are like aquatic dragons or prehistoric beasts from days long gone, and in a way they are the latter! Sturgeons have been around as a group for over 160 million years, so they did indeed live in the age of the dinosaurs. Whenever I see pictures like this I can only wonder what the humans who first saw big sturgeons must’ve thought. I know what sturgeons are but I still have trouble grasping their gargantuan sizes, imagine seeing the dark form of a giant in the water and not having the faintest idea of what it is, or even that it's entirely harmless to humans.

Other sturgeon species are also very really big! The lesser-known kaluga isn’t that far behind at a maximum length of 5.6 meters and maximum weight of about a ton. Several white sturgeon that have exceeded three meters and even just shy of four meters and weighed over 400 kilograms have been caught, and the biggest, but unverified white sturgeon even caught was around six meters long and weighed 900 kilograms. The critically endangered Chinese sturgeon maxes out around five meters and 600 kilograms. All this to say, these old fishes are massive!!!

I get really rambly about fish, sturgeons especially ^^’ I just…. look!!! Look at them!! Isn’t that the most gorgeous beast you’ve ever seen? Don’t you wonder what life they have lived, what they’ve seen, heard, felt? If sturgeons could talk… they’re wonderful animals, and. Ahhh!!! Everyone needs to know about sturgeons!!!

[marinella-ela]

[birds-in-posts]

Bush thick-knee (Burhinus grallarius)

[captainwarbuckle]

It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes

[orangechickenpillow]

[lyrslair]

[hollanderthoughts]

it’s okay guys I’m literally as normal as a person in my situation can be

[watertightvines]

“Dragostea Din Tei party boat isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.”

Dragostea Din Tei party boat:

[Numa Numa Je intensifies]

[becherdireinen]

sorry i never responded to your text, i've been busy being paralyzed by my own inability to do basic tasks that are piling up.

[saywhat-politics]

[onethirdofimpossible]

Okay, I was just going to reblog this without commentary, but I can't keep this to myself. I'm a PhD student in environmental science and this is my fucking highway.

The first published study about climate change (that I am aware of-- feel free to point out if there's an older one) is an 1896 paper by Svante Arrhenius. He pointed out the link between the greenhouse effect and changes in atmospheric CO2.

Plate tectonics, which the geoscience community now recognizes as near indisputable, was a fringe theory until about the 1960s.

Just in case anyone thought that climate change was a "recent fad" in research.

[fantasiavii]

It’s actually even older than that! Oldest I’ve heard of is Eunice Newton Foote in 1856. There was also another man a few years after her called John Tyndall that I have seen credited as the founder of modern climate science.

[bleekay]

[oneheadtoanother]

[teaboot]

I was too busy laughing to take a picture but my son answered the door last night ready for an adventure 😭😭😭

[teaboot]

IT HAPPENED AGAINNN

[carriesthewind]

Hey! You!

Do you enjoy my posts pointing and laughing at terrible attorneys?

Do you like news that is sourced from original legal filings?

Do you think the public should have not just the right, but the practical ability, to access public records?

Well, do I have an opportunity for you!

In the U.S. even though (most) federal court records are public documents, it costs money to actually access these documents - 10 cents a page!

This can add up fast when you are talking about legal filings. For example, if you followed along with my recent posts about Sir Clownshoes, his response to the Court's Show Cause order was 112 pages, including exhibits. The reason I was able to make those posts without paying the U.S. government $11 was because of a wonderful site called CourtListener (https://www.courtlistener.com/). They have a browser extension that automatically adds court documents that the user purchases from PACER (the federal site that costs money) to their public site (https://free.law/recap). That way, only one person has to pay $11, instead of everyone single person who wants to point and laugh.

What does this have to do with you?

CourtListener recently launched a new project that allows users to indicate documents that they need/want access to, but cannot pay for themselves, their "Pray and Pay" Project (https://www.courtlistener.com/help/pray-and-pay/)

Anyone can register for a PACER account. (https://pacer.uscourts.gov/register-account/pacer-case-search-only) (You don't need to be an attorney, or even in the U.S.! You do need to give your name, DOB, address, and other contact information, however.) And every three months, you can download up to $30 worth of documents - that is, 300 pages, for free.

That means, you - yes you! - can register for a PACER account, download the RECAP extension, and then, four times a year, help provide researches, litigants, interested parties, and shitposters alike access to public records! All without having to pay a cent!

Alternatively, if you need or want access to a public court document, but don't have the funds/can't make a PACER account for some reason, you can request the document through CourtListener. (You do still need to register with CourtListener, but it requires far less information.)

As of the time of this post, there are 1,007 pending requests for documents. Just 17 people could fulfill all those requests, right now, for free.

(And I know I'm framing this in terms of my silly little posts, but having access to these cases and these documents is actually really, really important to a lot of people. You will absolutely make someone's day by fulfilling a request.)

[carriesthewind]

Good news! It's been three months, so you can donate another 300 pages right now for free! :D

[basi-boy]

this video has been the last hinge holding me together for weeks now. I need to watch it once a day or I'll start disintegrating

[eeveelotions]

heres the translation I found online for fellow enjoyers