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[anneriawings]

OKAY CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THE FUCK YOU SHIP A PACKAGE OF COOKIES TO A FRIEND WHO LIVES IN NEW JERSEY, ONLY TO HAVE IT NOT GET THERE ON TIME BECAUSE IT SOMEHOW ENDED UP IN GUAM?

I JUST

GUAM?

[phantomrose96]

IM CRYING REAL TEARS MAH DUDES THE COOKIES ARE IN GUAM

KATIE TRIED TO SEND US COOKIES OUTTA THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART AND JUST

“OHHHH THESE COOKIES WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO NEW JERSEY, PHIL? I THOUGHT YOU SAID

[anneriawings]

12/27, 8:37PM CT

ITS STILL IN FUCKING GUAM

[anneriawings]

12/28, 12:18PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE IN HONOLULU GUYS THEY ***FINALLY LEFT GUAM***

[anneriawings]

12/28, 10:22PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE FINALLY ON THEIR WAY TO NEW JERSEY

GO COOKIES GO

@phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper​ @homebeccer GET READY

[anneriawings]

lol i was looking through my history to find the tracking number page and

[anneriawings]

12/30, 12:39AM CT

@phantomrose96 @homebeccer @cupcakecreeper

holy fuCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

THE COOKIES ARE ALMOST THERE

[phantomrose96]

The saga of Katie’s Guam cookies is my Anime of the Season

[anneriawings]

THEY’VE ARRIIIIIIIIIIVVEEDDDDD THEY’RE ON THE FRONT DOORSTEP

[anneriawings]

COOKIES ACQUIRED

[homebeccer]

THE THRILLING CONCLUSION

also as a bonus visual here’s a rough approximation of these cookies’ journey

[anneriawings]

how the FUCK did this blow up and get so many notes

[anneriawings]

SO FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES, @homebeccer @phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper AND I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT WOULD ACTUALLY COST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO INTENTIONALLY SEND THESE COOKIES FROM TEXAS TO GUAM TO NEW JERSEY AND???????????????

AND 

IT’S

IT’S

IT’S NOT AN OPTION IT’S NOT AN OPTION I CAN’T I-

I COULDN’T EVEN HAVE SENT THESE COOKIES TO GUAM EVEN IF I’D HAVE TRIED 

[phantomrose96]

Cant believe we uncovered the Guam Cookie glitch folks

Its not even an in-game feature

[crowreys-wormstache]

Oh my god it’s back

[anneriawings]

H O W

[anavar-immela]

I’ve had this sort of thing happen.

At least it explained why the package took so long to get here.

[phantomrose96]

I appreciate that they have an Entire Stamp for “Missent to Nepal”

No one said “hey let’s stop missending things to Nepal” they just said “let’s make a stamp for this” and called it a day.

I’m gonna get Missent to Guam tattooed on my arm in commemoration. 

[sharkgal4]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[offonaherosjourney]

Get Moist von Lipwig in charge of the US postal service ASAP

[korasonata]

Ok I know this is super old now but I work at a post office and I was curious about the price so I did some digging and I still don’t have a definite answer because THE REASON it says “no shipping services available” is because all shipping services were actually suspended to Guam at the time. As in no packages, parcels, letters, or mail or any kind could be sent to Guam. So not only is it mind boggling that it got sent so far in the wrong direction of its intended destination, but because nothing should have been able to get in to Guam period.

You QUITE LITERALLY could not have sent these cookies to Guam if you tried.

[odditiesoflife]

Strange Homes Around the World

The Upside Down House in Poland

The Aura Residence in Laranca, Cyprus

UFO-style houses in Sanjhih, Taiwan

Stone Age home in Portugal

The Auto Residence in Salzburg, Austria

source 1, 2

[internationalemeteorologie]

Hiroshi Yoshida 

El Capitan (North American series). 1925

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[lavendermoonlitskies]

Hey @staff what’s this all about

Do you care to comment

[vandaliatraveler]

Audra State Park, which straddles the Middle Fork River just to the east of Buckhannon, is most famous for the enormous sandstone outcroppings that jut from the river's banks and the reef-like clarity of its brisk pools and rapids. It's an ideal spot to beat the heat from an oppressive (almost summer) day. Added bonus: in early June, smooth azalea (Rhododendron arborescens), also known as sweet azalea, starts to bloom along the moist slopes and river banks of the Applachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to Tennessee.

From top: The tiny white flowers of a partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) vine; mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), just now reaching peak bloom in the local mountains; yellow star grass (Hypoxis hirsuta), also known as common goldstar, which loves rocky nooks along sandy river banks; tassle-rue (Trautvetteria caroliniensis), also known as Carolina bugbane and false bugbane, a buttercup with lovely, but poisonous, palmately-divided foliage; smooth azalea, a knockout rhododendron sporting pink-tinged white flowers with red stamens and lush, dark-green foliage; the brilliant red fruit of common ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius); seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia), a wetlands-loving plant with distinctive, cube-like seeds; and finally, another trail rescue: a very attractive and docile eastern milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum), which happens to be a personal favorite of mine from the snake-hunting days of my youth, many centuries ago.

[immeasurably-frustrated-deactiv]

I was trying to get a photo of all of my baby crested geckos on my hand and I managed to get very lucky with my timing, this is quite possibly the funniest photo I’ve ever taken.

[flabbergasted-wordsmith]

:v

[taylornprice]

somewhere in angeles national forest

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[aetherograph]

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Random hill I'll die on but

These shower heads are antiblack 😭

[patrochilles-or-bust]

The implication is that you are a person who can put their entire body under this stream of water to wash your body, daily. Guess which group of people is likely not washing their hair every single day and therefore could not utilize this shower head to its full extent on a daily basis? Guess who'd have to lean their head outside of the water like an awkward giraffe in order to bathe, or would have to stand at the edge of the water?

[patrochilles-or-bust]

my shower head is racist.

*deep luxurious black woman who's been inconvenienced sigh*

Apparently even Doechii agrees with me lmao

I hate over-head showers.

Why — wwhhhyyyyyyy must every hotel shower head be built directly above your crown, as if everyone on earth wants to get their hair wet every time they bathe?

This has to be some kind of micro-aggression.

A niggress repellent, if you will!

Because immediately, instinctively, I know: no Black woman was taken into account when this technology was designed.

[katelouisepowell]

‘Feast For Precious Hearts’ 🕸🍒🕊🌺🌬

An illustrated tribute to the flora and fauna of Joanna Newsom’s song lyrics, commissioned by fellow superfan Ellie

[katelouisepowell]

I finished my kingfisher illustration! probably one of the most colourful pieces I've drawn in my life 🩵🌈

featuring the following species: ruddy kingfisher, buff-breasted paradise kingfisher, green kingfisher, belted kingfisher, stork-billed kingfisher, little kingfisher, common kingfisher, grey-headed kingfisher, banded kingfisher, white-throated kingfisher, kookaburra, woodland kingfisher, pied kingfisher and oriental dwarf kingfisher

[prints]

[ramalamacreatures]

Handmade Polymer Clay Sea Slug miniature (⊙ヮ⊙)

[dyingroses]

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

“A kiss may be grand, but it won’t pay the rental, on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.”

Like literally the most famous song about how much girls love jewellry is just explaining the importance of getting jewellry for when your partner leaves you penniless and alone.

[ohheyheyitsjj]

The founder of Girl Scouting in the US, Juliette Gordon Low, funded her first troop by selling her pearl necklace, which was her only belonging after her husband died and left everything to his mistress.

She founded Girl Scouts to teach girls self-sufficiency so they wouldn’t have to go through what she went through when her husband died and she didn’t know how to take care of herself.

[penrosesun]

While we’re on the subject, let’s please also remember that historically disenfranchised communities who had to worry about frequently being run out of town often bought expensive jewelry with their limited funds not because they were greedy or tacky or classless, but rather because you can’t sew a real estate investment into the lining of your coat, and the powers that be can’t freeze a diamond necklace the way that they can freeze a bank account.

[thecollectibles]

Artemis Leading the Hunt — MTG Style by Ivana Abbate

[wasbella102]

“A Cloisonné Vase Mark of the Hayashi Kodenji Workshop, Meiji Period (late 19th century) Worked in various thicknesses of silver wire and coloured cloisonné enamels on a dark blue ground with a maple tree surrounded by a profusion of flowers including chrysanthemums, irises, wild pinks and grasses, the foot with floral lappets, the neck with a band of geometric pattern, silver rims.”

[onlytiktoks]

[aniseandspearmint]

Asdfghjkl her perfectly straight face and even tone throughout should win an AWARD

[boobookittenartblog]

Arthurdactylus conandoylei, a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from early Cretaceous Brazil.

It had wingspan of about 4.6 m. and it was named for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the 1912 novel “The Lost World”.

Artwork by Pedro Ribfer