BAM! I'm Asian!

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

I just found out there is a crab that looks like a pancake and now the world seems brighter.

I'm actually gonna cry over these crabs.....

In case anyone was curious what they looked like!

Thought these were completely made up but apparently they're probably juvenile Atergatis integerrimus crabs or a related species. Also most members of Atergatis are toxic because of symbiotic bacteria that produce a tetrodotoxin-like poison. Tetrodotoxin is the reason that improperly prepared pufferfish will kill you. These are deadly pancakes.

It’s wild the number of posts I come across where people act like voting for or supporting Harris and Walz in the election is tantamount to implicitly supporting genocide. You know what actually helps genocide? Doing nothing while pretending you have the moral high ground. America is deeply tied to Israel and there will be no candidate who is as critical of their actions as we want them to be. We as private citizens do not have the power to make the USA suddenly cease all activity with Israel and demand an uncompromising ceasefire deal. Instead, we have to get our hands dirty and decide what path forward will mitigate as much harm as possible. You have one presidential candidate saying Israel needs to finish the job and another saying that we can’t ignore the tragedies in Gaza while vocally supporting a temporary ceasefire. These are your two picks. Thinking any third party candidate has a shot when none have any wide-reaching name recognition less than 100 days before the election is a fever dream.

The question then becomes, are you willing to say you voted “correctly” by voting for someone who has no shot of winning but is most closely aligned to you? Or are you going to vote for who will do the least harm? The idea that voting for a president involves liking them is a fairy tale. The establishment will always be the enemy of civil rights and safety. You’re voting for which opponent you want in office. The writing is on the wall about which candidate will be less of an uphill battle to fight against, and sidestepping the responsibility of making that decision by throwing away a vote isn’t moral or intellectually groundbreaking - it’s cowardly.

Basically, this. Harris-Walz isn’t the “lesser of two evils.” The ticket represents a lot of values and policies that “progressive” voters support, even as it needs to work on improving its position on a few issues, primarily, Israel-Palestine, which has been an intractable issue for any U.S. president since 1949.

To think that abstaining or casting a quixotic third-party vote is somehow “purer” or “more principled” is a bald self-deception. It just means you have the privilege and power to escape the horrors that a second Trump term would inflict.

I love how he finds the words to describe the concepts that float around my head daily ❤️❤️❤️❤️ love him!

They should invent a brain and body that get along and don't fucking suck

Whenever I do worldbuilding I try to keep this image in mind

i hate this fucking site so much *clicks reblog*

Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.

Ah, the Mary Suez.

hundreds of years of language evolution and innumerable events had to line up in the exact right order for that pun to make sense.

All you "I won't vote for Kamala because of Gaza" people: HEADS UP!

You've got a wannabe dictator speaking to another wannabe dictator every fucking day to PREVENT A CEASEFIRE versus a candidate calling for a ceasefire.

Vote accordingly or I swear to gods you'll wake up one day and look back wishing you could change that one little decision.

It's been reported multiple times that Trump is out there encouraging Netanyahu to keep up the bombing while Harris and Biden are working to end it and yet some people dare to say they aren't going to try to get Harris elected and act like that won't directly result in more deaths and violence in this conflict. Shame on you.

Palestinians are literally out there right now saying Trump winning - which is what will happen if everyone doesn't get out there and vote for Harris - would be a worst case scenario for them (x). Don't you dare appropriate their struggle to try to justify your failure to do everything in your power to stop the Fascist GOP from getting into office.

Vote Blue all the way down the ballot. Lives are on the line. And if the GOP gets in you may not get a chance to vote again.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME

You 🤝 me: having names that are a common noun that people have no problem pronouncing in normal contexts but make it a name and they completely forget how to speak their native language. My first name is an herb and in the context of herbs and herbal medicine people pronounce it just fine but in the context of a name they fuck it up 75% of the time. And then the people I congratulate for getting it right are like "... it's pronounced how it's spelled." And I'm like "THANK YOU"

One time I got a reminder phone call for an appointment and I answered it and the lady said "hello this is [name] from [doctor's office]. I'm calling for" and then she saw my name, PANICKED, and straight up did not pronounce a single vowel in a name that's 50% vowels. It was SO funny and you know what it helped me a lot cuz now when people get it wrong (a lot of people add or subtract letters) I'm like "well at least there were vowels in that attempt" instead of getting mad like I used to. It was so so so funny. Lives rent free in my head.

vintage 2020 right here

Friendly reminder that almost half of the states in the U.S. have same day registration! This means you can go to the polling center for your location, register there, and cast your vote same day. So if you are over 18, are a U.S. citizen, and live in one of the states listed below, it is not too late to register and vote! I’m going to put notes for some of the states where voting is extra important due to the political climate of the state.

You can go here for more info on voter registration

I also have a huge list of voting resources here

Been a minute since I got a real winner

So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they're called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS.

They have concluded, I think, that it's some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I'm 90% sure I'm going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.

Of course it's a prey animal it fucking eats GRASS

While I can’t fault your reasoning on robot taxonomy, apparently we’re both wrong:  Arwen, as much as she is a high-prey-drive animal, is foremost, a herding dog, and has decided that the Lawn Roomba is a SHEEP.

What happened is the lawn roomba belongs to the guy that does most of the maintainence on the neighborhood park, and he had it out grazing on a different section of lawn when my parents came down for a walk and Arwen was siezed by 200 years worth fo Kelpie Instincts, rolled out of her Harness and proceded to herd the shit out of this tiny, oblivious robot.  

Everything was on display- mock-stalking, intimidating eye contact, barking, running in front of it to try to get it to balk, the scariest barking she can muster (which is actually.  pretty scary if you’re not used to Loud Dogs), looking back at my parents for directions.  or rather, looking at my Mom while Dad tried unsuccessuflly to capture her.

After about ten minutes they realized she wasn’t biting it, and decided to let her play Sheep Simulator 5000 for a while. She eventually figured out that 

Conent that this was apparently some kind of blind, deaf and particularly stupid sheep, she could now manage the robot by smacking it if it got too close to the creek bed or fence for her liking, and was eventually content to sit on the highest point of the field and Supervise (TM) it.

“Hey.” Said Roger, owner of the robot. “Do you think if I put the ramp down she’ll herd it into the back of my pickup?”

Arwen was mostly asleep in the afternoon sun as roger put the ramp down but woke right up when mom Whistled, then pointed at the truck.  She immediately went after the robot and did something that wouldn’t have occured to me, an allegedly more intelligent being: the robot is roughly triangular, and when it hits an obstacle, will change direction so that one of its other sides (rather than points) is now the ‘front’.  So to get it to move in a straight line in the direction she wanted, Arwen would smack the two sides of the robot that she didn’t want it to go in in quick sucession, and got it across the field, over a small hill and up the ramp as fast as it’s clumsy little wheels could go.

“I didn’t know you had a fully-trained sheepdog!” Said Roger

“Me either.” said Mom.

So Arwen now has a Semi-Weekly Appointment to play with Sheepbot.

I just saw a completely different one of your posts that happened to mention Arwen and my brain went "could it be the Arwen with the lawn roomba friend?!" and then spent 10 minutes finding this.

I had only seen screenshots and have literally retold this story to friends bc it's just so wholesome, so this is a very fun moment for me lol

Here's the link to the video

👏 SAY 👏 IT 👏 LOUDER 👏