rederiswrites:

rederiswrites:

rederiswrites:

rederiswrites:

rederiswrites:

Me: casually standing on the back porch checking in my succulents.

This fucking robin: hey.

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We’re just… Chillin. She’s just like three feet from me tops.

Disturbed her bringing her some snacks, so,

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Blobs are here.

Update: they have achieved Eldritch Mouth Bird status.

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They are SNUG.

1 day ago

byjove:

mightymo63:

byjove:

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I’m creating a petition to change the Virginia state bird to the tufted titmouse because cardinals are little assholes and the state bird of multiple states. Titmouse rules, cardinal drools.

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I mean come on, who’s cuter? And we’d be the only state with the tufted titmouse as the state bird.

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I’m creating a petition to change the Illinois state bird to the tufted titmouse because cardinals are little assholes and the state bird of multiple states. Titmouse rules, cardinal drools.

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I mean come on, who’s cuter? And we’d be the only state with the tufted titmouse as the state bird.


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to hell with the bald eagle, let’s make it the national bird

2 days ago

halibellecter:

synf3ll-moved:

take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that’s how the world knows that somebody loved them.

When my aunt died of covid, we had to clean out a lot of stuff that she was saving. Foods she was going to try, she was a great chef, spices she’d never opened or only used sparingly, lotions and bath things she hadn’t used. After she died I started making a point of using things up: the good vanilla that has to be imported, that we finally found more of, we’d used barely an ounce before she passed away. Even though we love it. I just got my family new bottles of it for Christmas because we used one up. We enjoyed that happiness. Sometimes I still get the impulse to wait for something special, or awful, to save nice things for celebration or comfort. The phrase that always echoes in my mind is “use the good vanilla”. And I have been (burning the candles, squirting the body wash, dissolving the bath bombs, putting the saffron in things). And it’s been great. Use the good vanilla.

2 days ago

christianstepmoms:

christianstepmoms:

I’m like 99% anti outdoor cat but there’s this precious stoop cat on my way to the grocery store that never leaves his stoop, always comes up to say hi if you approach him, and when you leave he lays back down on his stoop

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3 days ago

tinyyellowflowers-blog:

tinyyellowflowers-blog:

When I was in grad school, one of my professors shared how to write a scientific paper (unsolicited, during a discussion on pelicans).

First, he said, you write the methods. You’ve been doing the methods for months, you know what goes there. You know what questions you’re trying to answer and how you went about answering them.

Now that you’ve done that, write the results. Do your analysis. Take some time to bask in having done that and chew it over.

Next: the introduction. What information do you need to set up the conclusion? Do you need to write the six worst sentences known to man as a draft conclusion so you can go back that up in the introduction? Do that.

Write that conclusion. Tie things up, you’ve done amazing. It’s looking good! Unfortunately. The hardest part is yet to come:

The abstract. An unholy melange of introduction, results, and conclusion. The thing that 90% of readers are going to stop after reading. The ultimate test of your ability to communicate your science. Thank goodness you have all this prep work done and aren’t trying to create it out of nothing! Thank goodness you didn’t try to write it first because it was the first thing on the page!

Anyway I’ve taken that approach to a lot of other kinds of writing since. I write the part I know (because of months of development) and then what that will mean, and then I work out what I need to support that, and then I write the part everyone will read.

I cannot argue with the excellent and cogent points made here

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4 days ago

ashekeepmountain:

the-real-seebs:

traveling-madness:

diane-nguyen-watches-cartoons-d:

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based firemen

you sign up for the job because you want to save lives, and sometimes you get a chance to just be really, really, clear about “yes it is my job to save lives, there is an obstacle, and i am paid to use an axe to solve this problem”

Well you see I have a special problem solving tool. It’s called an “axe” it’s really good at cutting red tape.

1 week ago

bogleech:

weaselsblaugh:

do-what-i-yoinky:

darkmagiciangirl:

i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!” 

buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is

Being on tumblr for years like:


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this post is 2 years old and it’s only going to get funnier as it gets older

This is how the entire internet was supposed to be. Before social media we made webpages and a webpage was supposed to be timeless, a permanent “shrine” to something we liked, intended to keep getting visitors and comments for as long as it stayed up. When “blogging” became a concept every blog post was supposed to be the same sort of long term fixture.

The idea that posts have some sort of freshness date comes solely from the poisonous garbage world of the engagement farming business.

1 week ago

liberalsarecool:

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This trend has to end.

Investment in resources starts now. Child nutrition starts now. Medicare for all and no medical debt starts now.

1 week ago