A BLOODY MOUTH

really funny that many wireless earbud cases are almost the perfect size to go on the end of a watch chain in a waistcoat pocket. hashtag modern fob ideas

like yeah sure why not

kind of obsessed w the idea of putting useful but oddly modern things on a watch chain actually. putting a thumb drive on there next

People really need to take a wider view of this paranoia about age gaps and realise this is how we lose the ability to build communities. You need to be able to realise that people can have things in common with you even if they grew up in a different time/place/culture. You also need to realise you can build communities with people who don’t have obvious things in common with you, that people can have the same goals and needs as you even if in most ways they’re very unlike you. Now, more than ever, we need to be able to work together to have any chance to stand ip against the few who have so, so much more power, money and influence than any of us do individually. We need to form communities that reach across age (and class and race and sexuality and so on…).

‘Wisteria’ Table Lamp Designed by Clara Driscoll for Tiffany Studios, ca. 1903-1905. Medium is glass, lead, patinated bronze.

(Source: ngv.vic.govt.au)

16th century flower illustration PNGs.

(source: Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515)

The Vernal’s Murmur ☆

I like when the bus stops directly in front of you out of the line of waiting people and opens its doors. Chosen by the dragon

I hate this post. Ever since I read it I can't help but think "chosen by the dragon" whenever the bus stops in front of me or "denied by the dragon" when it doesn't. Every. single. time. That's a minimum of ten times a week. Do you know how annoying that is

oof. no need to call me out so hard with this Pterry

I really don't know what to do with the fact that my teeth have been toothpaste flavored for over 24 hours despite much eating and no additional toothpaste. Like what's even happening there. Perplexing.

Maybe your tongue is toothpaste flavored?

The rest of my mouth doesn't taste like toothpaste though. Like it's very clearly concentrated in the teeth.

For the record, it lasted for about 36 hours in total. Still no idea what that was about but okay

someone was brushing your teeth when you weren't looking.

...for 36 hours?

i had a lot of time on my hands

i mean they

'flowering marigolds,' gum tempera and gold on paper, hunhar ii, indian c. 1765.

she asked me if i cain kill her with a rock i said i might be abel to

Being into gardening has exposed me to a lot of things about how gardeners tend to be. Because most of them will go on weird tirades about how GMOs are the devil and will give your kids autism and then you look at their garden and youre like im gonna be honest man. Your garden could use some GMOs

The final boss of gardening is Organic Norman, the guy who runs a neocities page about how in tune with the earth he is and how much he appreciates all nature does for him and those around him, and how much he wishes to give back to "mother earth" by only growing organic heirloom seeds. He will never outright say on his page that his kids arent vaccinated but they definitely arent. You stick around because he does have some genuinely good tips and tricks for gardening despite all the woo woo new age shit permeating the wording of his posts. You can overlook his whole intro about how he tells his tomatoes how grateful he is to be sharing his life force with them if it means you get to the part about how to make fertilizer out of eggshells. He talks for days about the dangers of GMOs and how organically grown corn cures prostate cancer because eating a whole kilo of it in one sitting will make you shit yourself, which is supposedly the essence from the earth sucking the toxins out of your asshole. You will then look at his photos when harvest season comes along and see the saddest half-rotten tiny little fruits and vegetables that hes coping with by claiming theyre full of nebulous "flavour" compared to the "GMO crops."

Sometimes Organic Norman will find your page and hold you up as some example of amazing achievement in green living because your berry bushes are still producing, your kale is still growing, and your lemon balm and oregano are still alive after a massive wind storm in your area. He will ask what your secret is and youll be in this awkward position where you either tell him you bought weather-resistant starters that were modified for fruit production over daughter plants, or you tell him "idk man i can just feel what they need yknow"

Its also crucial to know that despite all his talk about mother nature and green living, Organic Norman drives a jacked up F-150 that guzzles gas by a rate of a gallon a mile and likes conservative thinkpieces about how pipeline building is the incredibly crucial to your national economy.

I recently saw a video where a guy was ranting about how bad US ketchup is compared to European ketchup and I was like dude it's so hard to get with your energy here because every single fact that you've presented is just factually wrong. He was saying shit like "ours has corn syrup [instead of the European label which just said sugar], a product of GMO corn that is ripened with glycophosphate" and I'm just like dude I don't think you know what a GMO is or where the European 'sugar' that you're glossing over comes from and also that is not what glycophosphate does. Like try to be angry accurately here. 'Ripened with glycophosphate' is just plain embarrassing.

European sugar is Made from sugarbeets unless otherwise specified. Which literally IS chemically different from High Fructose Corn Syrup AND sugarbeets are grown in an ecologically very different Kind of monoculture that very differently fits into crop rotations, than corn.

Yeah it's a different sugar source I'm just not convinced that American Ketchup Is Evil And European Ketchup Isn't Guy is remotely aware of that source or did any research at all to verify that US ketchup is actually worse. I do not trust his conclusions. I think he reached his conclusion before he even started and is now just yelling about words that scare him. Many of his emotions are reasonable -- putting high fructose corn syrup in everything is definitely not good for people's health, and nor is saturating the world in 'kills all plants we haven't genetically modified' herbicides -- but I only know that because 25% of my bachelor's degree was specifically about this shit. I don't for one second trust his opinions on the matter and any anger he has that is justified, is justified by complete coincidence, because he obviously has no fucking clue what he's talking about.

"this animal can be wiped out completely with no consequences" yeah, they said that about wolves too

This is literally about mosquitoes.

Mosquitos move calories from big animals, back down the food chain, without killing the big animals. That's important! Mosquito are prey in themselves but mosquito LARVAE are vital food sources for a ton of water animals.

How do you expect to transfer calories from, say, the deer in a forest to the fish in the river, without mosquito as the middle step? How do you expect to transfer calories from rats to bats, without mosquitoes?

Losing mosquitos would fundamentally shift how calories move through the food chain, because they're a parasite that shifts between land, sea, and air. And that's just a foundation, it doesn't cover all the behaviors other animals have specifically to interact with mosquitos.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine! I really encourage people to think critically whenever they hear a claim that some native species could just be eliminated without consequence to the ecosystem. To declare such a thing is human arrogance to the extreme. Even for species whose ecological “value” cannot be proven by our science, to assume that these animals are therefore pointless in their ecological niche is absolutely absurd. You may not like animals like mosquitoes or wasps, but it’s foolish to believe any of the nonsense rhetoric that labels them as useless or unimportant.

oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

rich people seeing mount everest

big beautiful world full of books i haven’t read