﹟random get-to-know-me ask game  !! 

orchid ⇢ what’s a song you consider to be perfect?

cactus ⇢ something you’re currently learning (about)?

bamboo ⇢ do you change into a different outfit when you get home?

abelia ⇢ do you have a particular piece of jewelry you always wear or can’t part with?

daffodil ⇢ do you have siblings? if yes, in what ways do you think you’re similar to or different from them?

mahonia ⇢ what place, thing, activity inspires you most and how do you express yourself when it does?

chia ⇢ what’s an inside joke you have with someone else?

sage ⇢ what ‘medium’ of art (poetry, music, fiction, paintings, statues etc.) is the most touching to you? why do you think that is?

edelweiss ⇢ how’d you think of your url/username? what’s it associated with to you?

camellia ⇢ what were you like when you were younger? do you think you’ve changed a lot?

jasmine ⇢ do you have a movie or book you loved but will never watch/read again?

ivy ⇢ what are your ‘tells’ for your emotions and moods? how can someone tell you’re happy, annoyed, upset or tired?

chamomile ⇢ what kind of things do you like receiving as gifts?

aloe vera ⇢ what’s something (mundane) you really want to experience in life?

palm tree ⇢ do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?

nutmeg ⇢ how’s your room/home decorated? do you have a specific theme or style going on?

papyrus ⇢ if you put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle, what’s the first song that comes up? what do you like about it / associate it with?

taro ⇢ if someone called you right now to catch up, what’re the things you’d tell them about?

Hi! I’d like to clarify something about the accreditation of this comic.

It’s by Matthew Inman, and you can find the original comic at his blog, “The Oatmeal”, and I’m posting it below as well.

Reblog if you want to flatten Christian values with the gayroller 2000

fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper

update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

Here's a picture of her, by the way

And her super supportive wife

The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.

The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck

Food for me????

This is discrimination against all snakes, she is not a pants snake!!!!!!

[ID:

*screencap of a tiktok by @sarahinyellow featuring a lightskinned person sitting at their laptop with a bag of potato chips and a bottle of diet coke*

“diet culture will demonize any food that isn’t “clean” but EVERY food can have a benefit for you

Diet Coke is somehow the only thing that stops my migraines, and it reminds me of my best friend. Cape Cod potato chips are my go to salty snack and I live 10 minutes from the factory, so they make me feel cool.

Food is more than fuel. It’s memories and satisfaction and tradition and home and culture.

There’s nothing evil about that.”

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this was one of the number one things my eating disorder therapist stressed the most and it’s helped drastically. this is so important.

Ahhh, there’s the obvious conclusion.

If we can de-extinct* species, surely there’s no point in worrying about endangered species anymore! We can bring them back anytime!

*depending on your definition of de-extinction.

And considering one of the heads chose to go on Joe Rogan's show i wouldn't be at all surprised if they're encouraging this

GEE WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

Why does it matter if this administration torpedos EVERY major animal conservation law, we can just bring them back! We are very smart.

ONCE AGAIN DONT FUCKING LIE IN SCIENCE!!!!!

Lol. Lmao even

“ So it’s not the same species at all.”

“ Only if you use the scientific definition of species! However, if you use my definition that I just made up-“

Ahhh, there’s the obvious conclusion.

If we can de-extinct* species, surely there’s no point in worrying about endangered species anymore! We can bring them back anytime!

*depending on your definition of de-extinction.

And considering one of the heads chose to go on Joe Rogan's show i wouldn't be at all surprised if they're encouraging this

GEE WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

Why does it matter if this administration torpedos EVERY major animal conservation law, we can just bring them back! We are very smart.

100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

love that for 100 years people have looked at these beasts and thought “heehee what if the big one wore the little one like a hat”

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

the Cow Lore is definitely worth a read

We domesticated cows 3 separate times across continents. Hence the variety of looks. I will say having worked in dairy barns the biggest issue I have seen with holstein cows in their ability to almost always flip their abomasum and die after calving. They get cancer, especially of the eyes like stupid easy. But they can be tanks, seen some survive some gnarly shit. We had a teaching herd at the vet school I worked at so it was primarily holstein but we had Jerseys, Norwegen reds, and a select few freisian cross. All were interesting. I had one girl who was 13 and still producing milk, though we begged the vet to retire her, he really loved her, and retired cows in the teaching herd go to auction and then to be slaughtered, so I can see why he didn't want to let her go. But still....

So many had extra nipples, most of them functioned too. One survived a salmonella infection, really thought she was going to die at one point. One kept breaking out of the field and into the calf barn to be by her baby. Our official number 2020 baby, born during covid, was a kleinfelter. The sister was born first and the vet student did a shit job checking for more babies before they sent her out back into the teaching herd, where a farm hand promptly informed me on my walk down the next morning that he saw a calf in field, hence us finding her brother. The students named them covid and corona...

We had waffels, she was born during Hurricane Irma, so it was a fun wet time. The students made sure to name all her calves fun things like chicken, Belgian, strawberry, chocolate, ect. She was a sweet girl and produced 120lbs of milk a day.

Obligatory babies, we made jokes that this number calf would be bad luck and damn were we right with that kleinfelter.