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Blood Red and Going Down

@thegunlady / thegunlady.tumblr.com

Ally. 30s. Snack eater. TV watcher. Romance novel reader. Interested in aliens, time travel, and spies.
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Reblogged electricnachos
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sometimes someone will casually mention using chatgpt or some other generative ai thing and I can actually feel the little

above my head

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Reblogged electricnachos
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When my students talk over me I do this bit where I quietly tell them I’m really shy and to please let me talk and somehow it works.

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Me, literally a performing arts teacher who teaches them how to be confident and loud: guys wait I’m really shy 🥺 guys be niceys to me 🥺 I’m just a little guy 🥺

My students???? Every time????: woah guys shutup she’s literally shy

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Why did we ever start yelling at kids when we could just let them be part of a bit, which is a kid’s favorite thing?

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Reblogged harrietvane
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Guys they reintroduced Galapagos tortoises to espanola island and they’ve essentially terraformed their environment, knocking over invasive plants so that endangered albatrosses (who need space to take off using the ground as a runway) have returned and established nests!

Galapagos giant tortoises are restoring their own ecosystem
A decades-long project to reintroduce Galapagos giant tortoises is changing the face of the island of Española.
Popular Science

https://www.popsci.com/environment/galapagos-giant-tortoises-ecosystem-conservation/

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Some key details from the articles:

  • In the 1960's, the tortoise population on this particular island--Española--was down to 14 tortoises.
  • Those individuals--two males and twelve females--were taken to a sanctuary on the nearby island of Santa Cruz, where they were encouraged to be fruitful and multiply.
  • Another male tortoise living in a zoo was identified as being from this island, and joined the group at the sanctuary, increasing the diversity of the gene pool.
  • Because Galapagos tortoises live so long--over a century--the reintroduction involved not only the offspring born at the sanctuary, but also the original 14 tortoises, and the guy from the zoo. After half a century, they took their children and grandchildren home.

Also,

The reintroduction project for Española is now in its end stage, with all the tortoises back on their home island, free-roaming and reproducing on the their own. (The total population is about 3,000). However, the sanctuary continues to work with tortoises from other islands (because of their isolation, each island's population is its own subspecies).

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Reblogged electricnachos
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I wish people would understand that not everything is for everyone to get. you will be left out of some conversations, a lot of art will not apply to you, you will not like things that people you like enjoy, and just because you cannot add to the topic of discussion or relate does not mean that it is not valued or worthwhile. the internet has coddled people to such a concerning extent that everyone feels like they need to vocally disagree with something just because they don’t get it. Knowing something, and genuinely getting it are not the same. NOT EVERYTHING IS FOR YOUUUUU

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Reblogged monsterfucker-lisa-swallows
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gothic horror rlly is just. aw fuck look at what youve done. the house has inherited your inter-generational trauma and in response has transformed itself into a metaphorical device to track the decay of the family. we're never gonna pay off that mortgage now

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