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voidmade

i miss thrifting back in the day when rich people were just bored and thought they were just throwing scraps to the poor now every trust fund baby is a reseller and thinks their nasty ass rags are worthy of wiping the asscrack of God himself

voidmade

this blew up beyond expectation but i’m glad so many of u can relate!

jabberwockypie
why-animals-do-the-thing

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I don’t know if I’m late to the party here noticing this, but @staff what the actual hell is this. This is what I get when I click on the link to my own mantis shrimp post, shared on Twitter. I can see the first half, and then I get forced to log-in to keep reading.

I write a free blog on your free platform, and you’re using link sharing on mobile to try to force people to sign up? Not only is this absolutely not okay - this isn’t a paywalled site and my content isn’t subscription only - but it really fucks me over as a science communicator who relies on posts being shared easily to disseminate information.

This is absolutely not okay. I’ve used this site for eight years to do for science outreach and loved it. This choice leaves a really nasty taste in my mouth.

toreblogallthethings

The (very frustrating) fix is to turn off "Use default mobile theme" in Advanced Settings in Customize Theme (i.e. https://www.tumblr.com/customize/why-animals-do-the-thing in your case). Encourage everyone you know to apply this! You also need to turn on "Custom theme" from https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/why-animals-do-the-thing but that is already on for your blog, I think. (But I'm adding it for anyone else who needs that step. Without that, you only get the terrible dashboard-only-style view).

jabberwockypie
mapsontheweb

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

tinsnip

…OH.

mazarinedrake

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:


heroineimages

Reblogging for the map as well as for Gordon Lightfoot.

jabberwockypie
teaboot

In an interesting turn of events I have been enrolled in a six hour couples bondage seminar despite being both 1. painfully single and 2. Incredibly anxious but fuck it we ball, I guess

teaboot

benjaminbadger: "How on earth can you enter that situation unexpectedly?"ALT

I thought "Excellent, I've been looking for more formal training in this area" so I signed up and then twenty minutes later the hamster running the wheel that powers my brain woke up and I went "ah shit, I need a date for this don't I"

teaboot

Screenshot of a comment with the user's URL cut out: "lol not kink shaming, just like, confused. Seminars don't seem like a kink thing, y'know?"ALT

Totally understandable thought! But do consider:

You can choke someone unconscious in just 15 seconds. Temporary or permanent brain damage can then occur within 30 seconds. After 3 minutes, the brain will shut down and they will die.

And yet, plenty of people think getting choked in bed is sexy, and will attempt it without any research whatsoever.

Did you know that using binding materials that are too thin can cause lacerations? Or that tying someone in the wrong position can kill them? Did you know that just surface pressure held too long, without any struggling or pulling, can feel like a bone-deep bruise? Or alternatively, that too much slack or movement can strip skin right off, and you might not even feel it happening?

Sitting in a big room writing down notes and following an instructor really isn't all that sexy for me personally, true, but a lot of kink comes with risk, and making the concious choice to engage in kink without taking steps to minimize that risk is, frankly, dangerous and irresponsible.

Like.... every sky diving attendant probably had to pass a few exams before jumping out a plane with you, right? So wouldn't you feel a little unsafe jumping with one that was just making it up as they went?

bogleech
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headspace-hotel

Farmer family friend has an out of control mint problem around one of his greenhouses because he had a potted mint plant that he set on the ground and it grew a tendril out of the pot which touched the soil and grew roots.

It had never occurred to me before that a potted plant could escape.

russersprouts

When I was in elementary school we had a ton of mint growing under a bush in our front yard and once I found out it was mint and edible I fucking devoured ALL of it in a week and it never came back

willypadilly

I was gonna make a “x finding mint” post or something and when I googled animals that eat mint I got this and…

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Excuse me?! I did not expect to be angered over slug slander today but here we are!

@bogleech @uncharismatic-fauna @a-book-of-creatures

bogleech

Unfortunately one look at animalpeek.com tells me the entire website is AI generated due to its many "off" statements and tangents; the first thing I looked at was "80 animals that eat seaweed" and it includes animals that it claims never eat seaweed, but might if they're desperate, and seaweed contains potassium which is good for your heart, but sadly these animals could have heart disease! You know from not eating potassium rich seaweed! And so on. A tremendous volume of these "articles" that aren't terribly useful or interesting, all over the map in accuracy, and no human ever could have had the time or motive to really write.

On its own it's funny and the dumbness of the writing is cute to me because these mindless stupid programs are TRYING to understand words, in a purely inanimate unconscious sense, but yeah clickbait not even written or inspected by a human being is going to be dominating all search results soon enough 😞

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