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Front porch this morning early.

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“don’t eat honey because it exploits the bees and they can’t consent!!!” bees are literally unionized and will walk out if they don’t like being in the beekeeper’s hives

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i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.

look at my glow in the dark humerus boy

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i love the 😌 and 😔 emojis so much because they convey such specific emotions, but also those emotions are absolutely not "relieved" and "pensive"

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i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

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thought it was a one-off thing, but i've now seen multiple pictures and videos of red-bellied woodpeckers touching other birds with their tongue at bird feeders. why are they suck little freaks?

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and another thing. please don't put in the paper that 28 children laughed at me

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I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

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Never stop hating

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The world's oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about 'seven sisters' stars may reach back 100,000 years https://phys.org/news/2020-12-world-oldest-story-astronomers-global.html

Holy shit, this is cool!

So many cultures call the Pleiades some variation of the "seven sisters" despite only having six visible stars. There only appear to be six because two of the stars are so close together as to appear as one.

The myths also mention one sister leaving or hiding to explain why there's only six. And based off observations and measurements, those two that are so close together used to be visibly separate. One literally has moved to hide.

And based off the similarities between the more commonly known Greek myth and the Aboriginal Australian myth, plus some other stuff, this myth could possibly even date back to when humanity still all resided in Africa!

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yesssssssssssss

time to revamp my load order and start a brand new save YET AGAIN

In case you missed it, a huge update is out! Link Before we get to it, I want to thank TieflingGrimoire who did the vast majority of work on this update. Please go show her some love and appreciation. Auri is just as much her mod as she is mine, at this point. The TL:DR of 2.0: -Auri has been moved to her own framework. This means she will no longer be compatible with framework mods like NFF. -Auri has received a facelift. Her default appearance is now a slightly modified version of Kadraeus Daughter of Valenwood. (Thank you SO much!) -Auri can now be asked to rest anywhere in the world. -New combat system, which allows Auri to use either daggers or a bow. No more punching dragons. -If you suffer from restartitis, you can now skip Auri's quest by reminding her that you already did it! -Singing on/off toggle. -Romance quest is now spaced out over time. Does not require sitting down to progress. -Extensive changes to Thistlefoot, hopefully removing many bugs and making him more stable. -Auri will now get 20 arrows after her scene with Elrindir at the Drunken Huntsman. -You now get the Lover's Comfort buff if you're in a relationship with her. -Romance quest now has markers. -Several new conversations and idles. About 70 new lines. -Much more. Details in changelog on main page.

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Christmas advice for ladies (crossposted from Old Weird Scotland on mastodon, with permission)

I want you all to keep this in mind!

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A goblin and an elf have decided to defy tradition and get married. Their ceremony will be held in the magical forest in accordance with elven tradition.

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It's that time again, time for the late November poem of all time. It really is like this here now.

Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended.

The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the oak is keeping To ravel them one by one And let them go scraping and creeping Out over the crusted snow, When others are sleeping.

And the dead leaves lie huddled and still, No longer blown hither and thither; The last lone aster is gone; The flowers of the witch hazel wither; The heart is still aching to seek, But the feet question ‘Whither?’

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season. —Robert Frost