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Measured In Feet

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(this yr i should be more sparse (im currently doing comms for fucking bills!!!!!!) but if im being totally real theres a not insignificant chance that i go overboard again. to my detriment. commission me and fund my habit)

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i will Never deactivate. if i die this blog shall remain eternal as a museum of my greatness. a monument of my legacy.

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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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Every single time someone mentions police role-playing in a sexual context I think of this tinder interaction and I instantly become absolutely stricken with laughter

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a single dry cough

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my today

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IT'S NOT EVEN MY POST

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now that’s what I call a sale

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My favorite speleothem by far are rimstone dams, and by extension, calcite rafts. Rimstone dams are awesome, and occur aboveground too! They can grow quite large, with the biggest I've seen being 10ft high, though that particular one was dried up. I should also mention, calcite rafts can settle on any suitable body of water in a cave, but when they're on rimstone dams it feels extra special to me and so I associate the two with eachother. The basic chemistry behind calcite rafts is that as surface water evaporates it will precipitate calcite on the surface because the remaining water has supersaturated CaCO3 concentrations and can't "fit" any more CaCO3 in it, leading it to precipitate. Depending on other factors super saturation does not need to be present but that's a whole other post. Anyway, they're super cool! And also super fragile!! There's a great research article done by the folks at Timpanagos National Monument where they observe the accelerated growth of calcite rafts (and other speleothems) during COVID. Highly recommend!

📸#1 me+company in a cave (rimstones)

📸#2-4 calcite rafts in wind cave captured by my lovely polish friend

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i love you front facing coelacanth :]

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“this accessory is not supported by your device” that’s charger you stupid bitch shes your girlfriend