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You dared to Dream (and, y'know, kept asking me when and whether they were ever going to show up). And it's happening! The Sandman profile icons are coming to Netflix! Let joy be unconfined!

(I'm going to be Goldie. No, Matthew. No, Goldie.)

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Coming back to tumblr

hey y’all, it’s been a while, what did I miss? whom should I follow?

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be there or be square

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“My harp session turned into a Disney movie”

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Oh man I slept FOREVER and I feel much better.

Kelsey can have a little coma, as a treat.

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I stayed up till 5am watching this. No ragrets

The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy

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Rutger Bregman is the Dutch historian who became a global sensation after an appearance at this year’s Davos summit, where he accused attending billionaires of ignoring taxation. Now he has created another viral moment in an extremely uncomfortable interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.

Bregman so riled Carson with his accusations of hypocrisy, critiques of Fox’s conservative agenda, and attacks on Donald Trump that the TV host called him a “moron” and angrily told him: “Go fuck yourself.”

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Lot more people around the world are going to watch this now than if it actually aired. Speaking truth to power is the best viral content!

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How does one go through life without being crushed under the pleasant weight of infinite curiosity?!

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During the mid-Pleistocene, between about 900,000 and 500,000 years ago, the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Sicily were connected and shared a unique ecosystem made of up a mix of weird endemic species. While the tiny elephants and giant swans are probably the most famous, there were also several other unusual animals such as dwarf hippos, huge owls, large cranes, giant tortoises, and big lizards.

And also massive rodents.

Leithia melitensis, the Maltese giant dormouse, was descended from garden dormice, but thanks to the lack of large land predators on Siculo-Malta it was able to evolve a much much larger body size – about 60-70cm long (2’-2'4"), almost the size of a cat.

Recent reconstructions of its skull have shown it was also proportioned differently compared to its tiny modern relatives, more chunkily built with a shorter and wider snout, bigger teeth, and thicker cheekbones that must have anchored some incredibly powerful muscles for chewing. It may have been eating a much more herbivorous diet than other dormice, processing a lot of tough fibrous vegetation.

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When I went to Disney right before the pandemic one of my most treasured interactions was with a young girl and her mom. They were in the same row as me boarding the Tower of Terror. This little girl had done the Tower of Terror a number of times with her mom but this time she wanted me to sit between her and her mom because she was ready to ride the ride and prove to herself that she could do it not sitting right next to her mom. Now I’m a 6′4″ large bearded man and it made me so so happy that this wee girl felt that I wasn’t a threat, I was an enabler of her independence. She rode the Tower of Terror like a champ and I will always remember it.

me, helping a little girl pick out a locket at the shop: do you usually like to wear goldtone or silvertone?

little girl: I like silver because of Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt and also she’s a warrior and she never got married.

me, internally: never let the world change you

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As the foliage grew in strength and numbers, the cushions made plans to reclaim the ground floor on behalf of all the soft furnishings.

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“Bunny enjoying a little snacky snack”

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Antique smartphone.