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this is really just my favorite tiktok

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You ready for EELS?!

It's that time again- Advent Calendar time!!

Wanna learn about eels for 24 days STRAIGHT? Maybe leading up to Christmas, maybe leading up to Halloween, or your birthday, or your dog's birthday, or any number of auspicious days?!

Boy do I have the calendar for you.

Get one here!

Scratch off one orange box a day to reveal a fact about eels. it's like a lottery ticket, but you win every day because it's always facts about eels.

These calendars are the primary way that my science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist, keeps the lights on. Calendars are totally critical for us to keep existing, and also share a bunch of cool science! It's a beautiful thing.

Skype a Scientist matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops libraries, and others for online Q&A sessions all over the world. We serve about 4000 classrooms a year and offer our program for FREE. We can offer it for free thanks to these advent calendars. It's a weird way to fund a nonprofit, but hey, it works.

We also run events in our hometown in Philly that often center art when communicating science! We host moth nights in the woods and in city parks to connect people with nature, and host events like Climate Change Crafting Night where participants create art that communicate important environmental messages! When we have enough money we even create community science murals!

You can always donate to support our org without buying a calendar here.

Reposts are incredibly appreciated. Running a nonprofit is a challenge! Tumblr helps a LOT!!

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Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

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You have stinkhorns, so yay?

HEINOUS GARDEN DEVELOPMENTS, GANG

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Is it just me, or did this machine do a pretty bad job?

There was a huge blob of egg in the center when the arm lifted up and ingredients were spraying high enough that I wonder how much gets on the floor, there is food being dragged through the tight space between the betters and the arm and the whole thing looks hard to clean, which is an inherent disincentive to clean it well.

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What the fuck is this Wendy's sign

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I did bird names FIRST just to set the record straight….I am MUCH more passionate about birds than fish!!!

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For my daughter's TARDIS cosplay, I made her a tiny little hat in the style of the hurricane lamp on top of the police box, complete with light.

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My daughter trying on the Tardis cosplay I made for her.

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That's really you, isn't it Sam?

this little guy is looking for a forever home

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Well, actually...

UK 1982

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That’s enough phone content. I’m done now.

If you support me on Patreon, I might be able to break more things in the future though!

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Ok, that was adorable.

Some of you know @adorkastock , but did you know she also makes bows? @adorkabows has you covered!

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This.

And not only will Trey and Matt answer this week, they are really, really good at playing this game and will bury Trump.

In addition, Paramount caved over the lawsuit from Trump in order to ensure that a merger will go through. Trey and Matt just signed a 1.5 BILLION dollar contract with Paramount and if Paramount tries to shut them up, like they did to Colbert, they will pull out all the stops.

Usually south park's relevancy feels very fake and surface level to me, but it's really something how trump and his base are actually, visibly much more enraged by this than they've been about any other criticism, any other show, any other enemy I've seen in the entire near-decade of his political career. Fucking South Park got to them more than the combined effort of a million other comedians, journalists, parodies, academic criticisms or protest efforts. Like it's BAD. Like they want the creators in prison and want to consider this a hate crime.