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Cc: @symptomoflove !!!

I think that for every episode of bake off that has a foreign country as a theme there should be a special third judge that is just a grandma of that nationality and they should be equipped with an air horn they can toot in paul hollywood’s smug face whenever he confidently says something completely incorrect about a bake’s construction, flavour, texture, etc etc

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Cc: @imathers again / always got some good bear content 4 u!

thank you WA state department of agriculture for not only providing valuable bear safety information, but also for providing valuable reaction pictures.

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another one! cc: @imathers

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bears repeating

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Ceramic Frog Figurines  // theStoryOfJune

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I've got a family cottage on an outer island in Georgian Bay (the backpack on Lake Huron) & recently we had 3m (almost 10') waves rolling past the island during a (confirmed on the Beaufort Scale - wind was upwards of 35 knots/70+ km/hr) gale.

And they get bigger out in the open water/during the big later-fall gales!!! I read a book about G-Bay shipwrecks in the late 1800s/early 1900s & waves upwards of 16' were discussed! The Great Lakes are absolutely amazing & terrifying & beautiful!

Some photos from the windstorm - sadly, none show the size or the power of the waves (seeing as it wouldn't be safe to toss a person in for scale), but still!

Do other USAmericans not know the names of the Great Lakes?? I grew up in the midwest so like. They’re important here but I never considered that other people might not give a fuck about these terrifying inland seas until I was reading a fic that said “the large Lake Michigan and another called Lake Erie” as if there are people who don’t know about Lake Michigan and Lake Erie.

Is that the case?? Are people outside of the midwest aware of these bodies of water outside of being just big lakes???

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mud pool fun time

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What big eyes you have, sir! Oh, wait… that’s just your rump. The fittingly-named Chilean four eyed frog [Pleurodema thaul] possesses two eye-shaped spots on its back, likely to confuse predators. They can be found in Chile and Argentina, and breed year round. Images by Danté B Fenolio.

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Cc: @imathers

hmmm

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Today's a huge day for me -- I just finished all of the paintings for a book I've been working on for THREE ENTIRE YEARS!!!!!*

I'm by no means done the project - there are still a few analogue/digital-mix pieces to finish and then a BUNCH of scanning/editing/etc and THEN they all go to my publisher to be made into a real book, BUT this huge batch of watercolour/gouache pieces (more than 50 paintings in all!?!) is DONE.

This has been the biggest single project I've ever worked on (my first book with this publisher, Ghost Water Kiss, was the same length-ish but it was a collection of short stories I'd been writing/self-publishing for almost six years pre-collection into fancier book-form) and there have been times when I've felt like the end was wholly out of my reach, but hey! Look at me now! I'm thrilled and also need to lie down for a bit???

WHEW. WHEW!!

*I mean, technically I think the art part has only been ongoing for...two? years, but still that's a LONG TIME and I feel so good to be done this stack of art.

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cc: @imathers !!!

OUGH what a beautiful bear....

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sir please thats my emotional support song that i first heard on a 8tracks playlist in 2014

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I literally spit water all over my screen.

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the funniest part of katmai fat bear week is the comments on the obviously smaller bears pictures like “i’m sorry king 😔✊ we love you but your opponent is simply very fat. we still love you”

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~ Embroidered textile feline with long tail, multi-colored.

Date: ca. 200 B.C.–A.D. 400

Period: Early Intermediate

Culture: Nasca

Medium: Camelid fiber

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