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me: feels hungry
me, quietly but with passion: baby need snack
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Shepherd Boy Pointing at Tobias and the Angel
Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1625-1630
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I’m a frequent patron of paranormal Reddit threads so I’ve read possibly well into the hundreds of short ostensibly true personal stories of the unknown befalling an unexpecting person, but absolutely none of them have been constantly on my mind like the short and baffling story of a man who, while at the grocery store, was pointed at by a toddler who proceeded to say his full name
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i know sia doesnt want to be seen but was all this necessary???😩😩😩
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uptown funk made me sexually attracted to bruno mars…….
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a few fun octopus facts:
their arms are similar to our tongues in that their muscle fibers are oriented in three different directions
octopuses are disconcertingly strong (anecdotal evidence says that a 15 inch wide octopus was as strong as the scientist handling it)
on that note that same scientist said that when her octopuses escaped she would have to run behind them, “like cats” (paraphrased from sy montgomery’s the soul of an octopus)
aquariums have “octopus enriching programs” so they don’t get bored and fuck shit up in their tanks
they are crazy smart like. really. really fucking smart
but we can’t compare their intelligence to ours because our evolution branched from the same common ancestor so long ago we cannot comprehend how they think
it’s believed that their intelligence evolved when they lost their shell, and had to adapt to predict how countless of different prey and predators would act, how to avoid them, distract them, lure them or trick them
they visualize how other creatures are going to act, which means they have have awareness that others are individuals which is a type of consciousness but i can’t remember what it’s called right now
like, they use tools
they have distinct personalities
aquarium octopuses are socialized from a very young age and even though in the wild they are solitary creatures they become extremely friendly with enough human exposure
sometimes they dislike people for no apparent reason and will shoot water at them
they have three hearts
each of their arms has a tiny brain that controls movement and sensory input on its own i shit you not
they are color blind and yet they can camouflage their color and nobody knows how
they can change the color and texture of their skin faster than human eyes can keep up with it
great pacific octopuses are white when they are peaceful, and red when they’re excited
aquarium octopus have escaped their tanks and slithered down pipes into the ocean
escaped their tanks to eat the fish in other tanks
escaped their tanks to go fight other octopuses cuz they were bored
octopus fight club
learned how to take photographs
cost thousands of dollars by flooding new floors
they can feel, taste, and smell with their suckers and all of their skin
they enjoy tasting their food by slowly moving it through their suckers instead of shoving it in their beaks
they can rewrite their rna. no, really
the only reason why they haven’t evolved to take over as the next dominant race is because they’re doing pretty well in the ocean so there’s no need for them to adapt further
there’s a ton more but i’m so overwhelmed by love i can’ think of any at the moment i’m going to cry
read the soul of an octopus by sy mongomery no she didn’t pay me i just love octopuses so much
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I was thinking this weekend about how awkward it was that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them insists that Americans call muggles “no-maj.” First off, it just doesn’t sound like an abbreviation we’d use, and it sounds even worse in plural. But I finally realized the more important point: it’s too direct. Especially for the time period, Americans would never have been that straightforward in talking about a topic that sensitive. And so I would like to submit, in the spirit of early twentieth-century slang, a list of possible euphemisms we may have used for muggles:
He washes his dishes with a cloth.
He pays in nickels and dimes.
He rides the trolley to work.
He takes his boots to the cobbler.
He’s grateful for Mr. Edison.
He’s one of Grisham’s boys. (here imagining that Grisham was a prominent wizard who famously fathered no magic children)
He dances on the ground.
He writes with a pen.
He’s fond of a two-piece suit.
He’s more King Arthur than Merlin.
He’s got to wind his pocket watch.
He gets his wax from bees.
His wife darns his socks.
He treats his ailments with tonics.
His portraits stay put.
His broom is only for sweeping.
I’m having a little too much fun with this, so if you have any to add, please send them over.
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👽 German Alien Vocab 👽
der Außerirdische - extraterrestrial (n) außerirdisch - extraterrestrial (adj) außerirdische Wesen - extraterrestrial beings das / der Alien - alien die Greys (die kleinen Grauen) - Greys
das UFO (unidentifiziertes/unbekanntes Flugobjekt ) - UFO die fliegende Untertasse - flying saucer UFO-Sichtungen - UFO sightings die Ufologie - ufology
Hyneks Skala - Hynek’s scale die Nahbegegnung - close encounter Nahbegegnung der vierten Art - close encounter of the fourth kind die Entführung durch Außerirdische - alien abduction die Anomalie - anomaly die Alien-Implantate - alien implants
die Viehverstümmelung - cattle mutilation (bovine excision) die Pseudowissenschaft - pseudoscience die Telepathie, die Gedankenübertragung - telepathy übersinnlich - extrasensory entführen - to abduct
➡️ Spanish Version
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