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St. Rat (for St. Rat of Cal Anderson Park)

from small places, they come

through any opening

no matter how small 

a miracle of fur and muscle

dearest unbeloved

appearing everywhere we walk

a plague and a promise

we will not end

a world without us has never existed

and never will

endure, endure

these are days for enduring

for hiding, contorting

writhing, biting

fleeing sinking ships

St. Rat teaches all survival means

holy crumb in hand

we’ll live on crumbs

if we must

but beyond these times

are lush lands 

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Bro I fucking love the DB Cooper case nothing about this whole situation sounds real. None of the passengers on the plane realized they were being hijacked until the plane landed two hours after it was supposed to and the fbi showed up with suitcases full of money. The note about the bomb almost went unnoticed because the flight attendant thought she was being sexually harassed so she didn't read it. One of the main suspects was the first trans woman in Washington to have a sex change operation. A reporter who was so dead set on his suspect that he brought him to court was so upset about being wrong that he went catatonic and was treated with electroshock therapy and it WORKED. There's been multiple "I'm DB Cooper" death confessions. He never even SAID his name was DB Cooper. Either he got away with a million bucks in today's money and the most iconic and harmless crime American history or he impaled himself on a pine tree while falling a zillion miles an hour in the dark while clutching duffel bags full of cash and either option is equally hilarious. He wore a clip on tie. He committed an act of sky piracy. What in the fucking looney toons

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donald trump will die on july 20th 2025 at 1pm pacific standard time

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I just have no energy left to sympathize with anti-maskers about anti-vaxxers.

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I went down to the sea and whispered your sins to its denizens. Those sleek hunters who know what it is to be prey. They swam close when I recalled your cruelty. Dark eyes, liquid as their home, spoke grief to me.

I went down to the sea and asked to be let in. To that dark, hadal conspiracy. I let my body drift out to the deep. Felt great shapes beneath me move swiftly. Fear found no root in me.

I went down the sea and felt myself change. Into something which can withstand your petty games. The wind, the seals, even the waves keened. You try to flood the earth with hate, but the sea curses your name.

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Tumblr, no

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so this is the bright god's curse

the god of healing comes with plague in hand

and foresight torn from the jaws of the earth

I've always said the sun was cruel

railed against him, loved him too

for all his brutal, tender mercies

his knowledge rips through me, his sight

sickening within this body

my blood turns thick

my bones make themselves known

my mouth falls open as the years

all hurtle through my veins at once

I see it all, the damage this will do

to more than me, to more than city

my body, overwhelmed, my mind too

I can't stop speaking of the ways we'll lose

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every time im shown a baby (usually a coworker's) I've learned to coo because it's the expected response but seeing a baby does nothing to my brain. that's a worm who might start screaming. but apparently everyone finds babies cute? is everyone else also pretending or am I the problem ?

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As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

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it’s completely acceptable to stay alive for tiny reasons. because you want to hear your favorite song one more time. because your dog will miss you if you leave. because the moon is just too pretty to never see again. because you haven’t seen the next season of a really good tv show. because you want to see the christmas lights this year. if you’re alive, you’re doing enough. if you’re surviving, i’m proud of you.

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good lord this thing is useless

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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

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Okay, so, I have a skeleton tail and I raise the bones of those drowned sailors and send them forth on ghost ships to torment my enemies. Also I'm friends with a pod of orcas and they let me ride on their backs.

Do you wanna play mermaids? Yay. Okay so my tail is light blue and I have ice powers. And I live in the Arctic sea and watch British sailors die horrible deaths while trying to find the Northwest Passage.

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I love how bad at stealth the Initiative is. Even when they're walking around in civvies they're so obviously military. They go to the Bronze and their pagers all go off at once. They carry weird tech that makes loud noises. In any other town they'd be found out immediately, they only stay secret-ish in Sunnydale because people have learned not to ask questions.

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Thank you to the woman at Costco who saw my spiked Crocs and came up to say "those must be so fun to kick someone with"

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