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I made a quiz about some of my favorite animals :)

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wheel of time season 3 + text posts

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If I see a raptor these days I just assume it's either a Jackal Buzzard or a Yellow-Billed Kite, depending on the size. The buzzard could be any of those mentioned by OP for all I know, it's always too quick or far away.

I do see others of course, Gymnogene, Fish Eagles, Black-shoulders kites, but those are much easier to identify

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Rock hyrax I saw yesterday. We call them Dassies in SA, which directly translated is little tie, but no idea where that name comes from.

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View from Franschhoek pass yesterday. Was a gorgeous day

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ranking the best things I have heard surgeons say mid-surgery:

1. "Five second rule!" while scrubbed, after dropping a sterile scalpel on the floor (no they did NOT pick it up again but I swear everyone's buttholes puckered)

2. (spoken during the closing of a particularly long and difficult case) "Nurse - my tunes." :heavy metal starts blasting:

3. Gently to a fretful patient, pre-anaesthesia: "It's going to be okay. I promise, I've dealt with worse." As soon as the patient is unconscious: "This is literally the worst thing I've ever seen."

4. [okay this one was a med student] "Wowwww, that's so gross!!" Reg: "Please remember that [patient] is awake for this procedure." Student to patient: "Oh my god. I am so sorry, that was really unprofessional - " Patient, cheerfully, also engrossed with what's happening inside them on the screen: "Nah - it's, like, super gross, right?"

5. [another procedure where the patient couldn't be put under GA] Patient: *starts singing country roads midway through the procedure* Surgeon: *shrugs and joins in with surprisingly good harmony*

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It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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A brief appreciation of Peter Falk in Columbo, by Joe Dator in The New Yorker

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In a rare double own-goal the Young Nationals (the youth wing of a conservative party) posted this in their own Facebook comment section today

Naturally they have been getting completely roasted for it in the comments, leading the page to clarify they were actually referencing another blunder.

Problem is, it was a blunder by another Nationals MP that had largely gone unnoticed, so they've just dunked on their own brand twice.

The comments on both are, of course full of references to one of the great AusPol comment blunders of all time, making it possibly a rare three-for-one stuff up.

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My relatively new phone, Samsung A55 from last year, has a Battery Protection setting. I can tell it to not charge over 80%. This post reminded me turn it back on, my background knowledge says it's still valid because things like my solar management software will also do things like that. But need to go research that further.

This is the setting:

One thing they didn't warn us about was how much of life was going to be trying to remember to plug in and unplug our phones

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Faile being a badass with her knives! (Maybe a pre-series sketch? Whatever you want!!)

IM SORRY I WAS GOING TO MAKE HER BADASS BUT ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT WAS FAILE CALLING HERSELF “MANDARB” IN THE SCENE WHERE SHE INTRODUCES HERSELF TO PERRIN

I’m sure she did many badass things as Mandarb, since she travelled down the entire continent, presumably alone, and basically just planned on adventuring in the mountains until she found the mythical artifact she was looking for, but

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I've had this internal debate before as well, and finally looked up the recipes.

Scones are not worked as much, gets some sugar. The butter is basically rubbed in, kneaded a bit and then formed. Optionally buttermilk and eggs, but can also use water or milk I think for the wet. Baked on a tray

Biscuits get less sugar, and are book folded to work butter layers into it. Then cooked in a skillet in the oven.

Very similar, but different enough to be their own things I think. Looks wise I still think there's not much to distinguish good biscuits and good scones from each other without context

Derin when I get over there in a few months I'm going to have to find you and sit you down with a big ass plate of biscuits and gravy. They are NOT scones. They look like scones but are not. They are flaky delicious things not a sad rock of disappointment.

Never insult scones to me again.

Have a delicious scone with me and maybe you'll calm down.

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Have you ever seen coyote pups in the wild?

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My live action mockumentary dramedy thriller chess movie should be hitting theaters fall 2025

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this is fred, the dot.

fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches

reblog to give fred a branch

i will post fred status updates as he grows

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it just occurred to me so I had to hurry and look and…

Is…

is this a reference to Kennedy’s “ich bin ein Berliner” speech? Because that means “I am a citizen of Berlin” BUT (and this is what everyGerman child jokes about) a “Berliner” is also a filled jelly donut, or, in some regional dialect, called a jam pancake.

PTERRY?!