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If you can house someone, then surely you can igloo them

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Honey Possum or Noolbenger (Tarsipes rostratus) feeding on nectar, family Tarsipedidae, order Diprotodontia, found in SW Western Australia

One of the world's smallest marsupials, weighing only 7 - 16g.

photograph by Tim's Australian Nature Pics

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Grandpa from Rugrats would probably be dead by now, hey?

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just cleansing my energy<3

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In 2015, I was told I couldn't be autistic because I'm a woman.

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I love love love fang blennies because they can unhinge their terrifying jaws to reveal giant venomous teeth

But when their mouths are closed they’re just the Goofiest Goobers in the whole world.

No thoughts just Sit In Tube

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One time my mother told me that the father of my former step-father had died. This man was my step-grandfather for a long time and when I was little, we were very close. I called him "Eeyore" and had a lot of love for him. This news was very upsetting. I sent his wife in England a sweet condolence card expressing my sadness and well wishes.

Except he wasn't dead. He'd had a heart attack but had survived and was at home with his wife when that card arrived. My mother's mis-remembering of this scenario was one of the early signs that she was developing dementia.

Keep this in mind when I tell you that today Mum called me to tell me that my (half)sister had court today because she got into a fight with someone. Knowing my stroppy, violent sister, this is an entirely possible scenario. But our mother is a proven unreliable narrator so for all I know, my sister just had a traffic violation, or maybe she only left the house to get a snack and wasn't in court at all.

Who knows. Everything's a bit rubbish. Being unemployed right now is brutal. I've never had any trouble finding a job but with the cost of living, the pressures of AI, and competition for jobs at an all time high, lately all I've been getting is rejections.

Not to mention the arts org I volunteer for and am on the board of has gotten really toxic and people are resigning. I'm wondering if I should do the same. This is a tough time to be sober. Ugh.

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mailchimp error message is just "panic"

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But then around 30 million years ago — halfway through the Age of Mammals, give or take — something happened. The nautiloids started disappearing. Fewer species, less diversity. Bit by bit they shrank back into their current small range. What happened halfway through the Age of Mammals? Well, here’s one clue: the nautiloids’ long retreat showed a pattern. It wasn’t everywhere and all at once. They disappeared first in the northern arctic regions; then in the Antarctic; then in temperate zones; finally across most of the tropics except that one small patch. This pattern suggested a culprit: a warm-blooded predator that evolved in the Arctic and then spread around the world. But… the armored cephalopod design had been around forever. They’d been living with predators for half a billion years. Sharks. Primitive armored fish. Not-so-primitive modern fish. In the age of dinosaurs, they had to deal with ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. Back in the Paleozoic, they were hunted by eight-foot-long giant sea scorpions. Way back in the Cambrian, they had to live with the anomalocariids. In the early Age of Mammals, there were primitive whales and sea-going crocodiles. The armored cephalopod design took them all in stride and kept going. So what happened?

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be infertile

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All I can say is thank fuck for heated blankets.

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What I have is probably just a mild virus but also I might be dying and need to be cared for by a firm yet tender grandmotherly type who will bring me hot tea and soup and call me "poppet" or "chook".

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In terms of the circles of grief, I'm barely on the page at all, but I knew her. I knew her and I'm gutted for her and her family. Everything about it is too tragic. I can't believe it.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/mount-beauty-plane-crash-kate-callingham-and-greig-wanless-remembered-as-new-details-emerge/ddf0df1d-93d7-4bcf-b2ae-5cd0050cf549

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