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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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i’m only 7 episodes into the original star trek but something about kirk scratches my brain so well hes just. such a guy. hes a nerd. hes a disaster bi. he likes to wrestle recreationally. he apologises after raising his voice even the tiniest bit. hes in love with his science officer. hes just a lil guy and i love him

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All animals are either Beasts or Creatures. This is usually consistent for a given species, but not always; for example, most dogs are Beasts and most cats are Creatures, but occasionally one will encounter a cat who is clearly a Beast, or dog who's an absolute Creature.

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— Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

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one of the most enlightening realizations ive had was finding out that non-24 hour circadian rhythm people were a pretty large group and most of us have oddly similar cycles of usually around 28hr internal "days" and this masquerades as "insomnia" but if allowed to sleep and wake naturally we will just advance forward through time an extra 2-4 hours a day at a relatively stable pace. we can't go to school or jobs or even run errands on normal schedules without massive pharmacological and behavioral intervention. most of the people who have been diagnosed or figured it out themselves will report horrific, life-ruining disruption in their professional lives and terrible health from accrued lack of sleep. this disorder is most common in vision-impaired people which seems to suggest it's related to light cues. anyway just thinking about this as extremely loud yard work woke me up at 8am for the second day in a row

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Life finds a way, even in the cracks of concrete.

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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He protecc

He attacc

But most importantly

He chills on his friend's back

Proud to present the cutest thing you may ever see: a baby lumpsucker on a baby sea star. 🥹😫🤩

Photo by STEM Pathways Coordinator Candice 💫

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Yard turtle!

It is a painted turtle, and as many reptiles do, it tried to pee on me when I picked it up. It also missed. (See the wet spot on the ground lol)

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Yard turtle!

It is a painted turtle, and as many reptiles do, it tried to pee on me when I picked it up. It also missed. (See the wet spot on the ground lol)

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Vacuum Cleaner is doing snymnastics

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if you find a part of a human body (not your own) you shouldn’t keep it in your house for the next 50 years. yeahhhhh. that jawbone is not for youuuuuuuu.

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The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

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Happy pride month, y’all! 🏳️‍🌈 Boromir says “for Gondor and the gays!” 🌈

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Do you ever think about how staggeringly in bad taste it is that Gandalf brought a firework that turns into Smaug to Bilbo’s birthday party

Like how were you hoping that would go