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saw a post of an ibis and couldn't share it cause they blocked me for some reason so I drew it out of spite.

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daily transgender fact youcan be that👍

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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can u guys rb this n add how you crack your eggs in the tags? i thought cracking them in the sinks’s edge is universal until i saw my friend cracking an egg on the counter instead and it was so pervese and diabolical

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Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2020 / 2021 / 2022

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I love how cultures around the world looked at eggs and were like obviously these are for breakfast

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are you there. like mentally

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Dick riding IS NOT a form of transportation!!!!!!!! 

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Oman Cat Stamp Collection (1973)

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*meows loud as fuck to no avail*

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First work for a space-themed exhibition, Fires above. I'm super emotional about early humans, them looking at the sky, telling stories about these lights up there. Stories older than the glacier. We've been looking for thousands of years, and it's impossible not to.

Painted on agate.

Sparks fly as the fires burn at midnight

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A rookie mistake is getting out of things by claiming a grandparent died. You can do that a maximum of four times per person, and that's assuming maximum social atomization, where nobody you know is likely to talk to each other and compare notes and realize that five of your grandmothers have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the last three months. The winning play? Dead Uncles. You can have any number of dead uncles, because who knows how many siblings your parents have? You don't even need to keep the stories straight because if you slip up you can claim it was two separate uncle deaths. You can repeat names, even, one on each side of your family. Uncles often die in memorable ways so you can get flamboyant with the specifics. Motorcycle accidents, firework explosions, prostate cancer, rottweiler training mishap. It won't be that weird that you aren't particularly torn up about it. Maybe you didn't like your Uncle

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i understand that this is a model of people making flour but it really does look like they're making a delicious pepperoni 'za

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Dude you gotta get on Detritus, it’s the hottest social media in the North Atlantic. There’s always something going down, marine snow, shipwrecks, rotting carcasses, it’s all here! See for yourself, look, a new whalefall just dropped a mile away, let’s go be part of a transitory ecosystem of scavengers experiencing a time of plenty after months of absence.

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making heavy use of a technique i like to call "bothering my cat" which consists largely of bothering my cat