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Let’s bust a move with mama

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I live in ohio, specifically the part that was steam rolled by The Glacier™ about 26-24,000 years ago. The Black Swamp area. Now most people will look at it and go "Ah! Patchwork farms crossing the entire place! Nothing here but Corn and Beans!" But they're wrong! Just the other week I went to a preserve called Killdeer Plains, with one goal in mind: find a Sandhill Crane. These old bastards are the ugliest, least refined cranes I've ever seen: because they're one of the oldest *birds* in the world, dating back 2.5 *million* years ago according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. That's old as *fuck*. Now, why was I looking for this? It was extinct in Ohio from the 30's to '87 when a breeding pair was found in Wayne county. Last year, the count was at 412 in the state, a 15% increase from 2023. Now, I am not part of the volunteers doing the counting this year, as I was unaware of this and was also nowhere *near* close enough to see individuals, however I did see a pair. Now, back to the point lol. During this little mini expedition, I realized just how many plants grow in Ohio's wetlands, so here are some pictures of both the cranes and the flowers:

(if you get the chance, go to killdeer plains! It's beautiful and there's so much to explore!)

((third picture zoomed out for reference to how far those birds were, I got lucky and seen the one flying or I wouldn't have seen them at all))

By the way, the southeastern USA is considered a humid subtropical climate. Alabama and Tennessee and Georgia and the Carolinas and Tennessee and all that stuff, that's considered to be subtropical instead of regular "temperate"

For some reason I did not know this. Maybe it just seemed too "exotic."

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By the way, the southeastern USA is considered a humid subtropical climate. Alabama and Tennessee and Georgia and the Carolinas and Tennessee and all that stuff, that's considered to be subtropical instead of regular "temperate"

For some reason I did not know this. Maybe it just seemed too "exotic."

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"The Louvre welcomed 8.7 million visitors last year — more than double what its infrastructure was designed to accommodate. Even with a daily cap of 30,000, staff say the experience has become a daily test of endurance, with too few rest areas, limited bathrooms, and summer heat magnified by the pyramid’s greenhouse effect.

In a leaked memo, Louvre President Laurence des Cars warned that parts of the building are “no longer watertight,” that temperature fluctuations endanger priceless art, and that even basic visitor needs — food, restrooms, signage — fall far below international standards. She described the experience simply as “a physical ordeal.”

Shoutout to the Louvre staff for putting their foot down! I'm interested to see how this progresses.

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"this thing is rare and only affects 1% of the population" dude that's 80 million people can you shut up

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apparently I’m playing skyrim again… and by “playing skyrim” I obviously mean “spending hours installing mods before I ever open the game”

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victorian trans guy who goes to beloved local barber sweeney todd and presses half a crown in his hand and says “begging your pardon sir, i know it ain’t much but i was hoping you might tell my employer i get me shaves from you should he ever come around. only he’s been asking me how i keep my chin so smooth and i haven’t the heart to tell him i can’t grow a beard, so i might have told him a little lie, sir, and said it’s all due to your wonderful skill, sir” and sweeney todd goes “no problem. by the way would you say your employer deserves to die”

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"there should be some kind of test you have to take before having kids" -> wrong, extremely dangerous and highkey eugenicist and racist "the youth should have safe and effective legal pathways at their disposal to make sure their human rights are constantly protected and upheld" -> based, centers the youth, gives minors more power to fight inequality and does not reinforce the idea that parents are immune to scrutiny from their kids

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me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

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i love this website i just feel at home here you know

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i feel like dazai and anime dazai are gonna become so separated anime dazai becomes his own character and then people are going to start drawing animezai x chuuya x dazai or animezai x dazai until its like the onceler and suddenly every zai is entirely different and people say "i ship wanzai x chuuya and animezai with magicalzai"

so i drew this to prepare

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Iceland is fucking bizarre my name change made the news

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anyone else wish they would get roped into a freaky friday body swap situation just for the hope that the other person will go "oh jesus fuck how do you live like this" and instantly validate your feelings of being Strange and Built Wrong.

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A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.

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I have a friend who has one biological and one adopted son and I found out he likes to tell people “my firstborn is six and my other child is eleven” which is hilarious.

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Skyrim foliage fans will quite cheerfully turn the Whiterun tundra into fields of wheat, lush green meadows, thick banks of lavender or a gigantic pine forest, anything except the scraggly red, yellow, green, brown, orange and more yellow symphony of tundra it's meant to be. Kynareth is crying. Are you happy now?