Bill Mayer

...I'm moving, and such things are expensive, so I have turned the tip button back on posts just for shits and giggles. if the above did not make it obvious, this is very optional and please only do it if you have some extra cash lying around. (any coors buying will be limited to 1 tallboy one time before full moveout for the boys for being good sports)

reupping this to showcase my commitment to the bit and also because as mentioned yesterday thanks to the current disappeared landlord issue I ended up tossing out more than I would've liked, so while to stress again no one is ill or in danger of losing anything (I paid the important bills), we are at the point where I was probably not kidding about a pasta based diet for like a week and while again this is generally not fatal I must stress for the sake of my younger viewers that it is non-ideal. so hey

Our ocean is for everyone, no matter who you love. 🏳️‍🌈

Join us and celebrate #PrideInTheOcean! Throughout June, we’re celebrating both LGBTQ+ #PrideMonth and #OceanMonth.

We’re asking you to post an image of yourself in, on, or by the ocean with a caption explaining why and how you take pride in the ocean! We want to know how you take pride in this planet.

Learn about the campaign and how you can contribute a photo to be featured on our social media at https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/heritage/pride-in-the-ocean.html.

Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

Drinking spiders??!

You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.

And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.

I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.

We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.

I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.

It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.

#WE HAVE SPIDERS IN AOTEAROA and they serve CUNT#im gonna steal ice cream from work this weekend and make spiders with it. i will steal the fizzy from work also#i fucking hate my boss 

Living your best life I see

“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,

tf u mean i had spiders all the time as a kid in nsw

…North South West?

…Nagalü Sagalü Walalü?

…Naruto Sucks Weed?

…Nacho Sabe Wergas?

Meanwhile, I’m over here in a place where spiders (arachnid) are 100% a hallmark of summer; by god, I cannot leave my apartment on a summer morning without walking through a web; with a little artistic license, I could end up “drinking spiders” every day, if I’m not careful; and the only part of the OP I found weird was that someone enjoyed this

but this is tumblr

and I was willing to accept that

Thinking about some of the responses to that gatheringbones post from a few days ago where people in the notes are all “uwu how dare queer people be allowed to imagine fantasy worlds without oppression”, completely missing that lack of imagination is kind of the whole point. Why is your utopian queer-friendly fantasy society just Christian feudalism with the serial numbers polished off? Why is empire and the divine right of kings so appealing and romantic when you include yourself in the mythology? The reason people are sickened by it isn’t because they hate queer people enjoying fantasy escapism, lmao—it’s the idea that rainbow-washed Benevolent Unproblematic Monarchy Where We Don’t Have To Think About The Spoils Of Empire is a fantasy worth escaping to is extremely disturbing.

Also, frankly, if your oh-so-essential “escapism” is to the world where tomatoes are indigenous to Fantasy Europe… what is it you’re allegedly escaping from?

Uruk, Iraq 

The sorta literal translation from the arabic is so much more beautiful

“From here rose the first written letter, (finding its way) to every point on earth”

I like this version more

Happy Pride from a Pair of Prideful Puffins! 🏳️‍🌈💖

Put in the tags your location and if your experience was the norm

so i have a cat now

5 years ago today this little angel changed my life for the better

we’ve both come so far

Happy 5 years, Baby Socks

*benoit blanc voice* bah gawd that kitten transed your gendah

our discord unanimously agreed that ratatouille is a mecha and I cried laughing after making this joke

saw this massive onion bigger than my entire hand in the produce aisle and immediately snatched it up solely to weigh it and a guy across the aisle asked how much it weighed because he was curious as well and when i told him it was two pounds he excitedly was like “it’s like the biggest one i’ve ever seen..” humanity rocks moment. bonding with strangers over giant onion

Under The Sea TTRPG Bundle

I'm hosting a TTRPG bundle on itchio right now (from 5/22/23 to about 6/13/23).

We've got thirty five games, including the feature length tabletop fishing simulator Rod Reel And Fist, and everything from mermaids to spooky abysses to cyberpunk krakens are represented in the content.

It's less than a dollar per game, and several of these games let you play as a crab.

@bookwyrmbran @vintagegenderpunk @edderkopper

@edderkopper

NO FUCKING WAY

nevermind, this was an intentional change!

Seriously? Are you sure?

We're talking about this click area:

You're saying changing this small pink highlighted area to make it impossible to go to a specific post was intentional?

This breaks the entire concept of "prev tags" because it's now impossible to see what the previous tags are. Tumblr really hated the prev tags chains so much that they decided to nerf them like this?

It also makes it impossible to reblog a post starting from before a reblog addition was added—so now if you see an interesting post but it has a super long or annoying reblog section (and the reblog in question is inaccessible), you're out of luck. Those posts exist, but the UI for accessing them has been completely removed.

Why? What was the goal behind this change?

yes, i'm sure, just double-checked this morning. this is one change in a series of updates to the reblog consumption experience to help make it more intuitive and easy to understand for new users.

and you can still access those reblogs, you just have to go through the notes view for now.

WDYM "through the notes view"? if a post has 10k notes, and my mutual reblogs it with "prev tags", are you expecting me to scroll through hundreds of pages of reblogs to find the one they might have reblogged it from? that doesn't make any sense to me.

also, not only are reblog tags not included in notes view if they're more than a year or two old... if prev user has reblogged the post more than once, there is no unambiguous chain of attribution available in dash view anymore. none. zero. no matter how much of a workout you give your scroll wheel. and by turning off themes by default for new blogs, you've ensured that dash view is often all there is.

if whoever unilaterally decided to trash a longstanding feature with lots of site culture dependent on it thinks putting the link in the usernames is "unintuitive" or whatever, then put it on a little permalink icon or something. i don't care. but removing it altogether causes major problems that have zero satisfactory workarounds.

(also, why isn't this new whole-header click area a real hyperlink? why is it some janky faux-link that doesn't even have "open in new tab" functionality baked in? yeah, yeah, the permalink is in a menu somewhere, but if the goal is convenience...)

on it boss

My car is experiencing mitosis

tbh i don't really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they're all connected it's the same ocean

no metaphor here just pure confusion...is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?

Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.

That's the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.

This is the Indian and the Pacific. It's not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.

Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won't. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won't mix horizontally either.

The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.

The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It's got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can't cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.

This is cool as fuck

I love learning

thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

life will persist against all odds

For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.

This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.

At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up: