OTC BIRTH CONTROL APPROVED BY THE FDA

Add to the list of "things about America I (american) didn't know were not normal worldwide"

heh, what a kind and lovely compliment friend. now try saying something fucked up and horny.

The notes get 0 stars in reading comprehension

any given Talking Heads song: I saw a kitten who was barking up the wrong tree / I saw a dog and he was eating a salami / I know that meat comes from a factory / I know that people eat it all the time (totally normal post-punk instrumental)

any given B-52s song: DRIVING DOWN TO VENICE BEACH! YOU’RE EATING CHEESECAKE IN MY CAR! / WHY DON’T YOU SAVE IT ‘TILL LATER, HONEY? WE’LL EAT AT THE BEACH AND SHARE WITH THE CRABS! (totally normal New Wave instrumental)

i always forget obama has a brother who really fucking hates him until he does stuff like this

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

When I do this the apple always spins way too fast like bitch calm down you have no where to be wtf

I'm having trouble feeling sympathy for anyone shelling out a kilobuck for Elon Musk's 2023 version of twitter.

"kilobuck" is now in my vocabulary

Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

“wearing all pink to the barbie movie” “wearing full suits to the minion movie” the children yearn for themed parties

Most popular swear words by state in the US

Finally some useful research being done

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.

albino plants are basically vampires.

For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn’t figure out why the bigger plants didn’t release chemicals to kill them.

Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.

They’re vampires, and they’re commensal, symbiotic mutualists!

this is super cool! I had no idea

This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

we’ve already discovered forests where trees share nutrients with young or disadvantaged trees and forests where trees can ask their neighbors for some extra food (they literally send a signal requesting aid, via the web of fungus that connects their roots) and forests where surrounding tees will keep a tree alive even when it has been reduced to a stump through some tragedy…

so, while i love the playfulness of “vampire” and i commend the specificity of “commensal, symbiotic mutualists” i think it’s worth considering, at this point, if “member of the community” might not be at least as apt

googling ‘jobs for autistic people’ and realising that everyone still thinks autistic people are either sheldon cooper or really tall toddlers

NVM ONE SUGGESTED NIGHT GUARD OUTTA MY WAY GAYBOY IM GONNA FUCK FREDDY FAZBEAR

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

fanart of chapter four of this fanfiction by @kreauxlighe :)

was gonna do more with it and am not ENTIRELY happy with it but ive already been working on it for multiple weeks now and just wanted to finish it 😭

enjoy!

By far the funniest transition timelines are the ones from trans men where the "before" picture is some teeny little guy with sad baby seal eyes and the "after" picture looks like Kratos