A general reminder—periodic cicadas pose no threat to anyone and their plant damage is limited to nipping off the ends of twigs. Please do not hose them with pesticide. They are slow and clumsy and confused and only want to make friends with other cicadas and eventually die of sexual exhaustion.

Yes, the screaming is a lot, but they’ve been extremely quiet neighbors for thirteen years, cut them some slack as they go through the most fraught time of their lives.

Rubber Uglies PNGs, part 1.

in a train right now, i can see the city lights and i feel so so overwhelmed

Hey,

I don't talk a ton about my job, but I teach high school theatre and coordinate the afterschool program.

We are doing a popcorn fundraiser: you buy it online, it ships right to you, and we get half the profits. All funds we receive go straight to putting on productions - just the rights to put on a show are incredibly expensive. We are a title 1 school, which means our budget isn't great to begin with, and that our community doesn't have a ton of disposable income to support us. These kids need theater, especially in our world today - it is a priceless coping skill for them.

I know times are tough for all of us and arguably money should be spent on better causes. But if you could at least share - so it reaches someone who can give, me and my kids would be forever grateful! Sharing on other platforms is also great!

Thanks in advance for any support you can provide!

Hello everyone.

I have a favor to ask.

Would you buy some popcorn?

Gwen recently contacted me and informed me she lived nearby and asked if there was anything she could do to help me.

And I was like, "Well, my house still has about 10 metric tons of my mom's antiques and I do not have the energy to sort through it all. Would you mind helping me with that?'

And Gwen was like, "Sure!"

We just cleared out 1.5 rooms of stuff today. Gwen was able to accomplish more in a few hours than I have in the last 4 months.

My body has been fighting me constantly due to stress. I am trying to save my home and figure out my dad's estate and pulling my hair out trying to work with Social Security and sorting out the house has just not been within my capabilities.

So finding Gwen has kind of been the only thing I have going for me lately.

Gwen has refused any compensation. She will not even accept gas money. But she teaches some theater kids and they need some help to do that theater thing. And as a former theater nerd I'd love to help them out.

So...

Gwen is helping me.

She is trying to help her students.

And I could use your help to help Gwen help her students.

Did that make sense?

Basically... buy popcorn... help theater kids put on a show.

Sound good?

Plus, look at all these flavors!

Here is the link again in case you don't want to scroll up.

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Join before June 1st to get this design!

By joining my sticker club for $15 a month, each month you will receive:

The design of the stickers and print will be a different animal each month!

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When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?

Take a 2 minute break and read this:

Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

You are really tired and frustrated. All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..

Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

1. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

2. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment

3. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

4. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

Reblogging this, because it is helpful information, BUT, with a couple of additions and caveats. First, this:

And then this:

And yes, as you get older, these are things you actually start thinking about, and worrying about, so I always try to stay informed.

Important for younger people too!! I was in my 30's, sitting in a waiting room, feeling sorry for myself because I was the youngest person at the cardiologist's. Then a kid who couldn't have been more than 16 walked in....

One of the most dangerous mistakes people make about their health is believing that a health problem doesn't happen to people "their age".

Marcille and Laios should coauthor a scientific paper or several about the mechanics/ecosystems of dungeons.

A study of dungeon trophic levels: measuring the flow of mana through dungeons as perpetrated by monsters and spirits

by Donato, Touden, and Senshi

a couple of knit dress samples arrived but now im Pondering on changing the style from midi dress to a tunic type thing 🤔

Take the memory, leave the shell! Watch what happens when we return seashells to the beach & marine hermit crabs!

Seashells are so important to beaches for a whole host of reasons.

🐚Over-shelling can affect hermit crabs because it reduces the availability of suitable shells for them to inhabit. Hermit crabs rely on empty shells of other creatures for protection and shelter. When there are too few shells available, hermit crabs may be forced to inhabit inadequate shells & pollution as homes, which can hinder their growth and make them more vulnerable to predators and environmental stressors. This can ultimately impact their survival and reproductive success.

🐚Shells provide homes or attachment surfaces for algae, sea grass, sponges, coral and a host of other microorganisms.

🐚Animals such as decorator crabs and octopus use shells as camouflage and many fish use shells as hiding places to avoid predators.

🐚Shells help to stabilize beaches and anchor seagrass.

🐚Shells are used by shorebirds to build nests.

🐚When shells break down, they provide nutrients for the organisms living in the sand or for those that build their own shells. (Shells are a major source of calcium.) I’m a firm believer in when we know better, we do better. I once shelled, and then when I learned all of this, I returned all shells that were not sprayed with a clear varnish to the beach & watched the marine hermit crabs go wild changing shells that were so needed!

It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.

So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.

What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.

In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.

This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.

Reblog every time

Rip Zer0, you would’ve loved haiku bot.

I’ve tried drawing them so many times but this is the first time I’m happy with it. And I’m still using and abusing the flipnote pens.

Lines only version under the cut.

I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.

I so want examples. anyone who knows of any should post them in notes

You know, like giant squid and such. We know the bastards exist, we have credible first-hand accounts stretching back thousands of years and dead specimens washed up on shore and such, but in centuries of searching we’ve managed exactly one well-documented encounter with a giant squid in its natural habitat. We have no idea what their native range is or what their life-cycle looks like, let alone how many of them are out there.

Are there any reverse-cryptids that /aren’t/ at the bottom of the ocean?

The red-crested tree rat, for one. There have been only three well-documented encounters since 1898, and they just plain disappeared from the zoological record for over a century. The only reason we know they’re not extinct is that one walked right up to a couple of wildlife research interns at a Columbian nature reserve back in 2011, apparently out of pure curiosity, and allowed itself to be photographed and observed for several minutes before disappearing again.

That’s genuinely pretty cool and all, but I absolutely need to talk about how the picture in that Wikipedia article looks like a tiny eldritch horror disguising itself as a peach.

To be fair, based on the actual photos from the 2011 encounter, they really do look like that:

req'd by @jcfoxington

i hope i succeeded in the relevant image

(and i also hope this misspelling was deliberate)

text: very happy hedgegod

I will reblog this absolute snacc every single time it comes across my dash

Ok i admit I only remembered this one bc Awooga but listen I got in new shirts that shrunk a little in the wash and hes RIGHT IT WORKS do it up top a lil for the titty area if you got em