THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

A Spanish bus company just unveiled their new mascot.

His name is...

La Bussi.

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

THE BANANAS ARE GAY

THESE BANANAS

THE BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE GAY

BELATED HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE

Reading reviews for havdalah candles written by unsuspecting Christian housewives who bought them to use for dinner candles is my new passion. I’ll be laughing for an eternity.

Imagine letting a candle burn that looks like this once lit:

For an hour.

Dude, get the wine!

Different havdalah candle, same guy.

Pls…

For my goyische followers: Havdalah is a service to mark the end of shabbat and the beginning of the week. The flame is big so that everyone at the service can see it. You also only have it lit for a few minutes before extinguishing it (traditionally in wine). They are not table candles. My guess is that these people bought them because they’re pretty and braided without knowing or caring what they’re used for.

For my Jewish followers: the goyim are at it again.

It needs to be multiple wicks, and I think a tall flame is just what happens in that situation

My favorite new feature on the app is the one that pops one of these notifications up whenever I reblog something with an image in it. I find it especially charming that they stack up and don't go away on their own.

Tumblr users and staff are locked in an eternal battle

Last one of these two for a while -- posting this after yesterday's piece makes it look like I broke the 180º rule, apologies!

i watch baseball for the side quests

throwback to 2021 when the exact same player started doing this extended water bottle bincoculars sight gag in the dugout

this is the same guy who also made himself a fruit cocktail midgame. he is The manic pixie dream girl

baseball is actually not a sport it’s just a documentary of human nature and how we battle boredom. the stuff these teams get up to while they’re waiting their turn.

and it’s hilarious when they pull pranks on each other, like attaching things to other people’s caps:

or the beloved hot foot prank:

or when they decided to put a guy’s pants over his head and make it seem like he was walking on his hands:

or when they opposing pitchers took turns playing tic tac toe every time they got on the mound:

My favorite rejected New Yorker submission

I really hope the effects of the WGA and SAG strike bleeds into all sorts of entertainment industries, especially the ones that don't have any unions. I want to hear animators, music composers, voice actors, and translators all go on strike.

TAG (The Animation Guild) covers animators. Recently it's been in the news as it's trying to unionize not only artists/writers in animation, but also production workers (there's a petition for Disney to recognize production workers you can sign here!) Though TAG has been fighting for its workers for a long time, animation is usually siloed away from other narrative media to its detriment, as it hasn't won some of the protections the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have. TAG is under the umbrella of IATSE, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Film/TV composers are unionized under the American Federation of Musicians. A lot of film/TV scoring is done in London (this is a 2012 article that talks about that phenomenon) so unfortunately the union isn't particularly strong.

Voice actors are included under SAG-AFTRA (read here on the SAG-AFTRA website.)

Translators don't have a trade union but can join the American Translators Association, which itself is under the International Federation of Translators. Since this isn't our industry we're unsure of how equipped the association is to protect its workers, but it seems like because it isn't a formal trade union it can't do much.

This isn't to say there's no more work to be done. These industries are exploitative and need better union protections! But let's not spread misinformation in the name of pro-union solidarity.

These unions already exist; let's acknowledge and support them!

Imagine being the only person alive who can say this

buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”

I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me.

Mango (cat) really loves to chew on crunchy plastic and she has discovered that the puke bags I keep everywhere are crunchy plastic oh no

she's upset I took her plastic away

i love adding explosions mid sentence. like i could be in the middle of rambling about something or i could be attempting to be funny and then i'll j💥

thank you. please dont do this to me

what is your problem

HELLO ????????

CONTEXT

is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags

How has this comic made such a groundbreaking cultural impact without getting over 40k notes

Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.