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@sawkinator / sawkinator.tumblr.com

25*she/her*ace*US I spend too much time on this website. Mostly blogging about shitposts, animals and fandoms. Sometimes I draw stuff. Feel free to cross the event horizon of this blog. Re-escape not guaranteed.

Fun fact, the ear of a crocodilian is located right behind the eye and covered by a structure referred to as an "ear flap". Most of the flap remains closed at all times except for the small opening towards the front, which is open and appears as a small black slit when the animal is above water. The photos above show alligators with people highlighting the earflap and showing the underlying structure, the photo below shows a gharial where you can clearly see the anterior opening of the ear.

I think it's time for some selective breeding 👀

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the weird little girl to strange little man pipeline

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this is so unrelatable that i'm going to talk to my therapist about how much i don't relate to this

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ok. do you like need something or

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They didn't have the basket robens mint ice cream at heebers so I had to get ben10 jerries and it's okay I guess but it's kinda awful. It's like it's not mint chocolate but it's also not toothpaste flavored, it's some nothing else.

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can anyone hear me. where am i

um . warning now that tumblr is allowing gif pfps . PLEASE dont use gifs with flashing or eyestraining colours <3 since the gifs Cannot be turned off it WILL negatively affect photosensitive people

not to be like "source? 🤓" but... do you have a source on this? I don't really keep up with tumblr update news and I'm unable to find anything about this

turns out that tumblrs wip blog has no update about this??? im not sure why that is, but i found out through this post and the fact that some of my mutuals have already changed their pfps to gifs (one of my friends kindly changed their gif pfp a second time after i told them the first gif was hard on my eyes <3)

ive seen some people say it doesnt show up for them (dunno if its regional, being rolled out slowly, or some other reason), but i can see it on my dash so it already directly affects me

Just so you all are aware, it's because of the webp format. webp's can be animated, (similar to apngs + gifs) and you've probably been able to have moving icons for a while. webp's aren't covered by tumblr's anti movement code (this is my theory), so technically it's a bug. I believe there should be an extension that changes this behavior, (forcing webp's to load as stills instead of moving)

I'll do some testing of various extensions and update this post with extensions that work (for firefox and chrome)

Here- you can also right click to tell it to bypass if you want to see the gif. It doesn't freeze the gif on the first frame, instead blocking it entirely, however, if you need this for medical reasons, this should be a good bandaid solution for now

Walk into the apartment and my roommate says "Mike Wazowski only has one eye??" and I say, "WHAT are you talking about, of course he only has one eye. Only having one eye is like his whole fucking thing. Why would you think he has more than one eye" and she flips her phone around and shows me this

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Isn’t that how he looks like

Girl... Google Mike Wazowski right now

please tell me there is a complete image, because you can see the other guy standing next to him and you know what we're gonna find

Sadly, a quick and half awake google search suggests that whoever made this shop job, they did not complete the joke.

there IS a COMPLETE IMAGE ive SEEN IT before

As someone who will never join Threads, I find there to be something exceptionally insidious about the part of its dogshit privacy practices where it collects users’ contact data.

A lot of people have my phone number, and not all of them take privacy seriously. A few of them are bound to join Threads at some point. This means I never even have to join the platform for it to collect my full name, contact info, current or past address, and reconstruct at least part of my social and/or professional circle. Despite the fact that I have never agreed to any of this, it is completely legal since people with my contact info have consented to Meta collecting their (and therefore my) info. I hate it here 🫠

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This is sad. Are people really so very afraid of what it is to be human, to imagine, to experience complicated longing. It is different than acting on it, that is the whole point, to recognize all that goes into being human and to be at times messed up, to understand what internal forces are at work, and to then choose to act in a way that reflectes your actual values. Psychoanalysis talks about “the return of the repressed” - if you are always afraid of yourself and repressing so much, you will be even more likely to act out in some way at some point.

I have no double that this era of purity culture has had a hand in recent bouts of anti intellectualism. So many people will only interact with something that they can fully align their morality with, ignoring the fact that fiction imparts lessons onto is that can affect or change our own understanding of morals.

Facsim doesn’t want to test your morals, it wants to tell you what your morals are and stick to them.

You cannot tell an anti-war story without depicting war, you cannot tell a story about equality without first depicting inequality. But now that people aren’t interacting with moral challenging media they cannot tell the difference between a story deconstructing a social problem vs a story promoting a social problem. Which leads to people becoming susceptible to propaganda.

Of course there are stories that depict gratuitous, uncritical, unhealthy themes, but you will not know that unless you read it. One of my least favourite books of all time due to its racism and misogyny is also one of my favourite books to deconstruct and analyze, I could go for hours about how so many of the harmful themes go over people’s heads under the guise of ‘pro mental health’, but I would not have be able to have that conversation unless I had read the book.

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all of those funeral options like the tree pod or mushroom shroud or urn with seeds that "feeds" the tree are uhhhh, bullshit. unfortunately. if you want to be a tree when you die, be buried in the ground without a francy casket or embalming, and have a tree planted above you. this is the same thing as any of these hypothetical "tree pods" but it's skipping the scammy cash grab companies trying to capitalize on grief with fake ass science.

cremated remains will not "feed" anything, either. they'll probably impede growth, tbh. cremated remains are non-organic. what's left over after a cremation is hollow, dry, brittle bone fragments that someone like me sweeps up and puts in a big metal blender to create the smooth "ashes" one expects. By all means, go ahead and scatter ashes in nature, but don't expect anything to grow from them.

If you want your body to return to nature after death, go for a green burial or an at-sea burial. there are many dedicated green burial sites in the world, and one also has the option of simply being buried in a more traditional cemetery that allows for simple wicker caskets w/o a vault around them, and the body left unembalmed. If the tree thing is really your jam, go for burial in a dedicated green cemetery that allows your family to plant a sapling above you, or if it is available where you live have your body composted and use the soil to grow plants.

tldr; there are options for green funerals out there, and options for "becoming a tree," but I would not recommend going anywhere near products offering this such as tree pods, etc. as they are expensive scams preying on people's grief for their dumb start up. get composted or green buried 💚🌲 source: I'm a mortuary scientist and provider of both traditional funerals/cremations & green burial/at-sea burial.