"don't mass reblog/like :/" coward. fool. somebody just went through and liked and reblogged 64 things from my blog in the span of half an hour at most. and i've never felt more alive in my life

This isn't Instagram, my darlings. It's not considered creepy (except by people imported from Instagram and frankly they need to learn the culture HERE before trying to boss anyone around) or weird or particularly distressing. Many of us don't even look at our notifications to realize that you've done it.

And frankly, I put that on my blog to bring me some joy. If it brings you joy too, put it on your blog along with the next fifty posts in the same theme. (If you're reblogging my fics, thank you, I love you 3000.)

My neighbors helped me pick up a new screen door and when I got there to catch a ride, I noticed a plate of honey, absolutely swarming with yellow jackets (on the plate and all over in the air). I asked her what was going on here and she told me that since I told her the yellow jackets were dying off at this time of year and were cranky because they were hungry since the hive young feed them and there's no more hive young, she's felt badly for them and been putting out honey for them.

We stood for a few minutes in this buzzing cloud of wasps and they just ignored us completely. She'd made a lot of friends through her small kindness, friends she hadn't known she could make.

Xanthomendoza oregana

Oregon sunburst lichen, thin-lipped sunburst lichen

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SO SOME ASSHOLE GOT HOLD OF MY PHONE AND CHANGE ALL MY CONTACT NAMES, ICONS AND RINGTONES TO THIS FUCKING THING

SO NOW WHENEVER I GET A CALL MY PHONE THINKS IT’S BEING ALL CUTE LIKE “it is a mystery >O>” FUCK YOU MAN

happy october time to bring back this bad boy

if you’ve ever kept any kind of bug as a pet (i used to raise madagascar hissing cockroaches, myself), then it is pretty obvious that they have feelings and are capable of great individuality and even personality among members of their own species. there is a tendency to not be willing to admit this, which i think comes from a place of convenience moreso than of ignorance. it’s not that people don’t know bugs are little animals, it’s that thinking of them that way makes life a bit more complicated. still, it’s not like i’m going to give up fly paper…

the final sentence from that article that’s going around right now pretty much sums it up

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hi!!!!! i’m an actual librarian who has encountered this very situation before!!!!! and while i commend & admire op’s willingness to help another patron, this is why you really really should have a library worker, not another patron whom you don’t know, assist you with tech & information related issues in the library!!! because we are trained in how to handle this exact sort of thing

tl;dr: use proton mail. i’m not gonna gatekeep this info. it does not require a cell phone number, so it’s my go to for patrons in this situation!!! while i am acutely aware of the harm done by the digital divide & how many people are getting left behind as our world gets increasingly tech dependent, the situation is not hopeless. there ARE provisions in place to help the people most affected, and those provisions are usually wearing glasses & cardigans & sitting behind the circulation desk

librarians are not glorified bookworms!!!! we are information professionals who are highly trained in how to handle these sorts of seemingly impossible binds!!!! ask us for help!!!!!! as i always tell my patrons, that’s what i get paid the big bucks for

Remember the World of Tanks simulator? It got an upgrade.

#Why are the bottles full!#Even if you want the weight at least fill them with water (x)

REAL gamers simulate the fear of death by shaking a bottle of room-temperature Wild Cherry™ Pepsi® and launching it through the air right next to their $10,000 gaming rig.

Terraria