forget cannibalism it bums me out that i will probably never be able to ethically eat like, a flamingo

Penguin flippers, Kiwi breast, elephant trunk steak, that kind of stuff?

you jest but now I'm genuinely curious what penguin meat would taste like under all that blubber. would it retain any "bird" flavor or would it be more similar to marine mammals??? i don't actually want to eat a penguin to be clear, you've simply sparked my curiosity

My grandfather reported that they taste like fishy rubber boiled in motor oil. So bad that he only tried it once despite being on a ship in the Antarctic ocean for months on end. 1940s dry rations were preferable to fresh penguin.

Ok so I tried something similar today during work.

Pretty much most marine birds who mainly have fish in their diet taste pretty similar.

I tried a number of auk species (those include things like puffins, little auks, guillemots, razorbills ect.) And when boiled they both smell and taste kind of like wet Catfood and have dark meat.

Pretty gross and not reccomedable.

I could imagine its fair to assume penguin meat will not taste much different, though I can't give first hand accounts.

BUT i live in a place where people used to hunt and eat young gulls and they supposedly tasted good ( biggest lie ive ever heard).

I think with most of these marine bird species you really only eat them when you NEED to or go through a longer process of trying to get rid of the fishy taste by keeping them in milk baths or vinegar.

The joy of cooking has a similar suggestion for eating varmints who tend to eat garbage, such as opossums: Keep them alive for a week or so, feeding them oats, cereals, and honey.

Can confirm, makes for tastier varmint

opossums and beavers and bears, oh my!

At the annual Houston RenFest we’d always get one or two furries that walk around and every time the general reaction from the medieval roleplayers is akin to  “BEASTS? BEASTS THAT WALK LIKE MAN? FOUL!” 

Last time I went a furry volunteered for an impromptu conversion/exorcism and a guy dressed as a monk gathered a bunch of people and using a Gatorade bottle performed an entire catholic christening while reading off the instructions on his Ipad. When the furry was fully “converted” he removed the head of his costume and everyone in the crowd pretended to freak out and say shit like “GlORY BE HE IS SAVED” “CHRIST HAS BROKEN HIS CURSE”

That’s the best crap i’ve heard in months

have I mentioned that i’m fucking in love with humankind

I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...

Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there's such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don't

youtube videos for your 2026 rebrand

.・゜✧﹒ 𝜗𝜚 ﹒✧゜・．

🪷 general

12 healthy habits you need to exit your lazy era by mikayla mags

2026 vision board that actually works by tam kaur

change your life for 2026 by jasmine le

entering your disciplined girl era by fernanda ramirez

glow up guide 2026 by sanne vloet

how to change your life in 30 days by nadeen

how to create a personal curriculum by plant based bride

how to reinvent your identity for 2026 by mae alice suzuki

how to start over by janet ndomahina

how to use a vision board for your 2026 glow up by raianne kamiya

the 2026 glow up planning guide by brianna gomez

the 2026 reset by nika erculj

the 30 day glow up project for 2026 by mae alice suzuki

unlock your best year yet by nika erculj

your 30 day glow up plan for 2026 by tam kaur

🪷 for students

become the perfect student by sophie diloreto

how to romanticize school & become an a student by gigi mw

the ultimate guide to becoming an academic weapon by helaine zhao

🪷 beauty & health

2026 ultimate workout plans by hailey c.

how to always look put together by kelly

how to get glass skin for beginners by kelly

Like if you’re the rock friend

soft asks to get to know people

This is important. Fuck Amazon books, Apple books. Shop local.

This is definitely not a google drive full of the sleep stuff from the Headspace app, including sleepcasts, music, and wind down meditation, that normally costs 17.99 a month, no siree and you definitely shouldnt share this with people

and here’s a link that does not lead to a google drive full of tv shows movies + books and also does not contain a shortcut to the above

this is absolutely not a link to another google drive with shows + movies + audio books either nope no sir

@timetravellingcactus cause for some reason I’m not able to send this to you

the goog drive directory titled “the library” is transferring to a different platform soon so hustle on that one!

this absolutely isnt a google drive of the imdb top 250 movies

and this couldn’t possibly lead you to even more books!

these arent musical bootlegs… what do you mean?

*weeps uncontrollably at 9 o'clock in the morning*

God, I love randos on the internet who just want to be kind.

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini

Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!

Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?

Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps

Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)

Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

Do check this out people. I had manually switched all the gemini nonsense off months ago, but when I went and checked just now it was all switched back on.

Tumblr Code.

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

good god this just crossed my dash in the year of our lord 2023

I LIKE YOUR SHOELACES??? IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024??

Let’s take it to 4 million, folks!

almost there!

TO 4 MILLION!!!!!!!!!

THE ORIGINAL SHOELACES POST?? ON MY DASH IN 2024??

By god, a corner stone of our culture, I thought it lost to time!

You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.

HELL YEAH DESHITTIFICATION!

For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in. If you don't have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you're on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your 'computer' or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

Navigating to your "turnoffwindowscopilot", hit modify, and set the value data to 1.

If done correctly, it'll look like this.

While we're at it, you can also get rid of the integrated search, (or that thing where it searches the web when you search anything, whether or not you want it to) and such through regedit as well.

Integrated search will have you going to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Navigate to your "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" bit, if you don't see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It'll look like this if you do it right!

To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight\Settings

And set "Enabled State" To 0. If you do it right, it'll look like this!

Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.

If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)

In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don't see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It'll look like this.

Aaaand while we're here, I'd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It's just bloatware. (Ostensibly it's supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it's constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer's processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it's set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.

This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it's a quick fix. I'd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing's scheduled to open up there, either.

If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer's. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.

One last thing, not a shit application but is a shit service. If your computer's constantly overheating or just warm, you likely have Turboboost enabled. (Default setting that you can't change) If you want to be able to turn it off and drop your temps by like 40 degrees, in Regedit go to

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7

(Note- This isn't the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn't work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn't work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it's easy to find.)

and go to "attributes". Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you'll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.

It'll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.

Turning off quick startup's also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.

GOOD LUCK OUT THERE YALL. MAKE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR PC!

Positive things having schizophrenia has done for me:

I've never seen anyone do something like this so here goes nothing. Psychosis isn't all bad. 1) Taught me self acceptance. I've done and said a lot of very cringe or out of the ordinary things and I have had no other choice but to be okay with myself. I realized I couldn't make it unless I placed down my weighty luggage. 2) Reduced any stigma I ever had towards mental illness. It's easy to be understanding when you've hit the rocky bottom of complete and engulfing craziness yourself. This is because the experience of being insane is much different than witnessing insanity.

3) Eliminated being judgmental about a lot of things including taking medication I was once ashamed of. 4) Given me a huge appreciation for everyday things that are beyond the confines of psych wards. "The small things" swiftly become the big things once they are robbed of you. Wearing your own clothes is a beautiful thing. Being able to come and go where you want is equally as good. 5) Helped me put everyday issues into perspective. After suffering symptoms I found daily issues to be unworthy of stressing over a lot of the time. There's no sense sweating the small things after nearly losing your life. 6) Allowed me to get toxic people out of my life who don't respect me because of the illness (this includes relatives). Getting schizophrenia made it crystal clear who is worthy of my love and who is not. It was a test for those who were supposed to love me unconditionally. 7) Unveiled that those with my illness are not evil, sinister or even flawed for that matter. The only individual I have ever harmed has been myself. As those within the schizophrenia community attest... we are not monsters. I was always more likely to be the victim and was. 8) Empathy. Compassion. Sympathy. I don't ridicule those pushing shopping carts or making scenes in public because of obvious mental issues because I am them. 9) Showed me that mental illness is not fake by any means. It isn't pretend. It may be "invisible" but it is very much there and a real issue that many people experience. 10) Love, honestly... and I don't care if it sounds corny or cheesy. After a long time suffering I realized the only way to love others was to begin with doing so for myself regardless of everything I underwent.

really wish I too was waking up in the house of elrond at ten o'clock in the morning on october the 24th. if you want to know

autumn/winter affirmations: