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Are you managed or monitored? Shiny things collected by an easily distracted marine biologist. Here you may find fish and other marine critters, land and aerial critters, fannish things, especially of a science fishin' -y, Sherlock-y or cartoonish nature, art and fanart by other people (and very rarely by myself), tea oddities, occasionally my offspring, neurodiversity, cats, and other oddments. Enjoy!
The ask is open, and while I may bite, my teeth are pretty dull.
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I am a biologist. That means I find creepy crawlies fascinating. There will be occasional spiders, bugs, and other invertebrates. I do try to tag liberally for those who screen - but if there's anything I need to add, just ask.
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shanehollanderss: They cut off usda funding from Minnesota, which includes wic and snap. Please consider donating to food banks around the area or food drives. Many immigrants are too scared to leave their homes to shop as well and a community member is doing great work. Link to midwest food bank:
Link to a community food drive:
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rhube: cute-nerdy-metalhead: the-davest-of-uncles: pipistrellus: rhube: I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now. Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal. Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket. And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.
listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it
Guys GUYS Someone is STILL paying for the website domain ihasabucket.com IT’S LITERALLY A WEBSITE JUST FOR THIS MEME
Now THIS is a valuable addition!
apolladay: How many people have you lived with in your life (meaning, sharing place of residence, especially cooking areas, living areas, and/or bathrooms). Group homes count, family counts, everyone in an apartment counts, not everyone in the entire apartment building counts.
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tainbocuailnge: I’ve been using this tool called tumblr-utils to back up my tumblr blogs. it creates a locally navigatable archive of a given tumblr url’s posts, which is more convenient than the post soup you get from tumblr’s native blog export feature. what that means is that I have a folder on my computer with the name of my url with an index.html file in it, and when i click on that file to open it in a browser I get a simple page with a list of years and months. selecting a specific month will send me to a list of the posts i made or reblogged in that month, similar to tumblr’s own archive page. the contents of the post including images are stored locally on your machine. It can also make a separate index file that organises posts by tag, which is great if you’re a consistent tagger, but it will list every single tag you’ve ever used so it can take a while to find the tag you’re looking for in the list if you’re a habitual tag commentator. generating the tag archive also takes a while depending on how many posts have to be processed. you can make it back up any blog as long as it’s not set to private. I have backups of both my main and sideblogs and it keeps them in separate folders. it’s had some trouble going all the way back to the start of my main blog in 2012 just by sheer volume of posts, but by making it fetch posts from one month at a time I’ve been able to go back to 2015 (that’s tens of thousands of posts), which was good enough for my purposes. it might be a little scary to use if you’ve never touched the command line before, but there’s both text and video instructions to set it up and using it is just a matter of typing the command and letting it do its thing in the background.
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explosions-are-funny Asked: How did you come across/join tumblr? -Pinterest refugee -Tumblr reddit posts refugee -someone told me of it -twitter/bluesky refugee -secret fifth option a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay: personally i was googling some fanart + fanfic
hyenaswine: for the past two years i have been sponsoring a tuberculosis detection rat in tanzania, her name is carolina. she sniffs sputum samples & alerts her handlers when she detects TB. recently she turned 8 & aged out of the program, so they held a retirement party for her & sent me photos. while carolina moves on to live a life of rest & luxury in the retirement kennels, her role is being passed on to her successor, tamasha. she is 2 years old & was named after the grandmother of one of her handlers. (with her handler priscus) here is a description of tamasha: “Tamasha is also quite playful! She enjoys jumping, climbing, and sometimes does a joyful little dance when placed in the TB evaluation enclosure – as if celebrating her enthusiasm for the work ahead. She’s also a big fan of avocado, her favorite treat for a job well done.” im not afraid to admit that this email made me cry like a stupid baby. you can sponsor your own big beautiful TB- or landmine-detecting rat through APOPO HeroRATS. they send you an update on how your rat is doing each month, including photos.
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aspiring-weird-old-man: fieldsarebreathing: fieldsarebreathing: propalahramota: “When you’re trying to have a hot girl summer, but the governments decide to start WWIII😭😭” Location: Bumfuck, Oklahoma “Dying in WWIII wasn’t on my 2025 bucketlist 💀🫣” Location: Sydney, Australia “Look at the strawberry varenyky I made” Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
When I bought my fairy wings on Etsy:
Her Etsy shop if you guys wanted some lovely fairy wings from a wonderful and talented woman
@glasssymphony also makes gorgeous delicate miniature glass sculptures in Ukraine, and while I haven’t bought one for myself yet I’ve seen other people receive theirs, perfectly packed and intact despite everything. ♡
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Anonymous Asked: When was the last time you saw a duck? - Today
- A few days ago
- A week ago
- A month ago
- Several months ago
- A year ago
- Several years ago
- I have never seen a duck before in my life/results
apolladay:
babischlong-six: souldagger: souldagger: souldagger: classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal
 ALT ALT ALTguys if one more person leaves a tag like this on my post im gonna lose my mind. There Are Science Fiction Authors Who Are Not Misogynistic Men
ok i’ve gotten one too many ‘this is why i don’t read sci-fi’ comments so here’s a rec list for the people convinced all science fiction is bad and misogynistic (with something for everyone, hopefully!): (also, btw, the book links are to the Storygraph, which includes content warnings for each one!) - smth funny and lighthearted about a security robot who’d rather watch TV then do its job? all systems red by martha wells (first novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series, 6 books, ongoing)
- a complex, intricate political space opera following a warship AI who’s lost (almost) everything? ancillary justice by ann leckie (first in the Imperial Radch trilogy) (fun fact! bc of space linguistics reasons, all characters in this series are referred to with she/her pronouns, making gender a non-factor - it’s really cool!)
- a dark story about travelling between parallel universes and a woman who is dead in almost every single one? the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (standalone) (SO good, i don’t get to recommend it often enough!!!)
- a story about grief and letting go, and a unique take on alien invasion? the seep by chana porter (standalone novella)
- hey, how abt some dystopian YA, for old times sake? specifically, one with sapphics and sick mechas? try gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta (first in duology)
- or, if you’d prefer something a bit less angsty, YA about a ragtag group of teens and a space heist? the disasters by m. k. england (standalone)
- alternate history steampunk that blurs the line btwn science fiction and fantasy? the black god’s drums by p. djeli clark (standalone, novella)
- a dark gone girl-esque thriller about clones? the echo wife by sarah gailey (standalone)
- poetic sapphic romance and time travel? this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar (standalone)
- a hopeful utopian future and a human-robot friendship? a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers (novella, first out of two) (this author’s got a whole bunch of hopepunk sci-fi novels in general, if that’s smth you’re looking for!)
- africanfuturism, coming-of-age, and cool jellyfish aliens? binti by nnedi okorafor (novella, first in trilogy)
- spicy lesbian cyborgs? and shall machines surrender my benjanun sriduangkaew (novella, first in the Machine Mandate series, 6 books)
- cosmic horror with an autistic scientist, cyborg angels and AI gods? the outside by ada hoffmann (first in trilogy, 2 books are out)
- also, if you’re a fan of Janelle Monáe, may i draw your attention to the fact that they’ve recently come out with a Dirty Computer short story collection, each story co-written with a diff writer?
this list is long enough, but have some more authors (who are not cis men) also worth checking out: rivers solomon, yoon ha lee, charlie jane anders, aliette de bodard, xiran jay zhao, mary robinette kowal, corinne duyvis and finally, not all older/classic scifi is written by crusty old white guys who hate women!!! some iconic authors i’d particularly recommend looking into are ursula k. le guin, octavia e. butler, samuel r. delany and vonda n. mcintyre 🥰
I’ll add C.J. Cherryh and her Foreigner series to this! Alien politics, linguistics, adventure and intrigue… Sometimes the aliens aren’t just like us, after all, and that’s ok!
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