When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.

this is great, because the cat looks at her, kind of studies her for a moment and then turns away and imitates her position and the way she's looking out towards nothing (actually toward the camera but to the cat it looks like nothing of particular interest). Cats use mimicry as a form of social bonding. This is why so often if you have to cats you'll find them napping near each other in the same position. It's like they look and say "ahh I see you are napping in a U shape, I also enjoy napping in that particular shape. I am friendly and will U shape nap along with you" This cat studies the strange human and goes "okay, guess we're sitting upright and staring blankly out into space. I can get into that" and proceeds to do just that.

This cat is also exuding friendly/nonaggressive body language. It's making friends and hanging out. <3 It's probably also hoping she'll offer to pet it (look how it stares at her hand and then looks at her).

#poor little dude#he's clearly doing his best to say 'friend? i like pets?'#and she's doing the 'ew cats are so weird lol' thing i hate#if it was actually touching her she'd probably be 'ew get off me' but since he's politely waiting for her she's...also unhappy?#and if he hid from her or warned her off she'd be like 'all cats are evil'

I don't think she's unhappy, she just doesn't know cat body language. A friendly cat can look neutral or awkward to someone who's not experienced with cats. Some cats learn that they need to be very forward with humans and will mimick our friendly body language (eye contact, meowing, etc.) and a lot of non-cat people assume this to be the standard 'friendly' reaction from cats and don't know what normal friendly cat body language looks like. If a human behaved like this cat, we'd conclude that they were awkwardly sharing space with a stranger while waiting for a mutual friend, so to a non-cat person this very much reads like "haha my bf's fuzzy roommate is behaving just like an awkward human roommate would". I don't think the girl in the clip is unhappy, just unfamiliar with cats.

Harvesting my wheat

Hehehehehe

Can I fucking help you?

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

What

What

knock knock

who's there

deez

sigh

deez who ?

deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light

sometimes a post makes you get out of bed at 230am to spend a quick hour on something like this

I always forget that gas giants are, you know, made of gas, and not just smooth plastic color. The atmosphere is full of clouds, and the entire planet is atmosphere!

full collection of my fenton art glass studies. rose pink opalescent bell, spruce green fawn, iridescent celeste blue candlestick, and amethyst carnival glass decanter

WHAT DID YOU DO?!

new contender for best community note of all time

so hard to find these guys

the floating head of wisdom

Please don't fall victim to internet misinformation. There is no floating head. It's a regular horse, it's neck is just hidden due to the position of the camera. I made an image to help you understand the what's actually going on.

Thank you for the clarification

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

I mean honestly everything that Arab traveler said lines up with the Arctic areas, except the white hair part, I don't know where that originates from, or if it's accurate

If I had to guess, maybe they had albinism? Or maybe it's one of those cases where kids sometimes start out with one hair color and develop a different one when they get older. This is all conjecture, but something to consider.

Still really cool tho

guys, the traveler just wasnt used to blondes

Also, languages develop words for colors over time so they get grouped with the closest one. That's why people with orange hair are called redheads. The word for red is generally the third color that gets a name. There wasn't always a word for the color orange, but there have almost always been people with orange hair.

And the Romans in Rome were fascinated by the Celtic slaves brought back from the British Isles because of their fair hair and skin.

For the sake of "I would not believe it either if I didn't live here" kind of context, this is a perfectly normal hair colour for children where I'm from. It darkens to a dark ash blond/sand brown when they grow up.

So what I learned from this is even in modern times, people don’t know or believe that Scandinavians are just that pale and blond without jumping to “albino” first

You wouldn’t have believed the 10th century Arab guy either.

there's always some bullshit happening on reddit