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its of utmost importance you have sound on while watching this
If you can’t make use of the sound, please imagine the soft snuffles of a hand vacuum that’s capable of love.
i love it, sniff animal
What’s the world’s smallest cephalopod? That would be the southern pygmy squid (Xipholeptos notoides). Growing only about 0.9 in (2.5 cm) long, this diminutive critter can be found in the waters of the Southwestern Pacific near Australia. During the daylight, it clings to sea grass and stays out of sight. By night, it hunts for prey including small crustaceans like shrimp. Its lifespan is only about 150 days.
Photo: Daniel Kwok, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
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but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!
a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.
It's a wonderful place! I had the privilege of visiting the fynbos last year and it was as amazing as these photos show and more!
Proteas are so coo! There's a nursery on the Central Coast of California that carries a lot of proteas and has some pretty big old ones planted on their grounds. Kinda makes sense since the Fynbos biome looks similar to California's chapparal communities. Also both are Mediterranean climates with big coastal upwelling zones.
A nice intro to the Fynbos can be found here.
Fynbos is so cool and so beautiful and as it turns out the only thing I have ever been properly allergic to!
This is charming!
A cover of Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Halley Came to Jackson"
by Elle Cordova (Reina El Cid) and friends Toni Lindgren and Alana
“Attempting To Read News In 2025” (medium: safari with ads, screencap, 2025)
If this shit happened in 2005 it meant your computer had a virus
said this as part of a larger point in a reblog but I'm gonna make it its own post:
you have the right to eat way too many pierogi and make yourself a little sick. you have the right to go skydiving. you have the right to pull an all-nighter building the Imperial City of Tamriel in Minecraft. you have the right to get drunk in your living room watching football.
life is not about making the safest most logically correct choice at all times. you're a blob of salty meat piloting a flesh mech and you get to act like it.
This is called dignity of risk and it's a big topic in disability rights spaces. id elaborate but im fuckin wiped
it's always funny how people will advocate for bodily autonomy when it comes to certain things but then shy away from anything they personally wouldn't do to their own body. like yeah, that's why it's your body buddy. i can do what i want with mine.
“Dread Mistress, there is a visitor to your illustrious court!”
“Oh? And who is it?”
“It’s some sort of … double drider, Dread Mistress.”
“It’s fuckening what?”
“The top part is an elf but the bottom half is also an elf.”
“… so they’re an elf.”
“Oh. Uh … yes, I suppose so, Dread Mistress.”
“Yesterday I saw a terrible omen. We were visited by a spider with sixteen eyes, sixteen legs, two heads, and two abdomens.”
“ … so you saw two spiders.”
“As you say, Dread Mistress.”
“… and you are my slave, and you will obey my every command and cater to my every whim and submit to my commands for the rest of your pitiful, mortal life!”
“Wait, really? Fuckin sweet.”
“… Eh?”
“Do I get a collar?”
“… oh my fucking God.”
“Servant, I have a mighty quest for you to undertake. You must leave our lands and venture out amongst the surface-dwellers, and procure for me a number of pretties.”
“Your every wish is my command, Dread Mistress. For what shall I undertake such a perilous quest?”
“Pack of Newports, couple of scratch-offs, and a mountain dew.”
one work struggle that nobody prepares you for is that sometimes your buddies your good friends really suck at their job and you want to punch them in the face and also the most annoying person in the universe is sometimes decent at their job and you have to like acknowledge that
Handkerchief I. Kit Paulson. Glass.
My friend is wildly talented and makes these imitation fossils of mythic creatures. I love them so much.
#what is it with being euphoric and being horny pretty much being the same thing in our generation #are we THIS starved of affection? are we THIS full of love to give? #maybe its the world being fucked up #and our constant need of escapism being turned into wishing for eternal vacation
People who grew up in conservative religious communities, especially those raised as girls, are taught that there's something wrong with them if they experience sexual desire, that it's shameful and a sign of brokenness to be horny, and that the only sex they can expect to ever have will be an experience they will have to disassociate from, but won't be able to say no to, with zero focus on their enjoyment, and that will eventually end in them getting pregnant over and over again, whether they want it or not.
So with that context, you might be able to deduce why being able to be openly horny and have sex that is not only not painful and traumatic, but is genuinely all about what they want and like, may be freeing for many people who were raised to be sex dolls & walking wombs.
Also, if by "this generation" you mean gen z, you guys are actually incredibly sexless compared to previous generations.
Having a healthy, active sex life is very good for you. Masturbation is good for you. Sexual pleasure is one of the few sources of dopamine we have that companies can't charge us for or monetize. It's always 100% good when people are able to have exactly the kind of sex life they want and sex is not in any way an inferior way of expressing/experiencing closeness & connection, and horniness isn't an inferior emotion either.
Can I add that being euphoric, happy and fullfil in a same-sex sexual situation is a big deal when you were raised to think gay sex is this shameful low thing that will kill your soul and degrade you as a person?
Most churches that are not as intolerant, that don't raise you to be a tradwife baby machine STILL paint gay sex as a vice that will make you miserable inside. So saying "I'm actually happy AND horny" is important.
Shame around sex is an issue in religious communities, even if you are straight, even if your church isn't as conservative. I have heard from multiple people how hard is too switch from "I have to resist sexual temptation" to "I can enjoy sex now" the minute you are married and "allowed". And I'm talking about churches that don't condemn masturbation or feminine pleasure. Shame around sex is a problem. Celebrations of sex are necessary.
Had to add prev notes cause it's too good a point to lose.
Allowing yourself to feel all your feelings openly and freely is liberating, actually, including and especially horniness 🔥🔥🔥🔥
also, not to derail this conversation from the importance of unlearning sexual shame, but the original post isn't even that horny? there's a mention of a trans man, his boyfriend, and a vague implication that they might have sex in the future, but the post isn't about sex - it's about decoration in their bedroom and the fact that they're very happy together, doing mundane things like fixing a wobbly candle holder.
the way queer people are often hypersexualized against their will, i'd be wary of a person who sees a trans man say "i'm fixing this candle holder in our bedroom so it doesn't fall off the wall when i have sex with my boyfriend" and thinks it's the pinnacle of hornyposting and a sign that a whole generation is unable to express affection if it's not through horniness.
with that being said, i second all the previous additions about how horniness is natural and good and it should absolutely be encouraged instead of suppressed. it just doesn't sit right with me to see queer people and queer relationships as something that's inherently so sexual that even a mention of sex between two men is a sign of some kind of cultural hypersexuality.
It takes so little for people to feel like you're being aggressively hypersexual & in your face about it when you aren't cis & straight.
Cis straight people can make small talk with their coworkers about how they're "trying for a baby" (fucking often & raw) and it's fine but god forbid a queer trans person as much as implies that they're sexually active.
Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon
If you follow an illegal order, you are STILL committing a crime!
