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Today's bug thing is this Valentine's Day worm cake by vegantreats!
Thank you so much @lovedthestars-toofondly !!
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My friend is wildly talented and makes these imitation fossils of mythic creatures. I love them so much.
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Anonymous asked:
My dad has motion detectors with built-in cameras along his driveway, and there's a frog that has figured out that if it jumps in front of the detector, the infrared light that turns on will attract bugs. So my dad frequently gets a bunch of pictures of the frog jumping around, and he's really fond of the frog now. He refers to it as his frog, enjoys getting pictures of it, and is always super, super careful in the driveway to check for the frog to make sure it's safe.
Anon. Please listen to me. I would not tell you this if it was not very important to me. PLEASE get me a picture of this frog.
goosegoblin
anon. where is the frog, anon. we need the frog anon.
goosegoblin
THE FROG!!!!!!!
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I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.
A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:
2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.
2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.
November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.
December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)
Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.
1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)
Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.
The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.
ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.
It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.
Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.
And from today.
They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.
And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.
So that's a brief history.
Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.
It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.
I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.
Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.
Update- Minnesota republicans are taking this opportunity to try to impeach Govt Waltz, who has already declared that he will not seek re-election in November because of Republican death threats against him and his family. Because of the "fraud". But actually because Waltz is speaking very plainly about what is happening here.
St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesn't feel safe sending their kids to school.
Every school I know now has safety patrols.
The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.
Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE can't even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.
Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.
Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.
We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about what's happening. Get your "don't tread on me" relatives whipped up about it if you can.
We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.
If human rights can be revoked because Trump doesn't like your state, then they aren't rights anymore, they are favors dispensed by your king.
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OP: Look at the 'fire-butterfly' we managed to film. The picture really doesn't do its beauty justice. (cr 鸟王艾雅康，观鸟景jhin，生态摄影阿博特，毕强，Sjxxphotograph，Fische，鱼摆摆，Shanalotte，冰鹡鸰）
I love this Chinese guy who is so excited to show everyone this really cool bird. This is why the internet was created, so we could show strangers on the other side of the world cool things we know about. Xie xie <3333333
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Pick a lock : Lockpick :: Cut a hair : Haircut :: Reuse a chart : Chartreuse
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Hey do you have more posts about your 2 years in the desert? Lowkey planning a trip up the east coast and down through the middle in the next few years so if you have any stories to tell about this I would love to hear them!
It's very hot and dusty and outside of towns you won't be on the power grid. If you're working farms etc. outside of the towns, be prepared to live on generator power. If you're lucky they might have solar by now.
If this is a road trip, bring enough water and fuel or you could very easily die. Do NOT go on fun little side adventures off the road without telling someone EXACTLY where you are going first. I cannot overstate how easy it is to get lost in the desert when you're unfamiliar with the area and how unlikely it is that anyone will find you if they don't know to look, and where to look. Phone service is spotty at best away from the homesteads.
Expect to pay about 3x as much for everything as you're used to. Tiny town supermarkets have city petrol station prices. This is doubly true if you're in a town where they know they're the last stop for petrol for a long while, which you'll run into if you're going down the middle. They will milk that petrol price as much as they can. PAY IT. You do NOT want to be low on petrol in the middle of nowhere.
The little libraries and museums in the towns will be fucking tiny. Every town has one or two cafes and a pub; the pub food is usually pretty stable. The cafe food is exorbitantly priced and absolute slop 95% of the time. These places can and will fuck up supermarket convenience meals from the freezer aisle, inflate the price of the ruined food five times, and sell it to you. The other 5% of the time, the cafe has the best food you've ever had. (They're usually good with ice cream and bad with fried food, if that helps.)
The eagles are endangered. Admire them from a distance and leave them alone.
Did I mention that it's very hot and dusty? If you have a modern car with air conditioning, good. If you have something made before the year 2000, upgrade. You want good air conditioning in your car.
There will be dust everywhere.
Sometimes it's not hot and dusty. Sometimes it's hot and muddy. When it's muddy, you will get bogged worse than you've ever been bogged before, and the people who come to rescue your vehicle will also get bogged. This is the Law of the Desert.
Fucking Kangaroos.
get a satellite phone. Kangaroo collisions are more likely at dusk and dawn. Make sure you check the emergency websites of $STATE EMERGENCY DEPT to keep an eye out for road closures due to bushfires, floods or cyclones (latter more applicable up north).
Also, depending on which desert and the season, be prepared for cold weather. Not The Cold Will Kill You levels, but the Aussie desert I used to live in would regularly get to -3 Celsius during winter nights...which is very unpleasant if you've only got hot weather clothes.
Don't drive at dusk and dawn unless it's an emergency. You will likely lose any fight you get into with a kangaroo - I've seen roos jump off after a crash, but the cars were unusable.
If you're going off the main highways at all, take enough drinking water for at least a week.
If you get stranded without phone reception, DON'T LEAVE YOUR CAR. Top killer of tourists is death by exposure because the emergency people can't find them because the tourist's car broke down and the tourist went wandering off.
wtf if this isn't the prettiest thing you've ever seen then there's something wrong with you.
"Oooh I'm an American on this website full of fucking Americans, of course our deserts are pretty whereas those foreign deserts where other people live are creepy" shut up. Shut up. Sub out our animals for yours and everything I said applies just as much to your deserts as ours. Our deserts are absolutely stunning. Fuck off.
"Big scary nothing land with no one in it!!"
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Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2026 —)
I am going to be INSUFFERABLE when this season drops
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My “draw the squad” memes so far
Updating with some newer ones!
ask-the-egos
@mexicanesecat @raimeyl references for y'all!
WOW! THE OG POST!
crybabu-gurl
i will let my mind go wild with these knowing i’ll finally be able to credit the original artist
mothanon
EEEE FINALLY THE ORIGINAL ARTIST
Oh hell yeah, going to use these later!
FINALLY! PINTEREST GO SUCK DICK WE FOUND THE SOURCE!
Pinterest is one of the reasons why I’m broke
Speaking of broke, my newest ref folder’s full of new DTS doodles is out NOW!
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Trans people but especially women! This colin mochrie video goes out to you!
it's specifically for people who are trans without supportive families. it is specifically specifically for demi girls named willow without supportive families
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*the batboys on patrol, bored during a stakeout and arguing about who's been failed by the most parental units*
Tim: i dont think death should count as failure, so Dick only gets one.
Dick: yeah- well we all have one by default, because, y'no,
Jason: -look B isn't evil but he is an idiot and idiocy should count as failure.
Bruce: ...you guys know i'm on this line, right?
Damian: hush father, we're discussing.
Tim: so i get two, because i have the Drakes and then B. can my B count as two though? like, i had B normally and then i had B in the depths of grief; like that should count as-
Damian: no, no, absolutely fucking not Drake, you can't use that cop out-
Dick: -yeah, no, i call bullshit. Tim you have two, suck it up.
Jason: it really doesn't matter, literally none of you are going to even come close to beating me. i got the Todds, i got B, i got the Haywoods, i got Talia,
Tim, failing horrible at holding back laughter: yeah- yeah Jay, don't take this the wrong way but does anybody love you?
Jason: i- *wheeze* man fuck you Replacement-
Dick, also laughing: yeah- littlewing, at this point maybe you're the problem.
Jason: *cackles*
Tim: can we even count that as four though? surely if we're counting Jack and Janet as one because they're a couple then B and Talia should also be combined into one?
Damian: no, no, they should be separate. not only are they no longer together but they were attempting to parent completely separately. that's two.
Jason: yeah, fuck you! tryna lower my tally-
Tim: oh please, he's only agreeing with you so he has two instead of one!
Damian: i think you'll find i have way more than two, i far outrank you Drake.
Dick, giggling: sorry, sorry- you far outrank him at what, not being loved correctly?
Damian, fully seriously: i don't care how shit the competition is, Grayson. i'm fucking winning.
Tim: it's bullshit! you're literally the only one that wasn't adopted by somebody else! you have two at most Damian, stop lying.
Damian: well, no, because Todd should be one of mine.
Jason: EXCUSE ME?!
Dick: oooo~
Damian, raising his voice over the yells: LISTEN- listen. growing up in the league you were the only authorative male figure that was present in raising me before i came to Gotham. there is no way you wouldn't count on the board as a father figure.
Jason: NO, I'M NOT- i'm not fuckin' arguing that, you're my kid, end of. but how the fuck did i fail you?! i was great!
Damian: you literally passed me off to father and then disappeared for a year so you could go 'fuck shit up' with Arsenal and Starfire.
Dick: OOOO~
Jason: ...I- shut up Dick. I- *laughs* ok in my defence that was my version of a gap year-,
Damian: and it was my version of child neglect, you're going on the board.
Dick: suck it, littlewing!
Tim: *cackles*
Jason: yeah yeah- that's still only three for Damian, i'm still winning.
Damian: Grayson should also be on my board.
Dick: UM? HOLD ON-
Jason, instantly: OOOOOOOH, NOT FUCKIN' LAUGHIN' NOW, ARE WE GOLDEN BOY?
Dick: HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE HERE-
Tim, enjoying this way more than he should: no, no, Dick the kid has a point, you literally had custody of him when B was lost in the timestream, you definitely count.
Damian: i rest my case.
Dick: HOW THE FUCK DID I FAIL?
Jason: SUCKS TO SUCK DICKFACE.
Damian: you called me short that one time and it severely effected my self esteem. emotional abuse.
Jason: *cackles*
Damian: you also also passed me off to father again, so you are also complicit to his damaged attempt at parenting.
Bruce, offended: Damian-
Dick: what are you- YOU WERE TEN. YOU WERE SHORT. ALL TEN YEAR OLDS ARE SHORT.
Tim, instantly: Billy Batson.
Dick: WH- ok first of all, he's only tall part-time, and second of all THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS-
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*Two-Face, across the street, listening to them yell through the open window of their stakeout spot*
Goon he was scheming with: ...sir, should we shoot at them or someth-?
Two-Face, holding up a finger: shh, i wanna see who wins.
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my baby doesn't belong to any white man
North of North is about a young Inuk woman who gets sick of her narcissistic husband's macho BS and moves in with her single mom. that... probably makes it sound like one of those shows, doesn't it.
well, maybe it is, maybe it's not (it's not). while Siaja (Anna Lambe, gorgeous, absolutely stunning) runs around trying to put her life back together and find herself (but first find and hold down a job and learn to coparent with her almost-ex - yeah of course she has a kid, she's 26!), there is life happening all over place in the tiny Nunavut town. Ice Cove is the kind of tight-knit community where your people won't leave you alone - but they also won't leave you alone, you know?
the show doesn't preach, but while you're laughing, it still quietly, casually shows you how colonialism doesn't really end.
how it lingers.
here's your white mayor. here's your language being slowly forgotten and now you need a translator to understand your elders. here's your town's lack of funding and what it gets it has to fight for (and how do you fight for it when there's another town (the Shelbyville to your Springfield, the Woodbury to your Stars Hollow) that even has a sushi place?). here's a French Canadian man who calls you Snocahontas. here's your mother's self-sabotaging old trauma.
*sigh* fine, there's also walrus dick baseball. if anything, watch it for the walrus dick baseball
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Hey do you have more posts about your 2 years in the desert? Lowkey planning a trip up the east coast and down through the middle in the next few years so if you have any stories to tell about this I would love to hear them!
It's very hot and dusty and outside of towns you won't be on the power grid. If you're working farms etc. outside of the towns, be prepared to live on generator power. If you're lucky they might have solar by now.
If this is a road trip, bring enough water and fuel or you could very easily die. Do NOT go on fun little side adventures off the road without telling someone EXACTLY where you are going first. I cannot overstate how easy it is to get lost in the desert when you're unfamiliar with the area and how unlikely it is that anyone will find you if they don't know to look, and where to look. Phone service is spotty at best away from the homesteads.
Expect to pay about 3x as much for everything as you're used to. Tiny town supermarkets have city petrol station prices. This is doubly true if you're in a town where they know they're the last stop for petrol for a long while, which you'll run into if you're going down the middle. They will milk that petrol price as much as they can. PAY IT. You do NOT want to be low on petrol in the middle of nowhere.
The little libraries and museums in the towns will be fucking tiny. Every town has one or two cafes and a pub; the pub food is usually pretty stable. The cafe food is exorbitantly priced and absolute slop 95% of the time. These places can and will fuck up supermarket convenience meals from the freezer aisle, inflate the price of the ruined food five times, and sell it to you. The other 5% of the time, the cafe has the best food you've ever had. (They're usually good with ice cream and bad with fried food, if that helps.)
The eagles are endangered. Admire them from a distance and leave them alone.
Did I mention that it's very hot and dusty? If you have a modern car with air conditioning, good. If you have something made before the year 2000, upgrade. You want good air conditioning in your car.
There will be dust everywhere.
Sometimes it's not hot and dusty. Sometimes it's hot and muddy. When it's muddy, you will get bogged worse than you've ever been bogged before, and the people who come to rescue your vehicle will also get bogged. This is the Law of the Desert.
Fucking Kangaroos.
get a satellite phone. Kangaroo collisions are more likely at dusk and dawn. Make sure you check the emergency websites of $STATE EMERGENCY DEPT to keep an eye out for road closures due to bushfires, floods or cyclones (latter more applicable up north).
Also, depending on which desert and the season, be prepared for cold weather. Not The Cold Will Kill You levels, but the Aussie desert I used to live in would regularly get to -3 Celsius during winter nights...which is very unpleasant if you've only got hot weather clothes.
Don't drive at dusk and dawn unless it's an emergency. You will likely lose any fight you get into with a kangaroo - I've seen roos jump off after a crash, but the cars were unusable.
If you're going off the main highways at all, take enough drinking water for at least a week.
If you get stranded without phone reception, DON'T LEAVE YOUR CAR. Top killer of tourists is death by exposure because the emergency people can't find them because the tourist's car broke down and the tourist went wandering off.
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dragon who lives uphill from a village and generally is actually a really good neighbor except sometimes she gets really broody and kidnaps a random human and tucks them under her wings for a day
no one even really minds because she’s very nice and this is one of the consequences of having a dragon neighbor. it’s just kinda inconvenient, but it’s nice for them to have a day off anyway
"Anyone seen Smith? I was supposed to have my horse re-shod today."
"He's having a dragon day."
"Oh! Good for him! Guess I'm not going into the city tomorrow though"
“Anyone seen Smith?
I was supposed to have my
horse re-shod today.”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.