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GFM Links (UPDATED AS OF 10/6/25)

As time goes on, fundraisers may change their goals. So if I labelled one as being close to being fulfilled, but has its rating changed, that is why!

Help my family evacuate Gaza ($146,333/$150,000) ALMOST THERE!

Please Help Tahani save her children and husband ($20,411/$50,000) ALMOST HALFWAY THERE!

Help yomna and her family to survive in Gaza ($22,145/$55,000) ALMOST HALFWAY THERE!

Save Mohammad's family and children to escape from Gaza Genocide ($12,805 CAD/$65,000 CAD) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Evacuate Kareem & Carmen NOW from Gaza ($15,639/$50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life (€89,789/€100,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Help me and my family escape the war in Gaza (€46,700/€55,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Please help save my family (€19,435/€50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Mahmoud's Family Overcome War Tragedy ($19,414/$60,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Save Ahmed Family From Gaza (€19,629/€50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family survive famine and have secure life ($47,083 CAD/$60,000 CAD) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

From Gaza We Plead: Save My Baby Before He Is Born (€3,575/€25,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Urgent Help Appeal: exit the war of Gaza" ($8,669 CAD/$100,000 CAD) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Support me so I can get treatment (£1,680/£60,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Donate to Help Bisan and Her Family Survive in Gaza (£21,654/£25,000) ALMOST THERE!

Help jody and her family evacuate from Gaza (£19,408/£20,000) ALMOST THERE!

Basma's Family Call for your Support Amid Crisis ($7,087/$25,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Gaza's Young Children Stay Safe and Alive (€27,016/€82,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Nevin alserr family escape the war (€3,807/€50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Helping the Ahmed Fathi family achieve a better future (€23,921/€80,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family survive and start a new life (€32,337/€45,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Help Eman and Her Children Escape Gaza ($37,615/$50,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Ola's Family Call for your Support Amid Crisis ($85,319/$100,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Save Ratiba and her family from war and live safely ($3,069/$25,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Amir and his family to leave Gaza (kr66,079/kr200,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Urgent aid! Help to fight starvation for an extended family (€19,165/€55,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Anas & Ahmed rebuild their future in Gaza (€65,257/€69,000) ALMOST THERE!

From the Ashes: A Call for Humanity to Rebuild the Life (€9,750/€30,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help a Mother and Child Escape War in Gaza ($11,386/$14,000) ALMOST THERE!

Mo'men Lost Everything in Gaza---Help Him Start Over ($1,131/$50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help us to survive (€14,095/€80,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family to resist difficult circumstances (€1,940/€40,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Building a new life for my family and light in the darkness (€17,430/€30,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Support a Family's Journey to Safety and Peace ($851/$29,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Gazan Family to rebuild their life in Egypt (€125/€3,500) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Ayat Feed and Care for Her Family ($13,075/$20,000) ALMOST THERE!

Help my family evacuate from Gaza ($29,670/$50,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Donate to help Motaz and his family survive ($11,306/$30,000) ALMOST HALFWAY THERE!

Gaza Family Left With Nothing Help Them Start Again ($7,077/$20,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Support Nazmy Fight for Safety and Health (€2,078/€10,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Gaza Families Secure Essential Needs ($22,573/$40,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Support for Elieen - Thalassemia & Anemia patient (€798/€17,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help my family get food and medicine (€2,308/€10,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Yousef al-Habil and His Family ($11,730/$50,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help me evacuate my family and rebuild a new start (CHF 11,673/CHF 60,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Help Save Orphaned Children (£4,171/£40,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

Mera ($10,566/$20,000) OVER HALFWAY THERE!

Be the reason for rebuilding my pharmacy ($640/$4,000) NEEDS ATTENTION!

these pizzas are in fighting for their lives in the artic rn

Hey, I've worked at multiple grocery stores over the years, and these pizzas are no longer safe for human consumption. This frost means the freezer has been turned on and off and on and off a bunch of times, melting and thawing and refreezing over and over. Don't buy food covered in thick frost.

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i promise you the ingredients of those frozen pizzas are more damaging to your health than whatever minimal amount of bacteria managed to grow in between fridge outages

why are you catholic

why are you pro mold and catholic

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Friendly Reminder: You don’t have to rawdog Sensory Hell.

Suffering is not a virtue!

You are allowed to accommodate yourself!

You deserve to be comfortable!

Wear gloves to wash dishes and cook meals. Put on headphones to mute your housemate’s TV. Wear house shoes to keep stuff from sticking to the bottom of your feet. Turn off those loud/bright lights.

You don’t have to “suck it up” or “deal with it” or “stop being so sensitive” and FUCK anybody who says otherwise.

This has been a PSA from a 32 yo who’s still trying to unlearn the hateful shit her parents instilled in her….and just had the EASIEST time doing dishes, cleaning out the fridge, and taking out the trash because she wore gloves and house slippers.

You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

If people knew what a fucking atom is and how molecules are defined, at least a quarter of all health related cults like movements and scams wouldn't work.

"Ohh it's a different sugar than refined sugar" it's the same molecule.

"Ohhh my water filtering apparatus making beauty water and cleaning water and alkaline water" Water is H20. What you're doing is reverse osmosis, and if it's alkaline then there is a substance that's not water in there to make it alkaline. You can't purify water to a pH of 12, because pure water molecules have, by definition of how the pH system works and several phyics rules, a pH of exactly 7.

"Ooohh it has ~different~ sodium atoms." That's called an isotope and sodium isotopes aren't created by magic woowoo, and the magical ability of most isotopes is radioactivity.

"Low toxin" what toxin. Tell me their names. What are they doing. "They are endocrine disruptors" what part of the endocrine system? How? Do you have a source that doesn't try to sell you something?

"Just mix vinegar and baking soda to cleanse all the toxins of your fruits" you just created water molecules and CO2, and some calcium and acetate which don't have much chemical property. That's a science fair vulcano. And doesn't have acidic or alkaline properties to chemically influence anything. Just use tap water at this point. "My wood cutting board soaked in an alkaline solution from baking soda to clear out the toxins leaves a nasty looking soup" yeah because you were dissolving the wood with an alkaline solution. Congratulations.

"There is effective microorganisms in this ceramic bead and it can cleanse your laundry and dishes and prevent mold in your fridge and it works for years" what microorganisms exactly? How did you discover them? What are they eating? Are they resistant to 60 degrees and steam? Do they procreate in the fridge? Are they spreading out on all surfaces to prevent the mold or is it an air filtration system that works without airflow or is it just magic? "Put them in your flowers, they can reverse cavities, put them in your walls" what are they eating in my walls? What kind of microorganisms are they? Did you test the safety of those things in human bodies? Are they native to my biotope? How do they survive in those fucking ceramic beads?

"Just use vinegar it's magic" it's a mild acid. Like, cool, sure, it works for several things, but it doesn't have magic properties. It's just a mild acid. Lemon juice is too. And once again, if you mix it with baking soda, they neutralise each other and you get water. Which cleans a lot of things but you dont need to do *all that* to get your hands on some plain water.

gang I need your help I have a phrase I really want to catch on and it’s calling any secret or invisible struggle you have a “fight with a gorilla” like the onion article. if they can have cinnamon roll catch on this can too. “yeah she told me about it, I had no idea, sounds like a real fight with a gorilla” “sorry man I can’t come I’ve really been fighting the gorilla lately” do you see the vision

for those uninformed

folks i appreciate the effort but it looks like this will not breach containment and the phrase will not catch on. looks like this cause has to be my own personal gorilla to fight

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

There are still women like Mary Richardson in the world, broken from handwashing without her bittersweet grief of finally receiving a washing machine.

The Washing Machine Project aims to change that.

They have developed an off-grid flatpack washing machine for low-income, remote and displaced communities worldwide, which takes half the water and only a quarter of the time to do a load.

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

I'm going to start calling this crap "hostile web design." It's the internet version of hostile architecture. Designed to keep out people who can't or won't pay, results in less accessibility for disabled users.

HOWEVER! There is a solution.

Go to https://bugmenot.com/ and enter the URL of the site you're trying to access that's demanding a login. In most cases, you'll get a list of usernames and passwords you can use to log in.

does anybody want to see this baffling drawing i did when i was like 8 and i assume just learned what gay people were

what the fuck does this mean. the rest of this notebook is homestuck ocs

You read Homestuck at 8??

no but i did look at the pretty pictures of the characters on pinterest and take "what god tier are you?" personality quizzes

OP, I regret to inform you that you seem to have been drawing a tumblr post in your childhood notebook

“Is he okay? Fucking tell me!”

“Go to your bench, Rozanov. I’m not going to tell you again.”

There are a million reasons why the concussion scene works, but what hit me the hardest is that it emphasises one of the biggest costs of being closeted: Not being considered Next of Kin.

If Ilya was Shane’s acknowledged partner, he would be given information immediately and supported to follow Shane to the hospital. Instead, he drifts backwards on his skates, all alone in an arena where the only person who understands why he *needs* to know is unconscious.

This has been the cost of the closet for as long as queer people have lived under the radar. Partners get injured, or die, and the love of their life isn’t “family” enough to be in the room. In that moment, Ilya understands so much more about what’s at stake.

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The skeleton of a young girl, about 14 years old, was found in a room [in Pompeii] holding an eleven-month-old baby in her arms. The infant was adorned with bronze ornaments, which shows it belonged to the higher classes. The girl cannot be the mother, since she was still in her prepubertal phase. Moreover she clearly did not belong to the upper class. An analysis of her teeth reveals that she had been severely ill or undernourished in the first year of her life. Various molars displayed abscesses and shortly before her death a few teeth had been extracted. Her shoulder muscles bore traces of unremitting physical effort caused by lifting heavy weights. Most probably, Bisel concludes, she was a slave girl who was given the care of the baby by her master, unfit for other tasks, as she was worn down by hard labor.

another one for the ‘incredibly haunting archeological find descriptions’ files ["child slaves at work in roman antiquity," christian laes]

Leaving for the beach today, Penny Rose fell asleep about 5 minutes into our trip. We got caught in about an hour of bumper to bumper traffic and she woke up right after we cleared it absolutely LIVID that we were not at the beach yet. Sorry I can't bend space time girlie I do be trying

She was refusing to speak to us unless it was about the beach

"What do you want for dinner"

"I wanna go to the beach"

"How are you feeling??"

"I wanna go to the beach"

"Did you have a good nap?"

"Beach"

Did we go to a fucking Cracker Barrel for dinner because all penny is willing to say other then "beach" is "pancakes"

Yes yes we did

Had to stop for the night because we're so so tired, stayed about 2 hours from where we're going-

Jump cut to it being 5:30AM and two tiny eyes at the side of the bed are whispering

"I wanna go to da beach"

We made it to the beach and within 15 minutes she

-sprinted into the ocean

-came in a centimeter of catching a seagull

-joined a fully adult soccer game

-convinced a group of children to attack her father with squirt guns

We're here for a weeks folks

After a solid three hours of just chaos (and my husband and I tag teaming in and out to idk just survive) she stopped, whispered "I need to eat" and then started sprinting towards the hotel rooftop restaurant, I assume, being led by smell and instinct alone

We did manage to get her back to the hotel to lay down for an hour but she did in fact yell EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAT (just that sentence) for that whole hour

Jesus Christ she's joined a bachelorette party

I think we successfully tired her out because she didn't come to the side of the beach and demon whisper BEEEEEEAACH until 7:45 this morning

She's currently shotgunning frootloops and waving at anyone who walks into the lobby

I need a coffee IV

Being a mom to the most extrovert extrovert to ever extrovert is so fun and also so tiring lol

My husband is taking her for a beach walk while he drinks his ghost energy drink and I'm going to get around and then we're going to take her into the city for the day and hope there's enough there to keep her occupied pray for us

Got a voice note of Penny just screaming

I HAFFA GO TO THE OCEAN

hoping my child returns and doesn't give in to the call of Posiedon

SHES FOUND A SECOND COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BACHELORETTE PARTY!? HOW!?

As my husband just pointed out after seeing this post

"She did find them and they were NOT happy that she had to leave, we were harshing their vibe, Penny was not"

Took her on a nighttime beach walk, during low tide when there is a lot of sea foam

Smash cut to penny galloping down the coast screaming DADA THE OCEAN HAS BUBBLES

She's eating a corn dog at 8:45 pm because we straight up couldn't catch her / convince her to leave until now

10:45 pm and I think I'm safe I think she's asleep and I just heard the tiniest

"Ooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaah" from her bed as she finally ends her day long rendition of everybody wants to be a cat

Can't wait for day 3

I guess she technically slept in cause she's still asleep

She woke me up at 2 am telling me it was time to go to the beach

Kicked her father out of the bed at 5 am

Woke me back up at 6am to ask me if I was done with my sandcastle

And is now still snoring

Went to a cafe that had something called "The Large Fruit Platter"

It was carnage

Broke out on to the balcony buck ass naked

Penny is about to have a full fledged little kid meltdown, she is warm, she is tired, she has skipped her nap and we've had to tell her she unfortunately can't go fishing today (we have no fishing poles- she's never been fishing in her life).

I can see the waterworks coming and sometimes you gotta feel the feelings so I just brace myself

As she takes in that first breath to scream, she stops and instead demon whispers "ITS THE MOON!!"

And now she's just, doing a weird little moon dance around the parking lot.

Kids are so amazing and strange.

Tried to fully crash a beach date twice husband finally had to haul her off still yapping to the poor couple who were fully dumbstruck that she has literally no apprehension about anything or anyone

Okay imagine my 34 pound tiny terror standing over this thing yelling DAS A GOOD BOY! Cause that's what was happening.

Waking up to our last day of vacation to Penny Yelling HEY DADA I FELL INTO DA TOILET was both jarring and hilarious

Took her to the Aquarium, she tried to become one with the manta rays. We sprinted the entire thing twice in an hour. She "wants to be a fish"

Tried to lick someone's dog back, caused a table of elderly folks to lose their minds

This is happening, the lore of this spirit is developing as we speak.

Girlfriend just passed right out no warning or nothing she's finally succumbed to the call of the sandman. What a vacation

Just the 5 hour trek home tomorrow people, we survived

Penny woke up at 5:45 am by jumping into our bed and chanting ONE MORE BEACH WALK ONE MORE BEACH WALK and who are we to deny her?

This has gotten even better.

Currently planning this years beach trip

We ARE taking grandparents this time as back up 😂

I am a PASSIONATE commenter on fanfiction, but sometimes it slows down my reading because I don't want to read if I don't have the mental energy to leave the long comments I want to

Still, as an author, I know even a short note can mean the world.

So, I put together a little guide with different “levels” of comments, so it’s easier to leave something without overthinking!

Hopefully this helps someone else too!

for maximum impact with minimum effort can I strongly recommend the quick highlight?

copy pasting a particular line and your reaction to it is a phenomenal way to quickly provide specific, unique feedback!

it can even just be a keysmash or an emoji response to the quoted bit

authors have SO many micro decisions and careful word choices that go into the writing process and that they'll almost never get to see a specific reaction to

it's so fun to get even one of these things highlighted

authors have SO many micro decisions and careful word choices that go into the writing process and that they'll almost never get to see a specific reaction to

this, yes, precisely

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