I often slow blink at cats I don't know well, because I want to indicate that I mean no harm and want to be friends but can't mimic any subtler cues. and I wonder sometimes if I come on weirdly strong. but then I remember that cats tend to indicate the same to humans by yelling "I'm babyyyyyyy" at the top of their lungs so you know. we're all doing our best out here.
Another fun thing I do with customers - specifically parents of very small children who don’t know they’re alive yet - is directly imply I think the coffee is for the baby, not the parent. and lemme tell you, like 70% of parents eat that shit up. They immediately go along with the bit and start discussing it with their newborn child, while the baby just stares at us like 😮
huuuughhhhh yahoo selling scraped data from tumblr to AI sloo probably uughhhwaaauuwghhhhhh
this is what you're looking for to opt out!!!
It's under Visibility, noy Privacy like I assumed at first.
Hark! A magpie
my brother's fiancée asked my BIL how different it was to have a daughter vs a son, and I interrupted and said "that's a nine month old baby. that's meat. it's just meat."
Probably not how i'd have phrased it, but for REAL for real people make babies out to be so much more than they are.
Yes, that baby has a lot of potential.
No, that baby is not showing some personality trait that will persist forever, that baby is 2 months old. That's basically an animal still. That's just a hunger reflex or staring at the vague blurry shapes that are developing into sight, not greed or being a people person.
Yes, the baby is cute.
But the baby is GENERICALLY cute. It is too damn soon to say "he looks just like [relative]!" No, he doesnt, he looks like every generic baby of his age and race. Baby swaps are a thing that used to happen for a reason: you cannot tell the difference and confirmation bias is very real.
Thinking about the cultural Renaissance that would immediately erupt if all copyrights older than 20 years were immediately cancelled and if all oligopolies were broken up.
This would be worth doing anyway, but the fact that it also closes down almost all of JKR's revenue streams from Harry Potter would be a lovely cherry on top.
Sorry, I just got deliriously happy thinking about being able to do whatever I want with most of the good parts of the Star Trek franchise.
They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before
And here is where you can get them! (mostly American)
And specific labels:
And many of these have sales several times a year so if you're patient you don't need to buy full price for any of it.
whenever a kid in school asked me to spell icup i would just keep spelling it e-y-e-c-u-p until they got annoyed and i asked “well how are you supposed to spell it” and then they would spell it out and fucking own themselves and never recover and have to change schools, every time, self-esteem obliterated for life
i think i just witnessed a miracle
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This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week
me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig
me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back
You guys need to see this because my brain has decided "have you heard of seventy dollars??" is a widely known meme I can reference regularly (it is not)
Common eider
This needs to be immortalized because it's what made me turn on the sound. And they were right
from Welcome to Night Vale episode 175: The October Monologues
i need to say this in a safe space. i hate the word hubby. it is revolting. i never want to have to see or hear that word again
at the risk of being cringe with everything going on — this week, the last six months, the past five years — i keep thinking about that one quote from the great gatsby
“they were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
it’s just every day now, huh.
Maji Machafu lioness covered in zebra blood after a hunt.
Taken in the Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographed by Kriti Walia
