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so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

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tongue in cheek art about weird bodies and waiting for a diagnosis

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i listen to this podcast by two priests who talk about what life as a priest is like because I find their stories interesting, and one of the best moments was when the younger priest, baby priest we shall call him, absolutely lost it on the podcast because he had been preaching, then he saw someone do a full body sigh, shoulders up and down, then look at their watch, and then shoot baby priest a dirty look. Because priests are human too, this priest found it irritating on a human level, which, okay, I can see that--and then, he spent several minutes vehemently (and jokingly, but also, vehemently) proposing that Catholicism should update its rules so if anyone does that, the priest is allowed to come down from the altar and challenge the person to hand-to-hand combat. He argued that more people would come back to church if there was a chance of seeing the priest getting in a fistfight and in fact they might go to church multiple times a day. He stubbornly refused to allow exemptions for little old ladies. he was fully and passionately committed to the idea of Catholicism allowing priests to fistfight parishioners in the middle of mass, and I'm going to say it: i think he was right

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lieutenant

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For years I would look at posts and questionnaires about neurodivergence that takes about being so focused on something that you forgot to eat and be like, "Couldn't be me. Being hungry is so uncomfortable! Your stomach is growling and cramping? How do you ignore that?"

Then someone informed me that neurotypical people have a whole bunch of "hungry" sensations before they get to that point.....

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Humans cannot feel wetness as its own sensation - we experience wetness when a collection of sensations, particularly cold, are present. Reptiles are cold and smooth, thus people without experience holding reptiles will often receive the sensation of 'wet' upon touching them for the first time.

Combine that with the humoral system of medicine being popular for much of the time when europeans decided they needed to catalog every creature and you get a cultural association with staying power.

funny how the popular conception of reptiles is that theyre like, slimy and wet. meanwhile they have smooth dry scales, while we mammals are covered in glands that secrete water and oils and other chemicals. where do we sweaty greasy synapsids get off calling lizards slimy

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No I don't know why it's called KMS Tools. You'd think it was an acronym or initials or something but I can't find anything at all. And more indeed...

Image ID: screenshot of the banner ad from the mobile KMS Tools website. Their name is white on blue at the top, with the tagline "Best Value Guaranteed" and a little maple leaf. The ad itself reads (in various fonts) from top left to bottom right:

Black Friday <Click to Shop Flyer>

SALE [Nov 1-30] Black Friday Sale! Extra Discounts During Our 17-DAY SALE [17-DAY SALE November 14-30 $AVE]

Savings in Every Department!

Power Tools | Woodworking | Hand Tools | Welding | Construction... and more!

Me: It stands for Point of Sale

Also Me: Time to head for work at the piece of shit

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if you can divorce. you can do anything.

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Part of the reason that it's a bad idea to stay at bad jobs is that they can really fuck with your head in a way that makes it difficult to work in more functional workplaces.

I made a stupid mistake but I have no idea what the scale of the mistake is. I feel like any misstep I make is a catastrophic failure. I'm upset so frequently that I'm thinking about quitting because I'm useless and it would be less painful than getting fired and that seems to be very far away from what my new coworkers think of me. I am behind on work and the only thing my brain wants to do is sit at my desk and grind in a marathon for like thirty hours until I'm caught up but because this is a functional business I'm pretty sure they'd be horrified if I did that.

I also feel like I'm being haunted by my old boss which is really putting into context how controlling and shitty he was when I'd basically gotten so used to it that I didn't notice that anymore.

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AM radio is like literal magic. There is music all around us that we can't hear, and to hear it you just have to tap a crystal (diode) to the earth and listen to it with another magic rock (magnet) and a tin can. You dont even need electricity to make it work because this music around us is literally all the power you need. Oh and at night when the sun has set, the light of the day gets replaced by MORE music because the signals can travel further at night. This is magic. If you even care.

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(via the author, at the Ex Bird place)

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In case you need it for your D&D games or siege actions— here's what the ballistic trajectory of a flaming pumpkin fired out of a trebuchet looks like.

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PLEASE watch this. i love chaotic sisters best dynamic in the world

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