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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Though they're one of the largest terrestrial salamanders, at nearly 20 cm (8 in) long, tiger salamanders can be very difficult to find! This is because they are members of the mole salamander group; adults spend most of their time burrowing through the soil, and only emerge when it's time to breed.

(Image: An eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) by Mike Graziano)

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thanks for 13k. did you know the fur inside of cats’ ears are called ear furnishings

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Normalize this response

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My parents have a “Festivus” party every year and this year I found this sign on their bedroom door

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Huh? My wicker basket is rustling and purring?

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I need to know who names the pets at the Anne Arundel, Maryland Animal Control

I know you're on tumblr. Come out with your hands up. I just want to talk.

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I asked for a potato to snuggle (a word my husband and I use for guinea pig). He brought me an actual potato. A russet.

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i grew up in a big city and i rly think it’s important to the best of your ability learn to be okay sharing spaces with people who are not in that moment pleasant to be around. people who smell bad. screaming children. people asking you for money. teenagers noisily loitering. people talking to themself or to you in disorganized ways. even in a socialist utopia with free health care and housing and robust harm reduction programs, there’s always going to be people being disruptive and uncomfortable in public and you’ve gotta be okay with that and be polite.

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oh..... I interrupted.

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hi im your cat do you mind if i touch your coffee. do you mind if i put my whole foot in your coffee

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The "if you voted for Trump unfollow me" posts are returning, but given then general makeup of your average tumblr user I think there's a different message I'd like to give.

If you didn't vote because "both parties are the same" or "it won't make a difference" or because Kamala wasn't the pure and perfect leader that you wanted or you "didn't want blood on your hands", honestly whether or not you follow me doesn't make a damned bit of difference. But I want you to look. Take a good look at the despair around you right now. And every godforsaken thing that follows I want you to fucking look. Look and know that you could have helped prevent it. We still haven't recovered from his last four years, the world hasn't fucking recovered, and now we're staring down the barrel of god knows how many more years and a river of fucking blood to come along with it.

But your pride and your principles were more important to you than the actual real fucking world we live in.

I hope, if nothing else, that you can take this in. I hope you learn. I hope you grow. I hope you find it in you to realize that in this country they soak our hands in blood the second we take our first breath and the only thing that matters then is what you fucking do with them. What you fight for. Who you fight for. Who you defend.

I hope you wake up. And you step up. And you fucking fight.

But until then. Don't you fucking dare look away.

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Rewatching Gravity Falls is insane because Stan plays the weird insane uncle so well and when you think about it for more than two seconds it's like, this man has spent the last thirty years trying to bring his estranged twin brother from an alternate dimension yet he is still like "yeah Im going to make Dipper wear a werewolf suit in order to scam tourists"

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While it is theoretically unfortunate that Ford must now learn about the horrors of airport security post 9/11, he will be saved on a practical level by the fact that Stan got "Stanford Pines" on the no-fly list years ago

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he's here to bite me until I get out of bed..

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a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up