thethingything
You know, the thing! The thingy thing!!!
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thethingything · 14 minutes ago
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thethingything · 16 minutes ago
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The way this entire can of coke fits exactly in this coke glass
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thethingything · 25 minutes ago
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From here. If you think arachnids with long legs are just scary please watch this solifugid dig her nest (or try to) like SUCH a goofy little person creature. Look how she shoves dirt with her mouth and then gives it a little pat. Is she even making any progress?!
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thethingything · 26 minutes ago
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over the last couple of days we got to hang out with a beloved friend on a discord call and also watch some really fun livestreams (one of which was basically a group movie night) and I'm having so much fun. also we've hung out with people to play webfishing so much over the last couple of weeks and I've been enjoying that so much and I think being more social is doing a lot for our mental health
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thethingything · 2 hours ago
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A tiny Red-Spotted Sweet Potato Moth (Polygrammodes eleuata) I photographed in Barbados this summer
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thethingything · 3 hours ago
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source: That's Ms. Bulldyke to You, Charlie! by Jane Caminos
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thethingything · 4 hours ago
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about 15 minutes ago I looked out the window and could see some fog in the distance glowing from the streetlight, and then I just looked again now and it's foggy here and I think it's really cool that you can just kind of see a wall of fog approaching like that.
also it's all foggy on the ground but if I look up I can still see the stars
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thethingything · 4 hours ago
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you feel a light breeze...
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thethingything · 4 hours ago
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life can seem so bleak. But then there’s gorgeous fat bisexuals on tumblr
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thethingything · 5 hours ago
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Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi
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thethingything · 7 hours ago
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thethingything · 9 hours ago
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+Chocolates galaxy+
acryl-gouache on 12 x 16 art board
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thethingything · 9 hours ago
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My T-shirt with the entire text of Borges' theoretical Library of Babel is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt, somewhere.
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thethingything · 10 hours ago
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stripping completely naked to keep her attention while I infodump about ants
sorry babe we will not be having sex until I explain the difficulties in raising a colony of Formica rufa ants I don't care how hard you are right now
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thethingything · 10 hours ago
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One quiet day on the farm, the Little Red Hen found some wheat seeds and decided to make bread.
"Who will help me plant these seeds?" the Little Red Hen asked.
"I would." said the Horse "But I'm a workhorse, and I'm too busy moving carts around."
And so the Little Red Hen planted the seeds by herself. And they grew into bountiful golden crops.
"Who will help me harvest the wheat?" the Little Red Hen asked.
"I would." said the Dog "But I'm a guarddog, and I'm too busy keeping away burglars and predators."
And so the Little Red Hen harvested the wheat herself and made it into flour.
"Who will help me bake the flour?" the Little Red Hen asked.
"I would." said the Pig "But I'm a mother of 5 newborn piglets, and I'm too busy taking care of my young."
And so the Little Red Hen baked the bread herself into twenty beautiful loaves.
"Who will help me eat the bread?" the Little Red Hen asked.
"We would." said the Farm Animals. "But we're ashamed, for we didn't do anything to make the bread."
"Nonsense!" said the Little Red Hen. "You, Horse, helped move around the stones that built my oven. You, Dog, kept me safe while I worked. And you, Pig, are raising a new generation of Farm Animals, who will too contribute to our Farm one day. You've all helped me so much by simply being you."
"Besides," the Little Red Hen added. "I couldn't possibly eat all the loaves on my own, most of them would go to waste. Come, eat with me."
And so the Little Red Hen and the Farm Animals ate the bread together. And all saw their own, and each other's, worth.
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thethingything · 10 hours ago
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thethingything · 10 hours ago
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THERE'S ANOTHER VIDEO COMING SOON
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So, the Taylor Swift fans figured this out. Youtube's total video number showed on a channel includes private & unlisted videos. If a video's total number of uploads goes up by 1 but no video appears, it's because a video has been uploaded that's private or unlisted. The MCR channel's total was 162 for ages and ages, and it went up to 163 a couple of days ago, that 1 new video being the trailer. It was 163 on the 12th, and I know this because I had a conversation with @a-star-that-fell specifically about the fact that it had been 163 for a while because that indicated the trailer had been sitting and waiting for a while.
This morning it's 164.
Something's coming.
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