Secretly A Shark🦈

it's cute really, how excited humans get when the sky blinks

she's winking! the Sun is winking flirtatiously at her wife the Earth! quick everybody wink back

In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.

Sesame Street's official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.

As always, America, PBS has you and your kids' backs.

I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country.  More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.

https://americanarchive.org/

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

By the wonderful @myjetpack

Happy Halloween

when you die, all the processes in your body slow down and come to a halt before starting to decay. which means if you were to revive someone from the dead, necromancer-style, you'd potentially have to kickstart their entire system back up from a state of inertia. which means it almost certainly would not be pretty. i'm talking coughing up clots of blood, nauseatingly intense migraines and muscle cramps, and all the sensory overload that would come with firing up the body's engines from frozen cold to fully functioning all guns blazing in the matter of seconds it takes to cast a resurrection spell.

basically: 'resurrection hangovers' should totally be a thing

Honey, put your glasses on

You've been washing the dishes with quilava again

stuff I like

- when the person kidnapped by the villain is all ‘no one’s going to come for me’ and 

- someone does, but it’s the person they’d least expect

- EVERYONE COMES because wow, maybe I am depressed because I didn’t think I knew this many people, much less that they liked me

- no one comes and the villain gets pissed on their captive’s behalf and treats them better than their former associates did

- they rescue themselves and everyone’s so impressed but the person yells because I AM CAPABLE AND YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST NOTICED I’D BEEN KIDNAPPED

- they get rescued by a deus ex machina, preferably their dad/mom/grandma/old associate who is exponentially cooler than the heroes 

basically, I like it when people get rescued and get validation

Can I add: people getting rescued by their pets.

I also really love when a person gets kidnapped and is utterly unsfraid because they know that a specific person is coming for them and oh boy did that villain make a mistake kidnapping them.

no no I need to explain why this is so moving. The Empress is the goddess of femininity, and this is a card representing life and rebirth. She's sitting there casually and fully confident of her femininity, no matter what beauty standards she deigns to adhere to. She is a woman, the EPITOME of a woman, and she will present as she damn well pleases. And holy hell, she's a goddess and she will sit how she's comfortable to.

Exactly 💚

nothing girl

can we talk about the impact i made here

when I was a kid you had to do the charlie the unicorn voice whether you liked it or not. you had to say candy mountain charlieeee in the voice. not like these days

its called the D: drive because you look at how much space is left on it and you go "D:"

why is this mom joke getting notes

bc its true

Somebody has learned I was keeping the paper towels on top of the fridge and then taught herself to jump on top of my cabinets so my paper towels are no longer safe

putting a different country's flag on my lawn to make it harder for geoguesser players to guess where they are

"Lawn"

United States

Unquestionably one of the funniest things I own is the draft first chapter of an evolutionary biology textbook written by one of my grad professors, in which he made approximately 1/3 of the figures himself in MS Paint with absolutely no graphic design skills or artistic ability.

When I tell you this is one of the most comprehensible figures:

I sat through this man's class for an entire semester. I got an A. I learned (this is not exaggeration or hyperbole) absolutely nothing. But I will always treasure these images in my heart.

He had been banned from teaching undergrads and shunted to teaching graduate classes, in the hopes that we would be able to decipher his mad genius ramblings. These hopes were in vain.