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@popcorn-and-starbursts / popcorn-and-starbursts.tumblr.com

yikes this is basically an archive at this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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arsanatomica

I always read that some rodents dig with their teeth, but how they did this actually mystified me for a long time….. Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER

Speaking as someone who has had to administer oral medication to a naked mole rat before, yes their little slit mouths are extremely strange looking and yes it is very, very difficult to get anything into their mouth if they don’t want you to because you have to get around their teeth.

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pikabelle

Stan Lee: Spider-man is not allowed to be bisexual, Andrew Garfield tried to make him bi so I had his movies cancelled and forbid any future spider-men from being written as bi or gay.

Tom Holland: Cool. Here is a list of male coworkers and characters I personally want to fuck.

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hey guys, stuart semple just posted this

and all the proceeds from the shirts are being donated to the callen-lorde health center to promote health education and wellness in the community.

pass this around, if you could? it seems like a really bold statement with really good intentions

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mamapluto

Just checked his Twitter. It’s real.

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french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you

italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house

american recipes: buy these three cans of stuff and put them in a pan congrats you cooked

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svynakee

chinese recipes, as handed down from mother to child: season it with a pinch of this and some of that. you want to know the exact amount? feel it in your heart. ask the stars. yell into the void. 

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orriculum

English recipes: boil and salt it. Okay that’s it enjoy

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digitalfare

Greek recipes: You followed all the right steps but this isn’t quite right. I don’t know what to tell you.

Australia recipes: chuck it on the barbie

Latinx recipes: you will never make it better than your abuela, face the facts

Armenian recipes: spend eight days laboring over the stove. the food will be flavorful with the sacrifice of your sanity. no one will appreciate it.

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moldychesee

Canadian recipes: It either needs more bacon, more maple syrup, more gravy, or an unholy combination of the three

Polish recipes: you have to toUCH THE DOUGH, FEEL THE PIEROGI IN YOUR HEART, TOUCH IT. LICK IT. SMELL IT.

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beckyhop

Every time I see this post, I learn more about how different countries’ cuisines AND neuroses.

Indian recipes: there are 500 cuisines and that means 500 versions of this dish that has 500 spices so gl 

ashki jewish recipes: no, no. no. more onion. 

internet recipes: here is a heartwarming story about my baby sister’s third birthday that i completely made up, and a copypaste from alton brown.

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piedude

Irish recipes:

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cool fact for people who have a problem with looting:

cops in america are legally allowed to take people’s property (including large sums of money) purely because they feel like it. it’s called civil forfeiture and there are literally thousands of cases of pigs taking people’s property. that is looting.

i watched this happen to my roommate after the cops kicked our doors in at 6 AM on a weekday for a no-knock raid that, surprise surprise, didn’t turn out anything. they opened his wallet in front of him, took out about $300 and told him that since they had no record of where it came from on premises, that they’d have to take it from him. they took this man’s rent money right in front of him while he was in cuffs and told him “too bad”. 

there was also a friend’s car in our drive way that had broken down so they left it over night. the doors were locked and the windows were up, and since the owner wasn’t there, they decided it’d be cool to just bust in all the windows to perform another fruitless search. 

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youthxcrew69

In Philly it’s been a HUGE and MASSIVE problem with cops taking people’s bank accounts, cars, electronics and pretty much anything worth any amount of money under a law that lets the DA seize property they think is related to a crime. “Related’ is a vague term though. They once forced a women and her grandchildren out of her home to sell it at auction because her son was found by police with $20 worth of weed.

(Depending on the property in question it can go under Civil Property Seizure or Seize and Seal, they’re not the same law but they work the same)

They don’t have to prove it’s related to a crime before or after, and even if the person suspected of the crime is cleared at questioning or acquitted at trial, you have to go through a MONTHS long process of court appearances (you can’t miss one or be late or you lose, no rescheduling) in hopes that they MIGHT get their stuff back. Most don’t.

Most people don’t think it’s worth the expense of days missed at work and a lawyer to get back a couple hundred dollars or whatever else the police stole. The city makes MILLIONS of dollars each year off this, around $6-10 (The DA doesn’t provide figures)

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so-treu

but tell me more about “good cops.”

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antlering

because i hate the civil forfeiture system, the NYPD civil forfeiture system keeps no tally of its forfeitures because it would crash their system to compute it, and there may be only one backup of the whole system. a system that seized (an assumed) $68 million in property just in 2013.

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blaruto
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ayellowbirds

Confirmed:

Unconfirmed. It’s a heterosexual song 100%

I wrote it and I’m gay as hell lmao

how about maybe

the song is for anyone

because we’ve all been there, wanting someone who’s with or wanting someone else

No…. I wrote it… it’s for The Gays™️

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Baahubali 2

Zero special effected used in the entire movie.

I forgot how weird these movies are

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this is the only context i’ll allow country music bc this video is possibly the gayest and most romantic one i’ve seen in my eighteen years on this earth

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this is the only context i’ll allow country music bc this video is possibly the gayest and most romantic one i’ve seen in my eighteen years on this earth

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