Ephemeral Serendipity

sobbing and crying at the woman who stole a meth addicted kitten from her dealer and then she and the kitten got clean together

thats love baby!!

TUMBLR STORY TIME.

I volunteer for my local shelter and when the weather's good, we do a free vaccine clinic every Friday. Free distemper, free rabies, cats and dogs. We hand out free food from the pet pantry, we give people leashes and collars, we do whatever we can to keep people's animals at home and healthy. Every animal that can stay home and be fed and be vaccinated is an animal that we can keep out of the shelter.

We get all kinds of folks, sometimes we even get backyard breeders but we don't do any judgment, because we want people to come and get their dogs vaccinated, because one parvo case costs $7000+ and the whole year of Parvo vaccines for hundreds of dogs costs less. It's just harm reduction, everything we do is harm reduction.

So anyway, this one day this woman comes up to the vax clinic and she is high as fuckin' hell, just obliterated fucked up, smoking a joint in line, and she has this TINY pibble puppy with her, maaaaybe four weeks old. This thing is so fuckin tiny and wormy and lethargic, and she's like, "Hey I heard I can get her shots." and we're like, oh fuck this puppy is gonna die. Like straight up, we were all like, fuck that dog is gonna die. So we gave her wormer, we gave the first distemper shot, and I put together a whole care package: wormer to take home, puppy milk replacer, puppy wet food, a leash, a harness, some blankets, toys, we gave her instructions on how to get the puppy eating food, and we told her to come back in 3 weeks for the follow up vaccine. And we were all like, well fuck, that puppy's gonna die, goddamnit, that's so fucked up. But you know, we did our best, and we hoped we'd see her again.

And in three weeks, you guys, she showed up. And she was still high, but like, half-high this time. Smoking a cigartte in line but like, could focus, could ask and answer questions. And she'd taught that tiny puppy how to SIT and had her walking on a leash. We found out that it took her three buses to get to the clinic, and she told us all about how she got the puppy eating right, got her stool solid, she was taking her on walks... The puppy looked so good, you guys. I almost cried, it was so big. Really happy puppy. At the end of the visit, we were like, ok, see you in three more weeks for the next distemper.

So three weeks later, she shows up, and she's sober, and she told us, "You know, I was really fucked up the day I bought that puppy, I wasn't sure I was going to live, and I bought that puppy and she was too young, and I didn't know what I was doing but y'all were so nice to me, and you helped me so much, and I knew that I had to give this puppy the best life I could, so I moved back in with my grandma, and I'm getting clean, and I'm on methadone, and I'm going to rehab next week, and when I get back, I'll come back and visit you guys again."

So I just wanna say. Sometimes it's hard to find a reason to get clean for yourself. Sometimes you gotta do it for a little critter that depends on you.

trains are extremely sexual actually, have you seen couplers????

thats nothing, check out this scharfenberg coupler

First they fuck, then they kiss

divine instruments: solar flare 🔥, thunder edge ⚡, tundra beads ❄️

the great thing about the wuxia genre is you can start a sect called the Evil Blood Cult in a place called Demon Mountain that’s a volcano full of poison and you all wear crazy gothic black and red hanfu and practice Sinister Backstabber Style kung fu and like. that’s not a deterrent to prospective disciples. do all that and a fuckton of bright eyed youngsters will still show up at your door and say hello i would like to join the demon mountain evil blood cult where do i sign up?

Lockheed Martin was at my college's job fair

It makes me indescribably happy that Yamuel is making so many people smile or just feel better about life for a moment. I’m glad he can help. He sure helps me.

Yamburger helper.

Lol. Lmao even

“ So it’s not the same species at all.”

“ Only if you use the scientific definition of species! However, if you use my definition that I just made up-“

Lol. Lmao even

“ So it’s not the same species at all.”

“ Only if you use the scientific definition of species! However, if you use my definition that I just made up-“

I copy pasted parts of this but I do hand letter everything, because while I'm trying to work easier as I'm chronically ill, I am still chronically stupid

The tiktok account has posted two more parts of this interview, I'll upload them both today

Woo hoo! more about Jim Sinclair. Though I think xe came to use xe/ xem/xir pronouns?

Source: Historicizing Jim Sinclair’s “Don’t Mourn for Us”: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Neurodiversity’s First Manifesto

oh shit this is THAT sinclair? what an icon. for those that don’t know “don’t mourn for us” is widely considered THE touchstone for the autism/neurodiversity rights movement. i can’t find anything reliable about pronouns. xir gender is definitely neuter though, an ‘older’ label akin to agender.

interview part 2

interview part 3

wayback machine link is to an archived version of xir website.

IIRC xe/xem last time I met xem, though that was almost two decades ago now, so my memory might be wrong or xyr pronouns might have changed since.

Replaying those hard levels as an adult and doing them first try…

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.

I so want examples. anyone who knows of any should post them in notes

You know, like giant squid and such. We know the bastards exist, we have credible first-hand accounts stretching back thousands of years and dead specimens washed up on shore and such, but in centuries of searching we’ve managed exactly one well-documented encounter with a giant squid in its natural habitat. We have no idea what their native range is or what their life-cycle looks like, let alone how many of them are out there.

Are there any reverse-cryptids that /aren’t/ at the bottom of the ocean?

The red-crested tree rat, for one. There have been only three well-documented encounters since 1898, and they just plain disappeared from the zoological record for over a century. The only reason we know they’re not extinct is that one walked right up to a couple of wildlife research interns at a Columbian nature reserve back in 2011, apparently out of pure curiosity, and allowed itself to be photographed and observed for several minutes before disappearing again.

That’s genuinely pretty cool and all, but I absolutely need to talk about how the picture in that Wikipedia article looks like a tiny eldritch horror disguising itself as a peach.

To be fair, based on the actual photos from the 2011 encounter, they really do look like that:

Eels WERE this, until we figured out that they breed in the Sargasso Sea.

Drove Freud insane, though.

great white sharks are everywhere all over the world, but for a hell of a long time we didn’t know where they bred, how they bred, where they go, and what they do there, and even today there’s a lot of questions remaining.

like, sometimes they hang around the coasts. sometimes they fuck off to a particular location called ‘the shark cafe’ halfway between california and hawaii for a hundred days and then fucking off again. we still don’t fucking know what they’re doing around cape cod, other than showing up sometimes. in the year 2000 an orca ripped a shark open right in the middle of one of their shark party hangouts off the coast of san fransisco and every shark in the area just left. one radio tagged shark was recorded as submerging immediately to 1,600 feet and swimming off to hawaii. at other times, great whites have been spotted just chilling right near orcas without a problem. maybe they form groups; maybe they have families and clans. sometimes they seem to move in little packs like wolves. we thought they lived for about thirty years and now it turns out the females don’t even sexually mature until their thirties; they might live to be anywhere from forty to seventy. they’re characterized as remorseless maneaters but don’t even like the taste of humans much; however, it could also just be that they like to kill seals by making one big drive-by chomp and then wait at a safer distance for the seal to bleed out, and humans tend to swim over and rescue each other before that happens.

great white sharks are so much weirder, smarter, longer lived, and more complicated than we thought they were and to this day we still don’t know a lot about what’s going on with them. but they’re also just… all over the damn place. doing their thing. whatever the fuck that is.