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Stoat in his winter coat, Kodiak, Alaska

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throughout history goyim have often felt like enlightened geniuses for deciding “the jews did this” and then one (1) massacre later are absolutely gobsmacked to learn that killing jews did not solve whatever problem they decided was our fault that tuesday. ad fucking infinitum.

billboard chose VIOLENCE on a random monday

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

If you are truly interested in becoming a scientific glassblower, Salem Community College in New Jersey has a 2 year associates degree program for it, and if you actually complete it, you’re practically guaranteed a job in the field if you want one.

The program is amazing. I spent a year in that program before getting into an MFA program. If you really want to learn how to flamework glass, there is no better place to do so IMO.

A weird quirk about that program is that it also attracts a number of pipe makers (at least when I went there in the mid 2010s).

10/10 would definitely recommend.

my mom's in a pokemon go battle right now in the other room saying a whole shonen protagonist speech

apparently there are tricks to cheat during battles and you can sometimes tell when your opponent is cheating and i just heard her say to her phone, verbatim, "why do you cheat? does it make you feel good? do you lack such esteem that false victory is good enough for you? fuck you. i'll go down fighting."

she just started saying "die raichu die. die die die die. with your big smile, die"

and I said "mom I don't know if I like what this game brings out in you"

and she said, "what, would you want your mother to be some sort of loser in the leagues???"

in the pokemon world, where it's normal and encouraged for 12-year-olds to strike out on their own and be largely self-sufficient to train pokemon, we must also consider 12-year-olds could also be left at home with pokemon to be largely self sufficient while their parents travel the world training pokemon.

which is what my mom might realistically do.

How Does the Water Tribe Dye Their Clothing?

There are a few "realistic" ways for the Water Tribe to have acquired the blue coloring for their clothing:

Trade with Kyoshi Island

I headcanon that the Water Tribes originally imported indigo dye from Kyoshi Island, prior to the war (for the North) and the raids (for the South). Kyoshi Island is partially inspired by Japan, which is famous for its high-quality blue indigo.

Crowberry and Arctic Blueberry Dye

Both of these berries are native to the arctic. On their own, both berries produce purple dyes. However, if you mix these dyes with iron/rust-infused water or vinegar, they can become beautiful shades of blue.

Woad Dye

Woad is a plant that grows in subarctic climates like Southeastern Sibera. In the ATLAverse, they would probably grow using greenhouses in the NWT. Traditionally, the blue dye was created by fermenting woad leaves in a mixture of water and stale urine.

Or, alternatively, you could just ascribe their abundance of blue dye to a fictional animal or plant. My headcanon is that they dye their clothing blue using a poisonous-when-eaten plant to ward off large animals. It also has the added benefit allowing them to blend in with the sky when they stand along the horizon; this would be advantageous when hunting.

thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

life will persist against all odds

For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.

This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.

At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:

It’s sad when a species is so rare we know them all individually but at the same time I love that you can point at this one bird and say oh that’s Ruapuke, his mom sat on him too hard

betsey johnson fall-winter 1997 rtw

Modern Step Down Pool

Nyle Khan by Andrew Mailliard for Numero Netherlands Magazine August 2024

men are so privileged they dont even realized how oppressed they really are

@casualfruit nah say it with ur chest cos u truly ate

Enemies to lovers? No. Enemies to bffs. Enemies to living in each other's back pockets. Enemies to "if they were fucking it would be less weird."

#in my head this is bakudeku please see the vision (via @silvercarstairs14)

YOU ARE SO FUCKING RIGHT