burdens that allow us to fly •

shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

shark: the ultimate gender

“It was something adults said all the time. “You'll change your mind when you're older. You never know what might happen. You'll feel differently one day.” As if we teenagers knew so little about ourselves that we could wake up one day a completely different person. As if the person we are right now doesn't matter at all.”

- Loveless, Alice Oseman (2020)

Be sure to also include some "yes" if you want your game to run smoothly

The aroaces really won this time huh?

Chinese giant salamander (娃娃鱼) a.k.a ‘baby fish’ due to the sound they make that sounds like a baby crying.

The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.

The Chinese giant salamander is considered to be a "living fossil". Although protected under Chinese laws, its population has faced severe declined over the last 70 years and is currently (2022) listed as threatened. There are evidence indicating that the Chinese giant salamander may be composed of at least five cryptic species, further compounding each individual species' endangerment. It can reach up to 50 kg (110 lb) in weight and 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length.

Here is a video of a 200-year-old Chinese giant salamander that was found in a cave.

Here is a video of it making the crying sound.

Here is another video

This actually illustrates why I barely talk about prehistoric animals, because there used to be a whole world of big slimy amphibians like this and other wonderful things and I literally can't stand thinking about it for more than minutes at a time or I get too sad. I hate extinction I hate anything at all being finite I want every organism that has ever existed to exist somewhere happily for absolutely all eternity

GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS

The funniest part of Game Changer is that you can clearly tell that Sam Reich is the son of a politician, because he egregiously and routinely overestimates the shame of the cadre of queer theater kids he hangs out with on a regular basis, which is a very politician kid move.

"average 30-something is mildly ashamed of shoplifting" factoid actually statistical error. Average 30-something completely unashamed of shoplifting. Game shwos georg, son of former us labor secretary, is an outlier adn shoul dnot have been counted

Everyone who isn't a Trekkie right now:

[Image description Josh and Donna from the West Wing, Josh asking "Is today a special Star Trek holiday?"]

[Image description Captain Janeway and Tom Paris from Star Trek Voyager. Paris points to Janeway and says, "She turned me into a newt!" Alien replies "A newt?!" Paris clarifies "I got better."]

DID SOMEBODY SAY THRESHOLD DAY?

happy lizard day threshold day!!