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@arachnaetheyarnspider

A woodland fey creature, old enough to be nostalgic for MS-DOS shareware, mostly here to admire cute animals and collect crafting inspiration.

HE BROKE THE RECORD

Senator Cory Booker just broke the all-time record for the longest Senate floor speech, speaking for over 24 hours without a pause (no food, no bathroom breaks, only water to drink) as a protest against Trump and Musk and what they're doing.

The previous record was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes protesting the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker has blown past that record, currently at 25 hours and still speaking as of 8 pm local time. Respect.

There is a photographer in our town that works for a local news feed just for our town (which I'm 90% sure is volunteer run) and I see him sometimes at things. He usually covers the town halls, school board meetings, he was taking photos at Juneteenth last year. Basically he's everywhere and I'm also everywhere, so we cross paths often.

But he also does a thing called 'My Final Photo,' which is just random day to day stuff happening in town that he thinks is cool enough to snap a photo of. Like... ongoing construction of the new buildings, when the crocuses come out, a bird landing on a lamppost. Stuff like that. He's a really talented photographer.

The Final Photo for yesterday was kind of awesome but I don't think he knows how much the caption contributed:

Because that is both

a. sick as hell

b. perfect encapsulation of the childhood experience.

I'm glad other people refer to uncooked cheese as "raw". I grew up really severely lactose intolerant in the 90s in a tiny town in the UK. Weirdly, lactose made me throw up, which apparently was so unheard of that when 3 year old me started spontaneously throwing up, it got me a hospital stay, including extracting spinal fluid with a huge needle to check for meningitis. (Tmi but apparently poor little 3 year old me screamed so much from it I... explosively pooped across the examination table.)

There was one health food shop that offered soya cheese in two forms: "cheddar" block and what I call "flappy cheese". Neither of these were particularly desirable without being heated, and since it didn't really cook into things, so for the first like 15 years of my life I only really had cheese as something cautiously eaten on toast. The introduction of lactofree cheese expanded my options of flavours to "cheddar", "mature cheddar" and the ominously vague "cheese". The cheese aisle was for a long time a strange and confusing land of expensive emetics, and I genuinely could not comprehend how there could be that much variety of hard milk?

The day my nearest supermarket suddenly had a range of over 20 different types of milk free cheeses, I stood at it and cried like a pilgrim stood before religious icon.

I've now also mostly grown out of my lactose intolerance (occassionally take a lactase tablet) but I am still struggling to get the idea of just. Cutting off some cheese and eating it? Or spreading it on things?? And different flavours and shapes??? It's so wild to me. My partner loves cheese and she gently introduces me to new cheeses, explains what the flavours are or the textures and what it goes nice with and she's very patient with me but I'm still finding my way.

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This story was such a journey and I’m having a hard day but damn if I didn’t laugh that you explosively shit yourself even if the circumstances were horrifying.

Welcome to the world of cheese. Consider at some point, fondue, which is the nicest way to eat cheese in my opinion.

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thank you osha thank you shift limits thank you mandatory breaks thank you overtime pay thank you labour laws thank you workers rights thank you unions thank you protesters thank you advocates thank you workers!!!!!!!

Anonymous asked:

what if people made human versions of iconic tumblr posts and shipped them

Someone please draw the color of the sky as a very tall twink.

Oh shit, I'm an artist. Hold up.

Personally, I like his shoe laces. I bet you'd never guess where he got them.

Dunno if anyone’s done this yet but…

i love how this is so uniquely Tumblr™ that no one from any other website would get this.

Im... Im not sorry

I decided to make it worse 

Sexy Leg Einstein Post

Gradient Zone Post

and MishaPocolypse join the group

color theory hospital post

I want you all to know that I despise every single one of you.

Can I interest you in some fine copper ingots

He has survived Plinko Hell and back with a vengeance

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instructor144

Any time I think “welp, my dash is kinda boring this morning,” something like this happens.

adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision.  On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me.  i know that fucker’s weaknesses.  i could totally take me in a fight.”

frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive

also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.

oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated he then revealed that the original xbox logo...

is a sourdough boule

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

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Thank god this is still circulating because of your wonderful art, Mandy. I needed it tonight

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