Ūropi (Europe)

Ūropi, also known by its indigenous name “Europe”, meaning “wide-gazing” or “broad of aspect”, is a small continent first discovered in 1806 by Moehanga of Ngāpuhi, although indigenous Europeans had been living there for many thousands of years. Modern researchers believe the indigenous Europeans originally migrated from the Middle East, and over time split into separate tribes or “kingdoms,” with many retaining their ancient rangatira (called “monarchs” or “nobility”) to this day.

While many see Ūropi as timeless and exotic, indigenous Europeans have actually adapted well to the modern economy, often exporting cultural products like baguettes and vodka, the former of which may be recognisable as the basis for bánh mì.

I’ve never seen a picture of junji ito in my life but I can only assume this is him because that sentence instantly gave me flashbacks

These little fuckers are round gobies. They are a freshwater goby that's invasive in Michigan, and they're in the nearby lake. They're distinct from the four native species due to their fused pelvic fins (middle pic) and a big black dot at the rear of their front dorsal fin. Though some other gobies have spots on their fins, NO Michigan-native species has a fused pelvic fin. These guys are very aggressive feeders and are very good at outcompeting native gobies.

They're also extremely good at stealing bait off big hooks as people on the docks reel in their lines. In particular, the bastard in the bottom photo stole my bait two days ago, so I caught him and filleted him for Bug.

Today, after acquiring smaller hooks, I went back and got 16 more, and educated several other fishers about their invasive nature. I got two turned over to me by others, and caught 14 more myself.

One man wandered over and asked why I was catching them on purpose. It was too much trouble to explain my feelings about invasive species, so I just told him, one of them stole my bait two days ago. He stopped watching my bobber and boggled at me and goes:

"You're doing this for revenge?"

So now there's some guy in town that thinks I am exacting revenge upon fish kind for a single stolen worm.

Kedreeva. Kedreeeeva listen to me

GOBY DICK

The biggest reason I KNOW we haven't captured an alien spacecraft is that its specs haven't been leaked on War Thunder forums

She was on that episode and a very stupid opportunity presented itself

ngl this is what family is for

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Me n who

This could be us but the US government won't let disabled people marry each other without losing their disability benefits 💕

Trains were made for faggots, transsexuals, dykes, and autistics, and if you aren’t ready for that,I don’t know what to tell you

Weirdos can also ride the train if they like

Crazy idea….what if we didn’t use slurs for groups we aren’t a part of 🫢🫢🫢

fine. w*irdos can also ride the train

The most egregious biphobia is everyone insisting Taylor swift is bi for no reason like what did we do to you people

a friend of mine once said that saying the word "indubitably" feels like throwing a bouncy ball down a hallway and i can never un-think that

love when hair dye tells me to do a spot test. nah man whatever happens happens

Does anyone with chronic pain have recommendations for therapies that actually work?

My body pain is all interconnected but the problem is that fixing one issue sets off the other issues.

I have:

I've been in and out of different therapies but nothing helps long term and the stretches always trigger another of the areas, so I end up giving up.

I don't even know where to begin and this is only going to get worse as I get older.

Sorry to hear you're struggling, chronic pain is the worst. It sounds a bit like the stretches make things worse.

When I went through the pain clinic (in Aotearoa/New Zealand, not sure if you have something similar in Aussie) one of the physios had the idea/theory that stretches often makes pain worse.

Basically stretching loosens the area around the pain letting it expand and strengthening compresses the area and minimizes it. Not sure how widespread this theory is within the profession but it certainly made sense to me.

It sounds like exercises to strengthen the muscles and stabilizers around your joints, especially ankles and knees, would work better for you. Especially if you have issues with hypermobility.

Hope this helps and things improve for you, your blog is such a great resource it's kinda nice to return the favour.

Tldr: stretching made things worse you said so strengthening with a focus on lower limbs seems more likely to succeed.

People will tell me to Touch Grass and I am just like "I live in the FUCKING desert what grass????"

@spitblaze

I am trying but they are so fast and crafty

I see Hollywood is now very into the idea of buying something once and then owning it forever and being able to make infinite copies. Which. Isn’t quite the message they imparted upon me in my childhood. In the spirit of their own long-held stance: