You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Why are people trying to make Tilly Norwood happen instead of doing an erotic thriller pastiche with Jessica Rabbit as the femme fatale?

Pipin the Migeon

In the pantheon of Funky Little Dudes, I think Roosevelt Franklin deserves a special spot for being too funky for New York in the 1970s.

THE ACKROOMS

Patriotism swells in the heart of the American landshark

As is tradition by now every year

This week, we had the incredible honor of welcoming Harvey Drahos to Point Defiance Zoo! At 103 years old, Harvey is an Army veteran of World War II who served in the Battle of Okinawa, a Purple Heart recipient, an Olympia resident, and a lifelong animal lover.

I think the missing piece in sex scene discourse is that your feelings about sex scenes aren't necessarily a reflection of your values regarding sex/freedom of expression/etc., they could just be a measure of how susceptible you are to second-hand embarrassment.

Baby alligator doing death rolls

Happy birthday Mel Brooks — and thanks for the laughs! ‘Blazing Saddles’ director turning 100

The one true punk activity is doing art in a medium you're kind of crap at because your urge to express yourself couldn't wait for you to achieve technical competence. Everything else is context-dependent. (I realize by this metric Ed Wood movies are punk.)

Anyone doing an "are modern young women too slutty?" thinkpiece in this day and age is showing their age as much as their gender politics. Even if you're someone who wants to promote committed monogamy, erring on the side of sluttiness isn't the problem with young adults' love lives nowadays!

Yeah, like vegetarianism being an "elite"/bougie thing even in parts of the country where eating beans is cheaper than subsistence hunting. (Where I live you can buy 50 lbs of pinto beans for the price of a deer hunting license.)

I wonder how far a grifter could get trying to sell "anti woke" periodic tables that leave off the transuranic elements to school districts in right-wing areas.

Sometimes when people say a certain fictional relationship "isn't supposed to be romantic" they really mean "it isn't aspirational by any sane standard." Tragic or destructive relationships can be swoony as hell to read about even if you wouldn't want to live them.

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure. What's yours?

This is Richard. He's sometimes accused of not being a real dog because of his weird paws and inability to bark. Thinks his pack would say otherwise. 12/10 for all (IG: richardandtheguardians)

In defense of Juliet Capulet's imprudent romantic choices, "wait until you're older and marry someone you know well" wasn't really an option for her. It was "elope with the fellow teenager you're madly attracted to" or "agree to the arranged marriage to a grown man your parents chose."

As a millennial woman of tumblrina experience, I can criticize Olivia Nuzzi for her specific life and creative choices, but not for the mere fact of being attracted to a problematic gross older man and writing something cringe about it. Cringe and evil-old-man lust are part of my culture.

How much of political parties deciding what vision of the "working class" to embrace is about Gender, and how much is that unionized skilled trades have a lot more spare money than CNAs and childcare workers?

Low-stakes conspiracy theory - Stephen Miller is naturally only a normal early-middle-aged-with-a-naturally-high-hairline level of bald, but he shaves his head to look like Lex Luthor because his wife has a supervillain fetish.

I really think "Promoting teen mental health" and "reducing teens' opportunities to make non-optimal choices" are not really as compatible as some Concerned Adults would like to think. Birds whose cages are too small pick at their feathers.

Sometimes art doesn't have a purpose.

Teens are being reintroduced to the Tumblr ecosystem.

"Punching up or down" is for comedy. "This person is less socially vulnerable than me and should suck it up" might have merit if you're talking about some nobody doing a drag parody of an internet microcelebrity, but it's not an excuse for using some harmless person as a social chew toy.

I don't think anyone really *likes* the state monopoly on violence, even if they accept it as better than the alternatives. People with principled objections to vigilantism don't usually like capital punishment either, and people OK w/authorities killing "bad guys" want to shoot burglars.

Born June 1, the 26-pound pup recently received his neonatal exam and is doing well. He’s growing, gaining strength, and spending plenty of time bonding with mom, Eloise, behind the scenes.

Since the topic of trans/queer people moving out of red states has come up, I would like to say that if you're a trans person moving to Washington, you don't *have* to live in Seattle unless you want to live *in Seattle.* Most of the medium to large cities along the Puget Sound should be fine.

I think where a lot of male democratic politicians fall flat with a certain kind of male voter is that in a way, they're too "normal." Tim Walz certainly embodies a kind of "relatable" masculinity, but these guys aren't looking for "relatable," they're looking for "aspirational."

Sharing new pics of western lowland gorilla Jamani caring for two infants—hers and Olympia’s. They show Jamani holding & nursing both boys while Olympia heals from her C-section. Please see previous blog for more info on the births. https://blog.zoo.org/2026/05/obstetrical-team-performs-rare-c.html

I don't think it's insignificant that the guy on the "No it ain't" side of the "Is everything hideously, unaffordably expensive nowadays?" debate is from the midwest and not, say, San Francisco.

What, you keep getting eaten by baleen whales? Krill issue

Not sure how this would work in practice, but one idea I have for casting Homeric epics is have the mortals played by Southern European/West Asian/Mediterranean actors but make the gods and demigods international.

Sense and Sensibility and Grogu

Have you seen the termite version of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY? It stars Clint Eatswood.

Archaea, Bacteria, Protista, Plants, Fungi, Animals

slightly increase a band Herman's Eremitic Monastery

I think a lot of people (including people with no particular knowledge of or interest in the history of sexuality & who wouldn't think in these terms) still hold onto the "invert" model of queerness/gender variance to some degree.

Crawler Carl and Princess Donut #sketch-a-day #art #graphite #carl #crawler #donut #PrincessDonut #DungeonCrawlerCarl #DCC #fantasy #scifi

My opinion about the Helicopter Story discourse is that the people who believed it was the work of a reactionary right-wing cis person flying under false colors are giving right-wing transphobes way too much credit.

The Middle-Aged Man and the Lake

Slightly diminish a book Our Mutual Acquaintance

these guys are great man. how are they so simultaneously goofy and stately

I love that bats are 30% puppy faces, 30% weird little goblins, 30% eldritch horrors, and 10% all three at once. (📷: Merlin Tuttle, arranged by Bryan Bongey)

I wonder how much people's memories and retrospective opinions about Woke 1 are influenced by whether or not they spent much time on tumblr during the 2010s?

I work in K-12 education and have a summer birthday, so it doesn't come up unless I'm doing summer school that year.

Based on my favored alternate interpretation of Lovander as a hedonistic 1970s-coded party girl rather than a lolsexpest. #Palworld

I think the best solution to conflicts of interest wrt government officials and the stock market is to make everyone in congress put their portfolio into index funds for the duration of their term of office. That way they benefit if the economy in general is good but can't play favorites.