Status: having a lot of feelings because I finally read a book with an aro-spec main character. I've known for a long time that representation matters, but man, it really doesn't hit home until that's YOU on the page.

I don't know enough about eyeballs to know why, but the cool colours (greens/blues/purples) were super obvious. Barbie pink and Cheeto orange, not so much. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

I will (whale) adapt A woven patch featuring stages of evolution of the whale, a reminder of resilience, change, and adaptation. A little reminder I found to be important, especially in these times. Available here: artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/4469...

Lost World Fruit Roll Ups (1997-1997): A special edition of the classic roll-up fruit snack, featuring peel-out pieces shaped like dinosaurs. Released for the Jurassic Park sequel, select boxes had an audio chip that "roared" when you opened them, signaling a possible prize

good

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Supreme House of Cheese Toluca, IL

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Tornadoes. I had all of my Beanie Babies stuffed into a pillowcase in case I needed to haul ass into the basement at a moment’s notice.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Finally, aluminum electrolytic capacitors for women.

What investors think gamers want: AI metaverse What gamers really want: Orbotron

if you don't wake up ACNH Gulliver by smacking him repeatedly with your net you're wrong

Ferbruary #oldknees

we really failed as a society by not giving junior/senior high schools playgrounds. Do you know how much trouble my friends and I would have stayed out of as teenagers if we'd had guaranteed access to Tire Swings and other spinning danger structures

the ultimate gamer

okay but the option to pick none is so huge. aromantic representation is so rare in Anything and my heart grew 3 sizes that day

a little Burgess Shale action #sciart

all hail

Lipton Alligator Soup (1989-circa 1991): A dry chicken soup mix that featured large, relatively thick noodles shaped like alligators. Made and primarily sold in Canada.

I made a year's group of my monthly calendar doodles. There's lots of ink doodles, some washi tape, some pencil etc. in there. I started doing these a few years ago as a way to see something good in each day. Seems to work for me. #artbeco #calendardoodles #gratitudejournal #uplift

🧵: all the books I read in 2025! I had started this partway through the year, but didn't actually post it to the feed. Oops. Titles and authors will all be listed in the alt-text for each month's image. 📚💙 #booksky

stayed up late finishing book number 83 of 2025. the tiny novella I'm going to enjoy with my coffee tomorrow will make it an even 84 (no odd numbers in THIS house). thread to follow in which I list ALL the books, type a LUDICROUS amount of alt text for cover images, and tell YOU my faves. 💤

Replacing all of my Christmas playlists with Billy Talent’s entire discography was a good choice this season.

Self-love is singing both parts of Love Shack by the B-52s at karaoke night

Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras

Orthoceras (big) and Lituites

Absolutely devastating news from WDW today

victor frankenstein disappointedly leaving a monster truck show

I know the ghost of Christmas Future is always a guy in a cloak, but, hear me put, what if he was a dude with a gravestone for a head that speaks through the engraving on his own face?

smiling at my phone like im texting with a suitor but I'm looking at the inaturalist page for coconut crabs

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Word and desire of the day/month/season is 冬籠り(fuyugomori, winter hibernation/staying in during winter), thanks, Yosa Buson.

Strongly Agree

train on spin pole, bake cookie squares, try to forget that a family member is dying, the usual Thursday evening

unpopular opinion (apparently): people with the job title “librarian” should know how to edit a ding dang bibliographic record disclaimer: yes, dedicated cataloguers exist, but I’m pretty sure library school for library professionals contains cataloguing courses

if you see this post your favorite animal crossing villager I love Skye with my whole idiot heart

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

straight out of the Halloween Zoomies & plunging headlong into the November Dumpies

Thanatotheristes is a late Cretaceous tyrannosaur whose name means 'Reaper of death.' I couldn't help this image of it in Grim Reaper guise popping into my head. Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 125 × 190 mm, 2020. #Halloween #Samhain

gettiing groceries

these poor fools trying to make hatred of pokemon a part of their personality, as if anyone could hate pokemon more than pokemon fans

Isopods!! 🧡

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜

This is, without a doubt, one of the most punk rock things that exists in digital space today, right up there with @archive.org.

My army grows. Photo and tattoos by @melancholyjasper.bsky.social, who is a national treasure and loves Burgess shale paleobiota as much as I do.

*doing a little jig* I Don't Want Your Stupid AI Product, [Insert Media Company Name Here], Also Haha You Gave It a Dumb Name