doesn't make sense that this peppermint candy flavor ice cream is a winter only seasonal flavor. idk what we're even doing having peppermints be a christmas thing. it sucks to eat peppermint when you're freezing cold. this ice cream should be available in august

a note on the Minnesota primary: this is correct, the person to replace Tina Smith with is Peggy Flanagan

Until the sun burns out

becoming a bible case girlie but for my bird guide

I love how slow Wikipedia moves during controversy. For YEARS after the "GamerGate" harassment campaign, editors refused to give up the URL of the *original* meaning of the word: A gamergate is a kind of ant. Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

The three types of ‘50s pop songs were come on everybody let’s do the snap pea, if you ever kissed me I would turn into some goo, and hey hey beautiful child I would never take you over state lines

ok so i do narrative exposure therapy which is essentially reprocessing the sensory and emotional details of a traumatic event in order to resituate the event in its place and time in memory. imagine with me, if you will, this guy going to trauma therapy for having a sandwich thrown at him

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

“Thieves broke into Paris' Louvre museum on Sunday, using a crane and smashing an upstairs window and stealing priceless jewellery from an area that houses the French crown jewels before escaping on motorbikes, the French government said.” sorry this is too cool to be arrested for, them’s the rules

TELL EM!!!

seasonal repost of this squirrel i saw

Truth Emerging From Her Well To Take One More Real Quick, A Silly One This Time

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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spending a truly beautiful saturday at a conference for my job 👎 am i learning a ton, totally. am i happy about it, absolutely not

it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles

lost multiple years of signal messages and i am being so normal about it

God keep me from ever completing anything.

prayer warriors sounds like some extremely scary storefront protestant stuff but when dolly needs me i pray goddammit

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

nearly every single indicator is trending majorly, extremely down. one hopeful data point: today you can get the purple Doritos pretty much everywhere. they are a staple flavor now.

Is this a thing people would like?

speedrunning becoming my father: i got a cool barometer and now i’m obsessed with checking the air pressure 7 times a day

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

pretty sure a client told me about meeting and subsequently being annoyed by one of my worst former roommates today …. they didn’t name the person they met but the description was uncanny

watching the new documentary on extreme birding and the first Bird Guy shown was from sax-zim bog :’)

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee

Mangione still faces second-degree murder, but no longer the possibility of life without parole

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

today’s noise of the day was something falling so dramatically that it took five full seconds to finish tumbling, followed promptly by two crying babies

In the Vampire community there are annoying guys who microdose garlic

wondrous

standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”

there’s an old guy in my neighborhood who i can only assume was a lighthouse keeper or perhaps a whaler at some point in time because he’s always wearing a sailor cap and/or pea coat and i can only describe his gaze as “flinty”

not to be outdone by my landlord’s incredibly noisy construction project, the landlord next door is redoing his roof 😌✨ love to live places. love renting

everyone transgender

higgledy-piggledy whale statements

JESUS CHRIST (ninth hour): Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? GOOFY (present at the crucifixion): Gawrsh

A BORROWER: *stoned out of his mind, hoisting your eyelid open at 2:30 in the morning* hey man do you have any morsels

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