I was black-eyed-bucky. I'm a biologist from the Netherlands. Strange rant posts are my jam. Give me weird facts, animals and beautiful art and Im happy.
mental image: little drow girl, grinning widely as she holds a young displacer beast that is almost taller than she is. this is her own cub, and she has to show mama.
No one can tell me that she didn’t carry her kitten everywhere! And as soon as possible the displacer beast probably carried her around!
i love finding poetry in the mundane, and yesterday i stumbled upon something that just hits that spot
So, my partner has an old phone- It served them for many years now, but it has one issue: Charging it is hard. Their current charger is hanging on by a thread (literally), and can barely do its job. The phone and the charger came together: They’ve never used another charger for said phone.
Now, they’ve tried to replace the charging cord several times. But it doesn’t matter how much they’ve searched what damned specific charger the phone uses, none of them work. They finally decided to bring it to a phone shop and ask what should they use.
The guy at the shop looked at the phone for a bit, and explained: “The port itself is broken. The charger you have works with this phone because they’ve mutually broken each other into the same shape, in a way that no other charger is shaped. The port itself has corroded in a way that only accepts the charger that shaped it like that in the first place.”
And while this is of course a frustrating situation for my partner, I feel like there’s a metaphor here. I could write a goddamn story about this. These two half-broken old things have been together for so long they’ve destroyed each other in a way that keeps them from working with anything else. They’ve hurt each other in a way that barely keeps them functioning together, and have been rendered useless with literally anything else.
Also, agave nectar as a sweetner is absolutely trashing the ecosystem where the plants grow, throwing other plant species, mammals and insects out of whack in order to meet rising demands.
If you are trying to cut sugar or go vegan to help the environment, stay away from agave, it’s a disaster.
Honey, actual farmed honey, from honey bees, is more eco-friendly than agave, sugar beet, or sugar cane. And, contrary to popular belief, properly managed hives don’t actually change the bees’ lives from what they would be doing in the wild anyway.
Please be kind to our mouse dragons, we need them so much (and they are so fucking cute).
This is Mamadou Ndiaye! You might also have seen his vocally anti dolphin videos under the name Casual Geographic
Pick the number closest to whatever number you actually got, there’s only 12 options and I didn’t want to clutter this with too many numbers… I may make another one if it ends up really skewed to the lower numbers, but I used my own posts as reference.
My brother refuses to get Tumblr, which is a tragedy because this is the complete fucking nonsense they have sent me today alone, and I think Tumblr would appreciate them more than I do.
Well, I hope you’re happy. The worst I can be is a disappointment, the best I can be is your problem now.
How it started
How it’s going:
THEY’RE YOUR BROTHER??!!!?!!????!!!!!!
Yes, and I cannot tell you how glad I am that they didn’t just send me that question at 8am like they would have pre-Tumblr. I used to wake up to this bullshit every day.
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