samiholloway:

Dad’s cremation at the cheapest place we can find is going to cost more than rent. Which I just paid and so have no more rent-sized payments to share or contribute to costs.

Even being dead is expensive in this dumbass country.

My brother started a GoFundMe to help us out.

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gallusrostromegalus:

goddamnshinyrock:

I had a new “oh, my family were the weird ones” moment recently: it seems no one else’s family celebrated Frog Night (the first warm rainy night of spring) by going down to the local vernal pool after dark to help the amphibians safely across the road and listening to the spring peepers. (We’d then go back in daytime later on to observe the egg masses, of course.)

Apparently “Frog Night” as a holiday is a thing my mother invented and not a widely-accepted idea, which is a shame because I’ve been referring to it as if it was for the past 30 years.

Well it SHOULD BE.

The first rain isn’t for another month in my neck of the mountains but I heard peepers yesterday so I am celebrating today by hiking out to the local frog pond with my housemate to listen to the peepers and toads come out of hibernation.

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castrateurfate:

wyndryga:

the-real-numbers:

meckamecha:

myothertardisisonthemun:

numberlover1729:

myothertardisisonthemun:

myothertardisisonthemun:

I sent a letter today - something I haven’t done for years

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It’s full of plastic bread clips

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It’s for Science

At the risk of loosing some mystery, I think I should add some context:

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There’s this website-I mean, scientific organization called the Holotypic Occlupanid Reasurch Group.

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They are a group of abiologists who study and classify Bread clips.

I found a species that has not yet been described:

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Yay for citizen science 👍

wtf?

Update:

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Apparently HORG is widely appreciated by pediatricians since knowing exactly what kind of Occlupanid a child may have swallowed makes removing it safely much easier

IIRC this is actually part of the reason HORG was started. A man swallowed a breadclip and the clip closed around part of his tissue linings (in his intestines I think?). The specific shape and flexibility of the clip were significant determining factors in the removal process, as some bread clips have spikes and prongs that would have made extraction more complicated. They started the taxonomy so they could work out extraction techniques for each type.

are you fucking kidding me occlu like oculus or close and panid like bread. its a fancy word for breadcloser

happy very specific archive thursday, everyone

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what-even-is-thiss:

cinni-k:

distortiondragon:

hamletthedane:

permian-tropos:

t4nku:

t4nku:

what’s more fucked up

finding out you’re secretly a robot

finding out you’re secretly a clone

you’re required to participate in this poll btw. i need data

tumblr what is wrong with you first the walrus vs fairy thing and now this? are you saying it’s less fucked up to find out you’re not a biological organism than find out you’re a human created from one parent-twin who is genetically identical to you?

Clone: horror at the lie of your body (for what purpose? how many are there? are they like you?)

vs.

Robot: horror at the lie of your mind and your humanity itself (have you ever actually had a thought of your own, or is everything you are/you think/you understand just created by another person’s brain? whose mind/brain are you?? whose thoughts are in your head?? What does it mean to “think” when you’re only a manmade echo of humanity constructed from Boolean logic loops? Do you even have a soul?)

There’s a CLEAR ANSWER HERE.

clone: you are the theft of another being, inextricably tied by the blood running through your veins they may not have even given to you. you aren’t you, you’re them, you were made to be them, you’re not different, there shpuld not be a you, you are them,

robot: ok well im a robot so show me my blueprints so i can install a sword in my arm to beat up ppl that i dont like. what the fuck ever. can i run doom

Counterpoint:

Clone: My flesh now idiot.

Robot: Oh so everything I’ve known about myself is untrue and I must now relearn all of this knowledge and I didn’t even get this information alongside whether or not I can run Doom or install a sword in my arm. What the fuck, man.

If I’m a clone this changes absolutely nothing about my life. Zero things.

If I’m a robot well that changes literally everything. Why have I been able to eat this whole time? Who made a robot that can get stomach problems? Am I still a citizen? I have so many questions. Now I have to potentially have a battle about my personhood with the court system.

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moonlit-aura:
“omghotmemes:
“No, no it isn’t.
”
this gif is perfectly timed because it gives you enough time to read it, comprehend it, and still have this too-long-for-comfort moment of suspense before being punched square in the solar plexus
”

moonlit-aura:

omghotmemes:

No, no it isn’t.

this gif is perfectly timed because it gives you enough time to read it, comprehend it, and still have this too-long-for-comfort moment of suspense before being punched square in the solar plexus

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should-be-sleeping:

should-be-sleeping:

justprettygay:

should-be-sleeping:

should-be-sleeping:

In fifth grade a boy tried to impress me by swallowing a whole tadpole live and I punched him so hard that he puked and the tadpole was fine.

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I kept it in a terrarium and it became a normal 🐸 despite everything. About a year afterward (I thought) it died, so I sadly put it in a shoebox in the shed until the ground thawed enough for a proper funeral but when that day came I opened the box and the frog was fine.

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This is funnier than anything I have ever said.

This post is to Easter what a Geiger counter is to radiation.

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