She/they menace. Main blog of @markynaz and @cursivescrawl.
probably no one else finds this funny and I’m driving away my friends a fraction of a percent at a time every time I do it, but I think the height of comedy is when you react to an emoji with the same emoji in a chat medium that permits this
hilarious
actually i don’t want this to get lost in the tags
blocking everyone who defends dream on this post ❤️
he made “pride merch” which was overpriced clothing that just had the worm “dream” on it in rainbow text. and donated 10% of the profit to LGBTQ+ organizations.
that is tiny. the man’s a millionaire by this point. he does not need to keep 90% of the profit.
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More dispatches from the front lines of the culture war aka Texas. The rage is never ending and exhausting
I'm not trying to be a shit about this but like we *need* solidarity over this because the alarm was being sounded almost 20 years ago when W let Texas (and other southwestern states) start cutting out Mexican and Chicano history.
As a reminder, Texas constitutes one of the largest textbook markets. Whatever they remove, smaller and/or poorer states will struggle to put back or compensate for when they make their textbook purchases.
That means how Texas goes a disproportionate amount of school resources go.
This is an extremely, extremely important addition ^
Texas has an enormous sway on textbooks everywhere.
When it comes to almost any issue...Texas isn't "just Texas." The people in the notes that are like "Texas should just secede" or "can we just get rid of Texas already" are missing a critical point here. (And throwing the community activists who are trying to combat this stuff under the bus, but I digress.)
As I (and many others for longer and better than me) have tried to explain: Texas is a state of 29 million, and very powerful. The state government is NOT acting in the interests of the majority of the people, they are trying to maintain their decades long stranglehold on power, by doing everything they can, including miseducating youth with propaganda.
Even in the best of voter turnout years, only 52% of the eligible voting population casts a ballot in Texas. Communities of color, low income communities, disabled voters and all kinds of other marginalized folks have had their voting access nearly strangled to death.
What happens in Texas is coming for everywhere. We should be talking about national policies to curb this shit.
“Aw man! This pie doesn’t taste at all like what grandma use to make! I’m must be a terrible baker:(“
Maybe! Or maybe one of many things might be different from the recipe you’ve been trying to follow
Baking is largely both a science, and bullshit. Anything from the altitude you’re at, or the mosture in the air, or the way you’re measuring ingredients (ie weight vs volume) can effect how your final result of what you’re making will come out. A few examples just in my grandmother’s Apple Pie recipe are
So will I ever make that Apple pie I remember fondly from my childhood? Probably not! Just gotta figure out my own thing that works.
I dunno why I made this post at 6am. Just shit to keep in mind next time you’re struggling with an older recipe I guess!
Anonymous asked:
LOST: The library Lost-and-Found. If found, please return to the library front desk.
elsewhereuniversity answered:
He realized his dogs have an unusual skill. Now he uses them to help save turtles.
By Cathy Free
John Rucker was a high school English teacher in North Carolina when he stumbled upon something interesting: Whenever he took his two dogs hiking, they would run into the tall grass and bring him back box turtles. Like a gift, his Boykin spaniels would gently lay them at his feet, unharmed.
He mentioned it to a few people, and soon, biology teachers from the University of North Carolina started reaching out to him and asking whether he would take their students out so they could put transmitters on the turtles to study them.
Several years later, the outings were so successful, Rucker was fielding calls from wildlife veterinarians and zoologists who were studying turtle populations.
“Because turtles aren’t easily detected in the wild by the human eye, I could see that I was on to something,” said Rucker, now 73.
Now, two decades later, Rucker’s spaniels are a highly in-demand, specialized team trained to sniff out box turtles by following their urine trails.
The dogs — Yogi, Ruger, Jenny Wren, Lazarus, Scamp, Skeeter and Rooster — travel across the country with Rucker helping to track turtle populations and identify threats and diseases.
Good Bois for SCIENCE
Finally managed to get this to the person I knitted it for yesterday. Covid made that a bit more difficult.
This is a spring blanket for my goddaughter, where I attempted to do three colour double knitting and learnt why that is a very bad idea.
I mean, given the weather's sudden insistance on going above 30, it's not really the most timely gift in the world. But I like it. I think the bunnies turned out pretty well.
