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never forget what they took from us.

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A gardening myth that irks me (also sorry for ruining folks' fun!) is the idea that you can use plants to purify the air in your home. Plant metabolism is slow compared to animal metabolism and uses fewer resources so any effect they have on the air is negligible, except for maybe humidity if there are enough of them since that's more structural than metabolic?

Gas exchange through cracks in windows and doors will outpace any effect a plant has on air composition and I imagine you'd have to absolutely fill a room with them to even change the O2/CO2 composition much. (I'm imagining that a plant able to do so would have a slight current emanating from it hahaha) Mostly it's just another marketing ploy.

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this photo from Atlanta’s lesbian bar last weekend is so amazing. we need to add it to the canon of images like This. A femme about to pounce!!!

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it always always makes me laugh to swap definite and indefinite articles

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PLUCKY YOUNGSTER: oh no, it’s due tomorrow! what’ll i do…

KAZUMA KIRYU: mm? what’s wrong, kid?

PLUCKY YOUNGSTER: we’re learning about the ocean in class. i was supposed to write a report on the benthic zone, but… i fell behind.

KAZUMA KIRYU: (the benthic zone, huh? …lotta people interested in that, lately.)

PLUCKY YOUNGSTER: please, mister… could you help?

KAZUMA KIRYU: (not good for a bright young kid to fall behind in his studies… school’s the stepping stone for success in life.)

KAZUMA KIRYU: sure, kid. what do you need?

PLUCKY YOUNGSTER: you will? great! if you could just go down there and tell me what it’s like, that would be a great help!

KAZUMA KIRYU: ah.

KAZUMA KIRYU: (well, a promise is a promise.)

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Definitely

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cats will see u eating a single bagel and look at u like your a european monarch cackling eating every last shred of food while they a poor beggar boy go off and die at war for the kingdom of a god they no longer believe in

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Got the baby a new water bowl (:

#baby bird Eloise!!!

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Blue and white is the classic kitchen colour combination; here, old china plates, the window frame, tiling and cupboard curtaining are all variations on the same fresh colour theme.

Traditional Country Style, 1991

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this is the funniest fucking billboard possible. who the fuck paid for this

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Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.

How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong

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'stockholm syndrome' being invented by a police negotiator to explain away why a hostage said police actions were making her and the other hostages feel unsafe is like. yeah