A Novel Idea, That.

Okay I have placed a bunch of beverages out in the ol Michigan Fridge and I must NOT forget them or they'll freeze and explode

How did you raccoon proof them?

They're in a plastic bin with heavy duty locking handles, inside the aviary

GIRL NO YOU’RE MOURNING SOMETHING THAT HASN’T EVEN HAPPENED YET AGAIN!!!!!!

An employee hazard and benefit

This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

I HAVE WAITED ALL YEAR TO POST THIS

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audio credit: anthony vincent

That was not the audio I was expecting

realtalk: i can’t wait for AI to get better to the point where you can have a legit conversation with your computer or phone just for the heck of it imagine how innocent they’d be, and like they don’t know what swearing is until you teach them then they go overboard with it like a child and hhHHHG

For those without timestamps the original post was made in 2014

(flight intercom) this is the pilot speaking. yeah we expect todays flight to be normal. um if you look out your window you shouldnt see the skull

(wizard intercom) good evening passengers. this is the wizard speaking. boy do i have a treat for you

Posts that make you drop everything you're doing and open Audacity

so how do i avoid contracting bird flu? because this sounds more serious than what the precautions i found online seem to indicate: dont touch birds or bird leavings, and dont drink raw milk. i already dont do any of that.

Good question.

The speed of the spread of H5N1 among dairy cows herds in the US in various states indicates that there's a very real possibility of the virus being airborne.

As of a few hours ago, there have been 65 detected cases of H5N1 in humans in the US. This may not seem like a big deal right now but, as Conor Browne (a biorisk consultant) pointed out above, the likelihood a "reassortment event" is a major cause for concern.

Adopting precautions early and not giving the virus the opportunity effectively mutate and adapt to specific modes of transmission is just the logical thing to do.

Also -- broken record, I know -- we are still very much in the middle of a pandemic, right now, at the ass-end of 2024, and interestingly enough COVID-19 is also an airborne virus that STILL continues to disable/kill people globally. So if you haven't kept masking, you might as well kill two birds with one stone and start (re)utilising a proven and effective NPI (non-pharmaceutical intervention):

wear a respirator

And a friendly reminder that there are mask blocs popping up around the world that are providing their communities with free masks/resources, if needed.

Anybody else think this is another man made virus? If its a bird flu, it shouldn't be able to transfer to different animal species.

That is not true.

Bird flu primarily affects birds, hence the name, but it can sometimes infect mammals. This has been the case before the emergence of H5N1.

Regarding H5N1 specifically, it was detected back in 2020 as a new strain adapted to wild birds, as a result of reassortment between poultry and wild bird viruses. It has since infected (and killed -- it's estimated that at least 280 million birds have died from H5N1 since late 2021) a wide variety of both birds and mammals.

lord grant me the serenity to do my laundry, the courage to do my laundry, and the wisdom to do my laundry

best ship dynamic is when they go from "you fool" (derogatory) to "you fool" (desperate)

and then to “you fool” (fondly)

I tracked down the original post, if anyone is interested in the story behind this:

Yeah, OP is NTA.

OP is a saint.

shit man tomorrow is christmas eve i swear yesterday was June 2010

As is tradition in tumblr culture the locals unearth the corpse of a long deceased figure and drag it across the streets merrily, laughing at what is preserved of the person’s words. This custom, seen as morbid in other cultures, is instead done gleefully and with an unmatched enthusiasm

on the 11th day of christmas my mutual gave to me softcore middle aged man pornography

not to sound like a medieval peasant but, cheese and bread. garlic and butter. a menagerie of spices. potatoes. that’s what life is all about right there.