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The knightly taste about Lady johnna likes showing off her new ultimate-multi-function duel longsword

just see how beautiful(ridiculous) these are

This just canon LOL

or they're both Ken

I’ve spent a LOT of time recently on a risograph baby bird print, but honestly I don’t think it’ll be that popular. the babies look like rainbow meat. they looked like chewed gum. it’s just awful. and it’s not an error on my end, I got embarrassed opening the reference photos in public because they look like gore. these tiny hideous baby birds, all grotesque and swollen and transparent. they’re a cruel joke that nature keeps playing on the world, over and over, and I feel like we’re the punchline because we have to look at these things with our human eyes.

OKAY, HERE THEY ARE:

these are all species (mostly finches!!) that have inner beak patterns as babies, to help their parents recognize them. it’s thought to be a defence against nest parasites like cuckoos

so you can see, the drawings do not remotely exaggerate. they just look like that

if you like the print, you can grab a copy at greerstothers.shop. they’re risographs, so no two are exactly alike!

Just two girls with their pink top hats

They are going on a date to the opera

Tumblr is known and also spoken of by its user base for its high proportion of lgbt+ users, but I'm curious as to if the lgbt+ user base is actually as large as though or if its just confirmation bias, so...

For fun if you want put how you identify in the tags and the part of tumblr you'd say you're here for

"The sleeping giant of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stirred.

In the past month, an avalanche of anti-pollution rules, targeting everything from toxic drinking water to planet-heating gases in the atmosphere, have been issued by the agency. Belatedly, the sizable weight of the US federal government is being thrown at longstanding environmental crises, including the climate emergency.

On Thursday [May 18, 2023], the EPA’s month of frenzied activity was crowned by the toughest ever limits upon carbon pollution from America’s power sector, with large, existing coal and gas plants told they must slash their emissions by 90% or face being shut down.

The measure will, the EPA says, wipe out more than 600m tons of carbon emissions over the next two decades, about double what the entire UK emits each year. But even this wasn’t the biggest pollution reduction announced in recent weeks.

In April, new emissions standards for cars and trucks will eliminate an expected 9bn tons of CO2 by the mid-point of the century, while separate rules issued late last year aim to slash hydrofluorocarbons, planet-heating gases used widely in refrigeration and air conditioning, by 4.6bn tons in the same timeframe. Methane, another highly potent greenhouse gas, will be curtailed by 810m tons over the next decade in another EPA edict.

In just a few short months the EPA, diminished and demoralized under Donald Trump, has flexed its regulatory muscles to the extent that 15bn tons of greenhouse gases – equivalent to about three times the US’s carbon pollution, or nearly half of the entire world’s annual fossil fuel emissions – are set to be prevented, transforming the power basis of Americans’ cars and homes in the process...

If last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with its $370bn in clean energy subsidies and enticements for electric car buyers, was the carrot to reducing emissions, the EPA now appears to be bringing a hefty stick.

The IRA should help reduce US emissions by about 40% this decade but the cut needs to be deeper, up to half of 2005 levels, to give the world a chance of avoiding catastrophic heatwaves, wildfires, drought and other climate calamities. The new rules suddenly put America, after years of delay and political rancor, tantalizingly within reach of this...

“It’s clear we’ve reached a pivotal point in human history and it’s on all of us to act right now to protect our future,” said Michael Regan, the administrator of the EPA, in a speech last week at the University of Maryland. The venue was chosen in a nod to the young, climate-concerned voters Joe Biden hopes to court in next year’s presidential election, and who have been dismayed by Biden’s acquiescence to large-scale oil and gas drilling.

“Folks, this is our future we are talking about, and we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity for real climate action,” [Michael Regan, the administrator of the EPA], added. “Failure is not an option, indifference is not an option, inaction is not an option.” ...

It’s not just climate the EPA has acted upon in recent months. There are new standards for chemical plants, such as those that blight the so-called "Cancer Alley" the US, from emitting cancer-causing toxins such as benzene, ethylene oxide and vinyl chloride. New rules curbing mercury, arsenic and lead from industrial facilities have been released, as have tighter limits on emissions of soot and the first ever regulations targeting the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkylsubstances (or PFAS) in drinking water.” ...

For those inside the agency, the breakneck pace has been enervating. “It’s definitely a race against time,” said one senior EPA official, who asked not to be named. “The clock is ticking. It is a sprint through a marathon and it is exhausting.” ...

“We know the work to confront the climate crisis doesn’t stop at strong carbon pollution standards,” said Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra Club.

“The continued use or expansion of fossil power plants is incompatible with a livable future. Simply put, we must not merely limit the use of fossil fuel electricity – we must end it entirely.”"

-via The Guardian (US), 5/16/23

[vibrates] THEY'RE SETTING EMISSIONS STANDARDS FOR SUVS AND PICKUP TRUCKS!!!

If you don't know why this is a huge deal, please watch the video These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us by Not Just Bikes, which explains how there are very, very few regulations on SUVs and pick-up trucks, and how auto companies have been using that for decades now to gain profits without having to conform to emissions standards set on sedans and other small-to-medium cars.

This is huge.

hammerhead salamander

sammerhead halamander

beautiful sculpture of the extinct prehistoric salamander-like amphibian Diplocaulus inspired by the living matamata turtle, by the talented artist Goro Furuta, who deserves credit for his work & not to be used as a source of misinformation

No matter how many times this sculpture shows up on the internet though, I seldom see people notice that the artist borrowed a lot of inspiration from the modern day Matamata turtle, making his sculpture double as a hypothesis that they convergently evolved similar camouflage.

I feel like I’m exposing myself a little bit with this bc my introduction to fic is soo random I think, but whatever your answer please tell me the story! I wanna know haha

The fact that quizilla is not an option here makes me feel ELDERLY

I remember when there was a character limit on quiz-fics questions and we accepted the answers to them didn’t MATTER

March 25, 2023 - TERF piece of shit Posie Parker had to cut her transphobic event in Auckland, New Zealand, short after a huge crowd of locals decided to run her fascist ass out of town, and she was covered in tomato sauce.

She was so shaken by the event she ended her entire transphobic tour of Australia and New Zealand, which so far had mostly proven popular with literal neo-nazis, and fled the country entirely. Good job, Auckland! [video]/[video]

The heroic woman who juiced Posie Parker has been charged with assault (which is bullshit, there are many other cases in NZ of people throwing stuff at public figures in protest and not getting charged). You can donate to help cover her legal costs, and security costs to keep her safe from the far-right threats she’s received, here.

OP added a photo of the famous Audrey!

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

Things I didn’t know

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

Reblog to save a life

the regular people of hyrule seeing the castle spontaneously burst into dark evil flames and rise up out of the ground:

(via @drac-kool-aid )

I was surprised to find in my second reading of Dracula Daily that Jonathan has canonically taken pictures of Dracula's home in England with a Kodak camera! I didn't realize this since the name was not capitalized.

He says in today's entry that "I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points."

This is historically accurate as the first Kodak camera was released in 1888 so Jonathan would have had one in 1897. Here's what it would have looked like:

Pangur has a hard time opening her eyes in direct sunlight, but she still has fun on the catio!