look alive sunshine 👀

Would being called big dog fix me? Who knows?

Mixed reviews

"What's up, big dog; I'm ratsmacker" is going to live rent free in my head for a little while

Boys who up smacking they rat?

I was assigned a virtual class of first graders to observe and I'm obsessed with how they frame themselves in their zoom squares.

just realized we're all gonna make it!

let's go!

adhd paralysis sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

I am once again BEGGING people to turn timestamps on and pay attention to them.

Helpful Tip: Turn timestamps on. And if you see a post about a contentious topic that was made more than six months ago with reblogs turned off and notice that no one has left a reply in months. Please don't then go through and respond to a dozen or more of said old replies, potentially restarting like ten different arguments OP is going to have to deal with clogging up their notes.

This has happened to me like three times now and I wanna say the whole "don't worry about how old a post is just interact liking and reblogging old posts isn't taboo here" thing does not apply to old discourse posts where it's clear this is no longer a place of honor and everyone would prefer to move on. You don't need to restart years old arguments. Please just make your own post or something. Please.

This thing has one of the most even reblog to like ratios I've seen in a while, I assume I am not the only person who's had to deal with this.

How to turn on timestamps (specific to app on Android device, but should be fairly equitable across other options)

Account (person icon in bottom tray) -> Settings (gear icon) -> Account settings -> Dashboard preferences -> Toggle on timestamps

I’m shitting at these tags

yea this is Montreal, do you want to know how bad Montreal drivers are? only on the island of Montreal, is it illegal to make a right turn on a red light. because they don’t fucking look. it’s the only place I’ve ever been that has lost it’s “turning on a red light” privilege

but yea powdered snow is slippery af and the island is hilly and full of narrow streets. not designed for wheeled vehicles.

I need to reblog myself because I just found this on the gov of Quebec’s website

This is so funny. That’s one of the bus routes I take. I literally take this exact bus

I hope your bus has seatbelts.

i got to watch this LIVE and it was completely, impossibly delightful. especially awesome as a pedestrian because while the vehicles were not in control, they were also moving much more slowly than usual, and the drivers were very carefully watching everyone around them. you could cross the street in leisure! you could point and laugh at the cars, and they could do nothing about it! then you’d slip and fall on your ass but it was a weirdly freeing feeling.

because as others in this reblog chain have pointed out, montreal streets ARE a pvp-enabled zone, and pedestrians are one of the ps. when i lived in toronto for a few years and didn’t have cars accelerate when they saw me start to cross a street (they SLOWED DOWN?? or STOPPED??) it was wild. it was like, no, i have an innate ability to gauge distance and speed and survivability; you don’t need to stop for me?

in defence of everyone who definitely had snow tires on (most folks do, since otherwise it’s impossible to get around like 6 months of the year, and also the fine is HUGE if you’re caught without them in the winter), we had had freezing rain the previous day, so there was fluffy powdery snow on top of sheet ice - this was not the only such scene in the city that day!

#the turning right on red thing is hilarious because we never had the privilege in the first place #it only came in in quebec at all when i was in my late teens #and it was a gradual rollout #montreal was EXCLUDED from the opportunity to even test it out #which is way funnier than having tested it and failed (by @countingnothings)

Seven-arm Octopus (Haliphron atlanticus), family Alloposidae, Salish Sea off the coast of WA, USA

photographs by Eric Askilsrud (scuba.eric_⁠)

#that THING is eleven feet long???

the big boy

Hey, USAmericans? Wanna save your country? Run For Something!

ohhh… you guys are like… STUPID stupid

for reference this is the warning that was too hard to navigate, apparently

life is fucking me and I do not consent

yeah well. I'll jump off that bridge when I come to it.