Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

When I opened tumblr this morning:

When its your birthday month you should be able to do whatever you want and spend as much money as you want throughout the month and it doesn't count since your birthday is on that month so it's okay

Remembering Jim Henson on what would have been his 88th birthday. Happy Birthday, Jim!

happy birthday to all the tbs in the southern hemisphere!

Special Event: All Horses’ Birthday (Southern Hemisphere only)

Happy birthday, every horse in the northern hemisphere!

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

This is humanity

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

Shut up m'dudes, it's a national holiday

Scottish tour guide for the Robert Burns Museum doesn’t give a Fuck

Listen.

A neighborhood in New Orleans did this. Shut down traffic for a day to throw the thing a block party.

The city said, “haha guys ok, bet you won’t do it again.”

The next year they had an even bigger birthday party for the pot hole. Disrupted even more traffic. Local bakery donated cake.

The city caved and fixed the road.

If you cannot get things fixed by following the rules, be as bombastic as you need to be.

The Original Teenage Fashion Model! Happy Birthday @barbie 💗🖤🤍 #Barbie #BarbieDoll#BarbaraMillicentRoberts #Mattel

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNK4N_hbAy/

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RAT CAKE

from @/nonbinarycas

The messages on the cake:

“Happy birthday rat!” - “And you too, rat!”

A guest just came by my front desk and said “it’s my husband’s birthday today, make sure you say happy birthday when he comes down!” and I love it so much it reminds me of that post that’s like “if I was dating just some guy I would hype him up so much I would walk in and say here comes the most specialist boy make sure you clap and cheer when he comes in or I’ll blow this whole building up” you know that post, but it literally just happened to me in real life.

Update: they just came back in from eating dinner at a local restaurant I recommended, and I asked the specialist boy in the world how his Special Birthday Dinner was and what he got to eat, and he began to gush about this lasagna he had, and in the background I saw the wife nod in approval that I had acknowledged her Most Specialist Boy’s birthday.

Happy unofficial Birthday my very old son LOLLL yes Jim baked that, no Steve is not almost done with the candles

Its they birf day

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day 547

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Captain Kirk!

Okay I know these are SUPER blurry but the dwarf shrimp at work (who are already TINY shrimps) had even TINIER babies!!! The adults are only around an inch big, and the babies are smaller than grains of rice (or maybe about the size of a small grain of rice), so you can imagine the pain my phone was in trying to focus on them through the glass and water.

It looks like there’s a couple dozen of them all told; I know they won’t all make it, but I did a surface water change rather than a vacuum like normal (because I suspected that they might be Around) and when I poured the new water (gently!!) in, they all came out and started zipping around and looking busy. I’m so geeked to watch them grow up!

I’m dying, one of the guys at work made a baby shower cake for the shrimp moms because “they deserve it” and “they’re so small I didn’t think they could read congratulations but I forgot congrats existed.” He’s named two babies, Prawnathan and Crustashley.

Fun fact, a shrimp’s heart is in its head!

Ya truly love to see it!

The kids are alright.

you: the kids are alright

me, sobbing: oh my gosh the kids are alright

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT