Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

they say you snooze you lose, and well. heh. i snost and lost

something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.

hey man i'm going on vacation for 86 yoctoseconds can you watch my pet hydrogen-5 isotope while i'm gone

spock’s space instagram live explaining scientific safety measures to the entire crew goes as well as you’d expect

Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS

“How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and listen for the clappeth of it’s itinerant cheeks?” - Matthew 18:12, the bible

CLAPPETH….

I made this post a long time ago and never posted the follow up post, so here it is. Additional info on Fat tail sheep

Fat tailed sheep is not a single specific breed of sheep. It’s a catchall word like “Health care worker”.

There’s tons and tons of different breeds. They all store fat in their tails, but fall into two main categories: WIDE tails and LONG tails

Wide tails store fat in the rump area and have no visible tails.

Long tails store fat in the tail itself, which vary in length in different breeds. In the olden days, people took pride in breeding sheep with the longest tail. They are not so popular today as it’s hard to find a decent tail cart on Amazon.

Speaking of Tail carts, they come in different styles and designs. We dont have any that are actually preserved, but old drawing of them show different wheels harnesses.

Some of them are literally just skateboards

Back in the day, breeding sheep with long dragging tails was all the rage. Nowadays different tails types have been developed to prevent them from dragging their tails on the ground. Such as the “folded tail” or the “Only fat at the base” Tail

Despite fat tail sheep being the most common sheep breeds in the world, most people in the west have never heard of them. The West likes Wool Sheep. Fat tails are strictly meat sheep and have little useful wool. They also do poorly in colder climates

There’s a huge community of shepherds on youtube that script, choreograph and shoot elaborate videos for their sheep complete uplifting music to highlight their best qualities (for sale and stud) It is fantastic. Such as this one:

People kept bringing up Fat Bottomed Girls. Ya’ll are wrong. These are fat bottomed BOYS. Sheep are often continuously bred, so the females are constantly getting pregnant, giving birth and nursing.

That’s very hard on the body, so they can’t build up as much fat as the boys.

The fattest sheep, the ones with the truly VAST tails, rocking them little carts are ALWAYS males.

This is why the Bible specifically states that ONLY the rumps of the Males are to fit to be offered to the lord……

Picture: God desiring the tail

“And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the WHOLE rump” -Leviticus 3:9

I mean… look.

Arguably these are just minor details and doesnt matter….

But beyond it’s teachings the bible is also a work of literature about life in the ancient world. And on some level these kinds of small details bring a sort of richness to these depictions of real…

Ancient people bred out sheep with huge butts, took the largest sheep butts, set them on fire and prayed over the burning butt. It checks out.

daily reminder that diagnoses are clinical tools not ontological categories ❤️

"pt presents with ABC symptoms that are theorized to have XYZ cause" is a diagnosis.

"pt is fundamentally an XYZ-haver" is a horoscope.

also. generally, and in psychology in particular, modern best practices are not just framed around the symptoms but the patient's complaints. if the patient says "yeah, I hear voices sometimes, but they're my friends and they help me do things," and the patient is able to meet their needs/goals in life (career, relationships, physical health, etc) that actually does not meet the criteria for a disorder because there is no complaint there. nothing is wrong and the patient is fine, they're just a bit odd. people can be odd.

¡Qué chistoso!

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YO MOMMA SO HOT SHE burned on the ceiling of your room

Got off a video call with my grandma. Asked her what sort of American foods she was enjoying (my dad flew her in from Korea and she's staying with him in Phoenix rn). She said most of the food isn't too impressive but she's addicted to a specific candy, and when she held up a bag of Werther's Originals I started howling

if you're over 250lbs you should be thanked daily for your service and receive a discount on your next purchase

oh babe gender has nothing to do with it i dont care if you're male or they or female or gendervoid or whatever if you're heavy and hefty and full of weight you deserve nice things and regardless of what gender people are attracted to

Honestly this is fucking brilliant because you can put hot drinks in this cup and since it has a handle you won’t burn your hand drinking it

3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

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Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.

I think one month of going alcohol free is a lot more reasonable than asking everyone to just 100% give up alcohol. Because I have nothing against casually drinking here and there, I do myself. But I do have a problem with the way most cultures, especially western cultures, encourage a MASSIVELY unhealthy relationship with alcohol and shame anyone who doesn't participate in having an unhealthy relationship with alcohol as "prudish" and "no fun".

If just practicing one month of abstaining from alcohol was more widespread I think more people would realize how unhealthy their relationship with alcohol actually is. Maybe more people would realize they have a problem when they realize they're struggling to go just one month without alcohol.

Maybe people would learn better ways to socialize and meet new people without alcohol. Maybe people would learn more ways to have fun without alcohol. Maybe if more people tried to go just one month without alcohol it could create social change around how much our culture encourages an unhealthy relationship with alcohol.

i love john brosio paintings bc theyll be an absolute gut punch that forces you to consider your own morality like two earthlings and they will also be Big Crab

“two earthlings”, an absolutely devastating oil painting that i think about every single day

“fatigue 2”, Big Crab

I hadn’t seen the second one.  You can just tell that guy is standing where his car should be.  He’s too tired to worry about the crab directly, he’s just thinking about how this means he’s gotta call the insurance company and lord knows if giant crab attacks are covered.  He’s looking off to the left because that’s where the bus stop is, he’s watching a bus pull up right now and thinking that while there’s a chance he could sprint for it and make it on he absolutely cannot bring himself to run right now - not from the crab, not to the bus, not for anything.  Fuck the diet, though, he’s getting fast food tonight.  Not like he can drive to the store now anyway.

Man has gotten the bus home (car crushed by giant crab) to find more sea creatures on his property

Is this targeted? What will this do to his insurance premiums?