blame xkcd for the url

The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Fossil [Explained]

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so the average american is not aware of the controversy surrounding jk rowling, like this is a very online kind of knowledge to have. I mean that there are people who fully know I'm trans who talk about harry potter to me and there's no awareness of any of the discourse surrounding the work that's been going on for years, and idk where I'm going with this but sometimes there's a huge gulf between what we expect people to naturally know by virtue of us being on tumblr versus people who are not

dril and xkcd are at opposite ends of a spectrum slowly working to collaboratively post about every possible topic

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

@raccoon-sex-dungeon wow . in the flesh

indeed 🦝

wikipedia vandalism is actually insane if it happens perfectly. at one point my brother edited a fictionalized version of himself into our town's history, just as a random side character, and then some local historical societies lifted it without citing the source as wikipedia, and then wikipedia cited them, so now it's true

this all goes to say "cite your sources because if even one link in a chain doesn't cite, it can become an ouroboros"