It is really flabbergasting how often and how hard I always end up having to go to bat for extremely significant and foundational elements of the TTRPG artform such as “adventure modules” and “rules.” It feels like if I were in a visual artist and I had to advocate for, like, pencils or the color green.
A fun new visitor today - this handsome bird is a Fox Sparrow. He spent a lot of time feeding on the ground, and I also saw him in person - he was not shy at all! And a lot bigger than I anticipated, about the size of a Cardi but chunkier. This species apparently comes in four variations, and this is the Red Fox Sparrow. He was one of the last ones on camera today, so I hope he sticks around for a bit.
My birding friends and I call it's little hop motion "the fox trot." While plenty of other small passerines do this to look for food, we associate it way more strongly with Fox Sparrows.
the idea of Wrestlers as One Piece characters gave me the image of Roman Reigns as Rob Lucci
I'm not super invested in wrestling, but id see him as more of a Kaido myself
Rob heel turned inside of a single season, that's way too efficient for Roman. We'd be halfway through Wano arc and Lucci would still be a tertiary protagonist no one likes.
megaman characters are great. they all have funny little names.
this is Slur
they took everything from me.
If I had a nickle for every anime character named Slur...
She'll fuck me if I cook good enough I know it
why do some birders hate squirrels so much to the point that they actually have beef with these rodents. they are simply creatures also
I mean, around here our most common squirrels are invasive, though they've been in the area for a while now. So I dislike them like I dislike most invasives.
I always love the rare time I see an actual Douglas Squirrel though.
image description: a screencap of a wikipedia page that reads "The CAnada goose is also colloquially referred to as the "Canadian goose". This name may annoy some birders."
From personal experience, "annoy" is putting it mildly, wikipedia.
This could cause fistfights among birders.
I'm too busy being mad about the Canada Jay not being the Whiskeyjack.
i like being a lesbian and all, but holy shit, men are so cool. i hope all men reading this have a wonderful day.
i like being gay and all, but holy shit, women are so cool!!!! i hope all women reading this have a wonderful day as well!!!!!!!!!
[image description: the epic handshake meme. one arm is labelled gay people and the other is labelled lesbians. in the middle it says "fuck yeah bro". end id]
hey guys, quick reminder! this post is about uplifting other people!!! tags like 'ugh, but men are gross lol' or 'op has never met a man' are not welcome and will recieve an insta block! men are cool! women are cool! thank you for coming to my fucking ted talk! :-)
Amen to that.
a single andes chocolate mint from the olive garden can fully nourish an adult human for up to 96 hours
This is genuinely the idea behind Kendal Mint Cake
Say what now?
Kendal Mint Cake is a sort of highly dense lump of sugar flavoured with peppermint oil. It does not spoil, and somehow contains 2x more sugar and glucose than sugar or glucose. It is a purposeful product intended as an emergency ration to give a boost of energy when mountaineering. It is associated with hikers and mountaineers in the UK and is sold in camping/outdoor stores. Typically you keep a packet permanently in your camping bag or car or emergency kit, and just never move or remove it. If the time comes, it’s there.
I gestured a hand across an explanation of a Scottish field geologist character named Ken(dal Mint Cake) stating that he always has a packet of Kendal mint cake somewhere and received a message from a friend saying “I didn’t know you also knew (guy that Ken could conceivably be based on)”. I didn’t. This is just a portrait of too many extant guys.
There are several species of this man crashing cheerfully around the UK receiving deep spiritual pleasure from crouching in a puddle in a howling gale up a mountain nibbling pieces of violent mint sugar and apparently metabolising sufficient joy from this to polish off Kendal Mint Cake in marketable quantities for over 100 years.
Unless they made too much of it originally and are still selling it.
It isn’t sugar cube. It’s sugar to the fourth power. Nobody sounds reasonable talking about it.
Tumblr users rising to the challenge . You’ll note the recurring theme
Step 1: go on an entirely optional adventure
Step 2: get into an unpleasant condition in bad weather
Step 3: become very uncomfortable and hateful
Step 4: Kendal mint cake
Step 5: access stratosphere with tits blown off
Step 6: summit
Step 7: say “that was lovely”
If only it had been founded 35 years earlier, the Franklin expedition would have found the NW Passage while carrying their boats like a pack of very determined sugar fuelled ants.
How have we gotten this far without showing the packaging, oh, you know this stuff has cocaine in its DNA.
I like Kendal Mint Cake. It's minty tablet. Y'all know about tablet right. If KMC is sugar to the 4th power, tablet is milk to the 4th power with extra sugar. And its very best version is flavoured with whisky. It has 4 basic ingredients.
Sugar. Milk, Butter (churned milk), Sweetened condensed milk (sugar and milk).
You get the picture. It has the same texture as KMC and the same punch to your blood sugar. There is, however, another major difference.
Whilst Scottish tablet can be left in an air tight container for a couple of months, Kendal Mint Cake can be left in your will.
after meaning to get around to it for years i finally listened to almost the entirety of Sold a Story and it is as groundbreaking as everyone says it is. it's also the most confusing, to me, single event in American culture in my lifetime and my reasons for thinking that are pretty complex so im not sure theyre fully formed yet. there's a list of shit in this podcast that made me feel like i was going insane
the really crazy thing about cooking is that once you practice it enough (for all the gamers reading this: "grind enough exp") your threshold for wuat counts as a low effort / depression / I Dont Really Want To Cook meal rises steadily and you can feel yourself becoming the kind of person whose "chill dinner" takes 1h45 and involves three pans
Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:
Anyone can be
Non-Binary, there is no
“look” or requirement
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Once on the brink of extinction, rare Mediterranean monk seal populations are rising, thanks to conservation efforts.
The Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, known as MOm, is a charity dedicated to the care and protection of these rare marine animals.
Nearly half of the world's estimated 800 Mediterranean monk seals live in Greek waters, where the extensive coastline offers an abundance of sea caves that provide shelter for females to rear their young.
The rare seals are the only seal species in the Mediterranean. They have big, round eyes, prominent whiskers and are remarkably fast in the water...
In the twentieth century, habitat deterioration and destruction, as well as deliberate aggression from fisherman has caused a drastic population decline, prompting the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN) to classify them as 'critically endangered'.
The population had decreased so dramatically that at one point the species faced extinction.
Pictured: Panagis is one of dozens of monk seals nursed back to health by the Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, known as MOm.
Dr Alexandros Dendrinos, a marine biologist and coordinator at MOm, explains that the Mediterranean monk seal is "one of the rarest species of seal and marine mammal in the world."
"To protect an animal like the Mediterranean monk seal in its natural environment, you essentially have to protect the entire marine ecosystem,"
MOm is the only centre of its kind in the region, and has cared for around 40 seals both on location and at its facilities.
They respond to members of the public who find an animal in distress, aiding adult seals on-site when possible and bringing young seals, like Panagais, to the rehabilitation centre at Attica Zoological Park in Athens.
The young seals receive veterinary care, specialised nutrition, and swimming practice.
They are often named after those who found them, but human interaction is kept minimal to ensure their successful reintegration into the wild.
Once they have reached a healthy weight and developed natural hunting instincts, they are tagged for tracking and reintroduced to their natural habitat.
"This year, we had a really pleasant surprise," Dr Dendrinos shared.
A female seal they rehabilitated and released four years ago was recently spotted nursing her own pup.
Conservation efforts have yielded significant results as the species moved from critically endangered to endangered on the IUCN Red List and, in 2023, improved even further to vulnerable.
-via ABC Australia, March 12, 2025
