Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

I know that raids can seem like a lot of pressure, trust me. I've put quite a few off since they're not required content, unless I could run them solo. But the stories they tell are fantastic, and add so much context sometimes, or just have really lovely side stories to tell.

So, if I were to help organize a bi-weekly, no stress or judgement, just vibes raid night for sprouts and anxious folks, where we took on normal raids section by section, or a full AR

If this does happen, I would also love to recruit some folks who know the fights and are willing to help teach those new to them.

Appreciate the boosts @mimble-sparklepudding & @pumpkinmagekupo!

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Hey Tumblr friends!

So if you remember, I once posted about Dreams on a Pillow for their first crowdfunding campaign two years ago, an old school adventure game about a palestinian folktale around the Nakba, directed by a West Bank, award-winning palestinian, Rasheed Abueideh.

It's about a young woman who, in the panic of the Nakba, takes hold of a pillow instead of her baby, who she mistakenly leaves behind. She tries to escape and survive in a shifting tapestry of past and present. It's about celebrating palestinian culture: both its beauty and its grief.

The game has a Steam page and is well underway, but, as you may be aware, the cost of making a game (as well as the cost of existing as a Palestinian) has severely exploded, which has led to a second crowdfunding campaign to actually complete the project.

Two points of order:

even if the full budget isn't being hit, every last bit of money will go to the project regardless, and the game will be released eventually no matter what. So even if the campaign is indeed struggling a bit, you can still help and it will still make a world of difference.

If that means anything to the people reading: I can personally vouch for the project. I have talked with Rasheed myself several times, I'm involved with one of the organizations that supports this game, the team is very serious, and there are many veteran game professionals with decades of experience supporting this project and vouching for it as well. It's going to be a deeply beautiful, heartbreaking experience that the world really needs to see right now.