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you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

[ID: Tweet thread by Boze the Library Owl (@SketchesbyBoze): "'Why are folks getting dumber?' Because they don't read. 'Why aren't men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?' Because they don't read. 'Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?' 'Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?' Because they don't read. Because they don't read. As the literacy rate declines, you'll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading." End ID.]

catch me at the party eating a green apple

Being a crafty person and making a bunch of things often prompts people to ask "oh wow did you make that?" And like, the short answer is: yes I did, but the long answer is: well, no, the pattern isn't mine, but I did choose and buy the fabric/yarn and sewed it together/crocheted it/knitted it myself. I used a reference for that drawing/painting, I didn't come up with it myself. That ceramic piece was insired by a poem and a painting made by different people. What I'm trying to say is, everything I make requires other people to make their own thing first, and then I get inspired by them to do my own thing. So I can't really call anything truly mine, because really it's just a bunch of inspirations and experiences of others (and me) put together by my hands. Does that answer your question

We are mosaics made of everyone we have ever known.

I've failed to read rooms I was alone in

I will lock in tomorrow like nobody has ever locked in before

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows