I'm too old for this shit

And then the episode goes on and Bellamy gets more desperate and we have people as Monty’s mom and Pike(?) witnessing his utter devotion to Clarke. 

And Pike literally has to stop him from running across a field, probably getting himself killed, just to get to Clarke. And he adjustes his note: ‘There’s something more going on there than friendship.’ Because yes, friends also want to find their friends, but not in the way Bellamy wants to find Clarke. 

Monty is Clarke’s friend. “I want to find her too.” And that’s the exact difference, he knows it’s smarter to go to the cave and wait for the Ice Nation to pass; he still has the ability to think his actions through. But Bellamy goes beyond that. He can’t let Clarke die. He can’t explain the whole reason himself, other than that they need Clarke. He needs Clarke. And he thought Roan would kill her, so to hell with his own safety: his princess comes first.

And when Bellamy went undercover for Clarke (again) Pike probably freaked out about what an idiot he is and Kane and Monty probably looked at each other like ‘nothing new tbh’.

And then when Bellamy lost Clarke they all just go

You can literally see her go ‘Poor guy. So close to saving his girl only to be ripped apart again.’ Because let’s face it. If you fall in between their relationship in a moment like that, there’s no way you think they’re just friends. The logical thing to think is probably ‘fuck they’re so in love’. Bellamy’s reaction probably reminds Monty’s mom of what she went through the first months after Monty’s dad died a hero’s death. The fact that she couldn’t do anything about it crushing her, just as it was crushing this boy as well.

Kane has known for ages that Bellamy loves Clarke. Hell, it probably got more and more clear in the three months that we’ll never get to see. But the thing is; Bellamy probably doesn’t even know himself. He knows he needs Clarke, but up until now it wasn’t clear to him how much. The thought of losing her kills him, and he’ll die trying to keep that from happening. 

And the same thing goes for Clarke. Roan isn’t a fan of the title Wanheda, and her legend being told as if she were some kind of God (’looks like the great Wanheda is human after all’). But Clarke is still a fighter, and Roan knows it. Yet when he has a knife to the boy’s throat, she shows the same desperation that Bellamy showed all through the episode. And she’s scared to death. She wasn’t scared for her own life when Roan first captured her, but she’s scared now. Bellamy represents her old life, who she used to be, he represents her home, her sanity. And more importantly: Bellamy is one of the most important people of her life before Wanheda. And she begs Roan not to kill him, and with one look Roan knows that the 18 year old girl behind Wanheda loves this boy, and that she’ll be true to her word if he doesn’t kill him.

I got nothing done at work today because I have been obsessed with this sink. This is very much a me problem, nevertheless I have Findings.

Some astute tumblrinas (to whom I am indebted for the waste of an afternoon) noted the knob had the name of the Italian design company Ritmonio. My wild goose chase through all the products on their website yielded nothing like this sink.

I had more success with a reverse image search. This led me to this article by Leicht Los Angeles (a kitchen cabinetry company).

A basic web search for Sonobath turned up these articles by Kitchen and Bath Business.

However, the Sonobath website seems defunct. So naturally, I plugged it into the Wayback Machine anddddd

Bumdada da! Dumb sinks galore! The sink in your photo seems to be a version of the Titus sink.

Yes, all the models of sinks have names like that. The model Hydros has the tagline "vessel sink or interactive sculpture? you decide." It looks like this.

Which, I'll be honest, looks exactly like the Ethos sink, but rotated 90 degrees and rocks added. Or perhaps it's the inverse. Who knows!

The genius? behind these "sinks" seems to be one Jae Omar. He seems to have transitioned from bathrooms to whole houses. He has a new website.

I have no point and no final conclusion (at least, not beyond "rich people have remarkably poor taste"). But I spent all day figuring this out and none of my friends have been appreciative of my efforts. So now I'm dumping it on to tumblr.

Something to keep in mind with 85 days until the midterms.

A fish swimming in the Great Lakes today may have been alive before many colonial settlements existed in the region.

A new scientific study suggests lake sturgeon may live far longer than previously believed. Using 44 years of tagging and recapture data from five Great Lakes populations, researchers estimated that male lake sturgeon may live 90 to 279 years, while females could potentially reach 99 to 427 years.

For many years, scientists estimated sturgeon age by counting growth rings in fin spines, similar to tree rings. Researchers now say that method becomes less reliable as lake sturgeon age because their growth slows and the rings become increasingly difficult to distinguish. By tracking individual fish over decades, the study offers a new way to understand how long these ancient fish may live.

The findings also align with knowledge long shared by some Indigenous communities, whose oral traditions have described lake sturgeon as exceptionally long-lived beings. In many Great Lakes cultures, sturgeon hold deep importance as part of foodways, seasonal knowledge, and relationships with waterways.

Lake sturgeon were once heavily harvested and treated as nuisance fish in the late 1800s, contributing to major population declines. According to Michigan DNR reporting, less than 1% of historic Great Lakes lake sturgeon numbers remain. Because they mature slowly and reproduce over many decades, recovery takes time across generations.

The study highlights the value of long-term monitoring and collaboration among Tribal Nations, fisheries researchers, universities, and conservation agencies. Protecting healthy rivers, spawning habitat, and connected waterways remains important for the future of this species.

Dimension 20 | A Court of Fey & Flowers | Ep 1

Eva. Stratt. Eva Stratt is a bulldozer who takes out Antarctica and the Sahara and commanders an entire Chinese naval aircraft carrier.

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A very famous slogan among union organizers and such was "8 hours of work 8 of rest, 8 to do as we please". If you look into it this is also why certain sleep scientists are so insistent that 8 hours is enough sleep, because that's the amount most 9 to 5 workers get.

The problem is 8 hours of constant work is still way too much for the human body and it slowly hollows you out from the inside. You can often work more if the work is fulfilling and you aren't alienated from the products of your labor, but in a modern industrialized society that is almost never the case and working much more than 8 regularly will still shred your mind.