I don't know what I'm doing, but can you please just play along

In fact, the creature you'll find suddenly walking beside you and acting as if they've always been there is almost certainly a juvenile, as the adults lose the ability when they reach reproductive age.

Recent studies suggest the forest mimic is less like a preying mantis (mimicry as a hunting strategy) and more like a cuckoo (mimicry as a protective strategy for their young). Adult forest mimics will leave their offspring near a group of hikers while they forage during the day, and retrieve them near trailheads in the evening. Groups of hikers provide safety from predators and allow the parents of the species the freedom to forage more widely.

For this reason, the traditional advice to never let a mimic into your vehicle is still very important, as this would separate the young mimic from its mother. If a juvenile forest mimic does follow your group to the parking lot, you can keep it entertained with trail snacks, dad jokes, and simple goofs. The mother will usually collect them shortly before sunset.

Source: currently a janitor at a church and you would not believe how many boomers get upset with me for insisting the trash cans need to be practical and easy to use instead of out of sight and too cute for functionality

things people have told me are "tacky" and that I need to get rid of (they have lost many of these arguments because I'm a bitch, others are ongoing)

an umbrella stand by the door with spare umbrellas for parishioners to use

a table by the front door "because people keep putting things on it" (that was. Why that table was there)

the signs that directed people towards the bathrooms

the actual trash can in the bathroom "because surely we don't need one so big" (for the bathroom that services the fellowship hall, which hosts things like the local scout events, so yes we need one that's at least 20 gallon)

apparently it's also tacky if I write down when I changed things like batteries and air fresheners, on a calendar they'll never see unless they go into my office??

another table in another waystation type area because "people keep putting things on it" (even when it's completely clear)

Once I started reading more about how ADHD works and actively considering my space, I started getting much better at identifying and fixing barriers to keeping my space organized. (For instance, I never put sweaters away, because I was keeping them in a chest where I had to lift the lid to put things in/take them out. I ended up getting an open closet with shelves, and all of a sudden I had no trouble keeping my sweaters put away.) But in order for that to happen, I had to actually examine my organizational systems and consider where they were failing, and what would need to happen for them to work.

For many able-bodied, neurotypical people, something being slightly inconvenient won't break the system. For instance, for one person, having a trash can in the same room is convenient enough for it to work, even if it's not directly next to where they're sitting/working. But another person might need a trash can right next to each spot where they might sit or work, because getting up to throw something away is too big a barrier for them. For one person, it might be fine to keep dishes in a cupboard across the room from the sink-- they're still in the same room, so it's convenient! But another person might need the dishes to be kept in an open shelf right above the sink, or they'll never get put away after being washed.

In the 1970s, some researchers theorized that the compound adrenochrome could maybe be the cause of schizophrenia and did some studies on it (spoiler alert: it was not actually the cause of schizophrenia). Separately, a close chemical relative and derivative compound is a hemostatic medication. These are pretty much the only things that adrenochrome has ever been used for in real life. A very small number of biotech companies still synthesize it, mostly for research into other derivatives of it that could maybe also be used in surgery or as hemorrhoid medications. But there's not any irl medical use for adrenochrome itself at this time.

SEPARATELY FROM ALL OF THAT IRL STUFF there is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews and/or Lizard People kidnap children, harvest their blood in order to make adrenochrome, and use it as an elixir of eternal youth.

Now you may be thinking, gosh, that sounds a lot like Blood Libel... and you would be correct! All adrenochrome conspiracy theories are at their core just repackaged Blood Libel with a vaguely sci-fi-esque coat of paint, and almost all of the ones were we know the exact origin of the conspiracy theory were created by literal neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Are they talking about adrenochrome as though it’s a street name for a totally wicked amphetamine with some narly, metal af synthesis? They are probably thinking of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, which portrays it that way.

Are they talking about it as though it’s a drug that keeps you young? Or as though it’s a drug of (((the Elites)))? Have they mentioned it in connection with George Soros, or Israel, or an international pedophile ring? Or really any politician that Qanon and the like are obsessed with? Do they think that children are kidnapped to make it? Do they think there are coverups about its existence? Did they use as other conspiratorial phrases, eg. “If you know, you know”?

Any of that is a strong sign that they are a neo-Nazi or white supremacist, even if they are also the sort of white guy who has tried to make Ayahuasca in their apartment.

“Yeah man, my friend says he took adrenchrome once and it fucked him up real good, said it was like putting his brain through a Vitamix” -> probably not a neo-Nazi

Posts picture of Hillary Clinton with the caption “Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Wegovy and Adrenochrome” -> very likely a neo-Nazi!!!

And by the way? If your white recreational drug nut buddy ever mentions adrenchrome in the first way, be a bro and read him the fuck in on the second usage????

Because this distinction is a razor’s edge, and given how much more common the neo-Nazi usage is, and how dangerous it is, my actual advice to people is “when in doubt, assume they’re a neo-Nazi and block the fuck out of them”. And a lot of people operate under that assumption, because they’d rather block a few harmless white dudes who take LSD on the weekends than they would fail to block a single neo-Nazi.

And look, if you know a guy who just thinks it’s like an amphetamine but “even wilder”, probably they don’t want to be associated with the people who think it’s an evil Jewish conspiracy? Probably if they knew the truth they’d a) stop being so cringe about a drug that doesn’t even do anything but sound cool, and MORE IMPORTANTLY b) stop using language which will make a lot of people think they are a genocidal racist and a wildly unsafe person to be around.

So I found this caterpillar on my way to class

i made him a tube room

im going to sleep, chicken nugget is snoozin and ill check up on him as soon as i wake up

hope he doesnt party too hard 

Someone made a Tumblr account pretending to be the Pokeball monopoly in a fictional universe, and people made a “KUNG POW PENIS” string using the in-universe letter-shaped pokemon, followed by a pokemon (zorua) making a slamming blast towards the camera, completing the spell or whatever.

They’re mirroring the real-life “silence capitalist” attitude, against a real account pretending to be a fake corporation, using symbols from the fake corporation’s world. They’re pretending like this attitude exists in-universe. This attitude in part exists due to real-life corporations increasingly encroaching into social life and injecting their presence on social media, like this fictional corporation is doing. It works as a good joke!

The real-life Pokemon company, presumably, issues a takedown, or the corporation of Tumblr does so voluntarily on their behalf, taking down the fictional KUNG POW PENIS on a copyright claim.

The post said "Stop trying to censor erotic art just because someone else doesn't like it. It won't work."

Aces can and do experience the beauty in erotic art. We just don't experience it the same way Allos do.

*screencap of a tiktok by @sarahinyellow featuring a lightskinned person sitting at their laptop with a bag of potato chips and a bottle of diet coke*

“diet culture will demonize any food that isn’t “clean” but EVERY food can have a benefit for you

Diet Coke is somehow the only thing that stops my migraines, and it reminds me of my best friend. Cape Cod potato chips are my go to salty snack and I live 10 minutes from the factory, so they make me feel cool.

Food is more than fuel. It’s memories and satisfaction and tradition and home and culture.

There’s nothing evil about that.”

Also the whole thing is super interesting?

Some cold, wet mornings, you’ll find the hornbill, sitting atop the termite mound that the Mongoose have taken refuge in over night,  waiting for it’s band of companions to rouse.  A little impatiently it seems, it sometimes taps on the mound, quite insistently.  Before long, the band of mongoose start to emerge from the warm interior, ready to start searching for a morsel or two.

As they forage through the shrubs and grass, the hornbill perches on branches above, snapping up any unfortunate insects, disturbed by the mongoose.  What does the mongoose get out of this, apart from a rude awakening?  Well, since the hornbill gets an easy meal, the mongoose gets in return, greater safety that the hornbill’s higher vantage point gives them.  Should the hornbill spot something dangerous, an eagle or another ground predator, it will utter an alarm calls, sending the mongoose scurrying to the nearest shelter.

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.