Sometimes I do stuff.

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

✧ Art featuring Am in the VtM Artbook

Due to her cyber-psychosis, she would receive emails from non-existent addresses, chat with deleted accounts on forums, and generally couldn't tell real people apart from figments of her troubled imagination whenever she was online

I try my best to explain what’s going on here, but in all honesty I’m probably a little too riled up still.

I’m trying to figure out what I can do - I may just pick a couple countries that I sell the most to, and get how ever many packing licenses I can afford. So far I have one already for Germany and I don’t need one in Austria since I’m here and only a micro business. It’s all just so frustrating.

This goes into effect on the 12th and any orders placed this weekend will ship out on Monday or Tuesday (before the deadline).

Something magnificent happened during the Cambrian Period, 539 to 486 million years ago: complex life emerged.

Almost all major animal groups arrived, with the evolution of shells, skeletons, and other features that supported larger organisms.

Scientists have hypothesized that the “Cambrian explosion” resulted from a gradual increase in atmospheric oxygen levels that provided a metabolic boost. But now, a review study published yesterday in Trends in Ecology & Evolution hypothesizes that the ecosystem overhaul was also fueled by an explosion of poop. In a modern ocean, animal excrement is a key part of the nutrient cycle that infuses the water column with carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron, nutrifying deep waters. The earliest evidence of ocean animals is from the Ediacaran Period, about 600 million years ago, but to date, no fossilized poop has been found. Beginning in the Cambrian, however, such “coprolites”—that is, evidence of gut contents—have been discovered in 36 fossil deposits, the oldest dating to about 538.8 million years ago. Paleobiologists Julien Kimmig, from Germany’s Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, and Russell Bicknell, from Flinders University in Australia, searched the primary literature for all known instances of Cambrian coprolites. They found a variety of them, from microscopic “carpets” of feces to inch-long cylindrical or circular versions. By analyzing the array in relation to diets of Cambrian animals, they gained insights into food webs and nutrient cycling from hundreds of millions of years ago. “We’ve considered these ancient diets, increasingly sophisticated digestive systems, and trophic interactions as part of a much bigger picture,” explained Bicknell in a press release, “to help explain how more organic matter and nutrients poured into the ancient oceans to accelerate ecosystem development at the end of the Ediacaran and early Cambrian periods.” The researchers hypothesize that as more complex digestive systems evolved, wider varieties of food were processed. A larger boost of poop made nutrients available to other organisms, creating the conditions necessary to sustain complex life. “The importance of feces in ancient ecosystems is often overlooked,” added Bicknell.

(via: Nautilus Magazine)

The study:

TLDR: the 12th of August a new EU law goes into effect that forces every business to pay exorbitant fees per European country they want to ship to, under the guise of ‘encouraging packaging waste reduce’ (and there are 27(!) countries in the EU)

Which is a good idea in theory, but mostly meant for the big businesses who sent thousands of packages each month, not an artist who sends three keychains often already in recycled packaging 🤡