I Wanna Be A Dragoness

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

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Imagine disliking this animal. Poor taste. Reddest of red flags.

Your fighting your insurance company because they say what happened wasn’t an act of god, and is therefore not their problem. All of a sudden a booming voice says “Sorry, that was totally me. My bad.”

Humans are livestock to vampires, of course. But there are laws governing the treatment of livestock. They must be fed and housed and enriched and cared for. Vampires who break these laws are the ones “free-range” humans usually hear about.

curious as to whether ao3 had an uptick in traffic yesterday...

delighted to learn there is an increase in ao3 traffic corresponding annually to christmas, thanksgiving etc. truly the "meaning of the holidays" is about reading porn to cope with being stuck indoors with relatives

Target provides facial recognition software to the Minneapolis Police Department. Not the other way around. Don't fuck with Target.

"Your son will take your throne from you," they prophesized, spitting each word out of teeth clenched tight with hatred. Why they'd bother prophesizing such an event befuddles you; your son is literally your chosen heir, after all.

Related: at a neuroscience conference I was at once there was a talk on how the "microslippages" against your fingertip when you lightly pinch something are generally enough for you to work out exactly how much force to grip it with to lift it without crushing it or dropping it.

[ID/A tweet by Cliff 🦖 [dinosaur emoji] Jerrison (@ pervocracy) saying "one of the most amazing things a human brain can do is when you shake an opaque bottle and get an idea of how full it is by how the weight shifts. there's got to be incredible math going on under the hood there" /End ID]

What about tosses? What about catching? THATS some serious math right there too

Theres a post somewhere about how the human brain is just constantly doing advanced calculus, even if we dont understand the math, we are still very good at consepsualizing it

I love when the weather says 'fuck you, get soaked,' to a single mile-wide or square-mile piece of land.

happy ‘this fruity number?’ friday

So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.