The Haunt

Take it out and wring it like a sponge

Take it out and hang it over the porch rail like a dusty rug and beat it with a broom to get the junk off

Take it out and rinse it thoroughly in the sink

Take it out and put it in a container of effervescent denture cleansing tablets

Take it out and give it a nice massage with pleasantly scented oils

Take it out and stick it in the freezer for a few hours and then pop it back in

Flip it to the cool side like a pillow

Turn it off and on again. Reset the circuit breakers

Put it in a sieve to get the sand out and then re-form the goopy bits into the correct shape and stick it back in again

Leave it on the bedside table at night and pop it back in in the morning

bleed off the extra pressure

put it back in the oven to bake the rest of the way, because really

clean the corrosion off the wiring

use compressed air to get all the hair and dust out

get patches for the software

get full updates for the software

get new software

How to say you love somebody without saying you love them 🥰🥺😭💖💕

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

For an hour.