Startling Advances in Twig Technology

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need better friends

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need to be better friends

[id: two photos of an american crow with a mutation that makes its feathers a soft smoky grey instead of the usual deep black. in the first photo it is foraging in some dry grass next to a smaller crow who has the usual black feathers. in the second photo it is perched on a fir tree branch. /end id.]

sleep is not normal to want and impossible to achieve

but would it need to be from a kosher animal can they drink, like, dolphin blood

Okay now that gets interesting and I would want to actually ask a rabbi whether that would be a thing.  like, if one must consume the blood of living things to survive, does it make a difference whether one limits it to the blood of kosher animals or not.  I could see it being ruled either way.  (I would think if there is only one type of blood one can metabolize or if only one type of blood is available, one can consume it regardless.)

I know that applies to one’s own blood, but I don’t know if the principle applies to someone else’s.  But it may count as a possible precedent!

@jewish-culture-is this is a thread I always go back to!

omg my questions have been answered. thank you!! and yes this important to me and must be shared on this blog

Jewish culture is going REALLY deep into how fictional scenarios will integrate with Judaism!

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

nothing can break the bond between a friend who loves spoilers and a friend who just watched an amazing show and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

alternatively: nothing can break the bond between a friend who doesnt read and a friend who just read an amazing book and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

nothing can break the bond between a friend who cannot and will not watch horror but is still interested and a friend who just watched an amazing horror movie and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

When you're unable to solve an IT problem at work, there really is nothing quite like having it escalated all the way up the ladder. With every step, there is a degree of smugness about how real my problem is, and that yes, I was right to have trouble with this.

You can get a minor version of this if one IT person solves it but they spend a bunch of time repeating things you’ve already tried and when they eventually solve it it’s by doing something you wanted to try but didn’t have the requisite permissions to do

Was in a situation where neither I, nor my boss knew what was causing the problem, so we ended up calling one of the head engineers, and ive never experienced anything quite as validating as the moment where said head engineer, after spending several minutes just staring at the problem, quietly said "what the fuck"

you deserve a life you aren’t constantly recovering from

you deserve a life you aren’t constantly recovering from

you deserve a life you aren’t constantly recovering from

you deserve a life you aren’t constantly recovering from

food has no moral value. being fed does.

You are allowed to grieve the person you could have been if life had been gentler with you.