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What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Pull thyself together. The voice was sharp, contemptuous—the voice he thought of as Setheris, but Setheris would be exulting in his downfall. Perhaps, he thought in half-hysterical whimsy, it was the Emperor Edrehasivar VII, rebuking Maia Hobgoblin as a steward would a scullery boy.

individual images without text bubble under the cut :] please look at them i spent way too much time rendering these

Mirnatius from the Spinning Silver The devil himbo of the story. ~

Mirnatius, le beau gosse inquiétant de l'histoire.

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

Stone-carved gravestones in Christian churchyards and sprawling municipal cemeteries are by no means a universal death ritual, and demonstrate most significantly “the ability to spend money on a stone-carved gravestone” combined with “cheap enough local real estate that people haven’t dug it up (yet).”For example, in the United Kingdom, a gravestone and a private grave are only allotted temporarily, especially in very urban areas; leases on graves are often 99 years but can be as low as 25 years (for a cheaper burial, when your mourners might not be expected to need 25 whole rent-paying years to memorialise you.) particularly old or interesting gravestones may remain in situ because they are old or interesting, not because every single person who’s ever been buried remains buried forever.

They are a remarkably poor record of modern population, as well, because…

People don’t want to be buried any more. They especially don’t like the idea of burying children. Burial rates in the UK have crashed, with only 17% of people saying they want to be buried themselves. The vast majority of that 2016 survey preferred cremation for themselves, and would like to have their ashes scattered or placed somewhere meaningful.