No Straight Roads

He was bred in captivity and was afflicted with health problems and 30% smaller than average for a male puma. As a cub he was in a petting zoo, and due to his health issues, he was unable to be rehabilitated for wild release.

So this Russian couple adopted him. He goes to doggy obedience school. Walks on a leash, wears puma jammies on cold days. Lets his owners clip his claws. And is 100% living life as a house cat.

Messi is NOT domesticated. Messi is tame. He’s been around humans his entire life and has no reason to fear humans. Messi is an exception, not a rule.

i’m like “you can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. that’s like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.”

i’m expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go “we want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!”

so i’m like “alright let’s do it!!!!” and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s

after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the children’s department in that same duckling parade style

after we got married in-game it did the thing it does and asked us if we wanted to have a baby

we were like yeah sure why not, we're not having kids irl so may as well have a cute lil' virtual baby that costs us nothing and we can turn into a dove at any time

like the very next day we got that super rare 0.8% chance event that we had NO CLUE ABOUT where a freaking alien capsule drops on your farm in the middle of the night and the next day it's like shattered and whatever was inside is running loose

c'mon guys i really can't handle another shitpost flooding my inbox

especially not one about me and my husband's stardew valley alien baby

so net-mending season (may/june) in alaska is the worst part of the year imo because all we do all day every day is look for tiny holes in ENORMOUS nets to make sure the little tiny fish can't escape.

all day, every day, smelly nets, staring at them, never ending. it's already enough to drive a person to madness, but one of my coworkers used to EXCLUSIVELY play nightcore & rave bop bruno mars remixes when it was his day on the aux. starting at 7:30 am. and on those days i swear i had out of body experiences.

genuinely a good question! the answer is that brown bears wander between our buildings all day, popping out of the woods quietly and at close-distance. loud music is alright because we can still talk to each other and be aware of our surroundings, but noise-cancelling headphones or just regular headphones would be dangerous in that we couldn’t hear a bear or each other saying “hey watch out for that bear.”

I was making a video one day of a raven call while net mending and this bear popped up having barely made a sound. you can see how close it is, and this was a daily norm. so the choice was bruno mars or bears and i will say that some days I questioned myself….

we aren’t fishing! : ) this is salmon hatchery, where we collect wild eggs and milt (sperm), rear salmon, and release them to the wild again. not to be confused with fish farming!

these nets were for our net-pens. they hung in the water from floating, square docks so we could raise dog salmon (also called chum salmon) directly in the sea! (also covered with nets on top to prevent bird predation)

Like, if you walk me through each task in running a salmon hatchery I'd be "Yeah, okay, that makes sense" or "That's really clever, I bet it sucked a lot figuring out how to do that".

But if you asked me how a salmon hatchery is run, what would be the most important and tedious tasks, what you needed to be concerned about, literally none of this stuff would occur to me.

And that's fine, in that I have never worked at a salmon hatchery, have no responsibility for one in any sense, and don't present myself as knowing about them at all.

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.