the Musical Misfit from a Synthetic Sea

also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

More from the notes:

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

For comparison, this is a daffodil

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

This is a marigold:

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

I actually want to thank the diabetics coming on this post like "actually it genuinely is a great treatment for diabetes and it hasn't affected my mood or my enjoyment of food. The real issue is it's getting abused as a weight loss drug which also makes it scarce and more expensive for those who can genuinely benefit from it." Kind of reminds me of the time my brother got permission from our family psychiatrist to try my ADHD medication and his reaction to it was "what the fuck are you on. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU'RE ON THIS EVERY DAY!?!"

My doctor has been trying desperately to get my insurance to accept her prescription for Wegovy for me. There's a lot of evidence to support these drugs may help with a lot of those "written off as female hormone" problems, and I'm at a weird intersection of "has one of those female hormone problems that makes it hard to lose weight" and "healing major injury that makes it easy to gain weight" and "genetically predisposed to diabetes."

“Commission open? Dm me” - commission scam

Tumblr is probably not the place to talk about sports but I'm not going back to twitter so:

unfortunately for me he is the funniest football player out there