it's creepy AND wet

Once again. I can understand the kneejerk impulse here, I do. It sucks to imagine, say, a creator scrolling online coming across some needlessly vitriolic post about something they worked on. But anyone is allowed to go "That's dickish" and move on, or people can engage with "I think this is oversimplified blah blah" if they want to but at the end of the day it isn't some kind of crime against the hobby or a fandom or even a singular person if someone just shoots off "This sucked I wasted my night" in their own accounts.

Like. A lot of people are trending towards thinking I'm talking about the importance of constructive criticism and like, sure, I think that is probably a more interesting avenue of analyzing something's flaws, but once again if you're not like, addressing an artist or interested in doing a deep dive that doesn't mean you're Not Allowed to be flippant or quick to judge. It's kind of startling how many times I've seen someone be like, "I can't stand this album" on their blogs, untagged, had that shit shared, only for it to come across someone's feed and for them to respond with "Why? What's wrong with it? People are allowed to like it, why are you being so negative, why are you tearing people down for no reason, this isn't even real critique," as though the intention in the first place ever was or ought to have been substantive critique in the first place.

Last night as I was sitting out front chatting with my next door neighbor Maggie, the first lightning bug I have ever seen on our block floated by. Over the last few years, we’ve been turning our block into a native flower garden to help support the wildlife in our neighborhood. I had hoped this work would encourage lightning bugs to hang out here, and it finally happened!! Small actions we take in our neighborhood can make a massive difference for wildlife, especially in the city. Planting native plants is a huge part of that! Native plants give butterflies a place to raise their babies and bees a place to get lunch. Adding greenery makes our streets cooler too (both in temperature and vibes). For those nearby, I have a plant stand in front of my house. Come by, get some plants, and join me in supporting Philly wildlife 🪲

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

okay actually though, these three shows are so good.

The World is Dancing has a pretty basic plot (little boy learns that dancing is cool), but the animation is SO experimental and interesting! it made me feel real human emotions.

Sayonara, Lara is the Little Mermaid but anime. episode one is basically a recap of the Disney movie, but extremely well animated with a hot femme fatale design for the witch. as of the episode's end, we're in uncharted territory, and it could get very weird and interesting?

(Corythalia conferta, via iNaturalist)