I think reading Death in Yellowstone last year made me WAY more concerned than I should be about dying in Yellowstone National Park…..

in related news I may have just accidentally terrified an unsuspecting North Carolinian who asked an innocent question on r/hiking about places near Yellowstone and Glacier national parks that are good for trail running with a dog

phle-botomy:

topics apparent in traditional christmas carols that have Strangely Disappeared from modern canon:

  • the devil
  • the lord of this manor better give us booze or we’ll burn his house Down
  • alternatively, give us some cash
  • this plant is Red like the blood of Childbirth
  • i was wooed in the sheep field
  • what up, it’s the Devil again
  • goods or tuppence may be exchanged for a viewing of this wren we’ve killed
  • SWORD DANCE TUNES
  • we sing in thanks of the maidservant who let the mob into the laird’s home
  • dancing is a sin but do you think i’m gonna stop
  • unlikely
  • the apple crop better be good or next year it’ll grow fertilized with your blood
  • the winter is cruel but the laird is crueler
  • the church is also cruel
  • it’s lucky to give us money. in this case, the luck is not getting stabbed
  • really there are so many bangers

focsle:

“We can state as a matter of cold hard statistical fact that there were far more happy real-life queer people and people of colour in Regency England than there were handsome eligible dukes. This is simple mathematics, because queer people and people of colour actually existed, whereas the number of desirable dukes can be counted on the fingers of one foot.”

— K.J. Charles, “Historical Romance: Who Gets the HEA” (via mysharkwillgoon)

‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop

idionkisson:

resmeae:

lopsidedown:

dukeofbookingham:

This has nothing to do with anything but it’s the greatest headline I’ve ever seen

This article is amazing

I’d put my favourite quotes from the article up, but it’s the whole dang article.

“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal
expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an
animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”

‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop

magicianmew:

pumpkinspicefemme:

pumpkinspicefemme:

you know im not trying to call anyone out or w/e but this is the type of dialogue around mental illness on this site that i think is really unhelpful. the original post has over 100k notes. why do so many people experience life as something so soul crushing that they spend every second of their day wanting to sleep and then lie awake at night trying to prevent tomorrow? not to get marxist on main but i would suggest that the op points to the misery that work under capitalism creates for a lot of people and to just be like “all of these people have an individual pathology and its not ‘normal’” i feel really undermines our ability to talk about *why* so many people are depressed

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I am glad they included that these sorts of arguments do not mean anyone is denying you have a chemical imbalance – a frequent and understandable source of hurt when people encounter them. What we’re trying to examine here is WHY. The chemical balance of our brains is affected by everything we see and do in a day, not just innate genetic biology.

To suggest, as capitalist society does, that almost 20% of Americans were just born with an inherently dysfunctional mind is so incredibly fucking ludicrous that it blows me away that anyone still tries to pretend that makes any sense. There is no fucking way that is true. We’re not just born broken. We’re struggling to function in a broken world. And that is a key difference.