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i am the most normal girl on planet earth. i drink water. i control my facial muscles and tone of voice. i wear a little boots. i am so normal

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we need a three day weekend i swear to god no experiments no testing no bullshit we gotta lop off a workday

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Carousel of light

[ID: an illustration of an aurora borealis on a textured starry sky background. From the bands of light, glowing blue animal shapes appear, moving to the left, including a rabbit, bear, fish, seal, crow, penguin, and caribou. End.]

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Beautiful from Ordinary Days

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my understanding is that aquaria are places you go to either for lesbian reasons or to exposit starfish facts

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the first sock i knit watching the moomin anime, the second listening to the ticking of 2 clocks, one of which was a second slower than the other. i knit some of it in the complete darkness of 4am at one point. first Ever pair of toe-up socks and first Ever short row heel. knit them in a week english style because i busted my left wrist mitering squares and i hate purling continental. they were a gift

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In terms of like, Please For The Love Of God Get Hobbies That Aren’t Scrolling Through An App For Six Hours A Day, I understand and experience completely the argument of like. with the stressors of modern work, you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to do anything but mindlessly watch Netflix and scroll through your phone. but like I would like to gently encourage you to simply force yourself for a time to do something instead of pick up your phone, bc the phone is literally designed to light up your brain with no effort from you whatsoever and it does in fact rot your brain. It makes literally anything but scrolling on your phone seem difficult and joyless. But if you stop scrolling on your phone all the time, and start like, reading or embroidering or gardening or going for walks, you will eventually find the joy in them once more

I understand and it is true that it is hard to have a life outside work and scrolling but there is not a near future where that won’t be the case and you should still live a life. And you won’t create a future where that isn’t the case if you don’t have the confidence and experience and drive to fight for it

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Nominee for the 95th Academy Awards: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

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Shhh don't wake them pls

[ID: Two photos of three sleeping rat figurines sculpted from polyclay. One shows all three of them sitting on the palm of a hand, while the other shows them bunched together on a windowsill. One of the rats is blue and curled up with its tail around itself, while a gray rat sleeps on top of a white one. All have thin pink tails. End ID.]

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Bee Quilt

The material has been hand dyed with turmeric, tea and onions skins. Then hand printed with lino cuts to represent the larvae, workers, drones and the single queen bee. The quilt was then then pieced, quilted and bound by hand.

The bees are arranged in a rough imitation of the structure of a hive: the queen is surrounded by workers, each drone and larvae are attended by their own workers, while others form a circle to represent a “bee dance” and some stand guard at the entrance to the hive.

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*me reaping* i know i for sure did not sow this much no way all this was me

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Thinking about how tumblr (and social media at large) offers the unique method of visual consumption in which the viewer sees the top of the image first and works their way to the bottom and how this aspect of interaction is vastly underutilized in online spaces (in situations where the art is not a comic)

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was told to straighten my posture and align my heels. i now stand corrected

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ilove people who work at front desks of things. i can walk into a building and go to the desk and i ask how do i do this thing. and then they just fucking tell me !!!!

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love this webbed site

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found inside a weird looking journal, value village victoria bc. I hope this man got what he wanted

-G.L., Weird Secondhand Finds That Just Need To Be Shared, Facebook

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The most common question we get about Into the Deep/En Lo Profundo: how do we pressurize the exhibits? Simply put, we don’t!

The technology doesn’t yet exist to provide large viewing windows for a pressurized tank. Instead, we feature deep-sea animals that also do well in the lower pressure of surface waters. Our midwater gallery, for example, almost exclusively focuses on jellies. That’s because gelatinous animals, like this chandelier jelly, are mostly made of water, and are constantly at a hydrostatic equilibrium with the environment around them, regardless of depth.

There are other deep con-sea-derations to exhibiting deep-sea animals. Want to learn more? Swim over to our webstory!