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#i'm old #spongebob squarepants

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It's not only the first in US history, but only the second in North American history

According to experts, the blue rock thrush sighting is the second unofficial sighting in the documented history of North America. Oregon Birding Association member Nolan Clements, who is also a PhD student with Oregon State University’s Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, told KOIN 6 News that the blue rock thrush is native to Europe and Asia and is not known to inhabit any part of North America. “There has been only one report ever in North America,” Clements said. “In 1997, one was photographed in British Columbia. However, many birders were skeptical of the origins of this bird, thinking it may have been an escaped caged bird or perhaps accidentally transported across the Pacific on a cargo ship. Ultimately, the 1997 BC record was written off.”

So this little guy somehow ended up in a completely different continent than its native range!

shoutout to this random-ass guy who had this incredibly rare bird sighting

#birds

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*smoke emiting from clenched fist*

woman: OOOOoOOH NoO!!!! It’s meelltIINNGG!!

*ring melts off woman’s hand*

woman: MY PRECIOUS POWERRrRR RING! GONE FOORRVVERrrr..

woman: *screams like a pterodactyl* 

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I feel like we need to stop Twitter callouts and go back to publishing them in the newspaper like gentlemen.

(source: The Frederick Hornet, September 27, 1803.)

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There's no lack of s in that, but most of the lower-case s's are what was called "long s", which looks similar to a lower-case f (the main difference is that the lower-case f has a nub on the right side while long s has a nub on the left in some fonts, including this - look closely, for example, at "insult" and "from", or in other fonts no nub at all). What we would recognize today as lower-case s was still used, being called "short s" or "round s" or sometimes "terminal s", and can even be seen here in the word "always". Long s was only a form of lower-case s, the capital was the same as today (as you can see with "Sept."). It was around the 1790s to 1820s that the "long s" was lost in printed works (some publishers held on to it longer than others, either due to conservatism or just not wanting to replace existing fonts). The rules varied a bit on exactly how long s vs short s were used. The most common rules in English were that round s was used:

At the end of a word (hence the alternate name "terminal s"), hence "always" here, except that abbreviations would still use the long s if the long s would be used in the full form of the word

Immediately before or immediately after an f, presumably because of how similar long s and lower-case f looked

Before an apostrophe

For some writers, immediately before a k or a b (mostly found in the 17th century)

Some printers would also use a long s followed by a short s for a double s in the middle of a word, while others would use long s for both s's

With long s used everywhere else. Also, if a hyphen was used to split a word between two lines, and an s was immediately before the hyphen, it would usually be a long s, even in cases where a short s would be used without the hyphen

An interesting case of this transitional period is that the US declaration of war in the War of 1812 used only short s, while the British declaration of war for the same used long s

Of course, in handwriting, some people continued to use long s in at least a few cases (most commonly double-s) for a few decades after that. But after around 1826, the long s is pretty much gone from print, outside of publications that were purposefully old-fashioned

It's interesting to me that it was over such a relatively short period (30 years or so) that the long s was lost. I wonder if there were some older people in the 1820s who complained about how no one ever used the long s anymore

The integral symbol in calculus is derived from the long s, incidentally, as an abbreviation of Latin summa ("sum"), and the slash used in the pre-decimal British currency to separate shillings and pence was originally a long s standing for "shilling" (or technically the Latin solidus but either way would be abbreviated the same way)

I feel like we need to stop Twitter callouts and go back to publishing them in the newspaper like gentlemen.

(source: The Frederick Hornet, September 27, 1803.)

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American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), male, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, found over a great deal of North America and South America

photograph by Steve Rose (@stevenrosephotography)

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What's even weirder is if you click through the the original post you see a different time stamp:

But on dash board:

Why is there a 20-month difference??

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

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Justin of the Timber Lake: A mythical figure revered in the early 21st century as the Harbinger of May, thought to be the name of a deity, or possibly some sort of messianic figure

Excerpt from A History of Pre-Contact Earth, published 2903

#100 notes

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I was trying to get something sent to my yahoo email address, and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't showing up there. Even checked the spam folder with no luck

Then I checked my gmail and saw this

Oh, that's why it wasn't showing up

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incredible translation of sheeesh thank you google

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Premiata Forneria Marconi, Photos Of Ghosts, 1973

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oooooo what a cool post my mutual just reblogged ! I think I will reblog it as well !!! oooooh who did they reblog it from ? That username seems familiar,,, hohoho it's me ! from an hour ago !

#poke! #boop!

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As someone who grew up with "I'm not going to praise you for doing what's expected of you; that's not being good, that's doing the bare minimum" I want to encourage you to celebrate every little thing you can. Everything that takes energy and effort should be appreciated and you're allowed to be happy about trying.

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reblog to meow at the person you reblogged from

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Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:

don’t