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The ginkgo leaf, designed on Pangea before the continents separated over 200 million years ago, is still one of the most beautiful designs on earth.

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do you have any favorite beetles?

Lots! Too many to name so I'll just share one

African woolly chafer, Sparrmannia alopex

Photo by rjbasson

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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Chapter 252: The List, In Order

Unsurprisingly, absolutely nobody wants to see Flame ever again.

Well, it looks like you'll be summoning the Necrobot. Elegy is looking specifically at you.

But you have other priorities. Your own version of The List, if you will.

"Nautica, I want to help you, but I have to help my other friend first."

Elegy agrees to stay behind with Nautica and Velocity to "handle the preparations," whatever that means. You promise to put him on a later episode of your podcast.

Agonizer is making arrangements for a shuttle to leave for Ritaxa tomorrow. That means YOU have to pack tonight!

You don't have a lot of belongings, but Agonizer sure has a lot of stuff in their warehouse.

AUTHOR'S NOTE : So, you've lost Elegy from the expedition, but that means there's space for Krok :)

#an artifact from the knights! #why? #i dunno #but it would be cool #XD

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If cats don't want to be bothered by humans they shouldn't be so botherable in both size and shape

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You might think that I'm joking when I say that we need cyborg rights to be codified into law, but I honestly think that, given the pace of development of medical implants and the rights issues raised by having proprietary technologies becoming part of a human body, I think that this is absolutely essential for bodily autonomy, disability rights, and human rights more generally. This has already become an issue, and it will only become a larger issue moving forwards.

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i just really wanna suck a cock rn fuck

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I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent

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Via @StarshipAlves at the It Was A Bird Once place: "Google has suspended drone courier flights because of raven attacks. Looks like the Ravens have taken our side against Skynet."

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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#always reblog ea nasir

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have i ever shown u people my hand sofa

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WHICH ONE??

#*snicker*

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Three modes of feelings toward characters as the writer is writing them:

These fuckers (affectionate)

These fuckers (annoyed)

These fuckers (literal)

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Hillside scramble in the deep - Olympic National Park

#pnw

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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#*snicker*