I'm far from the first to say this but "scientists don't want you to know ..." is perhaps the single least reputable phrase in the English language. number one category of people that want you to know so so bad. number one category of people actively begging for you to Know. if there was a fuckin berry or supplement or whatever that had decently high rates of preventing mega explosion death they would never shut the fuck up about it. everyday they clock into the "trying to know stuff" factory and they don't want you to know? my fuckin ass

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“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

They should invent a cry for help that has zero negative effects on anybody and also that makes everyone treat you like a little animal in a cardboard box. But everyone’s cool with it because you’re a cute little animal and not an adult human that needs to get their shit together to stay alive

i don't know why i sometimes insist on making ultra tiny dolls and causing problems for myself, but i have done it again. still, she did turn out pretty cute, and fitting on my palm enhances the effect. she is about 11cm tall standing up & her face is basically the size of a thumb nail.

Theres the lil thang

there is a very specific type of political enlightenment when you allow yourself to acknowledge bad people can be attractive and funny and intelligent and still be bad people because those things don’t quantify morality

European hare/Lepus europaeus/fälthare. Värmland, Sweden (25 July 2021).