Meme. Photograph of an eel underwater. The eel is yellow in color, with a piercing eye and adorable nostril horns. We'll call her Brandabrenda. You can just see one of her fins at the edge of the picture. She looks to be smiling, but not a jovial smile. It's the uncertain but hopeful smile of a man meeting a blind date at a biker bar. Brandabrenda is swimming low in the water, just above a sandy-looking bottom. Her shadow looms just below her, a negative-spaced eel that reminds you of the fragility of meaning and the patience of the following dark. Imagine, if you will, that this is the last eel in the world. And *you* have to break the news to her. How would you feel? Wouldn't it be better if you could tell her that a renewed focus on eels in human history has led to a revival of the species? Let's do that. Brandbrenda deserves some good news. Meme text reads: "Have you seen my friends? I'm lonely"

Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.

Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.

But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
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The baby has been ill since Thursday I thought these things were resilient!

amazing website

Having a bit of a dilemma about flange sizes. 19mm hurts less/less split skin but is getting less milk that 21mm

Okay right I am in a cafe feeding both of us so let’s talk about this. It’s one of those things where it almost seems reasonable, at first: why *shouldn’t* breastfeeding be discreet? Let’s unpack that because it’s not actually reasonable.

A BBC news headline which says “Penguin says it did “all necessary due diligence” with The Salt Path

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

Girl what the fuck how is it so bad

Why did no one tell me I could tie my curl hair back with a banana clip? That’s what they’re FOR??

found Jesus

Very nice. Partner informs me we do not have 2 million for a water tower. Nor does he want to move to Suffolk

“Statutory maternity leave allows most new mums and birthing parents to take up to 52 weeks off work.
Statutory maternity pay is paid for up to 39 weeks” right yes I wonder if anyone in government can see the GLARING PROBLEM with this

anybody who talks shit about formula in front of me gets EXPLICIT DETAILS about my breast abscess. both of my kids were EBF but I do not give a fuck, formula is a life saving invention right alongside insulin. not right for everybody but critically necessary for some

I have also gotten this, and it’s surprisingly horrible!! I had such a difficult time breastfeeding chomp, with his tongue tie, that going to exclusive pumping was honestly a relief. and I know how lucky I am that I pump well! because it’s not common! so I roll out the FULL fed is best lecture

I got this name/spelling out a book!! Inspired by people who spell their name this way!! It’s not difficult.

I have an out there name and hoped to give my daughter a more ‘usual’ name without it being Jane etc apparently it’s reallllly difficult for people.

Dish tilted in oven with a protractor measuring the angle at 140 degrees.

"Place in oven at 140 degrees"

I have emailed my MP and asked them to support this amendment. The link below makes it incredibly easy to do the same, and if you are a UK resident I very strongly encourage you to do so. Abortion is critical healthcare and we must decriminalise it NOW.

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Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion.

Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

This is incredible

Image shows an owl with a hobby horse - looks like a witch on a broomstick

I have a new hero.
This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

Meme. Medieval painting of Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. The painting shows a woman coming to well with a jar on her head, carrying a bucket. The well is beyond a set of city gates; there are wild-looking rocks just past the well. There's a man sitting on the well talking to the woman (Jesus showing off his prophetic chops in an effort to score a drink). There are several men coming out of the gates, looking a bit surprised (the disciples, being scandalized). This scene is made more interesting if you imagine this as a married couple having a rather public fight. The wife is scolding the man for hanging out at the well and hitting on thirsty women, and he is defending himself by telling her that she had a giant tick on her head. Their neighbors are eves-dropping, and silently congratulating themselves on at least not being as terrible as the Andersons. Meme text reads: Welcome to the wishing well Now accepting eels * *Fresh eels only . Terms and conditions apply

Sometimes the food goes bad before you use it. Then what?

Just don't be like Salamon Salamon! In 1390, the London fishmonger was charged w/ hiding his bad eels in someone else's cellar. This was his second offense: earlier he was caught slipping rotting eels into a local well!
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And lord he’s try to eat what she’d drop, even if it wasn’t veg

I did something similar to this with the baby and it resulted in more food than I’d like chucked on the house rabbit

As Andrew Tate learned, being on the wrong side of Greta Thunberg is the day it starts to go wrong for you.

Look at that posture. Captured, hell. He has simply summoned a ride

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

She’s 11 months old. You’d think it would of happened more

Changed the baby while she was asleep for the second time in her life

I am in tears