twotone

I'm sorry for your loss.

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

A poster hanging on a brick wall that says Leave your leaves for lightning bugs! with lightning bugs on new purple asters . There's too-small-to-read text in a box with the heading Lightning bugs are struggling to survive, help them thrive by taking these actions

As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us.

Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects!

Get some to hang in your neighborhood!
Squidfacts.net

Nugget Keychain Plushies Pocket sized plush companions with backpack accessories!

This popped up on my Instagram feed and I went from "Cute" to "ohmygod it comes with a tiny itabag-style backpack, I need one" so fast

---

Check out Nugget Keychain Plushies by Bright Bat Design on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bri...

One unexpected side-effect of being in the Starcruiser fan community and also being bad at remembering names and faces is that I spend a lot more time smiling at people in the Disney Parks just in case they're people I know

The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Reactor In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets her replacement.

I was going to do laundry, but instead I read this beautiful novelette by Cameron Reed.

These are strange times we live in, when a dystopian science fiction world can be filled with so much hope.

reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...

I'm having one of those days/lifetimes where I can't tell if something is
1) funny
2) funny only to me
or
3) funny only to me and outright unsettling/unnerving to others

I can accept "others might not find it funny" because people have different senses of humour, but I don't want people to worry.

When you see the words “the clearest photo ever taken of [planet, moon, etc.]” RUN AWAY!

These accounts suck because they often don’t credit properly, many don’t use alt txt, share misinformation, are anonymous with unknown credentials, and are not here to teach you science but to engagement farm.

FINE: TL;DR 🦑🧪🌎

Plastic pollution is a problem.

People should use less plastic when they can

Straws became a culture-war flashpoint and are not the biggest source of plastic pollution.

Everyone talks about this, especially solutions, wrong.

Some people absolutely need plastic straws.

More: 🧵

6) The way to fix ocean plastic pollution is to stop it from getting into the ocean in the first place. This means reforms to manufacturing and waste disposal processes.

Once plastic is in the ocean, we cannot get it out without killing marine life. People claiming otherwise are liars.

The hand of a person installing a tip-over prevention kit on a TV. Pauly Pylon - a sentient football pylon and Frankie Football - a sentient football are cheering the person as they go. Pauly chants "Anchor It! Anchor kit!" Frankie starts the chant right, but towards the end garbles the words. The text reads: Tough to chant. Easy to install. If you have kids at home, make sure your TVs and furniture are anchored to the wall.

If you have kids at home and you bought a new TV for the Suspiciously Large Football Game, make sure you Anchor It!

Thank you!

A golden Asian Dragon-themed doll with scaly limbs and tail is dressed in an elaborate Chinese-inspired dress with voluminous taffeta decorations resembling water spray. A pink-skinned pink-haired doll with snakes for hair leaps up to touch her hand, as a green-skinned doll with snakes for hair gestures towards the scene.

In honour of the Year of the Snake, I finally opened 2024's Monster High Fang Vote Jinafire Long.

Dolls:
Monster High G3 Deuce Gorgon
Monster High G1 Viperine Gorgon
Monster High 2024 Fang Vote Jinafire Long

#dolls
#MonsterHigh

Sorry this took so long... We finally managed to dig up our old Toy Fair photos but I can only find Teen Trends photos from Toy Fair 2006. I'm really sorry!

Please use alt text to the best of your ability.

Don’t worry about doing it “wrong.” You’ll get better & faster at it the more you practice. And a half-assed attempt is better than nothing! 💖

Alt text isn’t just for low/no vision folks using screen readers.

When written accurately, alt text also helps filter out potentially triggering images for everyone.

Game Store Manager here... That's a swing and a miss from them. The folks who follow BGs already know about Finspan. They probably already know if it's for them. There's a HUGE opportunity for cross promotion outside of established gamers with a title like this, imho it's the only reason it exists.

Every one of these cards has a fact about the animal on the front, *and* an action people can take to protect that animal.

We’re looking at cute art.
We’re learning about cool bugs.
We’re caring for our wildlife.

What are you waiting for?? Get this year’s valentines here
squidfacts.net

STOP. ASKING. CHATGPT THINGS. TO OWN IT.

We all know it's bad and it can't count the number of Rs in strawberry. Quit boiling the planet with your fucking dunks

Me and my husband standing in front of a large illustrated touristy billboard for the Dino Institute at Disney's Animal Kingdom

The exit to Chester and Hester's Dinorama, with an illuminated sign saying Chester and Hester Say See Y'All Real Soon

Farewell, Chester and Hester's Dinorama. You were a faithful recreation of a mood and place, a sun-faded roadside carnival with cheesy puns and tourist-y photo ops.

Hi, thanks for asking! I'll see if I can find anything. I suspect that our 2005 Toy Fair photos might be backed up on a CD or external HD so it might take a while 😅

Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on how scientists use online platforms like Twitter/X and Bluesky. If you are 18 years of age or older and are a scientist who uses these platforms for professional purposes, please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester @ miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time.

If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey.

Link:

umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

English Side I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights. These cards are available to citizens and noncitizens alike. The other side is in Spanish and says: You have constitutional rights: DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR if an immigration agent is knocking. If you are inside of your house, show the card through the window or slide it under the door: DO NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS from an immigration agent if they try to talk to you. You have the right to remain silent. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING without first speaking to a lawyer. You have the right to speak to a lawyer. If you are outside of your house, SHOW THIS CARD TO THE AGENT. Ask the agent if you are free to leave and if they say you can, leave calmly.

Hello #WestMarin - I have 1000 free red cards in English and Spanish that I would love your help distributing. These cards were created to help people assert their rights and defend themselves against constitutional violations such as when ICE agents go to a home.

How to find Feeds on your phone in Bluesky: There's the Crochet and Knitting feed, showing posts with the 🧶 emoji. There's also a Craftiverse feed which captures more than just yarn crafts. Search Feeds (the 3-line menu top left - phone/ #Feeds in the left menu - desktop). Search for your interests!

Definitely go up a needle size. That will usually help loosen up your gauge. You can also check a few inches into your sock to see if you're getting the gauge and the fabric that you want.

Good luck!

Photo of an adorable, petite brown tabby cat in a black photo setting with blurry purple lights behind her.

The other photographer who works with the humane society takes the most beautiful, clean, professional portraits and then I’m there like “okay but what if the kitties went to a glamour photography studio in a strip mall in 1985??”

This, sadly, is absolutely true, generates self-censoring among librarians, publishers, authors. Anticipatory compliance is a thing. Part of same idea that makes doctors fearful of legal consequences for some procedures now.

Two cups of hot cocoa, one is much wider at the top and both are filled with mini marshmallows

If you use a shorter, wider mug you can have as much cocoa and 3x the marshmallows

Follow me for more life hacks

The view from the row behind the sound booth at the Theater of the Stars. There are computer screens showing images of Kermit and Miss Piggy popping out of a festive wreath, and down below is a stage with the curtains down. Projections of twinkling stars shine on the arch above the stage

This show at Jollywood Nights at Disney's Hollywood Studios is officially called Holidays in Hollywood, but I am heartened by the number of people referring to it as the Muppet show.

Sure, Mickey and Minnie and Tiana and Belle are in the show, but everyone's really here for Kermit and Miss Piggy.

I propose a new term: SINE. Site-specific Immersive Narrative Experiences— storytelling with narrative directly tied to/shaped by the physical location.

The term "immersive experience" is too vague and seems to be a term put on everything from Malls to VR.

#sine #immersive #experiential