Lilac Ounce (לילַך אונץ)

Deep cut but Europeans finding Neolithic stone arrowheads in their fields, believing they were solidified bolts of magic ("elf arrows" or "elf shot"), and turning them into charms

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Pipe cleaners were once used to clean pipes.

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.

Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

A watercolour painting with a block quilt inspired layout, there's a mustelid or an element of mustelid diet in each block. The mustelids from top to bottom are the American mink, badger, stoat, pine marten, weasel, river otter, and polecat. Parts of their diet included are rabbits, eggs, fish, frogs, fruit, and birds.

Mustelid menu! Here's my second one for #FebruaryFrost26, for the prompt quilt. #art

I rock up to strip poker night wearing a t-shirt with an image of a Russian nesting doll on it. When I lose my first hand, I take it off to reveal I was wearing a second shirt underneath with a smaller but otherwise identical print. After the sixth shirt I am thrown out of strip poker night. source: "cheacegirl" on tumblr

lol

I feel like there reaches a point where it’s no longer shameful because you transcend from “slut” to “fertility goddess.” Zucchinis and shit probably sprout up where she walks now.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

“Don’t google that” is right up there with “thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” for foreshadowing a catastrophic loss of innocence.

Alone on a Friday night before Valentine’s Day? Well Erem can keep you company in my free dating sim that you can play right now!! 🥴💜

also, we’re still very much in the #SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

the average adult is on their 5th #covid infection.

#LongCovid is now the most common childhood health condition.

the folks in charge have been continually shooting us in the foot ever since they declared the pandemic “over” in 2022.

EYES ON THE PRIZE PEOPLE

celebrating knights of guinevere getting greenlit the best way i know how: reading this excellent piece on Disney and who affords a childhood

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I have grown to deeply distrust any 3/4 view dude in front of curtains with lighting with a microphone behind all caps text.

YouTube algorithm: "I see you clicked on a video about old video games. WHITE MAN DETECTED! Have you considered FASCISM as a lifestyle?"

ME: I'd like to broadcast my thoughts to an entire internet full of random strangers
UK: that's fine
ME: I'd like to message people I know
UK: that sounds sus

When someone says their country executes pedophiles and you respond by claiming that they are calling for the execution of Donald Trump, you are revealing that you know Donald Trump is a pedophile.

Thank you for you attention to this matter.

There needs to be prosecutions for everyone involved with the abduction and torture of immigrants by the US govt.

White dog girl in a pink crop top and turquoise gym shorts laying on a bed as she talks on a cord phone with the cord wrapped around her.

my art for @slightlyfurry.bsky.social FLUFFY BEANS vanilla cider!! ☎️✨

as an action gamer i wanted to give this game charity on a mechanics level but the enemy design is mediocre-to-bad so i can't even really do that, and i've never been closer to understanding idol purity culture than i was when this game ended with such an awesome character in love with a guy i hated

The ending of Bayonetta 3 is like if Xena ended up with this guy:

I HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU (no homo)

I've had many discussions where people go: But why make a *porn game*? Why not make something more... marketable?

And I'm like: Because,,,,, that's the art,,,,, I,,, NEED TO,,,, make,,,,,,,

“Many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."

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This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...

happy birthday gromit 🥹 🎂 🐶

Part Of Reynisfjara Beach Collapses After Severe Erosion Significant coastal erosion has been recorded at Reynisfjara, Iceland’s famous black-sand beach, after a large section of the slope beneath...

Holy shit. I have been to this beach, been in that cave to watch the waves come in (mindful of sneaker waves). It's inaccessible now. The underwater shelf that the beach was on collapsed. grapevine.is/news/2026/02...

love this so much:

"English is not my first language. But it’s okay, it's not America's first language either."
—bad bunny

Source: "How many people speak Spanish in the world? 42 Statistics" by Marielle Poorte, from SpeakeasyBCN. A map shows dark colors on Mexico, the US, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Spain.

As of 2025:

The country with the most Spanish speakers ("speak Spanish at home") is Mexico at ~135 million.

The country with the 2nd most: the USA, with 45 million.
If you include bilinguals, it jumps to 58 million.

About 10% of all Spanish speakers, globally, live in the USA.