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ER MAH GERSH IT’S A TRICYCLE FOR BIRDS

I kid you not. How adorable is this?!?!?!!?

Happy Friday, everyone! What’s your best from around the web this week?

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Busy juggling, brb tomorrow.

Well THAT Was A Mistake, or, How To Conquer Perfectionism With 3-2-1

It’s not that I’m so perfect that I rarely make mistakes, it’s just that usually they’re tiny things I don’t notice, or instances where my ego can brush things off as being other people’s mistake instead, or whatever. You know. We’re human. Usually, with a healthy brain, we don’t spend too much time thinking about our mistakes.

Then there are the moments when you do make a mistake, and it’s right in front of your eyes, and it’s confronting, because you realise that this perfect little image t...

MEN ARE NOT BRAINLESS SHEEP (SHOCKING, I KNOW) (a repost)

It feels awkwardly risky posting this in the wake of #MeToo, but isn’t that the point? That something like this shouldn’t be controversial? And so: I randomly stumbled across this while searching my archives for something else, and it is salient, and it is relevant, and it is important. Men: you are not brainless sheep.

 

“Shocking? What? Why should this concept be shocking?” I hear you ask. To which I counter: why is it not? How is it not, when so many of the fundamental assumptions our soci...

Made It Monday

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

If Punctuation Made Sounds

Today’s video brought to you courtesy of punctuation. This is kind of hilarious, and I’m also wondering if you could train transcription software to recognise the sounds as punctuation marks so you could dictate more smoothly (assuming you learned the sounds :D)?

 

Trees Think, Starfish See: The Most Fascinating Stuff From The Web

A random and fascinating assortment of internet reading today:

Starfish actually have eyes (on the ends of their arms!!), and they can probably see better than you think.

And speaking of ‘think’, it turns out plants can be anesthetised; does that mean they are conscious??

While we’re considering life forms, here are some animals that count (and, interesting to note is the stability even between human cultures of the numbers/words/concepts of one to five). 

Less stable, it will shock no one, a...

Foot Lamps and Stand Lamps: On Being Who You Are

I heard a talk the other day about the difference between foot lamps and stand lamps in the ancient Middle East, and the fact that both served very different purposes: stand lamps were, as implied by the name, set on a stand and were designed to light up the whole room, or outdoor area, or whatever. Stand lamps are big, and bright, and easily seen.

Here’s the thing, though: even the brightest stand lamp can’t shine everywhere. Heck, even the sun can’t shine everywhere: even during the day th...

School Work Sleep Exercise Flnmph.

Term one week one and I am so ded I’m not even alive anymore. Combined with a birthday party last weekend and household guests (which were super welcome!) and, of course, wanton consumption of amines and gluten over the weekend and consequential lack of sleep/insomnia… URGH.

Anyway. I AM still alive, even if restarting some sort of exercise regime this week feels like it has broken my body (aquarobics is HARD, y’all, OUCH), and words are trickling along (which, totally frustrating, because I...

Made It Monday: Yes, yes, it’s cake again.

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!