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serpentinesomebody:

me, posting stuff for over 7 different fandoms at random all on the same blog:

An image of Chidi Anagonye from 'The Good Place.' He is singing "You put the Peeps in the chili pot and add the M&M's."ALT

elfwreck:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

ayellowbirds:

ryanthedemiboy:

arctic-hands:

I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again

To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.

They are literally cutting off library access to minors.

If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:

BOOOOOST

Seattle has joined them:

it’s

blueengland:

multipls:

yiffmaster:

britney:

bitch

honestly this post only got funnier with the change in format

my xkit makes it the old format so

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it’s yiffmaster britney bitch

frankbelloriley:

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Sooo hilarious but I can completely see this being a real conversation between streaming execs 😏

(original vid: Asif Ali - instagram - https://tinyurl.com/2p8jpkzz)

“they even put an Indian guy in WandaVision”

hang on a second, I gotta look up something

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yeah, this is really funny

carnival-phantasm:

paperandpencilsandskips:


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I LOVE YOU

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epicsauce:

epicsauce:

i think everyone needs to adopt “i didnt say it was good, i said i liked it” into their vocabulary right now. it did me wonders

“i want to show my friends the media i enjoy but its not considered good so i wont” is such a bad thought process. i once made my friends watch my favourite childhood movie with me which has a 1% rating on rotten tomatoes and i cackled with glee as they groaned in agony for an hour and a half. but yknow what? thats what friends are for.

brutaliakhoa:

I can’t ever leave tumblr because I just love the tag function.. no other social media platform allows you to heckle yourself on your own post. you get to preemptively make metatextual commentary abt your OWN POST. how cool is that

white-throated-packrat:

elljayvee:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

bm-pancake:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

sztefa001:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

kittyplayz1cantmsg4somereason:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

sometimes I think about how brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collard greens, savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan are all the same species, and i understand why biologists are constantly furious about taxonomy

I’m sorry what

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same species. same fucking species

Somebody please explain this because what the fuck

i can do that!

Introducing the Brassica oleracea, a plant species whose cultivars include…all of the above. They all originated from the same plant aka THIS FUCKER! 

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No, really. This thing has existed in Europe for thousands of years, during which time different societies had different culinary preferences, leading them to selectively breed for different traits. For example, a preference for the eating leaves led farmers to select seeds from the plants with the largest leaves, resulting gradually in the development of kale.

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The real fun thing is, this happened on a vast timeline. Kale was developed over 4000 years ago, while Savoy cabbage was first documented just 5 centuries ago. And different cultivars developed in different regions across Europe and Asia, with their phenotypes and names changing wildly over time. (Fun fact, Brussels sprouts are indeed named for Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, where they were developed from a predecessor imported from Rome.) 

The list above isn’t even exhaustive btw. There are plenty of other ridiculous cultivars (such as the Jersey cabbage, pictured below), and there’s no telling how many other forms existed throughout history, and which would have counted as distinct cultivars, and how many names and groups they were separated into, and, and, and—and imposing taxonomy on the real world is a mess, basically, because the real world does not give a shit about making itself comprehensible or categorizeable. But still we try. Planet Earth has Hot Mess Energy, and would you really have it any other way?

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Also the reason they’re considered the same species is because if you try to crossbreed them they will produce viable and fertile offspring

Plants are insane that way

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Introducing Kalettes (kale-brussels sprouts hybrid), Broccoflower (broccoli-cauliflower hybrid), and Broccolini (broccoli-gai lan hybrid)

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look at the kalettes! the itty bitty tiny kalettes!!! I absolutely despise this knowledge thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bonus: Romanesco broccoli, which is not a hybrid but just….really fucked up cauliflower

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And don’t even get me STARTED on ornamental cabbage. fuck off

Something that’s always been fascinating to me is that my spouse loves all brassicas EXCEPT the ones selected for the flowering parts. Leaves and leaf buds? A-OK, some of his top most favorite vegetables. Broccoli and cauliflower, however, he calls “the death vegetable”. My only conclusion is that there’s something specifically in the florets that tastes bad to him, something I can’t taste the same way he can’t taste that freshwater animals are made of mud.

Canola oil is from a close relative, Brassica napus, the oilseed rape.

It’s one of the oldest know vegetable oils under cultivation, historically used for lamp-oil and other industrial uses because it will grow in cold temperature climates like northern Europe. It had too much erucic acid in it for long-term human consumption.

The human-safe version wasn’t developed until the 1970s, by Baldur Rosmund Stefansson, of the University of Manitoba, and is now one of the most common edible oils.

catwif3:

i think that web developers should be fucking required to test their shit on bad computers. it’s unconscionable the way some shopping websites run.

having recently upgraded my computer from a 10-year-old castoffs build to a mid-high-grade gaming computer, it is WILD how many sites i thought were GARBAGE, just actually entirely unusable!! (one of these was ulta, but another one was an indie sex toy company!!! >O ). and it turns out they seem fine… on a computer with a near-to-highest-gen processor and a video card the size of a tank!!!!

this is ridiculous, you can’t expect to sell to people when you don’t know if they can’t even get through checkout on your heavy-ass site! calm it tf down. make it run without 32 of gods own gIGS OF RAM. i swear to fuck

ryan-sometimes:

ryan-sometimes:

So I’ve been teaching 6th grade since January, and one thing about my female students which made me upset to realize is how many of them are obsessed with skincare. I’ve heard the girls in my class discussing the EYE CREAM they use. Like tf you mean eye cream? You’re ELEVEN!!! I’m a decade older than you and have never even touched eye cream!! The most skincare a middle schooler needs is cleanser and moisturizer, maybe some acne cream. Who tf is selling you all this other stuff? Who tf told you you needed all this?

It hurts me to see. Their brains are too young for these types of insecurities 😭 no 11 year old girl should be obsessed with wrinkles, I wanna beat tf out of whatever tiktoker made them believe they needed skin that perfect

Do you know how fucking miserable it is to watch a group of 11 year old girls obsessively check their skin on pocket mirrors? And hear them talk about how they need new products to fix “imperfections” created by tiktok?? I just taught them last week what the OCEAN TIDES are. I helped one of them spell the word “conduction” yesterday. They just learned what the atmosphere is. Who the fuck is telling these literal children that they need eye cream??!! When I catch you!!!

daphneblakess:

daphneblakess:

yall do realize just because something has been a target of misogynistic criticism, that doesn’t make stanning it completely uncritically in response some kind of revolutionary feminist praxis. right.

like i hate to break this to you but plenty of people who dislike taylor swift have better reasons for it than ‘she’s a successful woman’. plenty of people who dislike twilight aren’t just jumping on a decade plus-old hate train because 'teenage girls like it’. pure personal taste aside, someone pointing out the racism in your girlboss media of choice is not the same as an incel frothing at the mouth over a woman minding her own business while having fun, and you’re frankly telling on yourself if you’re equating those two people