ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes

Florida bans on trans care have been overturned! 🏳️‍⚧️

The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

You ever think about how weird hippos are ecologically speaking?

There's literally no other megafauna on earth that spends the entire day lounging around in water, mostly just socializing, only to come onto land to feed at night.

I remember when I used to do education programs on hippos, most people assumed they ate aquatic plants, and that that's the whole reason they were in water. Meanwhile, hippos are basically just giant nocturnal cows that eat only grass.

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs

Now and then I see someone upset that a post has "lost them followers" on tumblr dot com and it has prompted me to wonder... How do they know? Are people keeping close track of their follower counts and triangulating significant changes by what was posted at that time?

This is multiple questions in one but let's just start with...

Please reblog this because I'm pretty sure I don't have very many followers (not that I've checked recently) and I'm desperate for that sweet sweet data.

This Friday's meme is: the perfect being

the whole mutual thing is really overhyped on this site. sometimes interests don’t match up and that’s the only reason why there isn’t a mutual following. if you’re a regular in my inbox or my notifications, i have visited your blog before. if i didn’t want you around for any reason, you would be blocked. so yeah. you can spam my notes and/or talk with me (and possibly become my friend) even if i’m not following you back. no worries.

murderbot puts this meme in the feed every time ratthi attempts something stupid (yes, it drew that itself)

The only reason why transphobes always ask “what is a woman” instead of “what is a man” is because we all know that a man is a featherless biped.