Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters Follow I don't wish we could abolish gender, I just wish it were less an identity and more of a hobby. So you'd get people who are like "Oh yeah, l'm a woman when I have the time," or "I'm a man but I'm not very good at it yet" along with the CrossFit gender types who are SUPER INTO IT
A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it
A male mallard duck with grey and brown body, dark green head, white neck ring, and yellow bill has its wings straight up, partially obscuring his bright green head, as it lands behind a softly out of focus ridge of white snow that is artfully obscuring the bottom portion of the image.
I kinda like this shot of a Mallard drake touching down on a frozen pond behind an out of focus snow-covered ridge in the foreground.
Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #duck #MALL #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
rough (like uff in buff)
cough (like off in scoff)
drought (like ow in cow)
though (like o in no)
thought (like aw in saw)
through (like oo in woo)
Enough.
Alt text: A single-panel comic featuring two hummingbirds, beating their wings at insane speeds, as hummingbirds do. They are in a hummingbird-sized office, with a large office desk between them. The hummingbird behind the desk is saying, “So, where do you see yourself in five seconds?”
btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)
Two sketches of a newborn Anzu, a mythological creature from Sumerian mythology that has the body of an eagle, with the front paws and head of a lion.
A character in my #scionrpg game got a baby Anzu (Sumerian mythology) so of course I had to draw the fuzzy kittenchick.
This is kind of tangential, but when my Food Not Bombs was trying to get money to give away diapers we went to the adult baby diaper lover subreddit and asked them for cash. They fully funded our diaper program for several weeks.
This is just to say, when you're in need, maybe look to the perverts.
Barbara Newhall Follett (1914-1939?) was an American child prodigy. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in 1927, when she was only 12. Her second novel was a betseller when she was 14. In December 1939, aged 25, she disappeared. She has never been found. #CelebratingWomen
A smiling man wearing an Edmonton Oilers jersey and matching blue cap sits in a black power wheelchair inside a living room. He is facing the camera and holding the joystick controls of his chair. The floor is a dark mahogany hardwood, with a brown leather recliner and a wooden side table behind him. Large text at the top reads “Happy International Wheelchair Day!” and smaller text at the bottom says “Celebrating strength, inclusion, and accessibility!”
Happy International Wheelchair Day💚
My wheelchair isn’t a limitation. It’s independence.
The barrier has never been the chair. It’s inaccessibility.
Celebrate mobility. Demand equitable access. Keep rolling forward.
#InternationalWheelchairDay #Accessibility
** Over on Tumblr, one of my stories has reached a milestone - 100k notes - largely thanks to the comic adaptation a reader made of it in 2024.
You can see it here:
www.tumblr.com/microsff/809...
**
Back in the early days of Trump I, a Twitter account labeled "President Villain" took Trump quotes and put them on comic panels of the Red Skull
This pic was from late February 2017
Black and white photo of a little shorthaired white kitten lying on a wooden counter next to an old fashioned black rotary telephone. The receiver is next to the kitten's face and he seems to be meowing plaintively into the phone. He's very cute and very small, smaller than the phone.
“Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”
Photo not from my collection, sadly, this is from the Richland Library, S.C. localhistory.richlandlibrary.com/digital/coll...
DID YOU KNOW COMMAS HAVE NAMES? OXFORD COMMA THE COMMA BEFORE AND IN A LIST WE READ FICTION, POETRY, AND NONFICTION. APPOSITIVE COMMA ADDS EXTRA INFO ABOUT A NOUN MS. LEE, THE LIBRARIAN, VISITED OUR CLASS. INTRODUCTORY COMMA COMES AFTER AN OPENING PHRASE AFTER READING, STUDENTS SHARED THEIR THINKING. INTERRUPTER COMMA SETS OFF WORDS THAT INTERRUPT THE SENTENCE THE LESSON, HOWEVER, TOOK MORE TIME. DIRECT ADDRESS COMMA USED WHEN SPEAKING TO SOMEONE BY NAME ASHLEY, PLEASE LINE UP.
Learning is lifelong!
at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology
“I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.” - VIctoria Wood
this is a good thread but skipped one of the craziest effects of the rice controls — the near destruction of korean artisanal liquor, and replacement in the market with green bottle soju which is grain alcohol with sweetener. it's cheaper and higher proof. korean alcoholism was never the same
As disgraced former president Yoon was sentenced to life in prison, this past week, a reminder of which celebrities spoke out and actually did something when it mattered.
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The real win in this whole thing is it wasn't just the President who was convicted, but the entire chain of command, including the former Ministers of Defense and the Interior, and the police chief and Intelligence head.
When people violate the constitution, JAIL THEM.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
Thank you, @weratedogs.com for this reportage: www.youtube.com/shorts/-ITnL...
Black and white cat on the back of a chair that has fallen over backwards
I heard a loud thump and found this:
Happy 17th birthday, Masuke. Have a great day!
an orange cat is inside a cat travel carrier looking neutral, cool and calm. you can tell he isn’t screaming because his mouth is closed
Practicing being cool and calm. Look how much I’m not screaming
alt-text:
pic 1: 2 kittens on a closed toilet. "a reminder that this is a cat rescue account, cat rescue is absolutely political bc you can't rescue cats if ICE murders you.
pic 2: same vibe w pic of corgi
pic 3: same vibe for person on horseback
pic 4: same vibe for pic of huge dog + tiny dog
Okay, since I’m in a mood, do you know what is annoying mild *annoyance* about all this, rather than a gut-wrenching crisis?
I’m not a Christian but my sense of fairness keeps requiring me to defend the church because people keep posting shit about “Why aren’t Christians speaking up?!”
A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..."
More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!"
A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
