The creature in my PFP is a Tomistoma. Also known as a false gharial.
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Lobsterxentaros - Lobsters Are Cool - Tumblr Blog
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A tweet by Fin @gofinurself reads,
My mom is a prosecutor and every year she brings up the fact that Mother's Day is the day with the lowest crime. I think that says a lot about how many moms commit crimes throughout the year, but can't today because they're too busy being celebrated.
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There are two sections of text and a photo in-between them. The first text reads,
this is not pro-disabled.
this is anti-homeless architecture disguised as disabled accommodation.
do not be fooled.
The image in-between shows an outdoor bench in the desert with brick pathway underneath it. The middle of the bench has been removed and is labeled with a disability symbol.
The next text has the username, ratchel @girlmeat5557 and reads,
not to be "that guy" but wheelchair users are not starved for places to sit down
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Repost text reads,
kaya in my artblock era @parivolans. 1d
Time for the annual billionaire sacrifice to the sea gods
Next text is from the original poster.
Dexerto @Dexerto 2d
OceanGate co-founder is organizing a trip to a 663-feet deep "unexplored" sinkhole in the Bahamas
On the left is a picture of the co-founder, Guillermo Söhnlein.
On the right is the ill-fated Oceangate submersible, Titan.
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Personal note, I did skip listing the numbers showing retweets, likes, etc because I've seen others skip it to avoid confusion. If I should add it in future memes, please let me know.
I'm quite terrible at small talk and this will help immensely!
Thank you all for posting and adding insights.
I've tried asking people what they like to do, but it almost always ends up awkward. Asking how they spend their time is much less ambiguous and I'm much more thoughtful.
Unlearning How White People Ask Personal Questions
http://www.samefacts.com/2014/05/culture-and-civil-society/unlearning-how-white-people-ask-personal-questions/
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A cringe emoji is in the center of the meme with yellow hands bursting from the white background on either side.
On top is black text in caps that reads:
Do not, under any circumstances, join the US military.
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Personal note, citations.
They will use you up, spit you out, and then wring anything they can from you.
If, for no other reason than self preservation;
Do not, under any circumstances, join the US military.
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A smiling woman holds a cream colored board. On the board is a white box with text. The text reads,
Rick rolling has taught us to be wary of random links more than any cyber security course ever has.
About me
This is my accessibility/lobster/opinion Tumblr.
If I make a mistake doing an image ID, then please correct it(someone has already done this and thank you in particular). I appreciate it.
My mending/stitching Tumblr is. @a-strawberry-mouse
I take regular breaks as I am chronically ill.
Lobsters and crustaceans as a whole are my favorite animals.
I've been told my vibe is,
"Volunteer at a museum that's pleasant enough but knows a little too much about the exhibits."
I have to agree that it's fairly accurate. I practically grew up in a small museum. I've helped run events of several kinds, volunteered at several places, worked fast food, and start ups.
I do not have a gender. In general I use they/them.
ID requests and complaints to my ask button and I will get to them to the best of my ability.
We are well beyond canary in the coalmine warning levels with the way trans people and particularly trans women are treated on this site.
Maybe you've heard the metaphor of allowing wolves and sheep to share the same space, welcoming everyone. You end up with just wolves because allowing them in that space makes it unsafe for any sheep. Or the story about how a nazi goes into a dive bar and is refused service. The bartender then explains to someone else at the bar that if you serve them once they tell their friends and before you know it you're the nazi bar they all go to and normal customers don't feel safe.
Terfs and other bigots are seeing these targeted harassment campaigns succeed against trans women and rejoicing. They see Tumblr ban them and officially stand by those decisions as endorsement for their harassment. It's a sign to bigots across the internet that Tumblr is a good place for them.
And what's more is that a lot of us probably don't realize just how much trans women contribute to Tumblr. The women banned recently were sources of site-wide memes and posts I wasn't even aware originated from them.any years old memes and references can be traced back to trans women on this site.
How many of these folks have to be removed before this is no longer a site you want to be a part of it? Sure you cultivate your own experience, but you can't follow or interact with people who aren't here. And if I wanted to interact with the nazis and terfs I'd go to reddit.
I encourage everyone to reblog this. Trans women shouldn't have to be the only ones speaking out against the bigotry they're experiencing. They shouldn't be the only ones risking their blogs being nuked by staff. We have to stand with them.
Quick reblog for color blind accessibility resources
found these on twitter that might be helpful to all rpers who want to make sure their themes and carrds are accessible to all
Rent price collision news.
Greedflation is manifest.
Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.
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A church sign is in the foreground on a grass lawn that's green and brown. In the background is a street, electric poles with wires connecting them, and a church building.
The tops of the sign is red with a little three cross logo and reads,
St Christopher's Southern Baptist Church
The bottom of the sign is white and in capital letters reads,
If you have a Tumblr then you are going to hell.
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Small add, if anything ever feels off when you're talking to someone in FM's, please ask a friend. Or someone in your online community that knows what they're doing.
No one knows every tell for all the nonsense terfs do. I've fallen for nonsense and needed my friends to help me.
it really is so uncomfortable being a trans man in cis centric conversations of feminism. I just wonder. do they know about people like me? do they care? if I brought it up to them, how would they react? Do they expect me to be their human shield?
To add what constitutes "flashing," for extra context.
I found this online:
What rate of flashing light can trigger seizures?
Between 3-30 Hertz (flashes per second) are the common rates to trigger seizures but this varies from person to person. While some people are sensitive at frequencies up to 60 Hertz, sensitivity under 3 Hertz is not common.
Citation:
https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/epileptic-seizures/seizure-triggers/photosensitive-epilepsy
Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.
I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is
I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.
Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.
Here’s proof of what I mean:
THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!
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A downtown scene in late 70's comic book style. Muted tones dominate the color scheme. Everything is overcast with yellow light except the Robin's egg blue sky.
The main focus is a large fireball knocking through a building sending fragments of the building flying in all directions. Some middle ground buildings are intact. A small park is spared from the rubble as well. The fireball is just starting to hit another building in the front. The windows of the front building have cracks radiating out from the impact.
Below lies traffic. Cars, buses, and a bright red truck are crashing as every vehicle tries to avoid the falling building rubble. People are running from their vehicles in small crowds while looking up at the sky.
In the front is a cafe with two yellow umbrellas busy with a well dressed crowd. Several people in suits and dresses try to run from the fireball, but many stay seated. The people fleeing look towards the space under the viewer. Where they're running to. The people still seated and the waiter remain fixated on the fireball that will hit them.
Meteor - art by Earl Norem (1979)
How about a pair of geese helping raise some ducklings?
The front goose made it very clear that I'd stepped one step too close to the fence.
I don't know if I still have the picture on my phone, but last year there were ducklings and goslings at the same time. The geese and ducks took turns watching a large group of babies.
HI WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BABY GOOSE
All images are in black and white. Did my best @aspirationatwork
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Image 1, A man in a black suit hugs a woman in a gray suit.
Text reads: Darling I've known the butler for 30 years.
Image 2, A man in a black suit stands near a woman in a gray suit.
Text reads: We've had many gay times together.
Image 3, A man in a black suit has a woman in a gray suit holding on his shoulder.
Text reads: Shared a fag or two between us
Image 4, The man in the black suit is the focus of the shot and the woman in the gray suit takes up part of the bottom right corner.
Text reads: And I can tell you, there was nothing queer about him, I'd know it.
eXCUSE ME???????????????????????
I'd wear that on the regular if it were machine washable.
Zendaya Stole the Show in a Schiaparelli Lobster Skirt
Hang it in the Louvre.
Thanks to the now-settled WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, promo-tour fashion is back on schedule, and who better than the fashion icon whose wardrobe is always bold and never boring to make her return? Ladies and gentlemen, Zendaya.
On Sunday, the actress stepped out promoting Dune at Comic-Con Experience São Paulo in Brazil, donning a monochrome Schiaparelli look from its Spring-Summer 2024 runway show. Presenting Dune: Part Two alongside her co-stars (Timothée Chalamet, Austin Butler, and Florence Pugh), Zendaya went for sea-creature couture: an ivory plunging collared blouse paired with a slinky, ruched cream maxiskirt, which featured a 3-D fabric lobster (spines, antennas, and all). The design detail paid homage to the Italian house’s founder, Elsa Schiaparelli’s, 1937 lobster dress in collaboration with Salvador Dalí. However, Zendaya's longtime stylist, Law Roach, referred to it as a “sandworm” in regard to Dune’s fictional strange creatures.
Beauty-wise, Zendaya styled her chin-grazing bob with a slicked-back wet look and complimented her radiant glow with feathered lashes, rosy cheeks, and glossy lips. Diamond stud earrings and a pair of optic white pointed-toe heels provided the finishing touches to her winter white look.
The only other person who comes second to us for being in love with Zendaya is her boyfriend, Tom Holland. During a new interview with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Holland shared why he goes to her for his acting advice.
"Zendaya is probably the most honest with me," he shared. "Which I love, ‘cause you need that."
Last June, he told The Hollywood Reporter that the pair try to keep their love life as private as possible. "Our relationship is something that we are incredibly protective of, and we want to keep as sacred as possible," he said. "We don't think that we owe it to anyone, it's our thing, and it has nothing to do with our careers."
Right! Apropos another post, let’s talk about lawn crayfish aka The Lobsters Beneath Our Feet!
This is Craw-Bob. He’s about three and a half inches long.
Long ago, when I had only gardened in the Southeast for a year or two, I saw an interesting hole in a flowerbed. It was rather deep and had a muddy front porch. I gazed into this hole, thinking “Ooh! Is it a rodent? A snake? A toad?”
And then I saw…the Claw.
It was unmistakably a crustacean claw. And it was in a hole in my yard. My terrestrial yard! Why was there a crustacean in my flowerbed?!
I could not have been more astounded if an octopus tentacle had come flopping out. I ran screaming for my husband and the internet, both of whom said “Yeah, that’s a lawn crayfish, they do that.”
And yes. There are about 400 species of crayfish* in North America, and a not inconsiderable number of them are burrowing species. The devil crayfish, which builds little mud towers, ranges from the Rockies to the Atlantic and as far north as Ontario. There are a number of other species as well. Some are limited to stream banks, but many burrow in lawns, flowerbeds, and other places with consistently damp soil, which means that there is a non-zero chance that when you wander around the grass, a tiny lobster is lurking somewhere beneath your feet.
You would think that more people would know this, but at no point in my life had anyone ever mentioned it to me.
Being me, I immediately set out to determine if other people knew about lawn crayfish and I had just somehow missed it. I took an informal poll—by which I mean I accosted random strangers at the farmer’s market, the coffee shop, and my doctor’s office—and discovered a stark divide. Half the people looked at me like I was telling them I’d seen a lawn chupacabra and the other half looked at me like I’d asked if they’d ever heard of squirrels.
It was not divided by social class or education. The farmer with the heirloom breed hogs knew about them, his wife did not. My nurse practitioner first thought I was hallucinating, then went out into the clinic, and began demanding to know if her co-workers had heard of this. My barista was like “Yeah, mudbugs,” but he’s from Florida, so may not count.
My theory is that if you know they’re there, it’s just a fact of life so obvious that you don’t bother to comment on it, and if you don’t—well, why would you ever assume that any given hole in the ground comes from a goddamn MINI LOBSTER? And since they mostly just hang out underground during the day and don’t really hurt anything, it just doesn’t come up very often, until one day you’re at the farmer’s market, just trying to sell some organic tomatoes, and a wild-eyed woman with a Studio Ghibli T-shirt descends on you yelling “Are you aware of lawn crayfish?!”
(Yes, they’re edible, but it’s a lot of work popping them individually out of their burrows.)
During torrential rains, they will often leave their burrows and wander around, which is how I got the photos of Craw-Bob. My hound spotted him in the garden and poked him with her nose, whereupon Craw-Bob poked back. Hound, not sure what was happening but that it was probably bad, began doing her “release the humans!” alarm bark, and I came out to find her toe to toe with a crustacean who was waving its claws and presumably screaming “Come on if you think you’re hard enough!” in Lobster.
Despite their willingness to fight everything, they’re pretty harmless. The most they do is move soil from underground to a little pile above. I’m sure golf courses hate them. Our local county extension office suggests “These nonprolific creatures should be appreciated like an interesting bird or turtle living on the property.” Some, like the Greensboro burrowing crayfish, are so rare they were thought to be extinct until somebody found one in the backyard.
So. Lawn crayfish. They exist! And could be lurking underfoot as we speak!
*or crawfish, depending on where you’re from.
Traditionally lobsters rely on chitin for strong exoskeletons. This one uses metal.
Lobster - Aluminum Foil Sculpture
Lovely excerpt and good advice going into the New Year.
slowly realizing that the teacher I respected most in the world is an ecofascist or at least has that ideology and oh boy did that influence shit I didn't realize
humanity is good actually thanks
What a rollercoaster. Absolutely worth reading the notes.
Can we boost this one until it reaches the Oklahoma City Tumblrites? This seems like something this website could rally and solve. Help save all this genetic information? I messaged them to offer to consult with the entymology lab near mine to see if they could store the bugs with us, but they are VERY far away and would have to drive long distance to us.
Yeeclaw indeed.
How fun are those hats?
(None of my plush lobsters have hats. I should make them hats)
And the Tumblr is a 5/5 shop. I think this is the shop that made the squid
Yeeclaw - lobsters on their way to the seahorse rodeo. Lobster pattern by gheebeanscrafty, hats were just added accessories.
Lobster
Lobster - Lucie van Dam van Isselt
Dutch , 1871-1940
Oil on panel , 45 x 38 cm.