My beloved subie baja. I am obsessed with this strange beast of a ute. Seeing one drive by is like finding a bird previously thought to be extinct.
They came in a few colors with some having silver or oynx trim. Here is where you can see the colors. They also come in sport or turbo. I do like the turbo a lot more, but looking into it, the turbo may only be fun if it's manual. I would like the benefit of a better head gasket, but the sport seems to actually be more reliable. I think if I were to get any baja, I probably wouldn't be too picky honestly. I think they are all cutie.
My heart goes out to all of the bajas out there. Ily all
A silly creature from the Cambrian Period (which is about 538.8 to 486.85 million years ago), specfically the Early to Middle Cambrian. They were the one of the apex predators of the time because of their size which was up to 37cm.
The front mouth-like appendages are speculated to be used to grab prey. They extend and contract much
like fingers.
Originally, it was thought that they consumed hardbodied critters. However, there is no strong evidence
for this other than misidentified bite marks on trilobites. Those bite marks came from a different
species that somewhat resembles the anomalocaris, peytoia. If they were to go after
hardbodied animals, it might have damaged their mouthparts. Instead, it is thought that they would hunt
softbodied animals.
To swim, they ungulate their overlapping side fins. This would have made them "glide" through the water
seamlessly. This wasn't a complicated way of swimming, so it can be inferred that they had simple
brains. Of course, you wouldn't expect complicated brains in a time period where complex life itself was
newish.
Anomalocaris had compound eyes similar to dragonflies. This means that they could have had the most advanced eyes of any species in the Cambrian. The evidence of particular light sensitive proteins suggests that those eyes may have had dichromatic color vision which is two-color vision.
I can't recall when I first discovered that these silly guys had existed. I know I didn't find them from the tribute to anomalocaris video. I highly recommend that work of art btw and a video interviewing the guy who made the tribute video.
I love these guys so much that I tattooed one on myself. He lives on my left calf, and someday, I'll
shade him. When that's healed, I'll show him to the world
I don't have too much to say about this, but bud heavy is just a good, simple beer. I started drinking beer with craft beers because of my bartending job, but craft beers are so iffy. Sometimes you find something amazing, like Pryes Pragmatic Pils or Toppling Goliath Pompeii Hazy, or you find something absolutely foul, like Modist Dreamyard. With bud (and modelo), I just know I'll like it. A good domestic beer is the same every time. I won't be coerced to try some fruity sour that gives me a headache or double stout that will make me fall over. I know what I'll be getting myself into when I drink my beloved bud heavy.
I know this truck.
I ain't no stranger.
I know that truck.
That's a ford fuckin' ranger!
Idgaf about 150s, 250s, silverados, rams, etc. The only truck that truly catches my eye on the street is this strong cutie. Those other trucks don't have a song about them! They wish they were the ranger.
I don't care about its issues. I'm here for its personality and charm. I am always envious of people with a good ranger because I wish I could be as cool as them. Maybe someday I will have a cute ranger to haul my weird facebook marketplace finds. I could see myself lifting it with big wheels and a cab visor for the 'tude.
They're just really goofy guys. I love their weird proportions.
They're an ancient group of fish with evidence of them dating back to the Late Jurassic. Their ganoid scales act as armor, and their jaws are lined with sharp teeth. This makes the largest of gars, Alligator gar pretty freaky. Alligator gars grow to be over 2m, so they're pretty strong. They're still big cuties, though.Sometimes, they like to take gulps of air because their swim bladder can function as lungs. It's really weird!!
All of the gars listed have plentiful populations, so there is currently no worries about losing these goofy guys.
Like the anomalocaris, I also have a gar tattooed. They're some of my favorite freshwater fish, so of
course I want one permanently on me. He lives on my left knee with his lover, a walleye, on the other
knee. Putting my knees together makes them kiss
Ever since I was young, I have loved fun lights. I frequented Spencer's just to go to their light section. Of course, I was afraid of the wall full of adult items because I was 11 and ew sex things. It was imperative that I messed with the lights, though. One type of fun light stood out amongst the rest: the lava lamp. Glitter lamps didn't count because they weren't REAL lava lamps. Lava lamps are just so cozy and vibey in the best way. Currently, I have two, but only one with a functioning bulb. I want a giant one like in Oscar's Penthouse in Shark Tale. I would have a bunch of lava lamps if I wasn't limited by outlets in my century old house.
It's such a squat, weird thing. I adore it, and they're kind of hard to come by. I don't think the first gen Rav4 was a particularly good car, but it has a lot of charm. Remember, car functionality is secondary to its charm for me. This Rav4 looks like a skiddish frog that is scared that it is late to the pond party. My jaw drops when I see any gen 1 Rav4 drive by, but I have yet to spot a two door one. Probably because you can't fit much in them.
These are the only mystery box thing I'll buy except maaaybe miniverse. I just love these weird glowy guys. They litter my desk and bring so much charm. I'd be willing to fork out the money to have every smiski out there. I even have the little lamp! The battery life on it sucks, though. I just keep it around in a tiny bathtub without turning it on cause it's a pain to charge it (micro usb smh).
My favorite smiskis are the blue ones. I think they just stand out against the green ones in a fun way. I do wish the standing ones stood up better, though. I always have to deal with them tipping over, and it makes my desk trinkets kind of annoying sometimes.
We live on the water planet, and it does this stuff!!!!! That's so cool!!! I can't be the only one that thinks this. The fact that we have so much water and the moon, and it does all of this! That's CRAZY.
As an elementary student, I loved the three books my library had on tornadoes. I cannot remember what
they were, but I do remember one having a multi-layer diagram of a tornado printed on transparent film.
This sparked my interest in weather stuff. I'd say that this was my original hyperfixation. I was
obsessed with tornadoes, and I kinda still am. I had gone through a hurricane as a child which are also
pretty intense, but the unruliness of tornadoes is just so much cooler.
As an adult, I am fascinated by all weather from tornadoes to clouds to space weather. I love to keep up
with the weather forecasting in the summer which is the severe weather season in my area. Last summer
felt like it lacked some good storms, but I actually saw some interesting things. Stormy clouds in the
distance with lightning shooting out the top, multiple instances of asperitas clouds, and more. Yeah, I
did have to run out to pick my tomatoes in the pouring rain, but it was a fun weather season.
I still have yet to see a tornado, but I am also not qualified or knowledgeable enough to stormchase.
I'd gladly tag along with someone who is, though. I do desperately want to see sprites. Sprites
are bits of the mesosphere being lit up by lightning. It is just below where auroras occur, but it's a
similiar thing where the particles are being electrified. You can only see sprites if you stand far away
from a storm, and I think the sky has to be pretty dark.
If anyone is curious, I do love the movie Twister, but because it's not good. Twisters is great, though. I love Tyler Owens. He is such a fun character.
Space is so huge, man. It's really scary to think about, but it is still super cool. I got sucked into learning about obscure space things in high school. I was VERY invested in NASA's rovers and landers, too. At the time, James Webb kept being delayed and Perseverance was being built.
I still go back to learning about space here and there. Cosmology is the coolest thing even though it hurts my brain a lot. Just thinking and theorizing about what is at the edge of the ever expanding universe is nauseating but fun.
I find all of the different stars and galaxies to be the most interesting part of space. The
Vela Pulsar is my favorite star. It is the remanants of a Type II Supernova, and it has a
diameter of only 12 miles. It's tiny, but so fiesty.
It's feistiness is because it is a pulsar star which is a neutron star that is highly magnetized and rotating. It rotating produces a "lighthouse effect." Some white dwarf stars can be pulsar-like because they are also highly energized, but they rotate much slower than true pulsars.
As for galaxies, my favorite galaxy is the Fried Egg Galaxy (NGC 7742). It is located in the
Pegasus constellation in the Northern sky. I just think it's so cute, and I'd eat it on some avocado
toast.♥
I am also so fascinated by black holes. I think the mystique of them makes them so beautiful as a concept. Also that white holes exist in the math, but one has never been found. It makes me think about how humans are trying to rationalize and make sense of these forces that really don't make any sense at all. What if we're wrong about it all? It feels like there's a one in one billion chance that we're correct about ANY of this wild stuff.
I think the deep sky images are some of the most beautiful images ever taken. I was pretty emotional
when the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope came back. It was one of the most exciting
moments of my life, honestly.
One of the coolest things captured by James Webb is the question mark galaxy which can be found in the
image of Herbig-Haro 46/47. The deep sky object is not actually in the shape of a question mark,
but it's still really fun to see. It is probably some sort of gravitational lensing combined with slight
lens distortion? I don't think anyone quite knows how it happened.
Everything in space is so unfathomably huge it makes me dizzy, but I love it. If I want to feel ill, I
think about the super clusters and the the Great Attractor of our super cluster, Laniakea.
It's disgustingly fascinating how large the universe is.
Stuff that happens on Earth, or in the Solar System, are stupidly large, too. In 2024, I saw the total
solar eclipse, the aurora (twice), maybe a shooting star, and the comet. The coolest was the
solar eclipse, of course. It switched on this sort of primal fear that I have a hard time explaining. It
was noticeably much colder, and the sun looked evil. Strangely, I was able to see the
solar prominence which appeared as red beads. Images of the eclipse aren't enough to explain how
it actually looked, though. Once it was safe enough to view it without the glasses, it felt like it had
tendrils and that it was some beast. It was cool, and it made my heart race with that primal fear. I
mean, no wonder ancient civilations freaked out about this. It looks fucking insane.
The aurora is something I will find myself always chasing. I don't think anyone could be tired of seeing it. I saw it for the first time just a month after the eclipse then again the following October for two nights. It's something that is really hard to explain. The way it looks at this latitude is strange. The images I took are a longer exposure, so they capture a lot more. However, my eyes only saw some colors, but it was mostly white ribbons. You really have to focus your eyes on it and adjust. My photos of the aurora can be seen on my photos page.
I just think space things are so cool and so should you cause we literally live in it. Maybe we're not alone?
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I am a huge fall/winter person. Sure, I do get seasonal depression in the winter, but for many years, I was a huge summer hater. I hated the heat, the beating sun, etc. This changed in the past couple of years, and I'm not sure what happened.
I love all of the small things that summer has to offer. The bugs are the best part. I also love seeing the plants change from spring to summer. My garden is a little different every day. Tomatoes ripen, poppies bloom, and storms roll in. I just love the rhythm of it all. Things are always moving, but it's so relaxing.
Bumblebees and mud daubers invade my yard, and I gladly let them. The goldenrod doesn't stand a chance againt the horde of giant Eastern bumblebees. They buzz by your head but rarely go unnoticed because of their volume. They enjoy the pesky morning glories leaving dustings of pollen on everything they touch. At night, they love to sleep in the cushiony marigolds. Sometimes, a couple of them will snuggle up to each other. Solitary bees come by too. I never found out what they are, but they're cute.
Summer of 2024, we had raised monarch caterpillars. Half came inside with us,
and the other half stayed outside. The outside ones did not survive, but all of our indoor ones did. A
few weeks after gathering them,
we were able to release fully grown monarch butterflies. I hope their great
great great great great grandchildren come back...
Sure, I still hate the heat, but I've come to accept it. It feels kind of freeing. I just go sit in the sun about it or walk around my house with no pants and be lazy. I try to not jack up my power bill too much with the AC... Xcel energy please be cheaper.
Without the heat, there wouldn't be the amazing clouds and storms. The storms are easily my favorite
part of summer. The way that the sky quickly changes into haunting greens and greys excites me. Watching
distant cumulonimbus clouds with its fingers of lighting reaching out into the night sky. Sleeping with
it raining so hard that you feel it in the walls. It makes for the coziest nights.
Nothing makes me sleep better than a heavy storm at night.
I love walking around the neighborhood looking at people's yards. A lot of people around here put in a
lot of effort to make them nice, and I love to appreciate the details. Some of my favorite flowers to
find are the bell-shaped ones that point downwards. Virginia bluebells, Lily of the Valley (my favorite
flower ever), harebells, etc. I am obsessed. 
I stop on my walks a lot to take photos of these little
things that I love. Sometimes, I steal pieces of bark with lichen, mushrooms, broken branches, pine cones,
etc. I feel like a little goblin doing it, but I don't care. I love these things. I love seeing things
be alive, green, move, adapt, flow... It's so busy but feels so still.
I'd much prefer summer in the north over any warm weather in the south. There's just something about a Minnesota summer that is so charming. I lived in Florida and spent a lot of time visiting it after I moved to Minnesota, but I still really prefer Minnesota. The trees are lush, the clouds are beautiful, there's no tourists.. It's just a lot nicer.
I could explore the dirt for hours looking for little bugs and plant roots. Summer smells good, feels good, and looks good. It feels like time sits still, and you can breathe for a bit. I want to lie in the sun and get sunburnt every day. I want to do that while crushing some domestic beers. I am a Midwesterner after all. Summer means beers, boats, grillin', fishin', and throwing a football back and forth.
My heart still belongs to the cold snaps of fall and the stillness of a winter night, but I have come to
also enjoy summer. I think I just love living in a place where I can see the seasons changing. It's so
beautiful even if it's really hot.
Of my sevenish years using Metro Transit in Minneapolis + St. Paul, they've done me wrong only twice. I have had encounters with strange people, but never felt that scared. I may have waited for 30 minutes in the cold risking frostbite, but hey, I made it with no frostbite.
I can always count on routes 11, 4, 17, and (usually) 10.
It's such a strange thing to make a soap smell of. I love radishes. I love eating them as a snack and growing them is stupid easy. I don't think I can recall a lovely floral scent from them, though. I didn't let my radish plants bloom, so I have no idea what the flower smells like. Looking it up tells me that they're slightly peppery which I guess this scent is, but it's still pretty floral.
Despite its weirdness, I do LOVE this smell. It's something that is never carried in stores. I am noticing that those stores started carrying the seasonal scents less, too. Did I tell you that I love Mrs. Meyers? Radish and spiced acorn are the best scents of any soaps ever.
If I had to pick one scent to be the scent of my house, it would be this strange, fruity, floral "radish" scent.
I discovered these guys in a book about bugs way back in 2016 or 2017. It was the
Giraffe Weevil and the Bigfoot Weevil.
I mean they're just silly guys. How can you not love them? If you ever meet someone that dislikes these
guys, there is something seriously wrong with that person.
Ever since I discovered these guys, I have been obsessed with them. I have mostly dropped my mushroom
obsession (it became too mainstream, but I still like them), but weevils have stuck. Other people
understand my love for weevils, too.
I mean there is a whole
subreddit about meeting weevils. They
describe meeting them as a "religious experience" which I'd say is accurate, honestly. I have met a few
weevils in my time, and I felt like I had spoken to a deity. I have met a Green Immigrant Weevil,
Strawberry Root Weevil, and a mystery weevil when I saw the eclipse. I am still on the hunt to
meet an Acorn Weevil. From what I understand, they can be found crawling up oak trees in the
fall. I think I'm gonna really, really try next fall.
Anyways, here's two weevils performing some sick balancing tricks.
I take 10mg for my anxiety and panic disorder, and my life hasn't been better. Well, except when I was 6 with some polly pockets chewin on the rubber clothes like the animal I am.
I don't know if I want to go tooooo deep into the panic disorder just because it's kind of long, but I'm pretty open about it. If you're curious and down for a long video, Oompaville's video about his mental health is exactly like my issues with my mental health. It's kinda scary how similar, but watching this video was the beginning of my recovery. I had a pretty bad DPDR episode in January 2024 triggered by a panic attack. It only lasted a month which makes it technically not DPDR, but I have no other way to explain it. This wasn't my first panic attack, either. It was just a really bad one.
Anyways, I had this issue with really, really severe derealization. My hands felt numb constantly. I couldn't eat without my flight or fight response closing my throat. I couldn't even think. All I could think about was how I was stuck like this forever. Oompaville's video literally saved me which is so stupid to say. I researched what I was experiencing, and the more I learned about it, the better I felt. It was like putting puzzle pieces together.
My panic disorder also gave me intense agoraphobia which I still struggle with even being medicated, but it's a lot better. I think people think of agoraphobia as just the fear of open spaces, or maybe mix it up with anthrophobia, but it's different. Agoraphobia is this irrational fear of being in public where you cannot escape or maybe you'll do something embarassing. For me, my agoraphobia just happened. It's usually inexplicably trigged by certain locations. Usually, I just straight up get the panic attack, and I get worried that my panic attack is either me dying or people will know. Panic attacks aren't like people screaming btw. They're pretty quiet.
I worked through a lot of this panic disorder, extreme anxiety, and my agoraphobia on my own. I only did it alone out of frustration. I didn't want to wait until I could afford therapy. Once I reached a plateau, I sought out a general practitioner and further mental health help. I went to a lovely local clinic, and I started on 5mg of escitalopram.
It's actually wild how much this tiny white pill changed my life. I don't see medication as the ultimate
fix, but man these little dudes are a fantastic tool like your favorite multitool.
I can deal with my panic attacks a lot better, and if they do happen, I am
somewhat detached from them. I still struggle with some agoraphobia, but I know exactly where and how to
deal with it.
I didn't have to go through trying a bunch of family of medications to figure out what I needed because my mother went through all that. She is on the exact same medication. If they work for her, they should work for me because mother and daughter brains are super similar. I was ridiculously terrified of taking these pills. Day one, I was nearing a panic attack after swallowing the pill. Eventually, I felt pretty stoned. It was kinda great. I loved the seratonin dump. I had a similar high when I increased the dose.
Anyways, sorry for the rambling. It's really hard to talk about my web of mental health issues without
rambling. I'll get into the thick of it someday because someone else doing that helped me start my
recovery. I just wanted to get across that I take meds for it because it's so extreme, and I am very
grateful for this medication. Ily escitalopram
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These little guys deserve love!! Spiders, centipedes, etc. they all deserve love! I don't care if they don't feel love. I just care that they're alive and taken care of.
Now, I have to be real. If I was given a Giant Desert Centipede, I would be kinda scared. I don't know if I'd actually hold it, but I won't hate the bug. It's a cool ass bug! In fact, I think they're kinda cute.. It deserves to live a happy life. I always think it's a red flag if someone's immediate response to a bug is to kill it. It just feels icky. I don't want to kill any bugs that aren't actual pests like roaches.
How can you hate such cool bugs like the Ogre Spider? These guys like to dangle upside down while
holding some bit of their web made into a "net." THEY'RE SO COOL! Because they just chill in one spot,
keeping them as a pet is pretty easy. Those big eyes give them crazy eyesight, too.
Birdeaters are super cool, too. Just imagine a tarantula the size of a NYC rat. It's so awesome. The
Goliath Birdeater has the most irritating urticating hairs of kinda.. anything out there.
Urticating hairs are the hairs that a tarantula kicks up to protect themselves. They're a pretty bad
irritant, and some caterpillers and plants have them too. For the Goliath Birdeater, theirs creates a
reaction that gets worse and worse each time you are exposed. People keep these guys as pets! I would!
Anyways, bugs are really cool and cute, and I think everyone should like them. Here, have some cute little fellers.
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