All I Want Is To Have A Room That Looks Like I'm Old Biology Professor Whose Been Away From Human Civilization

“We are here, and this is now.” Constable Visit, a strict believer in the Omnian religion, occasionally quoted that from their holy book. Vimes understood it to mean, in less exalted copper speak, that you have to do the job that is in front of you.

--Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

did laika know she would be so loved so long after she was gone? did she know people would write songs and poems about her? she was barely loved throughout her life until the scientists kissed her nose before they sent her to her death. do you think that heat death was the closest she felt to a warm embrace? i miss her every day. im not alone in that. she’ll never be alone up there in the stars.

Three young barn owls standing in the stone quatrefoil of Christ Church, Fulmodeston.

almost started crying at work the other day because we were hooking motors up to a truss and i overheard one of my coworkers telling the story of the trojan war to his friend and i was so tired and my feet were so sore beneath me i started to imagine i was a sailor on a merchant vessel centuries ago overhearing that very conversation and i thought about how some stories are so human they outlast all of us and i almost couldn't stand it

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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

do you have any spiritual thoughts on blood? pomegranates, periods, prophecy-- does what comes out of me monthly and hurts me so horribly mean anything at all besides that familiar pain no one will help me with?

the priests feared it for a reason

Ukrainian serviceman Hennadii Yudin stands in the middle of a church in Novoekonomichne, heavily damaged by Russian bombings.

Sources: United 24, Evgeniy Maloletka/AP