I like to think there is a parallel universe where reading comment sections is known as a soothing pastime because everyone on the parallel Internet is as kind and polite as the commenters on yourdailypoem.com:
this is what it feels like straying too far from my circle of mutuals on tumblr dot com
this post has already gotten far enough from my circle of mutuals that people think the girl with the glasses is the one that im sympathizing with in this post
Dire Wolves were a real actual animal that lived in North America until right about 10,000 years ago, but they really weren’t much bigger than modern grey wolves! they were slightly more heavyset, but that’s about it.
however, their packs were much much larger than modern wolf packs, sometimes containing as many as 50 individuals.
however, if you really have your heart set on gigantic extinct canids and nothing else will do, don’t fret! look to the even more ancient canine family Borophaginae, the Bone-Crushing Dogs! they are here for YOU when you need them :)
One of my professors has posted grades from last semester and setup the next class (that’s like part 2 of the course) on blackboard and assigned readingsfor the first class (2 days from now) and is like totally on top of everything. The other 2 classes i took last semester? No final grades. The 2 other classes im taking this semester? Not a peep from the professors, nothing on bb. I know times are tough but like i am paying many thousands of dollars for this experience 😭😭 m**y c*******n i stan you x100000 every other professor i demand a refund
“D.C., especially around the Capitol, contains some of the most overtly armored public spaces in the world. There are little reminders and big ones: signs, barriers, checkpoints, and probably a whole host of weaponry and invisible countermeasures that you don’t see. What you feel the most are those security negs: the bike rack-style barriers and the forever-closed streets and the bollards. Meanwhile, you encounter the people involved with securing spaces. Most of them are fine and some are jerks who seem to take glee in barking out orders at hapless passersby. Eventually you come to accept the whole set-up as necessary, even if you grumble about it while climbing Capitol Hill. You think to yourself, “Sure, this is a pain in the ass, but there’s a good reason for it.
“Like, what if something happens?”
Then it’s Jan. 6, 2021. Something did happen, not just a minor something, but a full-on breach of a purportedly impenetrable building by extremists trying to overturn the results of a presidential election. And you’re left completely shaken and angry, wondering what the point of it all was. You feel like a sucker. The trap didn’t spring.”
I’ve lived in DC for 10 years and I feel this article in my BONES. You just live with tons of security theater in the background, you live with what you’ve been taught, what you’ve heard a million times–what if something HAPPENS? And then something happens, and you realize the system built after 9/11, didn’t take the most dangerous threat of all seriously, the threat everyone has been SAYING was far more prominent than anything else– white supremacist terrorism coming from inside the house.
Someone living in Sweden during the Iron Age wore this cloak. Unfortunately, they wore it while they were murdered:
forensic analysis found the holes in the cloak match
how stabs would have penetrated the folds of the cloak when it was being worn.
Dating to 360 to 100 BCE, is also the oldest known example of a houndstooth pattern!
