#art #cats #adorable #domesticity #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #food #fire #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
A migrating phoenix has stopped for a decadent sippy of water from a stagnant puddle in a Walmart parking lot and has ignited the years of accumulated fuel leaks into the surrounding pavement. It’s so happy.
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#phoenixes #fire #adorable #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
i am currently playing a game called “is the smoke I’m smelling coming from something inside my apartment burning, a neighbour preparing for a barbecue, or the smoke from grassland fires that is currently covering the city?”
so far the answer is always b or c but it doesn’t do to get complacent
(the weather app on my phone currently says “smoke” in the place where it usually says cloudy or sunny or rainy or whatever. it is very dystopian)
This is what it looks like, btw
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#this doesn’t *quite* fit the remit of #today in Apocalypse Memes #but it has a very similar vibe #somebody please get that poor frog a better mask #weather #fire #apocalypse cw?
This is your annual warning that *there will be no warning* when fire season is about to start. Nobody’s going to post “Hey everyone, remember, fire season starts next Friday!”. The state will just catch fire. You will wake up and the sky will be orange. It could be tomorrow, it could be July, it could be August, we could get incredibly lucky and skip it altogether. If you hope to buy an indoor air purifier before fire season, if you want to ensure everyone in your home has a P100 for going outside, if you want to stockpile water and you haven’t already, the time to do it is today.
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#101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #yes this #I would recommend those things (especially the latter two) even if you’re *not* in a wildfire zone but yeah #(I have not managed to convince anyone else in my family to get a P100 and our water containers are not as sturdy as I would like) #(but other than that) #((I keep an eye on the Reliance website: I hope the Rhino containers come back in stock soon)) #(((also this post has gotten 22k notes in 2 days and it’s always weird to see that happen to a mutual))) #fire #PSA
I went on a camping trip this weekend and made one of those “how am I just learning about this now” discoveries:
It’s a “fire tube”: basically just a collapsible straw that you can safely stick deep in the coals of a campfire and blow a lot of oxygen into it.
It’s weirdly addictive. Unlike fanning a campfire with newspaper or whatever, where the effect lasts less than a second, blowing with the tube a couple times make the fire significantly brighter and hotter, with a powerful sense of accomplishment. Also the visual effect when you blow on the coals is hypnotic: it dims overall but the “edges” of coals get brighter, like you just ran it through an edge-sharpening algo.
I may have done it so many times last night that I gave myself mild ear pain from all the backpressure.
(Note: the OP is from 2019 while the response is from 2020. However, I just looked it up and Gävle *does* have a goat this year [link]. It’s just not the one pictured, is all.)
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#Christmas #goats #sculptures #fire #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(decided to move the tag notes to the main text body for better rebloggability)
one of the best parts of horses and the horse world are the dramatic names, it’s honestly my favorite. i want my professional job to be naming racehorses stupid things. i write fiction about racehorses sometimes, and the best parts aren’t the dramatic crime scenes, they’re the the racehorse names i get to come up with. like:
i have literal lists dedicated to this
I had an extremely vivid dream a few months back that I was trapped in a fire tower (to watch for wildfires) that was surrounded by wildfire and my manager emailed me and told me I had to legally name every single horse owned by the national park service and enter them all in a database as the flames grew closer.
The dream mostly consisted of trying to figure out the Secret Horse Naming Rules of the Offical Horse Database so that I could name all Sixteen Thousand Horses. Rules included “Must contain real, whole words” “No Profanity” and “No repeats at all ever, for any horse that ever lived”.
I kept thinking of new things like “I’m pretty sure I know more swear words than the Horse Database” and “I bet there aren’t horses named just strings of random nouns” and “I bet I can gives horses last names”
Some of the names I remember, as the flames howled around the tiny tower and I was filled with vengeful rage:
Valid-To-Eat-Fingers-O’Malley
Dishwasher
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
dinosaur chicken nugget
The First Third Of The Bee Movie Script Before I Hit The Secret Character Limit
Brinens and Things 