I'm the Nix. This blogs contains a random collection of everything as well as my own art and writing. I don't like people knowing more about me than I choose to reveal. I am more than a quarter of a century old and 100% Nick and 100% Gur
Why the fuck did tumblr just straight up break the messaging system? @staff
The actual buttons to close the fucking messaging box is now tucked under the bar at the top of the page meaning you cant fucking close or minimize the chat. They also made it the most eyesearing contrasting colors. I hate this. It hurts my eyes and I cant fucking close it.
July 1, 2023 - Black-backed Puffback (Dryoscopus cubla)
Found in parts of southern and eastern Africa, these puffbacks live in savannas and forests, often near rivers and coasts. Foraging alone, in pairs, and in mixed-species flocks, they feed on insects and other invertebrates, as well as small lizards, fruit, and buds. Males puff their white back feathers into a ball while performing territorial and courtship displays. Females build the nests alone, though males occasionally bring them materials. The deep cup-shaped nests are built from dry grass, roots, bark strips, spiderwebs, plant down, and sometimes lichen and leaves in trees. Females incubate clutches of two to four eggs while males bring them food and sometimes incubate for short periods. Both parents feed the chicks, though females feed them initially with food gathered by males.
When owls find their way onto isolated islands lacking any terrestrial predators, they have a tendency to take up that role for themselves – evolving longer legs and shorter wings, and specializing more towards hunting on foot. From New Zealand to Hawaii to the Caribbean to the Mediterranean to Macaronesia, leggy island ground-owls have independently happened over and over again in the last few million years—
—And, unfortunately, they’ve all also become victims of the Holocene extinction, their fragile island ecosystems too easily disrupted by human activity and the arrival of invasive species.
Its wing proportions indicate it would have been a poor flyer, instead primarily hunting on foot in the dense laurisilva forests. Since there were no terrestrial mammals or reptiles on São Miguel at the time, its diet probably mainly consisted of insects and other invertebrates – and it would have in turn been the potential prey of larger predatory birds like buzzards and long-eared owls.
All currently known subfossil remains of the São Miguel scops owl date only from the Holocene, between about 50 BCE and 125 CE. It’s likely that it was extinct by the 1400s, following the settlement of humans in the Azores, destruction of its forest habitat, and the introduction of rodents, cats, and weasels.
you know what. i’ve always been hesitant to describe my anaphylactic food allergies as a disability because “it’s just allergies” but if you look at the numerous ways this has affected my life as an adult (because everybody only talks about kids having anaphylactic allergies):
no restaurants or fast food
no store-bought food from small companies (less accountability/resources to prevent cross-contamination)
no candy or desserts (unless they are 100% homemade, which takes a lot of time and energy if you have other disabilities like i do)
no hand-washing dishes (every place i live in has to have a well-functioning dishwasher)
no kissing people on the mouth/lower half of the face
other people cannot kiss me/put their mouth on me
no allergens in the house (really difficult to enforce with non- immediate family members!!)
always having to cook my own meals/bake my own treats/desserts
no sharing drinks/food with other people
no food cooked in other people’s houses/kitchens
always having to bring my own “lunchbox” to family events, work or school, all-day events, or any other situation in which i could THEORETICALLY need to eat or drink something other than bottled water
calling food manufacturers to verify label information on new/changed foods
and none of this is counting the avoidance behaviors i developed with obsessive-compulsive disorder around age 13 in response to the panic attacks i’d have remembering about the anaphylactic shock i experienced at age 10.
i was taught to read labels at age 5. i was taught how to use my own epi-pen at age 6. my parents and i have always been careful and responsible about my allergies. it’s not “i just don’t like this food”, it’s “if i eat this my throat will swell up and block my trachea AND i’ll go into shock from low blood pressure.” as inconvenient as it might be for YOU, you can learn these things too and save a life. happy disability pride month; stop being a dickhead
i don’t usually talk about my allergies because it gives me a LOT of anxiety but i felt this was important to share, because most people have no idea what being an adult with allergies is like. life went from “everyone at the birthday party gets a cupcake but me and i’m sad” to to “if i want to kiss someone i like, i have to make sure she hasn’t eaten anything i’m allergic to in the past few days” (which is like. hugely awkward to ask of someone holy shit) or “i have to turn down the meal from my friend’s mom even though she has the best of intentions and now she thinks i’m an asshole”
if you have a custom domain set, DO NOT UNTICK THE BUTTON on blog settings. you’re not allowed to add it back. (nope, that’s not mentioned anywhere on blog settings itself.) if you switch hosts and need to update nameservers, congrats! you’re fucked
custom domains were a feature that’s been available over a decade, but they’ve been unceremoniously removed. the idea of “legacy” domains is a joke
this is doubly egregious because they absolutely could be selling domains for people that don’t have one, while still allowing those of us that already had a domain to keep using ours. they also don’t even allow you to pay to use your own. so if someone bought a domain specifically to use on tumblr, if they accidentally untick the button then poof! they’re fucked because they can’t re-buy their own domain from tumblr
it’s honestly pathetic how much of a transparent cash grab this is at worst, and how badly implemented this was at best. this is what happens when you accept incompetency as a modus operandi bc “lol quirky hellsite”
i highly, HIGHLY recommend not investing in this feature due to that incompetency and lack of transparency
There’s no such thing as equitable media representation until we have a lesbian version of the ambiguously gay duo where one of them is short and fat and the other is tall and thin and they’re both fucking idiots.
If you’re in the notes proposing an “equivalent” to this trope where neither party is fat, you need to rethink your life.
my pokemon go friend code is 7622-0766-4723 if anyone wants to friend me. I’m running out of Pokeballs and it’s too hot (almost 100 degrees, + high humidity) to go to pokestops.
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