Any pronouns. Capricorn. Not a minor. Chaotic Good// Sapphic with a love of tea, gardens, plants, books, embroidery, and bugs
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Latest Posts by weirddreamsandtea - Page 2
Oh he is t i n y
cutest ever baby house centipede i found at work
Look at this baby I found at the gas station 🥺
She’s a gorgeous Rosy Maple Moth (dryocampa rubicunda) and most likely a female due to the lack of fluffy antennae that males use for sensing pheromones
Spring has sprung!!!
And there is so much pollen in the air…
🌸🌷🌼💐💗
Me too Michael Sheen, me too
I THINK I AM GOING TO CUT MY HAIR
i made another quiz! find out whether you're the vampire who owns a large castle rumoured to be hunted or the mortal ingenue they invite to dine with them on the opposite edges of a ridiculously long table
Puki will you leave tumblr because everyone’s acting like it’s dead now :(
oh yeah its SO dead.
1000 notes this post. Now
Little message for any Americans who come across my blog:
REJECT YOUR HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION!!!!!!
GROW NATIVE PLANTS AND/OR CORN ON YOUR FRONT LAWN!!!!!!!!
Not saying you HAVE to! But HOAs are still a stupid idea anyway.
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And if you can’t do that. Defy them in any way you can. No matter how small it may be.
FUCK HOAs!
HOAs can eat shit!
Feel free to reblog the shit out of this one if you wish!
Also please reblog my posts on sending aid to the Armenians and the Assyrian people too! They’re on my blog.
Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:
Most people are on our side here, even the so-called "boomers." We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!
How it's made! Ok yes it skips about a hundred steps, eventually I will make a loong video of how I made this ceramic mushroom treestump :)
being tired all the time is such a mystery.... is it anaemia? vitamin d deficiency? chronic fatigue syndrome? depression? insomnia?? is it just the crushing weight of being alive in a capitalist society??? someone cure me
For the love of god can you please take care of me. Damn.
how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr
:)))
Ok so, Velcro is actually a company name and not a product. What we call velcro is actually a ‘hook and loop fastener”. Both the company Velcro and the hook-and-loop were founded/invented by the same person: George de Mestral, a swiss electrical engineer.
Fun fact: velcro is a combination of ‘velours’ and ‘crochet’ so it’s literally velvet-hook
The story goes that while De Mestral was on a hunting trip in 1941 he noticed that a very special plant kept sticking to him and his dog…or rather the seed pods did
Introducing
Burdock
(Burdock or wild rhubarb as a plant has a separate and very long history as a medicinal plant spanning across Eurasia and North America)
Or in this case, the Burdock seed pods specifically which up close look like this:
See where this is going?
De mestral, the ever inventive and curious man (this was bound to happen, he tried to patent his toy airplane as a 12 yr old and also made an asparagus peeler), looked at the seed pods under a microscope and decided that he could probably make a synthetic version that could work as an inbetween of buttons and zippers.
He traveled around Europe looking for a manufacturer, but they all told him that mass-manufacturing was out of the question. He finally found one in Lyon, France who could make a nylon-cotton fabric.
With that fabric he created the first velcro BY HAND and was able to receive a patent in 1955.
The hardest part was making the tiny tiny hooks. With the cotton-nylon blend, he was able to make them but ONLY by hand. He took the hooks and would attach them to a separate piece of fabric using tiny loops.
Imagine taking nylon and making tiny hooks like these by hand. Yeah
He didn’t come up with the mass-manufacturing until a couple years later when he came up with a system that was basically a loom that used barber’s clippers to cut the nylon at a precise angle.
Anyway~ he actually then started selling mass-manufactured velcro in Europe and the US in the 60s but people didn’t really like it
UNTIL NASA
Velcro then went from a weird little thing to ‘oh shit astronauts use this in space to keep stuff from flying everywhere’ and ‘mommy, I want a velcro watch like Buzz Aldrin. Please~”
And that dear friends, is the story of Velcro and the swiss dude who noticed an annoying quirk of a plant’s will to reproduce
velcro is kinda crazy if u think about it
stopping myself from randomly telling everyone the history of Velcro and about the plant it’s based on
velcro is kinda crazy if u think about it
In a world of dirty food courts, I'm one of the rare FEW who returns my tray to the slot above the trash and cleans up all my trash. SHARE THIS POST if you're attracted to women
My younger sister told her friend about me and now I’m their favorite person, apparently. I got a note today saying I’m their childhood hero and asking for my signature, a picture of an apple on fire, and an inspirational quote? Idk who you are James the high schooler, but I hope you like it
I have a question tho: what is my sister telling people???
MY GAY HEART CANNOT KEEP DEALING WITH ALL THESE EMOTIONS. FIRST GOOD OMENS AND NOW HOZIER? WHY
IT’S WONDERFUL BUT OH SO FUCKING EMOTIONAL
Not the new Hozier album making me want to reread the Divine Comedy
I MADE THE MISTAKE OF REALLY SITTING DOWN AND LISTENING TO UNREAL UNEARTH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A CAFE
i barely held tears back. I can’t with this album it’s just so breathtakingly beautiful. I’m losing my mind over it
A tale in 4 parts