The Doggie Gaga Project: dogs dressed up like Lady Gaga.

How to make boypants from stretchy fabric. Includes free downloadable pattern, and instructions for other types of underthings too.

An Overview of Abortion in the United States: slides about who has them, why, when, and how. Great resource.

Let's talk about rape culture, specificially rape ( Read more... )

Made of awesome. It's a tapestry made of spider silk, the only one in the entire world. Basically they gently pull a thin line of silk out of the spider and wind it onto these tiny looms, then twist the strands together to make the threads used in the tapestry. It took them 4 years and $500,000 to make it.

Via gjadventures:


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Steampunk insects. They take real bugs and then combine them with cogs and watch parts and that sort of thing.

I want this one so bad. Anybody got a spare $900 kicking around and want to buy it for me?

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I started my period yesterday. Yes, folks, it has officially returned. At least this time I was wearing black boypants instead of white ones. SUCKAGE.

Mastermind is teething. He no longer sleeps. He no longer eats. SUCKAGE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS.

Vegetarian spiders. YAY.

The fic I'm writing that's intertwined with pink_siamese's fic is turning out pretty cool ( Read more... )

Some of you may have heard me recount seeing the most amazing spider I've ever seen in my life, last January in Australia. It was on a massive web four to five feet wide (around 1.5 metres) and it was yellow and black, an orb weaver, with peculiar markings that clearly showed a skull on the underside ( Read more... )

First: Never seen a black widow, or haven't seen one recently? Click here before reading this.I have been having a case of what I refer to as persistent black widows ( Read more... )