Explorer Rowan

@explorerrowan.bsky.social

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Trying to get my head on straight, save some money, and get my life together. Pronouns: she/her or ne/nem/nir/nirs/nemself

Current active wildfires map from the Canadian ministry of natural resources.
A chart of the life cycle of a ladybug, showing eggs, three black, angular, scary-looking larval stages, three round, orange pupal stages, and finally the round, red-with-black-spots adult stage most people are familiar with.
President Obama wearing a light tan suit.
A graphic of the 10 stages of genocide, per Gregory H. Stanton.
An advertising image for a blue, stoneware mug with a flared, conical base. It has a plastic insert in the top to reduce spills. It reads: "FEATURES - Made from durable stoneware - Comes with drink through lid - Easy to clean - 14oz capacity - BPA free"
Amargasaurus, a sauropod-type dinosaur with four legs, a long neck, and a long tail. Its distinguishing feature is the double row of sharp spines running the length of its neck.
A tuxedo cat in loaf pose on a couple of pillows inside a blue pet carrier. He is wide awake and alert, but seems completely uninterested in leaving the carrier.
A screenshot from a chart on Wikipedia listing US metropolitan statistical areas by population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
The character Vash, a notorious archeology thief from several episodes of Star Trek The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. She is played by Jennifer Hetrick, is wearing a dark dress, and is confidently sitting in the Captain's chair on the bridge of the Enterprise with her feet up in the chair with her.
Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury and Seimone Augustus of the Minnesota Lynx approach each other looking like they are about to fight, but share an impassioned kiss instead. A nearby official ends up charging both with technical fouls.
A screenshot of a pair of tumblr posts by tumblr user penny-anna, dated Apr 2, 2024. The first post reads: "Hi! I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games - Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy?" The second post is a screenshot of Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie on the set of "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" where they are doing one of their MANY paired sketches. It is captioned, "They are piloting a Jaeger together in my imagination"
A screenshot of a Twitter post from @MichaelKenKen that reads as follows: "'No kink at Pride.' 'Writers writing bad characters is conditioning bad behavior.' 'Sex in movies is bad!' 'Certain outfits need my consent to be worn around me.' Bitch you ain't woke, you're a goddamn Christian fundamentalist."
A chart depicting the federal tax brackets for returns filed in April 1986 (applicable to the 1985 fiscal year) reads as follows: Federal - 1986 Married Filing Jointly Tax Brackets Tax Bracket Tax Rate $0.00+ 0% $3,670.00+ 11% $5,940.00+ 12% $8,200.00+ 14% $12,840.00+ 16% $17,270.00+ 18% $21,800.00+ 22% $26,550.00+ 25% $32,270.00+ 28% $37,980.00+ 33% $49,420.00+ 38% $64,750.00+ 42% $92,370.00+ 45% $118,050.00+ 49% $175,250.00+ 50%
An article headline that reads "Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn't Kept Text Message Data Since April." The subheading reads "The agency's response to public records requests indicated potential violations of federal records laws, experts said." The article is by Minho Kim, and a section of it is highlighted yellow. The highlight portion reads "the agency had not maintained text message data among top officials since early April, according to its communications with a nonprofit watchdog group."
A screenshot of a twitter post by @metr.org. It reads: "We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't." A graph demonstrating that data is attached as an image.
An Edwardian Christmas card of a giant lady Krampus in a black dress with a basket on her back, chasing men up a set of stairs to catch them. One man in a black suit is already in he basket, and she is grabbing a man by the collar of his brown suit as he tries to escape. A caption that reads "Gruss vom Krampus!" ("Greetings from Krampus!") is in the lower left corner of the card.
A public service poster from 1949 that features comic book character Superman lecturing a mixed group of schoolchildren. He says in a speech bubble "... and remember, boys and girls, your school - like our country - is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions, and national origins. So..." Superman's dialogue continues at the bottom of the poster, below the graphic. "... if YOU hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin - don't wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN." Below the dialogue in a blue box in white block letters, the poster reads "HELP KEEP YOUR SCHOOL ALL AMERICAN!"
A newspaper clipping photo of Andre the Giant's face with a quote from him. "I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face."
Screenshot of a twitter post with a graph. Post by @abenanav reads: "This is the chart. She spent months courting Republican endorsements, riding the 2016 Clinton strategy to certain defeat. They risked it all to build a centrist party of suburbanites and college kids and lost. It’s time to move on but I don’t think the Dems will move with us." Chart is a bar graph titled "How registered Republicans voted." It shows results from the 2020 election, 94% Trump, 6% Democrat, side by side with results from the 2024 election, 94% Trump, 5% Democrat.
A trans girl on her apartment balcony, leaning against the railing with trees behind her. She wears a black shirt with the "I Like Trains kid" from the meme riding a steam locomotive. The locomotive and kid are black and white, but the train is streaming a blue, pink, and white trans pride banner behind it which reads "I LIKE TRANS" in black, heavy print.
A tapered, curved, Turkish style tea glass with gold trim on a matching saucer. The glass is filled with a deep red tea.
Screencap of Immortan Joe from Mad Max: Fury Road, captioned with his famous line, "Do not, my friends, become addicted to water."
A very zoomed in photo of a gray cat's face. She is laying on her side and looking directly at the camera.
A tapered, curved, Turkish style tea glass with gold trim on a matching saucer. The glass is filled with a golden brown tea. A few loose tea leaves rest at the bottom of the glass.
Oded Fehr as Fleet Admiral Charles Vance in Star Trek: Discovery. He is wearing a gray uniform with red piping on the hems.
A crew photo frm SeaQuest DSV
A tapered, curved, Turkish style tea glass, on a matching saucer and filled with dark red tea. A couple little lavender buds float in the top.
A curved, tapered, Turkish-style tea glass with gold trim on a matching glass saucer, filled with a red-gold tea slightly clouded by honey. It sits on a pink lap desk next to a black computer mouse and a black USB hub.
A curved, tapered, Turkish-style tea glass with gold trim, containing a pale, gold-colored tea. The glass and its saucer sit on the keyboard of a laptop displaying a screen capture of the game No Man's Sky, a space exploration game. A black-and-white tuxedo cat curiously pokes his face around the side of the laptop screen from behind.
A curved, tapered, Turkish tea glass with gold trim, with red-gold tea inside, slightly clouded by honey. It sits on a glass saucer on a laptop keyboard. Behind the glass, the laptop's screen displays the album art for "The Magic Position" by Patrick Wolf. The album art features a tall, lean white man dressed in a red, childlike outfit, riding a children's merry-go-round that is much too small for him and his long legs.
Screenshot of a quote from the article: "Emails obtained by the Guardian show that Workforce Group revised that figure upwards even further to “include the pass through costs”, making the total $17.5m for three months. That is about twice what Unity, the lead agency coordinating homelessness services, spends on program services over the same amount of time for all unhoused people in New Orleans. The price tag is also equivalent to a year’s rent for a one-bedroom apartment for 1,177 people, which would constitute roughly 80% of New Orleans’ unhoused population."
A screenshot of a long tumblr post describing entomological research and bug tongues. The bug tongues strongly resemble exotically shaped dildos. Link to tumblr post in the original bsky post.
A screenshot of a tumblr post: aliensnipe: What if there were women's cleanliness productsthat were marketed the way Old Spice stuff is? Like they had names like "Lioness" and "Sycamore" and "Wildfire" and "Hunter's Moon" and they were touted as making you smell like a warrior queen who does not suffer fools and conquers all she beholds? 31-rabbits: HELLO LADIES have you felt the primal call of the unmerciful sea calling you to strike down those who would defy you? no? well if you stopped using overpriced flower-scented body wash and switched to SEA HAG, you might. look down. back up. where are you? you're a siren, bare-breasted and shrieking as you lure the unwary to their doom on the rocks below. and you smell amazing. what's in your hand? back at me. it's a vial of skin-nourishing ingredients, derived from the seaweed you used to strangle a hated foe. it does wonders for your skin tone and resilience, and we can all agree that we will need that resilience in the coming war. look again: the seaweed is now a formal apology from the last man who unnecessarily tried to explain something to you. anything is possible when you smell like a vengeful sea witch and embrace your own rage. i'm on a narwhal.
Sachet of tea labeled "Golden Snails, Ingredients: Chinese black tea." The tea inside looks like tiny, coiled, golden snail shells.
A curved, tapered tea glass with gold trim, filled with a golden-red tea. The tea is visibly darker in this photo than the previous one.
A curved, tapered tea glass with gold trim, filled with a golden-red tea. This is Friday's Underworld tea, a blend of Pu'er tea, dark chocolate, and pomegranate.
A black cardboard box with a blue ribbon. The white label on it features Friday Tea's cute dragon logo and reads "Mystery Tea Sampler, Bold Caffeine, 8 different surprise teas, 3-5 servings of each, www.fridaytea.com"
A tea bag labeled "Coffee Kisses. Ingredients: Black tea, roasted coffee beans." It visibly contains the listed ingredients.
Packet of loose-leaf tea labeled "Rainbow Blend. Ingredients: Yerba mate, blueberry, pineapple, ginger, rainbow sugar"
Tea label that reads "Mistress of the Dark. Ingredients: Dark tea, black tea, blue butterfly peaflower, safflower, bergamot oil, pomegranate oil"
A trans girl leans against a balcony railing with green trees behind. Their long hair was formerly dyed green but has almost completely faded to bleached blonde, and their smile is slightly upturned on the right. They are wearing a black shirt with a cartoon train on it that is streaming a trans pride banner behind it with "I Like Trans" on the banner.
My top 5 games by time played: Rimworld, Starbound, No Man's Sky, Endless Sky, and Stellaris
Kassiopeia, a beaverfolk paladin. They are wearing brass-toned scale armor, and are brandishing a round wooden shield painted in yellow, white, purple, and black stripes, like the nonbinary pride flag.