Pumpkin Hound 🎃🐾🌈

@pumpkinhoundpdx.bsky.social

Film enthusiast 📽️ (especially horror 👻🔪🎃). Greyhound guardian (to Kiwi 🥝, Peaches 🍑, Pluto 🧑‍🚀, and many fosters) 💜🐶 Reader 📚 Burning Man ranger and camp lead 🔥 Raver 🕺🏻 E-bike rider 🚴 Portland, Oregon 🌲 He/him 🧔🏻‍♂️

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

the best thing about being in my 40s by far has been the freedom to refer to anonymous guys in their late teens/early 20s as “kid” like Han Solo calls Luke in Star Wars. been waiting my whole life for this. worth every second. indescribable feeling of power.

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

I get that there’s something genuinely rewarding about getting super into food and wine and noticing the subtle interplay of tastes and textures but there’s also something genuinely rewarding about getting fucked up at Olive Garden so there’s lots of beauty in the world if you are willing to look