cannot watch the return of the king without thinking of that bad bootleg with the fucked up subtitles that said “this will be the end of Gender as we know it” instead of “this will be the end of Gondor as we know it”
I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???
This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.
They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.
This thing is one of the most successful hunters on the planet. Because their mouth is fused shut, except for the tip, they can create a powerful suction force in front of that one little opening in order to draw in prey.
Lions have a 20-30% success rate on their hunts, depending on daytime and if they’re in a group. Great white sharks, anywhere from 40% to 80%, depending on the size and skill of the individual. Dragonflies, which are one of the most successful terrestrial hunters, can hit about 80-85%. Seahorses? 90% success rate, sometimes more. Only a fraction of their prey escapes that powerful vacuum. They’re incredibly precise.
If you touch them, they feel hard, because of the skeleton underneath their skin. Their tails are being studied to make coiling bridges, because of how strong that interlocked structure is. Different species range in size from over a foot long, to barely an inch.
Behold: not just a fish, but a wildly successful predator!
horsey
don’t forget their majestic cousins the sea dragons! these are the leafy and weedy sea dragons
and the newest seahorse family member, discovered in 2015, the ruby sea dragon ❤️
Yeah that’s when someone tried to straighten the seahorse back out and it still didn’t look right. The more they bent and mushed it in their hands to look like a fish again the worse they fucked it up until finally they just left it and walked off and hoped nobody would ask who did this
(I love them so much)
Syngnathiformes my beloved. Always happy to see my favorite weird fishes get appreciated.
And if you want to expand your horizons on the order, may I suggest trumpetfishes
This has to be my alltime favorite image of a banded pipefish. Thank you so much!!
As thanks let me gift you this image of an absolute 34cm unit of a spiny seahorse wich was caught in the channel south of england ( and later released healthily ) in 2015.
Zionists can honestly be hilarious. Like one moment they’re acting like a normal human being and then the next they’re blaming innocent babies for the world going bad.
Once US civil war 2 happens, Cuba should take Florida while they’re not looking
i am poor transgender girl living in illegitimate desantis regime and am so hungry for estrogen . please president diaz-canel liberate us with your jupiter 5 artillery missles
holy hell actually
How about you look up the stats for food availability and poverty with starvation in Cuba before deciding you want to be conquered by them.
i
wonder
how
that
HAPPENED
The United States ranks higher in deaths by malnutrition than Cuba does. XXX Wild how they’re able to support people like this even with an embargo. I wonder what kind of system would allow them to do this.
It’s literally shameful how the United States is so much richer than Cuba and still has a higher percentage of people dying of malnutrition. It’s actually disgusting.
Once US civil war 2 happens, Cuba should take Florida while they’re not looking
i am poor transgender girl living in illegitimate desantis regime and am so hungry for estrogen . please president diaz-canel liberate us with your jupiter 5 artillery missles
holy hell actually
How about you look up the stats for food availability and poverty with starvation in Cuba before deciding you want to be conquered by them.
i
wonder
how
that
HAPPENED
The United States ranks higher in deaths by malnutrition than Cuba does. XXX Wild how they’re able to support people like this even with an embargo. I wonder what kind of system would allow them to do this.
It’s literally shameful how the United States is so much richer than Cuba and still has a higher percentage of people dying of malnutrition. It’s actually disgusting.
I’m losing my fucking shit because my mom is getting catfished by a guy that sends her pictures like this and it never once occurred to her that this….isnt a real picture that a real person would ever take, ever
me sitting in my la quinta inn room with my $10 million in solid gold bars
i feel like a lot of the ‘i hate kids’ crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid’s limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they’ve ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they’ve ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody’s told them yet that they can’t run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.
some of you in the notes.. i would say read the room but you didn’t even read. the post
prev im peer-reviewing your tags bc theyre imporatnt
one of the weirdest experiences ive had being trans and out so far was when i went to the doctors about hrt and she walked me through the consent form (the one that tells you youre doing irreversible damage to your body and you’re a freak) with a pen in her hand like crossing shit out and being like “this isn’t true, this is actually completely false, this is totally an exaggeration” and it was stuff like “research on hrt is limited poor and speculative” or “hrt can increase risks of disease” or “testosterone makes you more violent and angry” like idk having it written in a way intended to make you feel like you’re making a big mistake is one thing but the fact that the form has like literally proven false info in it and the doctor had to verbally be like sorry this isnt even true its just on there because society hates trans people. is wild
I’m offended by this. This is a photo of United 175, which hit the South Tower between floors 77 and 85. Even if it was a photo of American 11, it wouldn’t make sense because that plane hit between floors 99 and 105. The person who made this meme picked the floor right in between the uppermost floor of the South Tower that UA175 hit and the uppermost floor of the North Tower that AA11 hit but no plane ever actually hit the 95th floor of either building. The meme should say, “Taylor Swift, when the meeting is on the 85th floor.”
tbh this is proof that social media has completely ruined my sense of humor like i could go see a stand up comedian live and not laugh as hard as i did from reading this one fucking tweet
It’s apparently sexual assault to masturbate to the idea of someone without getting their permission first. I’ve been suddenly thrown back into 2015 Tumblr
I keep seeing people genuinely having this take and I am just…aghast is probably the right word? At the idea that if you want to jerk off while thinking about someone you need to have their permission. Do people genuinely not understand how much more invasive and unwanted bringing that question to someone would be?
In what world is thinking about someone while you masturbate without their permission sexual assault, but it’s fine if you approach someone who almost certainly does not want to know if you think about them like that, make that knowledge available to them, and then put making the decision on weather you are allowed to jerk off while thinking about them entirely on their shoulders? In what world is that second thing not a hundred times worse?
To be very clear:
✅ jerking off thinking about whoever you want, for any reason, without permission. Don’t tell them unless you are in a relationship with them and it seems like something they would like to hear! You are fine, you are not hurting anyone! This is nobody’s business but yours, period.
🚫 walking up to a platonic friend or acquaintance or co-worker and saying “hey I really want to jerk off while thinking of you, but it seems creepy to do that without your permission, so can you tell me it’s fine to do that?” This is sexual harassment no matter who you do this to, and if you are doing this to a co-worker this is grounds for you being fired. If you do this to someone who is working at their job, but you do not work there (like a barista or a waitress), do not be surprised if you get kicked out of that establishment for creep behavior! And if you do this to a friend or acquaintance or even a near-stranger, do not be surprised if they 1) never talk to you again, 2) warn mutual friends or acquaintances that you are a creep and/or 3) fucking deck you because you have just made the conversation awkward at best and fucking scary for them at worst, and they would be justified to rely on their fight or flight to get out of range of you.
I am begging you to think. Just think, for a second. You might off handedly agree with the statement “I wouldn’t want someone to jerk off while thinking about me without my permission” but if someone came up to you and asked you that, you would absolutely lose your shit in one direction or another.
Nobody wants this. Nobody should do this. If anyone, for any reason, jerks off while thinking about me and I haven’t made it clear to them beforehand that I would love to hear all about that? Then I don’t want to know about it. I hope they’re having fun, but I also hope they never tell me about it, or involve me in conversations about it to receive my permission to continue.
I don’t want this, and you, generic puriteen, don’t want this either. You just don’t.
They know it’s an insane, inappropriate question. They do not actually want you to ask your coworkers permission to put them in your spank bank.
They want you to stop fantasizing about people who aren’t already your romantic partner.
Yeah, one of you weasels cropped the picture and it breached containment. This is in my dad’s barn–I made it for him years ago specifically in reference to the incredible number of projects that have started as “just a little thing” and have ended with a nuts-and-bolts restoration–and he’s now seeing it posted in his car groups on facebook, that’s how far out of hellsite circulation this has escaped. And now his car friends want me to make them flags too.
I really should have expected this.
For the record, this painting is also for my dad’s barn.
My MOM visited one of these “centers” when she was pregnant with me (a planned and wanted pregnancy) because she didn’t know it was fake and unregulated!
People deserve real healthcare, not lies, randos dressed up in white coats, and disease-spreading, unsterilized equipment like it’s the 1700s.
Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues
Important information! Insurance coverage decisions are made by medically ignorant bean-counters. Until we can dismantle the whole shitty system, know how to scare them into submission.
This is like that procedure Mr. Incredible told that old lady
Reblogging for visibility
[Image Description: Text: Medical Hack: So, your doctor ordered a test or treatment and your insurance company denied it. That is a typical cost saving method. Okay, here is what you do:
Call the insurance company and tell them you want to speak with the “HIPPA Compliance/Privacy Officer” (By federal law, they have to have one)
Then ask them for Names as well as Credentials of every person Accessing Your Record to make that decision of denial. By law you have a Right to that informantion.
They will almost always Reverse the Decision very shortly rather than admit that the committee is made of low paid H.S. Graduates, looking at all “criteria words,” making the decision to deny your care. Even in the rare case it is made by medical personel, it is unlikely that it is made by a board cerified doctor in that specialty and they Do Not Want You to Know This!
Any refusal should be reported to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (OCR.gov) as a HIPPA violation. Description ends]
Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues
Important information! Insurance coverage decisions are made by medically ignorant bean-counters. Until we can dismantle the whole shitty system, know how to scare them into submission.
This is like that procedure Mr. Incredible told that old lady
Reblogging for visibility
[Image Description: Text: Medical Hack: So, your doctor ordered a test or treatment and your insurance company denied it. That is a typical cost saving method. Okay, here is what you do:
Call the insurance company and tell them you want to speak with the “HIPPA Compliance/Privacy Officer” (By federal law, they have to have one)
Then ask them for Names as well as Credentials of every person Accessing Your Record to make that decision of denial. By law you have a Right to that informantion.
They will almost always Reverse the Decision very shortly rather than admit that the committee is made of low paid H.S. Graduates, looking at all “criteria words,” making the decision to deny your care. Even in the rare case it is made by medical personel, it is unlikely that it is made by a board cerified doctor in that specialty and they Do Not Want You to Know This!
Any refusal should be reported to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (OCR.gov) as a HIPPA violation. Description ends]
Self defense moment. These are good and valid ways to get out of restraints. I’m glad they made the video so I don’t have to. Study them enough to understand how they work so you can use them if you need them.
“5 amazon products you NEED” “pov: you bought a straw that ✨prevents wrinkles✨ (link in bio!)” “how i stay skinny as a working mom of 3 [straight up eating disorder behavior]” “refill my emotional support stanley cup with me” “POV: you’re a 23 year old tradwife boy mom😍” “i spent 2,800 dollars on a top! let’s style it!” “does anyone else’s husband do this😂😂😂 [the most insane example of weaponized incompetence anyone has ever seen]” What the fuck are you people talking about😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
the booping is cute and all but lets not forget the violent transmisogyny and antiblackness of this site. ok
“thanks for ruining the joke, i bet you’re fun at parties” sorry for not wanting people to brush over staff’s shitty actions. especially on trans day of visibility
