the idea of protists is really funny. Ah yes, the kingdoms of life: Animals, Plants, Fungi, and Don’t worry about it:)
i just started taking my first botany course and politely op what the fuck is this supposed to mean
Well
Um
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All creatures with cells that have the fancy stuff like nucleus and mitochondria are Eukaryotes. That picture is from the Wikipedia page for Eukaryotes.
Long ago there was just the Bacteria and Archaea. Then something weird happened and an Archaean ate a bacterium but the bacterium was not consumed, instead they became friends. By “friends” I mean “permanently merged together into an entirely new kind of life form that can do all kinds of fancy stuff with its cells.” This life form is your ancestor and the ancestor of all Eukaryotes.
One of those new, fancy life forms ate a cyanobacteria and made it into chloroplasts. This created the plants.
A few others decided to go multicellular and form tubes out of cells that could wriggle around, and they became animals.
A few decided to also go multicellular and team up into big networks of interconnected thread-like tendrils, and they became fungi.
But most of them just kind of went off and did their own thing, going about their single-celled business, evolving into all kinds of weird stuff without doing anything multicellular. And all of those guys got called protists. Every eukaryote that didn’t become multicellular is a protist.
The guys that went multicellular are just a few weirdos in these random corners of the tree of life, but they get all the attention cause we multicellular organisms are kind of self-absorbed (and we had to do some strange things to sand to turn it into lenses to see the single-celled organisms).
If each of those multicellular clades counts as a “kingdom,” how many kingdoms do the single-celled guys make? Good luck with that one. We keep finding more of them.
Every time we look at some more pond water, the taxonomists collapse into sobbing again. There are too many ways to be a little guy. Every time there’s a cilium or a flagellum somewhere it’s not supposed to be, or there’s something suspicious going on with microtubules or zoospores or helical structures something, or god forbid two guys get freaky and do another endosymbiosis again, they have to rewrite everything and there’s at least two fistfights and one brawl.
Protists: Just don’t worry about it.
Also I lied and there are plenty of eukaryotes that are multicellular and not animals, plants, or fungi, such as giant kelp
However those get called protists half the time too because with kelp, it’s easier than trying to explain what the fuck it is if it isn’t a plant, and with everything else, talking about it just starts an argument about what counts as a “cell” and what counts as “multi” for that matter and nothing good comes of it.
Wait wait wait. Hope do you argue what counts as multi. Anything larger than one, right? Anything larger than one?
Well
Xenophyopores found a cool hack to be unicellular but still get 20 centimeters long—they just have lots and lots of nuclei in their single cell.
They look like this. Of course it is in the ocean where all kinds of freaks are.
adhd is crazy cuz its called “cant pay attention disorder” and then it can completely ruin ur life and make u nonfunctional and people irl assume it’s the 5 year old boy disorder and people online assume it’s the annoying 15 year old disorder meanwhile the dea thinks you want to do substances for fun so they wont let anyone produce more of the medication that keeps ur life somewhat intact
phrases like “the house always wins” and “it’s on the house” but used to imply that the building you’re in is alive and personally invested in the situation
tweets like this are my pet peeve. just throwing silly words together in a way that’s supposed to sound hyperspecific but does not in fact evoke anything recognizable
We need to start dissociating the church historically doing shitty things and the nominally christian people who were in charge also doing shitty things.
wow i sure am thirsty for some apple beverage oh boy
prices you can trust, products you can’t
Graphic Design has gone so minimalistic it’s morphed into Uncanny Nondescript. My brain tells me there is apple juice in that container, but my heart feels fear.
everyone’s like wehhhhh why doesn’t doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that’s been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test
“it’s medical malpractice” have u ever been a doctor? most medicine is malpractice. let the man limp around chewing vicodin doing 50 invasive tests please
Once Taub (derogatory) derisively said about a patient with unexplained chronic pain “7 doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him, what does that mean?” and House replied without even thinking “it means they’re idiots” and proceed to work his ass off to diagnose the patient Taub wanted to write off as a faker or something. If a doctor had said that when that patient was ME, I wouldn’t dream of suing them in a million years
[Image: Screencap of tags reading, “Dr House would also draw Rouge the Bat as wide as she is tall with tits to match. You wouldn’t even have to ask, he’d just do it.”]
everyone’s like wehhhhh why doesn’t doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that’s been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test
“it’s medical malpractice” have u ever been a doctor? most medicine is malpractice. let the man limp around chewing vicodin doing 50 invasive tests please
Once Taub (derogatory) derisively said about a patient with unexplained chronic pain “7 doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him, what does that mean?” and House replied without even thinking “it means they’re idiots” and proceed to work his ass off to diagnose the patient Taub wanted to write off as a faker or something. If a doctor had said that when that patient was ME, I wouldn’t dream of suing them in a million years
[Image: Screencap of tags reading, “Dr House would also draw Rouge the Bat as wide as she is tall with tits to match. You wouldn’t even have to ask, he’d just do it.”]
he’s back at it, yet another serious death threat has hit car hammer explosion man
ALT
I’m starting to think we have a problem where we’ve gotten rid of *official* feudalism in our society without getting rid of *people with shit tonnes of cash whose whims shape our everyday lives in ways good and ill* and that the cognitive dissonance between living in what we SAY are democracies that really are no such thing is wrecking tech bois brains
it’s a notion
But are they afraid we don’t have democracies after all … or that we do?
tech bros legit don’t live in democracies! They live for a cyberspace reality where whims of the rich and powerful really do decide if Twitter becomes X and Tumblr can be burned by one guy deciding to cut his losses! nothing about social media is even vaguely democratic!
I was honestly rooting for Matt to cling to ‘open source good’ to keep his sanity but it seems even that isn’t enough.
The deranged anti porn Christians are gonna get their way on some of their wishes in the long run, just because they’re the *only* people who have suggested any kind of way of regulating tech bros in a way that could plausibly stick. And that sucks. But arguably, most people prefer theocracy to dictatorship
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states. The Compromise only partially re-established the former pre-1848 sovereignty and status of the Kingdom of Hungary, being separate from, and no longer subject to, the Austrian Empire. The compromise put an end to the 18-year-long military dictatorship and absolutist rule over Hungary which Emperor Franz Joseph had instituted after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Hungary was restored. The agreement also restored the old historic constitution of the Kingdom of Hungary.
if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.
Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought I’d reblog this again
And if “don’t be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreaker” isn’t enough for you, consider
You can’t tell how old a kid is just by looking. I’ve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and I’m 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you won’t be able to tell they’re elementary schoolers, but they still are.
Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy.
You don’t know if that teenager is developmentally disabled.
You don’t know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.
You don’t know if this is that teenager’s first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.
You don’t know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year.
You don’t know if that teenager has eaten anything at all today.
And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head.
and even if it is just a bored 16/17 year old out trying to see what free shit they can get. is it really gonna kill you to give them a fun sized milky way from the multipack you bought at poundland? That thing didn’t even cost you 5p, just give the kid the sugar, say “nice costume”, and let it go.
There are worse things a teenager could be doing on Halloween instead of trick-or-treating.
It’s been kind if an unspoken rule in my college town that if college students show up at your door in costume you give them candy because they’re also out to have fun and it’s way nicer for the students to trick or treat instead of going out and getting drunk. It’s also a way for the people who don’t want to party and don’t want to drink to have fun so like, we need to stop getting angry at people older than 6 wanting to dress up and get candy.
Heck, we even offer the parents a bit of candy too! It’s all good fun~!
Fr, I always hate the ‘you’re too old for trick or treating’ bullcrap.
Fr, I always
hate the ‘you’re too old for trick
or treating’ bullcrap.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
just found out that stoats hunt twice the size of them like rabbits by aggressively and eccentrically dancing around it with their little slinky rigatoni bodies so it can confuse the absolute fuck out of its prey until it can get close enough to jump on its back like some shadow of the colossus shit and take it down
oh my god its called the weasel war dance and they just go off the shits apeshit little animals
Clowning towards you with incredible speed and murderous intent.
Clowning towards you
with incredible speed and
murderous intent.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Big noses and pointy noses and sharp noses and hooked noses and long noses and deviated noses are very cool and very fun to draw. hit post
Used to be super self conscious about not having a small button upturned nose until I saw an artist draw herself with a large hooked nose. Now I draw myself with an cartoony pointy nose and it has done wonders for my self esteem actaully
This is good advice before any storm! Insurance will probably be a pain anyway, but at least you’ll have something documented.
You used to have to do this to get FEMA funds as well, but those requirements have changed, so now they’ll cover repairs/replacements even if things are already damaged! FEMA funds can be applied if your insurance does not cover everything AND can be used to distaster-proof your home once you return. The application is much easier to fill out and to get approved now. View more information on the reform at https://www.fema.gov/assistance/individual/2024-reform. And apply for assistance at https://www.disasterassistance.gov/.
