Please click through and read the article. It just keeps getting better and better.
Because the crabs are raised in a lab, they don’t have any experience with predators. So before putting them onto the reef, Spadaro and his team may have to condition them to fear things like octopuses, snappers, and groupers.
One way to do this is by using puppets modeled after predators. By putting these puppets in the tanks while poking at the crabs, the crabs learn to move away from the threat. Several months ago, Mote partnered with a local elementary school and had students craft hand puppets, modeled after crab predators, to use in fear conditioning. (Fortunately, the crabs don’t have great vision.)
ok but what are the odds that a journalist from a prestigious well-known liberal news outlet was added to that chat. Like how many other random people were added to other various war group chats before this. Was Jessica the accountant from long island added to a war group chat? Was sixteen year old high school JV lacrosse player Brayden added to a war group chat???
As American-funded groups in Scotland ramp up their protests against abortion healthcare, it’s worth a reminder that they don’t give a flying fuck about the women they claim to care for.
Since Texas banned abortion, sepsis rates have soared and the maternal mortality rate has risen by 33%.
sea elephant, a type of free-swimming shell-less sea snail c:
Wild. I was so sure that someone had made a worm-on-a-string out of gelatin, but nope! Real animal. Bonkers. Add it to the list of Weird Things Under The Sea.
Yesss the gelatinous weevil!!!! Borzoi larvae!!! Apparently they have pretty advanced eyes and are known to be curious of divers and follow them around
I love seeing other people’s ocs and getting snippets of their stories like oh my gosh there’s a whole world and narrative in your head that I’m getting a small glimpse into isn’t that so cool????
any computer people wanna explain how the hell this works
it wont let me do shit bc i apparently have 81 gigs of apps clogging my c drive, but my largest app is 0.4gb?????? its not system applications either because system is its own segment of storage. wadda hell are you talking about
guys i installed a program to show me exactly where the data is hidden and i think i found it and youre never gonna believe it
Here’s your friendly neighborhood trans girl programer to tell you WinDirStat is a free open source alternative and you don’t have to sign in to the annoying microsoft app store!
My friend’s like ‘sometimes if I’m feeling bad I imagine a copy of you in my head and she gives me advice and makes me feel better’ I hope she starts fronting. This is how I’m going to live forever.
The biggest “your experiences are not universal” thing I feel is whenever anyone talks about the universality of girls planning their weddings since childhood because. Well. Not me. God bless
ID. Digital art of a screenprinted informative poster from Lumon, with a limited color palette of teal, deep navy, and red, printed on cream paper. Text on it reads:
Kier’s Four Tempers:
“In my life, I have identified four components, which I call tempers, from which are derived every human soul. Woe. Frolic. Dread. Malice. Each man’s character is defined by the precise ratio that resides in him. I walked into the cave of my own mind, and there I tamed them. Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.” -Kier Eagen.
Below the text is a grid of profiles of the MDR employees, one for each temper: Mark with a tear on his cheek, Dylan with a smile painted on his face with a splash of blood, Irv with the top of his head dissolving into black goo with the down arrow for the testing floor elevator superimposed, and Helly wide-eyed with the noose around her neck.
Only on Tumblr you can post “Please stop being a dick to ace and aro people.” and instantly get the reaction “THAT’S APHOBIC”. You cannot make this shit up.
they planted berries, root vegetables, leafy greens, herbs, all sorts. they label each plant and the sign said “free to take, leave some for others to enjoy!”
and people did. they took a bit, but left some for others.
it also fed the homeless people living around there.
bearing in mind this is a tourist town, so i half expected to see the plants gone. but nope, there’s always some left.
people aren’t naturally selfish, and they will share. the initiative works
And honestly? Most people who don’t need it won’t bother to stop and pick fruit. It’s only people who actually need it who will devote the time. People with money still have grocery stores.
[Image description: tweet by Black Botanist @CreativeTiana: transcript follows]
I was talking to someone about planting food and fruit trees in public spaces and they were like “Why so everyone can steal the food?”
And I was like “See, that’s the problem right there. Why should taking food off a public tree be stealing?”
“Urban food forest” is something I’m hearing more and more. Do some poking around, there may be an opportunity to help with or start something like this near you.
There’s a recurring theme of a certain type of guy I witness in detractors of transandrophobia theory and I find them really strange.
They’re the kind of person who is like, “no, trans men are identical and equal to cis men and are basically the same as cis men and we have so much power and privilege because we are men, we don’t need special words or to talk about our problems because we are men, we should be using our powerful male voices to uplift those inferior weak women’s voices that I could totally get away with being hateful to because I’m a man but I don’t because I have so much power and I’m using it to protect feeble women”
And it’s like. Do you not see how misogynistic that is. Do you not see the toxic masculinity. Why do you feel so affirmed in your gender because you feel you have privilege and power. Why do you think in order to be a man you have to benefit from privilege.
men will never understand the feeling of waking up in the morning, staring at your ocean blue orbs in the mirror, pulling your long brunnette hair into a messy bun, and then finding out your abusive father sold you to one direction
Transandrophobes will say shit like “men are a priveliged group and trans men are men, therefore they cannot be victims of discrimination, unlike me” and then be white.
Hey *hand on shoulder* you know that Greece, along with most of the balkan countries, has been under ottoman turkish rule for more than 400 years? You know that Greece today has many economic problems today, despite it’s history being rich?
You know that Greece is very prone to forest fires and natural disasters?
Also, do you know that Greece, along with Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Montenegro… They are all protesting against corruption, and no one talked about it.
You talk about wanting to have temples to worship in modern day, but you don’t care about the land that those temples would be built on?
Greece may be an Orthodox Christian country. But trust me, the gods are still very much living there. Their spirit is still there. Poseidon is still ruling the waves, Zeus is still watching over in the sky, Demeter is taking care of the crops.
All i am asking is… Spread awareness. I am saying this on behalf of my greek friend, firstly, who has complained to me about their issues not being heard. LEARN HISTORY. STUDY CURRENT WORLD EVENTS. SEND LOVE TO THE LAND OF GREECE, WHO HAS ENDURED GREAT HARDSHIPS.
thinking about the time they sent me a seven year old autistic patient to investigate if he was suffering abuse because in every psychological test he kept drawing awful monsters
and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what’s on his mind
and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS
turns out the kid just had a special interest in Five Nights at Freddy’s
I pointed at the monster and went “That’s Freddy!” and I’ve never seen a kid that ecstatic in my life
the mom looked at me as if her son and I belonged at the same satanic cult and that’s why I knew the names of the demons in his head
I wrote back to psychologist like “I’m not sure how to explain this but looking up five nights at freddys might bring you progress with this patient”
at some point the nurses realized the autistic children and I were like, Really Vibing
so they decided to highkey just appoint all of them to my day and it took me almost a month to realize that the fact that I kept arriving and finding that all of today’s appointments were autistic children was Not A Coincidence
anyway this one time there was a kid who was really into christianity but it was like, specifically angels
so I’m trying to start up a conversation with him and I ask what he’s reading and he goes “do you know what a nephilim is”
and like for one hellish second my soul is suckerpunched out of my body and thrown straight into supernatural-fanfic-on-wattpad hell, and then I reassume control of my flesh prison, ignoring the mental edits of Dean and Castiel making out, and go “Aren’t those the guys who are half human and half angel?”
and the kid was so fucking happy but the mom was staring at me like ‘why are you privy to this bit of occult jesus lore’
and my heathen lesbian of a self just looks at her and goes
“i love bible”
It’s almost like taking an invested interest in what your children enjoy will help you understand them.
that addition might be the most savage call out i’ve ever seen
I just used the line “that’s not an asshole move, it’s a whole asshole ballet” and I’m kinda proud of it so it’s going here where it will get the recognition it deserves.
A pas de douche, if you will
All right, the rest of you can go home, this one wins.
image how much better if everyone, adults, teens, younger kids, all got recess. like if everyone got 45 minutes to an hour to just play around outside, do fun things, be “childish” and things
like my post you cowards, imagine it!
a judge: the court will now take a recess
all the lawyers: [scramble to put on sneakers and get to the playground first]
Where in the world did the argument that trans men don’t experience misogyny ever come from. Did you guys not see the word “trans” at the beginning of “trans man”.
There’s a reason that I’m talked over and infantilized in cis man dominated spaces. There’s a reason that there isn’t a single person like me in my STEM department. There’s a reason that I am forever terrified of forced pregnancy.
I sure as shit don’t feel benefitted by the patriarchy, and surely neither do trans women. It’s almost like we both experience systemic misogyny in both similar and completely different ways. Hm.
I bet one of the fun parts of filming action movies is getting picked to be one of the guys who aims laser pointers at a character’s chest to imply they’re being targeted by snipers
I am picked for laser pointer duty but am immediately demoted for hovering it over the actor’s weenie during the climactic scene
Or you use a plastic/silicon spatula?? Or a silicon whisk?? go to literally any dollar store they have shitty plastic/silicon kitchen utensils you can scramble eggs with without scratching up your pans
