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[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[troublepunk-ldn]

i am 100% convinced that mobile phone/ social media bans for under 16s are an attempt to remove kids and teens from public life. this is not protecting kids this is locking them in houses with no escape from their abusers. the world is so hostile to teenagers rn

[youmegravity]

Constantly accusing trans women of grooming is particularly heinous because you can use any genuine attempt to help and support others as 'evidence'

[youmegravity]

Sharing resources is grooming. Supporting each other is grooming. Warning others of transmisogynists is grooming. Making friends is grooming. Wanting a better future is grooming. Openly existing as a trans woman is grooming

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

"trying to draw other people close to you in any way is nefarious and suspicious, because you are nefarious and suspicious"

[fishparasite]

you will live and you will say the wrong things and make mistakes and people will love you anyways.

[fishparasite]

i made this post because i've got so many friends that think saying something wrong in a conversation is the end of the world. it isn't. you'll be okay. you don't have to be embarrassed about every little thing. you are alive and doing things and speaking to people. you will make mistakes and you will live.

[checkyourasianbias]

saw this tweet and like. exactly

[importantcatpics]

[ninamodaffari]

hey so I realize people are probably joking saying this but in case it needs to be said: do not plant bamboo, mint, kudzu, or any invasive plant by data centers (in the US) in an effort to stop them. destroying the ecosystem should not be a way to stop something from destroying the ecosystem.....

[qsycomplainsalot]

Wouldn't the smarter thing to do be planting plants that are actually protected in the state you live in ? That one HOA piss take trick or whatever.

[redarmyscreaming]

[kitty-c4t]

[budugu]

[agnosticblowjob]

[moldavite]

hopefully i'll get to do something other than endure soon. that would be really nice

[wetheurban]

At the end of the day, you can’t delay joy until life looks a certain way. You deserve to enjoy your life now.

[sobcat]

[hyenaswine]

you can just say "person with ovaries." "an AFAB" makes literally no sense here, in addition to being grammatically nonsensical. sorry but this bleet has been pissing me off all day but i feel like if i reply to it i'll get it trouble.

[hyenaswine]

a trans man who hasn't had any ovaries for 25 years isn't going to experience perimenopause in his mid-40s, so why include him based on a gender assigned to him as a baby? like... he was a baby.

[hyenaswine]

like why bother acting like you want to be trans-inclusive if you're too lazy to recognize that sometimes, trans bodies aren't going to be the same as they were at birth when they got handed their baby gender

[marinolta]

Howard Buehler Collection: Misc Family Photos 50s-80s

[catilinas]

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!

[chernozemm]

do you ever have such a monumentally bad brain day that you just take away its mic?

like...... buddy, you are producing insanely bad thoughts today and believing them, I'll take it from here, get off the stage

[chernozemm]

I don't know if this is asked in earnest or just a thought but since I'm waiting for my therapy session, here it goes

The method I worked out for myself is to pretend that there's this personal assistant (Barbara) to my brain. The thoughts and emotions are clients who either come to pitch an idea or to demand attention from the boss.

Most are important and relevant thoughts; but sometimes they come at the wrong time (if I wake up at night worrying about a task I just imagine Barbara in her pyjamas groggily telling the thoughts to come during office hours).

And some clients (mean thoughts, false beliefs, anxiety jabs) I just imagine as panicked or rude customers that need to be treated as such. You are not getting audience with the boss until you can state your purpose calmly and clearly. If you insist on being rude, I'll throw you out.

It helps you separate yourself from the thoughts and gives you time to evaluate if they need to be acted on. My therapist loves Barbara

[naamahdarling]

Keep in mind, this sort of thing is a SKILL. That means you can get better at it if you practice! It works quite well!

(You may not have a Barbara. You may have a Kevin, like I do, who is the one saying the insanely bad thoughts, and every once in a while you have to be like "nobody asked you, Kevin" and shove him into a locker. I normally engage with those thoughts a little, to make sure they aren't covering up a real immediate need, but sometimes you just know there's nothing good in there and you can safely just shut the lid on the dumpster for the night.)

[painkillerscoffeeandcathair]

I love both of these SO MUCH

[barricades-of-fandom]

Omg I have a Kevin! He's a teenage boy trying to bully me on xbox live and I get to say nice thought Kevin bet you'd love that, don't you have fucking homework or something?

[grawly]

Flowers For Algernon (1959)

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[anordinaryseal]

Intimacy