attempts at sentient life

On indefinite hiatus. INFP 469 so/sp

[stridward]

My salary is so shitty 😒

[squidyword]

have you tried the bbq ranch chicken salad from Wendy’s?

[squidyword]

OMG I THOUGHT THAT SAID SALAD

[inthefallofasparrow]

[atimelyflipper]

Mallory

[everythingstarstuff]

'Morning Conversations with the Clouds' by Felicia Chiao (@feliciachiao)

[anexperimentallife]

Slow blinks at you to let you know I'm comfortable in your presence and don't consider you a threat

[princessslea]

I do this with my cat so often that I have unintentionally done this with people several times

[autumngracy]

Same lmao

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

You think that's bad? I was raised with goats and I still slip up sometimes and snort at people while bugging my eyes out and rearing back my head when they make me uncomfortable

[lastvalyrian]

I haven’t seen anyone mention the greatest cultural impact Yahoo Answers made yet

[jackadittyditty]

You can make anything pop punk see watch

normal bananas

pop punk bananas

[jaubaius]

These ‘Beach Animals’ were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.

[vintrkraka]

fuck it, straandbeast saturday

[aireina]

would you prefer to learn French or Italian before you die?

the threatening aura of this message reads like it was sent by the duolingo owl

[transxfiles]

this has probably been done before. but.

[yueko]

[etherealacademia]

balfour books, toronto

[everythingfox]

(via)

[arlo-venn]

@malociraptor

[mothsplaining]

hey what the Fuck are malinois

[lasrina]

BARKOUR

[moonenjoyer]

you cant wear a wittle face mask to stop yourself from killing other people bc you have hot breath?

cyclops xman literally wears glasses 24/7 to contain his literal laser beans in his eyes from hurting anyone even tho hes in constant excruciating pain or whatever idk if that true. and hes just some twink. grow up.

[quasibee-deactivated20220523]

Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR) is an active project to fix the biggest lie on the web. We help you understand the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies of websites.

This website reads Terms of Service and ranks them so you don’t have to – because, let’s be real, you don’t.

[shock1203]

[bossarmadimon]

For the curious:

[mens-rights-activia]

Tumblr really is the best social media platform, huh

[haltraveler]

[text-mode]

The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.

[pyronoid-d-deactivated20181217]

It’s trapped on a floppy tho this is some dark shit it has been denied its purpose forever bound to this obsolete storage

[smolmzd-deactivated20150612]

am i glad it’s in there and we’re out here

[undergroundmonorail]

people reading fantasy novels ask “why did the ancient ones seal the evil away for ten thousand years instead of just killing it” but then we go ahead and do this shit

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

We have learned nothing from every fantasy novel ever O.O

[ayellowbirds]

The best part, from the wiki article: “According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.”

It was intended to do good, but the programmer made a mistake and it got out of hand, becoming viral.

[dr-archeville]

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[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

the year is 28AW (after worm) and the effects are still being felt 

[classicantics-deactivated201712]

oh worm?

[catchymemes]

[virgogreen]

Fun fact, this may actually account for many of the “imaginings” we have of extinct animals.

I had a molecular biology professor who referred it to “vacuum packing” where many extinct animals are rendered slimmer or muscular than they may have been, since things like body fat and fur are not preserved during fossilization. So our view of animals like dinosaurs may be entirely inaccurate.

There’s actually a book, All Yesterdays, in which the artist, CM Koseman, draws modern animals as we might have interpreted them to look if we found them extinct the same way do dinosaurs.

Fun examples include:

The manatee

An elephant

Swans

And literally the picture of the hippo

[the-cosmic-goddess-deactivated2]

Another funny thing to add to this…because of how fossils are formed, it’s possible we don’t know what type of dinosaurs were different species or the same species.  If we compare the skeletons to modern animals, snake skeletons often look pretty much the same so if all snakes were extinct we may believe they were all one species of animal instead of hundreds.  Meanwhile, all dog breeds are considered the same species Canis lupus familiaris (technically domestic dogs are a subspecies of Canus lupus, the Grey Wolf, but you get what I mean) despite their skeletons being drastically different from each other (compare a pug skull to a great dane and to a poodle…they’ll look different).

So, if all snakes were mistaken for being only a small handful of species and modern dogs could be mistaken for a BUNCH of unique different species…think about how that knowledge can reflect onto our current understanding of extinct animals.

[houseofthebattlegenie]

It goes deeper than that. A colleague of mine who’s a paleontologist was commenting on how for some extant species of birds, we can only tell species apart through behavior traits like song. You could have two perfectly preserved dead specimens of bird, but you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart because you need to hear their songs to tell their species apart. She said that she is sometimes kept awake by thoughts of the implications of this for species classifications in paleontology, and whether we collapse huge swaths of species in the fossil record into just one species because we can’t tell them apart just with the information we havd