A Standing Ovation For Every Crustacean

I’m Paul, He/Him please Wadda hell... Bulnosaur.

[llovinghome]

[llovinghome]

[tooies]

hey dude check out this new strain. it's called duckweed. it floats on or just below the surface of still or slow-moving bodies of water and wetlands

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

fuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkk

[byjove]

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

[byjove]

Yeah, I am bothered by extinct animals. Even this guy. They can’t all be thylacines.

[becquerel--noir]

It makes me really happy to see people reposting and spreading information about freshwater mussels. As someone who researches them, yes they’re so important to freshwater environments but they’re also incredibly overlooked. The funding we receive is good but clearly not enough to stop dozens of species from going extinct.

I hope people keep talking about them, they deserve to survive just as we do.

[queenpalms]

[humancomputer-blog1]

If you need me I’ll be in the bath watching lava on my television

[cloudfreed]

“sigh…. this extremely hot water will have to do”

[fakeboitherottengirl]

[benepla-deactivated20200506]

[systlin]

Sometimes you see a post and just realize there’s some Wild Shit going on in a community you never knew existed

[unicorncryptid]

[carebear-onion-lizard]

Attached for original context

[thevoidfarer]

Finally, I understand

[supreme-leader-stoat]

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL POST.

[snoozaga]

[anxietyproblem]

[clowncarpool]

Oasis

20”x20” oil on canvas

[teaboot]

If you successfully cheat on a monitored test then you have passed a test of one skill by using an entirely different skill and I love the sheer stupid creative genius of it because that’s a little like being quizzed on Nuclear Chemistry and only passing because you learned how to read minds

[hehimmommy]

Is… is this a naruto reference

[teaboot]

I haven’t seen Naruto but I would LOVE to know what you mean

[meruz]

just next door

[trashcanbees-deactivated2021021]

so apparently the “bad vibes” I’ve been feeling are actually “severe psychological distress”

[local--honey]

[pangur-and-grim]

had to explain to new housemate that:

Banana Jim lives on the microwave

microwave vibrations cause BJ to rotate

if BJ is allowed to fully face the wall, this household will become Irrevocably Cursed

[morbidlyqueerious]

containment procedures

[wilfre-gengar]

Item Number: SCP-BJ-J “Banana Jim”

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-BJ-J is to be kept on top of the microwave in the Site-19 break room. Any bananas found on top of the microwave are to be removed and placed in the fruit bowl nearby. All personnel onsite are to rotate SCP-BJ-J to face away from the wall after every use of the microwave. SCP-BJ-J is not to be removed from its place on top of the microwave, unless it os being used to perform tests. If SCP-BJ-J is found to be completely facing the wall, on-site security is to be notified, and SCP-BJ-J is to be moved to a new building temporarily.

Description: SCP-BJ-J is a small wooden figure of a cat, recovered from a house in █████. When placed on top of a standard microwave oven, it will rotate slightly every time the microwave is operated, turning slowly to face the wall behind the microwave. If it is allowed to rotate this far, the building it is in will begin to experience SCP-BJ-J’s anomalous effect, in which foods inside of the affected building (now designated SCP-BJ-J-1) will spoil remarkably quickly, at roughly the same speed as a common banana, regardless of ingredients or chemical composure. If SCP-BJ-J is allowed to face the wall for approximately two consecutive days, the effect on SCP-BJ-J-1 will begin to worsen, with the accelerated deterioration beginning to apply to non-edible objects, including parts of the building itself. If SCP-BJ-J is not placed on top of a microwave for a period exceeding twenty-four hours, its anomalous effect will immediately activate on the building or container it is in. Additionally, if SCP-BJ-J is successfully kept from facing the wall, it will seem to spontaneously generate perfectly ripe bananas on top of the microwave with it when it is not being observed.

Addendum 1: Why bananas? Why does a little wooden cat care about bananas so much? -Dr. ████

[magic-vinny]

I think about banana jim every day

[pangur-and-grim]

I’m sorry, Grimalkin (pictured below) broke Banana Jim in the early morning for reasons unknown. shortly afterward the microwave stopped working

now we have Nameless Adam, on microwave 2. he is hopelessly bleak

[1i73-deactivated20221021]