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it truly, truly speaks to the dominance of white beauty standards that trudeau is seen as the hot politician and not jagmeet singh…such an injustice!
I see your photos of Trudeau boxing and I raise you
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DONT FORGET ABOUT HE AND HIS WIFE LOOKING STUNNING IN COORDINATED OUTFITS
and their wedding
Plus Jagmeet being a meme
(all photos courtesy of Jagmeet’s instagram account)
Honestly, why are we still talking about Justin Trudeau’s socks while this actual fashion icon is out here?
It’s awkward when people ask me “Is this snake venomous?” about little rear-fanged colubrids like garter, hognose, and ring-neck snakes because, on one hand, they do technically produce venom... but that venom is virtually inconsequential to humans even when they do manage to break the skin. Their saliva has venom in it but you probably wouldn’t even know it unless you were studying its chemical makeup.
Much easier to say they’re harmless.
Next time just tell them technically speaking a cat is venomous and ask them if that was really the question they wanted to ask.
Cats aren’t venomous—they don’t produce and inject toxins. They do, however, have lots of bacteria in their mouths and lots of sharp, curved teeth that make it very easy for that bacteria to get into your flesh and cause bad infections. Chemically speaking, that’s not the same as venom.
Garter snakes have bacteria in their mouths just like any other animal and bites can cause infections, but they also produce neurotoxic venom that they inject with their fangs. The venom is so mild that it only causes maybe a little temporary itching or swelling in humans, and the fangs are so small and placed so far back in their mouths that it’s very difficult for them to successfully bite and envenomate humans at all. We didn’t know they were venomous at all until about twenty years ago.
People ask “are they venomous?” from a place of fear, usually—they want to know if they should worry about their kids and pets encountering them. “No” would be untrue but “yes” would be misleading, but they usually don’t want to anxiously wait through a Well, Technically explanation.
Try “yeah, but it’s like a bee sting” or something similar
Bee stings can be a big deal for some people. Typically I say “they’re harmless” or “they’re only venomous if you’re a tiny mouse”.
like daddy long legs!
The arachnids I usually see called “daddy longlegs” are opiliones/harvestmen, which look like Q-tips with long spindly legs that always walk around on your tent or picnic blanket. They aren’t spiders and don’t actually have any venom glands at all.
Common cellar spiders are also called “daddy longlegs”, and while, like almost all true spiders, they do have venom, their fangs are small and weak and their venom isn’t potent enough to cause harm to a human. Instead, they sometimes hunt and kill other spiders that are of medical significance.
What do you mean they aren’t spiders???
“Arachnid” is the class of arthropods that spiders, scorpions, and a few other orders belong to. Opiliones/harvestmen/daddy longlegs aren’t spiders, but they look superficially similar to them. Unlike spiders, they don’t have fangs, venom, or silk glands, and their thorax and abdomen are fused together into one cute little pod-shaped body with eyes on top.
Cellar spiders are spiders. They can make silk, have venom, and have an obviously separated thorax and abdomen. They don’t bother people apart from spinning webs in annoying places inside your house, but they are spiders.
Wait a dang second, if Daddy longlegs aren't spiders and can't make silk, what.. What at they holding on to my ceiling????
Those are cellar spiders. People call both cellar spiders and opiliones “daddy longlegs”, and if that weren’t bad enough, some people even use that name for craneflies. They’re not even in the same class!
That’s why any use of “daddy longlegs” has to include a clarification or description of the animal. Where I grew up, only opiliones are called “daddy longlegs”, and there’s a very common myth that they possess the most deadly venom in the world but aren’t strong enough to bite humans. People will smash them and justify it with that myth, but opiliones aren’t spiders and don’t have any venom at all.
These are opiliones, also called harvestmen and daddy longlegs:
These are cellar spiders, also also called daddy longlegs:
Both are harmless to humans, but the first isn’t even a spider. Everything referred to as “daddy longlegs” has long legs and deals zero damage.
Okay, see, I knew that first one, but I thought that second one was called a brown recluse. I see those guys all the time but I don't bother them (I think it's bad luck to kill spiders, so if they really scare me I'll just capture them and put 'em outside)
Oh... no. A brown recluse is a particular species of spider (Loxosceles reclusa) with bites of medical significance. They’re quite feared, and their bites can cause serious problems and occasionally hospitalization, but IMHO on average, people are way more scared of them than is reasonable. Any wound that gets infected tends to be blamed on brown recluse even if there is no reason to believe it’s a spider bite.
I know several people who’ve been bitten by them, and while it hasn’t been pleasant, the wounds healed just fine, with minimal localized necrosis that cleared up quickly. I don’t know anyone who’s had to go to the hospital. Some people do get more systematic reactions, especially very young, old, or immuno-compromised people, so definitely give brown recluses a healthy respect and don’t go around like. Blindly sticking your hands into dark crevices where they like to live.
Brown recluse have tan bodies and a distinctive “violin” shaped marking on their thoraxes, but people constantly misidentify any brownish spider as a brown recluse. Importantly, they don’t build webs, so no spider you ever see sitting in a web is a brown recluse. Instead they walk around and catch their prey, like wolf spiders, and build little silk dens for themselves in cracks.
Here are three pictures of brown recluse at different levels of chubbiness:
The base of the “violin” is where their eyes are, with the neck of the “violin” stretching towards their abdomen. Like most spiders, they only tend to bite when trapped against human skin and prefer dark spaces, so it’s always a good idea to shake out a shoe before putting it on.
opossums get a lot of hate, but they clear a lot of unwanted bugs and parasites from the ecosystem and are generally helpful friends. please appreciate them, especially this good boy.
I FORGOT BRITISH PPL CALL GIRLS BIRDS AND I WAS SUPREMELY DISTURBED
Plato: A man is featherless biped
Everyone: oh wow, that guy is a genius!
Diogenes, the Cynic: BEHOLD
A MAN
It’s been ten minutes and i’m still wheezing to this shit
tbh the best way that i explain to other people what it feels like to live with an anxiety disorder is the one time when i had to get a fingerprint and background check done for a job and i, someone who has never received so much as a speeding ticket my whole life, spent thirty minutes panicking that i would fail because i might secretly be a criminal and have no idea
I was about to be M A D but this is truly good advice.
Oooh using a corrupt system to help yourself AND subvert the Man? Sign my punk-ass up!
Source
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This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science
ALSO:
Sex redefined
“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”
More on anti-trans arguments as bad science
As a biologist I am reblogging this so hard.
Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
Just so you guys know, the toxic anti-vegan/vegetarian culture in online spaces is exactly what leads people into thinking that this kind of shit is okay.
This isn’t even funny. There are people that are plant-based (read: not even ethical vegans/vegetarians) that consume things that are marked vegan/vegetarian because they have dietary restrictions or allergies that could seriously harm or kill them. Don’t be like this.
You will give ppl food poisoning doing this👏🏽
You will give ppl allergic reactions doing this 👏🏽
You will get employees fired for returns doing this 👏🏽
Fuck you if you think this is ok
men are allowed to be so mediocre it’s insulting on the deepest level
Would you unfollow me if I reblogged this every single day? That is how often I think it.
Mediocre men get to make mediocre movies and write mediocre books about other mediocre men, but if a woman steps outside a door in a sweater and some plain jeans, she “let her self go”, “isnt even trying anymore!”
if a man creates something mediocre it’s just “a bad book” or “a bad movie”.. if a man is a bad leader he’s just, well, “a bad leader”
if a woman creates something mediocre, or if a woman’s a bad leader it becomes about how “all women are bad at _____,” or about how “no woman is a natural leader”
and that’s a really disheartening fact to all women. men are always allowed to be a work in progress. women always have to be the flawless finished product.
men are always allowed to be a work in progress. women always have to be the flawless finished product.
True also in STEM. See this xkcd comic:
Body language is completely unique to every single individual person and the science of body language is almost if not completely unreliable and if I have to listen to one more person claim they can “read” me by my body language I’m gonna flip.
MULTIPLE people in my life have told me they can “tell” I’m “self conscious” because I look at my feet when I walk and they say it like they want me to open up about some social insecurities, like I have some wall they’re about to break down and we’ll have a moment
And I tell them the same truth every single time:
As a kid we had two MASSIVE Holly trees in the backyard and my dad and my uncle, both well meaning but perhaps poor planners, said “yes a great place for a swing set is directly beneath those.”
So they built it there and the issue is that entire section of yard was a Minefield of dried Holly leaves with one final mission before they became dirt which was to Stab themselves into a child’s foot
And being that my siblings and I had some feral rage aversion to wearing shoes, we took to running to the swings on our tiptoes, staring at the ground for the leaves
And to this DAY I still look at the ground when I walk out of habit formed by a decade of that
And NO body language guide and NO BBC Sherlock wannabe would EVER source that
Also, I feel like even if someone is looking at their feet because they don’t wanna make eye contact it’s not? Your job? To tell them? It’s invasive, presumptuous, and rude?
In a perfect world, where 20 yr old men majoring in psychology don’t exist,
vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs….why
people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens
This is not true.
1) honeybees do not produce “extra honey.” And beekeepers don’t take some of the honey, they take all of it.
2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.
Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper?
Because I am!
Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don’t take all of it.
But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If there’s a spike in the weather and the hive hasn’t prepared new queen brood, that’s it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn’t enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.
Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony.
I know there’s an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation.
If you’re this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way).
But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Please 🐝
Also if I can harp on the chicken part?
Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and I’ll be the first to admit it’s criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this.
Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.
THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS
Many people take to raising their own hens because of America’s immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like you’re not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially you’re just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find
Yeah, as someone who like… lives on a chicken and duck farm… Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens literally do not need to keep the unfertilized eggs!
Most chickens will sit on unfertilized eggs until they can tell if they are or not… By the smell of rotting egg. Yeah, ew. Farmers can hold that bitch to the flashlight and tell if there’s a baby in there! They know! The eggs are not being abused!
Also - once a month? Like thousands of years ago maybe? Because Grandpa had chickens he literally let just roam around his farm and built coops and scattered corn for them and I helped collect the eggs, and believe me, those chickens each laid more than once a month.
As a beekeeper…what the fuck? No we don’t take all the honey. That would be downright ridiculous.
Reblogging for the bee facts. Love me some bees. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
And chicken facts!
Methinks someone confused chicken menstruation cycles with human menstruation cycles.
Imagine if a couple figured out they were transgender around the same time and they just decided to switch names
“John, what…”
“No honey. You’re John.”
“Oh. Duh.”
“Yeah we’re going to John and Maria’s place later.”
“I thought they transitioned? Didn’t they change their names or something?”
“Yeah but they just switched names so they’re still John and Maria but Maria’s the short one now.”
I said what I said
strange but good fish
Ah yes…a Tiger Shark
yesterday for April Fool’s my workplace had a short training article on recognizing computer-generated faces from real ones and one of the tricks mentioned was “count the teeth” and I just wanted to say that it’s both ironic and kind of horrifying how society has unwittingly cycled right back to IF YE MEET A MAN ON THE ROAD, COUNT HIS FINGERS LEST YE DEAL UNKNOWING WITH A FAE
Where’s that image with the self driving car that is trapped in a salt circle made of “do not cross” symbols that its software won’t let it disobey
This one?
people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat
german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans
Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn’t even gone extinct yet: Oh hey I can use these two obelisks to calculate the earth’s entire circumference based on the length of their shadows and the Earth’s curvature. Neat.
Erastothenes was born in 276 BCE.
The last mammoth died on in island off the northeast coast of Siberia in ~1650BCE.
And as I’ve pointed out previously, the Coriolis effect was known even earlier than that, although it may not have become important to gunnery.
I find it utterly bizarre that humans saw these megafauna.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/science/woolly-mammoth-extinct-genetics.html “ In fact, the Wrangel mammoth’s genome carried so many detrimental mutations that the population had suffered a “genomic meltdown,” according to Rebekah Rogers and Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley. Analyzing the Swedish team’s mammoth data at the gene level, they found that many genes had accumulated mutations that would have halted synthesis of proteins before they were complete, making the proteins useless, they report Thursday in PLOS Genetics. “ That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal, because they keep pushing for asexual reproduction, or trying to combine ovaries, when the most likely outcome is a population running about - unable to reproduce sexually since the whole “male genocide” bit - with incredibly damaged chromosomes. Sex exists for a reason, and no, “because it’s fun” is not the answer, sorry. It works better than reproduction otherwise. Which is why every complex species uses it. Intelligence requires a lot of things to be working correctly, and if you have an all female species that is over the tipping point of idiocy, then there won’t be enough people to maintain the technology to continue to reproduce. And humans will go the way of the Wrangel beasties. Fortunately, feminists are horribly lazy bastards, so i doubt they’ll continue to get their way, but it does made for a decent plot for a dystopian fiction…
What …the fuck?
That went off the rails so suddenly like I thought I was just gonna learn something cool about mammoths and then WHOA.
I scrolled past this thinking “the earth is round, yes, something, something, mammoths…’
But the second time it came past I saw
That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal
And I think I got whiplash from that pivot. I also laughed so hard that I couldn’t breathe.
I’m????
Point and laugh at the MRA, kids.
How … does he think … mammoths reproduced …
Never mind, not sure I want to know.
reblog to support Mammoth Feminism,
ignore for G E N O M I C M E L T D O W N
I here af for my Feminist Mammoth ladies, bring the species back!
DOWN WITH GENOMIC MELTDOWN
I… what exactly is combining ovaries supposed to achieve? 400 lazy feminist babies at the same time?
Shhhh…you weren’t supposed to tell anyone.
FEMINISM KILLED THE MAMMOTHS
I feel like we’re getting away from the main point here, which is that the world is flat
the world is only flat because it was trampled by feminist mammoths
reblog if you support your army of genetically-melted feminist mammoths that trampled the earth flat
Don’t anybody tell this guy about that species of lizard where there are only females it might break him
My head hurts after reading that.
I’m sending this post to @wehuntedthemammoth
Why would you hurt me like this?
That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal, because they keep pushing for asexual reproduction, or trying to combine ovaries, when the most likely outcome is a population running about - unable to reproduce sexually since the whole “male genocide” bit - with incredibly damaged chromosomes.
I teach genetics, I don’t deserve to have to explain why this is so wrong and yet. Oh my god.
Mueller’s Ratchet–which is what this chucklefuck is talking about, the reason that purely asexual lineages don’t last well in evolutionary time–does not apply to feminism. The hypothetical scenario of merging two eggs to create a baby? Yeah, uh, that’s fucking sex in this context, whether or not it involves a male.
There are zero feminists pushing for parthenogenesis for humans, mostly because the whole thing is basically impossible for mammals as a result of mammalian investment in genomic imprinting. Among other things. It’s the sort of thing that only works okay in species that don’t control their embryonic development anywhere near as closely as your basic placental mammal does, because it relies on a certain amount of flexibility about sex determination and placental mammals are kind of weird about that.
Even if there were, Mueller’s Ratchet only applies if you never ever sexually reproduce and reshuffle alleles, like the parthenogenetic whiptail lizards mentioned upthread. If we have the technology to induce parthenogenesis in a human woman, we have the technology to reshuffle some alleles now and again. Mueller’s Ratchet kind of presupposes that going in and manually editing a genome isn’t a fucking option, shitwad!
Furthermore, Mueller’s Ratchet is specifically a population genetics phenomenon that refers to the accumulation of deleterious mutations within an asexually/clonally reproducing lineage. It has dick fuck all to do with chromosomes.
Mueller’s Ratchet exists in order to explain why asexually reproducing lineages haven’t overrun the world, because frankly in the short term these lineages usually do way better than their conspecific, obligate sexually reproducing partners do. Furthermore, it’s really fucking common to see species that reproduce sexually at some times and asexually at other times, depending on context and who’s available, and that’s in and of itself a complex fucking phenotype you species-centric cortically starved ignorant dillweed
all of this is completely fucking irrelevant to the mammoth example that @brett-caton there chose to bring up, by the way, because mammoths don’t fucking reproduce asexually either
as you would know if you’d bothered to read the paper, you self-satisfied jellyfish fellator
or even the pop science article you cited yourself
which clearly and cogently explains that the fucking mammoths died of being inbred as all shit, much like yourself
the laziness inherent in jumbling all this pig-ignorant, overconfident and understudied bullshit together and claiming it’s a solidly built house rather than a crumbling, confused pile of enraged starfish is the final straw
you can’t even be arsed to read an article that you dug up and cited yourself, you shithugger
how are feminists supposed to be the lazy ones?
you obviate your own thesis with your own intellectual failure, you pathetic snailsucking weed in the garden of knowledge
I reblogged this before but I have to do so again because of the above takedown with its glorious insults. Also, it’s always fun to point and laugh at MRAs.
I am in awe.
“Mueller’s Ratchet kind of presupposes that going in and manually editing a genome isn’t a fucking option, shitwad!” and “you pathetic snailsucking weed in the garden of knowledge” are honestly awe-inspiring and I’m fucking blessed I read them today
This is beautiful
It’s been long enough since I last saw this post that I’d nearly forgotten and it still fucking hit me like a goddamn freight train.
You self-satisfied jellyfish fellator, you pathetic snailsucking weed in the garden of knowledge
Fucking poetry there, Shakespeare would be hard pressed to improve upon these lines.
I honestly just pictured females just pulling out their ovaries and trying to rub them together.
“Disclaimer: many brain cells will die in the reading of this post. The lunacy reaches Optimum Psychotic Levels (OPL). Please, wear your PPE (personal protective equipment) at all times.
SPECIES-CENTEIX CORTICALLY STARVED IGNORANT DILLWEED
9 year old me: mom you’re beautiful!
My Mom: no, I’m ugly. The ugliest. I’m a horrible pig of a person
Other people: (to me) you look just like your mom
Me: so I’m ugly
Now:
My 9 year old: mom you’re beautiful
Me: thank you! I don’t always see it very well in myself though because my brain lies to me a lot and tells me I’m ugly even though I’m not. But I can’t be ugly because we look a lot alike and you’re beautiful. My brain is just a bully
My kid: that’s right! We’re BOTH beautiful!
Me: yes we are!
_____
And that my friends is called thinking about how your self depricating words can hurt other people around you. I can’t see that I’m beautiful most of the time but I can acknowledge that the issue is my ability to see myself in a positive way.
But calling myself ugly just hurts the people who love me. It could even convince my kid that they are also ugly and further the cycle
And sometimes it’s really hard just by saying “I’m being mean to myself because my brain lies a lot matters
My daughter: “mama, your belly is chubby.”
Me, internally: ouch
Me, out loud: “well, yeah! Because I am chubby! But also because I grew TWO WHOLE BABIES in it, and that stretched it out a bit!”
My daughter, in the most encouraging tone possible as she reaches up and pets my belly: “it did SUCH a good job.”
And y'know what? Hell yeah it did. #rockon
