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i am :: old enough to drink :: 🔞occasionally nsfw (i keep it tastefully artistic and/or playfully ribald here tho, no str8 up porn, we arent animals here)🔞 :: pick-n-pull mystic :: PV poser :: hop drink consumer :: maybe not a fagdyke but definitely a faggy dyke :: Selectric II Jockey 2k22 :: mechanical clicks/concrete crumbs in steel toe soles/love for petrichor :: huffing Tap Magic, Loctite, and kerosene fumes to stay sane :: rice score 15 but still blogging on tumblr because i have psychological problems.

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anthem btw (I WAS ON THIS BEFORE IT WAS A TIKTOK THING ;_;)

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nael, age six, sings a song in their rocket, with capital letters, a jubilant shout:

panthera tigris runs free and unfettered, a broken enclosure – the tiger is out

anyone else noticing more of us are acutely suicidal than usual rn. anyone else wondering if it's gonna get better .

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Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites