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when it’s busy at starbucks and the gay baristas get mean pride flag

(inspired by this post)

if im not stood at the helm of a 19th century pirate ship with the furious wind whipping at my billowing white shirt and the waves beating at the starboard side and my dark hair unraveling from its braid and my crew singing a shanty like a religious chant trying to make god hear them over the sound of the creaking of the mast and the screaming of the sea then whats the point

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wish i could go back to eden and give eve a vibrator

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I lost my shit at self-governing snakes.

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ONLY THINKS OF YOU AS A FRIEND

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RECOGNIZE MY AUTHORITY GODDAMMIT

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i am LOVING the Twilight Renaissance

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Everyone in the comments talking about how a woman is born with all her eggs and has them her whole life but a sperm cell is only made maybe a couple of days before conception and now all I can think of is that one really weird week, right before Edward and Bella get married, where Jacob is freaking out because he finds Edward smoking hot out of nowhere and that’s why he was being weird at the wedding.

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I want to explain how weird dolphins are...

In anticipation of being able to clean a dolphin skull I’ve been thinking a lot about how completely FUCKY dolphins and other cetaceans are anatomy wise… Like they are some of the strangest, most alien mammals out there. Specifically their skulls and heads.

So this is your typical dolphin, a smooth round head with a cute smiling beak. You would think their skulls would be shaped like their heads, that’s usually how skulls work. Something like this….

But In reality their skulls actually look like THIS flat alligator thing…

I’m sure you are thinking… “Where is the forehead”??? What if I told you that entire big lumpy forehead isn’t actually its “forehead” but rather something called a “melon” which is actually part of the NOSE or nasal apparatus.

Its essentially just a big gross fluid/jelly blob masquerading as a decent forehead. The melon has evolved as a way of amplifying and detecting vocalizations used in echolocation. Other terrifying facts:

They have no ear holes, most sound is picked up by a combination of the melon and vibrations through the jaw bone.

They can’t breathe through their mouths. There is something called a laryngeal plug completely separates the respiratory and digestive tracts. Cetaceans have been known to drown if their blowhole is obstructed.

Their breathing is not automatic. They must constantly think and chose when to take breaths.

Sperm whales (Also cetaceans) are the loudest animals on earth. If you were to swim right next to their giant heads as they released a sonar pulse the shockwave could cause internal bleeding and nerve damage. Partially thanks to their giant “melon” amplifying and directing the pulse.

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Speaking of weird dolphin skulls, South Asian river dolphins and some of their extinct relatives have especially weird skulls, which look more like what you’d expect a dolphin skull to look like than they do other dolphin skulls:

Unlike other dolphins, they have thin, bony crests that wrap around the melon. These crests may aid in echolocation, as the Ganges and Indus rivers are much darker and murkier than the habitats of their ocean-dwelling cousins—as a result, South Asian river dolphins are nearly blind and rely on echolocation to navigate.