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@blazeclaw12
Does anyone know what day it is today?
like junetember 75th i think
march 33rd
its frickin april?
bullshit
Itās fucking Christmas you morons
Itās the 88th day of Christmas
itās october 195
Itās like the 33rd day of the fourth decade of 2020
Itās 4pm. Days and months donāt exist, only 4pm.
Uhhhh guys itās 1984ā¦
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For everyoneās information:
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is donāt open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think āoh everyoneās gone letās shut down.ā What it actually makes them think is āoh shit people arenāt happy and if people donāt keep using our site weāre out of money and out of jobs.ā
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, hereās what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Donāt:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesnāt affect their revenue and since itās off the store at the moment itāll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and donāt use it youāre saying to staff that thereās still time to save it. If you delete itās hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs donāt care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means thereās $0 further income from it. Thatās their last possible course of action. If we make it clear weāre not happy, theyāll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. Theyāre a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because theyāre scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
tumblr is banning nsfw pics and being dumb about it. quick, post palpal bulbs and epigynes in protest
Time to talk about spider mating then! Letās make this educational so they feel bad if it gets flagged.
Look at the massive palps on this boy! Nice long sperm duct, too.
Male reproductive organs are at the rear of the abdomen, which makes delivering sperm into the femaleās receptacle a little difficult. They instead deposit sperm onto a small web (sperm web) and transfer it into their palps.
And this scandalous lady spreading all eight of her legs for usā¦Ā
If a male has successfully wooed a lady spider, he will use his pedipalps to deposit his sperm into the femaleās epigyne.Ā
Letās not forget that spiders have threesomes too!
Spider sex is always a competition to see which male can mate as many females as he can before anyone else can. Check out this other post of mine about a spider that literally leaves his palps in the femaleās epigyne to prevent other males from mating with her!
One more racy image of two spiders getting it on!
(This last image is actually a 3D model made by designer Julia Stoess, and I greatly recommend checking out more of her work. Itās truly amazing.)Ā
~E. Caine
Good content, there are also some spiders that wanna be the last ones to the party when it comes to mating!
REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.
periodic reminder that Celyphid flies exist and are one of the most powerful animals on this earth
Sex between Polydrusus impressifrons. Think tumblr will flag this
periodic reminder that Celyphid flies exist and are one of the most powerful animals on this earth
hey, in the wake of Squirrel Hill please remember that this isnāt just about gun control, but about antisemitism as well. gun control is important, but itās not the reason this tragedy has happened. antisemitism has been on the rise in the united states for years, and no amount of gun control debate will stop that. take an active part in combating antisemitism when you see it, both in yourself and in others. keep an eye open, please, to prevent this from ever happening again
My mother called me to say āso, itās starting againā. My partner has expressed the fear that no one wants us to remain alive. If you use this to talk about gun control and donāt address the fact that it is a manifestation of hatred and racism being spurred by open violent racists, then you are missing the point.
It was the damn Nazis thatās what it was!
ITāS BACK
I ALMOST CRASHED ON THE FREEWAY BECAUSE I REMEMBERED THIS AND WAS LAUGHING SO HARD
EVERYONE NEEDS toWatCH THIS IM cRYIGN
OH MY GOD WHAT IS LIFE.
I was laughing so hard I was crying not kidding rn
This appeared again and I didnāt even need to watch it to start laughing
Why is this so funny
i know every single word to this video up by heart
this makes me so happy
The Bestiary: Scaly-Foot Gastropod
These are diamond-tipped indenter heads. They are used to inflict ludicrous pressure upon various shit in order to measure the hardness of said shit. Recently, one of these was used to measure the hardness of a certain animalās shell, and, instead of crushing the ever-loving fuck out of it, it found serious resistance.
The aforementioned animal is a snail.
Let me spell this out for ya. There is a snail that can resist the onslaught from an industrial-grade diamond applied with the pressure of several metric fucktonnes. A. Snail.Ā That. Can. Resist. A. Diamond. Indenter.
Just imagine stepping on one of these guys. Instead of breaking their shells like those of usual snails, youād break your own fucking ankle.
Jesus trilobitic Christ.
Todayās Episode: the Scaly-Foot Gastropod
Just look at this little piece of shit. Look at it and say to my face it doesnāt look like a tank.
What weāve got here is the rather lamely-named scaly-foot gastropod,Ā also known by the considerably more badass-sounding names of iron snailĀ andĀ Chrysomallon squamiferum. The SFGĀ hails from the deep-sea thermal vents known as black smokers, deep-sea vents from which water gushes constantly. That water, by the way, originates from below the mantle.
The proximities of black smokers are perfectly lightless, unforgiving badlands, with water rich enough in poisonous sulphuric chemicals to perform the chemical equivalent of curbstomping on anyĀ āsuperiorā lifeform that dares stick itās overspecialized, prissy ass down there, heat up to 450 degrees Celsius (one thirteenth of the temperature of the Sunās surface) and pressures that could turn any land-dwelling scum into a Flatlander within seconds. If creatures want to survive here, they must either be hyper-effective murder-machines, or damn nigh unkillable.
The SFGās predators, such as venomous, killer cone snails with bionic harpoon guns evolved from their ownĀ āteethā, and car-wrecking carnivorous crabs that kill snails by pressing down on their shells for daysĀ with jagged ultra-hard pincers specifically designed to do this belong in the first category.
The SFG itself belongs in the second.
Hoooly shit does it ever.
The unkillability itself is obtained by using the chemosynthetic bacteria lurking in its glands to absorb and mineralize the poisonous iron-sulphides the water is overabundant with, making them non-poisonous for the snail. It then coats its shell with the minerals, constructing an unique three-layer structure no other gastropods possess. None.
To sum it up, the outer layer, used to block the bulk of the attack, is made up of greigite (Fe3S4), a ridiculously hard mineral. Then comes a middle layer of squishy organic matter purposed to absorb the shock of impacts, dents and blows. Finally, an inner layer of aragonite (CaCO3), designed to prevent asshole crabs from sticking their nasty claws into the shell and picking it apart splinter by splinter.
How effective is it? Well, this armor is so much better than what we puny humans possess that the U.S. Army is actively conducting research about it with the hope of developing new armor using the same build. Yes, this shell is so unbreakable that it caused the a military to lose their heads over a goddamnĀ sea snail.Ā Go figure.
Also, according to biologists researching the SFG, if we covered oil pipes with the stuff, they could easily shrug off damage done by such trivial things as fucking icebergs,
Not bad from a snail, I say.
But thatās not all! Look at it again.
There is a reason itās called Scaly-footĀ Gastropod.
Those are scales. Made out of iron minerals.
Iron minerals that are poisonous and magnetic.
The scales are there because of the tooth-harpoon-hurling killer snails. Namely, they serve to deflect the harpoons entirely. Deflective iron scales. On a snail.
Holy crap.
So letās sum it up, shall we? There exists a snail that forges itself a magnetic armor made out of poisonous iron ore to fend off killer crabs and venomous sniper snails that hunt it in its habitat of a vent leading to the Earthās mantle.
Oh, and they donāt really eat anything, relying on their chemosynthetic bacteria for sustenance instead. In laymanās terms, that means that the snail keeps itself running by oxidating the sulphides in the water, all of which are lethally poisonous to most lifeforms, including the snail itself. The only reason it survives is that the bacteria chemosynthetize the sulphides, enabling the snail to quite literally live off of poison.
This molluscoid tank is ridiculously metal in more ways than one.
longest damn sipper this side of the miss of sippy
I love it!!!
there he go!!
For anyone wondering this is the strange caterpillar of a lobster moth, which is believed to mimic other insects for protection!
godspeed you tiny emperors
Nature is amazing!!
This is good. Insect wings are amazingāespecially beetle wings (because they are SECRETS). Allow me to present:
Tropisternus lateralisĀ (A water scavenger beetle)Ā [link to iNat obs]
Common Eastern FireflyĀ [link to iNat obs]
Seven-spotted Lady BeetleĀ [link to iNat obs], recently emerged from pupa. They have to hold their wings out and unfolded while they dry/harden. The spots donāt darken until later.
Mystery Water Scavenger Beetle [link to iNat obs]
Banded Hickory Borer [link to iNat obs]
Posted July 11, 2018 of Texan Beetle Babes
Yo, the original video is longer with even more friends! I saw it on facebook [link to post]
I donāt have the link to my photo on iNat but here is a beetle called Lycus sanguipennis I saw earlier this year.
what: weevil time where: earth when: fucking now
Weevil time is my favorite time!
All the photos I added were taken by me.
TheĀ Titanoboa, is aĀ 48ft longĀ snake dating from aroundĀ 60-58million years ago. It hadĀ a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful thatĀ it could crush a rhino.Ā Titanoboa was so big it couldnāt even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.
Iām so glad they arenāt around
omg me too. Iām scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. Iām so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, arenāt alive either
Praise natural selection
I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution
The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion
I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: ā12 fucking feet?!?! Ā Iām fucking glad itās extinct!āĀ
Dude, prehistory was home to some fuckingĀ TERRIFYINGĀ creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesnāt always have to be a bad thing!
And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known asĀ Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isnāt around anymore.
Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.
GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISNāT STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DONāT. WE DONāT KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THATāS NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.
this is so relevant to my interestsĀ
It wasnāt just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground slothsā¦
THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.
Weāve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.
DONāT FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING
AMBULOCETUSĀ WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS
BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN
AND THEN THEREāS MY FAVORITE,Ā ZYGOPHYSETER,Ā WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES
IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH
The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, donāt forget how giant the bugs were.
I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post
Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They havenāt found signs of its extinction
scientists: āwe havenāt seen a megalodon in quite some time now, letās just hope itās exstinctā
This whole post is my JAM not gonna lie I am fascinated by massive prehistoric animals
The best thing about this is to any prehistoric species we would be so mini even our cities would be small lmao.
there is no credible scientist that believes megalodon is still extant. it is only theorized to be alive by cryptozoologists and other conspiracy theorists. āthey havent found signs of its extinctionā?? thats not ..how anything works.
Lmao straight up most of these guys would have easily been found if they still existed. Also side note all the arthropods were big because there was more oxygen. Just because they were big doesnāt mean they were necessarily dangerous. Sea Scorpions for example didnāt have stingers because theyāre not actually scorpions, and they used their claws to hunt. Second, arthropleura is literally a giant millipede which is just harmless. Third, if megalodon still existed they would hunt whales... we would fucking know if theyāre still around.
Heteropoda davidbowie is a species of huntsman spider of the genus Heteropoda. It was described in Malaysia and named in honor of singer David Bowie, with particular reference to songs such as āGlass Spiderā and the resemblance of the frontal view of the spider to the singerās painted face in his early career.
Photos by Manoj Kumar Tuteja
MY FIRST PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED YAāLL: Description of four new species of Eadya (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), parasitoids of the Eucalyptus Tortoise Beetle (Paropsis charybdis) and other Eucalyptus defoliating leaf beetles! You can read it for free, thatās right free because my coauthors believe in open access at the Journal of Hymenoptera Research:Ā https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=24282
I named one of the species in honor of @annleckie who is my favorite author and whoās imperial radch series has been a big part of my life for the past few years. Itās only taken 2 years to get this publication out and Iām so happy that I can FINALLY share it.Ā
Yo I am a published journal author now hell yeah
Awesome!
