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[bowserdyke]

Oran/Oliver

26

He/They

Nonbinary Lesbian

My carrd

My art blog

[angell-of-filth]

via

[secretgarden]

[png-archive-chaos]

I roll up

[tamamita]

Vi

[doctor-nu]

VII

[moonbunmelly]

[tamamita]

Who the hell is this

[karnalesbian]

Hillary Clinton

[aspirationalbrand]

amazing things happening in late series columbo episodes

[herpsandbirds]

Convergence of form in groundwater wildlife from different regions of the world.

A quick definition... characters that are considered a result of permanent life in subterranean habitats are referred to as "troglomorphisms."

Dr. Ron Brandon wrote of the suite of characteristics that tended to be observed in North America's diverse, obligate subterranean, groundwater-inhabiting salamanders: An elongation of the head, a flattening of the head, a general trend toward a "shovel shaped" head, an increase in the number of teeth, a reduction of pigmentation and of eyes, and an elongation and attenuation of the body and limbs. These are common troglomorphisms observed in said salamanders. The same trend is also observed in Europe's "Olms." The "duck-biled" mouth is a characteristic observed in various groundwater fishes as well - see the image here comparing the face and mouth shape of obligate groundwater fishes from opposite sides of the planet (China and North America). Why? Dr. Brandon's hypothesis (H₁): The flattening of the head and the increased teeth (relative to surface-inhabiting related species) leads to more efficient prey capture and handling. This confers an evolutionary advantage in a habitat where feeding opportunities might be scarce, even rare in some systems. Every opportunity is significant; maximizing said events is key to surviving in the habitat. If this is true, strong evolutionary pressures toward improved prey capture and handling will influence head shape in evolutionary time. In fact, that is what we observe in unrelated groups of organisms. This doesn't mean that there can't be other hypotheses for the observed head shape and the convergence on it by multiple species in unrelated groups of salamanders.... OR that this is absolutely why we observe what we observe; however, the hypothesis does explain the convergence of head shape. Hope you enjoy these amazing inhabitants of subterranean waters from around the world. Here is what the "salamander circle" is represented by: the following...

Clockwise, starting at 12 noon:

European Olm (Proteus anguinus), Tennessee Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus), Cascade Cavern Salamander (Eurycea latitans), Georgia Blind Salamander (Eurycea wallacei), Comal Blind Salamander (Eurycea tridentifera), Texas Blind Salamander (Eurycea rathbuni), Western Grotto Salamander-larva (Eurycea spelaea), Western Grotto Salamander-adult (Eurycea spelaea)

Photos and text by Dante Fenolio

[jabberding0]

20 Years ago Sony flung 250,000 bouncy balls down a San Francisco street to advertise the Bravia

They fired volleys of them from air cannons and caused tens of thousands of dollars in property damage!

[baronfulmen]

Here's the full article:

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/san-francisco-sony-bouncy-ball-ad-20204385.php

[coughloop]

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"CHUCKS" (2006), HOLLY MICHELS

[boringkate]

If you do hardcore porn and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

If you do tastefully suggestive lingerie pics and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

If you're a barista and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

People that do full service sex work are cool as fuck!

[exeggcute]

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[pizzaback]

teenagers aren’t the vanguards of the pro-censorship movement. the closest thing that happens to this is that bad actors who are adults exploit teenagers’ age-appropriate discomfort with violent and sexual art to incite internet stochastic terrorism campaigns. but even this happens far less often than adults just silencing children and pretending to be speaking for them by proxy.

[pizzaback]

i hate the misuse of the term “puritanism” in this context but the idea of teens (“puriteens”) being the principle driving demographic behind this cultural trend is genuinely pretty fucking insulting, considering adults who use kids and teens as a cudgel (“think of the children!”) are actually the people driving movements toward censorship.

[ndnbutch]

if you see criticism of racism within your community as criticism of the community as a whole then you have a racist community. sorry.

[ndnbutch]

like I didn’t hate vegans before all this and ultimately I still don’t because a bunch of annoying white people with their heads up their own asses aren’t enough to convince me to abandon my principles. but this hasn’t left me with a stellar impression of the community on here I’ll be fucking honest. I think you all suck shit and you need to keep “decolonization” and “indigenous vegans” out of your fucking vocabulary until you can learn to actually listen to Native people

[ndnbutch]

if you see criticism of racism within your community as criticism of the community as a whole then you have a racist community. sorry.