well obviously not just bugs

queer | 30 or 40 years old | they/any | I promise i'll start posting

[victusinveritas]

[costumersupportdept]

look, being a union supporter makes you like 75% hotter off the bat, I don't make the rules.

[fnordseer5]

has anyone else ever noticed how good i am at picking pictures to reblog

[adz]

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

[miraluking-respectfully]

MEAN TO HIM!!!

[markscherz]

Brachycephalus are… special creatures. They exemplify the rule that ultra-miniaturised animals undergo major morphological remodelling. In their case, this has resulted in unprecedented changes to the otic capsule, which has apparently caused them to lose hearing, as well as attitude control after jumping.

But tbh they’re a pretty successful genus in terms of species diversity, and can apparently be locally abundant. So they’re clearly good at what they are adapted for. That strange jumping strategy might even be advantageous, if, for instance, it makes your would-be predator pee themselves laughing and forget that you were supposed to be their next meal.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I fact-checked this video, and @markscherz’s commentary is a perfect addition. Adaptations persist when they’re beneficial for survival… it’s just not clear how exactly these ones are. Except for the humor factor.

Here’s the full video.

[robotslenderman]

Adaptations don't persist when they're beneficial to survival, they persist when they're not actively detrimental to survival.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Reblogging for this correction - I definitely posted off the cuff and wasn’t as accurate as I should have been with that statement. Thanks for making sure the right information was added!

[spinalfluidexplosiongirl]

mutual 1: I want to turn that man's prostate into silly putty

mutual 2: here's smth i doodled during science class lol

mutual 3: pls remember that you personally can drink milk and still be a lactose intolerance ally!! anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know their history :]

mutual 4: fucking a robot girl in the ass call that backend programming

mutual 5: holy shit I need him so fucking bad holy shit holyyy shit oh my god

mutual 6: anyone get kind of horny putting the ignition key in the car....it's so intimate....turning him on....

mutual 7: so lets talk about where scrimblo's arc is realistically going- I know a lot of people are trying to argue that he's being manipulated but this ignores the fact that there is clearly unresolved conflict between him and bleebus about their moralities

mutual 8: happy propeller penis thursday

mutual 9: "scrimblo and bleebus need to discuss their morality" god forbid a pathetic boywife does some torture 🙄🙄

mutual 10: WHO IS HYPED FOR THE NEW ALBUM LETS FUCKING GO

mutual 11: guys we're not getting a new album

mutual 12: please stop sending me death threats

mutual 13: why is my whole dash talking about this band I don't even listen to.....

mutual 14: hey boy nice knife wound can i put my tongue in it

mutual 15: i'm going to fall into lake michigan

[godpup]

"DNI: freaks" do you realize how conservative you look

[godpup]

freaks please interact

[dinosaurguy]

This is a positive post

[wormyorchids]

👍👍👍

[gunsandfireandshit]

Psych! Fucking GETS you!

[slow-burn-sally]

Someone in an autism facebook group I'm in just asked "How am I supposed to earn enough to make a living without burning out?"

Someone replied: "You're not. Even neurotypicals can't right now in the system designed for them. We're the canaries in the coalmine. When we start failing, they know something is wrong."

[xxxcastielx]

People keep saying, "Oh, everyone thinks they're neurodivergent now!" or they'll say it's the foods or chemicals or whatever other nonsense they've fallen for, but to me the answer is so obvious?

We've gotten to a point that more and more people are being left behind by the system, making it so that neurodivergent parents who could get by fine *enough* in decades/centuries past are bringing children into a world that cannot and will not attempt to accommodate them. There's nothing in the water and people aren't faking, it's just that this is no longer sustainable or livable and of course people with disabilities will be hit first and hit the hardest. There aren't more people with it, it's just harder to go through life without being aware that you're not functioning the way your peers seem to be able to.

[robotslenderman]

Source

[tributary]

teetotailer

[judygemstone]

first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store

[entomologize]

Fun fact: common buckeye butterflies (Junonia coenia) can be selectively bred to be blue fairly easily!

It turns out the only thing needed to go from brown to blue is a slightly thicker lamina, which is a flat layer at the bottom of the wing scale:

The lamina's iridescence is caused by the same phenomena as soap bubbles: thin-film interference. When light hits the transparent film of the lamina, it reflects off both the top and bottom of the layer.

Depending on the thickness and refractive properties of the material, the two reflected light waves can be in sync (image below) or cancel each other out. At the perfect thickness, the blue waves of light are enhanced and the butterfly becomes iridescent!

Because the difference in thickness needed to cause iridescence is so slight, it took less than a year to shift a population from just a few blue scales to full-on fabulous blue.

Photos & figures by Rachel Thayer, Nipam Patel, and Edith Smith.

[queeranarchism]

If safety in your ideal society is entirely based on care by networks of affinity, and does not provide care for people who are not liked by anybody, then your society is actually even worse than the situation we are in now.

Pissing off people close to you or over-exhausting your social network or isolating yourself is often an inherent part of many mental health problems, addictions, etc. By the time people need care the most, they have often lost all their networks of affinity, and with some bad luck, any of us could find ourselves in that situation.

There has to be unconditional care available for the more unlikable of us, or there isn't really a safety net for any of us.

[ace-scientist]

The thing that concerns me the most is that the people I see arguing for only informal/community support networks are often in communities that have a lot of interpersonal drama and poor conflict resolution skills. So it's like...this should be your primary support network, but also people get excommunicated on a regular basis? That's a terrible idea for everyone involved. People who have caused harm still deserve help, and people who have been harmed deserve the ability to set boundaries and remove people from their lives in ways that aren't sentencing that person to losing all their options for basic support.

[exponentialcrisis]

when setting a boundary comes hand in hand with sentencing someone to a slow and painful death by isolation and neglect, setting boundaries becomes incredibly frightening and painful for everyone involved. help should be available to everyone, free of charge and judgement, no matter how bad they fucked up.

[queeranarchism]

Yeah. Like, this is also necessary from the caretakers point of view.

How many of us are stuck accepting kinda shit, maybe even abusive, behavior from our elderly parents because they would literally die without us? How many are not setting boundaries because while a person is very shitty to us we still love a part of them and we don’t want them to die?

Safety nets of unconditional care also mean none of us are individually forced to care for someone who is uniquely toxic to us.

[huffylemon]

[shleepy-girl]

Information Wall (with Hat)

[prokopetz]

Every time there's a big writer's strike or whatnot it becomes starkly clear how many self-proclaimed leftists think that only people who perform manual labour which results in a physical product that you can hold in your hands count as workers and everybody else is a parasite of some description.

[natalieironside]

DDG used to be not nearly as useful as Google, but that's not true anymore!

Not that DDG every got any better, no, it's still the same. But Google got worse.

[citrusmillie]

Tumblr makes sense to me bc if i see something i like i get excited and hit the button to show other people and theres no weird unspoken social conventions my autistic brain doesnt understand. I can literally sit here and reblog 150 niche shitposts about harvest mice in an hour just bc they make me happy and i dont have to explain myself to anyone and i'll actually *gain* followers instead of just being called weird and downvoted or whatever its so cool

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

This cat can really catch some big air! Though not the largest cat by any means, servals have the longest legs relative to body size of any feline. This allows them to make jumps up to 2.7 m (9 ft) straight up, or leap horizontally 3.6 m (12 ft).

(Image: A serval (Leptailurus serval) chasing down prey by Chadden Hunter)

If you like what I do, consider leaving a tip or buying me a ko-fi!

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

This cat can really catch some big air! Though not the largest cat by any means, servals have the longest legs relative to body size of any feline. This allows them to make jumps up to 2.7 m (9 ft) straight up, or leap horizontally 3.6 m (12 ft).

(Image: A serval (Leptailurus serval) chasing down prey by Chadden Hunter)

If you like what I do, consider leaving a tip or buying me a ko-fi!