It takes Guts to be Gentle and Kind

Samson He/Him

[angelicguy]

overalls were invented in order to prevent wayward manlets from pulling hard working miners pants down and sucking them off during work hours

[anarcho-fitposter-deactivated20]

[victusinveritas]

[toothflowers]

YIPPEE WAHOO EYETEST IMAGERY

[ilovetodrinkwater]

Yesterday = Death approaches from all sides

Today = Shaggadelic baby

[vintagewildlife]

Nesting killdeer By: Harvey Payne From: The Zoogoer 1994

[herpsandbirds]

Rainbow Leaf Beetle (Spilopyra sumptuosa), family Chrysomelidae, SE QLD, Australia

photograph by Hongming Kan

[waspdaily]

Have you done one on oriental hornets? They are so cool !!! Literally partially photosynthetic!!! And they have built in heaters in their bodies!!!!

Today's wasp of the day is the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Uniquely adapted for sun and sand, these wasps can be found in desert regions across Central and Southwest Asia, the Middle East, Northeast Africa, and Southern Europe.

It takes a lot of energy to dig underground nests; and when you're underground you don't have the sun to give you that warmth and energy you need. So these crafty wasps have found a way to take the sun's bounty with them. That yellow belt they sport is basically a solar panel. The pigments of their yellow band are specialized to absorb sunlight, and the melanin found in the surrounded cuticle is designed to keep that energy in. That way, V. orientalis is able to bring a store of warmth and energy with it as it toils away in the mines.

Another interesting adaption is with their diet. As scavengers, V. orientalis often makes use of food that is less than fresh. Studies have shown that V. orientalis has an incredibly high tolerance for alcohol and can consume fermented fruit with no side effects. In fact, these hornets even carry yeast as part of their microbiome to purposely ferment their food so that it becomes less attractive to competitors.

Bonus image: the peaker

Credits

[notchie]

I'M GOING TO DO THIS TO MY BOOBS AS THEY GROW IN TO APPEAL TO THE MINECRAFT PORN CROWD

[peckaghost]

It was gonna be some sort of Kim char study but it turned into whatever this is, I’ve to admit that pink suits him

[dominiqueramseyart]

23 year olds are just out here walking around

[chips1977]

I fell in in a fountain and i look different now

[nomadbones]

I got a test for this, can you solve this:

2+2=?

[chips1977]

if i killed myaelf tonight would you cry

[spltlvlhous]

love when i see a bird holding smmn in its beak

[parasitoidism]

Okay.

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[ilovecoelacanths]

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks dont mine the deep’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

[ursiday]

[alteredpanel]

thank you for making art with me