Monterey Bay Aquarium
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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we're not kids anymore.
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NASA
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Cosmic Funnies
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Janaina Medeiros
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Today's Document
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Jules of Nature
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@chococate
Throwback to one of my early patterns that is already 11 years old - Zimtstern Mitts, fingerless gloves started from the thumb with surface crochet added as you go. The free knitting pattern is available from my blog:
https://knitting-and-so-on.blogspot.com/2013/11/zimtstern-mitts.html
Knitting is great it's just a fidget toy and periodically you get a scarf or some shit
I need ya'll to take this quiz I found
10 extra credit points if you can guess before you get your results
Putting powdered sugar on the post below
Ravens Play in Snow by Wildlife World
Lettuce head of divination
Wondrous item, very rare
This seemingly normal lettuce head can be activated by wishing for an event one wants to come to pass in the near future. If the event occurs before the lettuce head wilts, consuming the lettuce will grant you the effects of the "bless" spell for one day.
all of tumblr: we fucking hate bots
also tumblr:
Hey, I LOVE bots when they’re just here to play with us. COMMERCIAL bots suck.
Hey, I LOVE bots when
they’re just here to play with us.
COMMERCIAL bots suck.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
they are engaged
“I cannot believe that this random celebrity turned out to be a horrible person! At least I know that this other, different random celebrity is totally pure and that they would never disappoint me like that!”
I don't mean this in a dismissive "haha you've got daddy issues" way but I really am coming to suspect that most if not all people who view the opposite sex as like, fundamentally alien on a mental or emotional level really just do not have healthy family relationships. You see it with the weird Trad and Alpha Male guys who can't seem to conceive of women as fully-aware human beings instead of some sort of symbiotes who need men to guide them, you see it with the weird radfems who like to go on about men being incable of feeling real emotion and just being driven by instinct and needing to be ruled over like dogs. I just find it really difficult to imagine arriving at those worldviews if you ever had a mutually caring and respectful relationship with an opposite-sex parent or sibling.
i’ve had radfems go off on me for talking about my relationship with my dad. things are more complicated now after i came out, but when i was a baby he stayed home with me and worked part time so my mom could work full time, he was never weird about my periods and didn’t use weird euphemisms (he would just say “are you cramping? do you need tylenol? need me to buy you some tampons?”), taught me the basics of sex ed since my conservative school wasn’t going to do that, was very understanding and supportive for the most part when i would talk to him about personal problems (when i left a shitty relationship at the end of high school he was the first person i told and i cried on his shoulder for like half an hour), when his best friend/my godfather died he didn’t hide his tears.
there were many things i wish he’d done differently, but there were many things he did right, and so many people get legitimately angry when i try to talk about it. people have even accused me of “trying to make excuses for shitty men” for just talking about the fact that not all fathers are emotionless assholes who never see their families. it really solidified in my mind that some people don’t want things to change. they just want to stay angry with the way they are currently because anger is cathartic and much less effort than actual systemic change.
One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands
Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double
So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him
Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro
I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.
Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.
After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.
This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.
I have no idea what’s going on
Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.
For the Unexposed, a meme from legendary times
World Heritage Post
here’s a picture of a baby cedar waxwing begging for food from a robin. neither of these species are nest parasites, so it’s not possible the cedar waxwing was ‘adopted’. this is essentially the bird version of tapping a random person on the shoulder at the grocery store and going “MOM”
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I love that the robin’s body language is basically WHAT THE FUCK WHOSE KID IS THIS
Robin is bathing which make’s it even funnier. More like the equivalent of a strange kid barging in while you’re taking a shower and demanding you make them mac n cheese right now
