clockworkbulbasaur

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[uwillneverknowwho]

Literally always take headphones with you. If you decide that you probably won't need them today, that's the devil talking. You will. You will

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

[calystarose]

Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.

[aloneindarknes7]

This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.

I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.

After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.” 

If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity. 

[momo-de-avis]

I remember reading somewhere once “we should be speaking of equity instead of equality” and that is a principle that applies here me thinks

[velartis]

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

[puppygirllaika]

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

[poem-today]

A poem by Raymond Carver

For Tess

Out on the Strait the water is whitecapping as they say here.  It’s rough, and I’m glad I’m not out there.  Glad I fished all day on Morse Creek, casting a red Daredevil back and forth.  I didn’t catch anything.  No bites even, not one.  But it was okay.  It was fine! I carried your dad’s pocketknife and was followed for a while by a dog its owner called “Dixie.” At times I felt so happy I had to quit fishing.  Once I lay on the bank with my eyes closed, listening to the sound the water made, and to the wind in the tops of the trees.  The same wind that blows out on the Strait, but a different wind, too. For a while I even let myself imagine I had died - and that was all right, at least for a couple of minutes, until it really sank in: Dead. As I was lying there with my eyes closed, just after I’d imagined what it might be like if in fact I never got up again, I thought of you. I opened my eyes then and got right up and went back to being happy again. I’m grateful to you, you see.  I wanted to tell you.

Raymond Carver

1938-1988

[demilypyro]

i dont understand people who hate characters just for being mean or bullies. things that happen on tv arent real so it's literally funny when characters are mean. girls especially. girls should be mean more. girls should kill people actually

[memorycycle]

1 million potatoes charging forth: morale high as fuck & willing to die in combat, running with courage despite fear into the perfect machine farmbot thwackifier. blood is entertainment

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[redstonedust]

normalize being dogshit amateur at your special interests and hyperfocuses. no more autistic savants. yes i am very into that topic no i am not good at it. we exist <3

[maxknightley]

in the contemporary world, the most fundamental human right - and, it often seems, the least protected one - is "being both Allowed and Able to go Somewhere Else." the rest is commentary.

[maxknightley]

the torments of prison are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. the most terrifying and degrading aspects of childhood are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. misogynists wail and moan and fearmonger about divorce and equal opportunity employment because they Allow Wife To Leave. borders and immigration restrictions exist, in no small part, to Prevent People From Leaving countries where they will be exploited and/or oppressed. fuck you for trying to leave. fuck you for exerting any control over your life whatsoever. that makes you the one at fault, actually.

[memeuplift]

[theweirdwideweb]

[rimonoroni2]

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

[magicratfingers]

[soupsoup]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

- George Orwell, 1984

[kaijuno]

[evilwizard]

[goodgirlfemme-deactivated202605]

i will never engage in “callouts” of trans women and i think anyone who claims to be an ally to trans women shouldn’t either. i think you should just leave trans women alone. like just as a general rule.

[goodgirlfemme-deactivated202605]

stop looking at the behavior of every transfem with an internet presence with a microscope. stop the harassment campaigns that don’t hold anyone accountable or accomplish anything except putting a trans woman in danger. you are not just isolating her but also sounding the alarm to powerful groups of people who want to make her life hell. trans women are highly vulnerable, and it’s worth extending her a little grace instead of throwing her to the wolves because she did something you didn’t like

[pocket-deer-belly]

there is not a single one of these harassment campaigns that has cared about any actual victims of harm. it's all about socially isolating her and making her fucking radioactive to even vaguely associate with. it's all about spotlighting her and not caring what happens next, so long as she dissappears. stalkers will promise you head to toe that this time it's different and it's not transmisogyny to point out that a trans woman can be a bad person while hitting every possible transmisogynist talking point. they are fully aware of the spectre of the transfeminine sex pest and want to use it to ruin her life.

[ysengrm]

イーハトーブ幻想～KENjIの春 (Spring and Chaos, 1996)

I highly recommend this one; it's available on YouTube.

[is-this-fascism]

#1 thing you can do to be a better driver is to be at peace with going the wrong direction for a little while.

like it is not the end of the world if you miss your turn. all the roads are connected to all the other roads. you will find your way very quickly.

unless you're experiencing a genuine emergency, dont even think about making a sudden movement, ESPECIALLY across one or more lanes, just to avoid missing a turn

just relax. be at peace with the way the universe has led you. who knows you might discover something you never would have seen, like a nice restaraunt or a park you didn't know about. just. fucking relax

[gryphye]

OMG this. You want to help improve road safety? this. A few extra minutes to "make a block" and circle around is worth it.

This also goes if you're the passenger!!! Don't ruin relationships over missed turns, cause it happens.