Asanti Sana

Welcome to nonsense. Here's your host, Sana. That's Sana. Look at her. Fear her. Have a pastry. They're probably not poisoned.

[c-rowlesblogs]

Working in food service is so surreal because like... nothing I do for people is anywhere close to life and death, but some customers absolutely act as though it is. I look a woman dead in the eye and solemnly inform her that unfortunately we are out of oat milk, and I see her heart shatter in front of me, right there at the bakery counter at 8 in the morning. I feel like a handsome TV surgeon informing someone that their beloved fiancée died on the table. He’s gone... I’m so sorry. We lost him. We are out of oat milk

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[buraitusan]

Holy fuck this is AMAZING

[starkwoes]

There's this video of nuns talking about their favourite things to do outside of nun activities and one of them says "ultimate frisbee" and the other one goes "and sister you are so good at that." I literally cannot get "and sister you are so good at that" out of my head. Out of all my stims this one is my fav lolol

[librarychair]

As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.

[justsomeguycore]

the rule about introspection is if you’ve never introspected it’s time to introspect, and if you’ve been doing a lot of introspection it’s time to let it go. extrospect a little maybe

[nature-travel-photography]

Mountains in Uzebekistan - Author: dreampebblie

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"sidewalk chalk" (2007), kristin krause

[great-and-small]

A tragic scene:

My turtle notices the blueberry I put out for him but in his excitement he drops it into his pond. He considers a recovery mission on his own, then turns to me for assistance instead.

Fear not- the berry was retrieved and the turtle was able to enjoy it as intended

[marlynnofmany]

*giant wind gust outside*

Me: “Don’t say it.”

My Brain:

[madlori]

Some random person in a neutral context: Let’s get down to business.

Me: Don’t say it.

My brain:

[the-haiku-bot]

Some random person

in a neutral context: Let’s

get down to business.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[guooey]

Uni's magical Mario Galaxy adventure..

[were--ralph]

this genuinely made me so happy

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

olympic gold in hitting christian babies with a bat

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

points deduction. that last baby was a calvinist

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

oh my god people yes i know calvinism is a type of christianity the joke is that it doesn't take skill to hit a baby who's predestined to get hit come on

[translatingpostsinfrench]

œstrogenèse-évangélique

médaille d'or olympique en frappage de bébés avec une batte

œstrogenèse-évangélique

déduction de points. ce dernier bébé était un calviniste

œstrogenèse-évangélique

oh mon dieu les gens oui je sais le calvinisme est un type de chrétienté la blague c'est que ça ne demande pas de talent de frapper un bébé qui est prédestiné à être frappé allez

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

you can all address me as œstrogenèse-évangélique from now on

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

frappage de bébés

avec une

batte

[parakeet]

huge fan of the snow pigeon. reminds me of a wood pigeon with a sweater on because its oh so Colds outside

[introvertsnation]

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm so so so angry. in Horsey Game, I found a wild legless horse, cloned it repeatedly, and mass-sold the clones to all my rival ranches to pollute their gene pools. and when my plan finally reached fruition.....when at last, I came into a race where every opponent had no legs.......my stupid fucking horse fell over.

[pangur-and-grim]

[wizardarchetypes]

I’m at my friend’s apartment in dublin. she’s been trapped in her bathroom for like an hour and maintenance just showed up with KITCHEN UTENSILS??? 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀

[wizardarchetypes]

I’m giving them 15 more minutes and then I’m walking across the street to the conveniently located fire department bc he just tried to pry open this metal door with a kitchen spoon

[wizardarchetypes]

he’s giving me attitude for asking for a locksmith. i was going to be polite for as long as we needed him as an alley but he’s run his use.

[parkchanwoohoo]