I wish life would stop happening to me so fast

25 years old, college dropout, I like movies, philosophy, old ass books, trash literature and webcomics. i can't sing but that doesn't stop me from attempting constantly Leftist marxist anarchist I have a side blog: animalsjustvibing.tumblr.com avatar made by http://thebloodsuckerproxy.tumblr.com/

[ampervadasz]

[captain-price-officially]

Icebox.

[dovahqueen4]

[meladoodle]

This is the greatest piece of New Zealand news I’ve ever read in my life

[nwmo]

NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

[takineko]

You don't just accidently create a fish

[robertseviltwin]

And what kind of damage will this Franken-fish bring to the waters its in??☠☠☠

[nwmo]

Hey! I've been getting a lot of reblogs that say things along the line of this, as well as reblogs asking about how people could "accidentally" create a new species of fish.

I'm only in my first year of college working towards a bachelor's in biology, but I'll be damned if I let my post spread misinformation! The Sturddlefish won't be causing any kind of damage to the local populations of fish, as they are all being kept in a lab in Hungary, and will not be released. In this same article it says that scientists do not plan on making any more Sturddlefish. Even if they had been released in the wild, they would likely all die out anyways, as hybrid animals are often sterile.

And as to how scientists could "accidentally" make a new fish, the original project was an attempt to create more sturgeon via gynogenesis, a process in which eggs are fertilized with sperm from a different species, but without getting any dna from that specific species. This is usually done by irradiating the sperm to damage the genetic material inside, preventing it from being passed on to the fertilized eggs. The dna of the American Paddlefish and the Russian Sturgeon (which are literally separated by an ocean in the wild!) Ended up being more similar than scientists had expected, and now we have a lab somewhere in Hungary filled with these little miracle monsters.

here is the official paper the scientists who created the Sturddlefish submitted, it's a little dense with science jargon but just in case anybody wanted to read a firsthand source.

TL;DR: all of the Sturddlefish are in a lab, away from wild populations and were created because the american paddlefish has a very tenacious gene pool

[prokopetz]

The thing that messes me up about the whole “the butler did it” trope is that we literally have no idea where it comes from.

The earliest known piece of detective fiction in which the butler, in fact, did it? Published in 1930.

The earliest known article calling out “the butler did it” as an egregious cliché in detective fiction? Published in 1928.

Obviously there must have been earlier examples of detective fiction in which the butler did it, but none of them have survived to the present day, leaving us in this bizarre situation where the earliest known callout post about the trope pre-dates its earliest known actual use by a full two years.

[lmaonade]

if we’re mutuals feel free to use me as a powerful summon during a tough battle 

[glowingshadows]

no i will not be taking constructive criticism

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

Hedgehog Figurine

This hedgehog figurine is made from Egyptian faience, excavated from tomb 655 at Beni Hasan, Minya, Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 12th to 13th Dynasty, ca. 1976-1793 BC. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

[treekoalago]

[fuckedcroutons-deactivated20201]

oh hey, stealth and closeted trans people! i keep forgetting to mention this and idk if everyone already knows but there's this free app called transtracks (android + iOS) that acts as your standard transition tracking app (medical transition, social transition, surgical transition, whatever you're tracking) except it has a stealth mode!

just change your passwords settings to "train tracks"...

... and voila! the app has become for train schedules.

this is what the new decoy password screen pulls up:

it isn't exactly safe for me to be out IRL so i've been using this app for a while now! it's mostly helpful for my peace of mind and in case somebody needs to use my phone because i'm out to my family- but anybody living at home who isnt out or who has nosey/transphobic parents- maybe give it a shot!

[sithholocron-deactivated2012090]

[spockglocksrocks]

sometimes there’s videos that make me happy to exist on this planet

[cameoappearance]

i’d reblog this even if it was a still image

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I know it’s a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?

[cameoappearance]

Parents watching it with their kids, I guess?

[loreweaver]

literally everyone

[elfwreck]

Everyone. No, really… everyone.

For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kid’s educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; there’s a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.

For very small children, it’s educational: this is the letter “B”; here’s how it’s shaped; here’s some words you know that start with it. Oh, and here’s a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that it’s the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.

For older kids: you’ve probably heard that “to be or not to be?” speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, here’s how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who don’t read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.

For kids with dyslexia: here’s how you differentiate a “B” from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them. 

For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, here’s what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Here’s how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what you’re saying. If you’re reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.

For new RenFaire workers: Here’s how to pronounce “zounds.” 

[frislander-deactivated20220305]

One of the most glorious things in the world is Shakespearean actors doing stuff like this.

[newshoes-samedirt]

If begineth even be a word

[kaijutegu]

what the hell kind of order is this list in?

[squided]

What’s up with the fairly recent trend of leap years all being bad fucking years like 2008? Shit. 2012? Fucking shit. 2016? Absolute fucking shit. I’m just gonna predict 2020 is gonna be the Most Absolute Stinky Piece of Shit year to date

[squided]

Date of Origin: July 3, 2018

[svere-online]

[anreill]

[pangur-and-grim]

nothing like a Christmas Weasel

[normal-horoscopes]

Here's a map of the flat earth go nuts

[shadybacon]

If Earth was flat wouldn’t the continents not have that curve to them?

[shady-fish-deactivated20210703]

would look more like this

[shadybacon]

Man I have neve realized that if I just started going North and never stopped going forward I would eventually end up in Austrailia. Like yeah the earth is round but I never realized all the continents were lined up like that when arranged flat on a surface

[shady-fish-deactivated20210703]

not really how that works. this is an unraveled sphere. on an intact sphere if you followed your meridian eventually youd end up in the same place more or less

[normal-horoscopes]

I'm not sure how to explain to y'all that the flat Earthers are not particularly concerned with how this "actually works"

[follettina1111111111]

The pink robin (Petroica rodinogaster) is a small passerine bird native to southeastern Australia.