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Flat Fuck and his big beautiful plastic wife

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This is like lingerie for electronics

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my first love...

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this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

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I met someone when I was pretty young who had received a generous inheritance -- not enough to live a life of luxury, but enough to live on comfortably without working. He had chosen to simply keep going to school his whole life. He did get degrees, but he didn't use them for anything other than pleasure -- he had a Ph.D but also two Master's degrees, three BAs, and was currently serving an apprenticeship in blacksmithing while considering trying out some trade schools next. I thought, if I had the money I'd do that too, and then thought about how I still could learn all the time, it would just have to be a hobby instead of the career he'd made of it. It definitely changed the way I saw both education and leisure.

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There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

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Three gold rings uncovered from the Geumnyeongchong Tomb in Korea, 5th-7th century AD

from The National Museum of Korea

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Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

todaysbird

I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.

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alrobertsphotography

The Plym North Wood Dartmoor

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dandelion under UV

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Ghost Fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis), GLOWING IN THE DARK!!!, family Omphalotaceae, Tasmania, Australia

As you may have noticed, this fungus is bioluminescent.

The normal coloring is whitish or brown.

Primarily distributed in southern Australia and Tasmania, but has occasionally been found elsewhere.

Grows on dead wood.

photograph by Frya

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startledoctopus

medicine! despite the obstacles, we continue to advance and treat/cure more diseases than ever before. while i wish advertising for GLP1s would die with fire, they truly revolutionized care for people with Type II diabetes. last year they came out with a treatment for Huntington's disease that slows progression significantly (it was previously untreatable). a drug being tested for Alzheimers might be able to regrow teeth??? more and more surgeries are able to be done laproscopically, reducing recovery time significantly (tubal ligation for example). PCOS has been renamed and redefined to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome to more accurately reflect the main symptoms (lots of people don't have cysts and thus got dismissed by doctors), and they have a blood test for it now.

frogs! thanks to tumblr's own @markscherz and others, we keep finding new frog species!

treatment for cat kidneys! it's not widely available yet as they complete testing but Japanese researcher Toru Miyazaki has created an injection that can protect cat kidneys, which could let cats that would otherwise die of kidney complications live twice as long. which is a lot of cats, sadly.

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A little deep-sea sparkle ✨

Bloody-belly comb jellies are ctenophores. Like other comb jellies, they swim by beating rows of tiny, hair-like cilia. The shimmering display in this video isn't bioluminescence—it's light from MBARI's ROV diffracting through those transparent cilia, creating a dazzling rainbow effect.

These twilight zone treasures are found in the North Pacific Ocean and measure about 16 centimeters (six inches) across. At the depths where these comb jellies live, their crimson color appears black, helping them disappear into the darkness. Sometimes the ocean's most spectacular light shows come from animals that are masters of staying hidden.