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27/She/they/Autism/ADHD "Speed is immaterial when you have intelligence. And killer rims."

[taya-ki]

ALIEN YURI (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+

[cdr2002]

ALIEN YURRRIIIII

[fortysixandtwo]

[sotohpecnerefer]

Lucy Lawless & Renee O'Connor

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

while the most common in the space is of course "the author's eggy belief that all boys secretly really really want to be lesbians", i think art of the category "propaganda towards convincing 'boys' that it's okay and normal and good for them to want to be lesbians" is my favorite.

[hope-for-the-planet]

70% Drop in Levels of Forever Chemicals Observed in Seabird Eggs Tracks Regulatory Success

These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.

[sattarehi]

Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

Environmental problems CAN BE SOLVED.

[jazzhaaaands]

[neunhofferart]

Nearly pissed myself laughing earlier when I saw this absolute Looney Tunes truck attempting to transport an oversized mattress down the road with only a couple tiny bungee cords holding on for dear life, while it ballooned out behind the truck like a drag racing parachute:

[laropasucia]

[mrgdmmrgdm]

A strange day in the Late Cretaceous

[sleepyquietgirl]

I feel like I am taking crazy pills

[segamascott]

[otteroflore]

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Per wikipedia:

The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.

and there's wood furniture from the titanic that isn't decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.

(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[sailor-arashi]

The Titanic is an exceptionally weird whalefall basically.

[claraschaos]

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Wood however does not exist at the bottom of the ocean since it basically never sinks down, even when logs are flushed out into the ocean they basically never end up at the ocean floor. So there's no bacteria that evolved to decompose lignin, which is already complex enough to decompose on the surface. And that's why wooden ships or the furniture on the Titanic stay intact for hundreds of years or longer.

[lobo-cansado-de-ojos-rojos]

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

The sister ship HMHS Britannic is still perfectly preserved because of the way it sank, and partly in due to the coral that has grown around it keeping the structure in tact I believe was the reason.

[theminingdwarf]

Coral acting like a living fossil specifically for sunken ships is the coolest thing I've ever heard

[kyraneko]

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

Zombie, mummy, lich, respectively.

[beardedmrbean]

[napoleononthebellerophon]

the amount of lawsuits these exploited children are going to be filing 20 years from now is going to be crazy and im all for it

[hugsfromhugo]

A solar eclipse and the Milky  Way seen from the ISS

[aflo]

Attempting to locate a new Greek restaraunt using my gyroscope

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[midnightinjapan]

This tag deserves a spotlight

[depsidase]

[fatestayyuri]

had a dream that people were posting real cash bounties for people's deaths on tumblr with the same amount of gravitas and dignity that actual callout posts on here have (none)

[fatestayyuri]

they just appended the bounty to the "offending" posts in question and 90% of the time the OP didn't notice because they had the post muted. it got immediately drowned out by an argument about pokemon. I only found out about it a week later because someone asked if I could disable reblogs, not because it had money out for my head, but so that they could get the last word in on said argument about pokemon.

[fatestayyuri]

artist's rendition

[alieninthewalls]

One of my kind of terrible quality (taken on a phone) pictures of the Ds9 group photo at stlv!! I am not pictured here as I wasn’t dressed as a Ds9 character. @not-a-spy-garak

[cdr2002]

Omg this is awesome I love this!!!

Hi @nerys-kira-major spotted you again lol

Also that guy dressed as the Intendant is an icon. One day I will be like him