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my fav quote by freud is definitely the one where hes writing to his fiancee and hes like im gonna make you eat so much you are just a little weak baby and im a big cokehead

industrialsocietyanditsfuture

FOUND IT

bogleech

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

bogleech

Oh some of you don't know about the squids. I talked about them in another thread that went kinda viral somewhere or other but one of the reasons you should not swim in the open ocean at night in many parts of the world is that the water starts teeming with these:

And as you can see it is not like instant death, they too are just animals and they are often just gently curious about the presence of humans! But people who study and dive with sharks will tell you you're safe as long as you stay calm and know what you're doing. The world's leading professional night divers and experts on these squids, specifically??? Stress in every interview and article and paper they write in that you simply do not fuck around with these squids. They know what they're doing and they still all have at least one story of being attacked, in some cases having to be hospitalized. Considering just how rarely anybody puts themselves in the pitch dark nighttime ocean on purpose, let alone during a squid feeding frenzy, it sounds like they're quite a bit more likely to consider you potential food than other marine predators. We also don't know how many fatal attacks might have ever happened, because what humboldt squid like to do with large prey is just drag it away into the darkness forever. The two worst attacks ever proven involved two or three squid at a time latching on to a diver (in BOTH cases they were professionals and knew the risk!) and jetting straight downward with enough force that both divers suffered injury from the sudden pressure change alone, including burst eardrums, nearly passed out and they probably would have died if they hadn't broken free. In general, people who die drowning in the dark open ocean are either never found, or they're found in pieces picked over by enough scavengers that the precise cause of death can only be narrowed down to "the sea." But now you know ONE of "the sea's" possible murder weapons :)

There's a short section on Humboldt squid in Wikipedia's entry for Cephalopod attacks on humans:

And if you can get past some of Animal Planet's hokey presentation style, this video includes a bit of interview with one of those professional experts who still got nearly squidded from existence:

There is of course some debate about all this, with some arguing that all proven documented attacks occurred on people with reflective diving equipment, which they say the squid must have mistaken for the shine of fish. However, there are lots and lots of people who have to fish around these squids to survive, who do not have access to that kind of equipment, and also have a consensus that if you fall in the water when big squids are out hunting you might disappear without a trace or perhaps just get your head bitten open. With many modern science guys agreeing with this sentiment, this is one case where the "they're just misunderstood sea friends" crowd is kind of outnumbered. The sea at night is theirs and not ours is all. It's not ours during the day either but since we are neither marine nor nocturnal animals we are double fools in the eyes of the squids, which by the way are these eyes:

No for real:

my-ants-are-anxious

Absolutely! Also, the Humboldt squid will hunt in packs, sometimes with one flashing brightly to draw attention while the others approach in near unseeable camoflage!

bogleech

Beautiful footage of the nefarious sea demons also :)

Also because I can't reblog every addition together:

Okay where's the other 1199

spiralshellsreblogs

I absolutely adore Humboldt squid. I saw a doc once where a scientist was cage diving to study them, and one of the squid squeezed it's entire massive body through the cage bars, bit the guy and squeezed right back out.

bogleech

Why isnt this an animal that's already long gone viral like honey badgers once did. This is the animal that actually gives no fucks. People really are just that obsessed with bigger squids I guess? But the bigger ones frankly come across as big softies in comparison. One big sea monster can never be as intimidating as a thousand coordinated man sized sea monsters.

This is why I thought that if mermaids had a cultural equivalent to lycanthropy it'd be weresquids. Fun fact nocturnal marine life increases activity on the brightest nights ie the full moon.

lasrina

This is all fascinating but I'm reblogging it exclusively for the phrase "got nearly squidded from existence."

everythingfox

Thank god she didn’t overreact

drtanner

Tonight on "Cats Being Weird Little Dudes"~

#cats

innerchildabortionclinic

it really will always shock me the way incest and csa are so prevalent yet the societal gut reaction would have you thinking this is super rare and if it does happen the perpetrator has his head on a stick. yet in reality it's commonplace in child neglect/abuse cases for there to be generational abuse--like, the mother was raped by her grandfather and is mentally unwell caring for unwanted children in extreme poverty. there is a stereotype of incest and poverty in the US and it's mainly situations like this, not exactly funny. churches are also so casual about protecting sexual predators while at the same time spouting rhetoric about the dangers of grooming or whatever. I do believe people tend to think they are the exception. it's only pedophilia if it fits your preexisting biases. I was reading an article on the worldview of musk et all and the concept of 'primal fathers'. some men do feel an entitlement in this way and network with those who feel the same.

such a bizarre disconnect regardless, to me at least

#pedophilia #child sexual assault #generational trauma

shamebats

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

shamebats

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

shamebats

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

lemonylemus

This was reposted to YouTube shorts and I would like to point out some comments in the video

flip-this-table

Please give your children some damn playdoh and crayons and oversized bits of craft paper to color on. They need something more concrete and tactile than smooth glass.

themainspoon

Maybe they do need something tactile, but you've missed the point of the post. It's not the Ipad itself that's bad, it's the fact that the children are being neglected. You could hand a kid a whole library of books, several kilograms of play dough, a mountain of crayons, and all the craft paper in the world. But, if you don't spend time with them and you simply expect them to use those things to keep themselves busy so you don't have to deal with them, you're still neglecting the kid, and they're gonna end up with the same issues.

angstandhappiness

IMPORTANT

thebiscuiteternal

Running across this post almost immediately after reading the article about how some parents are letting fucking ChatGPT tell their kids bedtime stories now feels serendipitous in a way.

pastel-prouvaire-deactivated201

PSA: tumblr user littlefuckinmonster is stealing human bones from cemeteries in Louisiana. Please don’t let them get away with this and spread the word/signal boost!

wdapteo

this post is officially a decade old now

mutantrenegade

For anyone who wasnt around when this happened, this was real. Littlefuckinmonster was actually stealing bones from cemeteries. She is the bone stealing witch. She was specifically stealing bones from poor people. She was arrested for it.

ms-demeanor

This is not a Goncharov, this literally happened, here’s the Wikipedia article about it.

#bone stealing witch #grave robbing

orcbara

i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

lyinginbedmon

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is and always has been fascist rhetoric everyone.

lydiajoypalmer

more native plants and be kind to your animal neighbours.

shop / patreon

#data centers #nature #conservation #art

innerchildabortionclinic

the hot chocolate enjoyer when you ask where all the milk is going so fast:

“Help me!” shouted Marcos “Bori” Alcaraz. “I’m on fire!”

Thirty-five-year-old Alcaraz, a slim kid from the Bronx serving time for manslaughter, stood pressed against the steel bars inside South Hall—an infamous cellblock at Eastern NY Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison tucked away in Napanoch, New York. It was around 1:40 a.m. on a summer Saturday last month when Alcaraz’s cell ignited into an inferno.

“It looked like the sun was inside his cell,” said Akbar “Block” McClennon, 39, a fellow student in the prison’s college program who was locked up on the same gallery as Bori. Block is a tall, dark-skinned Black man with locs and striking, expressive eyes. Block described staring up at the gallery wall, transfixed by the horror. He saw Bori’s flickering silhouette gripping the bars. “He was shouting for help for, like, 30 minutes. Then there was a flash, and you didn’t see him standing on the gate anymore.”

#death #fire #prison #medical negligence #new york

voltaspistol

Not an invitation to cocoon yourself in a self-care bubble for four years, but a reminder to the 24/7 worriers that you can literally write "To Do on Monday: Worry about ________" on a post-it note and stop worrying about it for one day while you recharge.

quasi-normalcy

Another point: Both your mental health and your ability to resist will be improved by finding a community. A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. And apes together strong.

ineffably-queer-book-lover

Slorch Dinner Bell

No comment. Except... you know what music to play now, right? 🦈

This crack take just demanded to be done for today's prompt. Yes, the proportions are not right (compared to the original poster) and you can clearly see where I edited out Crowley's fixtures quite sloppily, but I was running out of time to do a better job, so I didn't even bother with the ones holding the poor shark in place. Sorry, not sorry. 🤷

Also, I honestly like how this version provides a closer look at Crowley in a bikini, right? She's wanted to wear this outfit for a really long time (the Ineffable Wives photo shoots, to be precise), but it didn't happen back then, because I didn't have any swimwear for Aziraphale. Luckily this set-up made both of them happy. 😉

Disclaimer: No LEGO animals were harmed in the making of this poster. Some poor Sluban shark wasn't so lucky got the honor of being introduced to the dark side instead, though. If it's any consolation... he hasn't complained about it. Guess he enjoyed the view too much.

Bon appétit, everyone!

Please enjoy, reblog, like, comment,... but please don't reblog this post to any communities. Thank you!

ineffably-queer-book-lover

IMPORTANT ADDENDUM/ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: No LEGO humans (or demons for that matter) were harmed in the making of this poster either!

@jade519shark Thank you for your concern, but it was completely unfounded! See the following picture attached as proof:

Or as Crowley would say: She was in the water. She knew the risk she was taking!

No seriously, don't worry! Crowley and Slorch get along fabulously in all their iterations in my world! It was love at first bite sight and they had a lot of fun with this set-up! 👙🦈💕

#slorch week #good omens

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

derinthescarletpescatarian

Everyone go make excessive use of your local library's generous lending policies to borrow my books and read them for free. Thank you libraries.

unamccormack

Yes, please, particularly in the UK and Ireland where I get remunerated through the Public Lending Right scheme, set up by activist lesbian socialists to make sure writers earn money when their texts are borrowed from libraries.

starshiplamaupin

Also, if there is a high enough demand for certain books, that can lead to a library purchasing another copy/additional license to meet the demand.

lesbianelsas

Sesame Street Memory: Lucy Liu | #ThisIsMyStreet

Lucy Liu shares a heartfelt memory of learning to speak english by watching Sesame Street and finding a family within the cast. Share your favorite Sesame Street memory on social media with #ThisIsMyStreet!

capricorn-0mnikorn

I was five years old when Sesame Street first aired in 1969. I remember coming home from kindergarten and watching the show in the afternoon, and then, the next day, kids talking about what Oscar had said over snack time (he was the first character for children I saw that was allowed to be grouchy and not be “bad”).

apatosaurus

Sesame Street celebrated a neighborhood that was multiracial and multicultural. When I was in preschool, that was my reality, too. Though I did and still do have a lot of cultural racism to unlearn, the extent to which I was able to learn how to be friends and neighbors with a diverse peer group was supported by Sesame Street. To be clear, this is why conservatives have wanted to destroy it from the beginning.

iheartvelma

The Mississippi State Commission for Educational Television briefly banned Sesame Street in 1970 with the flimsy excuse that Mississippians weren’t ready to see racially integrated neighborhoods. And that happened in a few other Southern states, including one where the owner of a local NBC affiliate chose to air it, for free, no ad revenue, because he thought people were ready for it — or needed to get comfortable with it. And these state ETV commissions eventually relented after getting a lot of negative publicity.

bucketofdeltav

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.