*sighs* Existence

Virgo. INFP. True Neutral. Melancholic. Mage of Rage. Pansexual. I'm quintessentially me. That's all.

[amateur]

[kedreeva]

Okay that’s fair, they didn’t accidentally do anything, but what they did was EXTREMELY COOL. They located a cluster of genes that were present in birds but NOT present in non-beaked creatures and then they turned it off.

And lo, the embryo’s beak instead formed like a snouted reptile. Pictured below: Left chicken embryo, right alligator embryo, middle… the altered chicken embryo with the cluster turned off:

The scientist, whose name is Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, responsible for creating the embryo did not have a desire or the approval to hatch the babies, which is why we, the public, do not have photos of resurrected dinosaurs, but they’ve said they believed the babies could have hatched and been fine.

This is all PARTICULARLY INTERESTING because scientists have also discovered how to cause scale cells to start to form into feathers. We’re not about to see plumed lizards any time soon, since the experiment only only sought to determine how proto-feathers might have started to evolve from scales, but it was still freaking cool!!

Basically we’re poking around learning how evolution really works, and that’s super exciting!!

[kyleblackpaw]

I want every single person involved with this research to have a mandatory viewing of jurassic park before this project takes even one more step

[sixth-light]

You fail to understand scientists if you don’t think every single person involved with this research HAS seen Jurassic Park and has detailed critique on how to do it better

[bob-belcher]

SpongeBob SquarePants | 2x40a: “Squid on Strike”

[theblackpearl]

Shea Couleè in Category is Ah, Freak Out

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (Season 5, Episode 7)

[brightflights]

[sixpenceee]

Huge oceanic Manta Ray spotted near Trinidad. There is a shark of scale.

Source

[chiller2000]

me <— jaw drops open

[biglawbear]

Bitch this thing is bigger than my apartment!!!

[whatsyourcolor]

The beauty of this world.

[sixpenceee]

Huge oceanic Manta Ray spotted near Trinidad. There is a shark of scale.

Source

[lallybrochloser-deactivated2021]

“God, the thought of amputating… just makes me sick.”

Outlander 5x09 “Monsters and Heroes”

[archaeologicalnews]

Greek Antiquities Expert Foils Auction of Priceless Artifacts from 480 BC

Greek professor Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis, who has been profiled in Greek Reporter on numerous occasions in the past for his relentless pursuit of art thieves, has once again stopped what would have been another theft of a priceless piece of Greek history.

A Greek wine jug from 480 BC, which the archaeological expert had already advised Bonham’s auction house had been illegally trafficked by a convicted art thief, has now been withdrawn at the very last minute from the auction block.

Sold just ten years ago in London, the priceless jug was just about to be lost yet again on July 22, where it may have disappeared into the sometimes-shadowy world of high-priced art buyers. Read more.

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[catsbeaversandducks]

Lisa who goes by the name @ostdrossel on Instagram has always been fascinated by nature and different bird types. So she came up with a brilliant idea: she uses a bird feeder cam, which consists of a camera box, a macro lens, and an attachable bird feeding platform. The camera is tiny and equipped with a motion sensor so that when a bird comes to eat, it photographs birds a non-intrusive way. 

Photos by Ostdrossel ™ 

Via Sad and Useless 

[zokso]

Say cheeseeeeee÷

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nerdgul]

Those 18 states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

If you live in one of these palces please go as many extra miles to stay safe as u can as new cases are growing significantly

[midnight-revolucion]

If you live in any of these States, I advise using Johns Hopkins University of Medicine’s Coronavirus Resource Center to keep an eye on Critical Trends in your state (spiking infection rate, spiking death count) with the country and state map.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[deqdyke]

TWOC NO INCOME SINCE FEBRUARY

Hey, my name is Ariya, I'm an autistic and disabled twoc. I haven't had an income since February. I've been denied unemployment and haven't gotten my stim check in, and I need to buy some absolute essentials (toothpaste, underwear, etc) and don't have the room in my budget. Anything you could send would help tremendously.

Venmo: @JinnChild

Cashapp: $JinnChild

PayPal: DM for info

[homotaschen]

alright I didn't wanna do this bc I don't know if it's even gonna work bc I only have like 20 followers but we need help. I know we're all tired of this but if you can't afford to donate, PLEASE reblog, bc idk what else to do.

Me and my roommates are all disabled trans people, and we only had 1 car and 1 person, Kitty, capable of driving between the 4 of us. Kitty's car just died in our driveway, leaking coolant everywhere, not even capable of moving without risking getting blown up tbh. It's breaks are completely gone and it's more junk than car at this point.

He has a new car in mind but we're waiting to hear back to go check it out, and in the meantime he needs to be able to get his spouse (the only working person here) to work. The unemployment offices aren't doing much to communicate with or help us, and he has no idea when his check is coming in, so we NEED to be able to get his spouse to work for the next few weeks or we're screwed.

We don't have a set goal, but we just need some cash to pay for the dead car to get towed, for gas to borrow Kitty's mom's car (we're all some form of immuno comp so ubers are too risky for us but we may have to resort to that soon) or other forms of transport until we can get the new car, to help pay for the new car itself, and to help pay for rent until unemployment goes through.

If you're capable of donating literally anything at all, it would mean the world to us.

Kitty's cashapp: $nverhoeven

& his venmo: abyssdandy

If you want art, Kitty is also currently doing commissions on his twitter , he does beautiful quality work for relatively cheap and he's so extremely nice to work with. I'll also be opening commissions on my twitter soon (and maybe my art tumblr @homovampiric too but I haven't used it in months) but I'm not sure when, but I'll update this post when I do! I'll also update this post when we're stable enough to not need donations anymore.

thanks in advance to anyone who's able to help !! Again PLEASE REBLOG if you can't donate !! Anything helps!!

[rslashrats]

i think solitary confinement should be illegal

[rslashrats]

so many studies have shown that it only has extreme negative effects, mentally and physically, on people and is basically a form of torture but it still happens in prisons all the time. it’s unnecessary cruel to subject a person to that for any period of time

[whitepeopletwitter]

[butterflypeaflowertea]

my favorite thing to do in this christian society is to pretend that i don’t know a SINGLE thing abt christianity. like sometimes people will mention things like going to church with their families or upcoming holidays & i’ll act utterly clueless abt all of it even though i know absolutely everything ever just bc it’s funny to see people fumble to justify + tell me abt things. if i constantly have to explain my religion and practices to ignorant people, y’all are gonna have to do the exact same thing

[butterflypeaflowertea]

like one time i asked this girl what christmas was with my blankest possible expression & she looked at me incredulously & slowly said “it’s jesus’s birthday…” and i was like oh that’s cool! who’s jesus? :-) & she froze for a good fifteen seconds. i think i gave her brain damage it was great