Plants and shit

you can call me frog she /they 🏳️‍🌈🐌 21

[the-muppet-joker]

Tump dies tonight while giving his speech in the hot hot sun. Like to charge, reblog to cast

[dewitty1]

Civil rights pioneer

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died in Texas.

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

[onebigbroccoli]

yo wtf is going on in skyrim

gangs all here

[marinscos]

Some years on my birthday I inconsistently do a retrospective autobio that meanders a little!

[northernfireart]

read the whole story> here by @clarionglass :)

[absolutegibberishandnumbers]

jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

[our-queer-experience]

reblog for something t4t to happen to you this summer.

[our-queer-experience]

reblog for something t4t to happen to you this autumn.

[our-queer-experience]

reblog for something t4t to happen to you this winter

[our-queer-experience]

reblog for something t4t to happen to you this spring

[our-queer-experience]

‼️‼️reblog for something t4t to happen to you forever ‼️‼️

[robotpoppa]

it’s-friday.avi

[webresourcesforyou]

Frog pngs ˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚ (no credit needed).

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[secondlina]

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

Check out my stuff!

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[arsanatomica]

The mechanism of grasp

While looking at the little screech owl, I took a series of photographs and made this gif to illustrate the of the automatic grasping action of the talons.

The structure of bird feet is set up so that the foot automatically grasps when the ankle joint is bent.  

This automatic grip allow birds to sleep while perching, and for raptors clench/grasp prey as the leg is folded on impact.

The mechanism of the foot is ingenious…. there’s no muscle in there at all. 

The foot is powered entirely by a pulley system of tendons. 

Two tendons that run along the back of the leg, Flexor Digitorum Longus and Flexor Hallucis Longus are responsible for the automatic grasp. The former pulls the forward facing toes, and the latter pulls on the hallux, or back toe. 

I drew a schematic diagram of these two tendons here:

It’s particularly interesting in raptors.

Raptors swoop down on prey with talons/legs outstretched. The impact with the prey folds the raptor’s legs against its body, causing the talons to clench automatically, tearing into the prey. The automatic grip is strong enough to kill, and is what allows many hawk species to catch and kill other birds in midair. 

The ingenuity and perfection of this mechanism is mind-blowing.

[helpfulharrie]

op hosted these images on photobucket, which unfortunately is now pretty much useless. here is the post again with the images restored:

The structure of bird feet is set up so that the foot automatically grasps when the ankle joint is bent.  

This automatic grip allow birds to sleep while perching, and for raptors clench/grasp prey as the leg is folded on impact.

The mechanism of the foot is ingenious…. there’s no muscle in there at all.

The foot is powered entirely by a pulley system of tendons.

Two tendons that run along the back of the leg, Flexor Digitorum Longus and Flexor Hallucis Longus are responsible for the automatic grasp. The former pulls the forward facing toes, and the latter pulls on the hallux, or back toe.

I drew a schematic diagram of these two tendons here:

It’s particularly interesting in raptors.

Raptors swoop down on prey with talons/legs outstretched. The impact with the prey folds the raptor’s legs against its body, causing the talons to clench automatically, tearing into the prey. The automatic grip is strong enough to kill, and is what allows many hawk species to catch and kill other birds in midair.

The ingenuity and perfection of this mechanism is mind-blowing.

[pseudomantis]

We literally cannot let them start charging 80 dollars for video games 70 dollars was already outrageous 60 was pushing it. 80 fucking dollars. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND. For MARIO?!?!?!?!?

[gheycowboyespressokell]

If we don’t buy it, they’ll lower the price, just like the 3DS. They make more money from 2 million people buying it at $60 than 1 million at $80

[aquilacalvitium]

Don't even buy the console, don't let them think they can get away with this

I refuse to live in a world where a console cartridge costs eighty fucking dollars

[artsytoad]

Jacek Yerka, Eruption 

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

[narcissistcookbook]

i like tumblr because occasionally i’ll be recommended a 12 year old post that depicts something so absolutely my shit that it makes me believe in art again

[sanguine-squid]

where is any higher quality version of this image

[satellites-halo]

can't find anything other than this which has maybe 5 extra pixels

[sergal]

[solitairie]

now dance fucker dance man he never had a chance

[eyesonjupiter]

Found that over at mastodon

[teaboot]

hardcore satanist grandma called u a poser

[isahowdy]

this moment from work has lasted in my head for months and i think its finally time to draw it out