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[flipchild]

Do u mind if I blight the land with my reanimated vassals

[flipchild]

No go ahead

[vamplire]

It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2023.

Happy 1st Anniversary of The Interview!

[vamplire]

It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2024.

Happy 2nd Anniversary of The Interview!

[vamplire]

It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2025.

Happy 3rd Anniversary of The Interview!

[vamplire]

It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2026.

Happy 4th Anniversary of The Interview!

[aynsasnya]

ghost from the past

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[theriverbeyond]

i think "turning into a pumpkin" is my new favorite way to articulate the state of things when I am at a function and very overstimulated and it feels like my brain is melting. it's like no i can't be a person anymore i have to leave i'm turning into the pumpkin. the time is up yeah i gotta go. yeah see u later. pumpkin time.

[thegorgonist]

MINNOW PIN! TINY SILVER FISHIE! I'm in love with how these turned out. I want to wear like 10 on a jacket and have a school of fish with me wherever I go. Hard to photograph but they look amazing in person! Sometimes a simple design really stands out~~~~ In my shop!

[mynorthernattitude]

they should make a sleep that feels like you’ve slept

[marekdavid]

[halorvic]

[i-am-erica]

@artemispanthar

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[quank]

does the amount of times you fart while your cat is sleeping between your legs impact whether you get into heaven or not

[i-am-a-fish]

I don't like complaining but it's too warm outside and I'm covered in bug bites and my dicks fallin off :(

[feminist-space]

[feminist-space]

[i-am-a-fish]

I've been sending beams and rays at random passerbys for years now

[avatarofthewriting]

w-what kind of beams

[barkrooms]

can someone help me find the picture of a bunch of webkinz(?) like gathered in a living room and some of them are playing a ds and some of them are sitting around a tv playing the wii and some of them are playing webkinz on a laptop and i think some of them were drawing too?? it looks like it was taken with flash on iirc and it was circulating on here a while ago

[fudhchshfhvhffuckoff]

[sottopressione1]

[claimhteoir]

Bodleian Library MS. e Mus. 65, University of Oxford, 1390, Fol. 103v

Can be viewed on the Bodleian Portal here.

[butchscientist]

you will never catch me complaining about an actress on a tv show having an imperfectly concealed pregnancy or a character going on a sudden trip somewhere while her actress is on maternity leave. so many actresses (and women working in any other field) are fired, punished and pressured into making reproductive decisions for their employers' convenience & if i have to try a bit harder to suspend my disbelief then that's absolutely what i'm going to do if it means people are getting to exercise reproductive & bodily autonomy without punishment

[confusedlamp]

My favorite writing of this was how Star Trek DS9 handled Nana Visitor's pregnancy. It felt out of character for her character (Kira Nerys) to get pregnant and it's the semi-utopian future, so presumably birth control works quite well and abortions are easily available. Solution: another female character gets pregnant, is injured in an emergency situation, and Kira agrees to act as surrogate. They effectively wrote this entire story line well enough, with implications for the dynamics between Kira and the biological parents, that I didn't realize until later that the actress was actually pregnant. I thought it was just an interesting plot line.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Flocking #paleostream!

Yoshi, Tylosaurus rex, Xianshou and Argyrolagus.