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Via | 22 | Queen City, USA | Arts Hobbyist and Social Scientist. I like photography, geekdom, poetry. Feminism, Intersectionality and LGBTQ+. Welcome to my happy place.

[mindblowingscience]

Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea

Scientists have even made special sunglasses for puffins so they can check out the phenomenon in the wild

A scientist in England has made an enlightening discovery about Atlantic puffins — under a UV light, their bills glow like a freshly cracked glow stick.

“It was sort of discovered by accident,” said Jamie Dunning, the ornithologist who first saw the beaks light up.

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[i-am-a-book-dragon]

I can’t tell what is my favorite part of this article, birds see colors humans can’t comprehend, glowing puffin beaks was discover accidentally, or that puffins look really good with aviator glasses.

[consensual-blathering]

My favorite is definitely the quote: So he’s had sunglasses made. For the puffins. “This felt like the obvious thing to do,” he said.

[mindblowingscience]

[thesuninperigee]

@importantbirds @lotsandlotsofbirds

[gif87a-com]

[orcinuses]

funky town

[krawdad]

This is like a weird nightmare

Too silly to be scary, really

But still vaguely unsettling

[pervocracy]

child handling for the childless nurse

My current job has me working with children, which is kind of a weird shock after years in environments where a “young” patient is 40 years old.  Here’s my impressions so far:

Birth - 1 year: Essentially a small cute animal.  Handle accordingly; gently and affectionately, but relying heavily on the caregivers and with no real expectation of cooperation.

Age 1 - 2: Hates you.  Hates you so much.  You can smile, you can coo, you can attempt to soothe; they hate you anyway, because you’re a stranger and you’re scary and you’re touching them.  There’s no winning this so just get it over with as quickly and non-traumatically as possible.

Age 3 - 5: Nervous around medical things, but possible to soothe.  Easily upset, but also easily distracted from the thing that upset them.  Smartphone cartoons and “who wants a sticker?!!?!?” are key management techniques.

Age 6 - 10: Really cool, actually.  I did not realize kids were this cool.  Around this age they tend to be fairly outgoing, and super curious and eager to learn.  Absolutely do not babytalk; instead, flatter them with how grown-up they are, teach them some Fun Gross Medical Facts, and introduce potentially frightening experiences with “hey, you want to see something really cool?”

Age 11 - 14: Extremely variable.  Can be very childish or very mature, or rapidly switch from one mode to the other.  At this point you can almost treat them as an adult, just… a really sensitive and unpredictable adult.  Do not, under any circumstances, offer stickers.  (But they might grab one out of the bin anyway.)

Age 15 - 18: Basically an adult with severely limited life experience.  Treat as an adult who needs a little extra education with their care.  Keep parents out of the room as much as possible, unless the kid wants them there.  At this point you can go ahead and offer stickers again, because they’ll probably think it’s funny.  And they’ll want one.  Deep down, everyone wants a sticker.

[mikkeneko]

This is also a pretty excellent guide to writing  kids of various ages

[onceuponatown]

Woodmore, Maryland. The Prince George’s County Memorial Library Bookmobile, July 18, 1951.

[justbadpuns]

A Harley rider eating in a restaurant is checking out a gorgeous redhead. Suddenly she sneezes and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket. The biker reaches up, snatches it out of the air, and hands it back to her. “I am so embarrassed,” the woman says. “Please join me for dinner.“ They enjoy a wonderful meal together and afterwards she invites him to the theatre, followed by drinks. She pays for everything. Then she asks him to her place for a nightcap, and to stay for breakfast. The next morning the guy is amazed. “Are you this nice to every biker you meet?” he asks. “Not usually,” she replies. “But you just happened to catch my eye.”

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

[starwarsgraphictee]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO

[frank-macmurphy-deactivated2020]

wait for it………..

[tastefullyoffensive]

Sound up.

[spintowin]

she’s out there making owl noises

[techtonicactivity]

who

[lunarkittens]

i’m not in college yet but as we all know alcohol consumption among college students can get a bit ridiculous so during those years please pay a lot of attention to how you’re feeling and how you view alcohol because it’s possible to become an alcoholic at that age even though a lot of people make jokes passing it off as normal behavior and it can have a really bad impact on your life and grades basically don’t ever let drinking become more of a priority than doing well in school or being healthy and please take care of yourself

[xanderuwu]

here are a few red flags that can indicate you have an alcohol problem

you feel as if you’ll be missing out if you don’t get drunk

you drink to alleviate depression, stress, anxiety, or other heavy emotional issues

you begin lying to others about drinking

you get antsy if you’re sober and are surrounded by drunk people

you continuously promise you’ll have “just a few” but end up absolutely shitfaced

you drink every weekend, even when you hadn’t planned to drink you end up doing it anyway

your start craving alcohol whenever you feel negative emotions like stress or anxiety

if you feel that you might have a problem, please seek help because alcohol addiction is a life-shattering issue

[gaynehollander]

when my friend found out her boyfriend of three years was cheating on her she went through his phone, took pictures of every interaction he had with another girl, printed them out, wrote down where she had been at every instance and what lies he had told her about where he would be, and put them in a folder. when she confronted him and he denied everything she pulled out this big ass folder and just said “lets review” and Honestly, that is the most iconic thing anyone has ever done.

[writing-prompt-s]

You’ve been putting off cleaning your late fishes aquarium. Today the algae did its first space flight test.

[countesslime]

I stared at the aquarium. A little rocket plopped out of the water and fell on the floor. «Man.. i really need to clean.» I said as ate my fourth sandwich. «I’ll do it tomorrow.» But i didn’t. I never did. The algae treated me like a God. I was God.

[writing-prompt-s]

Please, don’t ever clean your aquarium

[half-dead-des-deactivated201911]

It honestly was a little shocking to find small statues of myself littering the area that the algae grew from, but i ignored it, thinking that was just normal algae stuff

[colorfulmess-colorfulregret-dea]

a few days later, I walked towards the aquarium to find it completely empty. I looked up and saw a hole in the roof, the edges covered in algae. I looked down and saw a note being held down by a small likeness of myself. “Thanks for helping us. In return, we will send a bust of you to Venus, your favorite planet. Goodbye and thank you for everything you’ve done”

[writing-prompt-s]

w h o l e s o m e

[the-stick-seller]

It’s been about a week now. Apparently NASA got a lot of funding out of nowhere. The algae paid to have my roof fixed, so that’s pretty nice. Still haven’t gotten around to that fish tank. Found out some bacteria started growing in it and learned about an “Ancient advanced civilization” or something. They just now developed written language.

[writing-prompt-s]

e x t r a w h o l e s o m e

[ha-youwish]

I picked up some of the language from the bacteria. We have some basic conversations from time to time, i sometimes talk about my day and hear about their advancements in technology. They’ve built a few cities so far. I don’t think I’ll be cleaning that tank anytime soon (I’ve been thinking about buying another so they can expand).

[number1120]

Update: bought a tank and now the civilisation is expanding perfectly. Not only that, but the technology is better as well. They made hover cars in the tank and they’re flying around. They asked if I want one, but I declined.

[writing-prompt-s]

Why would you decline!?

[ekhoecho]

Their technology was too small for me to fit in, it’s not that I wanted to deny. It’s that I couldn’t fit even my pinky into their hovercraft.

They’re starting to develop portals as well- I discovered one that they fired at my wall, and soon enough, a hovercraft came flying through it. They wrote to me about discovering the world that I live in and insist to accompany me everywhere I go.

[lilithsplace]

Silver Breathing, 2010-18 – Michael Canning (b. 1971) acrylic, charcoal, ash, chalk and pencil on gessoed paper  |  source:

[relatedworlds-deactivated201402]

[thieves-r-us]

You never know when you might have to fight an alien.

[em-kellesvig]

According to Dean Devlin, Leverage and Stargate inhabit the same universe, and Eliot was on a gate team so he’d know all about Drake’s equation. Just sayin’.

[misswonderheart]

HOLD ON WHAT?!?  W H A T.

[ardatli]

… I love everything about this, and this changes everything. 

[writing-prompt-s]

You throw your rent bill across the room in frustration, and it lands under your bed. A few seconds later, a claw pushes the bill back out with a wad of cash.

[shoggoth-the-bitch]

Monster under the bed finally paying his fucking rent.

[all-that-feminist-drama]

Why do women have to pretend to be something that they’re not? Why do we have to pretend to be stupid when we’re not stupid?   Why do we have to pretend to be helpless when we’re not helpless?   Why do we have to pretend to be sorry when we have nothing to be sorry about? Why do we have to pretend we’re not hungry when WE’RE HUNGRY? Fuck you, Sophie, put that on your plate.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon, 2017

–Watch it or die trying.

[marvelouserin]

yeah, I like romance. but you know what? I like women realizing their value and leaving trash men 1000x more

[wehadfacesthen]

Remembering María Félix, La Doña, “The Diva of Mexico”, on her birthday (4 May 1914 – 8 April 2002)

“There’s something about Maria Felix’s image as a celluloid heroine that is forever embedded in Mexican cinema–past, present and future–and something about her fastidiously designed image in real life that is part of Mexican identity.”  - Salvador Carrasco, Los Angeles Times