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This bitch was born to yap and ramble

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Yellow-Billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa flavirostris), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Margalla Hills Station, Pakistan

Photograph by Munzir Khalid Khan‎

[nobrashfestivity]

APPLEGUY AND BEEFWOOD by @appleguy_comix. in stores everywhere

From the drawn and quarterly Instagram

[funeral]

[ "Neurotics" ] lived lives of "systematic self-restriction," and the result is that the less you do the less you can do, the more helpless and dependent you become. The more you shrink back from the difficulties and the darings of life, the more you naturally come to feel inept, the lower is your self-evaluation. It is ineluctable. If one's life has been a series of "silent retreats," one ends up firmly wedged into a corner and has nowhere else to retreat.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

[aliexpressfindoftheday]

AliExpress find of the day: The Golden Girls action figures.

[jetix]

hitomi_beverage on ig

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something i was thinking about while learning more about Louis CK’s fucked up shitty behavior recently is that I wish i had known when i was younger that some people are engineering the most excruciating and painfully awkward situations you can imagine because they want that

[sreegs]

rip pjackk

[pam3pr]

Elizabeth D, Villa Santo Sospir, with handpainted tempera frescoes by Jean Cocteau, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France

[love-me-like-a-reptile]

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

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I've got to go back and finally finish playing Control, the sequel looks so good...

[3liza]

i love craigslist man. i just go on there and do stuff. local semi-famous power metal band looking for a new singer. sure why not. emailed them. they sent me audition materials immediately. craigslist is the way

[donjuaninhell]

This is my all-time favourite Craigslist post which I found a number of years ago:

Come live in my house and play European Commodore 64 games that I will record with my Sony camcorder and upload to YouTube. Then we will play the American Commodore 64 games. This project will take exactly two years. After that we can play Amiga games.

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just started watching Deli Boys this week and we are having a great time with it so far! it’s like a combo crime/workplace/family comedy, great writing, just the right amount of silliness imo. the cast has so much chemistry that it stands out to me in comparison to a lot of sitcoms i’ve watched recently. they’re having fun with the tropes without being too cheesy

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aye can i get uh………ingredients on my burger

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beetroot?

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you want beetroot?

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you want fucking beet root?

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ingredience

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Carriola Tussock Moths: these moths have translucent patches (i.e. hyaline windows) on their wings, and their green-tinted veins are clearly visible within

Above: Carriola witti

Moths of the genus Carriola have a very unusual appearance, as their wings are covered in translucent patches that reveal a delicate network of greenish-yellow veins. The green coloration is caused by the haemolymph (i.e. "blood") that passes through these veins.

Above: the male form of Carriola thyridophora, with a close-up of the hyaline windows and bright green veins on its wings

The males of this genus typically have brown or beige borders around their wings, while the females have pink or white borders instead. The hyaline windows also tend to be much clearer and more extensive in the females.

Above: the female form of Carriola seminsula

This article describes the adaptive benefits of wing transparency in moths:

The coevolutionary arms race between prey and predator has generated some of the most striking adaptations in the living world, including lures, mimicry and camouflage in prey. Transparency, by definition, constitutes the perfect background matching against virtually all types of backgrounds. Transparency is common in pelagic environments where there is no place to hide.

Above: genus Carriola

Carriola tussock moths can be found in many different countries throughout Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines and Malaysia. They also inhabit certain parts of China, India and Sri Lanka.

Above: Carriola seminsula

This is one of my favorite moths, tbh. I love it when moths have hyaline windows on their wings, and this genus is especially beautiful and bizarre.

Sources & More Info:

Nota Lepidopterologica: Review of the Genus Carriola with Descriptions of Four New Species

Singapore Biodiversity: Carriola ecnomoda

iNaturalist: Genus Carriola

BioRxiv: How Transparent Wing Windows Reduce Detectability in Moths

Journal of Evolutionary Biology: Transparency Improves Concealment in Cryptically Colored Moths (PDF)

Moths of Borneo: Carriola Tussock Moths

Moths of Borneo: Carriola ecnomoda

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it makes me sad that a lot of popular blogs will take every opportunity to point out the stupidest and most mean spirited tags and comments they get, but they don’t ever engage with the silly, funny stuff