Heretical Teapot

An unusually talkative collection of quarks and leptons. Astrophysics PhD student. Old enough to still refer to this as a "blog". Bisexual trans gal (She/Her)

[ispyspookymansion]

being a horror fan will have you saying sentences such as “i liked it a lot, super gross and sad”

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Also true crime

[ispyspookymansion]

no thats a different and worse thing i am not associated with you

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

[akindlyowl]

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[viridiancolors]

[mlembug]

[pride-knightess]

I swear to god a good eighty percent of the bug reports I get for my mod are like this

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[thoodleoo]

been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

[thoodleoo]

had a couple people be like "i have no idea what this means" so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word "penis" for naughty purposes

[sanguinifex]

An awful lot of clinical terminology is Latin euphemisms for something. "Vagina" in Latin means "sheathe." The actual word for vagina or vulva in Latin was "cunnus," which you might recognize from the English word "cunt." But the people writing the anatomy books were trying to be polite. This kind of thing is also why the proper term for "asshole" is "anus" ("ring") and not "culus" ("asshole").

Once you move away from that region of the body, however, you're much more likely to have organs called their actual names in Latin or Greek. Also, in English, you're more likely to have the Latin/Greek forms used only as adjectives and have the more common English name for the noun form (e.g. the liver but the hepatic artery, the kidney but renal disease).

[apricops]

filmmaker: hmm how can I convey that this character is ancient and mysterious

the humble Bulgarian choir: ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆ

[simzart]

Exam Knight. ⚜️

[redavexat]

[re-alku]

@bugs-are-cool

[were--ralph]

im not a furry but recently ive been thinking about what if there was a global outbreak of a virus that transforms you into your fursona? so i made one just in case. not because im a furry (im not) but just ouf of safety if i need one in a pinch. he's very cute and fluffy btw

No yeah that makes sense like you always have to be prepared

[fishing-princess]

For thousands of years humanity has selectively bred chickens to have larger breasts and to have to lay eggs constantly. We did it to get more meat and per chicken, but from the perspective of the domesticated chickens they’re sorta living in a very specific fetish scenario

[aliceoverzero]

The first tags I see on this are absolutely inspired. Incredible pervert lesbian website.

[ubercharge]

after i finished this i paused and thought i don't have the heart to eat these women. but maybe you do. if you're hungry

[drhorsekiller]

[9ieme]

the twelve most terrifying words in the english language are: i'm from the government and i'm here to torture you to death

[leshermes]

Jasmine Vine, lead programmer of Hollow Knight & Silksong just transitioned!! I'm so happy for her!❤️🏳️‍⚧️

[c-rowlesdraws]

her bluesky header & icon are so cute too 🥰

[paleoart]

POV: You took a GoPro to the Cambrian Patreon • Ko-fi • BlueSky  • Instagram • Prints & Merch  

[communistkenobi]

everyone rightfully complains about how the r word is back in vogue now but I think the people talking about how using ChatGPT makes you a small brained lazy degenerate are getting off way too easy

[communistkenobi]

“hey don’t use eugenics language to describe a thing you don’t like”

“wow I can’t believe you’re defending the thing I don’t like”

[ymirjotunn]

there are two female Pholcus phalangioides cohabiting the same web in our bathroom. they've been there for about a week. this is baffling because they are definitively not social. they typically eat whatever ends up in the same web, including other P. phalangioides. the extent of their association is mating (where the male is often eaten afterwards), and a nine-day period where the mother watches newly hatched spiderlings. there are no spiderlings. one of them might be gravid but they're too distant for me to be able to say that with any kind of likelihood, it's just a possibility bc her opisthosoma is a little bit bigger. (you can tell the difference between the two bc one of them is missing a leg + has the larger opisthosoma.)

there's no way they aren't aware of each other. these spiders sense by vibration, you can't share a web with a pholcid and have them just not know about it, and they routinely swap positions in the web (ms. missing leg is often on the opposite side of ms. 8 legs that she was when last observed).

obviously i'm not mad about this, it's fascinating behavior and i feel so privileged to get to see it, but i have absolutely zero explanation for it. in my investigation so far i haven't been able to find any documented association between pholcids that isn't mating or motherhood or cannibalism. they're sedentary web hunters, they can't afford to share a capture web with another conspecific, and there are almost no flying insects in our bathroom (their web is in the corner of the ceiling out in the open, which is also kind of unusual for pholcids, they tend to prefer going below overhangs, and i suspect they'd actually have more success with a web on the floor bc we Do get crawlers like millipedes and carpet beetle larvae pretty frequently, but also we keep the bathroom dark 100% of the time even when in use bc of my photosensitivity so perhaps they've been tricked into thinking this is more secure than it is based on the light levels?), so i have no idea how they're getting enough prey for the both of them. surely they can't be sharing?? i haven't actually seen them capture anything in this web so far but obviously it's possible i've missed something, i only watch them when i'm in the bathroom.

i can't help but think eventually one of them is going to eat the other, which will be sad for me personally because i've grown quite fond of them but i do want at least one of them to live. and i just can't imagine they're getting much prey. should we try to capture a fly or something and tenderly feed it to them. well, 2 flies, i guess. i don't think pholcids would make ideal pets just bc they're relatively skittish and not very visual compared to salticids. but i do love them both and i want them to eat well.

i think i'm going to have to take some better photos and maybe send some of my observations to some arachnologists, i'm like did we misidentify them? i have no idea what else would have the pholcid body plan lol it's pretty obvious (cosmopolitan cellar spider/"daddy longlegs"). or is there some explanation i haven't considered? i just can't emphasize enough that these are so solitary that they will eat each other if one sees another, which is not an uncommon behavior for spiders (especially sedentary web hunters, for prey access reasons) but some others will have some kind of associative behavior documented Somewhere. these do not!!! they don't have enough body mass to be able to afford that kind of competition! what is going ON

[ymirjotunn]

cohabitation is still occurring. if you even care. veritable yuri situation. ms. missing leg actually got hold of prey about two days ago (!!!) (so cool to watch her eat, i had never seen it so up close before!) (looked like maybe an ant but she'd already taken some very big bites out of it so hard to say) and ms 8 legs was just sitting there patiently watching her. in the same web!!! now ms missing leg has a comically large opisthosoma while she digests. a bit like right after a snake gets a dinner of dodent.

ms 8 legs is still very skinny. i fear she hasn't had a meal in a while bc she's been skinny the whole time i've seen her. she's also attempting active hunting throughout the bathroom which pholcids (and other web hunters) usually don't do unless they're very hungry. i don't know why this is the case when she could just eat ms missing leg... surely it must be love? or some kind of judgment call based on their relative strength, they are araneophagous (even invading other webs to eat their owners!) so they definitely have the cognitive skills to make that call, but idk why ms missing leg would not simply eat the weaker pholcid! strongly considering bringing ms 8 legs some food by hand because i feel so bad for her and her stick-thin opisthosoma... she's so small! i don't know how long she can go without prey... looks like at least a week but many sedentary spiders can go much longer, it's just so odd to leave their web at all that i'm quite concerned given the frequency of the behavior, i have no idea how long it's been since her last meal

here is a lower quality picture from a couple days ago as proof of their relationship. they are so elegant, i love watching them move. the rotary probing in particular is really beautiful (lifting the long front legs above the silk, making little looping movements, coming to rest again when they hit a thread). their movement and exploration as tactile creatures is very familiar to me as a tactile creature myself

ms 8 legs is much thinner now i'm afraid