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Hexiva, 24 (as of 7/7/2020), he/him. Mostly a collection of social reblogs, OC art, and cuttlefish. Background from Cryptovolans

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings

[pseudomasochist]

You wanna know what's fucked?

Your brain is a 25-watt computer.

Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I don't like that fact

[pseudomasochist]

No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

It's a cool fact it just makes me uncomfortable

[virtualgirladvance]

so an average toaster runs at about 1200 watts, say it takes 5 min to toast bread thats 0.1Kwh. itd take 4 hours of brain power to toast it

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Just connect multiple humans together matrix style

[virtualgirladvance]

in the woods amongst my coven, 48 all in total, linking hands deep in concentration. our collective will united on our task of great importance for what feels like days but in reality scarce but a few minutes. in the centre of us lays a single slice of toast cooked to perfection

[wingwisher]

they're out here saying shit like my brain can't produce as much rotational energy as an entire horse

[hexiva]

That doesn't sound right. When we calculate the power necessary for a computer, we don't just calculate the electricity going to the CPU, we also calculate the fan usage and GUI usage and so on and so forth, right? So by analogy, we should consider the power usage for the entire machine, not just the calculating bit. The brain can't run if you disconnect it and take it out of its casing, it needs the rest of the system to run correctly. So if the numbers in this post are correct, we're 100 watt computers, not 25 watt.

Still less than a horse power tho

[atyourperil]

is anyone here ready for fat transgender summer can we give it up for fat transgender summer

[pixeljade]

[kuttithevangu]

Sometimes I think people’s complaints about queer genre fic boil down to them wanting litfic and not knowing there’s queer litfic. If you wish to read about sad lesbian adjunct professors having unsatisfying sex, rejoice! NPR has reviewed it for you

[kuttithevangu]

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction - Wikipedia

Lambda literary has it for you

[azspot]

Magic Arena developers say they were told to relocate or effectively lose their jobs

It's one of many reasons that workers tell Polygon they are eager to unionize.

Employees and developers working on Magic: The Gathering Arena say they were hired with promises of remote flexibility, so they bought homes and built lives around those assurances. But they say they are now being told they may need to relocate to Washington state — or effectively lose their jobs.

Those concerns are a major reason why a supermajority of workers on the Arena team are attempting to unionize with the Communications Workers of America, under the banner United Wizards of the Coast. The group publicly launched its campaign on April 27, calling on Wizards of the Coast and parent company Hasbro to voluntarily recognize the union by May 1.

[apricops]

These employees are doing important and laudable work in response to being forced into a bad situation but I’m glad they still took the opportunity to call themselves “United Wizards”

[basic-bamboo]

WotC has still refused to recognize the union and has escalated to sending organizers letters directly to their homes about how unionizing is a bad idea. Luckily, our United Wizards are educated, organized, and agitated and the form letter from Hasbro was as laughable as it was threatening.

If you want to help out the United Wizards you can sign this petition

cwa.org/uwotcletter

Solidarity baby!

[hexiva]

I spend a lot of time thinking about cool animals in places I'll never get to see (or places that I could visit but it would be risky), but like. It occurs to me that I'm very lucky to have grown up in a place that has abundant Argiopes. And not just any Argiopes, but I would argue that the US has two of the most beautiful Argiopes in the world.

[naturalist-journal]

[hexiva]

FANTASTIC bug, what is it? Some kind of moth?

[scorchroots]

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin

[cheaphalloweencostume]

The iron hook slid free from his shoulder with a wet metallic shriek. Something black and arterial splashed across the stones between them.

The torturer stepped back instinctively. Not out of mercy. Out of surprise. The prisoner laughed. Not loudly. Worse than loudly. Softly. Like he had just remembered a private joke older than civilization.

“You still think pain is a language,” he said.

Another blow. This time across the mouth. Teeth cracked. Blood sheeted down his chin in long ribbons.

The interrogator hissed through clenched teeth. “Tell me where God went.”

The prisoner turned his head slowly. There was blood in his smile now.

“There are organisms,” he said, “living beneath Antarctic ice that have never seen the sun and have still learned how to eat.”

The room had gone very still. Somewhere in the dark, machinery groaned.

The interrogator grabbed him by the jaw hard enough to bruise bone.

“You think this makes you immortal?”

The prisoner spat a clot of red onto the floor between them.

“No,” he whispered.

“I think it makes you temporary.”

The torches flickered.

For one impossible second, the interrogator became aware of his own pulse. The heat in his veins. The soft wetness of his eyes. The damp animal electricity inside every living thing. The prisoner watched realization bloom across his face and smiled wider, blood running between his teeth.

“You cannot threaten a creature from the dirt,” he said, “with returning to the dirt.”

— excerpt from Shit I Just Made Up To Exemplify How All This Tumblr Prose Sounds

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i am not mad at the sweethearts in the comments and replies going “but i like this!” and i will write a weird hook torture scene in whatever i work on next just for you. with more beautifuler words and actions and dialogue that Means

[xopachi]

something fast and mind numbingly stupid.

[ratbugs]

the morsel of all time

sunbeams and dewdrops come to life

Amegilla albiceps

Amegilla albiceps from Court House reserve, Steiglitz VIC 3331, Australia on February 5, 2020 at 05:08 PM by Reiner Richter

[myriapoda-1306]

Friendly dog-sized bombus terrestris. What a fluffy buddy

[wasp-with-a-computer]

[etcstims]

Clawing at you | source

[jupiterswasphouse]

I'm always curious what bug non-bug-nerds think they would be, but I know 99% of the time the answer is going to be the same few answers. There's nothing wrong with that of course, picking the "boring" option is ok (There is a strong argument to be made about how we only view a select few bugs as "the good ones" because we decided they look cute, but that's not the fault of the subject of this post), but there are so many more interesting options if people just knew a little more about bugs.

So, here's a bit of homework: Gimme what bug you think you would be, BUT it cannot be a bee of the family Apidae (honey bee, bumble bee, carpenter bee, etc.), a Lepidopteran (moths, including butterflies) of any kind, a jumping spider (Salticidae), or a ladybug (Coccinellidae). That should leave y'all with a good amount of more vague options, but bonus points if it's a particular species and double bonus points if it's an especially uncommon one (but remember, this is what bug you think you would be, so don't feel pressured to pick an extremely uncommon pick if you know for sure you would be, for example, a hercules beetle).

For sources of inspiration, there are plenty of places to go looking, but if you want to go with something you might be able to spot IRL then you can go to iNaturalist and check species observations around your region!

Oh, and my answer is Sphex ichneumoneus, the great golden digger wasp :]

[molabuddy]

ok spider megacity is actually driving me a bit crazy. 2 dominant species live in thr spider city and one wpuld usually predate the otherbut bc its so dark in there they cant tell... so they livein peace and eat midges. thousands of spiders living in peace on one bigbigbig web eating midges in the dark together forever. one bigbig web spans across boarder of two countries spiders live on there peaceful in the colddark. eating midges

[molabuddy]

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black

A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by s

spider megacity..........

[fortunatehazelnut]

🥹

[nightmarechamillian]

Peace and love on planet spiders

[the-uncanny-dag]

[blastdamage]

the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined

[blastdamage]

did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read "don't search for us"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Underground french cinema

[npd-vriska]

my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it's basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don't come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.

some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.

this is Known, it's not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it's wonderful when you think about it.

[npd-vriska]

A little update! My little bro is now my little sister. Please don't misgender her :)

[enbylesbie]