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[hwosme]

Hello followers

I made a big oopsie creating this blog, in which i desired it to act as my main blog but i did not yet know enough about tumblr to know that i could not do that with a side blog. So. I finally got fed up enough that I am going to steadily be reblogging all of my posts on my main blog, @cartwheellou. Then when i have completed, i will delete this blog and change my main blog to be @hwosme. Hopefully i will see u there!

[hwosme]

“Even if you don’t like halloween you have to appreciate its position as the sole thing keeping Christmas from advancing even earlier into the year like a cancerous growth”

[digitaldiscipline]

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

hey, @bunjywunjy - this might be your jam (and any other dinosaur enthusiasts, it’s a heck of a read)

[bunjywunjy]

man that’s not just a heck of a read it’s fuckin GROUNDBREAKING is what it is!

this dude actually found a large fossil deposit that was created not just close to, but actually DURING THE K-PG EXTINCTION EVENT.

IT’S LITERALLY A WINDOW BACK IN TIME TO THE CHICXULUB IMPACT, AND TURNS OUT IT WAS WORSE THAN ANYTHING WE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE IMAGINED

it’s a geologic snapshot of the apocalypse.

[tratserenoyreve]

reading the full article is certainly a trip, and to summarize for those who are intimidated by longer reads:

- chicxulub is the given name for the meteor that struck/initiated the event

- the paleontologist within is described as making groundbreaking discoveries of multiple species every day, but many of his peers discount him because they’re grouchy old dudes he accidentally had a fragment of a turtle bone involved in a larger reconstruction of a fossil this one time and they won’t let him live it down.

- the extinction event was so fast and so destructive, this guy describes this particular dig-site as being so densely layered with dead and dying creatures, there is a lot of organic tissues that have been preserved, and he is able to even discern that many of the marine and freshwater fish may have still been alive as they were buried due to molten glass being found in their gills, implying they were still attempting to breathe.

- they looked into exactly when and how this could have happened, having freshwater and marine animals stacked on top of mammals and larger dinosaurs (including an amazing deinonychus forearm discovery he was able to match to feather fossils he was finding atop the pile), and rather it being the initial tsunami, they are fairly sure that it was caused by a seiche of catastrophic proportions, which would have been set off within the first hour of the event. denser and larger creatures sunk to the bottom, leaving lighter debris like leaves, small fish, feathers, and molten glass on the surface.

summary: terrifying!

[lastoneout]

This is fucking incredible

[kerolunaticat]

Holy SHIT!

[peannlui]

Here’s a famous book snippet describing how feasible that we could find dinosaur fossils on the moon.

[sleepingpowder]

@paleogay

[tuulikki]

Adding this, since I didn’t know the word and pronunciation

[mckitterick]

so, yeah, the Caribbean Sea seiched up outta its bed and walloped the land with a deluge of sea creatures right after the impact apocalypse

[naamahdarling]

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early

astronaut: moon’s got dinosaurs

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s got dinosaurs.

[lllllllllll-llllllll-deactivate]

jesus christ

[accidentally-logince]

Had a dream that a new Sanders Sides came out and it was literally just Roman doing a makeup tutorial

[rondoel]

Fem!sides casual

[youlovetoseeit]

that is just maths

[parano--vigilant]

Inktober Day 28: Ride

Brotherly bonding on an old enemy-turned-ally’s back~

[memesonthehour]

[hwosme]

The tags jesus christ

[chernonbyl-moved]

the prophecy was true

[youlovetoseeit]

amazing

[high-class-angel]

[hwosme]

People: I’m past my emo phase

Me, an Intellectual: Emo’s a way of life, bitch, catch me on this one way trip to Battery City

[thatsthat24]

Trying to find your friend’s bathroom... 🚽 (W/ @quildarling, @mbryan1122, @hello_adri, @jgexists, @emma_wed, & @camdenfoote)

[hwosme]

[hwosme]

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

self driving cars aren’t even hard to make lol just program it not to hit stuff

[ronpaulhdwallpapers]

if(goingToHitStuff) {

dont();

}

[hwosme]

A kidney thief, currently in operation with me after knocking me out: Really, man? You need to drink more; that’s not healthy

[hwosme]

Some of the time ‘i wrote 1k’ means ‘i jauntily typed along on my computer as if i were skipping’ and most of the time ‘i wrote 1k’ means ‘i teased sentences from the scrapdaddle part of my mind with a mild grimace’ and other times ‘i wrote 1k’ means ‘i battled against an eldrich monster and a hoarde of inner demons to rip singular words from the jaws of death and sobbed as i tried to assemble them cohesively on a page while avoiding bombers’