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notlikingbestgirl

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hustlerose

Out of Touch Thursday

arbyscurlyfries666-deactivated2

OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

snuv

but im out of my head when you’re not around…

snailfen

welcome to 2020s final out of touch thursday. goodnight to this fuckin year

kidpixcore

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brandysmellville-deactivated202

please have sex before commenting on my posts. my mutuals who have religious obligations to stay chaste are exempt from this

neopot

butterflypeaflowertea

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

The main thing I learned in undergrad gen-ed labs is that even if the syllabus says you don’t need goggles, you should probably still just wear goggles. Even if it’s just you. Trust me on this.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

In a Geology 101 lab we had little bottles of acid to squirt on rocks for identification and the first across the table managed to squirt acid directly into my eye from three feet away and after using the eye rinse for ten minutes to no relief I asked the TA what the protocol is for this and whether I should go to the hospital or if it’s normal for it to burn for a while and he said “I have no idea.”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

A professor in a Zoology 100 course splashed formaldehyde into both my eyes. Just bring your own goggles.

joshlovesyou

finalgrlfriendarchive-deactivat

your discord is "fandom mom oppressor" and you don't think that's misogynist. okay.

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filthburger

i know we already agreed they're on a 6 year lag but wow they're really on a 6 year lag

just-shower-thoughts

A house that is a few degrees below room temp feels colder than being outside on a 50º day

gayspacenerd

But….isn’t room temperature based on the temperature of the room? So the temperature of whatever room your in is that rooms temperature, and it varies from room to room? That feels rather self explanatory to me

irkenkinnie

room temperature is roughly 68-71 degrees. it’s not based off the individual temperature of a room

calamity-callie

gentlemanhoneyfarmer

🎄🎄🎄 merry christmas! 🎄🎄🎄

dmnsqrl

batsarentbugs

In the documentary, How to Survive a Plague they mention this very fact. Reagan was the president during this time and do you know what he did when the LGBTQ community begged him for help? He fucking laughed at us. His administration CELEBRATED that finally, ‘God’s judgement in the form of a plague’ was striking down queer people. They saw it as a form of divine population control. Reagan could have given a rats ass about us…

Until the plague began to effect straight people. THEN his administration cared. Because the people that mattered were finally getting sick. And finally the millions of dollars in research money was poured into finding a treatment for HIV. But by then, so many LGBTQ individuals had died. More people died from the initial HIV epidemic than the Vietnam war.

So when straight people complain about being ‘oppressed’ and why there isn’t a straight pride parade? Go fuck yourself. No one has ever tried to wipe you out through a plague, ignored your cries for help as a disease wiped out massive amounts of your community.

agentemo

Interesting how a pandemic can be shown to disproportionately affect oppressed groups and conservatives can plan to claim negligence when they decide to weaponise it. I hope nothing like that ever happens again.

*looks at camera like we in the office*

angel-kiyoss

Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

fierceawakening

i wonder what they are dreaming about

plum-soup

Changing colors duh

max1461

What’s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows… basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.

Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.