Lampreys for days

LEGO creations, weird ideas and bad drawings. Also science stuff.

[plaguerightsactivist]

if pornhub buys tumblr while the deals pending ill take all my art off this godforsaken site and yall should too bc their company has a policy that legally owns whatever work you upload to it

[djsherriff]

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2019/05/03/pornhub-tumblr-buying-risks Found a source.

[blogsneaks]

WOW i didn’t expect my personal post as a heads up if i start removing my art in the future to blow up  but YEAH thank u! mindgeek is super fucking shady and notorious for stealing and exploiting content and dmcas are a nightmare that end up doxxing everyone that tries to take down their content and it’s overall definitely not a company i’d like my (entirely sfw!) art to be associated with, let alone possibly have the rights to. i’ve had a lot of art theft already, and i don’t need it to be more difficult.

obviously a deal hasn’t been made yet, but the company is very openly wanting to buy tumblr and if that happens i’m removing all my art from this website, and depending on any changes they make i’ll likely just leave the site completely. i for one was enjoying the nsfw ban and less bots…….

after the nsfw ban awhile back pornhub was encouraging artists to post their digital art to their site because it was ~welcomed~ and everyone then found out their tos/agreement is a nightmare and they basically own everything on their sites owned by mindgeek and could do what they wanted with your art/potentially profit off of it. also, again, i do not want my art associated with a porn company. at all.

https://twitter.com/JoshConstine/status/1124067515167059968

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/porns-secret-monopoly/

[michaelmilkers]

this is also a huge way in which they fuck over sex workers

sex worker has a cam show/private video/etc, some asshole records it, uploads it to pornhub, woops they own it now lmao better luck next time

[oldmyth]

OK KIDS

GO TO:

DEVIANTART

NEWGROUNDS

TWITTER

PIXIV

IF MINDGEEK BUYS TUMBLR I RECOMMEND YOU GO TO THOSE SITES

[phoenixyfriend]

IIRC DeviantArt has a similar “we own everything you post forever” ToS so avoid them too.

[grawly]

verizon just finally giving up on tumblr because they cant figure out how to make money off its users is honestly not shocking to me whatsoever because how the actual fuck DO you make money when the kinds of posts people are making on this awful website are deep fried doge memes asking for feet pics or whatever

[grawly]

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[dinogahyun]

hey so the company that owns pornhub, mindgeek, are extremely shady and you don’t want them owning tumblr. they steal revenue from adult performers and force them to perform more intense/rough scenes than they are comfortable with. with them owning tumblr it would most likely result in pornhub legally owning your art and your videos and allowing others to repost them without your permission. this is BAD for creators, especially those who make a profit off of their art

[elonmuskisabitch]

shoutout to all tumblr users throughout the years for making this website monetarily worthless to the point where whatever corporation owns it ends up selling it 

[lampreys-for-days]

In a sense, Tumblr does actually eat the rich, but it’s in the same sense that a skin parasite eats its host.

[bogleech]

look at the pretty tick that lives its whole life exclusively on rhinoceroses

if rhinos all go extinct so do their cool black and orange ticks :(

[cyanocoraxx]

with summer coming fast i just wanna share a psa on wasps and why they’re good too.

- they do serve a purpose in the ecosystem. wasps are vital predators of aphids and blackflies. with no predation, one cabbage aphid could cover our planet in 822 million tonnes of bugs because they’re so fertile, as estimated by zoologist mark carwardine. not only do wasps eat for themselves, but they need to provide for their grubs too, so that’s even more aphids getting picked off every day. parasitic wasps of the family trichogrammatidae are used in horticulture for biological control of pests. trichogramma galloi is used to control sugarcane borers and encarsia formosa is used to control whitefly, a pest of tomato, cucumber, aubergine and strawberry. on some farms they even replace chemical pesticides.

- they are effective pollinators with some species contributing massively to the maintenance of plant populations. there are over 800 species of fig tree and each one has its own specific fig wasp. without one another, neither the fig nor fig wasp can complete their life-cycle - a clear example of co-evolution that has been successful for over 60 million years. Figs are a keystone species in tropical regions worldwide – their fruit supports the diets of at least 1,274 mammals and birds, meaning that the extinction of fig wasps would therefore be catastrophic in tropical ecosystems. furthermore, at least 100 orchid species rely on european wasps and common wasps for pollination.

- paper wasps and potter wasps make amazing artists. they can construct flawless nests made of wood and create stunning miniature pot nests out of nothing but mud and saliva. in one amazing case, a colony of paper wasps constructed a rainbow-coloured nest using coloured sheets of paper as shown on the right. (menchetti 2016)

- wasps are socially intelligent. not only can paper wasps recognise each other by the colour patterns on their faces, but they can still do so after at least one week apart. (sheehan and tibbetts 2008) european wasps can learn to recognise human faces. despite having no evolutionary reason for doing so, they construct holistic representations of complex images to remember a specific human face.  (avarguès-weber et al 2018) sand wasps tend to two or three chambers each day. each chamber is in a different location and each larva is at a different developmental stage. it was found that they learn the configuration of landmarks around each concealed chamber in order to find them. this means that the wasp learns where the chambers are and which action is needed at each. (baerends 1939)

- the world’s smallest known insect is a fairy wasp! at only 139-240 micrometres long, dicopomorpha echmepterygis is smaller than some paramecium and amoeba species. the fairy wasp family also contains the smallest flying insect, kikiki huna. adult lifespans are very short, only lasting for a few days. several species are used as biological pest control agents. some species are even aquatic, using their wings as tiny paddles to swim around.

- social wasps are frequent models for batesian mimicry and müllerian mimicry. this means that non-stinging insects use wasps as a base to appear threatening to predators. their presence thus changes how other insects evolve. even bees such as the nomad bee have evolved to mimic wasps. (yellowjacket wasp on the left, clearwing moth on the right.)

[the-awkward-turt]

Thank you thank you thank you!

Wasps are such important regulators of plant pests that some plant species will release a chemical message to summon nearby wasps when they are being heavily eaten by pests.

Wasps are friends just as much as bees!!

[wild-west-wind]

I LOVE THESE OKAPI AND THEIR BIG SMILES SO MUCH

[wild-west-wind]

I feel like y’all aren’t appreciating that Okapi are endangered, extremely hard to find animals (even the folks studying them don’t see them, only scat and in camera traps), only ~100 live in zoos worldwide, and I got to MEET TWO OF THEM AND HAVE MY LIFE LIT UP BY THEIR BEAUTIFUL SMILES AND THEY LICKED ME WITH THEIR GIANT AMAZING TONGUES. I FELT THEIR PRECIOUS BREATH ON MY MORTAL HUMAN FLESH. NOTHING WILL EVER COMPARE TO THAT MOMENT.

[glumshoe]

They are SO much cuter than I even realized!

[femmmedarling]

Can someone tell me how to help LGBTQ people in Brunei without just telling me to boycott luxury hotels I already don’t go to??

[piecesolvingapuzzle-deactivated]

Boycott Shell.

[piecesolvingapuzzle-deactivated]

Boycott Shell

[apersnicketylemon]

Brunei to punish gay sex with death

The move by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's government means gay men could face "medieval" stoning.

Brunei has implimented a death penalty (by stoning) for gay men (Lesbians are to recieve ‘40 lashes’ by cane and 10 years in jail), please spread the word so that people are aware it’s happening!

[baby-prince-oppa]

I don’t know if this has any effect, but please don’t give your money to these hotels that are owned by the Sultan of Brunei. 

[afloweroutofstone]

I’m an ethnic!

[oligopsalter-deactivated2020060]

I mean, the goofy phrasing seems less important than the real task this points to of convincing enough rural people (who have outsized political power in the US) that GND would be in their interests

[cop-disliker69]

“The bastard Republicans sent your jobs overseas, coal mining jobs are NEVER coming back because it’s all been mechanized, but we’ll bring you good union jobs building wind turbines, passenger rail, and recycling plants.”

It’s one or two sentences. And it helps to drive home the fact that environmentalists didn’t kill coal. US coal production is still near its historical highs. But coal JOBS have declined more than 90% because it’s all mechanized now.

[bogleech]

Climate sceptics say they should have right to 'mislead public' because of free speech

Chair of Commons Science Committee says: 'Too often the clever practice of communications overshadows the true advice of experts, and the public are left bewildered, and not knowing who to believe'

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP THIS IS WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID: “Some argue that free speech does not extend to misleading the public by making factually inaccurate statements. But it does”

[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.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

… Honestly it’s…. not that impressive tbh 

this paleontologist (DePalma) is known for his constant blowing of discoveries out of proportion (me and my friends have been Burned Before) and leading everyone up garden paths 

Yes, it is an important site, but the dinosaur fossils found so far are not great; it’s mostly turtles 

Everyone in my professional circle been’s kvetching like hell about this thing. It’s not worth getting excited about. 

So yeah. Don’t get excited. Be disappointed that DePalma keeps bullshitting us all and doesn’t learn his damn lesson

[raptorcivilization]

It should also be pointed out that the narrative surrounding the article emanates a colonialist mindset and promotes the unhealthy lone-wolf Indiana Jones stereotype of paleontologists.

[boxercrab]

source

[bogleech]

no territorialism between different kinds of moral eels, they know they’re all the same ridiculous thing

[bowelflies]

today i learned of the Pyralid moth genus Pachypodistes and it healed me of 100 hit points

sources 1 & 2, 3 & 4

[bugkeeping]

his boots……..too big…frighteningly big

[sweetschizo-deactivated20190808]

Busting Schizophrenia Myths!

“Aren’t schizophrenic people dangerous-” No. Violence towards other people isn’t a symptom of schizophrenia, nor is it common in schizophrenic people. That’s not to say that no one with schizophrenia has ever been violent because of their psychosis, but it isn’t a symptom of or in the diagnostic criteria for the illness, and schizophrenic people in general are no more likely to be violent than anyone else.

“Isn’t that when you have multiple personalities-” No. Schizophrenia isn’t about having multiple personalities - that’s called Dissociative Identity Disorder and is a completely different mental illness. Schizophrenic people might hear one or more voices in their heads and may feel like their actions or thoughts are being controlled by other people/outside forces, but this isn’t the same as having several personalities as it’s always the schizophrenic persons own personality which reacts to these distressing experiences.

“Isn’t schizophrenia when you’re psychotic like when you hear voices and stuff-” Yes, but schizophrenia isn’t “just” about experiencing psychosis (hallucinations, disorganized thinking/speech/behavior and delusions), it also consists of what’s called negative symptoms (lack of energy, lack of motivation, social isolation, lacking or inappropriate emotional responses, lack of ability to feel pleasure) and cognitive symptoms (impaired memory, impaired concentration, learning difficulties, executive dysfunction and impaired working memory). Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness and psychosis is only 1/3 of what schizophrenic people struggle with.

“You can’t recover from schizophrenia, right-” Not true. 25% of the people diagnosed with schizophrenia are symptom free within 5-10 years of being diagnosed with the illness and up to 80% improve with ongoing treatment and support. Schizophrenia isn’t necessarily a life sentence, and while you can’t EXPECT to recover from schizophrenia and while there’s no known cure, recovery is possible for many people with the right treatment.

“Shouldn’t schizophrenic people be locked up-” No. Schizophrenic people are people just like everyone else, and we have the right to the same human rights and the same freedom as other people. We might need to be hospitalized for our own safety sometimes, but we have as much of a right to be a part of and interact with society as everyone else.

“Real schizophrenic people don’t know they’re sick, right-” Some don’t, but at least 45% of schizophrenics are aware that they’re suffering from schizophrenia, so a person being aware that they’re schizophrenic and having insight into their illness/knowing that what they’re experiencing isn’t real or normal isn’t a sign that they aren’t really sick.

“What if schizophrenic people just have special powers-” I’m not going to deny you your right to your spiritual beliefs, but I’m going to insist that you don’t force them onto me or any other schizophrenic person. Just like I’m not gonna show up at a Christians door saying that God isn’t real just because I’m an atheist, you don’t get to tell a schizophrenic person that they can see into other dimensions or talk to spirits. You risk triggering or worsening our illness by sharing your spiritual or religious speculations, so don’t bring them up. Ever.

“Aren’t schizophrenic people dangerous if they don’t take their meds-” No. Anti psychotic meds are heavy medication that impacts your life in many ways, and taking them should always be a free choice. Some people would rather live with their psychosis than take anti psychotic medication, and this doesn’t automatically make them a danger to anyone.

[sweetschizo-deactivated20190808]

I would really appreciate if non schizophrenic people would consider boosting this post as schizophrenia is a very misunderstood and stigmatized mental illness and I want this post to show up on as many dashes as possible.

[lampreys-for-days]

Somehow, my innocent desire to make an alien world using a spec-bio approach to have a more interesting setting to write fantasy stories in metamorphosed first into scallop people, then into creatures whose ancestors looked like a nightmare had by an anomalocarid, and then put the phrase “furmancula” into my head.

[bogleech]

Study: more children die from guns than on-duty police officers, active military members

A new study shows more children in the U. S. were fatally shot in 2017 than on-duty police officers and active duty military. Scientists are calling it an epidemic. According to researchers at Florida Atlantic University, nearly 40,000 children died in circumstances involving a firearm between 1999 and 2017. Oklahoma is no exception. Gun violence is one of the leading causes of death for teens in our state.

Children in fact die of gunshots in America *SIGNIFICANTLY* more often than police officers, and in fact more than members of our police and military put together :) But even 1 new gun law is an offense to all known FREEEEDUMMMMMMMMM or something right?

[virginiaisforhaters]

so i’m checking the news and there’s this article about apple i want to read and 

here’s what happens if you click on it

i guess they mad but also like… censorship…

[virginiaisforhaters]

here’s the article if you want to remove the ability of apple to record exactly where you go how you get there and how long you spend there