Things I Like

[let-sbealonetogether]

"Medicine"

Today I had an appointment with a neurologist for my unending migraines. This doctor was super concerned that I was not currently seeing a psychiatrist (thanks opiod crisis for making the rest of us wait 8+ weeks to get help!). The neurologist wanted to prescribe me both an antidepressant and an antiepileptic drug, which I thought was odd since he was super adamant that my migraines are probably due to depression and a psychiatrist would apparently be able to prescribe drugs better? It occurred to me how fucked up it is that a neurolgist and psychiatrist both study the brain but neurolgists treat the brain as if emotions are seperate from the brain's day to day tasks. What a stupid medical system we have.

[xeppeli]

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

[xeppeli]

[tunnaa-unnaa]

Too bad Lahore pigeons are a domestic breed and don’t appear in the wild at all. Some equally balanced wild colorations include

Pygmy Falcon

Great Hornbill

Wallcreeper

and

Black-throated Loon

[xeppeli]

this is a good addition to this post. thank you for this birds educations

[fuckingconversations]

I would like to submit the following additions to the world of exceptional bird color design:

Cedar Waxwing

Red Crowned Crane

Brahminy Kite

Green Tree Swallow (I mean seriously - those are metallic teal feathers against stark white. Damn.) 

Bali Mynah

And, last but certainly not least, the cutest fucking puffball on this planet earth:

The Korean Crow-Tit

[ohthisismuchworse]

I’d also like to contribute some pretty awesome birds

Hooded Pitta (or as like to call them little olives)

Coua

Mot-Mot

The Blue Crown Pigeon (the biggest pigeon)

[scoutology]

good post

[chopinsbian-deactivated20181029]

@ilovegirlsalways

[lonewolf574]

@candiceirae

[candiceirae]

I’m fond of the Golden Breasted Starling,

the Golden Pheasant,

and the Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher.

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

I take your well-designed bird palettes and I raise you

The European Bee-eater

[bunjywunjy]

it's hip to be square

please allow me to introduce you to everyone’s favorite Rubik’s cube of the sea, the Yellow Boxfish. they’re, uh.

 well. see for yourself.

a vision of geometric perfection and kissy lips

yeah.

despite looking like an ocean-borne Bethesda glitch, the Yellow Boxfish is a real animal with hopes and dreams just like yours.

well, maybe slightly more angular

found in warm water reefs worldwide, (say that five times fast) Yellow Boxfish start life tiny and bright yellow, eventually fading in color as they reach their adult length of about 18 inches. they live mostly off algea and the bitter tears of mathematicians. (just wait until they discover the Hypercube Boxfish)

your frustration sustains me!

we STILL don’t know how they work- being a literal cube seems to make them incredibly agile swimmers, but we’re not sure why. maybe the ocean is just really into right angles?

nature just loves rectangles I guess

also just in case they weren’t weird enough, they also have a bad habit of squirting a deadly poison everywhere whenever they get startled, like an excitable toxin grenade

PANIC! PANIC! RELEASE THE TOXINS

while it is an efficient way to murder the shit out of every other fish in the general vicinity, this toxin has zero effect on humans. unless you were to attempt to eat the Boxfish, so don’t do that.

you probably couldn’t anyway, this is what a Boxfish skeleton looks like

Yellow Boxfish are popular pets and are kept by many aquarists. your local fish store may have one right now, go say hello! but gently, lest you accidentally startle this weird dumb square toxic grenade of the sea.

[sleepy-sheepie-deactivated20190]

I got bit by one of these when I took my focus off the seaweed I was holding, trying to lure a shrimp, got bit by a hecking box

[clientsfromhell]

A client sent me images to put on their website. One of the images was the front of a house and yard. 

Client: Can you turn this around, to show the backyard?

Me: No. It doesn’t work that way.

Client: You just don’t want to even try do you! 

Me: You can’t turn a picture around to show something that isn’t there. 

Client: It is very easy! You just turn the picture around to show the backyard!

Me: …

Unfortunately, this isn’t the only client who has asked me to do this.

[cloacacarnage]

i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit i’ve ever seen a human being do

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Wtf????

[theryanproject]

Smoove with it too 

[meqabitch-deactivated20200901]

This is the kind of shit you see in anime that shows that a certain character is stronger than other characters. 

[bankuei]

“Pathetic.  You can’t even hold the bat you dare step to the plate? Have you no respect for the sport?”

[pardonmewhileipanic]

reminds me of this gif

[sueanoi]

[batter-sempai]

Baseball players are to be feared

[cynosurecosplay]

[thenamesdede]

Reblogging for the last one

[saito-91]

^Same for me

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

They just kept getting progressively more “woah”

[unicornships]

one of the best heartwarming scenes between Zuko and Iroh. The fact that Zuko is truly repentant and Iroh is unconditionally forgiving despite everything he’s endured. And of course, they can make you cry one moment and laugh in the next.

[horsesaround]

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[showerthoughtsofficial]

Your future self is talking shit about you

[oldtimeydildomachine]

I’m talking shit about me too she ain’t special

[silverhawk]

i;m gonna show you a fish w/ a gentle face

the australian lungfish, please observe.

[silverhawk]

another gentle faced lungfish

[lustik]

Organic Embroideries - Clémentine Brandibas.

[featherywingss]

My phone at 1% battery: finally,,,,the sweet embrace of death,,,,,,my codes are clearing,,,,,,,my burdens are lifted,,,,,,,,,,,,

Me, jamming the charger in seconds before it shuts off: you’re gonna stay alive and suffer like the rest of us you lazy bitch

[nonhoration]

Quick question, does this ad star out snoring for some reason or is she wearing headphones so she can’t hear her partner shitting in bed.

[schmergo]

Discourse: Willy Wonka is Old Testament God

[scopesandskulllties-deactivated]

Explain

[schmergo]

Sings “if you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it,” then kicks people out for eating stuff he told them not to eat

[cikero]

I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up

[cikero]

this is how they look in all the models

this is how they actually look

like they really fucking look like that. in real life

[somniiloquy]

viruses are literally such bullshit they have the nerve to look like this and they aren’t even ALIVE

[myphoneiscoolerthanme]

Viruses 👏 are essentially 👏 structured chemicals👏 (CHEMICALS)👏 that can hijack👏 your cells 👏 and have 👏 the ability 👏 to self replicate 👏👏👏👏👏👏 IT’S FUCKIN WILD. THEY BASICALLY JUST A BUNCH OF PARASITIC MOLECULES OUT HERE FUCKIN OUR SHIT UP.

[micromultiverse]

Oh man and prions are even crazier! Viruses are (usually) nucleic surrounded by a protein capsid so it’s a “2-step” there’s more than two steps but whatever I don’t want to explain it right now maybe later GET IN and GET REPLICATED/PRODUCED. Prions though, those buggers are just extremely stable proteins that somehow get in and then somehow cause a change to the “normal” version of themselves through (possibly) protein-protein interactions or binding. 

And then there’s viroids, which are somewhat virus-like but they have no protein capsid coating. Just infectious nucleic acid getting into cells and getting replicated. 

And there’s a possibility that some viruses…..are infected…by other VIRUSES. It’s crazy! 

[currentsinbiology]

fiance_knowles

[npr]

NORAD’s Santa Tracker Began With A Typo And A Good Sport

This Christmas Eve people all over the world will log on to the official Santa Tracker to follow his progress through U.S. military radar. This all started in 1955, with a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup’s secret hotline at the Continental Air Defense Command, now known as NORAD.

Shoup’s children, Terri Van Keuren, 65, Rick Shoup, 59, and Pam Farrell, 70, recently visited StoryCorps to talk about how the tradition began.

Terri remembers her dad had two phones on his desk, including a red one. “Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the number,” she says.

“This was the ‘50s, this was the Cold War, and he would have been the first one to know if there was an attack on the United States,” Rick says.

The red phone rang one day in December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. “And then there was a small voice that just asked, 'Is this Santa Claus?’ ”

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Photo: Courtesy of NORAD

[did-you-know]

Contestants in the 2017 Miss Peru competition used their platform to bring awareness to violence against women. Instead of stating their body measurements when they stepped up to the mic, the women reported statistics like “the 65% of university women assaulted by their partners” and “more than 80% of women in my city suffer from violence.” Source Source 2