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American girl living in China. Obsessed with elephants, all things creepy/horror, and floating in swimming pools. My cat's name is Zac Efron.

[officialunitedstates]

me: has absolutely no idea what size an acre is in real people language

[aceofsquiddles]

1% the size of the wood where Winnie the Pooh lives, next question

[earthstory]

[acedious-deactivated20210302]

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Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice From Another Room

[rosewater40oz]

I can’t listen to this without crying

[enyafan]

I’m going to reblog this at least twice a day increasing in frequency until it’s the only content on my blog…… nothing else matters…… at all……..

[chefgoldblums-deactivated201809]

hannah gadsby, nanette (2018)

[ambivalentme-blog-blog]

[katoyuu]

[percyfraser]

Favourite lines from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik

[humansoflatecapitalism]

[catbountry]

The beginning.

[sixpenceee]

Lurking just beneath the surface. (Source)

[unclefather]

[cineraria]

[shortvideosandstuff]

Octopus changes colour outside the water

[cherryslurpeee]

It looks like it’s dying

[mrslovett93-blog-blog]

OH GOD. THAT’S SO FUCKING SCARY.

[badgerofshambles]

Waaaaait whoa. Guys. He’s also changing the texture of his skin, along with attempting to match the tone of the ship’s(?) floor.

HE’S TRYING TO BLEND IN.

HE KNOWS HE’S IN DANGER AND HE’S SCARED AND DOESN’T WANT TO BE SEEN.

SHHHHH NO BABY OCTOPUS COME HERE IT’S OKAY <3

[venomousqueer-deactivated201906]

We literally have a shape shifting animal with the best camouflage mechanism in nature and nobody thinks that’s the coolest shit like what the fuck we could learn so much from it’s biology everyone needs to get outta my face cause this creature is metal as fuck

[poisonxxkiss-deactivated2015070]

There’s one better than this. It’s the cuttlefish. (I watch a lot of animal documentaries, okay?)

[geekishchic]

No but you have to post a gif of the cuttlefish now. Animal shows are the best shows because nature

[child-of-flame-and-sky]

[deactivatededed]

the ninjas of the sea

[vandaystrick]

y’all see this motherfucker right here?

this is the Indonesian Mimic Octopus.

This cool little guy can mimic a crab, lionfish, sea snake, flatfish, and jellyfish. He uses these amazing disguise techniques to avoid and deter predators, and also to attract possible meals.

he is the sneakiest ninja of the sea

[iridessence]

what the fuck is happening underwater to create these fucking things

[charlesoberonn]

Time and space is happening.

Animals lived on ground for only 550,000,000 years, while underwater life existed for billions of years. Also the ground is only 30% of the Earth and height wise it’s only as tall as some tall trees unless you’re flying. Also many places on the ground are deserts and thus don’t have water to support much life.

The ocean on the other hand is 70% of the Earth’s surface, has depths of down to 10+ kms, and most of those depths can support life, so there’s a lot more variety in the types of animals you can see while on the ground most animals stick to 20-30 different basic survival strategies.

[gallifrey63]

Octopuses are the shit

[skarrin-deactivated20160415]

Years ago I made the personal decision to stop eating octopus and squid at sushi restaurants. I honestly and truthfully believe them to be as intelligent as we are, just in different *directions*. 

My mom and her wife volunteer as docents at the Hatfield Marine Center in Newport, OR. The Center catches, studies, and releases great Pacific octopuses every 6-8 weeks. Longer than that is considered cruel. Male octopuses don’t live very long - females live longer, but only until they lay a clutch of eggs. Then they starve to death protecting their hatchlings.

Depriving them of too much time is like solitary for DECADES for a human.

And the Hatfield treats them as close to people-in-different-shapes as possible. Octopuses learn individuals. Docents they like, they hug (since they taste through the sensors in their suction pads). Docents they don’t like they squirt with jets of water - and everyone knows that’s valid, and that docent is reassigned.

When the time period is up, the Hatfield takes the octopus in question out to the bay and releases him/her back to the sea. It’s a testament to their treatment that the animals tend to hug everyone goodbye, then swim away slowly. They form attachments. 

I think they’re smart. I think their smarts involve their lives underwater, and not our technological world in the air - so they don’t LOOK smart to US.

I want to be kind and gentle with them. I wish I could talk to them and hear what they say to each other. I wish I could understand how they perceive and conceptualize the world - because it has to be SOMEWHAT similar to the way we do - look how their camouflage looks like how WE perceive the animals they’re pretending to be.

[imperfectkreis]

@fun-lovin-sea-monster

[nyokoko]

I love the ocean.

[hallistarling]

Cuttlefish and octopuses are badass.  They’re incredibly intelligent and emotional creatures. I highly, HIGHLY recommend reading Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus (a National Book Award Finalist BTW).  It is an astounding read, a look into the people who work with and study octopuses along with the emotional behavior of these amazing animals.

[0ldmancopper]

#knowledge

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[taraljc]

@lemonsharks !!!!!

HE IS THE SNEAKIEST NINJA OF THE SEA

[kyraneko]

OK but imagine someday when humans develop a way to implant artificial chromatophores in human skin like tattoos, so we essentially have moving tattoos created by the same process that octopodes and cuttlefish change colors with, what if some of the docents at the aquarium get tattoos like that, and then they can change colors and patterns just like their cuttlefish friends?

[ironbite4]

Gonna be a war between them and crows to see who becomes dominate life form after we nuke ourselves into oblivion.

[lifesgrandparade]

Imagine typing out this letter and not stopping halfway and thinking “Hmmm, this makes me sound like the worst human being in the world.”

[bogleech]

Holy fucking shit

[catnipkittie5-deactivated202101]

I found the response for anyone else who was curious

[shesells136seashells]

Response is gold! I’d ALWAYS want a handmade gift more than some random store bought thing!

[misscherrylikesthediscourse]

Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money. 

Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death. 

[lise18]

Give them the money and the food.

I don’t care if they got a body like Nicki Minaj with their boobs pushed up to their chin and wear more pink and ruffles than a unicorn in a tutu. If they tell you they’re nonbinary, then they’re fucking nonbinary.

I don’t care if he’s got the highest, prettiest voice and wears dresses and pink glittery nail polish and high heels. If he tells you he’s a boy, then he’s a fucking boy.

I don’t care if she looks like the Hulk and talks like Morgan Freeman and has a beard to rival Thor and the hairiest chest and legs ever and wears a suit. If she tells you she’s a girl, then she’s a fucking girl.

Deal with it.

[ms-meredith-milton]

Riding public transit shortly after Caitlin Jenner introduced herself to the world, I heard two men in their sixties with thick Southern accents turn conversation to ‘this whole Jenner business.”  I braced myself for something ugly and considered moving further down the train; I’m glad I didn’t.

“I just don’t get it, ya know?” one of them began, shaking his head.  “I mean, you bump into somebody in the supermarket and you say, ‘I’m sorry, sir,’ and hear back, ‘actually, it’s ma’am,’ then you say, ‘so sorry, ma’am; my mistake’ not ‘I’LL CALL YOU SIR IF I DAMN WELL FEEL LIKE IT!!!’”  More head shaking.  “What’s the matter with some people?  They just got no manners.’

“Couldn’t agree more Hoyden.”

Got off that train with a big smile on my face.

[flowerinaflame]

[tanviberwah]

women: happy international women’s day!

men:

[zoebennson-deactivated20190603]

“Maybe I could run for president.”

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