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Raw penne in a clock. Neufundland, Frankfurt, Germany.

A novel way to pasta time

sometimes your distress does indicate you should stop and respect your limitations. at other times it's more of a baby aquatic mammal being introduced to water for the first time thing. Too bad the difference is so hard to tell.

bisexualseraphim

ADHD at night: I could write a book. I could get my Master’s Degree. I could go to the club and come home with 12 new friends. I could get a job at that club and meet the mother of my children. I could cure every disease and use my wealth to bring world peace.

ADHD during the day: Fold laundry too hard :( Come back next week

daggerdoggy

Hey bro on a scale of nothingburger to everythingbagel how would you rate our gay sex last night

hellsitegenetics

String identified: a ca tgg t tgag at ga at gt

Closest match: Ocyurus chrysurus genome assembly, chromosome: 22 Common name: Yellowtail Snapper

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evolvingessence

frigbob

Person who wants to do stuff trapped in a body that needs to lie down

ovadioisdead-blog

im in actual disbelief that this just happened while i was writing down this joke to remember later

hunybody

please read this substack about pantone choosing cloud dancer for color of the year 2026

three--rings

No really, you should read it.

pterribledinosaurdrawings

time for Omelette.

starfulstitches

Dancing Butterflies is ready for adoption!

bethanythebogwitch

Related to my last post, cryptozoologists tend to treat the deep ocean as the "magic happens here" zone. They seem to think that because it's one of the least-explored places on the planet (they love to trot out that cliche about us knowing more about the surface of Mars than the bottom of the ocean, which is just not true) anything can happen there. They don't get that the deep sea is one of the most hostile environments on the planet, with crushing pressure and a lack of available food. Animals like the megalodon or various sea monsters described as having a very active lifestyle simply could not live there. They would starve to death because the deep-sea environment doesn't support that kind of lifestyle. Deep-sea animals have to live slow, low-metabolism lifestyles to get by between meals.

Another thing cryptozoologists like to do is make cryptids in the deep sea gigantic because they've heard the term 'deep sea gigantism' and don't realize that doesn't mean you can scale up a hypothetical creature with no limits just by putting it really deep.

Cryptozoologists don't view the deep ocean as a unique environment with its own set of challenges and limitations for life. They view it as a hole they can shove monsters into where nobody can disprove them because deep sea = mysterious = anything can happen.

horsefigureoftheday

Horse figure of the day: My Beautiful Horses C47 "Apache"

reallyreallyreallytrying

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

laerugo

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

batmanisagatewaydrug

reading a romance novel where the protagonist feels the need to stop and inform that audience that it's okay for her, a 27 year old, to hook up with a 31 year old because despite the age difference both of their brains are fully developed. the Discourse really has done incalculable damage.

ascholarlyengineer

that's...they're adults 4 years apart, who on Earth would think there's any sort of meaningful age gap

batmanisagatewaydrug

justgazing

This is breathtaking

amgeforns

#you know those posts that are like. pulling up a small weed and discovering it's attached to a root system that wraps around the sewer line.#this is one of those.

what-even-is-thiss

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

what-even-is-thiss

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

what-even-is-thiss

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

untitledgoosegay

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.

tastefullyoffensive

kaible-deactivated20181205

This is one of my favorite posts because that cat’s fucking name is fucking meatloaf

Let us just appreciate that this person’s dad didn’t know when they would be home and so he couldn’t plan for them to be able to join the family for dinner, but he knew with no doubts that dear sweet Meatloaf staying in that exact position for hours was an absolute in this scenario. Truly, that cat was named well.