Largely Cats

"An OK blog" -William Henry Harrison

[claypigeonpottery]

is it weird that I have the urge to have a matching mug that says “don’t eat this mug until you’ve talked to me”?

[bardace]

Shut Up, I Don’t Care

[claypigeonpottery]

newest sketch. this’ll be the first piece of 2024

[claypigeonpottery]

and here she is!

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[tethered-heartstrings]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[tethered-heartstrings]

[cilantrhoes]

[ozempicofficial]

[certified-silly-guy]

LOCK IN LOCK IN LOCK IN.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[leonkennedysprostate]

"don't assign human morality to non human things" is so true except when it comes to printers. they know what they are, they understand dilemmas and ethics and morality. they choose to be how they are, they choose to be evil, at their very core they are rotten

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

how did it go!!!

literally dream scenario

it's good!

i can live with that

could be better

hate. let me tell you how much i've come to hate this since i began to live.

Voting ended onFeb 18, 2025

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

fuck it remaking the poll hi

the best option ever

yea its good :)

i mean i guess its okay

ehh

what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!!!!!

Voting ended onJan 12

[lumsel]

oh uh. ok.

[thatsnotweirdatall-deactivated2]

[nwmo]

NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.

[ninjakittenarmy]

Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

We made a whole-ass fish.

[ospreyonthemoon]

The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were

140 MILLION YEARS BACK.

If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?

This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.

This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.

And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.

Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.

THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.

THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE

It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.

[ospreyonthemoon]

Oh i forgot to add

THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.

To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.

BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.

the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!

[jackofacetrades]

So for those who don't know what the original fishes look like, this is an American Paddlefish:

And this is a Russian Sturgeon:

So honestly, saying the hybrid is "weird looking" is a bit fort de café when you see its parents. I think the sturddlefish looks cute.

[marlinspirkhall]

"these creatures last related ancestors were 140 million years back"

(glances at fish)

Yeah that's exactly what I thought you'd look like, you Mesozoic fuck

[thriceandonce]

#Holding a red squirrel in my left hand and a blue whale in my right desperately hoping to make a purple squale (via @dykepuffs)

[sleepyjim2]

ⓘ Tip: while sewing, you can unlock scary sewing by losing your needle somewhere on your bed.

[shutyourmoustache]

*whispers* holy shit. he’s done it again.

[shutyourmoustache]

*yells* THIS IS THAT TIME HE DID IT WITH POTTERY AND IT FUCKING RULED.

[bedupolker]

I'm opening an italian fusion restaraunt on the border of California and Arizona called Calzonia. The californian half opens and closes an hour later than the Arizona half, but only for six months out of the year (since Arizona doesn't observe daylight savings time). The menus are exclusive to each side. There's a prickly pear soda on the Arizona side you're only allowed to buy if the Arizona half is open. The employees' wage is determined by which side they work on. If they cross over to the other side, each one wears a tracker that adjusts their hourly wage accordingly. The W2s are a nightmare. The food is kind of mid but it's a calzone what do you expect?

[spelldealer]

brutalist candy cane

[medievaljournalist]

unfortunately the awful little freak everyone hates has saved the world so now we all have to try to be nice

[le-catman]