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[magnetictapedatastorage]

hands on my head staring at a cork board with only two notes pinned on it that say "godwhacker by steely dan" and "the horus heresy" with fifty loops of string between them

[magnetictapedatastorage]

after thinking about it, a space marine could probably skinfade himself. for a real person, its impossible because you can't see the back of your own head and so can't keep track of the many areas to shave, each with different guards on the clipper, different lever adjustments, etc. BUT! given that space marines have ridiculously good memory and spacial sense, he could just do the same series of motions each time. he'd just have to get it right once, and then he'd be fine to do that once a week for the next few thousand years. before that he would definitely fuck himself up multiple times and look ridiculous though. thankfully a helmet would hide it until it grows back and he could try again.

anyways i think this would be the most iron warriors thing anyone could ever do because it is:

paranoid (i don't want anyone standing behind me or touching me!)

unsociable (i don't need anybody's help!)

making things unnecessarily difficult for no reason (i'm also not going to shave myself bald or do a crew cut or anything easy!)

a form of art that is often dismissed as a mere trade labor, as if getting your hands dirty isn't a universal consequence of creative pursuits. not to mention the vital nature of barbers, who never get credit for their role in public health and sanitation (mainly preventing parasites from spreading), who never get to retire because they live off dogshit wages with no union and have no one to turn to for help (because they hate each other so fucking bad). have you ever seen what's hidden under a hardhat at the end of a hotass day? or a homeless guy's beanie in winter? because its not a clean head!!! its not!!! a clean!!! head!!! you ever had to scrape the mold off a hobo??? do you think they're capable of giving a good tip!? but it has to be done without complaint because somebody has to be the-- [i am dragged off the stage by a hazard-striped shepherd hook]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[tummydrummer-deactivated2014022]

me nd my pirate girlfriend

[holdin hands]

me: bb ur hands r so cold

her: that me hook

[elumish]

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

[sandumilfshous]

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

[post-to-poll-pipeline]

How old were you when you got your first smartphone?

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Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"FUNGAL CULTURES" (2006), DAVID MIDGLEY

[wolfgangsdick]

Asking myself the question, which primarchs would announce when they're going to go jerk off, just to come to the conclusion that most of them would within the right situation and with the right delivery. Guilliman, for example, wouldn't boldly yell about needing to go touch himself. He would, however, excuse himself from a conversation by mentioning that he has an appointment in his chambers he needs to attend. Meanwhile, Leman would absolutely just say he's gonna go beat his meat and do the gesture for emphasis

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/6541/

archived on 2009-04-28 08:05:44

[e-n-d-a-s-h]

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

[sacred-portal]

[bird-gifs-collection-agency]

helpp hellppp we are the flamingo twins and we just fucking FELL OVER

[weirdlandtv]

Concept drawings by Hermann Warm for THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920).

[jareckiworld]

Alexis Mata — The Mirror in the Desert (oil on canvas, 2024)

[kosmogrl]

[terkaterr]

ah doing ma thing just like god int- (remembers im atheist) just like the universe intend- (remembers i don't believe in determinism) just like noone and nothing intended ever. doin ma thang fucking unpredictable style

[magnetictapedatastorage]

takarazuka of keruak's On The Road [people start throwing banana peels at me]

[magnetictapedatastorage]

the jazz age of it all. you know those mfs (honorific) love the jazz age

and

this but with like, lesbians,,, 

(i don’t care abt accuracy. i want to see a lady in 15 pounds of stage makeup do the jazz-induced heavenly seizure)

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i'd never watched a western before so i have no idea what to make of any of that. if there is anything to make of it. apparently contemporaries either said "this shit sucks" or "this shit rules" but to me it was simply a guy in spurs and a poncho killing everyone in town without elaborating and getting paid several titular fistfuls of titular dollars for it