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sofubis

Pokemon Palette Color Collection ~ Pink ~ (kitan club)

goldrogerstits

So the will of “D”… lives on

prayforelves

Smiley, the shark dragon

He just wants friends and is very loud

prayforelves

Crazy to think that this silly boy has hit 40k notes! Thank you all for loving smiley so much 🦈💙

actualnymph

turians

Here’s a video of them in action!

doesturquoisework

The video!!!!

yuumei-art

last of the animal terrarium series~ I had to take a long break due to being super sick for a while but I’m so glad have to finished the 6 part series~ Thank you all who suggested which animals I should draw :D

chrissongzzz

milky-katzchen

They tried it

shining-wizard

Don’t think that my boy Andy doesn’t know that neither

thewayistare

he said i won’t get dragged on y’alls behalf

futuristicballoondream-deactiva

Aslo This:

candiikismet

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

isitahairbrush

He drinks his respect women juice

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crab wielding knife, crab blushing, crab wielding knife and blushing

catchymemes

virgogreen

Fun fact, this may actually account for many of the “imaginings” we have of extinct animals.

I had a molecular biology professor who referred it to “vacuum packing” where many extinct animals are rendered slimmer or muscular than they may have been, since things like body fat and fur are not preserved during fossilization. So our view of animals like dinosaurs may be entirely inaccurate.

There’s actually a book, All Yesterdays, in which the artist, CM Koseman, draws modern animals as we might have interpreted them to look if we found them extinct the same way do dinosaurs.

Fun examples include:

The manatee

An elephant

Swans

And literally the picture of the hippo

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Another funny thing to add to this…because of how fossils are formed, it’s possible we don’t know what type of dinosaurs were different species or the same species. If we compare the skeletons to modern animals, snake skeletons often look pretty much the same so if all snakes were extinct we may believe they were all one species of animal instead of hundreds. Meanwhile, all dog breeds are considered the same species Canis lupus familiaris (technically domestic dogs are a subspecies of Canus lupus, the Grey Wolf, but you get what I mean) despite their skeletons being drastically different from each other (compare a pug skull to a great dane and to a poodle…they’ll look different).

So, if all snakes were mistaken for being only a small handful of species and modern dogs could be mistaken for a BUNCH of unique different species…think about how that knowledge can reflect onto our current understanding of extinct animals.

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It goes deeper than that. A colleague of mine who’s a paleontologist was commenting on how for some extant species of birds, we can only tell species apart through behavior traits like song. You could have two perfectly preserved dead specimens of bird, but you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart because you need to hear their songs to tell their species apart. She said that she is sometimes kept awake by thoughts of the implications of this for species classifications in paleontology, and whether we collapse huge swaths of species in the fossil record into just one species because we can’t tell them apart just with the information we havd

headspace-hotel

This reminds me of how recently we found out that Nanotyrannus isn’t actually its own species, but just…a juvenile Tyrannosaurus

freyfall

a lesson on nonbinary individuals and why we feel the way we do about numerous basic things, such as the mere fact of our existence and our pronouns.

smolanxiouscatvoids

At first I thought this was about bisexuality whoops

rainbowsnowflake

I thought it was abt asexuality 🙈

casmick-consequences

genzfanfix

when you’re bi and enby 👾

fiachdubh

Some solidarity for bi/ace/nb

glumshoe

did anyone else get a weird thrill as a kid from correctly imitating Normal Kid Things

like I would drink a Coca Cola (hating every sensory moment) and feel excited about participating in a Normal activity. I listened to 20 second samples of Avril Lavigne songs at Barnes and Noble and think, “oh yes, this is what normal American children do, look at me, I’m doing it too”

glumshoe

8 year old me: [eats a slice of pizza]

8 year old me: “Wow. I’m doing it. I’m really doing it. I bet I seem just like a Normal Kid. I bet this looks natural, like I do it every day without even thinking about it. If those people see me eating this pizza they will think, ‘Wow, what a regular child! Just like the ones on TV!’”

glumshoe

Frankly I still do this, to some extent--back in 2019 I went out with a friend after work and sat there like “Wow, I am in a city, drinking wine at a bistro with a friend from work, having an engaging conversation about our dating lives. This is what Normal Adults do. Look at me, a Normal Adult! Like from TV!”

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you are a Normal Adult, Like from TV

luffymao-world

One Piece x Menu commercial

Menu Food Delivery collaboration !

the-chikyuu-times

“The ones who can fly, should fly…”

obobro

Rooms

thebibliosphere

Scrolling my inbox is wild sometimes (okay, most of the time) because it’s the weird mix of health questions, people being nice, people showing me pictures of their pets, the occasional person trying to start a discourse. And then, then there’s the people still getting bent out of shape over the colors I’m choosing to paint my house.

Today’s random wtfery? “Isn’t your husband worried about painting your house such emasculating colors. I would be.”

Emasculating. Colors.

I can’t. I can’t even begin to take this seriously. You’ve realized I’ve got zero respect for your sterile home owners association sensibilities, and are going for the “what does your husband think” card because you think my husband merely tolerates my chaotic whims instead of being wholly supportive of whatever brings me joy.

Let me be clear: the only thing my husband worries about when it comes to my home renovation projects is the possibility I might hurt myself. That’s it. He might tease me over being impulsive when I buy 12 sample pots of pink to try out on the walls, but his only concern is that he doesn’t want me to over exert myself and make my chronic condition(s) worse. If he doesn’t like the idea of something, he tells me. It’s this wild thing called “communication,” you might want to try it sometime instead of projecting your own heteronormative dysfunctional relationship onto others.

Emasculating colors. Good grief.

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Folks, if your man gets defensive over his masculinity for something as simple as color then I have no regrets informing you:

THROW

OUT

THE

WHOLE

MAN

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can I get a refund for having seen this

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ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.

ajthebumblebee

Some actual safety tips for teenagers:

1. Have proof they’re a teenager first. More than just a picture, have a video call with them.

2. If you want to meet up with them, have your parents or a trusted adult come with you. Even if they are a proven teenager, its still good to have supervision in case any issues happen.

3. If you are talking to an adult, and they start being sexual in any way, you run the fuck away. It doesn’t matter if they’re 40 or 20. An adult inherently has a power dynamic that teenagers do not. And its up to the adult to act responsible about it. There’s exceptions of course, if you’re 16 and dating an 18 year old, that’s not a problem, we’re not talking about that.

4. Being in a server with adults or ran by adults is not inherently bad. Talking to adults is not inherently a problem, and will likely happen in any number of Discord servers. It is only an issue when they are acting sexual and show predatory behavior.

5. Look out for grooming behavior. It can be difficult, because at first it seems like innocuous behavior, like complimenting or giving gifts. Especially if you feel lonely and have low self esteem. And groomers actively target people like that.

If they start trying to isolate you, talk sexual with you, state they depend on you for emotional needs, blame you for their own actions, try to be secretive about the relationship- Then you need to talk to people you trust, block the perpetrator, and call the police on them.

6. If this does happen to you, remember this: It is not your fault. Even if you didn’t listen to a single thing listed here, it is not your fault. It is the fault of the adults who knew better, and didn’t care. It’s not your fault.

tomboyjessie13

To my followers: if any of you guys are underaged, please be very VERY careful on here, and don’t fall for any of the tricks the groomer would use on you, just block them and report them.

roach-works

be suspicious of adults that have nothing good to say about other adults, especially adults who go on and on about how people outside whatever group you and they share are very bad.

this goes for anyone. be suspicious of dating a man with no friends who only talks about how shallow and stupid and violent other men are. be suspicious of dating a woman with no friends who can only talk about how all other women are catty bitches and abandon her. be suspicious of church group leaders who want to tell you that everyone outside your denomination is sinful. be suspicious of that cool older discord mod who won’t shut up about how many other adults are just sexual predators cruising for teenage prey. be suspicious of an online friend who always seems to be getting ‘attacked’ and needs you to back them up.

be suspicious of someone who wants you to be their only friend, and be very suspicious of someone who wants to be your only friend. the best defense you have against being exploited isn’t being smart, tough, or brave, it’s being connected to other people in a community.