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Prince: I wish to marry!

Queen: Only if she can pass my test: failing to sleep on a bed with a pea under it!

Prince: Why are you screening for princesses with sensory issues?

Queen: She must be true royalty! Only the most autistic girl in all the land shall marry my son!

The phrase “most autistic girl in all the land” popped unbidden into my head last night and I couldn’t remember who had made the joke and had to Google it

goldensunset

oh shoot we got quarter century tomorrow

goldensunset

i said we got halfway between 2020 and 2030 tomorrow

goldensunset

i SAID. we got halfway between 2000 and 2050 tomorrow!!!

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

Oh, and fun man ‘o war fact:

You know how they’re colonial organisms? My whole life I thought that meant “they’re made out of thousands of almost microscopic little guys”. You know, like every other colonial organism.

Turns out that’s not true.

They’re made of four guys.

One guy’s the tentacles, one guy’s the stomach, one guy’s the gonads, and one guy’s the funny balloon sail.

here are their weird babies:

you can really see the multiple polyps/medusae

science-whore

imagine being the gonads

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imagine NOT being the gonads

pyropotter

You are angry about something. “Clam down,” I text you. You assume I have made a typo, but in fact I am holding a small soldier clam in my hands. He died so young. War is hell

aru

guys

if i ever see any of you in public, the code is “i like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

hellsitegenetics

String identified: ga c, t c “ ac”

tat a ’ t tt ag atg

Closest match: Salvelinus alpinus CLK4-associating serine/arginine rich protein (LOC111960582), transcript variant X2, mRNA Common name: Arctic Char

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hellsitegenetics

Hello hellsitegenetics. I have discovered that I did absolute shit on my Genetics unit so far. If you were to BLAST this ask I will start praying to the creature that appears for them to aid me in the final exam so that I can have a GPA that is closer to what I wanted

String identified: tgtc. a c tat at t Gtc t a. t AT t a tat ag t t cat tat aa t t a t a a tat ca a a GA tat c t at at

Closest match: Eumandya parva genome assembly, chromosome: 44 Common name: Spotty Bobtail Squid

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demoncatapologist-deactivated20

MAJOR UPDATE EVERYONE I PASSED THE UNIT

PRAISE THE SPOTTY BOBTAIL SQUID

hell-propaganda

All ten of my followers are actually hostages I have tied up in an abandoned grain silo & am monologuing to

hell-propaganda

thank you hostage #3

hell-propaganda

Never before has the world seen such well behaved and cooperative hostages

catsudeku

this is great i'm gonna get a good grade in hostage

hell-propaganda

KILLING ME

sluttynurse

i'm at Club Fly rubbing my hands together to the beat

headspace-hotel

curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)

headspace-hotel

I was going to suggest fettuccini but twisted with the ends connected to form a Möbius strip, but then I realized that would fuck like hell.

headspace-hotel

@fishofthewoods I did NOT expect to get such a strong contender so early.

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@alilcajun @aralioideae

a couple of challengers emerge

headspace-hotel

You are all fucking madmen

busket

hey. listen. when you use too much detergent in your laundry you aren't making your clothes cleaner, you are making them degrade faster. the machine isn't able to rinse out the entire cup of soap you put in, so some of it is left in the fibers of your clothes. when they dry this makes the fabric stiffer and more brittle, so the fibers are more likely to erode and break. over time this makes your clothes wear out much faster than if they were properly rinsed with minimal soap. you are wasting money by overusing detergent, not just on the detergent itself but the clothes you are shortening the lifespan of.

busket

you are also ruining your clothes by cramming too many into the wash at once. the machine washes them by agitating them and rubbing them together but if they're crammed in there there's more friction. so they're less likely to get clean and they're wearing each other out. don't use tiny loads of laundry bc that's a waste of water but focus on medium sized loads with only a tablespoon or two max of laundry detergent.

you can also hang up your cotton shirts to dry to prevent them from shrinking in the dryer, and to maximize the lifespan of printed graphics on your shirts or sweatshirts. this saves electricity and keeps your clothes nicer for longer.

fabric softener is a scam, you don't need it because most detergents come with a softening agent already. dryer sheets are handy to minimize static in the dryer, but you can get a reusable wool ball that does the same purpose so they're not necessary either.

use bleach detergents sparingly, only if you notice your whites becoming stained or dingy. using bleach on every load of whites will degrade them.

also most of the time you really only need to wash with cool water. unless something is really soiled, (especially with something greasy, remember heat melts and removes grease,) cold water works just fine for day to day dirty clothes.

that's all

plaguedocboi

We’re gonna talk about hagfish today, since it is Their Day

Hagfish are vertebrates, but they have no vertebrae! They lack bones entirely, with just a cartilaginous skull and a notochord (making them the only animal with a skull and no spine). They also have no eyes and no jaw. They also like to cuddle.

Exactly where they fall on the tree of life has been an interesting topic. Historically, they were placed as the sister-group to vertebrates; the vertebrate that diverged the earliest, and remained very primitive-looking. However, with new fossil evidence and DNA analysis, we’ve figured out that they are closest related to the lamprey, another jawless fish that does have eyes and bones! Which means the ancestors of the hagfish did as well, but somewhere along the line they decided, “screw it, I’m going back to being a Worm”.

The hagfish spends most of its time at the bottom of the ocean, sniffing around for prey. Although they do actively hunt and catch their own food, it’s much easier to eat things that are already dead, so they’re frequently seen snootling around whalefalls and bait set out by scientists, where they feed by rapidly spinning around until they’ve bored a hole straight through the skin and can get to the tasty insides!

But wait, how does a jawless animal feed at all? It just has a little :O face with no teeth!

Well, great news! That cute little :O isn’t it’s mouth! That’s it’s nose! It’s mouth is underneath.

Ain’t that nifty?

Being a squishy little guy with no teeth or eyes, defending itself is kind of difficult. Luckily, no one wants to eat a hagfish, because they are gross af. They secrete a very thick slime that chokes predators. About 4% of a hagfish’s body mass is pure slime. This slime is also apparently useful to humans, because it contains strands that are stronger than nylon, offering a way to make more durable and environmentally friendly fabric!

In summary,

Happy hagfish day!!

oooOOOOUUUGHGGGGH

eddieintheocean

Big news for hagfish fans!!

references

eddieintheocean

HAPPYU BIRTHDAY HAGFISH!!!

mazeroamer

the fish in an aquarium when you feed them their pellets

plasticbutthole

hoooshiiiii

Sent this to my mom (she’s a nurse) and this was her reaction

I love her-

gardenofdelete998

buddhist furry calculating what sins to commit to get reincarnated as the animal they wish they were. like a darts player

potofsoup

Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.)

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

kawuli

Quick correction - Minnesota has same day voter registration, so if you aren't registered you can bring proof of residence with you and register when you vote, all the way up to election day, November 5.

Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State