Take twice daily with food

No

[depsidase]

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[cowboyhatesithere]

Daily gratitude

I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

My books/CDs/DVDs collection is plentiful

[wizardarchetypes]

a couple months ago i was bordering on an autistic meltdown bc i was too sweaty and my friend said "it's amazing. i've never met a person with a higher tolerance for pain and a lower tolerance for mild discomfort."

i think about that every single day now every time i'm experiencing any discomfort.

[narcissistcookbook]

an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI

this is about the trampoline bunnies

[narcissistcookbook]

"lol if you just look closely you can tell when somethi--" silence nerd, the problem is that i don't want to have to approach everything nice wondering if the devil is trying to deceive me

[fucxingcuties]

L O U N G I N G.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I have pokemon opinions now who am I

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

my favorites so far:

- DREEPY! and company

-Noivern

-Scolipede

-Alolan Muk

-Golisopod

-Shiny Obstagoon

-Kabutops

-Liepard

-Gengar

-Jangmo-o et al

-Aurorus

-Elektross

-Magikarp

my least favorite so far:

-Dragonite feels like such a fucking betrayal

[colemckenzies]

shout out to the doctor who looked at my physical results and said 'you will live to 100!' and then looked at my mental health results and said '...if you want to'

[mossworm]

me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

[bemusedlybespectacled]

me every single week: I'll do it on the weekend!

me the entire weekend:

[of-the-astral-sea]

all of us rn

[serenity-bitty]

[marinella-ela]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

obsessed with animals that have adapted to such extreme conditions that they have to eat shitty food with scant nutrients or they fucking die

[mayes-the-fox]

Not an animal, but venus fly traps... Apparently you're not even meant to put them in terracotta pots bc those can leach nutrients into the planting medium and these plants Don't Like Nutrients in their planting medium! Very funny that some care for them is the inverse of good care for most plants.

[submersero]

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Hands down, best scene I've seen in a film for years. Fucking art of the highest caliber. This will NEVER get old to me.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan

[miseria-fortes-viros]

WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!!!

[unfamiliarsculptures]

Shop update this Friday, July 11th! I made several little dinosaurs and some other critters. Here’s the first preview, a ceramic sinosauropteryx! Keep an eye out for more previews leading up to the update!

[teaboot]

What makes Creutzfeldt–Jakob more terrifying than rabies? (Sorry if you’ve answered this already)

Tumblr let me write a novel before the “post” button shat the bed so you’re getting screenshots.

Long fucking answer below the cut- TW for disease, animal death, human death, gore, and cannibalism.

[transhuman-priestess]

[mayes-the-fox]

So not all of this is 100% correct but it's only some small details that're wrong. Spongiform encephalopathies are a whole group of illnesses, of which kuru is one. CJD and kuru are different but kuru might have started as a spontaneous case of CJD which was then passed on to other tribe members through the mortuary cannibalism thing.

Prion diseases are like a zombie disease for proteins. One protein misfolds, and then when it encounters other proteins it causes them to misfold too. Until a critical level of proteins are nonfunctional and your brain is full of holes.

Mad cow disease is another prion disease! Probably the best-known one. And currently the US and Canada are being steadily contaminated by Chronic Wasting Disease, which is a prion disease for deer (and moose and other relatives). One of the things that's so fucking scary about prion diseases is how resistant they are to destruction! CWD prions get shed in the saliva and urine of infected animals, and then it lasts in the soil or is taken up by grass where it can infect more animals. And it can last years and years. So you could cull 100% of the deer in affected areas, reintroduce uninfected animals years later, and the infection would pick right back up again. The prions are also freakishly resistant to heat, so you could burn an entire forest down and when the area had recovered the soil could still be contaminated.

The good news is, there's no evidence that CWD can spread to humans... yet. Another thing that's so fucking scary about prion diseases is the incubation period can be actual decades. So there could be hunters in North America right now who are infected by a prion disease they acquired from eating infected deer meat, who won't know about it for years. It might be totally fine, or there might be a time bomb spreading through the venison enjoyers of North America. We won't know until it's WAY too late to do anything about it.

As far as we're aware, it's only the brain and spinal tissue that carries the infectious proteins, so even if humans can catch CWD, if you don't eat that brain and spinal tissue, you're okay! As long as there's no cross-contamination form those areas while the deer carcass is being butchered. And as long as human crops don't uptake the prions like grass has been found to do.

Again. It's probably fine. Compared to other diseases, prion diseases are way less transmissible than your bog-standard common cold. It's just that the nigh-indestructibility and the immense incubation period makes them seem like something out of a sci-fi movie. Is it something the average person needs to worry about? Absolutely not. Is it horrifying on an existential level? You know it, babey.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

gone are the days of straight characters with compelling homoerotic subtext and chemistry

now is the era of canonically gay characters so boring it makes you weep tears of ennui

[bunjywunjy]

Hi! Love your blog! Wondering if you have any cool facts about quetzalcóatlus? I love prehistoric babies!

if you're a 90's kid like I was, probably your first exposure to the idea of the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus was through the Dinotopia books! though the author/artist, James Gurney, did nickname them "Skybaxes" for the ease of young readers.

this gave us a beautiful picture of an amazing animal that we would later discover was, EXTREMELY misleading.

see, the first book was released in 1992, back when we only had a few wing bones to describe Quetzalcoatlus! they hinted at the existence of a giant pterosaur with the wingspan of a small plane, but they didn't offer much detail:

this is what James Gurney was working off of when he created the Skybax, and you can totally see where he came from! he basically took the body plan of known pterosaurs like Pteranodon and scaled it UP to match the size of the new fossils.

but over the next several years, new fossils of Quetzalcoatlus were being discovered, described, and cataloged, enough that Gurney created a new Quetzalcoatlus for his second Dinotopia book that was outright stated to be Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, which is the name of the actual animal these bones belong to!

so sized up even bigger, same body plan.

and then in the early 2000's, some very interesting discoveries started to be made about Quetzalcoatlus and its relatives! turns out that they were a bunch of giraffe-sized storkmonster predators that could probably 1v1 a T Rex.

shown here life size!

so needless to say, this was a bit of a shock.

but MAN. just goes to show, if you can imagine an animal, nature already made something 1000% crazier and more badass. and it probably wants to eat you.

[freshcuntgrass]

quetzalcoaltus Mouth perfec t size for put adult human in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort adult human sleep soundly put adult human in Quetzalcoaltus Mouth. Put Adult Human In Quetzalcoaltus Mouth. no problems ever in quetzalccoaltus mouth because good Shape and Support for adult human neck weak of big adult human head. Aquetzalcoaltus Mouth yes a place for adult human put adult human in quetzalcoaltus mouth can trust quetzalcoaltus for giveing good love to adult human. friend quetzalcoaltus

[onibi-onibi]

(タプタプお腹 | キュルZ さんのマンガ | ツイコミ(仮)から)

[windowsofnyc]

[Comic ID:

A japanese comic, using hatching and minimal colours.

Panel one: A fatter cat with black triangular markings is standing blankly on the table, in front of the owner’s laptop and blocking their use of it. The owner says “Go away…” in japanese.

Panel two: a closer angle of the cat infront of the laptop, particularly drawing attention to its fluffy primordial pouch. Japanese flavour text is added to emphasize that the pouch is hanging.

Panel 3: The owner touches the pouch, pushing it back up, and humorously saying “If you don’t move, I’ll give you a tummy tuck!”

Panel 4: The cat blankly looks at its owner’s hand with large black eyes, noticing the touch. Flavour text is added to indicate the owner is bouncing and playing with it.

Panel 5: It then looks at it’s owner with an unimpressed expression.

Panel 6: The cat looks even more unimpressed, the background becoming darker to further indicate distain. The owner ashamedly says “sorry”

/end ID]