McGarbles

[annakarenina]

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[goodreadss]

Landscape with Green Corn, Vincent van Gogh (1889)

Vineyards at Auvers, Vincent van Gogh (1890)

[omghotmemes]

I laughed way too hard at this

[mezimraky]

in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!

[smooththegoofyshark]

OOOHHH CLICK ON THAT LINK THIS GUY IS FUCKING GREAT

[evilkitten3]

HOLY SHIT

this guy GETS IT

[renthewerecatboi]

my god he DOES

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[whitepeopletwitter]

[jurassicsunsets]

disc-winged bats have suction cups on their hands

sucker-footed bats are similar but they use sticky sweat, not suction cup hands

são tomé collared fruit bats have three lower incisors with one in the middle like tom cruise

mouse-tailed bats have really long tails 

new zealand short-tailed bats prefer to walk on the forest floor and often dig for food, they also sometimes dig burrows 

bulldog bats catch fish 

spectral bats catch and eat birds

bat wings have such large surface area with blood vessels so close to the skin that they can do up to 11% of their gas exchange directly through the skin, this is measured like this:

vampire bats are the only known vertebrates that lack maltase, the enzyme that breaks down maltose sugars

honduran white bats make leaf tents and sleep together in piles

now you know more about bats

[menofcolorinfantasyart]

From Olympus

Photo: Ana Martinez 

Styling and Creative Direction: Mario Ville (Kattaca) 

Makeup design and make up artist: Lewis Amarante for Kryolan and Pankr0 

Makeup and hairdressing: Sergio Jiménez 

Models: Ricardo Nkosi, Mary Ruiz, Lewis Amarante, Aya Gueye, Juana Mum, Karina Soro, Ruben Buika, Virginia Buika, Isabella Menam, Oliver Lewis, Megane Mercury, Mendes Vieira, Claudia Duharte, Taylor Oscar Ruiz, David Durrant, Marina Gomes, Oscar Chibuike, Guille Gibbs, Lil Bambina, Elian Coiscou and Tigi.

[augustdementhe]

But wait! There’s MORE!

[guerrillatech]

[lystring]

[no-chill-at-all]

[cancerousroots-blog]

I felt like I needed to do something.

So I posted pictures.

Of these beautiful creatures.

They are potoos.

I love

[knighthawkchapter]

…I swear, the potoo looks like a Muppet that escaped into the wild from Jim Henson Studios.

[aplpaca]

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

[aplpaca]

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

[thellamamongler]

@aviculor

[aviculor]

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

[thetinybutimportantthings]

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

[bogleech]

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

[makeitdewey]

576 Genetics and evolution

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[gahdamnpunk]

You can’t make this stuff up 😐

[injuries-in-dust]

Employers, banks and other financial institutions already send detailed information to the IRS. The government knows how much you owe in tax. If they wanted to they could send you a tax bill and a form you could fill in to claim back taxable expenses (like travelling for work purposes.) It’s called Return Free Filing And is used in the majority of countries in the world. The American tax system has been deliberately set up this way so people will engage accountants, tax services, and tax software like TurboTax, because those same companies spent a lot of money lobbying Congress to keep the tax system complicated so they can make more money when you hire their services. They’re basically using the money you’re paying them to make sure congress doesn’t make your taxes easier.

[thecrystalfems]

Surprise surprise all shitty roads lead to capitalism

[whitepeopletwitter]

[fairycosmos]

idk why ppl are acting like the virus is like bringing everyone together i’ve never been more disgusted with both the government and the general public and the way they’re ok with exploiting health care/minimum wage workers + the way this very deliberate economic order sees disabled/old/sick/poor citizens as a disposable statistic