P0l-anka Rambles

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[sandmandaddy69]

[usedcarheaven]

That’s all..folks..

[freshpickle]

artist: wednesday holmes (ig @hellomynameiswednesday)

[dqnquality]

[danceintheskies]

HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY TASTES LIKE PRION DISEASE !!!

[cloevr]

HAPPY 10 YEARS OF TASTES LIKE PRION DISEASE

[byjove]

I love the diversity in crabs. Some are big. Some are small. Some dwell in the deep sea. Some are arboreal. Some live in salt water. Some live in fresh water. Some have long spindly legs. Some have tiny stubby legs. Most are delicious. Some are fatally poisonous if consumed with no antidote. Some live in the own shell. Some live in a mollusk’s shell. Some swim. Some can only scuttle. Some dig burrows. Some blend in with the sea floor.

[byjove]

Some humans eat crabs. Some crabs eat humans. Oooooh.

[byjove]

tree crab

burrowing crab (aww cute)

purple hermit crab

deadly poisonous crab

‘what the fuck is that thing’ type crab

‘oh my god what the FUCK is that’ crab

[byjove]

I want to talk about them. It’s a Florida eroded mud crab, scientific name Glyptoxanthus erosus. A member of Xanthidae family, they’re highly poisonous if consumed. They contain a toxin with no antidote that cannot be cooked off. Also they just look grumpy and crusty as hell.

[cosmic--dragon]

please observe this big as fuck hermit crab i saw at the newport aquarium a couple weeks ago

[byjove]

Is that a giant red hermit crab? They’re a marine hermit crab found throughout the costal southeast and they’re scary big. One time on vacation, my great aunt picked up a huge conch shell to show me and then screamed and stopped it.

because one of these big bad boys tried to pinch her

[byjove]

oh my god the name does not lie. that is a giant crab. they can weight 40 pounds??? crazyyyy like the size of a medium dog

[ironshrikes]

i saw this guy a bit ago - a japanese spider crab

[byjove]

from this angle he’s very cute

[bookgeekdom]

[dracophile]

I’d do this. But I’d take it one step further and have them submit essays for each one and why it should be banned with research and citations, including arguments for and against banning the book, and they have to have a source page in proper format. And if they do it, I will read it, mark it in red, and give it back with the order to fix any mistakes or provide more information. Either they give up or they might actually learn something.

[silversodas]

This is actually a good idea, someone commented that people can get lines fed to them with the page numbers without reading the books, and this definitely throws a wrench in that short cut.

[memeuplift]

[hellsite-yano]

[lachonk]

[everythingfox]

Ribbit

(via)

[animentality]

[ralfmaximus]

Now I want a show, Doctor Dachshund MD, where the hapless owner of this little mini-dachshund keeps diagnosing random strangers and saving their lives.

Like House MD, but with a cute dog.

[desert-palm]

[rongzhi]

When your plant is about about to sprout a new leaf

English added by me :)

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[voraciouspangolin]

the camera man slayed so jard

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

One of my favorite things about kittens, and stop me if I’ve talked about this before, is that they just have no concept of how long a meow is. They just scream with their whole little body and that scream goes on and on and on. It never ends. An entire epoch in the length of a kitten scream. Kingdoms rise and fall and a kitten is still screaming. Where do they store the air? Where does it come from? They’re so tiny and their meows are so big.

[exitwound]

[hatsanddragons]

I've actually seen the update to this post. The two talked it out and she brought up her concerns not only for him spending nearly all his time digging, but also concerns about his safety while digging (gasses, the tunnel collapsing). He hadn't realized he had been spending so much time in the tunnel and hadn't thought about the possible risks. So what does he do?

He starts making time for his partner, and also starts looking into stuff to make the digging a safer thing to do. He doesn't stop digging, but he limits how much of it he's doing so it isn't consuming all of his time.

I was so happy to see that the two of them talked it out like adult. That's something that rarely happens on the internet.

[nottodaycia]

Mole Instinct

[bogleech]

Much respect for the fact that she's comfortable with his fossorial lifestyle as long as his habitat is structurally sound and he's still getting healthy social enrichment.

[templepriest-motherfucker]

@mozzy-o

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[prokopetz]

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

[calloutnevvegas]

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

[revretch]

….. Didn’t know most of that

[iamthekaijuking]

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

[revretch]

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

[bogleech]

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

[assuming-dinosaur]

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

[headspace-hotel]

Earth is an amazing place.

[quiet-doll]

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

[tzikeh]

Listen. LISTEN.

Medicine does not belong in the medicine cabinet in a bathroom. Heat and humidity from baths and showers can weaken and/or destroy medication's potency. The "medicine cabinet" should be used for shit like nail clippers and sewing kits and Band Aids and Q-Tips.

Don't store your meds in the bathroom.

Don't store your meds in the bathroom.

Don't fuckin' store your fuckin' meds in the fuckin' bathroom.

A kitchen cabinet or drawer that's far away from the stove is a good place to keep your meds. So is a drawer in your bedroom. NOT THE BATHROOM.