PaddySnuffles

35 | She/Her | Brazilian-Canadian | Autistic | Librarian

[biohorror-human]

If you tell a yankee "its never okay to kill people for the US no matter how poor you are" you can trigger secret dialogue that makes you understand why Malcolm X hated liberals the way he did

[halfbloodfanboy]

it's actually impressive how after almost 3 months this post just keeps catching yankees who are dying to show you what their secret dialogue is

[factoidfactory]

Random Fact #524

How did life on Earth begin?

There are two main theories:

1. Some combination of chemicals happened to create something resembling a living thing enough that over time we got cells and life on Earth as we know it.

2. Life started elsewhere and came to Earth on an asteroid by way of some microscopic life.

What? Are scientists really taking that second theory seriously?

Yep! It’s a theory called “panspermia”.

Why? What’s there to back it up?

I’m sure there’s plenty more I’m missing, but one of the main evidences to back this up is tardigrades.

You may have heard of them before - they’re also known as waterbears or moss piglets, and they’re they’re these teeny tiny critters that basically just waddle around on moss drinking water (there’s a few that are carnivorous and eat other tardigrades, though). 

Looks-wise it seems to me like Mother Nature couldn’t decide between “horrifying” and “adorable” and ended up settling halfway between the two.

See what I mean?

This is, of course, if you put them under a microscope so you can see them properly. When I say they’re tiny, I mean tiny. 

Like, the average tardigrade is 0.116 mm smaller than a side of an average grain of table salt (which is 0.3 mm).

^ The tiny specks? That’s them.

So why are the tiny fat waddly things possible evidence of life starting elsewhere? 

Though they don’t look particularly impressive, these minuscule weirdos happen to be the toughest, bamfiest bamfs you’re ever likely to see. 

Cockroaches and naked mole rats ain’t got nothin’ on these little dudes (and that’s saying something!).

What makes them such bamfs?

1. If there’s no water to be had, they’re totally fine with dehydrating into teeny little raisins until conditions are favourable again (at which point they pop back up and go about business as usual like nothing ever happened).

The longest a dehydrated tardigrade is known to be able to survive is ten years. 

Well, if you count leg movement as “survival” then they can survive for at least 120 years. 

Survival or not, getting shriveled up from being 85% water to 3% water and still being able to move at all after 120 years sounds pretty darn impressive to me.

2. They’re fine with 1,000 times more radiation than pretty much any other animal can withstand.

3. They can survive up to 5,000 Gy of gamma radiation (which is considered by scientists to be medium-lethal dosage).

4. They can survive for days at −200 °C; and some have been known to withstand cold up ‘til −272 °C. That’s -1.16 degrees away from ABSOLUTE ZERO.

5. They can survive temperatures of up to 151 °C for a few minutes. That’s higher than the temperature for boiling water.

6. They can survive pressure 1,200 times higher than atmospheric pressure, some species being able to withstand pressures of up to 6,000 atmospheres -  practically 6,000 times higher than the deepest part of the Mariana Trench (which is the deepest place on Earth). That means they can survive pressures 6,000 higher than we actually have on Earth. (Why????!!!!) 

7. They’re the first (and only) known animal able to survive in the vacuum of space. Scientists took a bunch of them up to the space station and chucked them out the airlock (I’m assuming in some form of container so they didn’t float away). When they brought the tardigrades back inside they popped back up and went about business as usual like nothing ever happened. 

8. They can survive in the vacuum of open space combined with unfiltered solar radiation for at least 10 days. They might actually be fine with even longer, but that’s how long the scientists and tardigrades were on the space station for the FOTON-M3 mission (the tardigrade study was nicknamed TardIS - Tardigrades In Space - ‘cause what kind of biologist-astronaut would you be if you weren’t a big Doctor Who nerd?).

[depsidase]

[dogposts]

say hi to nova!

[saltwaterandstars]

For my birthday my best friend got me a set of glasses that, when you stack them, look like a fish! Genius!

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

748.2

glassware

[sunderwight]

We need to put out periodic reminders in fandom that trying to argue in favor of the divine right of kings or defending wartime atrocities or rich people's entitlement to the deference of indentured servants or whatever is, in fact, way less compelling and far stupider than just going well, that character is hot and this is fiction so I've decided it's all good.

Wanting to fuck the evil demon king because he's gorgeous and tormented is far more respectable than trying to defend his actual policies. If someone accuses you of only liking him because you want to fuck him, you can just say yeah that's true, and then what? Either they kinkshame you or they leave. Checkmate.

[william-snekspeare]

This is so real

[pixellangel]

HOLD ON I HAVE A GIF FOR THIS

[pixellangel]

yes ive been waiting for my moment

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

595.768

weevils

[onecells]

YOU🫵'RE 🫵 NE->XT.!! moTHERFUCKER!!!!

GET LOVED!!!!!!!!!!

[blackirishweab]

[paper-mario-wiki]

The Taoyuan Walker

[paper-mario-wiki]

taiwan is cool as fuck theyve got Free Playing here at the public park

[squonkcity]

how is there absolutely not a single sign of active human life in either of those pictures ?

[paper-mario-wiki]

as a photographer, it is important that i respect the anonymity of private citizens when pursuing my passion. to do this, i vaporize all organic life within a 2 block radius before taking a picture.

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

Hi im a librarian amd that's not now this works. If a library allows you to have a digital card and not live in the area, you are NOT taking away resources from other people, that's not how anything works. Please keep doing it!!! The more people that use our services, the more money we can get from funding sources!!! Please use us!!! We are not utilized enough, by people in or out of our community. Thanks.

[beezelbubbles]

If you were taking resources away from patrons in the local community then the virtual anywhere card wouldn't be offered. Or it would be discontinued once it became a problem. Trust me, libraries are very on top of trimming the budget whenever and wherever they can so resources get optimized. No library is creating any kind of resource and then going "wow we hope people don't use this!"

(Not a librarian but am library staff. If you want credentials.)

[brazilspill]

Seen at the Edmonton airport:

[brazilspill]

Also seen at the airport:

Her name is Ginny, she's 2, and really really soft. :-)

[brazilspill]

Latino solidarity

When I lived in Cuba for a semester, my Brazilian mom expected me to call at least once a week, long-distance call prices be damned. Ideally more than once a week though.

One day, I realized that it'd been over a week since I'd called and I mentioned it to a fellow Canadian student.

"Well, you're an adult now, your mom needs to understand that you're gonna be more independent because you have your own life," was the white Canadian reaction.

"No, that's not-- Oh, you don't get it," I sighed.

"Get what?" a Cuban friend asked.

"I just realized that I haven't called my mom in over a week."

"Ooooh noooo..." was the immediate Cuban response.

"I KNOOOOW!"

"Well, it was nice knowing ya," they laughed, "You are so dead."

[depsidase]

[nightvaleofficial]

[notyourmamasspoons]

Just for anyone still thinking the civil rights movement was “SO long ago!”

Fred Hampton would be 51 this year if police hadn’t executed him at age 21.

Ruby Bridges is 65.

MLK would be 91 (he was assassinated at 39).

Malcom X would be 95 (he was assassinated at 39).

Claudette Colvin (the first Black woman known to refuse to give up her seat AT 15) is only 80.

Mary Louise Smith is 83.

Fred Gray is 89.

EMMETT TILL WOULD BE 79 (he was murdered at age 14 because of a white woman’s lie).

Ask yourself how old your grandparents are. Hell, how old your PARENTS are. How old are the people in most government seats right now?

Miss me with that bullshit of “It’S sO lOnG aGo. Things are better now.” These people and so many more who aren’t able to be here would be distraught at what is STILL fucking happening today. To say things like that is just willfully turning your head away from the injustices that we see today! That’s the that on that.

[thundergrace]

“How old are people in most government seats right now?” <-!!!! THIS!! People don’t fully digest THIS! MANY many people in the most powerful positions in government WERE alive to hate MLK. They were building early political careers in opposition to the Civil Rights movement, actively oppressing Black people in lower positions of government, fighting to keep segregation alive, etc. And they’re STILL doing it!

[depsidase]

[dogposts]

My corgi loves chasing RC Cars. So I strapped a GoPro to one... (volume warning)