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I still haven’t watched the last two episodes lol
Have a Noceda siblings sketch that I never finished
Luz really cartwheeled into the boiling isle and swiped the brother Belos has spent the last 400 years fine tuning and I have nothing but respect for her. 😌
Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?
Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.
When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.
I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.
I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.
Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.
hey, can my cat stay on your blog for a little while?
i'm going out of town for the night and could use someone to watch her
thank you, everyone
Ghost Files (2022)
Drawing in mspaint? Cool, impressive, But whenever I see that, I think about the person who makes their art in power point Every time I see them it boggles me
(their account)
Y'all if you like this PLEASE check out @lylahcomorbid she paints in Microsoft Word and it looks AMAZING
I can barely put an image and text into word what magic is this
when i was a kid my parents bought me an inflatable doll of the Scream by Edvard Munch (??) that was significantly taller than i was at the time and i used to slow-dance with it and pretend it was my boyfriend. It had its hands attached to its head obviously so it felt like he was always a bit horrified to be forced to dance with me
i didn't need no imaginary friends i had Screaming Joe right here !
Is also musical instrument
Better than recyclable: if the right systems are in place, a glass bottle can be sterilised and REUSED, which uses less resources than recycling.
We seem to have forgotten the old sustainability slogan I was taught as a kid in the 90s, which is ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’. And that’s the preferential order. We should be reducing first, then reusing what we can, and recycling should be a distant third option.
But capitalism can only make money from the ‘recycling’ part.
There are plenty for sale on Etsy or you can 3D print it using files from thingiverse.
Science.
I can’t tell what my favorite part is, but it’s either
scientists wasting budget and time to see if ants count their steps
the idea to put ants on stilts
there had to be a guy who made ant stilts and put them on the ants
confused ants
OR E. All of the above.
BUT WAIT THERES MORE!
Can mantids wear and see in 3D glasses? YES
THEY PUT LITTLE GLASSES ON MANTIDS
Do honey bees suffer from sleep deprivation? YES
Here is the BEE INSOMNIATOR.
They put MAGNETS ON BEES and WIGGLED THEM TO KEEP THEM AWAKE
How do scales help snakes move?
Well they put SNAKES IN LITTLE SHIRTS to find out!
SHRIMPS ON A TREADMILL
biology is the greatest
bad and naughty children get put into the bee wiggler to atone for their sins
The best thing about the ant one is that somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.
THE BEE WIGGLER
This demonstrates that discovery requires madness.
gravity was discovered because Newton just so happened to have an apple fall on his napping ass what do you think science is
This is a cool post but AAAH I need to talk about the ants.
>somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.
Not just any ants–desert ants! See, most ants lay down scent trails to find their way around. But in the desert the damn ground blows away constantly. So how do desert ants find their way around? Maybe they count.
>scientists wasting budget and time to see if ants count their steps
Okay but like. Ants can count. Ants have teeny teeny tiny brains and they can count. Do you know how teeny an ant brain is? Because I have spent time dissecting them out and let me tell you it is one of the most ridiculous occupations I have ever engaged in. They are like period sized. <–these things here at either end–>.
And the really cool thing about finding out that a teeny tiny brain can do a thing, is that the brains are simple enough that we actually might have a shot at figuring out precisely how they efficiently encode the ability to count. And then we can apply that to things like math and computers and living human brains, which we aren’t allowed to dissect very much because reasons.
Also, this was an awesomely clever experiment because do you want to know the budget for gluing stilts on ants to see what happens? Really small. Like ant brains.
>there had to be a guy who made ant stilts and put them on the ants
Their names were Matthias Wittlinger, Rudiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf, and the stilts were boar hairs! Also there was a second part of the experiment where they trimmed the ant legs to make them take shorter steps, but no one ever talks about that part because it’s less cute and more morbid. :O (It’s… slightly less morbid when you know this kind of thing happens naturally to ants with age and high temperatures. Life is hard for ants. But they are excellent at counting.)
>Science.
I know right?
but why shrimp on threadmill? what was the science here?
Can shrimps get swole?
Oh! I have answers!
This one is also SO IMPORTANT TO ME because it came up a while back when people were complaining about National Science Foundation funding and trying to cut budgets for research. (It was a whole big republican thing, look it up). And one of the examples was “egghhhh, scientists are wasting our money building treadmills for shrimp” with, I guess, the assumption that scientists do things for shits and giggles and to film sweet youtube videos, and that any project funded by a government agency hasn’t gone through an intense screening process to demonstrate scientific & public merit.
Alright, so I haven’t even looked up the paper and I can tell you off the top of my head that treadmills are a great way to measure:
activity
fitness
endurance
strength(?)
speed
ability to evade predators
which are traits that we very often want to measure in a diversity of organisms.
Here are some important questions you could address with shrimp treadmills:
How is pollution affecting shrimp fitness?
Does X nutrient make shrimps healthier/faster/more active, with consequences for shrimp farming and effects of shrimps on the ecosystem?
How does shrimp activity level correlate with other interesting behaviors (risk-taking, aggression, ) and how are these genetically encoded and linked?
Are faster shrimp more likely to survive/spread into new locations/perform well in shrimp farms or whatever they grow shrimp in?
Okay, so those are just what I brainstormed right now. I don’t actually know what the hot questions in shrimp are.
Now I’ll look up the actual study by Dr. David Scholnik. So:
He spent $50 making his treadmills from scrap parts.
Treadmills allow the measuring of behaviors shrimp don’t normally exhibit in the lab (sans predators, lots of space, etc.).
His ultimate research goal is to increase food safety (this means year to year certainty that human populations will have enough food to eat.) Our aquatic food resources are hella vulnerable right now due to overfishing, pollution, ecosystem disturbances, invasive species, etc.
His study is part of a larger project looking at how shrimp’s immune systems respond to ocean warming and pollution. (a/n: BAM! got it in one)
Thus: Science. :D
Reblogging for all the cool facts, but also to point out that Newton did jack-all to “discover” gravity, except read the works of Indian Mathematician Bhaskaracharya, who published about gravity’s first principle in 1150 AD.
oh thank god someone said it. that little contribution threw off the whole groove of this wonderful post
ducktales crew: lol okay so then we wanna introduce our silicon valley villain, we’re gonna call him mark zuckerbird and-
disney legal team waking up in a cold sweat: someone’s gonna try to insult a billionaire
Same energy
Unhinged cartoon creator: “what if we just hit this beehive with this cool stick I found?”
Beat those beehives like a drum
Maybe this isn't very relatable, but sometimes I catch myself thinking into the past to when I was thinking about the future and it feels like past me and future me are connecting somehow haha.
the little animations added to the netflix adaptation really made it so special for me! the flying leaves, little sparkles and electricity bolts when nick and charlie held hands, the tiny hearts over one of the main couples and the black scribbles around charlie when he had intrusive thoughts... they all added such a nice touch and connection from the comics to the show <3 everyone involved in making it put so much love and care into the show and it really shows on screen
yesterday I got the "are you a boy or are you a girl" question from a six-year-old, and I told her that some people aren't boys or girls (like me!) I was expecting her to be a little confused, but she nodded thoughtfully and said, "wow, just like snails."
Pocket Gnome by Lindsey Swinger
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Minecraft bookshelf Kindle/tablet sleeve by Abbey Jackson
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