The Inexplicable Occurrence of Thought

Cigarettes and Caffeine

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a man is facing up to 40 years in prison for drug charges and has 60 days to get a lawyer or serve the rest of his sentence

please donate to help him get a real lawyer

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A large strawberry squid, one of three caught on the last trawl of the Deep-See cruise. Photo: NOAA Fisheries

“The strawberry squid, gets its nickname from the berry-like appearance of its bright-red body speckled with numerous jewel like luminescent photophores ” via @octonation

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How a Blobfish Looks with and without Extreme Water Pressure. Learn more 👇🏽👇🏽

Blobfish live in water pressures 60-120 times greater than at sea level. They lack both bones and teeth and have a very low muscle mass. This means that they do not actively hunt and instead, they drift along the seafloor, picking up mostly small creatures like crabs and shellfish. 

Interestingly, they do not possess a swim bladder - air sacs that allows fish to maneuver accurately in the water - and instead, they rely on their very gelatinous flesh (at a similar density to the surrounding water) to keep them at the correct depth.

Although Blobfish as a whole are a mystery to scientists, it is known that during breeding the females lay thousands of eggs (up to 108,000) and that they have complex nesting behaviors. For example, both the female and male will “nest” on the eggs, lying on top of them for protection. Not only that, the fish have been know to clean the eggs, removing dirt and other imperfections. Considering there is a very large necessity to conserve energy for all deep-water species, and given that Blobfish do not actively hunt, flee (or more broadly, move with purpose) it is odd that they show such extravagant breeding practices.

Blobfish are considered endangered. They do not have predators and do not generally have an instinct to flee so as a result, they are often pulled up by ocean floor trawlers, dying in the process. 

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Sculpture by Hedi Xandt

This artist on Instagram // Facebook

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Trans activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

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Yes at this point I’m reblogging this every time I see it.

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14x17 - Game Night

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there can only be one

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Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose.

Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister was at play.

Police say there is no evidence the deaths have anything to do with the protests stemming from a white police officer’s fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, and that only two were homicides with no known link to the protests.

But some activists say their concerns about a possible connection arise out of a culture of fear that persists in Ferguson 4 ½ years after Brown’s death, citing threats — mostly anonymous — that protest leaders continue to receive.

The Rev. Darryl Gray said he found a box inside his car. When the bomb squad arrived, no explosives were found but a 6-foot (1.8-meter) python was inside.

“Everybody is on pins and needles,” Gray said of his fellow activists.

Read more here 

After two, not a coincidence. and 6 foot python in a box don’t sound like depression to me

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This is horrifying. Chilling to the bone. I don’t even know how to process this

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If you can relate to any of these posts, follow us @anxietyproblem​

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Watch: Nike features badass trans duathlete Chris Mosier in its new ad

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HOLY SHIT. This is amazing

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Everyone Is Way Too Into This Hot Lincoln Statue

Who knew the Great Emancipator was a damn snack

Why…. Why did they make him look so damn fine

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the most insane video i’ve ever seen is the one where that guy claims that snowpiercer is the sequel to willy wonka and then actually makes it make sense. like to the degree where it’s hard not to see it as one due to the oompa-loompa proof

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spoilers if you haven’t seen snowpiercer, which you really should if you haven’t

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This is an amazing deep dive into a fantastic conspiracy theory. 

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It’s also worth noting that nobody in their 90s will ever master Twitter better than John Dingell

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Women weren't excluded from early science fiction: they were erased

Science fiction scholar Lisa Yaszek’s recent book The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, is a secret history of women in science fiction, reframing the story of exclusion (“women weren’t welcome in early sf writing circles”) as one of erasure (“women made vital contributions to early science fiction, and these were systematically expunged from the record when the first wave of historical sf anthologies were published, as part of a backlash against first-wave feminism”).

Yaszek’s work is very personal to me, dealing extensively with Judith Merrill, the great feminist sf writer, editor and critic, who was my mentor growing up in Toronto.

In a new interview with the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (MP3), Yaszek elaborates on her work and its ramifications for how we think about the story of the future.

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/02/erasure-not-exclusion.html

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Every other straight man ever singing about a woman: wow baby you’re so sexy I love you because your body is sexy

Hozier, an intellectual and lesbian ally: I am a bird of prey and you are a sharp spike upon which I impale small rodents

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Straight man #2505: we met at the club she was really hot

Forest lad himself: it was as my baby churned up the mud that she found me there, buried and alone

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Fucking eduardo sheerman or whomever: I just want to errr kiss you babe

Andrew Hozier Byrnes: I want nothing more than for us to lay in a field together until we decompose and are eaten by foxes

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billionth straight man: i love you, alive girl. i will show you with my body, and my lips and my eyes, very soon. 

hozier, actual legend: when my time comes around, lay me gently in the cold, dark earth. no grave can hold my body down, i’ll crawl home to her.

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Who is this man?