secret life of a selkie

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[seaofst4rdust]

!Hello there!

Welcome to my blog :)

Tata here, full-time writer and biology nerd. So... That's what I will post about!

I'M 17! And I would like avoid any Class of '09/Life is Strange type of situation, so p3dos DNI

As previously said, I am a huge nerd. My main fandoms at the moment are:

Arcane: League of Legends

Adventure Time

My Chemical Romance

Pierce The Veil

Star Wars

I'm also interested in history, marine biology, classic literature, and music (I play guitar)

You can find me on AO3 and Quotev (mostly inactive)

Always open to new friends, so don't hesitate to dm me!

[status-quo-hater]

This version of the progress flag legitimately looks so nice

Gilbert baker rainbow, huge intersex circle, the design is cluttered but in a good way 10/10

[ID: A version of the progress pride flag with a large purple intersex ring outlined in gold, looping through pink, blue, brown, and black chevrons on the side, which have a base of white. The horizontal stripes are: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple. End ID.]

[kira-serialfaggot]

It's happening the morphing into Ohio

[the-lumpfish-queen]

[yuriwinged]

[autistic-af]

[jam-does-audio]

Girls. That's the original image. We've come full circle. It's always just been the state of Ohio

[seasonofhorror]

JENNIFER'S BODY

2009, dir. Karyn Kusama

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[barillapasta]

While I appreciate the enthusiasm for citation, none of these are primary sources.

Here is the study (no paywall).

Some questions I had that were answered:

How are gloves made of organic materials contaminating an inorganic sample?

In the manufacturing process, stearate salts are used to remove gloves from molds, these salts have an almost identical size and shape to microplastics.

Does this mean all the old studies are null?

No. Like many scientific studies, this one was conducted in a way that simulates an extreme situation. They tested how much residue was left behind if a researcher were to have pinched a slide between their fingers. However, a professional in a lab should not be doing that. You are supposed to pick up slides by the sides for this exact reason. Some studies may need to be redone, but in general reexamining results is the recommended response.

So are microplastics actually an issue?

Yes. While previous studies MAY have been contaminated, they also may not have been. And even if they were, it’s unlikely results were skewed to the level of ignoring the impact of microplastics altogether. Keep using natural materials, please.

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[fluffmugger]

"Love is love" is a milquetoast cishet marketing phrase

Pride is a FUCK YOU to a society that wants us dead.

[alexanderzazilart]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🥳🏳️‍🌈

El amor tiene distintos colores ~❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[reg1ment]

my college friend group

[orcboxer]

autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally

[peopleingishard]

^not my post but same sentiment

[queer-as-city-folk]

me when I take a fine logo and make it UGLY

[will-grahams-gun]

Woof

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[mintaii]

happy extremely belated bday to this guy

[hurglewurm]

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

[inksplattersandearlyhours]

“When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.”

— Rebecca Solnit, Grandmother Spider in Men Explain Things To Me and Other Essays

[dracusfyre]

…Wow…it’s sad how much this blew my mind. Brilliant.

[caseofspoons]

You know what's always really cool? Romance where they are both insane for each other, romance where they litterally can only be with each other because no one can match thier freak. Their freak is literally just insanity and two ppl having that level of freak is more than enough for the entire world. Romance where these two have rewritten the stars to be together. Romance where it's total admiration of each other. Romance based out of a deep and loving caring friendship. Romance where even if you don't interpret it as romantic you can not deny the level of love present. Romance where love really can and will save you. Anyway I think jayvik is pretty cool

[yurimaxer]

Idc what anyone says about caitvi, we got to have a canon butch/femme couple with a happy ending in a critically acclaimed series with beautiful animation, and we got to see them fuck nasty for 2 minutes. We literally won.

[lisamoony]

saturday morning sketch

i'm restoring the ability to draw silly things