Nerdness

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[goth-queen]

[goth-queen]

[zubbyzub]

From the fertile mind of Peter Blegvad.

[anneemay]

[zitongzi]

@hagiomoto you were so right for this

[faceless-crowd]

Mafia boss smoking a cigar: Why’d you gotta squeal, Squealin’ Stephen? I trusted you. Now I gotta send my best goons to show you what happens when you cross the Big Boss…

Guy tied up in chair: uh…theres just one guy over there.

Mafia boss: Yeah. That’s Lil’ Tony. He’s got one of dem conditions where he’s got multiple mooks n’ his head. But when Big Tony fronts you’re gonna be in big trouble.

Lil’ Tony: We actually all agree we’re gonna kick your ass.

[dogpuppy]

[beardedmrbean]

One more in the W column for Japan.

[supersoftly]

Link for extension :3c

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I think companies with lots of desk workers should install this by default

[kaijutegu]

You may have heard of a rat king, but have you ever heard of a squirrel king? My local wildlife rescue just treated one. All six baby squirrels survived and are doing well. They all needed the tips of their tails amputated, but part of a tail is a small price to pay for being deposed royalty. For more info and surgery pics, they have a really informative post on Facebook.

[crabussy]

I have an assignment due in an hour but I just had a MARVELLOUS idea for an eridian oc. I can spare 5 minutes surely........

[crabussy]

that was 20 minutes. oops. regardless. do you see my vision. imagine her scuttling at you sideways okay

[crabussy]

important: to her, real earth horses are grotesque and horrifying. e.g. SUPER BADASSSSS

[despazito]

[pitchburgh]

saw someone trying to roast this guy on reddit but all the comments were just like "fuck off, that's based"

nature is healing

[augustdementhe]

FUCK YEAH.

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore

[friends-of-magic]

I actually just wrote a paper on this!!

The short of it is, yes, that's exactly what happens. There's no such thing as pure silence outside of a vacuum (and inside a vacuum you'd be dead). So basically your ears are constantly adapting to the noise threshold of your surroundings and slowly ignoring it. If you were in a perfectly silent room (anechoic chambers are cool!) you would actually start to hear the sound of existing!

[aquilacalvitium]

[tk-duveraun]

I had a job at a place that tested cellphones and we had a sound dampening room and I hated it because you can hear your organs and your guts moving and it's the worst the worst.

[pnglove]

Mate, you’ve got a chubby lizard on your dashboard

[markscherz]

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.

[mrskayathefrog]

'scuse me, Mr @markscherz, does it harm the gecko for the scales to come off?

like, of course it harms them but... can they grow back? like how some lizards can drop their tails and eventually the tails grow back

[markscherz]

Not only do they grow back, but they come back so well that we cannot even tell where they have ripped off before. This is very weird, because when a lizard loses its tail, it is very obvious where it has been lost and regrown. Not so these chaps. They seek out a humid place to hide, and within a few weeks, skin and scales have started to regrow. The fact that they can do this so well is the reason a team has just sequenced their genome. I believe it is hoped that the skin regeneration tech they have built into their cells could eventually be harnessed for human skin grafts.

[ruinedchildhood]

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[catchymemes]

@goth-queen

[calware]

i really love this genre of image

[lunarthesugarglider]

[villaqueen]

The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up

[i-am-a-lonely-nerd]

I love the death grip after the toy was fixed up. Lessons were learned. Try to steal it this time you fucking bird. I dare you.