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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith dir. George Lucas | 2005

rotsnovelization

OBI-WAN KENOBI Revenge of the Sith (2005) dir. George Lucas

onthegreatsea

the removal of physical media is not the inevitable progression of improving tech, its like the removal of the 3.5mm jack: purely a result of profit physical games still account for about 1/5th of all sales of video games

but by only selling digital games sony can be the ultimate arbiter of their price. they can stop you lending games and force another sale instead. they can stop the sale of second hand games and keep prices artificially high. they can set any price they want and that will be your only option.

sztupy

1976, the time of the big heatwave in the UK apparently everyone remembers, vs recent times.

beaucolics

oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and

darthanckin

GET TO KNOW ME: memorable movies in my life #2 Free Willy (1993) | dir. Simon Wincer

bareniabirkin

😟😳😳😳

squadron-of-damned

#idk what this means or if i do this but ig i'll just hold my phone with my pinky stuck out from now on??

Good question, also no that won’t help.

shitty MS Paint 3 minutes doodle, nto entirely accurate: When you have your pinky hooked on the “bottom” edge of the phone for the extra security so it doesn’t slide out of your hand that easily, you’re wreaking damage on your hand, since the pinky is extremely askew from it’s resting position. You might have noticed that when you hold your phone like that for long time it begins to hurt, like when you are gripping a pen too tightly for example.

Green lines - the fingers are going their natural way. Red line - the pinky is way off, that’s bad.

theclockworkjudas

Me: Oh, good thing I never-

Me, looking down at hand: By talos this can't be happening

h4nds4ndwich

oh thats why my hadns have started to always be in pain ok

howellatme

Oh my god. I know this isn't the sole reason for my pain but omg.

herpsandbirds

Desert Iguanas (Dipsosaurus dorsalis), EAT A TASTY LEAFS!!!, family Iguanidae, Kern County, CA, USA

photographs by Ryan Sikola

heartwarminganimals

I wish we could teach each other how to love the way we can teach animals that aren’t supposed to be able to feel it.

haunteddollsgeorg

As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

odinsblog

This is their logic:

depsidase

writing-prompt-s

Science fiction is full of first contact stories, but is there a such thing as LAST contact? Decide exactly what that means, and write about it.

elidyce

It was too late, when the humans came. They were a young species, still exploring outwards, vital and thriving.

We… were not.

War had ravaged us, and sickness, and war once again, until our population dwindled beyond the point of recovery. We struggled against that, of course… we used genetic manipulation, and cloning, and even more desperate measures. None succeeded. When the humans came, we were sinking into apathy, only a few tens of us left. We had begun to discuss whether we should commit a mass suicide, or simply wait to fade away.

And then the young species came, in their clumsy ships, and they asked us why we were so few.

“We are becoming extinct,” we told them. “We have passed the point of recovery.”

It is custom to avoid the races that are dying – once a species reaches the point of inevitable extinction, even war is suspended, and the fiercest enemy pulls back. The custom was born of plagues and poisons that could be carried forth from a dying world to afflict a healthy one, but it has the implacable weight of tradition now. After we are gone, after they have waited for the prescribed period of quarantine, there will be a fight for our world. Habitable worlds are few, and this is a good one, with plenty of free groundwater and thriving vegetation. It is a bitter thing to be grateful for the custom that allows us to die in peace, but we are grateful.

But the humans don’t know that custom, and they do not leave. They seem distraught, when we tell them we are dying, and try to offer their aid - but their technology is behind ours, and it is too late. When they realize that they can’t save us, though, they do something that bewilders us.

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fishenjoyer1

Fish of the Day - Mexican Tetra

Today's fish of the day is the Mexican Tetra!

(image source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_tetra)

The Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, also known as the blind cave tetra, is a freshwater fish known for their surface dwelling, and blind cavefish forms. These fish are found throughout subtropical America, in Southern Texas and New Mexico, and Northeastern Mexico. Along the Rio Grande, Nueces, and Pecos rivers. Living over gravel and sandy regions in mid to shallow moving waters. Waters must range from 68-77°F or 20-25 °C, and fish will migrate south to warmer waters when temperatures decrease in winter.

(image source: Denver Zoo, https://denverzoo.org/animals/blind-cave-fish/)

Blind cavefish are shaped by the pitch black caves they live in, losing their silver color and turning albino-esc pink, and losing their eyes. The degree of eye loss relating to the amount of light present in their environments. Despite this characteristic eye loss, the blind Mexican tetra can continue to react to light when introduced. This is due to a pineal eye, light sensing nerves that wire into the brain separate from the eyes. However, this pineal eye is primitive, only able to tell shadow from light, and unable to sense finer details. The loss of vision has little effect on the tetras, with the lateral line sensing organs becoming particularly sensitive, and a heightened nervous system. This allows for both an extraordinary sense of smell, as well as slight echolocation. Blind cavefish can be found in 3 major cave regions, around 30 living populations, with DNA testing showing that Mexican tetra surface dwellers have entered and adapted to their cave environments on 5, if not more, separate times. This means that different populations of fish have undergone regressive evolution uniquely of other cavefish populations, making it all the more fascinating that all populations of cavefish and surface dwelling fish can interbreed.

(image source: fish base, https://www.fishbase.se/photos/PicturesSummary.php?resultPage=2&ID=2740&what=species)

Schooling in groups of several thousand fish, in both the wild, and in captivity these fish are fierce hunters. Growing to a grand total size of 12cm, the Mexican tetra primarily consumes invertebrates. Crustaceans, Arthropods, larvae, and water beetles are common. Aquarium fish are known to bite at the fins of other fish, and occasionally engage in cannibalism. When food supplies dwindle, a common event in cavefish, the diet can be supplemented with algae. Despite their efficiency as hunters, these fish are regularly predated by larger predatory fish. Due to this, these fish can emit an alarm substance, which warns other fish to hide.

(image source: wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_tetra#/media/File:Epigean_and_cave-dwelling_Mexican_tetras_Astyanax_mexicanus.jpg)

There is no particular breeding season for the Mexican tetra. Male and female fish signal to another interest with erratic and exaggerated gill and mouth movement, likely to sense water movement of another in blind populations. Breeding takes place as the tetras eject ova and sperm well swimming side by side, hiding eggs in crevices. Within 24 hours fertilized eggs will hatch into a larval form. These fry will sexually mature within 6 months, and can live up to 10 years! Interestingly, fish are born with eyes that will later cloud and then shrink due to lack of light in cave populations.