sixstringphonic

something strange happened here

[caats]

[indigobluerose]

[catchymemes]

[is-this-name-good-enough]

@animals-with-fan-art

[hagiomoto]

I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.

[hagiomoto]

The average Tumblr blogger has such poor manners that even a pig would be embarrassed to bring them home to its mother.

[bagofdrymice]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing

[yet-another-heathen]

[cdx1016]

Pink Sky Awakening (viacarad1016)

[dogpuppy]

[mandywondering]

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

[dietspam16]

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

[ghost-mantis]

On this, the anniversary of the lunar landing, let us also celebrate the greatest post-mission achievement by a crewman.

I refer, of course, to the time Buzz Aldrin (age 72 at the time) cold-cocked a moon landing conspiracy theorist straight in his smug face after being accused of being a coward, liar, and thief.

Yes, someone was indeed dumb enough to tell a man so unafraid of death that he was willing to go into the void on a fragile explosive rocket, a coward.

Said dumbass was filming this confrontation as some sort of proof of moon fraud, but has instead captured this glorious moment of near-cosmic justice for us to loop for all time.

Aldrin was not charged with any crime. He should have been given another medal for public service.

[northstarfan]

Said dumbass tried to take Aldrin to court for assault and was thrown out on his metaphorical ass, being cited as the instigator of the incident after luring Aldrin into a meeting under false pretenses (telling the former astronaut he was being interviewed for a children's program).

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[catladychronicles]

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[thethingsiveseen-photography]

Boat on the fjord, near Fjærland, Norway.

[softmatzohtruther]

[catasters]

[stupefoxmakesgifs]

Harrison on the Conan O'Brien's needs a friend podcast

[creekfiend]

you're not supposed to wander around appalachia at night bc you'll fall off a sheer drop that you couldn't see coming. this is also a major risk during the day. you really have to watch out for the sheer drops that you don't see coming due to the undergrowth. I suspect 100% of spooky missing persons cases in appalachia have the spooky explanation of "sheer drop disguised by undergrowth"

really cannot overstate how many utterly invisible ravines we got here and also how big the woods are. they can't find people because the woods? are big

[faetxlity]

A not insignificant number of disappearances in Appalachia(particularly southern) are also probably just. There’s mines. There’s so many unexplored cave systems too.

People think they’re checking out a cool little shallow cave and bam. Gone. I had to drag my friend out of one by the backpack one time because they decided to be a fool and I was certain they were gonna get their ankle broke and I wasn’t carrying them back over the river

[creekfiend]

extremely good point we do have a ton of cave systems as well, which combines poorly with invisible sheer drops in terms of creating a Potion Of Vanishing Guy

[catsofyore]

Carte-de-visite from my collection, 1880s. If you don’t know what a carte-de-visite is: https://www.britannica.com/technology/carte-de-visite

[knightofleo]

*snrrt* *rrrrt* "hrrrrrrrrr...."

[ceekari]

i didn't know a cat's nose could do that

[herpsandbirds]

Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Jalisco, Mexico

Photograph by Ric Chamblee