Needs More Bees

You can call me Peri, or if you’re feeling formal, i am Bug-Pope Righteous Indignation. Gradually collecting more and more names over time. Grizzled, hearing, STEM major, Connector Maji, designated spider-catcher and goose-approacher. Any pronouns. I like obscure science facts and language things. Also I am especially fond of the little guys on wet floor signs and other such hazard or instructive signs, like walk signs and wheelchair accessible signs. Feel free to send them to me. Please show me the lads. I also run the blog ADHD-adept... when I remember that it exists <3

[hemipenal-system]

hey if you're transfem you don't have to call yourself amab just so you know. if you're transmasc you don't have to call yourself afab. if you're nonbinary you don't need to use either. no one needs to know. thats a thing that happened to you once. you wouldn't call yourself a walmart resident because you needed pasta one time and that was the only thing open

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way

[furrypost-generator]

indecipherable text lost to time

[40ouncesandamule]

thank you for explaining because ever since I first saw this post, the phrase "nurning annintant" has been burning a hole through the back of my skull

[poetry-protest-pornography]

I also came up with "nurning annintant" and am fully crying laughing about it

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

She will be by your nide

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

make a bunch of wheels with bread/cheese/meat/vegetables/sauce/extra so that you can Spin for Sandwich

you're making a sandwich!! Spin THIS wheel 3-5 times for the toppings!

How is it!

good!!

it's alright

ew

EW

inedible

Results

Voting ended onJun 3

op note: I GOT JAM, JAM AND HOT SAUCE. IM DEAD.

[bisexualbaker]

...One of my mutuals with cream cheese and ham. I went for a fourth spin for the hell of it and got one of my mutuals again. I guess I could just eat the filling? I rather like chive cream cheese with turkey...

[patricia-taxxon]

i love explaining the etymology of the word "rickroll" because the story starts with "ok, so at one point 4chan applied a filter to everyone's posts that changed the word egg to duck"

[maple-cloak]

[wrenanigans]

[croaksac]

grandfather....

[bog-teeth]

found out james ortiz is puerto rican. naturally this means wepa rocky

[tlirsgender]

The Document bit me

[audhdgoku]

[littlemissminu]

treat for neptune! treat for neptune! yummy treat for neptune!

[soaringsearingphoenix]

normalize putting birth year instead of age in discord intros for a longtime server where its expected to put your age in your info. Bro your age changes. Super irritating when someones discord intro is both out of date and edited. Ultimately its the same amount of information but this way it wont expire

[soaringsearingphoenix]

the key to adhd is learning its attack patterns

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[dukebee]

@soaringsearingphoenix lads of misfortune?

[soaringsearingphoenix]

Hell yeah I love these funky little guys

[sharrrrknight]

Yknow the lil fanfic trope where a character, usually non-human, purrs like a cat. In this case it would obviously be Rocky but what if it was Grace instead hear me out-

[tiny-forests]

moss mfriday #3: Glacier Mice

[image credit]

That's right - it's glacier mice. One of my favorite things maybe on the entire planet. Let's talk about these freaky fuzzy little rats!!

Glacier mice are balls of moss that live in large herds like this in a few select glaciers. They are moss all the way through, with a center consisting of dead moss matter, implying that they begin as small growths of moss and simply accumulate over time, like snowballs. However, their outside surface is alive and well on all sides. Glacier mice have been observed, through tagging and tracking, to roll across the glacier like a majestic herd of wildebeest, exposing all of their sides to the sunlight. They trundle along at a pace of about 2.5 cm per day. That's 30 feet in a year! They're really schmovin'! Certainly further than most mosses can claim to travel.

What's really exciting, though, is that they all move in the same direction, and we're not sure why or how. Scientists experimented to try and attribute their coordinated behavior to wind, sunlight, and the direction that their grazing ground slopes, but to no avail. They speed up, slow down, and change direction in unison, based on some mysterious moss code that we haven't cracked yet.

Cross-section of a glacier mouse. Note the dead moss matter inside, and the short gametophytes on the outside, adapted to harsh winds and sunlight. [image credit]

We have figured out how they roll, though - while the moss ball sits on the ice, it insulates the ice directly underneath it, protecting it from melting. This forms a little pillar of ice that the moss eventually rolls off of. The insulating power of glacier mice also gives it the wonderful ability to host all kinds of microorganisms that otherwise wouldn't survive the glacier's harsh conditions, and their ability to move makes it possible for microorganisms to spread from one habitable spot to another. They're like a bunch of little tardigrade passenger ships, braving the dangerous glacier to go where no water bear has gone before!!

Glacier mice have been found to consist of several moss species, most of which must reproduce asexually in order to survive in the dry climate. They've been observed to live for at least six years, but are projected to live much, much longer. I love them. So much. I hope they know that I love them!! I LOVE THEM!!!!

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[soaringsearingphoenix]

a rolling moss gathers no stones?

[mewseum-of-art]

Metang (Undaunted)

Artist: TOKIYA

[unclegrimsley]

[soaringsearingphoenix]

And then they hold hands

[ruby-white-rabbit]

God i miss when night time or darkness scenes in tv or movies were clearly shot during the day with a blue filter over it.

I miss seeing their shadows clearly on the ground.

I miss being able to fucking SEE what was happening.

[akindplace]

when you’re disabled the little things you manage to do feel like really big things. and if no one sees it and tells you this, then i will: i am proud of the things you have accomplished, no matter how small they might seem to other people, and you should be proud of yourself too

[soaringsearingphoenix]

normalize putting birth year instead of age in discord intros for a longtime server where its expected to put your age in your info. Bro your age changes. Super irritating when someones discord intro is both out of date and edited. Ultimately its the same amount of information but this way it wont expire