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Some stuff. Things and stuff.

[fakescience]

Volcanoes: Myth Vs. Fact

[beerightsactivist]

dark bee tumblr show me the forbidden bees

[archivesandcyanide]

this is the masked bee! she has no friends and hates everyone. Sometimes when she has kids she raises them alone and doesn’t let the father come for day trips. she loves pollen but does not like waiting for it so she chews flowers open which is essentially stealing. we love her anyway.

these bees are homalictus bees! they are the rainbow gay bees. Females tend to live together in one nest and guard the entrance. one time we found 160 gay girls bunking together. They’re so irridescent and small that they might look like flies but they are really just tiny lesbians.

and this is the blue banded bee! she may look like she’s wacked out, but really she is pretty chill. she just wants to live independently (or with some friends) in a nest or burrow and look after tomatoes.

this is a cuckoo bee! she is really cool! she goes into other bee’s houses and lays eggs there, and then when the baby hatches it eats the host bees’ pollen and lays waste to the hive, murdering and eating all the other bee babies! BUT ONLY if it’s mother bee didn’t kill them all first.

[beerightsactivist]

thank u dark bee tumblr

[koiotchka]

This is the most successful thing ever!

[supernova-society-deactivated20]

this is dawson’s burrowing bee! they are one of the largest bees in australia and they burrow into the ground to make nests. males are so aggressive that they will literally fight and kill each other to get a female! and if a particularly aggressive male does not get a female he will murder all of the other males out of rage! (and sometimes the females will be casualties of these brawls - here is a video of a bee brawl where a female get decapitated. these bees are very large and kind of look like half bee half cockroach. but the females’s fuzzy white heads are pretty cute! [photo credit]

[beerightsactivist]

and dark bee tumblr comes through for us again… we are so fortunate. thank u dark bee tumblr. thank u

[bogleech]

What, no vulture bees?

Only a couple photographs even exist of any of the three species of “vulture bee” (sorry Gettyimages), which are stingless bees of the much larger order Trigona.

These three species - Trigona Crassipes, Hypogea and Necrophaga - are the only social bees we know of that apparently never, ever eat plant matter, but rely entirely on the flesh of dead animals. They usually enter corpses through the eyes first, since they’ll find really wet, juice stuff in there. They slobber all over the decayed meat-sludge, drink their fill, take it back to the nest and transfer it to another bee whose job is to work it into a special food mixture for the larvae that they store in little pots. It’s just like the process of making honey, but made from things like putrid lizard brains. I dont think anyone has ever tasted it and it would probably not be safe to do so.

[sponge888]

Oh. My. Gawd.

[tastefullyoffensive]

All day, every day. *sound on*

[sponge888]

Yeah.

[sponge888]

A different kind of beer this afternoon. Mr Potter would approve.

[sponge888]

business email glossary

thanks in advance: get this done by the time i press "send"

thanks for your interest: why'd you have to bring this up

would you be so kind: fucking do it

best: i have never physically met you

all best: this conversation is over

all my best: i wish you would die

happy to help: this is the easiest thing in my inbox

i hope this helps: i've done all i'm willing to do

i did a bit of research: i googled it, because you're too lazy to

sorry to chase: answer my email

so sorry to chase: answer my FUCKING email

i am really sorry for being a pest but: i am LIVID that you are ignoring me

please contact my colleague: this isn't my problem

i'm copying in my colleague: this isn't my problem and i am thrilled about it

i'll check and get back to you: i might forget to

i'll let you know when i hear anything: i will forget to

can you check back with me in a week?: i'm hoping you will forget to

per our earlier conversation: i just yelled at you on the phone

great to chat just now: you just yelled at me on the phone

thanks!: i'm not mad at you

thanks!!: please don't be mad at me

thanks!!!: i'm crying at my desk

please advise: this might be your fault

kindly advise: this is entirely your fault

mind if i swing by?: i'm already in the elevator

can you confirm for me: you told me before and i deleted the email

sorry if that was unclear: i think you're an idiot

let me know if you need anything else: please never contact me again

[sponge888]

Feels like I'm being watched.

[sponge888]

I filled the candy bucket at work.

[sponge888]

From the snowy north, home is my destination today. Hooray! (at Toronto Pearson International Airport)

[sponge888]

Toronto

[sponge888]

Toronto reflection.

[sponge888]

Ahh, the TeaBot. My current favorite item at #dx3 #dx32016 (at Metro Toronto Convention Centre)

[sponge888]

Hello Toronto. Word on the street is that you're going to get 20-30cm of snow tonight! (at Metro Toronto Convention Centre)

[sponge888]

So many bricks so little time. #brickscascade

[sponge888]

Invasion! #brickscascade

[sponge888]

First day with the cold smoker. Cheese and hard boiled eggs are on the rack for experimentation.

[theverge]

NASA’s space tourism posters just keep on giving.

[sponge888]

mmmmmust own one of these.

[goldesign-deactivated20180829]

Holiday by Melissa Smith @lissletters from Typostrate.com

[typostrate]

Holiday

By Melissa Smith @lissletters on Instagram.

[sponge888]

love hand painted typography. This is definitely a tough skill to master!