Everything you can imagine is real.

Marjolein ~ 24 ~ Amsterdam "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." . Formerly: marjoleinnavy My studyblr: studentofamsterdam.tumblr.com

[redsatinsheets]

feminism never taught me to hate men but it did help me realize that i shouldn’t prioritize them over women & it turns out that alot of men consider that to be hatred lmao.

[empty-left-deactivated20170928]

So if you were in a room with two prisoners; a man and a woman, you’d never met, and the gender neutral soldier with the big gun told you to kill one of them, you’d automatically shoot the man?

[ozten-deactivated20171022]

tag yourselves I’m the gender neutral soldier with the big gun

[saxophonechihuahua]

im the completely off the wall reaction to a fairly mundane post

[endilletante]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Fist of the Beeholder

Headline reads “Man Transports Bee Colony By Holding Queen In Fist – Letting The Insects Swarm His Arm”

[jumpingjacktrash]

i mean that’s basically how you do it. they don’t have a hive to defend, so they’re nonviolent, and they’ll just follow wherever the queen goes.

[jumpingjacktrash]

well now I wonder how you put her back down, do you just get as close to where you wanna put her without smooshing anyone, then let go?, does she fall through the other bees do they move aside or is she just held there now, I know swarming bees are pretty chill so you could scoop the, m off with your other hand, but idk how clingy they are and I’m in the mind of that video of the Chinese zookeeper trying to clean up a panda habitat, insects, Queue87.

disclaimer: i am not a beekeeper. i just like bees a lot and occasionally go through spasms of bee research wishing i could keep bees, though for Reasons i can’t. ok so as i understand it, hives swarm when their population gets too big. they feed some female larvae royal jelly, which makes them grow up to be queens, and then they take some of the hive with them and go off to find a new living situation. unfortunately, most swarms don’t find a good spot, and die off. that’s nature for ya. it’s one of the reasons beekeepers take honey; surplus honey encourages swarming, and you lose a lot of your bees.

but ok, say your hive swarms and you want this. you have space for them and you want a new hive. when the new queen emerges, you find her, pick her up – people usually use a container of some kind to avoid accidentally hurting her, but if you’re gentle you can just hold her in your hand like this guy. you take her to where you’ve prepared an empty hive and let her go, she inspects it and declares it good, and they all move in! new hive established!

the bees don’t particularly want to stay on you. you’re just scenery. they’re waiting on the boss to find a housing solution. so when she does, they go with her, and you just walk away.

maybe with an extra check through your hair and shirt in case some silly babies dozed off in there. :D

[niamhermind]

Bees transmit their hormone through touch and it only takes a minute of the ‘pulse’ of hormone to be missing before they notice. It’ll be the mother queen who has been laying eggs in a hive for a while who leaves as her hormones are stronger. When she lands somewhere the other bees will ‘ball’ up around her to keep her warm (or possibly kill her if they decide to) in the centre of the swarm. If he has a hive box ready, he can just open his hand over the top or at the entrance of the box and she’ll march right in over everyone else because she’ll be looking for a dark hole to hide in, his fist is perfectly dark and warm to keep her safe.

[jumpingjacktrash]

oh, thank you for this clarification! i didn’t know it was the old queen who leaves. for some reason i really like that. “all this is yours now, my daughter; serve them well.” and then she buzzes majestically off toward the sunset, to do or die in the great wide open like the fierce monarch she is – and some guy catches her in a matchbox and takes her to a pre-furnished condo twenty meters away. and she’s like. oh. well. i mean. it’s free real estate?

[weaselle]

okay truly awesome and thank you very much, but also can we just vibe with how bad-ass that person looks wearing the infinibee gauntlet 

[amateur]

What’s happening on Twitter? 😂

[ruinedchildhood]

https://twitter.com/smashmouth/status/992478669435060224?s=19

[steampunktallulah]

Love smash mouth

[ryonceagsalud]

What’s going on this year

[ruinedchildhood]

What is happening? 😂

[victorious]

[thefishychicken]

LMAO He just said he does

[ruinedchildhood]

https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/588913900789309440?s=19

[natural--blues]

[imanambulance]

LMAO reblogging again because of 5he sass from dictionary.com 😂😂

[ultracheese]

[awildpaige]

Y'all know when you get wrecked by the damn dictionary you’re a fool

[starsberrisnunicorns]

Never Forget 😂

[usedtobe-a-crazygirlthinking]

The best fucking post on here

[ruinedchildhood]

[trashpandagamer]

IT’S BACK

[boylikeme94]

Thread was missing my fave part.

[official-lucifers-child]

i’m actually wheezing at all of this

[calder]

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

[calder]

vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects

[blackwashedmax]

Honey is literally murder but go off

[kasaron]

Prove it.

[blackwashedmax]

They literally puke their guts up to make your honey

[kasaron]

I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.

Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? I’d be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.

[blackwashedmax]

Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. It’s a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey

[hematite2]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

[leonardo-nierman]

@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder

[gemstone-gynoid]

they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom. 

[darkenedyeastextract]

…do they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomit…?

[demonius-darkblade]

bee carnival

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey

[bastlynn]

Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because there’s so many lies. And to go one step further because it’s such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they don’t want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.

… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.

How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.

The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.

Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.

[doncdesole]

NAUGHTY BEES GET PUT IN THE BEECENTRIFUGE

IM CRYING OS HARD

[thyrell]

i just listened to this guy recite pi to 50 digits to some woman on the bus except i also have pi memorized to 50 digits and he fucking got all of them wrong

[glumshoe]

I just found out they have black and tan domestic mice…. 👀

[glumshoe]

why is it… so big? if I wanted Huge Mice I would get a rat… the appeal of mice is largely in their lack of largeness.

[kedreeva]

It’s because black tan is a show mouse breed. Show mice are typically twice the size of a regular mouse and usually have absolutely stellar temperaments. Also the appeal of fancy mice may be their lack of largeness but the appeal of show mice is that they have super thick, incredibly soft fur and they like to be pet.

Also “tan” is the type of mouse, and refers to the gene that creates the belly pattern. It’s a gene like fox (fox causes a white belly, tan causes a tan belly), and it comes in other colors like blue tan and dove tan and chocolate tan.

[glumshoe]

Well. I’m obsessed.

[the-ghostcrew]

… how small are regular mice? my only size reference for rodents are rats that are bigger than your hands

[kedreeva]

@the-ghostcrew​​ The average fancy mouse really tops out around 35g before they start getting obese, and most average around 30 grams (particularly the females). In lab mice, you might see CD-1′s (which is a pink eyed white [PEW] and PEW are also generally the largest show type mice) getting closer to 40-50 without being a hockey puck, but they still get obese.

A good show type mouse should be in the 65-85g range, but I’ve seen some get up to 100g without looking to be obese. My own generally average around 70g. 

For reference, a weanling rat (3 weeks old) weighs 65-75g depending on the breed (with something like a sprague dawley weighing 75, and something like a wistar weighing closer to 65). An average, healthy weight on an adult rat is more like 350-400g, with Obese Old Breeder Males capable of weighing in at 800g+.

Here is a photo I took of one of my adult female show mice beside a weanling rat:

So while technically they are the size of a rat at some point in a rat’s life, they are nowhere near the size of an adult pet rat. But show type mice are significantly bigger than the average fancy mouse.

That being said… fancy mice and show type mice ARE the same species (mus musculus) and fancy mouse strains can absolutely be bred into show type with a lot of patience and careful selection. But it’s a pain in the butt, so most people pick one or the other unless they really want a show strain in a color or pattern that they can only find in fancy stock.

I’m currently doing that with a self black line, so I actually have photos of a fully grown, mature female of each type side by side for once (the black is a little pregnant so SOME of that size is babies):

[glumshoe]

Those are very cute .

[bluebeetle]

i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!” 

buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is

[hitmewithcute]

Let him wander around the house. Thought I lost him but he was next to the potatoes

[cop-disliker69]

[tomasorban]

[fuzzypetal]

Shoutout to giant trees!!!!

[yinx1]

Entryways into another world

[girl-sim-deactivated20230806-de]

love u ted

[bixbythemartian]

‘it’d be mighty rude to keep on calling someone the wrong name’

I read that and immediately went ‘he’s from Texas’

lo and behold

and if you’re not familiar with this particularity of the inland southern dialect, frequently referred to as Texan (though more broadly applicable than just Texas, that’s the most common association) this is a statement which is, at it’s mildest, vaguely threatening towards the person who would dare be so rude.

I hope that makes your day a little brighter, it sure did mine

[tropconnu]

99% sure my soulmate is a piece of bread

[flowinghly]

[programmerhumour]

SQL injection via car.

[mooncustafer]

Little Bobby Tables’ got his driver’s licence.

[vicroc4]

lol

[feminists-against-feminism]

I am lost. programmer memes are next level

[quinn-vica-deactivated20201222]

TLDR, the red light cameras actually read license plate numbers. So when they read the code it executed the command which dumped the entire database of saved information. So depending on how often they back it up, thats a lot of fines the city isn’t going to be able to collect.

[muirin007]

“Victorians were stuffy prudes.”

[taylorftphoebe]

this is a serve