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@stupidjewishwhiteboy
My instant block policy has officially evolved to include making arguments we’ve all heard a billion times that have counter arguments we’ve all heard a billion times. If you’re boring, you are not worth my time, and you’re getting blocked
Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.
This reminds me of the blood river in Antarctica. For like a century scientists had no clue why this river looked like, acted like, and felt exactly like blood. Turns out it’s just really high in iron.
"Blood River in Antartica" yeah right there's no way a river looks like bl-
...nevermind
Blood Falls isn't just high in iron, it's the byproducts of extremophile bacteria that have been isolated under a glacier in a iron- and sulfur-rich anoxic brine for the past 5 million years.
old deer coincidental framing concepts
Does anyone remember that pokemon episode where an unexplained giant Magikarp almost lands on and kills Ash, only for a swole and tanned Nurse Joy to show up, force feed it a whole bottle of opiates, and then effortlessly overhead-press the one-ton fish before throwing it into the ocean, all in the space of about 30 seconds
I hope there was No Explanation for This
I don’t think there was, I think that Joy was just built different.
Like a tank different.
Anyway, we stan a queen.
PEAK CONTENT <3
never felt jealous of a magikarp before…
you are now a cat in the warrior cats universe! Spin these wheels for your name!
Do you like it?
YES!!!
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eh it's okay
no.
IM MOON MOON
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note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make
(prefixes and suffixes from @yarrowleef)
I DON'T WANNA BE DEAD WOLF
It's me. Football Cat.
Pine haze? I sound like a breed of marijuana
the democratic party has abandoned american jews and is in the process of eating itself
Upstairs Kevin Is Actually For Real The World's Most Perfect Betta Fish
So for those of you not familiar with my recent descent into fishkeeping, about 2 months ago a friend of mine who does Hazardous Waste cleanup (specifically cleaning up hazardous places like meth labs) called me up and asked:
"You have fish, right?"
"...Why?" I asked, having become aware that the Fish Distribution System is even more aggressive than the cat one.
"I found a fish in the back of an abandoned trap house. Alive." She clarified.
I could feel my fate settling upon my soul.
"...Send me a pic so I can ID the species and I'll see what I can do."
She sent me a picture of a small purplish squiggle in six inches of fetid green muck. But when I arrived to collect the sludge creature he turned out to look like this:
He's difficult to photograph in focus, but he's a deep wine-dark creature with an iridescent blue sheen. The red patches on his fins mirror where the fins of a Plakat/wild Betta splendens would be, and the rest of his fins are a ghostly shimmering white. This fish was in six inches of toxic green shit.
Naturally, he needed the finest tank I could put together that afternoon.
I think I did alright.
He's so fucking cute. He always swims up to watch when anyone approaches. I've got him trained to do a little dance when I feed him. He likes watching me doing anything in front of his tank.
That's all actually pretty typical of Bettas- they're very intelligent and curious creatures and like learning, which is more than I can say for some of my relatives.
Where Upstairs Kevin (so named because his tank is in my upstairs bathroom) really shines is that a lot of Bettas are... Not sociable. They often eat shrimp, attack other fish in their tank (or get stressed out of they can't commit enough violence to maintain their personal space) or constantly harass and nip the snails in their tanks. Most Bettas are genuinely happier being alone.
Kevin fucking loves his snail (Bluebert) and will shimmy as fast as he can over whenever Bluebert falls off something (it's fine, this is a normal way for mystery snails to get from one place to another).
When I had my Nego D'Aguas in the holding tank, I had to put three of the smallest ones in with him because they were being harassed in the small tank, and he was a perfect gentleman with them. He was trying very hard to shoal with them, but they're very zippy. He was visibly upset (lethargic, dulled colors) when I moved them back to the big tank.
Today was the real acid test: I'm going to move him from his 5 gallon to the 10 gallon so I can use the 5 as a hospital/spare plants tank, and I needed to know if I could have shrimp in with him. Even Betta that are cool with other fish can still see a shrimp and decide they're at the buffet. Unfortunately, there's no real way to know without putting shrimp in with the Betta.
So earlier today, I got half a dozen super-discounted Rilli shrimp (LFS has a massive overstock of them for some reason) and added them to his 5 gallon. There are a bunch of hiding places for shrimp in there and if he was aggressive with them I'd move him to the 10 gallon immediately (I don't want to do that just yet because I need to move the furniture around in there a bit).
Friends.
The shrimp are fully swimming in the open and Kevin is just following them around, curious, but only curious. No gill-flaring, no posturing, no lunges or snapping. Some of them are red, a color that normally triggers aggression in Bettas, and he's just. Hanging out, watching them eat biofilm off the moss. One of them accidentally landed on his head and stayed there for 3 seconds and he only went "???" Until it took off again.
My beautiful and perfect and son who is so kind and gentle with his tiny friends.
Congrats on a most excellent fishson! Do you have any resources you'd recommend for learning appropriate betta care? My niece just bought one and is keeping it in a vase.
My mom and I are hoping to get her a proper tank setup, but we don't know where to start looking for actually reliable information, especially for identifying the middle ground between "lies the fish bowl companies told the underpaid teenager at the pet store to say" and "spending thousands of hours and dollars turning half the room into fully native habitat" where an eleven year old is most likely to need to start.
You are right, a vase is a completely unacceptable place to house any animal, especially a Betta. I am not going to shame your niece or her parents because yes, chain stores, and media have fully lied to them about what fishkeeping is actually like and what it takes to keep fish and other tank animals without torturing them. The truth is that Fishkeeping is a TERRIBLE introduction to pet ownership, but a great introduction to ichthyology, chemistry, ecology, pathology, engineering and animal psychology. Places that will give you good (or at least, better) information about fish:
1. Your Local Fish Store- NOT the Petco/Petsmart/Other chain store, the independent small business that probably feels like a fire hazard and is owned by a Weird Old Guy or if you're really lucky, weird lesbians. These people are in it for the love of fish, and will give you very realistic advice and expectations.
2. The following Youtube Channels have good fish husbandry and advice:
SerpaDesign: Tanner is very much the "Turn half a room into a habitat" guy but he gives a lot of good advice about how to design tanks that will suit the needs of their inhabitants, and his videos are very soothing tbh.
FishForThought is funny and Recently did a Solo Betta Tank Build for a friend's Betta. It's also worth the $2 a month to join the discord with a ton of fishkeepers you can ping for advice whenever.
AquariumStoreDepot has what I'd consider THE best Introductory fishkeeper video. Just watch it, it's a great summary of what makes a good community fish tank, but a lot of the advice is applicable to a Solo Betta tank.
I was writing up an entire materials/costs/instructions on Kevin's 5 gallon speedrun but it got so long tumblr started crashing so I'm going to go finish that post in word and then add it to this tomorrow.
alas the melancholy, it strikes at my heart! prithee, humble tumblr toiler, share with me your most superior cephalopod fact
Male octopus get eaten a lot while reproducing so they usually develop a survival strategy. My favorites are they're usually in a position where they can get out fast or they remove their reproductive arm and give it to the females which they can still use and honestly is more beneficial as they can use it when they find somewhere safe for eggs.
*detatches my penis mid-coitus for u to add to ur inventory*
The blanket octopus has some of the most extreme size differences between males and females, with females reaching 2 meters (6.6 ft) and males maxxing out around 2.4 cm (1 inch). Males and immature females have been found carrrying stinging man-o-war tentacles to use as defensive weapons.
don't talk to me (hulking goddess), my boyfriend (amoeba), OR our third (innocent bystander we kidnapped for use as a living weapon)
Funny Pages (2022) dir. Owen Kline
"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library
I literally took my hand-sewing to a library a few months back. because it's a gorgeous Victorian library and the walk to and from gets my daily steps in and then some. also there's a cafe nearby to grab a Little treat on my way home
you can just go there and hang out!!
if they weren’t so “look how jewish we are look at our flag and our culture we are a jewish state” i’d get it but genuinely why does israel use the Gregorian calendar
or maybe that’s just misinformation idk
as most of the comments mention israel uses both the gregorian calendar and the jewish calendar because we are jews but the gregorian is an international standard
Also people being obsessed with Greek mythology as kids wasn’t invented by Percy Jackson. My dad read the Iliad and the odyssey in high school because one of his friends was super obsessed with Ancient Greek lit and he was like “well I can’t let him be smarter and more well read than I am I’ve gotta catch up”
Some people have never heard of D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths and it shows
Is it the freedom
I mean the dryer in my apartment building generally turns cold wet laundry into hot wet laundry, but overall yes
Well of course there’s no shade its the Mojave
small brown rodent-like mammals could be used as a very powerful explosive, and destroyed the lab they were in
what the FUCK
