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Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso

It is found from southern Mexico to Belize, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil, as well as in Trinidad. The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.

In the photo, the two bats on the lower left are carrying young.

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all-mammal-creechur

I really love how dedicated these guys are to queuing.

avi-mation

Earth’s Scapegoat and her Sacrificial Lamb

crowttore

Getting your face cradled by hands that kill>>>>>

the-bar-sinister

hgedits

The Artemis II crew naming two previously undiscovered lunar craters (one after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife).

knitmeapony

I'm just... I'm reblogging this again because I keep bursting into tears because I just keep thinking about his KIDS.

This is Reid Wiseman with his two daughters, Ellie and Katherine. They lost Carroll to cancer just a few years ago. I know lots of people are saying what a sweet and romantic gesture it is for Reid, but... for me? I think about his daughters.

Can you imagine losing your mom when you're barely a teenager*, but knowing now that when you look up at the moon on the right nights, you'll be able to see a little bright spot that proves that humanity will remember how much your family loved her? That the whole world is going to feel that with their whole hearts?

What a beautiful gift that must be! What a remarkable moment, five years removed from the worst of the pain and grief, to have this monument to her memory, to your love for her, shared with the universe and all of posterity?

Carroll Wiseman was a NICU nurse and a beloved wife and mother and friend to everyone on the Artemis II mission crew and though she's gone, many nights they'll all be able to look up and say 'hey' to her memory. What a kindness.

If I wasn't already thrilled about NASA getting press for a big bold launch like this, this'd do it.

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*I think; NASA is good about respecting the privacy of astronaut families so everything I've shared here is based on what little is available, which is good tbh.

roycohn

stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged

prof-grace-aspen

Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It's fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn't healthy.

whatsnewalycat

I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this

shutyourmoustache

“There’s simply no room for me to park my hellcat” wins best in show for me.

silvermoon424

She was INSANE for this (affectionate)

summerlightning

When I say this left an impression on me as a kid, I mean I was watching this scene on a snowy, jittery bootleg VHS I'd rented from a comic shop that mostly sold anime porn/anything with cartoon titties in it, and my face was two inches from the screen and Michiru said that last iconic line and I felt my heart detonate inside my chest. Hot blood went crashing into my cheeks. Maybe I started crying, I'm not sure, but I know I didn't blink, I couldn't look away, I didn't dare, and the whole time I was thinking: yes. Yes, this is the kind of love I'm built for, that endless raw devotion to the lodestar of my own personal universe.

silima

it's always funny to me when ppl act like it's somehow incestuous for characters who consider each other found family/chosen family/whatever u wanna call the trope to date each other, and it's funny for many reasons, but most specifically it's funny because irl when you meet a person and get really attached and decide that you want to be family with them, there's a very popular legally recognized way of doing that & it's called marriage

bemusedlybespectacled

I'm sorry it's been almost a week and I'm still not over this like

okay

imagine, if you will, that you are mel king.

your parents are dead. you were an orphan by the time you were in college. the only person you have in your entire life is your sister, for whom you are now solely responsible.

you spend YOUR ENTIRE ADULT LIFE doing nothing but working towards being a doctor and caring for your sister. you have no friends because you have no free time, or so you tell yourself (it's also because making friends is hard for you but you might not realize that yet). you have no hobbies outside of ones your sister is into because then it's something you can do together. you eat the food she wants to eat and go to the places she likes to go to and watch her favorite movie with her 164 times. you don't watch your favorite movie. maybe you don't even HAVE a favorite movie. literally every day is study/work, go home to take care of becca, sleep. every day.

and then finally you get her into a residential program that she likes and you finally have ONE TINY SMIDGEN of free time (even though you are in medical residency, which means you are bare minimum working 12 hour shifts and probably regularly pull 24+ hour shifts). this is the VERY FIRST TIME you can actually try to have friends of your own.

AND YOU SUCK AT IT.

like, yeah, your boss is mostly nice. your coworkers are cordial. no one's being MEAN to you. but they're also not really listening to you or paying attention to you outside of normal coworker interactions and they literally just walk off in the middle of conversations without even giving you a heads up that they're leaving so you're still talking into the open air like a weirdo

EXCEPT

this one guy. this ONE GUY who asks you questions and jokes with you and keeps asking if you're okay (which means he notices that you're not okay) and keeps reassuring you and complimenting you whenever you express even one (1) moment of self-doubt or upset

and like, sometimes it's hard for you to pick up nonverbal cues and tell if someone is being genuine or just polite or being nice to manipulate you, but then one of your other coworkers says that you seem to be hitting it off with him (!!) so maybe you can be friends (????) for the first time in your fucking life (???????!!!!!!)

except then he LEAVES EARLY WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE so MAYBE NOT

but then he's back like an hour later?

but then he's gone again by the time you're off shift three hours late and then you go hang out with your sister and watch elf for the five millionth time even though you just went through a horrific trauma

and then you don't see him again for almost a year

and there are rumors about why he's gone, but you don't want to listen to them (perhaps because then you'd think badly of him and you don't want to think badly of him), but you DO talk to becca about him. maybe a lot? perhaps a disproportionately large amount considering that you spent not even a full shift with him one time months ago? and like, you still have the people in your workplace, and it's fine, but you still spend most if not all of your free time with your sister so when he comes back it's GREAT! YAAAAAAAAY!

(one of your patients asks you what you do for fun and you can only think of one activity that you like independently of your sister and it's something that you used to do. and reading, which isn't exactly a social activity. and then he knocks you over and you hit your head and your day is already not going well but that doesn't help)

but hey THE ONE GUY IS BACK and you have INSIDE JOKES that he REMEMBERED despite it having been almost a year since you first/last saw him and he MAKES SURE YOU'RE OKAY and he GETS RID OF THE COPS who are FREAKING YOU OUT and he TURNS THE LIGHTS OFF AND CLOSES THE DOOR because HE REMEMBERED WHAT YOU TOLD HIM ABOUT THE ER BEING OVERWHELMING ALMOST A YEAR AGO

so OF COURSE you're relieved when he gets assigned to take care of your sister while you're busy getting personally attacked and dissected like a bug deposed and he's great with her and respects her as a person and oh by the way it turns out she has a uti.

a uti that she got from having sex.

a uti that she got from having sex with her boyfriend.

a uti that she got from having sex with her boyfriend whom she's been dating for six fucking months and apparently everyone knew about it

EXCEPT YOU, THE PERSON WHO HAS NO HOBBIES OR RELATIONSHIPS OR LIFE OUTSIDE OF HER BECAUSE YOU HAVE SPENT YOUR ENTIRE ADULT LIFE DOING NOTHING BUT WORKING AND TAKING CARE OF HER.

AND SHE'S GOING TO BE SPENDING THE EVENING WITH HIM INSTEAD OF YOU.

like I am fully team "becca should have as much sex as she wants and supported decision-making is entirely the appropriate legal choice here and mel needs to back all of the way off and stop treating becca like her teenage daughter instead of her adult twin sister" but I CAN UNDERSTAND MEL'S CRASH OUT AS WELL

ANYWAY mel should hang out with langdon and maybe make out with him about it because she needs to have at least one relationship where someone pays attention to her and her needs

behold my kingdon manifesto

vaspider

It really, really sucks, because Mel is functionally, in a lot of ways, Becca's parent. Like, genuinely, that's the role that she's in here, functionally the parent of an adult autistic person... but she's not Becca's parent. She didn't choose that role. She didn't choose to have a child. She's her sister.

Becca isn't kind to her like a sister in ditching their annual holiday plans for her boyfriend with zero notice. It would be mean to ditch your parents for an annual family tradition with no notice, too, but we are a little more understanding of young adults doing that to their parents. That's kinda seen as an inevitable moment of becoming your own person. But. Mel isn't Becca's mom. She's her twin sister.

Doing that to your sister is mean. Doing it to your sister who doesn't have her own friends because she spends her whole life working her ass off to take care of you is thoughtless and cruel.

Becca should get to be an adult, and part of being an adult is not being thoughtless and cruel to the people who you say that you care about, or dealing with the consequences of having done so, which may include people realizing what you did like

spankerella

This. All of this. As a former caretaker of an adult person, I felt that crashout in every bit of my soul. I understood it. It's been me. Different circumstances, but when most of your life is keeping someone else alive and protected, feeling like you are suddenly being left behind can cause anxiety, followed by quiet spiraling, then very visible meltdown.

"The Plan" is suddenly being changed. The script is being rewritten, and now you don't know any of your lines.