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[themoleperson]

@whatcoloristhatcat

this is my sweet baby Ringo. someone said she's a classic tabby tortoiseshell (classic torbie), thoughts?

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[bobbyfagbright]

hey can everyone tell me your favourite bird. preferably in the replies or a reblog pls and thank u <3

[bobbyfagbright]

the list so far.. in addition to any suggestions i also just scrolled through the wikipedia list of birds and added any names that caught my eye lol [and some are ofc just off the top of my head]

[themoleperson]

PIED BILLED GREBE!!! They're such an underrated bird, they're so cute and grebes are so cool and I love them so much. Every time I go birding, if I see a PBGR, it's automatically a good trip. They have such darling little faces. I attached 2 pictures that I took of one having a little rest in a marsh. They're just the cutest, I really hope there's other pied-billed grebe fans out there :DD

[cornmandog]

Like a child just wandering in a garden… yanking leaves…

[audhdspacewizard]

Knowing that Eridians have much longer lifespans, and also he can't be at every school on the planet at once, Ryland Grace decides to record a bunch of entertaining science lessons with Rocky's help.

Hundreds of years later, Eridian kids still get excited when the substitute teacher rolls in the 3D shape projector, because they know they're in for an episode of Friend Grace the Science Ace.

[dudethatsmypillowcase]

Sketchbook stuff! Every Rocky I draw looks like a completely different guy.

[darkestbrook]

I hope they pirated Minecraft on those computers. I think Rocky would like it

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

humans are the same

[mornington-the-crescent]

[bedlamsbard]

I’ve seen this one doing the rounds a few times (and it makes me cry every time I see it), but was curious about the original Latin text, so I did some digging: it’s a shortened version of CIL 10, 00659, a tombstone from Salernum (modern Salerno, Italy). (source; CIL is the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum).

Portaui lacrimis madidus te, nostra catella,

     Quod feci lustris laetior ante tribus.

Ergo mihi, Patrice, iam non dabis oscula mille

     Nec poteris collo grata cubare meo.

Tristis marmorea posui te sede merentem

     Et iunxi semper manib(us) ipse meis

Morib(us) argutis hominem simulare paratam,

     Perdidimus quales hei mihi delicias.

Tu, dulcis Patrice, nostras attingere mensas

    Consueras, gremio poscere blanda cibos,

Lambere tu calicem lingua rapiente solebas,

     Quem tibi saepe meae sustinuere manus,

Accipere et lassum cauda gaudente frequenter

And here’s my translation:

Wet with tears I have carried you, our little (female) dog, just as I did in happier times fifteen years earlier (lit. “three periods of five years).  For myself, Patrice, now you will not give me a thousand kisses nor will you be able to lie lovingly around/against my neck.  I have sorrowfully placed you, merit-worthy, in a marble tomb and I have joined you always to myself in death, as by your cleverness you matched a human.  Alas, we lost such pleasures for myself!  You, sweet Patrice, were accustomed to join us at our table, to beg charmingly for food (while sitting in our) laps.  You were in the habit of greedily licking our cups with your tongue, which my hands often held for you.  Frequently and joyfully (you) receive a weary one with your (wagging) tail...

tl;dr: this dog was named Patrice and was very, very loved.  (another translation with some glossing of the text.)

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

[ospreyonthemoon]

It's the fact she's joined to them in death, it's the fact that she sat in her owner's arms and ate their food. That he held the cups down for her to drink from....

Hundreds of years and we still know she was loved. We still know how she liked to sleep. All these years!! Loving dogs is the same!!!!

[thaylepo]

gonna point out too that 15 years is an INSANELY long lifespan for a dog in ancient Rome. This dog was both well loved and well cared for to have lived so long. Obvs there's going to be some statistical overlap with ancient dogs with loving epitaphs having longer lifespans, but in a world without modern vetrinary science or medicine, no canine vaccines, and no nutritionally formulated dog food, this Roman's beloved pooch exceeded even the average pet dog lifespan today.

[themoleperson]

someone said I should post some of my bird pics here so here they are. currently saving up for a better lens, so most of these are taken #through-my-binocs, but 2 were taken on my Nikon. ignore the fact that most of these are waterfowl/waterbirds, I haven't mastered the art of taking pictures of birds that don't like to sit still lol. enjoy :DD

species and descriptions are in the alt text; sorry if it reads weird, this is my first time writing descriptions lol

[mystic-atlas]

I FORGOT I HAD A TUMBLR ACC whoopsies

femme kris gavin + calisto yew! (also could be a genderbend, dealer's choice <3 )

[themoleperson]

i know nothing about Ace Attourney but your art fucking slaps my good friend

[themoleperson]

I think the weirdest thing I'm dysphoric about is being pigeon toed. I have in-toeing due to my hips being rotated inwards, and ignoring the minor medical side effects I experience from that (I get a bit of knee and hip pain), one of the most annoying part is how in-toeing is portrayed as feminine. It isn't always something that bothers me, but sometimes I'll look down at my feet and get just a wave of dysphoria because of the association with femininity.

More generally. I wish in-toeing wasn't treated like this cute thing. I don't have it as bad as other people, I didn't have to wear braces or anything growing up (just inserts), but I still get the odd comment about how I'm walking funny. And like I said, the physical effects aren't negligible. Plus a lot of peoples' in-toeing results from other conditions, which cause other physical effects (which I could go into but I'm tired lol). I guess I wish people were just more mindful about.

Have any other trans people had this same very niche experience? We should start a club lol

[themoleperson]

why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls why gulls WHY. GULLS. I love gulls, same as I love any other bird, they are so cute and I love them so much, but I CANNOT, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, ID THEM.

I'll be taking a birding quiz and it shows me a gull and I say "oh, this is an immature California gull" and the quiz says "no :)" and I say "then what is it" and the quiz says says "it's actually a western gull :))" and I ask "well how do I tell the difference" and the quiz says ":)))))" I LOVE YOU MR GULL BUT IM SO TIRED. CAN YOU WEAR A LITTLE ID BADGE PLEASE AND THANK YOU. POST OVER GO HOME

[themoleperson]

Psych is so crazy cause you start learning about defense mechanisms, and types of conformity, and all that stuff and you keep going "omg I do that all the time". Really makes you aware of how much stuff your brain does all the time without you fully realising. Brains are cool

[pukicho]

Do men have hobbies?

No. We're too busy defending you all from falling rubble.

[cutecipher]

youre not doing a very good job

[pukicho]

Stop moving out from under my protective barrier???

[themoleperson]

then put more cool bugs inside your protective barrier???? it's not my fault that cool bugs and your protective barrier seem to be mutually exclusive smh

[themoleperson]

WOMEN, GET IN THE KITCHEN

MEN, GET IN THE KITCHEN

EVERYBODY PLEASE GET IN THE KITCHEN, I STARTED A GREASE FIRE AND TRIED TO PUT IT OUT WITH VODKA :(((

[themoleperson]

i keep seeing a phenomenon online and it's really interesting to me.

basically, instead of looking up the meaning of a word on their own, someone will comment asking what that word means. the reason i think it's so interesting is that it shows how social media is being treated more like an irl conversation than i think it has in years past. what do i mean by this? well, if you were talking to someone irl, you probably wouldn't pull out your phone to look up a word they said- you'd ask them for clarification. however, when you talk to someone online, you're already on your phone, so you cooould just look up the word. but instead, some people will comment asking what the word is like they would in a regular conversation.

this is so baffling to see happen. like, the only circumstances in which i will ask what something is/what it means is if i've stumbled across niche internet drama that i know i won't be able to get the full context of without at least an hour of digging, and a short, surface-level summary from someone who's familiar with the situation helps me avoid that- or if there is genuinely zero context in the comments and i'm super confused. basically, if i can't find the info myself, then i'll ask. but i'm seeing people do this for the definitions of fairly common words or terms, something it takes SO little time to look up. besides, if you looked it up, you'd get the definition far quicker.

what does this mean, and is it a bad thing? i have no idea. it's certainly frustrating when people offload the responsibility of staying informed on other people instead of simply taking the time to look things up themselves. god knows this affects disabled people, who i see needing to re-explain their disability to half the people in their comment section over and over again because people REFUSE to take FIVE SECONDS to google the EASILY RESEARCHABLE MEDICAL CONDITION that this person mentions having, or even check other peoples' comments to piece together what it is.

it's also made me realize that it would genuinely be helpful for me to treat my own comments more like emails or forum posts- not only would it increase my willingness to research stuff before i blindly regurgitate it on the internet, it would also decrease the amount that i'm commenting overall, because it would help me prioritize what i actually want to spend time doing.

anyways yeah. i think some of this is a symptom of the greater issue: we're spending so much time on the internet that for a lot of people, it's started to replace irl social interaction. there's good and bad to this. some people genuinely wouldn't be able to find people they connect with if they didn't have the internet, but others grow more isolated from their real life support systems because of it. and it wouldn't be as big a deal imo if people weren't more isolated than ever right now, and if people weren't assholes on the internet. one of the cons of treating internet interactions more similar to irl ones is that it sort of gives you a distorted view of how cruel people are in the world around you- oftentimes you're seeing the worst of people, and engaging them as you would in real life makes it harder to just put the phone down and remember that people have a great propensity towards kindness when they're given the opportunity.

this has kind of turned into a rant lol. just been thinking a lot lately about the internet and how it's beautiful but also sucks.

[birdofmay]

My brother randomly told me something that really made me think.

About what "Protect the youth" has become. Idk what it was like in other countries and I know that it very likely could have been stricter than it was in my country back then. But generally:

He was like "When I was 16, there were two kinds of adult content: Horror movies and explicitly depicted sexual content. The first made me have nightmares, the latter (as in what you could get in video rental stores) generally wasn't of much interest to me because it wasn't something I, as a 16 year old, could relate to. And other sexual content that was interesting (and/or helpful) WAS freely accessible. So whenever I saw an "18+" label somewhere, I just completely ignored that content because I knew it wouldn't be interesting at all to me.

But NOW, what's declared 18+ is even an excessive amount of swear words in streams! NOW, when I see an "18+" label, I don't know if it's horror movies that'll give some 16 year olds nightmares, if it's completely unrelatable porn, OR if it's educational sex ed, a 20 year old talking about their really healthy relationship with their partner (that includes intimacy), education about consent in BDSM (which affects 16 year olds as well, there's no age limit to curiosity), a live stream of wholesome musicians who happen to drink a couple of beers during kind of therapeutic talks, or simply people who aren't puritans and say "fuck" a lot! An 18+ label isn't worth anything anymore!"

And yeah... That's just it.

People who talk about body changes during their (first!) puberty are even labelled adult content. Even though puberty very much happens BEFORE adulthood. It's helpful content for minors. And it's labelled "adult" to "protect the youth".

Nothing means anything anymore.