I'm in a Mood, Dude

I'm Rebecca

[cannibalchicken]

[damnbluewires]

completely enamoured with this beast

[bogleech]

The big thing on facebook this month is people think lone star ticks and alpha gal syndrome are not only brand new but were engineered by bill gates along with screwworm flies to make people vegan.

[thedurvin]

Does Bill Gates want people to be vegan to weaken them or is it because he’s an Evil Communist that just wants to harm the American beef industry?

[a-book-of-creatures]

Yes

[bedupolker]

It feels cool to be "in" on celebrity gossip before anyone else. I ran into Californian Condor V9 and looked her up on the condor lookup website. It says her current mate is dead and she has no kids but I saw her with a new man AND a juvenile.

[taciturn-nerd]

OP I hope you don't mind but I made a tabloid cover out of this

I used two more condor photos by Andrew Orr and Alam Clampitt from peregrinefund.org

Gotta use the skills I learned from making tabloids out of the Jane Austen novels somewhere right?

Great, now I feel like I'm bird shaming. Congrats V9 on your new family!

[animals-with-fan-art]

This is art to me

[idlelizard]

shapely sugar bowl

[ruinedchildhood]

@staff

[the-big-mood]

In Spider-Man 3, there's a deleted scene where Sandman transforms himself into a sand castle so his daughter can play with him without knowing it's him

She hugs the castle. Then her mom calls her away

She turns back and the castle is gone

Sony cut it..

[henstomper]

dude it's just politics, it doesn't matter. all it does is shape every single aspect of the society you live in from the second you are born until forever

[novahazard24]

get your medals everyone

[the-big-mood]

When the meme looks like AI, but you can't prove it without using a AI checker which is AI itself.

[the-big-mood]

When its too late and you've already reposted the meme, and then you realize...

[sophie-frm-mars]

The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.

Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence

[nyaa]

“omg you’re just blogging for attention”

and you’re blogging??? for gold? Women? Immortality?

[geekandmisandry]

[ruinedchildhood]

[mosertone]

Coal miner's child using a hole in the door to enter a bedroom with a smoking pipe in one hand and a gun in the other in Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. 1938

[lettersfrombeachhead]

[creepymutelilbugger]

[sighinastorm]

uh, source?

[frowningfox]

Source:

[msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat]

mythbusters was so good because it wasn't a killjoy show. they didn't just say "see, it doesn't work" and leave it there

whenever they find that the stunt doesn't work as portrayed in the movie, they immediately ask "what would it take to make this happen?"

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

[oldschoolvillageidiot]

Some myths I'll always remember:

* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)

* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?

* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?

I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they "failed." Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn't matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON'T CHASE YOU.

And each time, they reacted with just... pure glee. "Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!"

And that, to me, is what science is. Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information.

[asthedeathoflight]

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

[achillbeing]

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

[achillbeing]

Amazing concept

[glumshoe]

my sweet little girl. my scheming eunuch.

[freaky-faith-interpreter]

The concerning implications of thinking of your dog as a eunuch… do you perceive other dogs as particularly virile; why do you perceive your dog as the exception of this rule…

[glumshoe]

she is the only dog I trust to guard my many concubines

[freaky-faith-interpreter]

Ah; That is quite the explanation; may I ask; who intends to cause harm upon your concubines…

[glumshoe]

all my concubines are wanted by interpol and are constantly fending off international bounty hunters

[glumshoe]

(I only take the heads of the most powerful international crime syndicates as concubines in order to equalize some of the problematic power imbalances inherent to concubinage)