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This article documents the severe and ongoing specimen neglect I witnessed over 12 months working at Florida State Collection of Arthropods. FSCA actively solicits donations, then picks and chooses what specimens to care about based on individuals' personal favorites. The rest are left to rot.

Please take a look and consider sharing this, it's extremely important for people (especially in science, taxonomy, natural history, museum curation, etc) to know how and why scientific material is being lost.

According to sources familiar with the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, many specimens are deteriorating.

cyphir-spacerobot

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

koiagain

gravityjunior

Starting a collection

worst-egirl

weirdly enough i think it's easier to accept non sexual nudity if you're a bit of a a pervert. like people think "boobs are too sexy, people can't be normal about them", and it seems like a compelling argument, boobs are sexy. but when you realise that other things are sexy as well, things like stomachs, thighs, feet, back muscles, and you can normal about them in a non sexual context, so there's no reason anyone can't be normal about any other part of the body.

sunderwight

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

adizzyninja

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

julianova44

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

40ouncesandamule

Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as whales, larger

I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass

40ouncesandamule

marxistlesbianist

Yup

staranos

That's absolutely insane.

preludeinz

Nature red in tooth and claw ain't seen nothing yet

basuralindo

In case anyone was bothered by the idea of them torturing the fish, it was already dead.

eisenkrahe

Last year JK Rowling personally funded a group called Sex Matters to amend UK law so that trans women *overnight* went from legally women to legally men. This has resulted in mass exclusion of the trans community from numerous organizations, along with ongoing violent assaults on both trans and cis women alike.

With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

In fact, you are cordially invited to eat shit and die.

johannestevans

Btw when critics say "this is fetishistic" we don't just mean, i think the author was writing this one-handed

A "fetish" can be when you fixate unduly on an object and end up worshiping the object rather than what it represents or what it's made up of, so your fixation bears no fruit

It's not really a problem if an author gets off on what they're writing, the author's feelings about a subject aren't inherently an obstacle

But treating a specific theme or topic as one-note, so that your portrayal of it is one-dimensional and unnuanced? That IS an artistic obstacle

So when we say that an author's portrayal of women is fetishistic, for example, it's that they're reduced to their sexual appeal and lack depth as characters, or only serve aesthetic or shallow emotional purposes within a given text, and THAT's the problem, not whether or not they're hot

penandinkprincess

listen I'm sympathetic to the dual difficulties of losing autonomy and also having to face "oh, I can't do something I used to anymore", but we have GOT to start giving senior citizens driver's tests

snailchimera

#and ofc beef up public transit so people who suck at driving do it less

Once again, speaking as someone who shouldn't be and doesn't want to be on the road, the answer is public transportation. Cheap, widespread, reliable public transportation.

The reason folks (in the US at least) keep driving even when no one including themselves wants them driving is because the alternative is being unable to participate in society. In many, many places, being unable to drive means functionally being unable to leave your house. It means no job unless you can work from home. It means no visiting friends. It means no walks in the park or bowling nights or hobby clubs. It means not being able to buy your own groceries or mail out a package at the post office. Sometimes it means not getting help in life threatening situations because you don't have local connections anymore; nobody to check on you, nobody who lives nearby to call, nobody to notice the signs of a problem before it becomes critical.

People keep driving when they shouldn't because their lives are over the minute they stop, and it sucks for everyone! Nobody likes this! Nobody benefits! Except auto makers I guess but who gives a flying fuck about Ford or whatever. I don't.

Buses. Trains. For seniors specifically there should probably be some kind of municipally funded taxi type situation. Take my hand. Imagine, with me, this beautiful world with significantly fewer grandparents threatening to nudge you off the side of a cliff or t-bone you at a mildly obscured intersection. A better world is possible and it has trolleys.

EDIT: I FORGOT TO QUOTE THE TAG I WAS RESPONDING TO. GAH. Okay it's there now.

40ouncesandamule

Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as whales, larger

I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass

40ouncesandamule

marxistlesbianist

Yup

staranos

That's absolutely insane.

dikdikpronouncedxylophone

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.