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(my name is Crab) it/they white 24 bl 'mbtv' if youre pretending apple tv doesn’t exist

[egberts]

"i ate too many cookies" is truly an ageless problem. an unlearnable lesson.

[killadelphia]

[solitairians]

they call me the text ignorer for reasons I'll probably explain to you in a few days or so

[transcarcinization]

WHY AM I SO NAUSEOUS I AM EATING IM FUCKING EATING!!!! MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY!!!!!!!! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME

[sonoftheria]

✴︎ BETRAYED STRAYS ✴︎

[transcarcinization]

i should go to the store🙃 i want ice cream. and maybe eggs

[max1461]

I stand by my claim that tumblr users are on average more curious and intellectually playful than users on pretty much any other major website. I've thought this a lot with regards to how many of the popular memes on here are history, science, or philosophy themed, in a way that doesn't just strike me as surface level repetition of a factoid (cf. reddit), but actually represents more thoughtful engagement with an idea. Thinking about all the really clever ways that "this is not a place of honor" has been used and reworked, or the Ea-nasir jokes, or even something as simple as those "juice reward" memes. And the boyfriend memes! Those have mass appeal here, and they're all shit like "yeah we shifted your boyfriend down an octave", "yeah we mythologized your boyfriend", "yeah we compressed your boyfriend into a .zip file". You know, like... for all that's been made of the tumblr userbase's susceptibility to convincingly-worded falsehoods, people here really do seem willing to contemplate things a little harder than people on reddit or twitter do. As someone who spends time on a number of different social media sites, the difference is pretty stark.

And I'm just thinking about this in light of the fact that, as soon as polls are introduced, everyone immediately starts using them to do game theory. Like, not even the usual suspects here, just random tumblr users! And I don't think this is because they know game theory and are doing it intentionally, I think it's because a lot of people here just have that sort of playful, tricksterly intellectual impulse. It's wonderful.

[stevishabitat]

Exactly this. Also, some of the wordplay that you find here is so refreshing and fun. Top tier.

And that people are so willing to collaborate, rather the oneupmanship you find elsewhere.

In other platforms, people are somehow out for some kind of win. Here, it's more about enjoying the collaborative process. I love that.

[eatpussypraylove]

[maureen2musings]

King Arthur at Tintagel

uniquedevontours

[c-53]

I went to an intro to fencing course yesterday and i was notably better at fast footwork than my classmates, and a fair bit worse at parrying so in the actual combat I blitzed to 4-0 by just being incredibly fast and aggressive, at which point I lost 4-5 when my opponent realized her arms were longer than mine, and my defense was shit, and I wore myself out too fast. Fantastic time though oh my god

[c-53]

Bad defense? Don’t really know how to turn a parry into a counterattack reliably? Don’t let them attack! Scare the shit out of them!

[dorothygale]

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

[haaarpb]

happy july 4th it is peaches day

[haaarpb]

happy peaches day to all that celebrate

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[aintnobodylikemydesigurl]

motogp u da sexy

[oneheadtoanother]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick