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Mighty feed of online wisdom

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[alexandriaocasiocortez]

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Consider:

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[dykecadence]

every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok

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What is time?

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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

sometimes I think about how brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collard greens, savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan are all the same species, and i understand why biologists are constantly furious about taxonomy

[peppermint-madness]

I’m sorry what

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

same species. same fucking species

[sztefa001]

Somebody please explain this because what the fuck

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i can do that!

Introducing the Brassica oleracea, a plant species whose cultivars include…all of the above. They all originated from the same plant aka THIS FUCKER! 

No, really. This thing has existed in Europe for thousands of years, during which time different societies had different culinary preferences, leading them to selectively breed for different traits. For example, a preference for the eating leaves led farmers to select seeds from the plants with the largest leaves, resulting gradually in the development of kale.

The real fun thing is, this happened on a vast timeline. Kale was developed over 4000 years ago, while Savoy cabbage was first documented just 5 centuries ago. And different cultivars developed in different regions across Europe and Asia, with their phenotypes and names changing wildly over time. (Fun fact, Brussels sprouts are indeed named for Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, where they were developed from a predecessor imported from Rome.) 

The list above isn’t even exhaustive btw. There are plenty of other ridiculous cultivars (such as the Jersey cabbage, pictured below), and there’s no telling how many other forms existed throughout history, and which would have counted as distinct cultivars, and how many names and groups they were separated into, and, and, and—and imposing taxonomy on the real world is a mess, basically, because the real world does not give a shit about making itself comprehensible or categorizeable. But still we try. Planet Earth has Hot Mess Energy, and would you really have it any other way?

ko-fi

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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh honey

yeah

[thewerman100]

Its like the most cursed corn

[sparklyandhaunted]

Boyle on Twitter

[gingerly-writing]

Wh-Why is Bottom Storage called Bottom Storage....? 😂

I couldn’t find the og post so I had to yoink this off reddit, but: 

IT’S A THING™ AND THIS POST NAILS IT

[awed-frog]

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I know using ‘it’s funny ‘cause it’s queer’ is an incredibly lame punchline, but watching gender/sexuality subversive comedy is also such a big ol’ power trip sometimes

like, canonically bugs bunny is not stopped by goddamn anything, not rabbit season or codified institutions or the fucking jail cell of gender binary perimeters

he’s basically a chaotic neutral trickster, but damn if he isn’t near invisible to the point even sexuality norms can’t fuking mark this dude, lit

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this feels somehow very true

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Good thing I'm in the toilet cause I just shat myself!

[geriaujaupatyletum]

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Everything is going to be fine

[geriaujaupatyletum]

Šiaip neturiu jokio dienoraščio, nepamenu senų slaptažodžių, tai gal net nežinau, ar vis dar esu aš

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No one:

Waldorf technical writers:

This waveform is pleasing to the ear

[prokopetz]

The basic premise of the Pokémon journey is objectively hilarious when applied to literally any other profession. Like, imagine if becoming a dentist involved going on a yearlong walking tour of the surrounding countryside, cleaning the teeth of various fanciful monsters with increasingly esoteric dental apparatus, culminating in performing a six-hour root canal for a five-headed dragon who may or may not be God.

[prokopetz]

Halfway through your journey you discover that the American Dental Association is really an ancient conspiracy that’s scheming to use fluoridated drinking water to turn people’s teeth into radio receivers for communications from aliens. Resolving this situation somehow involves you filling a cavity for a woolly mammoth. The incongruity of a living mammoth in the modern era is never satisfyingly addressed.

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Excuse me what service does this stream on? Crunchyroll? I can't find it.