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I like when the bus stops directly in front of you out of the line of waiting people and opens its doors. Chosen by the dragon

icarusdiesatdawn

I hate this post. Ever since I read it I can't help but think "chosen by the dragon" whenever the bus stops in front of me or "denied by the dragon" when it doesn't. Every. single. time. That's a minimum of ten times a week. Do you know how annoying that is

mousidy

they removed posting from tumblr. now there's only scrolling down through the vast blank expanse. great

eggowall

shithowdy

when the whole house got the autism

shithowdy

i think this 2-minute doodle of an exchange between me and my roommate when i found a pebble in the car cupholder is now my most circulated drawing

mortimermcmirestinks

herpetological guide

konoko

vodka-is-gay-and-so-am-i

soup-erb

bumblebeebats

benepla-deactivated20180521

catwithbenefits

corgifish

persistentmanlyagitation

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

naamahdarling

Holy shit. Holy shit.

someguyiguess-deactivated202511

spiders have got to figure out contracting I need to be able to call my local spiders union and be like "hey can you send a guy out for a few days the fruit flies are back" and then pay it in spider currency. I'll learn the conversion rates. I'll be generous with my rounding. please.

ayeforscotland

The ice cream boss can be seen in footage saying: "You're killing poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by cutting Medicaid for kids here."

abbaswift

not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

toldasor

Moreover, 2025 is also the sum of CONSECUTIVE cubes

2025 is equal to 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³, which is quite special in its own right, and for it to coincide with a square integer... *chefs kiss*

prideknights

Hi Prideknights!

You're based in Europe, right? Could you help out signal-boosting this European citizens initiative to ban conversion therapy in the EU?

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

I don't think I have to explain the horrors of conversion therapy to you, so let me explain how this initiative works.

For it to get taken seriously by the EU, we need two things:

7 countries need to reach the minimum threshold of signatures for their country. We're currently at 6 out of 7! Slovenia only needs 300 more signatures to become country number 7!

We need a total of 1 million signatures. This might look daunting, but there days ago we were still at 200.000. Yesterday we were at 450.00. We are at 535.000 right now. So we have a long way to go, but we are moving fast!

The deadline is in a few days, on May 17.

Anybody with a European citizenship can add their name to the pile! If we reach the right amount, the official citizen initiative will be put before the EU Commission.

With lgbtq+ rights getting rolled back across the world, including Europe, there is no time to lose to demand stronger protections.

Give your support !

MAY 14, 2025 (VERY RELEVANT) SPREAD. THIS. LIKE. WILDFIRE!!!

moveslikekeithrichards

there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

electricpurrs

90s anime women were so fucking beauitful god bless. i miss them so much

electricpurrs

shes the cutest anime girl ive ever seen and shes in the bg for 2 seconds

electricpurrs

i think im in love with her. bg characters 4ever ❤️

electricpurrs

since so many people are reblogging this the anime is Golden Boy 💖 its an ecchi comedy so expect the average "boobs bouncing lots of sex jokes" kind of humor but the art style and character designs are so pretty im just kind of fixated on that

this is the main lady:tm: she has a manic look in her eyes sometimes that i really enjoy

kairosva

OP please elaborate

electricpurrs

with pleasure

headspace-hotel

the idea of protists is really funny. Ah yes, the kingdoms of life: Animals, Plants, Fungi, and Don't worry about it:)

man-cave-chronicles-stan

i just started taking my first botany course and politely op what the fuck is this supposed to mean

headspace-hotel

Well

...

All creatures with cells that have the fancy stuff like nucleus and mitochondria are Eukaryotes. That picture is from the Wikipedia page for Eukaryotes.

Long ago there was just the Bacteria and Archaea. Then something weird happened and an Archaean ate a bacterium but the bacterium was not consumed, instead they became friends. By "friends" I mean "permanently merged together into an entirely new kind of life form that can do all kinds of fancy stuff with its cells." This life form is your ancestor and the ancestor of all Eukaryotes.

One of those new, fancy life forms ate a cyanobacteria and made it into chloroplasts. This created the plants.

A few others decided to go multicellular and form tubes out of cells that could wriggle around, and they became animals.

A few decided to also go multicellular and team up into big networks of interconnected thread-like tendrils, and they became fungi.

But most of them just kind of went off and did their own thing, going about their single-celled business, evolving into all kinds of weird stuff without doing anything multicellular. And all of those guys got called protists. Every eukaryote that didn't become multicellular is a protist.

The guys that went multicellular are just a few weirdos in these random corners of the tree of life, but they get all the attention cause we multicellular organisms are kind of self-absorbed (and we had to do some strange things to sand to turn it into lenses to see the single-celled organisms).

If each of those multicellular clades counts as a "kingdom," how many kingdoms do the single-celled guys make? Good luck with that one. We keep finding more of them.

Every time we look at some more pond water, the taxonomists collapse into sobbing again. There are too many ways to be a little guy. Every time there's a cilium or a flagellum somewhere it's not supposed to be, or there's something suspicious going on with microtubules or zoospores or helical structures something, or god forbid two guys get freaky and do another endosymbiosis again, they have to rewrite everything and there's at least two fistfights and one brawl.

Protists: Just don't worry about it.

headspace-hotel

Also I lied and there are plenty of eukaryotes that are multicellular and not animals, plants, or fungi, such as giant kelp

However those get called protists half the time too because with kelp, it's easier than trying to explain what the fuck it is if it isn't a plant, and with everything else, talking about it just starts an argument about what counts as a "cell" and what counts as "multi" for that matter and nothing good comes of it.

drafty-castle

Wait wait wait. Hope do you argue what counts as multi. Anything larger than one, right? Anything larger than one?

headspace-hotel

Well

Xenophyopores found a cool hack to be unicellular but still get 20 centimeters long—they just have lots and lots of nuclei in their single cell.

They look like this. Of course it is in the ocean where all kinds of freaks are.

Behold, a single celled organism

Maybe it is cheating though.

headspace-hotel

Don't worry, though, the squiggly thing isn't really its body, it's more of a shell they secrete. Yes, you see they take in minerals from their surroundings, like for example, uh...

...Okay, maybe worry a little bit.

headspace-hotel

wikipedia article btw

They really like radioactive isotopes and collect radioactive materials in their bodies at high concentrations.

But this is exactly what i'm talking about, these guys are totally different from plants, animals, or fungi, just like they're totally different from kelp and amoebas, they are Their Own Thing.

headspace-hotel

@ayoungparent Well apparently slime molds are a polyphyletic group (a bunch of unrelated organisms that happened to look similar).

The Myxomycetes are the ones known as plasmodial slime molds and basically they form spores which hatch into single-celled haploid guys (basically like sperm or egg in humans) and when the spores meet each other they become a diploid cell with more and more and more nuclei until they can be one cell several meters in area and several kilograms in weight. Despite being one cell technically and having no brain, they can learn and have some form of intelligence. They are good at designing the most efficient railroad system.

The big green ball I assume you refer to is Valonia ventricosa. It has some complicated structures inside and lots of nuclei to make it work, but it is just one really big cell.

Yeah. It does mitosis and everything like a regular cell.

This guy is actually much closer related to regular plants than kelp or anything else we've discussed.

ecdykesone

ah yes, Parakaryon myojinensis

we, uh....we don't like to talk about that one

they're the definition of Doing Their Own Thing

bogleech

Yeah, two identical looking amoeba crawling around in a drop of dirty water can be less related to each other than you are to a tomato, and we consider you and a tomato to belong to two entirely different kingdoms of life. But figuring out how to categorize single celled animals is like being handed a garbage bag filled with the crumbs of 100 bakeries and being asked to determine whether each came from a donut, an eclair, a cookie, a cake or a pie.