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[pupperish]

I love this type of post so much

[meanest-big-lassie-out-city]

MY FAVOURITE:

[twobitsandanibble]

[spirit-of-science]

Genuine question: why is it considered to talk on the phone in places where it isn't rude to talk?

Like if I'm on the bus with a friend, it's not rude for me to talk to them (at a reasonable volume). But if I'm on the bus talking to the same friend on the phone, that's rude. Why?

[twobitsandanibble]

people can't eavesdrop as effectively so it's rude

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[identifyingbirdsinposts]

Purple Starling

[xylophonicsynapse]

[moniquill]

Very shiny bird dissociates while being manhandled by a colossal ape.

[twobitsandanibble]

Very shiny bird dinosaur dissociates while being manhandled by a colossal ape.

[partywithponies]

Sometimes you just gotta listen to songs and vividly imagine animatics you don't have the time or talent to make.

[herpsandbirds]

I adored the Black-throated Sparrows I saw in Arizona

One of my favorite North American sparrows! 

[meshugenist]

[memorycycle]

theres even shorter form videos now that are only 0 seconds long doing even more damage to our attention spans, and its called images

[twobitsandanibble]

Do you think we'll ever have balls again?

Brandon Sanderson

[adamsmasher]

WE WERE ON JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!

[rouge-the-bat]

thank you for coming to my this #mythis

[twobitsandanibble]

good phrase to have in my back pocket in case anyone ever asks me what a 'ted talk' is

[stormlightsnorter]

ugghhhhhh why can’t depression be as cool as in the Stormlight archive ?. Im depressed rn but like learning to love myself and accept that things are out of control doesn’t give me magic powers so I’m probably not going to do it

[preserving-tiktok]

[wormswithlegs]

[twobitsandanibble]

I straight up don't understand people who say you gotta be born with perfect pitch

like, you're really gonna try to tell me that if the dude from saw trapped you in a room with nothing but a piano and played you one of these bad boys every day at noon, and he wouldn't let you go until you could correctly identify which one it was like 10 times in a row or something, you'd be trapped in there for the rest of your life?

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nah. I don't buy it. they're different.

[neona]

How often do you typically look up the meaning of a word? (in a language you're fluent in)

10+ times a day

5-9 times a day

3-4 times a day

2 times a day

once a day

once a week

once a month

once every few months

once a year

less often than once a year

I don't do that (???)

Voting ended onMar 2, 2025

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[arabian-knight]

The earlier you post this the funnier it is

[enemywizard]

[twobitsandanibble]

The later you post this the funnier it is

[twobitsandanibble]

Something here doesn't add up

[fuckingflying]

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.

There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous.  The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs.  And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.

Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.

And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”.  We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.

[callmegallifreya]

The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.

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