hey girls...

did you know... that uhm... amazon wants to surveil your weird dog?

[wormsslime]

"but you're so well-spoken!"

you mean well-written

you've fallen for my ruse. my expansive vocabulary is in fact a compensatory tactic to obfuscate my computational shortcomings

[toasthaste-art]

pterosaur dragon progress. used translucent clay for the wing membranes, first time using it-- harder than i expected because the texture was much stickier and softer than the normal opaque stuff. now that I've used it i regret that i didn't do it differently but that's ok it's a learning process now i know the information

[unaloid]

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[fursasaida]

The Dirt That Refused To Die | Quanta Magazine

The Dirt That Refused To Die | Quanta Magazine

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.

For 15 years, Sébastien Fontaine has been trying to kill dirt. The biochemist, who runs a lab at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, wanted to know how much carbon is released by soil — just dirt alone, completely devoid of life. His team sealed dirt into jars and blasted them with sterilizing gamma radiation. Then they waited for the carbon dioxide released by the soil — a sign of ongoing microbial respiration — to drop.

They waited, and waited, and waited some more: weeks, then months. Under a microscope, the irradiated soil showed no signs of life, but it continued to emit carbon dioxide. The soil wouldn’t stop breathing.

Fontaine’s lab repeated the experiments and produced the same results. Finally, convinced that they weren’t dealing with an artifact of the experimental setup, they set out to find the source of breath in dead soil.

Now, Fontaine and his colleagues have reported that their soil samples continued to consume oxygen and spew carbon dioxide (opens a new tab) for six years. In a 2025 paper in Science Advances, they proposed that a metabolic process that powers much of life is also possible outside living cells. Their experiments point to how it could work in dirt, absent the living proteins that would typically organize it. If they’re right, some biochemical reactions, such as those that release the energy of carbon-rich sugar molecules, may not be unique to living things. Such reactions — known as metabolism when performed by cells — could even predate life on Earth, Fontaine said.

The experiments show “what happens to biomolecules when they’re left to their own devices,” said Joseph Moran (opens a new tab), an organic chemist at the University of Ottawa who was not involved with the research. They’re finding that the chemistry of life is not exclusive to life, he added. “It’s the chemistry of geology.”

[wormsslime]

starting to suspect that taking a shower just makes me feel like shit

which is unfortunate given not taking a shower has a p high chance of the same

[helicalsymmetry]

in this, the era of everyone putting their human face online and obsessing over how their face compares to others, break free from the crowd. be unsettled and distressed by human faces. be unable to glean meaning from the faces of others, and unable to recognize yourself in your own. split your own face down the middle so you can crawl out of your skin like a cocoon, faceless and free.

[the-2nd-one]

Untapped potential in feedees being spoiled beyond just food. Like yes yes I see the appeal in slob stuff but what about the feeders who take pride in their feedee looking good and feeling good and so on?

Like finding only the best quality clothes in their size instead because such corpulence deserves only the best, instead of getting whatever because “they’ll only outgrow it”.

It’s hot out and everyone’s expecting the big guy/girl to sweat up a storm and reek but no, they smell like pure lavender (example) because their feeder spent a good 60-90 minutes in making sure they were nice and clean after a bubble bath or shower and then every inch of them has been covered in only the best products. Body butters, foot creams, face masks and hair care, special sprays– “jajoba & cashmere” branded shit.

It’s all very expensive upkeep, especially when they keep getting bigger and their body becomes even more expensive in every aspect. Doesn’t matter if the feeder is the service sub or the dom or whatever the fuck either, this is just a necessity.

Feedees deserve to be worshipped and taken care of, don’t they? And what does that say about their feeder when they are?

(Part two, kind of, is here.)

[junglejim4322]

They need a pride flag for this

[wormsslime]

#Y'know it's funny. Tomorrow I have a hangout where the subject is making original pride flags#I could totally make a pride flag for this

if u do pls show me omg

[k9ok]

Here's the Adderal made me Gay pride flag. The black to white stripes symbolize coming into the light. The shaky lines that gradually get less shaky symbolize clarity. The pills shoot a sudden realization that you're gay upon you

[rambrandt-the-painter]

they literally invented monogamy to spice up tv dramas

[rambrandt-the-painter]

"what if I really wanted to fuck another person and also my wife really wanted to fuck another person but also we can under NO circumstances let any of that happen" Insane way to live your life in my mind but that's instant conflict

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

Visit Original Link

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[homoidiotic]

Trans Rentboys: Love Don’t Pay the Rent (2019)

Small collection of short writings in English, by trans boy sex workers based in Europe, Australia, and Aotearoa/NZ. By Ghost, Tristan, Jet Young, Xavier, Scott

[violet-the-reaper]

Food Service, 2026

[annabelle--cane]

please please please. learn to use the built-in tumblr content filtering systems. they work based on tags and/or words in the post itself. xkit rewritten has a feature to hide filtered posts entirely instead of just covering them with a "this post contains filtered content" label. if something is annoying you then you just don't have to see it, you don't have to let it keep bugging you until you spontaneously become the joker. please god.

[helicalsymmetry]

cute diy video where the fuck is your respirator

[helicalsymmetry]

what are some of your most favorite of hagfish images

so thank you for this ask for 3 reasons. one, i have now spent over two hours looking at pictures of hagfish and selecting my favorites, which is one of the best uses for my time i've yet experienced. two, in the course of looking up pictures of hagfish i have found several detailed marine biology websites which were finally able to provide sources and details on hagfish sexual function (answer: there are at minimum reports of some sort of bipotential gonad situation in some immature hagfish of several species but the actual details of their adult reproduction are fairly mysterious and the claim that they're bidirectional serial sex-changers has not been proven to current standards such that many researchers are unwilling to count them among known species that do that). three, i have now learned that there are over 70 known species of hagfish, which is information that somehow escaped me until now. and quite probably more species than that, given as they live at depth and mostly aren't that visually distinct from each other, because they are the perfect animal.

anyway let's go. content label: i am going to describe the basic mechanics of how they eat but i promise i am holding back.

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i like this one because it shows the way they tie themselves in knots. it's specifically an overhand knot from the tail to the head, though i don't know if this behavior has been observed in every species (probably not) so it would be interesting to know if they all do overhands.

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this is objectively adorable.

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another hagfish in a sponge but this time you can see their tooth plates. smiling at us. often people assume the 'o' in their face is their mouth but that's actually their nostril. they have a unique and powerful chemoreceptor system that majorly incorporates their nostril but also takes in information from all over the body. (x) and they have a mouth but no jaw. the two tooth plates pinch together when retracted, which grips onto their prey. for larger prey that they can't swallow whole they grip onto the flesh with their tooth plates and then tie themselves in that overhand knot which they move down their body from their tail to their head, pushing against their prey and pulling a mouthful of flesh free.

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i like that they seem to just kind of hang out together. i don't think anyone's specifically studied how social they are? they seem to show up in high density and pacific hagfish at least seem to share burrows a fair amount. can i please have infinite budget to study every single detail of hagfish forever. what are they doing down there.

honorable mention to the museum of new zealand footage of their bait trap and multiple animals failing to predate on hagfish and an instance of successful predation by a hagfish

the pictures are just pacific hagfish because it's difficult to find pictures of the other species, particularly pictures where they're alive. but you get to see different species of hagfish in the video! and i don't have a favorite species currently but possibly i will in the future.

also someday in the future you may see someone peddling an image of a 'hagfish' that is obviously just a lamprey or an eel. hagfish don't have fins and they don't have jaws and they don't have complex eyes. they are carnivorous deep-sea tubes without a bony skeleton. you will love them this way. it is mandatory.

[aldercaps]

These are my favourite hagfish photos :-)

An aquarium I went to had one and I was mesmerized by its beauty for a solid ten minutes. When I got home I drew one

Truly one of the most animals of all time

[egress-ahead]

give him a smooch