tofu...

[steve; he/him; mid twenties] [korean-american] [🍊][avatar by @measureyourlifeincake]

[amytilsdalejordanlevine]

[keiitopop]

i can't stop watching this it;s making me sick. that car is like an animal to me. i need to hand-feed it and play fetch with it. clawing at my monitor

[bouncy2004toyotayaris]

made this a transparent gif because im in love

[itsmissing]

Tatsuro Yamashita utterly killing it doing backup vocals for his wife, Mariya Takeuchi, at her Souvenir concert in 2000.

[gaystation4]

upstaged the fuck outta her 😭

[onionpainter]

Red Onions and Garlic 2026 11"x7" Oil on linen panel

[swagophile]

recently people in one of my discoed servers have stopped playing wordle normally and decided to see what fun pictures they can make using their guesses. just had someone make a smiley face (they didnt even guess rhe word) and an evil demonic part of me wants to yell at them to play the game correctly but i know thats wrong. i know i'm the evil

[swagophile]

this shit is making me so goddamn angry. can you fucking stop. im gonna kill you. the last one especially makes me so mad. i think its supposed to be a boat under a lone moon but like THREE FUCKING ROWS OF GRAY? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? BE SO FOR REAL. COME ON NOW

[transparentfossil]

Amber Bug Fossils

[guooey]

Hehe :)

[melynnwaters]

the joyous giggler here at last to spread merry mirth ^_^

[littleguysdaily]

[miamaimania]

“Midnight-blue-cheese” (2019) ☽ Wim Legrand — surreal painting

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[buraitusan]

Holy fuck this is AMAZING

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[beemovieerotica]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

I'm from the Central Valley in California and I feel like not enough people know about our Ensatina eschscholtzii (salamanders), which is one of the few Ring Species in the world. There's 19 populations in the mountains around the Valley in a horseshoe shape. Each population can interbreed with their neighbors, but the two populations on the ends can't interbreed with each other because they're too genetically different from each other.

Also they're adorable and all of them look a bit like they have anxiety.

Ring species are so weird! They really stretch our definition of what a species is.

(Image by Michelle Koo)

[soymoss]

disco starling

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[surskip]

CROUTON.NET IS DOWN

[surskip]

CROUTON.NET IS BACK UP!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[sandmandaddy69]

[galadrielspeaks]