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aqueerkettleofish
Also, anyone who is actually a licensed doctor or nurse spreading misinformation should be charged with fraud.
If you are contradicting your medical training, but using your medical credentials as support of your position, then you are committing fraud.
tiltingplanetasked
Have any cursed facts about hyraxes?
bunjywunjyanswered
we like to toss around the “oh hyraxes are the closest living terrestrial relative to elephants, surprise!” fact a lot (especially on bar trivia nights), but this fact is actually a tad more apparent than it appears! (appearant! apparears?)
take the hyrax.
(gently. take hyrax gently.)
while they may look VERY similar to a rodent at first glance, if we pop the hood for a second we find something much weirder.
behold, the feet!
hyrax feet are modified plantigrade, and are SO modified that they’re pretty clearly more than halfway to being these things:
also. they got fuckin tusks.
great-and-small
1. A type of turtle called a Coastal plain cooter (Pseudemys floridana) is hit by a car near my apartment
2. The injured turtle is brought to my veterinary school for medical care while I am on rotation in the wildlife ward
3. The turtle is assigned to my classmate (not someone I know terribly well) as a patient
4. The turtle is treated for a minor shell fracture and my classmate spends two weeks taking care of the animal (in addition to a box turtle)
5. The turtle with the shell fracture recovers very well and is cleared for release into the wild, in a pond near where it was found
6. While birding at the pond some time later I see a turtle of this species out sunning itself and am excited to think it is my classmate’s former patient
7. Next time I see my classmate I say, at full volume in front of people, “hey I think I saw your cooter!”
iicraft505
Compilation of people holding things that shouldn't be held, please add more if you have any
ciderli
@is-the-snake-video-cute looks like a coral snake (blunt nose) but double checking- is it ?
is-the-snake-video-cute
That's indeed a coral snake, good ID!!
This thread is full of the luckiest people on the planet, I think. Also goes to show just how calm even venomous snakes are - coral snakes rarely bite unless you're actively harassing them - and how important it is to make sure your ID as non-venomous is 1000% certain before picking up any wild snake.
kineticpenguin
I feel like they should just print this out and hand it to any reporter dumb enough to ask about recovering bodies
sreegs
my favorite part about this mspaint is how succinctly it depicts the Titan. it was just a fucking tube with titanium endcaps.
do you want to see a submersible that's capable of reaching the titanic and has been in operation since 1964? yes this has been in operation for almost 60 years:
look at how this thing was designed with safety in mind:
the part where the crew sits is entirely made out of titanium, and it's a sphere. why? because a sphere has less weak points than a cylinder. it's more or less uniformly strong in all directions
if you look at other deep sea subs that support a crew and you'll notice a pattern. while their superstructure that is not pressurized may vary, the pressurized compartments are spherical. take a look at this pretty comprehensive list of manned deep-sea submersibles and click through to some that are on the list of the deepest dives
I referenced the Alvin first because it was famously used to explore the titanic but the list goes much deeper (remember the titanic is at about 4000m depth)
Here's a cutaway of the Challenger. Notice anything?
the titanium sphere used to house the crew?
now look at the Titan:
its an accident waiting to happen.
the Alvin designed 60 years ago is still diving to the depths beyond the titanic, and has completed around FIVE THOUSAND DIVES because it was designed with safety in mind
the Titan got crushed into a billionaire smoothie maker because the CEO who commissioned it designed it to carry as many paying customers as possible for the lowest cost, and by his own mantra of "safety gets in the way of innovation"
you can't innovate your way around physics! the physics that led to the design of the Alvin in 1964 are the same physics that made gogurt out of you and your passengers mr stockton rush. no amount of free market entrepreneurial spirit is gonna make your tube go super saiyan at 4000m and prevent the mathematical certainty of physics from taking your life
If anyone else was wondering about the slutty battle pants:
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
There’s a guy in the notes calling modern Germany “weak and gay”. I don’t think there’s enough time in one lifetime to fully unpack that.
Anyways, my favorite part of German history is where they just decided to replant an entire giant old growth forest and it worked.
Lose your local forest? Simply put it back.
Want another piece of wild German history that isn’t secret fascist worship?
Yeah. The Hamelin town records literally begin in 1384 with the phrase “it is 100 years since our children left.” The first known record, dating circa 1300, was a stained glass window in a local church commemorating the event. It was destroyed in the 1660s, but enough written and even painted records survive that it was possible to make a reconstruction of it:
(Credit to Hans Dobberton.)
To give you an idea of how accurate this reconstruction might be, by the way, here’s a drawing from 1592 in which the Piper shown is the one from the window:
Written references to the story up through the 1500s are astonishing in number. “Astonishing?” Well. This wasn’t London or Rome. These people were not royalty, nobility, or even gentry. They were peasants and working people. And yet we have this commissioned window only sixteen years after the event, plus a further three either surviving or “we don’t have the original original but we have copies or attestations of the original” written records, and also the records of Hamelin itself. All agree on the date–1284–and the number of taken children–130. In 1816 we see the Brothers Grimm documenting the story in their first compilation of folktales*, which drew on eleven different past sources (which is more than the total amount I’ve found in research, meaning they either had more sources in German, some of their sources are now lost, or both). A now-lost choirbook actually contained a written eyewitness account, which we can no longer check against the other surviving records (because it was, you know, lost), but which is attested in other sources. We even know who it belonged to: Johannes de Lüde, whose mother was the eyewitness.
The oldest known surviving account–beyond that heartbreaking line at the beginning of the Hamelin town history–dates to 1440-50, and actually used the inscription on that stained-glass window to affirm the exact date–the children left or were taken from the town on 26 June 1284.
I would like to pause here to say that the amount of documentation we have for the story is frankly insane, given the time period and the fact that Hamelin was just a town built around a monastery (that doesn’t even seem to have still existed at the time of the story). The earliest record we have of its population is in 1689, when it had just 2400 people; it’s reasonable to assume that at the time of the tale, there were only a few hundred. And there were seven hundred years for these texts to get lost, and many probably did–it’s reasonable to assume the local church had birth and death records that would have told us whether the children died or just vanished, for example, but those records were probably destroyed along with the church in 1660. Hamelin has been invaded due to acts of war several times. Being a German town, there’s literally no telling what records of the place Hitler might have destroyed. That we still have this much record of a single event in a small town speaks to how catastrophic the event truly was, given the time period. Like just so we’re clear, England wasn’t yet fully unified when this was happening and the age of Vikings was only 200 years past. When I say it’s astonishing we have this many records (especially coming out of Europe at the time), it’s fucking astonishing.
So what actually happened to the children? Unfortunately, this is the point at which we know it’s nonfiction because fiction would never have such an unsatisfying ending: we don’t know. Some research has been done that suggests the lost “children” were actually teenagers who just…migrated somewhere else, or went on a Children’s Crusade, and there is some evidence to support both these theories. Earlier theories that the children died in a plague don’t hold up–this theory says that the place from which “they were not seen again” would have been their mass grave, but there’s no indication of any such grave existing, and also, let’s not insult the medieval Germans that way, shall we? They knew the difference between “left” and “died.” If it was a mass death (somehow, of only children), they would have said “our children died.” Or, if they were feeling poetic, something like “our children were taken from us by the hand of the Lord.” Any theory that relies on our medieval counterparts being fucking morons doesn’t hold a whole lot of weight.
Now.
Regardless of whether I was able to give you an actual end to the story, isn’t that a whole fucking lot more interesting than Heinrich Himmler?
*I know we think of them as writing fairy tales, but actually they were more in the business of writing them down. The Grimms were actually scholars.
boot2004
It feels good to block bad people
“Erm actually being a TERF isn’t conservative” BLAMMO
“It’s so hard being a conservative on this gay site” POW POW
“Men are inherently evil” KABOOM
Just gets the blood flowing y’know?
Anonymousasked
is transformation really queer?
vonkarnanswered
transformation is inherently queer, baby!!
courpulent
adhd student: i love learning and i actually hunger for knowledge, but the way the school system currently operates doesn’t work well for people with brains like mine. i am capable of maintaining acceptable and even good grades, but it takes about 3x the time and effort of the average student. all my life i have been receiving messages, overt and subtle, that i am deficient, lazy, and/or weird for my inability to perform well in that environment, and my self-worth has been utterly decimated as a result.Â
what ppl hear:
rivensbane
JEL in the PALIA OFFICIAL CINEMATIC TRAILER.
Jel is an elf tailor that loves fashion. He is the youngest of six and a member of the illustrious Omiata family. One of the romanceable characters in Palia.
zaytri
Low maintenance Palia farm layout
Uses all 7 basic crops, every crop has weed block and water retain so you never have to water or weed them, all inner crops have yield up, and cotton is sprinkled in for fabric making!
Built with my spreadsheet: https://href.li/?https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z60kAOtJTESQocGVLz33tv1u2Y9jilwtNU6f67Ww42g/edit#gid=0
cishetlessfashion
Everyone on twitter is arguing against the terfs demonizing phalloplasty and top surgery by saying the scars fade and the flesh regrows over time, but has anyone considered that scars are cool and having huge, discolored, incredibly noticeable scars is based
redlightofdawn
scarification did not emerge as a beautifying & spiritual practice across the most varied human cultures for you clowns to go "scars are yucky", you absolute fools
monotropauniflora
Transmisogynists have been talking about putting “terfs don’t interact” banners on their own posts to trick people into reblogging them
So remember to look at people’s urls before reblogging
Every fucking time this post blows up I get terfs in my notes. Which means some of you well meaning people reblogging this have terf followers without even knowing
b-atifuldeactivated
shit like this is why its so important to actually KNOW terf rhetoric and dog whistles and be able to recognize the bullshit even devoid of the context of transmisogyny. because all of their ideas perpetuate it, but most dont explicitly state it.
i dont have a comprehensive list rn but honestly if you see any posts that are like “all men are predisposed to violence and are inherently horrible” thats probably terf shit. please just pay attention to stuff you reblog
decolonize-the-left
In case anyone doubted the fact that bigots ACTIVELY try to recruit you by making themselves seem like just another unassuming Tumblr blog
So I vote that whenever a terf tries to use Aphrodite as a symbol of their hate and transphobia we respond with:
“Sorry can’t hear you over Aphrodite’s penis”Â
teawiththegods
Just a reminder that Aphrodite’s beautiful feminine body includes a penis.
theoi-crow
This Venus has a penis!
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