"Many species of polychaetes undergo epitoky whereby sexually immature worms transform into pelagic morphs capable of sexual reproduction. After fertilization, they release their gametes through rapid disintegration." worms are out here having insane sex we can't even comprehend
"what do they mean by disintegrate?" "oh yeah no he fucking disintegrated"
who up disintegrating they worm
I'm having SUCH a bad day could you please drop an image of that one dude from the Precambrian Era (you know the one)
philbert my beloved
I have been informed that Philbert (anomalocaris) is not from the Precambrian Era.
they are instead from the Cambrian Era, they are one of the many lovely creatures we were given after the Cambrian Explosion.
It is with a heavy heart that I must delete this post, as I simply cannot stand to spread inaccurate information about Philbert, whom I love.
This post will be deleted in 24 Hours,
5:13 Eastern Standard Time
Yo ! I’ve been getting a lot of asks about whether I’ve seen the kiss and if I’m around !! Super appreciate all your messages and have definitely seen the kiss! Multiple times, over and over… 🥹
Been busy between two jobs + uni but hopefully life will calm down and I can come back to drawing them 😌💛🖤
RWBY is the longest running show I’ve ever actively kept up with without ever dropping it and picking it back up later.
I got into RWBY because in 2012 YouTube recommended me a newly released video of awesome fight choreography set to even more awesome music (the quickest way to get me into any show is to have an amazing soundtrack) with heavy fairy tale influences (I’m a sucker for fairy tale adaptations).
It’s been just about 11 years since then and 10 since the first episode aired.
Normally I would’ve grown tired of a story dragging on for so long and just resign myself to poking my head in every so often to see what’s been happening in my absence, and yet here I am.
Part of it is because of how long the show’s been going for. Who knows, maybe I would’ve stuck around for just as long on some other tv shows I like if they didn’t all end in around 3 or 4 seasons.
But I think the other part – the more important part – is because the story it’s trying to tell.
The story of RWBY takes place in a crapsack world where negative emotions attract killer monsters that seemingly respawn endlessly. There was a literal global civil war over whether or not people should have their emotions controlled by the government because of this. There’s an angry immortal woman who’s hellbent on destroying humanity to stick it to the world’s jerkass gods who nuked the first go-around of humanity and abandoned this current one. And on top of all that, the world still has a whole slew of prejudice and abuse.
The show never shies away from these facts. But it never lets itself get consumed by them either, and that’s the important part.
Bad shit happens every second of every day in the real world. RWBY says that the Grimm, the creatures that’ll use your anger and your sorrow and your despair to try and kill you, are endless in the world, but so is beauty, so are friends, so is love, so is hope.
RWBY says that you aren’t a burden because you didn’t do everything perfectly, because you didn’t fix every single problem you come across.
RWBY says that you always have time to love and be loved.
RWBY says that you are enough. That patience and kindness is enough to help change the world for the better. That you touch every life you come in contact with, for better or for worse.
RWBY says that’s never foolish to hope. The world won’t get better in a single day but that doesn’t mean that it’s not worth it to try.
And that’s why I’ve stayed so long. Some people need those stories where the world’s crap and it’s never gonna get any better. I need a story where the world is crap, where things get worse but they also get better. I need a story that’ll kick my pessimistic ass and remind me over and over again that hope is never pointless.
So long as RWBY keeps telling that story, I’m never dropping it.
being a woman is fucking exhausting. everything is created to disgrace our lives. this is horrifying.
The website promises to make “men’s dreams come true.” Users upload a photo of a fully clothed woman of their choice, and in seconds, the site undresses them for free. With that one feature, it has exploded into one of the most popular “deepfake” tools ever created.
Far more advanced than the now-defunct “DeepNude” app that went viral in 2019, this new site has amassed more than 38 million hits since the start of this year, and has become an open secret in misogynist corners of the web. (HuffPost is not naming the site in order to avoid directing further traffic to it.) It went offline briefly Monday after HuffPost reached out to its original web host provider, IP Volume Inc., which quickly terminated its hosting services. But the site was back up less than a day later with a new host — as is often the case with abusive websites.
"Hany Farid, a computer scientist at UC-Berkeley who specializes in digital-image forensics and was not involved in the original pix2pix research, said the fake-nude system also highlights how the male homogeneity of AI research has often left women to deal with its darker side.
AI researchers, he said, have long embraced a naive techno-utopian worldview that is hard to justify anymore, by openly publishing unregulated tools without considering how they could be misused in the real world.
“It’s just another way people have found to weaponize technology against women. Once this stuff gets online, that’s it. Every potential boyfriend or girlfriend, your employer, your family, may end up seeing it,” Farid said. “It’s awful, and women are getting the brunt of it.
“Would a lab not dominated by men have been so cavalier and so careless about the risks?” he added. “Would [AI researchers] be so cavalier if that bad [stuff] was happening to them, as opposed to some woman down the street?”"
i think everyone agrees that in any type of ship meryl gets thrown around like a potato sack
I accidentally watched all of rwby within a week with @shakeyjules featuring a "bombastic side eye" soundboard button.