I think if i put into words how happy this type of image makes me I would get diagnosed with something
peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it
dont do this
I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.
it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.
tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.
do not do this.
Unanimous consensus: Do not do this
Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this
hmmm
This is how a womb looks when a pregnant woman laughs
a horrifying sign, but it sounds like an adventure!
Spotted at Goodwill in Augusta, ME
bitingbitingbitingbitingbitingbitingbitingbiting
Sorry just need some space here to play with my emojis
🦕 playing dinosau
🛖playing hut
🦣 playing mammoth
🎂 playing birthday cake
🌵playing cactus
🐩 playing poodle
🍄playing mushroom
🌋 playing volcano
🫎 playing moose
🐗playing boar
🐖playing pig
🖼️ playing picture
🦃 playing turkey
🐛 playing caterpillar
🍯 playingy honey pot
🛶 playing canoe
🪅 playing viva pinata
🎃 playing jackolantern
🦠 playing with germ
🎳 playing ball and pins
🧽 playing sponge
⚗️ playing alembic
🩻 playing xray
🪜playing ladder
🧲 playing magnet
📐 playing angle
🏺playing pot
⚰️playing vampire coffin
💣playing bombs
🚬playing cigarette
dont put that cigarette so close to the bomb
may 14th is maia day because it spells may…ia……
whoa .. this is big
even better, may is spelled mai in german and pronounced my
sooo was anyone going to tell me there was gonna be a scene in breaking bad season 1 where tuco goes to take a piss at the junkyard and walt takes it as a challenge and joins him while jesse and tuco's guys just watch in shock and they have an honest to god pissing contest and try to aim higher and piss for longer and walt wins 'by a drop' or was i just supposed to find that out from the old scripts i found on reddit myself
bts picture implies they presumably began filming it too how will i ever know peace why did they do this
Alessandro Volta's Electric Eels
Okay so, it turns out that your cell phone battery is a basically a homunculus of an electric fish.
These are the same thing. Let me explain.
@fishteriously, a paleoichthyologist, told me that Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery after studying electric eels and rays. This sounded like a fun science factoid! I wanted to know more! I saw the claim repeated on any number of pop science articles from the last century or so, but none that quoted from primary sources.
The voltaic pile is one of the most important inventions, ever, of all time. Before Volta, electricity could be stored in Leyden jar capacitors, which would discharge in a single, brief burst. Volta's pile was the first method of producing a continuous electric current, which launched the modern era of electricity as we know it. His explanation for how it worked was incorrect, but it was still a massive breakthrough.
Batteries use the same principle to this day, just with different materials (e.g. cobalt oxide, graphite, and lithium salts rather than silver, zinc, and brine).
But is it a fish?
This is Volta's first schematic of a battery, or "voltaic pile" – at the time, "battery" referred to a bunch of Leyden jars linked in series, the term wouldn't come to refer to piles until later. "Z" and "A" stand for zinc and silver ("argentum"), with brine-soaked paper disks between. It does look a bit like an eel?
But is it truly?
Surely, if Volta modeled the pile after electric fishes, I’d be able to find a citation! Wikipedia is usually a good place to start when hunting primary sources, but no luck. No mention of fish at all. I trust fishteriously more than wikipedia, however, so I went digging. Looks like Volta first reported his discovery in a Letter to the Royal Society in 1800.
Found the letter!
Aw beans, it’s in French. I haven’t studied French since high school.
BUT WAIT. WHAT WAS THAT.
Une commotion électrique? A trembling eel???
Okay so now I NEEDED to read the letter in English. I found an English-language summary published by the Royal Society, but it looks like the only English translation of the full letter was in the appendix of an out-of-print book called “Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery.”
So I bought a used copy. Let's see what Volta has to say about this:
"To this apparatus ... I have constructed it, in its form to the natural electric organ of the torpedo or electric eel, &c, than to the Leyden flask and electric batteries [battery = linked Leyden flasks], I would wish to give the name of artificial electric organ."
Yes! The voltaic pile was explicitly modeled after electric fishes – torpedo rays and electric eels. Fishteriously was 100% correct. Volta never even calls it a "pile," it is always "artificial electric organ." A significant portion of the letter is devoted to electric eels and torpedo rays, in fact.
But also, the rest of the letter is bonkers.
He wrote pages on painful experiments with the artificial electric organ – touching it, poking it into his eyes and ears, making other people touch it, generally just shocking the ever loving hell out of himself over and over. He routinely shocks himself so hard that he has to take breaks. And of course, he licks it.
But that's not the best part:
He says that the artificial electric organ can be turned sideways and submerged in liquid...
"...by which means these cylinders would have a pretty good resemblance to the electric eel ... they might be joined together by pliable metallic wires or screw springs, and then covered with a skin terminated by a head and tail properly formed, &c."
There you have it. One of the most important scientific discoveries of all time, and it includes a crafts project for building an authentic electric eel puppet.
In summary, next time you charge your phone, take a moment to thank the soul of the electric fish inside of it.
neato
people keep trying to make "ladies and gentlemen" more inclusive.
I think we should go the other way around.
make more and more weird false dichotomies in greetings. "gamers and pianists". "oil painters and swordsmen". "vexillologists and entomologists". "chess masters and diamond artificers". "accountants and gendered individuals".
we need to be dropping shit into formal meetings to make people say "wait what? which one am I?"
I have started referring to my students as “critters and creatures.” I then offer them the option to decide where on the critter–creature spectrum they think they belong. They enjoy this immensely. I teach some critters, some creatures, some 50/50s, some critters with creature tendencies, some creatures with critter inclinations.
all i have to say is 'hello cowards' and it shuts gendering up
“Listen up, fives, a ten is speaking,” has always been gender-inclusive.
"friends and pals" is my personal favorite
whats up sluts
since the old version of this post was flagged for 'adult content'...
reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!
along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the enby spectrum!
worms
My birthday is coming up and I’m gonna lose my health insurance 💖💖💖 god bless America 💖💖💖
I also had car troubles recently and am struggling a bit in general so if you want to drop a little birthday wizard some birthday cash you can find me on Venmo or Cashapp $sexygaywizard and I’ll give you a little birthday wizard blessing or enchantment or curse or whatever ✨
happy 26th!
I love crows. It makes me very happy when they go caaaaw! They are also very smart and very cute.
God their caws just make me so unreasonably happy djudbsinsifjwjizndia
big fan of corvids.
Thank you @bedithaboi and everyone who got me to 25 reblogs!
Literally epic :3
wow, i just got called the fuck out. sorry mutuals.
I love crows. It makes me very happy when they go caaaaw! They are also very smart and very cute.
God their caws just make me so unreasonably happy djudbsinsifjwjizndia
big fan of corvids.
there are lots of animals and they have different shapes if you can believe it
like this for example
and bear with me for a moment (i understand if you’re skeptical) but sometimes they can even be like this
Incredible. I can't believe it 😵💫
shaped
reblog to tell your mutuals they’re lovely af.
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