I had no idea that chickens could?? float?? or swim??? I don’t know why I’ve never thought of chickens as buoyant. I never picture chickens anywhere near water. what else have I been missing
C'est les swimming poules
Reblogging for the pun and the pun alone
EVERYONE ELSE GO HOME THIS IS THE FUNNIEST PUN IN EXISTENCE
For your viewing pleasure
I don’t what kind of fucking vibe this has but it is nice and chaotic.
For my viewing dis-pleasure.
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omg im not reading that sorry
Which one of y'all is born on may 20th <3
Hi @psycho-mocha <3
June 26th anyone?
any uh September 21s?
Upon birth, babies are screened and given a random ability based on what their parents had. Your dad had telepathy and your mom could sing any song perfectly, even mimicking the voice. You were given the seemingly useless ability of playing songs into someone else’s head.
ohohoh piss me off and you can enjoy caramelldancen at 25% speed on LoOP for the rest of your life
star wars is so fucking stupid, I love it
Prime example of why being a fanfic writer is painful
star wars fuckery to english glossary: the reader’s digest version
and, yes: that famous cantina tune from Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes is in a musical style called jizz. because star wars is incredibly stupid.
absolutely lost it at "midichlorians"
It is fairly annoying how upper class Americans have been treating slightly more sustainable practices like compost pits and thriftiness as like “trashy” behaviors for years and now it’s trendy to be sustainable but all the things that get praised are things you have to pay extra money to do
Like everyone will go acting like saving food containers to store things in or stretching out soaps and beverages by adding water when they’re getting low and all kinds of other things people do either to save money or out of convenience are these horribly embarrassing things to do just because they’re poor people habits
Like watching everyone get these fancy metal water bottles and reusable straws and bags made of recycled plastic and boasting on social media about “going green” and then getting side-eyed by the exact same people because I save any food containers that could be useful and compost food for a vegetable garden mostly planted in those reused containers is so weird like I’m sorry that keeping perfectly reusable “trash” is such an eyesore for you but you can have your Instagram-pleasing expensive new version of sustainability so let me have my “trashy” version
Everyone likes to wear a bracelet that helped clean the oceans and I think that’s good too like it’s a good thing that it’s trendy to be sustainable now because holy shit we need it but like people gotta get a lot more comfortable with the idea that things they think are ugly or gross are also helping
Compost piles/pits/boxes fucking stink because they’re full of rotting food and bugs but they’re still good
Dumpster diving may not be your thing but if someone finds something they can make good use of it’s way better than that thing just going to a landfill
Just because it’s too gross for you doesn’t mean it can’t be a good thing
Also it’s like weird to think that keeping food containers is dirty in some way like you keep food containers in your kitchen when they’re full it’s not like they instantly get covered in rat piss and garbage juice the second they’re empty
The other day I got a bug up my ass about lake Natron, because I’ve seen the photos of the calcified remains of animals that died on the lake (contrary to popular rumor, the lake doesn’t outright kill them as soon as they touch it but it probably doesn’t help), but I’ve only seen those photos in black and white. I’m sure you’ve seen them.
This particular photographer posed them for the photos, but I thought, you know, calcified remains should be really interesting to see in color, so I tried to find some that had been taken by others, in color. It was not nearly as visual stunning, they were just white rotting remains.
But what caught my eye wasn’t the dead. It was the fucking lake.
It’s BLOOD fucking RED.
It’s super alkaline (typically 10, but can get up 12, and just so we’re clear, pH13 melts skin, go look up Lye), blood fucking red (terrifying), and oh, it gets to be 106F/41C in the water (which is not scalding but still unreasonable for a LAKE). Red spirulina cyanobacteria (toxic!) thrives here and provides food for the main denizen of the lake…. fucking lesser flamingos.
Look at their fucking mud nests! They have to build nests out of mud because there’s nothing else and the water is caustic enough to kill their babies before those babies are tall enough to stand out of the water! The parents are feeding them crop milk that contains BLOOD.
Additionally!! The chicks often get soda anklets from soda and other minerals collecting and hardening around their feet and legs, which is the major killer of lesser flamingo chicks! They’re so hard that they would need to be hammered off! Like with a hammer or a smashy rock!! Humans had to do this for thousands of babies one year just to keep them from all dying off after we screwed with the balance of minerals in one of their lakes!
Look at this place! What is that black void!!
You need to leave!! You have found flamingo Silent Hill!! What are you still doing here!! I’ll tell you!! They’re still doing there because literally the death lake protects them from predators, nothing big enough to be a threat to them gets across the lake to get them. There are millions of them living there safely.
What the fuck. what the FUCK nature. This is some of the most amazing shit you’ve ever pulled and hardly anyone knows about it. I’m on to you. I see your blood lake with your pink goth bird decorations. I see you.
if people knew about it it would get fucked up by tourists but anyway What The Fuck
It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.
There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!
I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.
He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”
“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”
Several us nodded.
He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.
“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”
“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”
“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”
“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”
“No, of course not.”
“Then why lift weights?”
“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.
“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”
And I’ve never forgotten that.
THIS.
When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.
Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.
History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.
Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.
The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)
thank u <3
THIS!!!
you ever just want someone to hold who'll hold u back but u suck at affection and relationships because of really low self esteem and u're not really looking for anything sexual but at the same time u want something more than friends?
yeah,
The Costa Rican “Glass Frog” has skin that’s almost transparent allowing you to see its organ structure.
My vocabulary at this point is just
Bruh (annoyed) Bro (affectionate) Broooo (wanna kiss)
do u ever see a picture and get a momentary glimpse of a life u’d like to have but it’s too ethereal of a feeling so it just dissipates and ur left with a vague sense of loss over something u never really had to begin with…anyways
