obsessed with the german subreddit called Gittertiere (Lattice Animals) which is dedicated to posting pictures of abandoned shopping carts.
Brave lattice animal is blocking the entry to the nest of a tin-vroomer
Completely over-bred lattice animal. Is this still considered beautiful? … In my opinion, this is lattice animal abuse
This lattice animal is utterly tuckered out from waiting for their play mate
i love this because it’s such a simple concept but it answers things i didn’t even know how to ask
as of 4pm PST November 20, 2022, the 3 linked fundraisers are:
This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in the mountain which seem to have been made about a thousand years ago. People, intrigued by these silhouettes, gather at the site and that’s when things get creepy.
It’s about a 15-20 min read, but if you haven’t read this before, you’re in for a treat. Link above.
i mean it’s not like i can just NOT reblog amigara fault. what if one of my followers is one of the lucky ten thousand who HASN’T been unutturably altered for life by it yet? go read it! it’s creepy, but trust me, it was made for you.
ATTENTION NEW TUMBLR USERS: This website is different from twitter and there are actually four (4) things that every blog needs. Go to the woods and fetch the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold
Give Us Roses While We’re Still Here Transgender Day of Remembrance // Nov. 20th
This is just a poster I made the other day. I love all of my trans family, and I hope you take the day for remembrance & self care.
didn't want to add to ops post but i know whenever we talk about historical trauma people tend to think that said issue is ancient but. brazil the literal fifth largest country in the world only got out of their twenty one years of usa sponsored military dictatorship in 1985. my mother (a 50 year old woman) can't talk about her childhood experiences in school without sobbing because of its horrors. the united states is directly responsible for the trauma of latine americans.
In Chile it didn't end until 1990. My mom is also around 50 and tells stories about having to sleep with shoes on to run away in case the military came to take her dad away. My school principal saw his history teacher be taken away in the middle of a class. People, young people, still have trauma from being tortured.
The United Stated is responsible for latine peoples trauma.
The US also did directly back the right-wing military coup in Argentina that lasted around 8 years until 1983 and disappeared/killed up to 30.000 people, not to mention torture and rape. My mom was a teenager during this era and tells me stories of how the death squads would just burst into my grandparents house in order to see if they can find any proof of left-wing support and how they would take away or end entire families if that was the case. Every day was just living in fear of that day being your last.
This wasn't long ago, this happened and people tell the tales and live with the scars. There are parents out there who never found their missing children or grandchildren, and some even still hold out hope to this day.
Please visit the article for Operation Condor, because this was a carefully planned campaign by the United States to literally genocide all left-wing sentiments out of South America over several decades. And this is just what's available on Wikipedia.
one of the most important things ive learned from upper level biology education so far is that dna isnt the god-like all-powerful beacon of similarity between all living beings on the face of the earth as high school science textbooks will lead u to believe but actually is, in fact, the molecular equivalent of a smoldering dumpster fire that’s in a constant state of chaos and cellular scandal like some highlights:
-the parts of dna that just casually detach on a physical level from the main strand, do some sick skateboard tricks in the cytoplasm, and land somewhere else with 43552342 copies
-the parts that would do A Thing if they wern’t physically spooled up so tightly that the Make Thing Happen machinery couldnt get to them
-the dna thats in ur mitochondria bc the mitochondria used to be a bacteria that our bigger, buffer cellular ancestors just vored in the primordial ooze
-the dna that’s in chloroplasts in plants for the same reason
-rna….bitches be crazy like what is she gonna do next?? o she gonna act like a protein now and do shit?? im on the edge of my seat
-sometimes u just gotta make more chromosomes man like sometimes u just be hanging out and u gotta make ur genome 64 sizes larger and then change ur mind only 100,000 years later and delete half of it and thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth
-random shit from like 5 BCE is just casually left over everywhere like no susan i told u to leave that gene alone we might need it to fight dinosaurs again u just never know!!!!!
dna is earth’s biggest and brightest train wreck and honestly i wouldnt trust a dna molecule to water my plants let alone run my body but here we fucking are
I am feeling physically very unstable after reading this.
I’m a genetics professor and everything here is true.
There’s a fern that has 1,260 chromosomes. That’s 630 pairs of chromosomes. No, we don’t know why.
Oh, and everyone should know that the person who first presented evidence for endosymbiosis (the official name for cells eating each other and then turning into mitochondria or chloroplasts instead of being digested) was this woman, Lynn Margulis, in 1967:
Her paper where she presented the theory was rejected 15 times before it got published. Over the next decade, her work was mocked and ignored. Now every biologist knows that she was right.
The bits of DNA that move around (“jumping genes”) were discovered by this woman, Barbara McClintock, in the 1940′s:
Her work on them was ignored and derided for about two decades before some people started to take it seriously. In 1983 she won a Nobel Prize for it.
Something of a derail, but I feel strongly about talking about the contributions of these two women.
it’s never not the time to learn about cool women in science
Stop idolizing the grind and start idolizing Hügelkultur
got another one
Doggust day 09-10: Yakutanian Laika and Xoloitzcuintile
hey please for the love of god when youre hearing news about gas prices and increasing oil production:
listen to me, stand up! thank you, friend!
