I look at the pfps of people liking a drawing of mine and im like oh??
Woah, cute emo guy!! I wanna draw it~ So I did
Well turns out it was a griller
If I was in the jungle i would have died. badly.
Yeah man last time i went on spotify they were straight up out of music
this is the only way we're allowed to cut pizza in england
you look like scooped from a jar
you look like two scoops from a jar of something.
@markscherz do you know what those two adorable gummies are called? Any fun fact about this species?
Other internet sleuths over on Reddit have deduced that this is Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni, a centrolenid glass frog species. Their wikipedia page is *astonishingly* comprehensive.
dog your dab doohicky is gonna summon the cenobites
Me after taking a hit from Dr. Intoxicant's Splendid Dab-o-Matic Device
geniusoflove
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here is solomon
this post permanently became a fixture in my brain and i cannot get it out. the other day i was looking out the window to see the streets were damp from rain and thought "god has pet them wethands style"
can’t believe there’s straight guys walking around who think sex begins and ends at penetration and oral. they will never know the boundless eroticism of simple touch, they don’t even know about frotting, they will never know what it’s like to be spooning fully clothed with another woman and then she asks you to explain serial experiments lain and by the time you start explaining the knights she’s dry humping you harder than you’ve ever been fucked and she put you in a headlock and she just grows more and more in intensity like she’s become fully fucking feral and before you can even mention the psx game you’ve came twice in your one size too big black women’s high waisted skinny jeans from Walmart
ma'am this is a wendys
this is the gay transgendered fuck site and I am using it to talk about gay transgendered fucking
“get a job” as an insult: piddlin. implies one’s value is determined by employment. feeds into capitalistic ideals
“get a hobby”: strong. cutting. implies that instead of feeding your soul and potentially creating something beautiful, you are here bothering me.
"stop acting like an asshat": doesn't define anyone my their ability to create and produce. isn't ableist. you get to say the word asshat.
oh my fucking god telling someone to get a hobby isn’t ableist. it isn’t defining someone by their ability to produce something physical.
“creating something beautiful” can refer to creating a lovely memory by bird watching or listening to an album all the way through or playing a board game with friends.
i am literally disabled.
get a hobby.
An ocean creature that’s covered in moss or algae or barnacles or other critters they formed a symbiotic/commensalism relationship with is something that’s so ethereal to me. Like the halo on top of an angel or sth. They Complete each other
Romanticize this shit immediately
If u were a gill fish and I was a manatee would you come over and gently peck the algae off of my back b honest w me…
Oh dear, poor, sweet beloved jame7t, who was blown up and exploded by 100 helicopters and missiles and huge guns, etc. very sad…
me, the 100 helicopters: what have I done
Welcome to a topsy-turvy Wet Beast Wednesday where I'm discussing one of my favorite cnidarians, the upside-down jellyfish. These are 8 species of jellyfish in the genus Cassiopea, which is the only member of the family Cassiopeidae. What makes these jellies notable is the fact that they spend most of their time lying upside-down on the seafloor.
(image: an upside-down jellyfish swimming. It has a light brown and white striped bell and multiple tentacles that are tuck and white. The tentacles branch and are lined with feathery, light brown structures)
While the majority of jellyfish are predators who drift through the water at the mercy of the currents, upside-down jellyfish have essentially become farmers. Their eight branched oral arms that contain symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae. These algae are photosynthetic and live in a mutualistic relationship with the jellyfish. The jellyfish gets food from the zooxanthellae and they get protection from predators and a place to live. Upside-down jellyfish can survive entirely on the nutrients produced by the zooxanthellae, but they will still feed on zooplankton and other small prey. Upside-down jellies are not the only jellyfish to utilize zooxanthellae, many other species also survive primarily on their symbiotic algae, but they are the only ones to have adapted the benthic lifestyle. They can reach a bell diameter of up to 25 cm (10 inches), or as one source for this stated: about the size of a pie pan.
(image: multiple upside-down jellyfish lying on sand. They are ov various sizes and mostly light brown, but have thicker, green tentacles sticking op)
Upside-down jellyfish are found in warm coastal waters in Florida and the Caribbean and in Micronesia, Melanesia, and parts of Polynesia. They require shallow waters to allow enough light to reach their zooxanthellae and are usually found on shady or muddy bottoms. They are highly associated with mangroves and may play an important role in the mangrove habitats by mixing the water to recirculate oxygen and nutrients. They are rarely found alone, instead congregating in large groups that can cover portions of the seafloor. They attach by using their bells as suction cups and rhythmically pulse using the edges of the bell. This pulsing forces water over the gills and can force zooplankton into the stinging cells to become food. Stung prey will fall on the oral tentacles, where it is broken down into fragments that are then intaken through the numerous tiny oral openings on the tentacles. Interestingly, some species have cycles of reduced movement, which is believed to be the first known example of sleep in an animal without a central nervous system. While upside-down jellies can swim, they will usually only do so to escape predators or if their environment becomes unsuitable.
(image: an upside-down jellyfish swimming. The majority of its body is light brown, but it has many tentacles that are dark blue and outlined in white)
While a very neat thing to see underwater, many snorkelers avoid upside-down jellyfish due to a phenomenon called stinging water. This is when people will receive the symptoms of a sting by the jellyfish without actually touching it. While the cause of this was a mystery for a long time, it was solved when a 2020 paper was published in Communications Biology by Ames et al. The scientists discovered that upside-down jellies release clumps of mucus into the water. This mucus is filled with zooxanthellae and stinging cells and many of these clumps also have ciliated cells that allow for limited swimming. These clumps, named cassiosomes, are the source of the stinging water. The paper, titled "cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana" speculated that the cassiosomes are used for defense and feeding. The cassiosomes could be released to sting a potential predator from a distance, discouraging it from approaching the jellyfish. Presumably snorkelers trigger this defense when they swim over the jellies, resulting in stinging water. They could also be used to catch prey as zooplankton killed by the stinging cells would have a high likelihood of falling onto the jelly that released them. Because the cassiosomes have zooanthellae in them, they could survive for likely up to several days after release.
(image: a microscope image of three cassiosomes. They are irregularly-shaped blobs somewhat similar to popcorn. They are a dark color with grey outlines. Spots of green algae and white stinging cells dot their surface)
Upside-down jellyfish are threatened by habitat loss as many mangrove forests are torn down for development. They are also threatened by pollution. They are not considered dangerous to humans. The sting of an upside-down jellyfish can result in mild to severe rashes and itching, but is not lethal.
(gif: a lone, light brown upside-down jellyfish on black sediment. The edge of its flat, circular bell regularly pulse upward to move air over its gills and tentacles. This one's pulsing has slowed, which is speculated to be the result of it going through its sleep cycle)
EXCUSE ME????
cuz when you're frying and totting
EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS IT'S A LITTLE FRIEND
peer reviewed. currently losing it. courtesy of @plaguedocboi
@plaguedocboi is absolutely right! This is a Geckolepis! You might remember the one we described a few years ago, Geckolepis megalepis, that went as far as becoming a feature on Snapchat of all places.
And resulted in this *spectacular* art by @leotide:
There are five currently recognised species. I would hazard a guess that the one pictured above is G. typica, but these geckos are very hard to ID.