standing in a field of wildflowers in the alps with my mum while my dad tried to get a picture, intensely aware of the fact that we were surrounded by just thousands of bees.
holding a rainbow from a suncatcher in my hands
feeding a stuffed purple brontosaurus birch seed pods, at preschool/day care. I was either 3 or 4.
pulling a library fire alarm while my dad was doing work for his PhD
You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.
For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:
Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning
Don’t fuck with flamingos
….. Didn’t know most of that
Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.
Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.
American flamingos just drink that shit
(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.
When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.
It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:
Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.
Earth is an amazing place.
This is hilarious. So back in 2018, Captain Disillusion did a video debunking the Virgin Mary version of this video, showing that the original video was a trash bin. But as part of the joke, he edited a buddha statue over it, to show off how you’d do the visual effects correctly and better.
This is that edit. This is literally a fake video, from someone who specializes in identifying fake videos. Amazing.
Is the blonde one from the continent? I refuse to believe that he's reached adulthood trapped on an island with 5 types of food and he's never had a scone
comedies that turn into tragedies when the fucked up stuff played for jokes suddenly gets treated with the severity and realness that it would get in real life are genuinely my weakness and hit so much harder than tragedies that start off with the sad stuff.
like not only is the audience caught in the whole "boiling the frog" thing with the comedy slowly become a tragedy but it reveals that the characters are as well; that the previous comedy was only perceived as a comedy because the characters had no clue that what they were going through was not normal and just lighthearted fun. the audience realizes it as the characters do, making them both more sympathetic and their arcs all the more tragic as you look back on what previously happened.
that "OH!" when he understands felt so magical
This deserves an Oscar
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They say there aren’t any iconic tik toks but I know I’m going to be thinking of this one for weeks
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[video transcript:
i’m here with a message about an issue thats that’s very close to my heart. an issue that affects me, and millions like me everyday. my message is simple:
don’t touch my shit
we live in a world where millions of people go everyday without touching my shit. why can’t you be one of them?
you alone have the power to stop touching my shit, because you are the one touching my shit. in fact, research indicates that by the simple act of you touching your shit, and only your shit, we can eradicate the issue of you touching my shit almost immediately
with only a dime a day. i made a little stack of dimes and put it on my dresser. it fell over so i know you’re touching my shit
don’t touch my shit]
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Reblogging the accessible one
Also thank you for providing a transcript
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I’m seriously tempted to show this to anyone who touches my shit
"They say there aren't any iconic tiktoks"
She's lipsyncing to a collegehumor sketch
i am so violently sick of advertising. its everywhere it creeps into every inch of reality that it physically can theres no escape from how invasive it is. cant even rickroll people anymore because theyll just get a 30 second advert for car insurance
*clicks a YouTube link*
"Nice to meet you. I'm Natasha, an underworld doctor. Feeling sick?"
Where the fuck? Allegedly Austin?
(Sees “Joe Rogan” on the bottom)
Oh, so it’s supposed to be bullshit.
Oh no it's not (mainly) about Joe Rogan. This person went on the talk show circuit a year ago making up outlandish shit about North Korea, as someone who used to live there.
Most famously, she said there is only one train in all of North Korea, but the train doesn't work, so they make people get out of the train and push it to its destination. Which is uhhhh not physically possible
Basically the situation is that yeah North Korea is a fucked up place, but sensationalist outlets like the Joe Rogan Experience aren't as interested in telling the truth as they are about getting eyes on the screen
It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.
Goals include but are not limited to:
- Wanting to go home
- Wanting people out of your house who shouldn't be there
- Trying to find a reliable babysitter
- Trying to deliver a letter or package
- Trying to do a favor for someone
- Wanting to see a specific thing, place, or kind of animal
- Wanting to collect the money somebody owes you (the lower the debt the better)
- Trying to win a bet
- Wanting to punch a specific person in the face