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@predictedantwren

Obsessed with the ornithologist (Mario Cohn-Haft) who heard a birdsong he didn’t recognize in 1988, predicted that the song was made by a new species of bird, and then spent the next 25 years looking for it before finally discovering evidence for the previously undescribed species in 2013. I’m pretty sure this excerpt from the paper is academia speak for “FUCK yeah I totally called it I knew this bird was out there”

The man did one of the most badass things you can do in biology and predicted the discovery of an animal species (which I like to call “pulling a Darwin’s Hawkmoth”) and he has every right to flex by naming his new species the Predicted Antwren! Look how cute this elusive little creature is

(Photo by Hector Battai)

When you go looking for a cryptid dinosaur and actually find the bugger. 

This would help a lot of people, and it's one of the reasons it's so important to push back against the "but the parties are equally bad, so you shouldn't bother voting" type rhetoric.

jesus christ this would be huge.

hi! if you see this and think it's a good idea: PLEASE leave a comment. it's super easy & you can do this in <5 minutes:

When a government agency proposes a rule change like this, they legally must have a public comment period before finalizing it. AND they have to read and respond to those comments in the final draft of the regulation. Not enough people are aware of this , but it can really have an impact!!

This link will take you to the Federal Register page for the proposed rule, where you click the big green button to Submit a Formal Comment

Your comment can be as long or short as you'd like- it can just be one sentence! The key is to clearly STATE YOUR SUPPORT for the proposed rule. You can also look at other existing comments for support.

If you have personal experience with disability benefits, especially the reduction of benefits from free meals/groceries, those are great to include. They like to hear from people personally impacted by these changes, or know people who are.

I know it can be intimidating to post a public comment like this but it is SO IMPORTANT to engage with specific policy changes like this. Saying "this is great!" on social media doesn't help governmental officials understand the level of support a change like this has, or how much good it would do.

Did I ever tell y'all about the new days of the week I made up

No but please enlighten us

I usually sleep from 10am to 6pm and I work Sunday-Thursday so "What the fuck day is it" is a question I'm always asking. So to make it easier to remember I invented a new week that exists between the days of the regular week

Weeks start on Sum (Sunset on Sunday to sunrise on Monday) and then it goes Mot, Tew, Weth, Thuf, Fris, and Sand.

Right now it is the morning of Weth

the thought that players are going to be incinerated next season and new fans won’t even know to say RIV or know what it means is physically viscerally horrifying to me so. here’s a story.

it was season 3. for two seasons, players had been being incinerated in alarming numbers. the hades tigers were one of a few teams to have not yet lost a player to the flames.

the tigers had many good batters, but a particular fan-favorite was landry violence. we only have one season of stats for him by SIBR’s records, but those stats say that in that one season he had a 0.301 batting average and hit 27 home runs. he was on several leaderboards. the tigers lore for him was that he was the spirit of Violence itself.

it was game 2 of the final series. tigers vs. millennials. (in the millennials stadium. not that anyone remembers.) 1-1. the tigers were so close to victory, and they still hadn’t lost a single player.

except. then. at the bottom of inning 5.

[ID: A screenshot of a Blaseball game between the Tigers and the Millennials. The weather is Solar Eclipse. The Tigers have 5 runs, and the Millennials have 2 Famous Owens is pitching, Richardson Games is batting. The Game Log reads “Rogue Umpire incinerated Tigers hitter Landry Violence! Replaced by Paula Turnip”. End ID.]

the tigers went on to win the game. 12-5. they won the next one, too. they won the championship. but they lost landry.

saying “rest in peace” wasn’t enough. the tigers didn’t want peace. players getting incinerated left and right wasn’t peace.

instead, they started saying rest in violence.

[ID: A series of messages from the blaseball discord. They are all sent on June 8th of 2020. They read (in all caps) “Rest in Violence Landry”, “Paula will bring about great violence”, “Never Look Back”, “Boom”, and “Vengeance for Violence!” End ID.]

the saying caught on.

[ID: A screenshot showing 9130 results for the search “Rest in Violence” in a discord server. End ID.]

it caught on so much, in fact, that the developers made it the official game subtitle for the beta Season 8.

[ID: The old Blaseball header, with the beta tag attached to the end of it. The subheader is “The Discipline Era”, and the subheader of that is “Rest in Violence”. End ID.]

and when the Hall Stars rose….

[ID: A screenshot from the Season 10 Day X game. It shows the Hall Stars team HP bar gaining HP, and the Game Log reading “Landry Violence rises…Their spirit is added to The Hall Stars.” End ID.]

they rose in violence.

and that is why we say Rest In Violence. RIV Anastasia Isarobot: a horrible mistake we will make again and again.

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dw we meant to post goncharov its blaseballcore and we’re the blaseball core

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ID: An edited version of a poster for the fictional "Goncharov" movie. There is an arrow pointing to the city with the text "The Core" above it, an arrow pointing to three of the characters on the left side of the poster with the text "Mechanics" above it, and an arrow pointing to the character in the bottom right corner with "Ted Tacos" below it. End ID.

i hope the blesties know what's going on in the community billboard channel on maincord or this is going to be fucking incomprehensible lmao

hello! have you ever heard of blaseball? have you ever been confused by blaseball? let me introduce you to a brief history of blaseball, a primer powerpoint designed for new fans!

this powerpoint has three main sections. the first is a basic introduction to blaseball itself, what it is, and how it works. the second is a bird's-eye timeline of major events. the third is a glossary of some of the entities/gods in blaseball, with visual reference.

right now, blaseball is slowly coming back, but with major changes. now is a great time for new fans to jump on board! please take a look at this, and feel free to share with friends and reblog. happy blaseballing, everyone!

Fuck it.

If this post reaches 10k notes by the end of. Say. March 2023. i’ll read the entirety of Homestuck.

Do it fuckers you won’t.

Y’all do realize that if this post hits 10k it will be the biggest post I ever make. I will forever be known as the girl forced to read homestuck because of her hubris. Please consider the consequences of your actions-