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Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing
My dad is a meteorologist and he has never once warned me about an incoming storm. My leeches, however......
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech
*urgently* Lads, the leechometre is at 12 bong, I repeat, 12 bong!
"tempest prognosticator" absolutely sounds like some kind of arcane device a wizard would have lying around in his workshop
It would also probably have leeches in it.
no more sexy cops
we've gotta start sexualizing public transit workers
Roomba kept crying because she couldn't find her spring toy and uh. Well, she had a good reason for it.
spring
She's blind, she makes a lot of different sounds, and her poor social skills mean she tries to groom any other cat she bumps into. She doesn't bump into furniture or walls anymore but she used to. Whenever she bumped into something, she'd just turn around and keep going.
Are there any standards fro what counts as a song in eurovision. Like if a country entered a guy just silently eating a sausage for three minutes while someone occasionally does some beatboxing in the background for a few seconds would they be allowed to.
Okay so the beatboxing guy would instead need to occasionally yell “SAUSAGE!” and they could enter so long as they also sold this experience online before May
Considering that I may just be a lesbian in denial
You were in denial about it???
I mean yeah
a variety of gwen
CUUUUUUTE
Gwen just wants everyone to be happy and she’s oh so tired and needs a nap and hugs and possibly most definitely therapy.
A RELATABLE MOOD
would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no
reblog to put a discarded fruit sticker on the forehead of the person you reblogged from in whimsical jest
I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist
If you haven’t seen this episode of Mythbusters I feel so bad for you because “What car?” remains to this day as a defining moment of my adolescence and my entire life
That was a near-religious experience
I made a gif of it for those of you who cant watch the video in your country. Or if you know you just want to stare at it mesmerized like me
an important addition
creacher
this would be *significantly* funnier if it was a living bird, which is a dinosaur that survived
just saying
a feral chicken
the closest thing to an irl velociraptor
as much as I appreciate feral chickens, you're forgetting seriemas, which literally have sickle claws like velociraptor and the same ecological niche as velociraptors. and also are of comparable size
we musn't forget the tiny terror birds
Other good dinosaur like birds would be cassowaries and secretary birds, both of which also hunt with raptor like claws.
Turkeys too
Any raptor is a living dinosaur
Literally all birds are living dinosaurs by definition. Raptors, too (they’re all in Maniraptora and Pennaraptora).
But Seriemas, Secretary Birds, Roadrunners, and a handful of others are not only that, but in the same niche as Velociraptor
Cassowaries are herbivores. They do not hunt and do not have the same niche. Same for turkeys. So.
Yup! Small, bipedal, agile predator of smaller animals in an arid to semiarid environment! Roadrunners are a bit smaller than Velociraptor was, so roadrunners eat more inverts than Velociraptor probably did. Seriemas and Secretary Birds are, however, nearly identical in terms of niche to velociraptor of old, being of similar size.
The wildfires in Maui aren't natural disasters, they are colonial disasters and a direct result of both the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex.
Realtors preying on property in Lahaina- while Kānaka Maoli who resided there for generations are now houseless- is a result of greed and disaster capitalism.
Citizen journalists on the ground are reporting on the devastating cost these fires have on their communities and the untold stories in the media about the tourists still actively extracting land and from already limited resources.
pics by slowfactory on ig
HAPA Hawaii support link
Stop Maui land grabs petition
Theres a lot of notes but more ppl need to sign the petition
ever since the second spider-verse movie the majority of olivia octavius art has her like being shipped with the spot because they were coworkers. now i don't make it my business to tell other people what to draw but. nah. that's an old gay bitch. the gays have already claimed olivia sorry. that's my mom. that's me in 20 years. don't worry liv i noticed your gayness
I think I dreamt this interaction, and I thought it would make a cute comic
I wanted to make a version of this with the epilogue included
if u like my work, you can help me make more by supporting me
as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds
Anonymous asked:
How is the parasaurolophus used its horn for sound resonating idea seen nowadays?
100% the leading hypothesis. we've even modeled what the sound would be like
Sometimes if I get the exact right/wrong amount of drunk ill cry a little bit because i will never hear a parasaurolophus call.
i just
why would they need to be so loud? did they spend a lot of time spread apart from each other?
do you think they made contact calls, like parrots and other birds of today?
do you think they spread out foraging, calling out to each other?
"I am thinking of you. Are you thinking of me? I am lonely, but not when I can hear you. I will see you soon."
i just. fuck dude. i am once again having feelings about the parasaurolophus. i'm only crying a little bit.
I mean, thats *exactly* what we think they were doing!
Plus, lots of hadrosaurs (the group Parasaurolophus is in) lived alongside each other, and they all would have been that loud and constantly talking to each other. So they needed to be able to tell which calls were whose!
On Saturday I hung out with my 84-year-old ecologist great uncle and he stopped in mid-conversation (abt the return of the whooping crane) and very seriously told me that "you can go one of two ways, as a naturalist"; either you keep sight of the hopeful possibilities, or you don't. I'm one of nature's wretched little pessimists but when an old ecologist literally holds your hands in his and tells you, "don't despair," you have to try, I feel.
I'm immune to a lot of the "hopepunk" narratives about ecology but...
The Karner Blue butterfly was extirpated from Canada the year before I was born. He donated to one of the projects to bring it back for years, and even though the project he was working on fizzled out, I told him about the branch in Toronto, still going strong. They save every lupine seed they can harvest and germinate them carefully so that in 20, 30, 40 years we might have enough habitat to bring the Blues back. He was part of the first wave of that effort.
Fuck!!!! What do you do with that kind of care? You have to at least try to believe that better things are possible!