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I love talking nonsense with you and I hope that we can talk nonsense with each other for the rest of our lives.

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Ludicolo

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🌈🦈✨

Based on this post:

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can I come over and look at you like this

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Many people are marginally familiar with Pleistocene island faunas. Tiny elephants and deer, giant swans and tortoises etc. However the Late Miocene/Pliocene of Italy was also host to a unique island fauna. This is Gargano island home of the terror hedgehogs.

Actually giant moonrat would be more accurate but few people know moonrats/gymnures. Gargano is on the surface not as flashy as some later faunas but the composition of this island fauna was certainly bizarre. Besides the largest terrestrial predator being a gymnure we have a...

number of giant rodents, large tortoises and huge birds pf prey as well as a fragmentary crocodile and a still mysterious ruminant with 5 horns. This animal, known as Hoplitomeryx is known from several species of which many lived during the same time. Some were probably insular...

dwarfs, not larger than a muntjac, while at least one species had long, slender legs and was the size of a white tailed deer. It exact proportions however are still somewhat in the dark, mostly, it seems, because of insufficient description of postcranial material...

Yes, this IS a call out post. If there are inaccuracies in my depiction of this genus I encourage everyone to better describe and figure the material we have. Sorry, rant over... Besides Hoplitomeryx the largest herbivore from here would have been a bird. Garganornis was...

Only published in 2014 and goes to show that big discoveries can still be made. The large tortoise from here is also not described yet and there are abstracts talking about gecko remains. Non the less, as you can see in this size chart by JW, @arminreindl and myself, the fauna is still open for many fascinating images. Although we recommend to also have a look at the faunal stages put into this graph so you don't end up with impossible cameos ;)

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Oh!

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I drew Bart in his illegal fashion. It's criminal to look this good.

he's beautiful. fashionable. the it boy. the only thing this guy Liquid Oozes is swagger

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someone in the UK threw eggs at Charles and was arrested and has been banned from openly carrying eggs in public and has since been sent death threats but their statement on the matter was so fucking good

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Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.

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So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry.

So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful.

She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal.

He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet...

"Oh you have a dick?"

"... yeah."

He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says

"Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"

And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride.

My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can't please my girl, but I'll show them!"

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I just think they're neat 🛸🏛️🦇

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claiming her on the behalf of my fellow koreans

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I love you Sebago, I would die for you Sebago