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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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‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

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unarmed and safe 🎉🎉🎉

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Mech Pilot who’s doing her best!

[comm for Wasuwanders]

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hating is fun but sometimes you see someone only ever be a hater and never a lover and it's like. ok well do you like anything at all or do you only see the world in shades of bad to worse

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Why was one direction buying a teenage girl

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It's bucky o clock

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survival whump my beloved <3

Soaked to the bone in the rain, her hands trembling with adrenaline as she tries to build a shelter. She just needs to get out of the rain long enough to warm up.

Exhausted but on edge, curled up next to a fire, they try to stay awake through the night. Not that they’re fit to fend off a wolf or a bear in their current state.

Walking for hours under the sun, sweat stinging his eyes and mouth parched, he’s sure it’s not much further. But he’s less sure than he was hours ago.

The hunger is starting to get to zem, zir thoughts slow and vision spinning. Ze doesn’t know what’s poisonous and what’s edible - but that won’t matter if ze becomes too weak to forage.

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ouhg...must torture the character in the facility. then have him kill people epicly. then ptsd nightmares

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real-world Silco AU!!! Very self indulgent and also very obviously a Leyendecker study / repaint

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The difference 10-minutes makes.

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being aromantic and into whump is like. shoutout to whump for being a great opportunity to engage with stories about intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. what would i do without you.

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Raster drift [ 7 colors ]

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- No gods but us.

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I enjoy their unhealthy relationship, the power imbalance, and the questions it explores, as well as the kinks it enables me to read & write on ao3.com

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characters raised in isolation to fulfill some evil agenda is a very common trope but I'm always a little distracted wondering what massive gaps they have in their common knowledge. like. can he send an email? does he know where babies come from? how would he function in a grocery store?