the kneejerk reaction to rats eating the king and sitting on his throne is “its bad”, but if you value scurrying and tiny pink hands it’s actually very good
I went to a taylor swift concert once and it was mostly ok but there was one standout moment where they brought a red pulsating jewel on stage. Taylor said it was called the heart of Ozymandias. She kept inviting people on stage to touch it and every time they did they would turn into sand and blow away. And people just kept going up and touching the thing.
shoutout to the woman from my high school martial arts class who liked to get me in joint locks and then joke about how I was easy to catch. you cannot comprehend how psychosexually formative that was for me
Took a wrong turn on a trail yesterday and ended up having to back track, (not ideal to add an extra mile in 95° blazing sun/white sand) but it ended up worth it because this little nugget mantis found me in the middle of the trail! The Little Yucatán Mantis (Mantoida maya*) is indeed little, she's full grown and barely over an inch. Not that much bigger than the tiger beetles which roam the sands. I've only seen 3, and a couple babies (which are ant mimics!), and had just one picture of an adult before today. 🖤
*This species is native to central Florida and southward into Central America, as the name implies
My new favourite twitter account is a guy who posts well known optical illusions but without the actual optical illusion, and with captions that explain the optical illusion, and a bunch of people commenting “I only see four legs on the elephant :\” it is SO FUNNY