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Truly a shame there's not more yak appreciation on tumblr.

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hired a galapagos finch at my burger joint and after 2 generations it evolved to take peoples orders

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I need you all to see how newborn giant pacific octopuses look when they swim

The way their little stubby tentacles flop uselessly...they're so silly <3

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dropped the walrus vs fairy question on a group of psychologists today and not only did the majority agree the walrus would be more surprising, the one with the strongest background in research responded to the ‘but fairies aren’t real’ argument with “are your beliefs so inflexible that you’ve never considered you might be wrong about what’s real and what’s not?” and honestly i haven’t recovered

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cambrian seas

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Large-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus), family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, Singapore

photograph by Johnny Wee

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Nice tit

Black-throated Bushtit

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i love fish biology youtube

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Know how they call Crowley a Disaster Kitten? Here he is

Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo

Shes just a fucking baby

Baby with a 60% successful kill rate

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He got lil ears like a cat do!

Male small mayfly, Baetinae, Baetidae

Male small mayflies in the family Baetidae differ from females in that they have seven eyes rather than five - 3 simple eyes, 2 compound eyes,and 2 turbinate eyes on top of the head. These upward-facing eyes are thought to be used for spotting females during aerial mating.

Photographed in Malaysia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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Don't believe everything you read online. Doubly don't believe anything a fossil fuel CEO says. This guy is a famous bad actor who has turned lying about renewable energy into a business.

But yet...solar panels having some horrible consequences like that feels true, doesn't it? I'm a huge environmentalist, but I almost believed him just because that kind of short-sighted cruelty he is inventing feels like something that humans would actually do. We *do* dump massive amounts of electronic waste in poor nations, and some technologies *do* have massive humanitarian costs that we have chosen to ignore (see: the cobalt industry).

This is all just to say: bad actors like this schlub aren't stupid. They're people who are wealthy enough to ignore the consequences of their own actions and who will most directly benefit from the continued suffering their industries are inflicting. Be safe out there.

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this was a comment on one of my post from a recent live event. it was photos of joyful queer buckaroos celebrating together and proving love is real through creation, community, and a trot of love. most important I AM LITERALLY IN PHOTO AS A REAL FLESH AND BLOOD HUMAN

it got me thinking about how DEEP AND VICIOUS the irony poisoning of these early internet communities goes. the way buds like this cannot fathom someone just being a sincere person unrelated to their OWN old days of cynical posting. it is fascinating, and i will admit, sad too

despite a DECADE of work, countless live events, 350 tinglers written well before large language models were a thing, there are still people who cannot imagine someone like me could exist. it is a strange place to be. not just part of me, but my entire EXISTENCE is often gatekept

it is easy to say ‘well chuck your art IS strange’ but honestly i think it is more than that. magical realism is common. there are stories about dinosaurs and bigfeet and unicorns. this scoundrel reaction is about two unspoken things: my art is neurodivergent, and my art is queer

heres the thing: I WILL BE FINE. what concerns me is not an issue of MYSELF, it is a concern for the other young outsider buckaroos who see comments like this one and think ‘is that what they will say if i express MY unique way? will i be dehumanized like this at every turn?'

i will be honest, i cannot say that WONT happen, but i CAN say this: for as deep as this irony poisoning goes, it is slowly dying. the way i was treated at the start of my career is LIGHTYEARS DIFFERENT from the way i am treated now. there is a massive shift towards sincerity

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY. to young artists trotting up, the things that i am harassed over and doubted for and made fun of for are NOT tangental to what has made me successful, THEY ARE LITERALLY THE SAME THINGS THAT HAVE MADE ME SUCCESSFUL. YES I AM STRANGE, WHAT OF IT?

the things that you tuck away for fear of a review that says ‘there is a PROBLEM with this art because it has always been done another way’ THOSE ARE YOUR SUPERPOWERS. the gatekeepers want you to tuck those parts of yourself away because THEY TUCKED AWAY THOSE PART OF THEMSELVES

never forget that your unique way is PURE UNFILTERED 100 PERCENT ROCKET FUEL. it will stick out (maybe, if you are lucky, scoundrels will even say that someone like you could never actually be real), but sticking out isnt so bad when you are waving the flag of love.

in fact, when youre waving the flag of love, sticking out is pretty dang cool. what are flags for, after all? LOVE IS REAL BUCKAROOS. thank you for reading, and if you enjoyed this long post then please consider preordering BURY YOUR GAYS.

LETS TROT

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I'm fucking stupid.

Shy Hamlet (Hypoplectrus guttavarius), family Serranidae, order Perciformes, found in the Caribbean

This species is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female reproductive systems at all times through their lives.

During mating, the 2 partners take turns fertilizing each others eggs.

photograph by H. Zell 

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To sea or not to sea...

Shy Hamlet (Hypoplectrus guttavarius), family Serranidae, order Perciformes, found in the Caribbean

This species is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female reproductive systems at all times through their lives.

During mating, the 2 partners take turns fertilizing each others eggs.

photograph by H. Zell 

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EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

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I cannot answer the first question cause I got no fucking clue, but to answer your second question--its so unsettling because it's a shoebill. They're just... like that... all the time. There is no moment in which a shoebill doesn't look like it got rejected from the Chuck E Cheese band for trying to eat Little Timmy at his sixth birthday party

Oh boy I'm getting within shooting range of 1000 followers! That makes me happier than a shoebill in a swamp!

I kinda wanna do something special for 1000 subs. What should I do?