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If you’re an introvert, follow @introvertunites​.

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I can’t stop listening to his music ♥️

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Smokin alone until it burns a hole, in my lungs, in my soul, in my denim coat 🚬🖤

Glass House ; Machine Gun Kelly

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'Lately, I've been sick of livin' and nobody knows how I'm really feelin'

I always hated to smile, but it keep what is killing me hidden inside

I didn't sign up to be the hero, but I don't want to wind up a villain

I put my daughter to bed, then attempted to kill myself in the kitchen

Yeah, I should've screamed, but nobody listened

So I passed out with the blood dripping

In this glass house, feelin' like a prison

Me and death keep tongue-kissing... '

- Machine Gun Kelly (Glass House)

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This has gotta be some of the cutest shit I’ve ever seen

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A river runs through it

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. Photo by @gerryvanderwalt Reindeer in Svalbard.#wild #nature #wildlife #arktis #reindeer #arctic#norway #scandinavia #svalbardwildlife https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu9Lyz3n2T_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cjh38nt2p277

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Light Show

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Prairies are some of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, with the tallgrass prairie being the most endangered. Only 1-4% of tallgrass prairie still exists. Prairies are critically important, not only for the unique biodiversity they possess, but for their effect on climate. The ability to store carbon is a valuable ecological service in today’s changing climate. Carbon, which is emitted both naturally and by human activities such as burning coal to create electricity, is a greenhouse gas that is increasing in the Earth’s atmosphere. Reports from the International Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,000 climate scientists from around the world, agree that increased greenhouse gases are causing climate change, which is leading to sea level rise, higher temperatures, and altered rain patterns. Most of the prairie’s carbon sequestration happens below ground, where prairie roots can dig into the soil to depths up to 15 feet and more. Prairies can store much more carbon below ground than a forest can store above ground. In fact, the prairie was once the largest carbon sink in the world-much bigger than the Amazon rainforest-and its destruction has had devastating effects.

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Sea stars dance to their own rhythm: This one is called “The Ambulacral Groove.”

Sea stars amble about with hundreds of tiny tube feet—lovely hydraulically powered limbs unique to echinoderms, which include sea urchins and sea cucumbers. Often equipped with sticky mucus and small suction cups, tube feet make sea stars highly ambulatory. 

Sea stars have five V-shaped channels for their tube feet to take a hike. These ambulacral grooves are named after the latin “ambulacrum”, meaning a walk planted with trees. The term has even deeper roots in the Indo-European “ambhi”, meaning “around.”

Of course, having your bare feet exposed to the seafloor can be a bit touchy—fortunately, the ambulacral grooves are protected by spines and ossicles that can close off the tube feet from the rest of the world if things get socked in. 

Tube feet are groovy, to say the least. And if you thought a two-step was tough, try a hundred step!

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Svabite & Calcite Langban, Värmland, Sweden

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someone: whats ur opinion on-

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There she blows When the runny and hot (some 1200 Celsius) basaltic lava that erupts out of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii passes over something wet, the water flashes into steam and escapes out to the surface with a wonderful accompanying explosion of molten rock, tracing out a fiery pattern against the darkened sky. Loz Image credit: Bruce Omori https://500px.com/bruceomori