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Reached out to a biologist to request some info about an extinct species of freshwater shrimp and the email she sent in response was not only lovely and helpful but also kind of poetry to me? People who study invertebrates are actually the most hopeful and compassionate scientists that we have.

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"We have a new AI feature!" "With the power of AI..." "Our AI..."

I am going to abandon technology and start only inscribing things on clay tablets

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fox & juniper

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In The Garden, for giant robot’s Fruit and Veggie show.

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I get that this is mostly a me thing but seeing so many posts making fun of "holy blood cannibalism pomegranate deer" style writing just makes me sad ;-; . guys that's a lot of people's first stab at poetry that's hobby art that's a vulnerable thing to post those are passion projects...

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Bill Braun creates paintings that look like construction paper!

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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Guess whose job just started raising Lake Sturgeon (Huso fulvescens)! These little dudes were spawned from one of the first natural spawning runs detected in Missouri for years, and are just starting to transition to a diet of bloodworms! (They scarfed down everything we gave them in no time flat, less than 30 minutes after a 400-mile drive)

That’s right! The Superior Sturgeon is BACK, BABY!!!

PS: @sturgeonposting , these things and shortnose sturgeon were added to the Huso genus along with Beluga! 🤯

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i hope youre being a massive faggot tonight. and insane . @everyone

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It’s definitely not “do whatever you want bc nobody cares” it’s somewhere between “people don’t care as much as you think they do” and “if you want to truly do what you want you have to not care about how much other people care”

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thank you guys for posting images for me to look at

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It is your sworn duty, when you're in your 30's, to do something every day that would have gotten you viciously bullied in high school.

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Animal: has the coolest adaptations you can imagine

Science content popularizer: isn’t that horrifying?????

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i know i'm preaching to the choir here but it really is very disturbing how so many people cling to "men's" vs "women's" clothes and shoes and hair products, etc.

i was talking to my coworker about shopping and how she enjoys shopping at a certain store that only does "women's" clothes, when I asked if she'd liked me to come (she's shopped with coworkers before) she went "oh haha nah there's nothing in there for men you wouldn't like it!"

there's a lot of clothes out there that the majority of people wouldn't be able to discern as "male" or "female" unless they really thought about it. almost all of my clothes are from the women's department despite appearing "masculine," i'm never misgendered, no one comments on it, i wouldn't count the jeans i got from the women's department as feminine in the slightest and neither does anyone else when they see me wearing it

in the same vein of recommending clothing or products to someone and getting a "oh but this is for women" do you think your hair is made of different material than a woman's hair by virtue of your gender? are your lips chapped differently because you're a man and can't use rose scented chapstick. is this lotion too feminine, is this electric razor too masculine, aren't you tired. aren't you so tired of every single product in your life being gendered

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh