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I'm so sleepy and need to do homework for in the morning, but I can't do it because I am too busy howling biting clawing screaming yelling over this scientific paper I found while trying to figure out how lichens spread

Why do all the best scientific discoveries come from scientists investigating questions that sound like something a high person would come up with? In this case, "so you know how woodpeckers scoot up and down dead trees? Do you think stuff sticks to the woodpeckers?"

It turns out, a scooting bird DOES gather moss...

Diverse biological material was recovered from all specimens of all bird species, from all positions sampled. Most abundant categories of discovered biological material included bryophyte fragments, fungal spores, and vegetative propagules of lichens. Also, freshwater diatoms, bryophyte spores, algal cells, testate amebae, rotifers, nematodes, pollen, and insect scales were identified. 

The scientists are really confused about the diatoms, because the species of diatom is supposed to live on rocks in cold freshwater streams. "Maybe the birds got diatoms on them when they took a bath? Or maybe diatoms live in moss and rotting wood and we just didn't notice that?"

What this means, though, is that when an environment attracts woodpeckers, it brings more biodiversity of mosses, lichens, and small creatures?! Meaning that large trees, standing dead trees, and dead limbs on trees are important for attracting moss and lichen biodiversity??!?!?

What are the roles of lichen and moss diversity in the ecosystem? I MUST KNOW NOW!!!

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I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

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I feel like we're almost in an era of like, reverse queerbaiting. Used to be that you'd be tricked into watching a show because the story implied there'd be gay rep, but now they're using gay rep to trick you into thinking there'll be a story.

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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Back to the fabulous 1950s

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Outspan Orange Mini (1972)

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so now that tumblr live is dead i think our next demand should be to bring back being able to go to prev tags

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i actually really wanna talk about the driller killer from slumber party massacre 2 for a minute bc he has really become an object of my obsession lately and i don’t think he’s talked about enough

so. this guy. he doesn’t have a name. he doesn’t have a backstory. he doesn’t even really have a true motive beyond getting to the final girl, courtney bates. but you know what he does have?

a fucking badass GUITAR DRILL as a slasher weapon and you know what else he has????

not one but TWO rockabilly musical numbers.

on top of being a rockabilly leather clad dreamboat (literally, he can manifest himself in dreams and cause hallucinations like freddy fucking krueger), he’s played by atanas ilitch, the son of a billionaire entrepreneur that owns little ceasar’s pizza among many other things

his character is relentlessly flirty, goofy and entertaining as all hell and i am so obsessed with him.

slumber party massacre 2 is on shudder, tubi and on youtube (for free). you don’t need to see the first one to get 2, but that one is also pretty good.

but please do yourself a favor and watch it, i need more people to love this guy

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Playful Winter Waters, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography, January 2024

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My Grammarly subscription finally ran out in December, and I'm not renewing it (see my various past rants about their introduction of AI), but I just got my final "insights" email, which tallies up how many words you've written for the past week but also since you started using it.

I almost want to frame it as a fuck you to my "I'm not doing enough" brain worms because, since September of 2019, when I reinstalled Grammarly for a pro-editing job (required by the company, as many of them now do 🙄), I've written over twelve million words.

I primarily used Grammarly for my emails.

That's 12,834,172 words of telling people they're gonna be okay. Sharing resources, doctor information, and just general words of comfort. That MCAS isn't a death sentence. That MCAS from long-covid isn't the end of their life; it's just going to be different from now on.

And here I was, feeling guilty about setting up auto-responders with links to resources because I got too burned out to do it one-to-one anymore...

...Yeah. No. I did enough.

I did enough.

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this is among one of the funniest ask i have ever seen someone get sorry

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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‘Laziness’ by Félix Vallotton, c. 1896.

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Pictomancer and Wuk Lamat! See you in the summer!!

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I dreamed that I was playing mariokart and there was a track that took 3 days to complete and when I somehow managed to get 1st place a popup came onscreen that had a pic of koopa troopa and text that read “congratulations!! you’re gonna have so much sex” and I started laughing so hard I woke up

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There is a growing body of physiological, anatomical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence to suggest that not only did women hunt in our evolutionary past, but they may well have been better suited for such an endurance-dependent activity. We are both biological anthropologists. I (co-author Cara) specialize in the physiology of humans who live in extreme conditions, using my research to reconstruct how our ancestors may have adapted to different climates. And I (co-author Sarah) study Neanderthal and early modern human health. I also excavate at their archaeological sites. It’s not uncommon for scientists like us—who attempt to include the contributions of all individuals, regardless of sex and gender, in reconstructions of our evolutionary past—to be accused of rewriting the past to fulfill a politically correct, woke agenda. The actual evidence speaks for itself, though: Gendered labor roles did not exist in the Paleolithic era, which lasted from 3.3 million years ago until 12,000 years ago. The story is written in human bodies, now and in the past.

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Our Neanderthal cousins, a group of humans who lived across Western and Central Eurasia approximately 250,000 to 40,000 years ago, formed small, highly nomadic bands. Fossil evidence shows females and males experienced the same bony traumas across their bodies—a signature of a hard life hunting deer, aurochs, and woolly mammoths. Tooth wear that results from using the front teeth as a third hand, likely in tasks like tanning hides, is equally evident across females and males. This nongendered picture should not be surprising when you imagine small-group living. Everyone needs to contribute to the tasks necessary for group survival—chiefly, producing food and shelter, and raising children. Individual mothers are not solely responsible for their children; in forager communities, the whole group contributes to child care. You might imagine this unified labor strategy then changed in early modern humans, but archaeological and anatomical evidence shows it did not. Upper Paleolithic modern humans leaving Africa and entering Europe and Asia show very few sexed differences in trauma and repetitive motion wear. One difference is more evidence of “thrower’s elbow” in males than females, though some females shared these pathologies. And this was also the time when people were innovating with hunting technologies like atlatls (spear throwers), fishing hooks and nets, and bow and arrows—alleviating some of the wear and tear hunting would take on their bodies. A recent archaeological experiment found that using atlatls decreased sex differences in the speed of spears thrown by contemporary men and women. Even in death, there are no sexed differences in how Neanderthals or modern humans buried their dead or the goods affiliated with their graves. These indicators of differential gendered social status do not arrive until agriculture, with its stratified economic system and monopolizable resources. All this evidence suggests Paleolithic women and men did not occupy differing roles or social realms.