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Do you ever put off watching a movie/reading a book cause you know it's gonna have an impact on you and you just aren't feeling like character development rn?

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Just to let you know - the russian on your horse says "price: 90 kopeks" (Ц[ена] 90 К[опеек]). I can't say what the triangle in front of the price means tho.

funny old russian rubber squeaky toy pony that was mixed in with some MLPs is almost good as new

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Probably bad writing Idea:

Use ship names from various fandoms as the names for all your characters.

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Sheeesh. I'm really enjoying Uluru story so far. Yeah, it's not War and Piece. But it doesn't really need to be. It's a shoenen-y light story and it does it well.

Apparently the CN players hated the 1.5 and 1.6 stories so much it (alledgedly) made Bluepoch fire some of its writers???????

God damn

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Still waiting btw

When I was getting into the field of genetics, I was not expecting how much time laboratory scientists spend just kinda hanging around and waiting for small amounts of liquid in small plastic tubes to thaw after getting it out of the freezer.

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vertin how are you so funny

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Ayo, I spend like two days editing this for my friend, so if any AK fans here would be so nice as to check this out, it would very much brighten the day. Alternatively, feel free to shame me in the notes for shameless advertising.

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Me: Damn, that's alloying.

Someone: Do you mean annoying?

Me (absorbing aluminium into my body): I know what I said.

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"Alucard is Dracula backwards"

"Soak is Kaos backwards"

Me, who haven't got either of them until it was explicitly spelled out: guess I'm gonna start reading the names of all characters in media backwards from now on, huh

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These rare images show a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider:

The photographs were taken in Queensland, Australia, by a photographer named Laurence Sanders.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside, allowing the bee to enter the nest, and then simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

After inspecting the nest together, they return to their resting positions -- sitting side-by-side in the entryway to the nest.

The bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the spider seems equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.

Sources & More Info:

Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

iNaturalist: Megachile macularis

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Apparently, when a lot of slugs bunch together (just like you guys send them on assault) it's called "cornucopia".

Sincerely, your humble Terra biologist.

I snagged a copy of this month's issue of the Lungmen Insider when we were raiding that convenience store for supplies and there's this really cool article on slug breeding that you might be interested in! They even managed to interview Big Bob for some tips! Gonna drop it in the hollowed out stump in the park where we usually do dropoffs if you wanna see!

ayoooo you know full well me and my squadmates are reading that cover to cover

sending a scout to pick that up within the hour, thanks o7

if my friend who breeds slugs gets ahold of any new tips he'll probably find a way to get back his pack(?) of 35 slugs in no time

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No matter who really knocks on your door - walrus or fairy - you will see nothing and probably think it's some kids ding dong ditching. Because fairies are not real and there is NO WAY walrus can get here. And humans are really good at not seeing things that shouldn't be there.

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Also, the fact that they "went extinct three times" opens up very interesting evolutionary implications.

"Went extinct" means there were no yetis left. We can assume that was because of some new type of danger (like the foot-hunting poachers) that yetis were not aware before and couldn't save in time. But some subset of them had saves before the rise of this issue, so they could adapt and save the population. That should favour in the evolutionary process individuals, who follow a more cautious lifestyle and don't need to save often (or don't abuse the save feature for "party tricks). On the other hand, active use of save feature give obvious short term benefits.

Another question is the matter of genetic bottleneck connected to (pseudo) extinction. We can reasonably assume that it was associated with somewhat substantial decrease in the population. This, in turn, raises the question of troll genetics as a whole. We know that heredity in Discworld doesn't follow the Roundworld rules (see the case of Susan inheriting the Death genes(?) without the whole naughty business). So with that I'm prepared to go as far as assuming trolls can have some species wide "gene poll" (like a collective unconscious that harbours the adaptive potential of a species). So maybe the (pseudo)extinction raises the adaptive potential of the whole species and not that of the individual.

At this point my brain is hurting. So if someone can elaborate on this with facts or speculation, pleas do.

Excuse me, yeties have quicksave feature?

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Wondering if this idea got born while Terry was playing Oblivion.

Excuse me, yeties have quicksave feature?

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Excuse me, yetis have quicksave feature?

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“I wonder how cats go around in the snow when the snow is higher than cats?”

The voice was unfamiliar to him, but Grasshopper didn’t turn around.

“They jump,” he said, still looking out to the yard.

“You mean dive in headfirst and jump out again every time? Or are they building tunnels?” The voice smiled. “Like moles?”

Arctic wolves traversing deep snow...