#veritcs

[pointandshooter]

Ashburn, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

[travelthisworld]

Uruguay | by Mayumi Maciel

[jhokey]

Vertical

An astounding idea that changes something might seem like it should be enormously huge and grand, but it might actually be simpler and closer to us than we think…

[nxtahxro]

❝ you'd be surprised how normal that is for me . ❞ likely an absolutely baffling sort of answer , and stiles knows it --- but he also doesn't really care . he's so used to the normal his life has become since the night scott was bitten that he doesn't really question the amount of danger he's been in , or willingly put himself in .

the oldest macmanus brother stared at the younger male and narrowed his eyes briefly before a sigh fell past his lips, shaking his head slowly. ❝ kids t'ese days. ❞ he murmured under his breath. ❝ so ye get yerself inta situations w'ere ye could end up dead? ❞

[fagatakonin]

sooooo fucking fine

[yojabari]

The Order | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical

[thecurvycritic]

Haley Bennett is Stoically Powerful and Raw in Widow Clicquot

Did you know that Veuve Clicquot was invented by a a woman - the Grand Dame of Champagne - Barbe Nicole Ponsardin? #widowclicquot #vertical #podcast

Ever wonder where some of your favorite bottles of champagne originated from and did you ever once think they many have been invented by a woman? Yup, the elegant bottle with the orange label, engineered by methods still used today by all champagne producers is courtesy of the “Grande Dame of Champagne” – Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin. Based on the best-selling book The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J.…

[byeolyeou]

an eyeroll is given in response to connor's words , the slighter of the twins giving him a nudge in the ribs with an elbow --- rough but fond . ❝ maybe , bu't's up there . 'specially comin' from tha' gobshite . ❞

❝ stop bein' a little bitc' fer once in yer life. ❞ he scoffed quietly into his glass, soon taking a sip of the whiskey he had, his gaze flickering over toward his twin brother before he rolled his eyes. ❝ an' 'm sure t'at ye 'eard stupider t'in's. ❞

[helijet]

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[markscherz]

i love trying to identify frogs, and ive made progress, for example i can usually tell if a frog is in the families of ranidae (obviously) hylidae and bufonidae, as those are the ones in my area. but i find it quite hard after outside of those families. i feel like just sort of memorizing what families have which attributes is a bad way of going about it, so do you have any tips to narrow down types of frogs, or what i could look into and research about it? i feel like you may have answered this before but i couldn't find it in your FAQ

Vibes and location my friend, vibes and location. There isn't really a recent-enough key to anatomically determine families, and even if there were, it would not work based on external appearance alone—there is too much variation within families, and also many diagnostic features are only in the skeleton.

The best way I know is to just see lots and lots and lots of frogs, and slowly puzzle together which family they're in. For me, that keys my brain into the vibe that the family has, even when the animals are diverse.

BUT, you always have to be aware of what the analogues are in other families. For instance, dendrobatids and mantelline mantellids can look extremely similar—but nothing else looks anything like them. If you know where the animal is from, you can tell which family it is.

A more challenging example may be 'tree frogs'. There are almost identical-looking tree frogs in at least six families (e.g. Arthroleptidae, Hylidae, Hyperoliidae, Mantellidae, Rhacophoridae, Centrolenids). If you don't know where the frog is, there are some traits you just have to know. For instance, arthroleptids have veritcal pupils, whereas centrolenids, hylids, rhacophorids, and mantellids have horizontal pupils. Hyperoliids have weird triangular pupils. Hyperoliids also have weird gular pads in males; some mantellids have special femoral glands. There are special bones in the fingers of some groups and not others. And the way they reproduce can differ—rhacophorid treefrogs mostly make foam nests, whereas mantellid and hylid treefrogs mostly make jelly nests over water. Centrolenids are pretty distinctive.

But this wouldn't be a problem if you know where you are: if it's a treefrog and you're in South America, hylids and centrolenids are your prime candidate. In East Africa, arthroleptids, hyperoliids, and rhacophorids overlap, but are easy to tell apart. In Madagascar, there are only really mantellid treefrogs that look like this, though there are two similar-looking groups that are not closely related. In Southeast Asia, hylids and rhacophorids overlap.

Then there are the ranid-looking frogs, and honestly, this is also where I really struggle. Most of these were formerly in Ranidae, but then we realised they were vastly distantly related, and so they were split—but those splits happened without clear diagnoses for the groups. Consequently, consistent differences between ptychadenids, dicroglossids, ranids, conrauids, pyxicephalids, many mantellids, etc. are essentially unknown, afaik. And many of these can occur together in the same place. In these cases, you get a better clue to the FAMILY if you can work out the GENUS, which is extremely counter-intuitive, but that is just how it is.

By the way, this problem is not unique to amphibians—in birds it is just as bad, and many well-known groups do not have synapomorphies

[profesionalpartyguest]

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[unheald]

" you all still need food too. " why couldn't she just accept the kindness offered and not challenge it? she supposed she was just far too used to being a mother, to being independent and the one that gave to those that needed. she was not at all used to being the needy. " all of you are out there every day, gathering supplies, killing walkers, the hard work... you need to keep your strengths up too. "

he immediately shook his head at her question despite the fact that he was just a joke; he had noticed how rocky their relationship had gotten but he didn't speak of it because it wasn't any of his business. though, it was effecting the group, more specifically, it was effecting the young grimes child. ❝ no, 'e didn't send me over t'make sure ye eat somet'in'. i just know ye need it more t'an i do. ❞

[pointandshooter]

photo: David Castenson

[cokoweee]

one block jump for the chicken or the two block veritcal jump for the raw beef

No one ever goes for the raw beef 😔😔😔

[cowboy-robooty]

been continuing self harm via watching helluva boss with wiener and omfg. episode 9 was like when you cut veritcally instead of horizontally what fucking was that. THIS SHOW IS DRIVING MEEE INSAAAANEEEEEEEEE

[mangoposts]

i need matt astronomically, veritcally, horizontally, biblically, affectionally, literally BAD rn.

Me with Chris