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trying to understand fungus sexes

it's not going well

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Bats Fact #27

Whole Apple

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#Baturday 🦇:

Bat Vase, c.1900

Artist: Henri Muller (France, 1868-1936) / Manufacturer: Muller Frères

Cameo Glass, 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm.)

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Witnessed an amazing dissonance on BBC News yesterday where they were covering the King's birthday and the trooping of the colour, a military parade involving mounted guards and fighter jets AND Trump's birthday which coincided with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army, with a military parade and a procession of tanks AND the No Kings protests in the US in which millions of people marched against authoritarianism.

Cuttingb between these three effects meant that the presenters had to affect, in quick succession, a celebration of authoritarianism and respect for a flashy display of military might, then a condescending denouncement of Trump conflating his birthday with a silly wasteful military parade, then a celebration of the brave protesters denouncing authoritarianism in foreign lands. The slight stutter that kicked in whenever the presenter uttered the name of the protest: "N-no Kings?" was priceless.

Just a beautiful collage of the BBC's attitudes all clashing up against each other. A+ television.

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i trust one food blogger and it's claire lower (the woman at lifehacker who waffles everything)

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POND

The mud. The slime. The algae. The rot. The floating mats of algal goop and biofilm. The warm and stagnant water. The green. The wriggling. The mosquito larvae and gas bubbles. The squelch and plop and bubble and float.

I dug the hole. I scooped out the mud. I planted the rushes, the sedges and cattails, the arrowhead and bugleweed, ludwigia and willow. I dragged the logs. I placed the flat rocks.

The roots of the rushes knitting together a lush mat in the warm mud. The disgusting muck increasing in complexity and biological activity. A sludge of decomposition and decay, stagnant and slimy, but the pond is beginning to transcend my ability to understand it. An assemblage of organic miscellany, nasty, unhealthful, and chaotic, but there is an emergence of higher levels of order and functionality.

I dug a hole in the mud. The hole in the mud assembled itself into a poem. No one can understand the poem. It is not beautiful, but it is compelling.

The mosquito larvae. The diving beetles. The dragonflies, craneflies, tree swallows and frogs. The pond is inhabited and visited. The robins gather mud in their beaks. The lightning bugs rest on stems of the rushes and blink their green messages. My pond. My ecosystem.

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Idol Hakkenden

When it comes to NES games, Natsume are known for producing various action titles such as Shadow of the Ninja and Shatterhand. But they made their debut on the system and gaming in general with a pair of adventure titles that only came out in Japan. These were the bizarre Touhou Kenbun Roku (based on the travels of Marco Polo), and Idol Hakkenden – a simple and charming romp that’s well worth a look for fans of more streamlined adventure games. 

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Today's Seal Is: Yummy Backpack I Eat It Maybe

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I finally understand

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Fossil of a Baby Bird preserved in Amber, Hukawng Valley, Myanmar, Found 2014, c.99,000,000 years old.

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I assume the reason they delayed the ep was not for the football, but actually to put a bit of a buffer between the watershed and Mat's x-rated dignity task

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"Jason, I'm locked in" with the hug???

ohhhh besties

I am not okay

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I love corporate memphis art ❤️❤️

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when I was like 10 I used to draw this garfield-style serial comic about a copepod and a siphonophore making fun of human relics on the seafloor. it was mostly very bad and I don't know what happened to it. this is a recreation of the only installment I remember.

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quiz: why do lobsters have one claw bigger

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Trump had a crisis of conscience on his death bed and ordered a hit on Vance.