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In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll noted that every animal exists in its own unique perceptual world — a smorgasbord of sights, smells, sounds and textures that it can sense but that other species might not. These stimuli defined what von Uexküll called the Umwelt — an animal’s bespoke sliver of reality. A tick’s Umwelt is limited to the touch of hair, the odor that emanates from skin and the heat of warm blood. A human’s Umwelt is far wider but doesn’t include the electric fields that sharks and platypuses are privy to, the infrared radiation that rattlesnakes and vampire bats track or the ultraviolet light that most sighted animals can see.

The Umwelt concept is one of the most profound and beautiful in biology. It tells us that the all-encompassing nature of our subjective experience is an illusion, and that we sense just a small fraction of what there is to sense. It hints at flickers of the magnificent in the mundane, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. And it is almost antidramatic: It reveals that frogs, snakes, ticks and other animals can be doing extraordinary things even when they seem to be doing nothing at all.

~ Ed Yong, NY Times Opinion, 6-21-22

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I can explain

Being a system is fucking weird I just had to download the memory of why our browser is open to the google image search result for "ant sex" after a moment of Deep Confusion

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first rule of life: always keep em guessing second rule of life: hehe my lil paaawss my funny little pawwwss

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what a lot of people dont understand is that there is a time and a place to be mean. it is not never but it also is not whenever the fuck you feel like it.

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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“This little Steiff bunny is from around 1899 and the pre-button era. It is velvet, has a rattle and was used vigorously as a pin cushion. Even has the tip of an antique pin stuck in it.”

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the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

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me admiring a beautiful man: wow he sure does have a vulnerable looking throat, huh?

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Genuinely I think people go crazy over me and my partner because using only positive reinforcement in relationships with people seems to be rare af. And everyone is animals

Bitches love me the way I carry treats in my pocket and dont yell at them for undesired behaviour

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I need to be a vampires pretty little pet bloodbag who they bring with them to any kind of vampiric gatherings and when others there ask if they can share the answer is a very strict no because I’m their pretty little pet bloodbag and it doesn’t matter that this will kill me cuz my blind devotion is what makes me their favorite after all and I know all the well worn and constantly sore puncture wounds that speckle my entire body is the closest thing my vampire can feel to love or worshipping me back

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calling out for my mom in a moment of extreme pain and terror, but taking an aside to explain to the audience that i mean i want the concept of a mother as caregiver and protector to defend and rescue me rather than my literal mom, whose presence would neither bring me comfort nor improve the situation

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grocery store mission barely accomplished took massive damage to the hull and all internal systems. shield repair could take days

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she let me hit cause i support my public library

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Always a good time to burn down yet another village!

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i commit acts of service bc i am forgotten otherwise

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Vent comic abt being autistic and a therian