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Surge the Tenrec edit: The Hand That Feeds

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Eurasian Nuthatch/nötväcka. Värmland, Sweden (January 13, 2017).

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A helmet jellyfish displaying bioluminescence. Filmed in Norway. From The Norwegian Fjords: Life in the Twilights (2018).

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accidentally said Shirley instead of Siri and now my phone is stuck in Airplane mode

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Can you pass the nackle?

Chemical Formulas [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is holding a pointer and gesturing towards a whiteboard that shows the chemical formulas HCOOH and CH₃COOH. Below these, respectively, are classic diagramatic representations of formic/methanoic acid [with an apparently accidental doubled bond between the carbon and the hydroxy group] and acetic/ethanoic acid; being, in turn, a single- and double-carbon chain molecule with a double-bonded oxygen (carbonyl group) plus an oxygen-hydrogen (hydroxy) upon one carbon of each, to form the full carboxyl grouping, and hydrogens completing all other expected bonds.] Cueball: The two simplest carboxylic acids are hakoo and chuckoo. Emphatic off-panel voice: No!! [Caption below the panel:] How to annoy chemists

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Inside of a mine, anywhere on Earth

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White-headed Langur (Trachypithecus leucocephalus), family Cercopithecidae, endemic to Guangxi, China

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

Photograph by VCG via: China Plus Culture

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I wish i had big claws to dig a little burrow in the dirt and sleep in it i think it would solve all my problems

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soon

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🖼 https://t.me/russian_cat_meme/4468

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I haven’t seen this resource going around, but it’s well worth the read if you’re considering going to a protest, whether you’re a medic-type person or not.

There is a lot happening in the world right now and it’s hard to have a lot of faith in traditional institutions intended to keep you alive, either because hospitals are busy and underequipped with COVID-19, or because hostile police forces actively preventing access of emergency services to protested is… let’s just say plausible. But maybe you can depend on the ordinary human being standing next to you and maybe they can depend on you.

Particularly for vetlings considering going to a protest, you already have a decent medical knowledge, this is worth a read.

Honestly it’s worth a read anyway, because there’s an introduction to keeping yourself safe with protests and hostile police, including the importance of anonymity. This isn’t something taught in schools. And a few key points:

Be useful, not important. Don’t draw attention to yourself and try not to be flashy. Important people become targets.

Non-Hierarchical organization is important. Leaders become targets.

Anonymity is your first defense.

This wasn’t particularly written with COVID-19 in mind, which is still a major threat in many parts of the world so your masks/gloves/face shields are still very important and consider how much you’re willing to risk in terms of yourself, and your household if you bring the virus home.

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I find it so charming that he can’t fill a bed

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She's very very high right now

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Gunkanjima Island - Nagasaki, Japan .

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD have a history as odd, or as poignant as Gunkanjima’s.

The tiny, fortress-like island lies just off the coast of Nagasaki. The island is ringed by a seawall, covered in tightly packed buildings, and entirely abandoned - a ghost town that has been completely uninhabited for more than forty years. In the early 1900s, Gunkanjima was developed by the Mitsubishi Corporation, which believed - correctly - that the island was sitting on a rich submarine coal deposit.

For almost the next hundred years, the mine grew deeper and longer, stretching out under the seabed to harvest the coal that was powering Japan’s industrial expansion.

By 1941, the island, less than one square kilometer in area, was producing 400,000 tonnes of coal per year.

And many of those working slavishly in the undersea mine were forced laborers from Korea.

Even more remarkable than the mine was the city that had grown up around it.

To accommodate the miners, ten-story apartment complexes were built up on the tiny rock - a high-rise maze linked together by courtyards, corridors, and stairs. There were schools, restaurants, and gaming houses, all encircled by the protective seawall.

The island became known as “Midori nashi Shima,” the island without green.

Amazingly, by the mid-1950s, it housed almost six thousand people, giving it the highest population density the world has ever known. And then the coal ran out.

Mitsubishi closed the mine, everyone left, and this island city was abandoned, left to revert back to nature.

The apartments began to crumble, and for the first time, in the barren courtyards, green things started to grow. Broken glass and old newspapers blew over the streets. The sea-breeze whistled through the windows.

Now, fifty years later, the island is exactly as it was just after Mitsubishi left. A ghost town in the middle of the sea.

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your tits are great

IS THAT SO

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Octopuses. Opinion?

aliens

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Like the fine folks at Common Descent podcast, I firmly believe that all animals are weird, in one way or another.

what is the strangest/rarest animal you have?

It's so hard to decide what the strangest is because we have so many unique animals! The rarest is probably our collection of endangered species that we have conservation efforts for.

One of them is the mountain yellow-legged frog!