ban-joey

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ever since i learned that the flap of a butterfly’s wing could cause a hurricane on the other side of the earth, ive been doing nothing but nursing rare and endangered species of butterflies back to health. fuck the other side of the earth

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What do you mean you can’t find a job? Have you looked on Indeed? What about Linkedin? You should try Upwork. How about Rise? Have you tried Jobera? Take a look on Dribbble. You GOTTA be on Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.

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when i dont know enough in an area of my special interest

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Cats by Léo Forest

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I love the energy 🥹

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Saw a stag beetle fight off a magpie today it looked like this

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Does he mean anything to you

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me when i recommend something to someone and they end up not liking it

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I... DONT... LIKE... CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [MY TELEKINESIS THROWS EVERYTHING ACROSS THE ROOM] [I SEE MY ITEMS STREWN ABOUT THE ROOM AND GET EVEN MORE UPSET]

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at my local safeway they don't let people use baskets and check receipts at the door like it's costco. however they 1) don't actually check what's in your bags and 2) let people bring in backpacks so im not really sure what locking stuff up does for theft prevention apart from making me seriously contemplate stealing while i wait 10mins for an overworked employee to grab me a single $5 pint of strawberry cheesecake ice cream under lock and key

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you Applied to 200 jobs and are still unemployed . hope u dont mind we Leak ur data. and no, we will Not be calling back

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Dear Bunjicus Wunjicus, what is the great American biotic interchange?

okay so, for the vast vast vast VAST majority of their time in existence as continents, North and South America have been completely separate continents, with oceans in between them.

135 mya (million years ago):

60 mya:

once they separated from Laurasia and Gondwana respectively and became their own thing after the Big Kablooie (66mya), they both started to evolve their own completely unique ecosystems with their own forms of life!

North America was a bonanza for big cats, proboscideans, bears, and canines:

<art src: Joe Venus>

while South America went big on giant sloths, terror birds, marsupials, and armadillos that could tow your car:

<art src: Gabriel Ugueto>

and so they remained, two houses alike in dignity, but rarely interacting except for swapping stormtossed refugees once in a while as they very slooooowly drifted towards each other.

and then, 2.7 mya, the two drifting continents uplifted the seafloor between them like a snowdrift in between two oncoming plows and made much of Central America and Panama.

AND EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN PANAMA ATTACKED

and WHOOOOPS.

suddenly, the biota of both continents had freedom of movement into a totally new environment. terror birds pushed north into Central and Southern North America, only to be pushed back by incoming waves of smilodon, jaguars, and pumas.

<src: Life On Our Planet>

canines and proboscideans and bears and rabbits and predators of all shapes and sizes came roaring south into the body of South America, wreaking environmental change in their wake, while fleets of possums, armadillos, and giant sloths trekked north to find some new niches of their own.

when the dust had settled, South America was VERY different from how it had first looked, with many native predators supplanted by carnivorans and many small to medium herbivores supplanted by northern species. the terror birds were gone, ending the last legacy of the dominant predatory theropods.

<src: Mauricia Anton>

North America had picked up some new additions of its own, some that lasted (armadillos, possums) and some that didn't.

<src: Peter Schouten>

and we call this kerfuffle the Great American Biotic Interchange, because it sounds better than ECOLOGICAL WARZONE: ESCAPE FROM BRAZIL

(if you're a scientist, anyway)

<src: Guillermo Torres Carreño>

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Yeah I'm into phrenology but I don't like, really believe in it. it's just for fun. could you tell me the dimensions of your brow? oh that makes so much sense you can be really aggressive haha. wow your nostrils are really wide too are you capable of empathy? Idk I just don't want to date anyone with your head shape it gives me the ick

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Fuck you *migrates to another environment and evolves entirely new characteristics over thousands of years*