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So many people have brought up this PBS Eons video on squid fossils and it seems to have left a lot of people confused.

We do have fossils of squid. Mostly, of their chitinous hard-parts, such as the hooks on their arms, or their beaks. Squid are not entirely soft-bodied, so even without soft-tissue fossilisation, we would (and do) have evidence of their existence.

We do not have many soft-tissue fossils, at least not of things that are 100%, indisputably squid, but we DO have some. Decay And Fossilization of Non-Mineralised Tissue in Coleoid Cephalophods by Amanda J. Kear is just one paper that lists soft tissue preservation in coleoids including some true squid.

There is also some debate as to what, exactly, is a 'true squid'. Belemnitida seems to bounce in and out of Decapodiforms, which seems to be what is generally agreed to be the superorder which the term “squid” refers to. If they are Decapodiforms, then we have a bunch of squid soft tissues - if they're not, we have a lot less.

PBS Eons was also referencing a paper which mentions phosphatisation of coleoids, however this doesn't seem to address other soft-tissue preservation modes such as impressions and shadows. Solnhofen for example shows soft tissue impressions of squid-like species though, again, it is debated as to whether they should be classified as squid.

Additionally, the end of the PBS video concludes that it is not impossible that we may yet find more soft-tissue preservation of squid! They mention this is reference to a soft-tissue ammonite fossil, which was previously completely unknown. This is pretty common in palaeontology; we thought that feathers would never fossilise once, but look where we are now!

So don't worry guys - we do have squid fossils! They are not completely absent from the fossil record, and they won't be in the future.

Now, cacti, on the other hand.....

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On a lighter note Ekko's facial journey when he tried the tea had me giggling like my man was disgusted 💀

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nah i am punching the bad thoughts away like an epic anime protagonist. they can't defeat me. i will save this world

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if I ever pass away do NOT unfollow me. I will be back

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laurie 😔

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BOY I WISH I HAD SOME FUCKING MUPPET HOLE RIGHT ABOUT NOW

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I'm certain this is on Tumblr somewhere, but I haven't seen it around, so I'm sharing it myself

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A call for support

Now that I have your attention, I am calling all my followers and anyone else who comes across this post to spare at least 10 euros to support Nader and his family in Gaza.

Match my donation of €10 and share proof if you want in the notes.

This campaign is vetted (#4 on the list)!

€31,960 has been raised as of the time I post this, it's getting closer to the goal than before!

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i genuinely love how american jews have been blamed for every american social ill under the sun by leftists over the last year, including american racism, election disruption, and climate change, and then still showed up to the election booth to fight trump. mad, mad love for my people right now

EDIT because this is gaining traction: the people who showed up to an even higher rate than Jews were Black people. Kudos kudos kudos, and remember that a) the fact that Black and Jewish Americans made substantially different votes to the American mainstream IS important and b) don’t fucking blame them for why the U.S. is what the us is

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guess who just got ✨dommed by the narrative✨✨✨

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100% have been perusing your climate change masterpost, and understand you're probably swamped so feel free to delete of course. But if you can find the time, is there any kind of hope to give in fighting climate change now? Can we save ourselves against the oncoming steamroll?

You hang in there too. Thanks for finding the hope among everything else. It feels so bad rn but I have to believe it can change. I hope it can.

Yeah actually I do think there is hope.

Things are going to get rough. Things are going to get worse before they get better, both for the climate and for people living in the US (and for people living in lots and lots of other countries that will be affected by the US election results/the ways the climate will worsen as aa result).

I haven't posted about this yet because I didn't want it to come to this, but now that it has, here's something that people have been quietly saying/research has been showing for months:

-via Reuters, November 6, 2024

Renewables, especially solar, are just too powerful to be stopped. They just too much cheaper and too much better, and that's only going to become more true, not less.

Also, I think (and hope) it's actually inevitable that at some point, we'll get to net negative carbon emissions. I think it's like solar: the technology, cost, and planet all make it feel like an inevitable technological trajectory, the same way solar tech is on an exponential trajectory. (IF WE WORK FOR IT, OBVIOUSLY, but also so, so many people ARE working for it, have dedicated their lives to working for it)

I sure fucking hope that's the case, anyway.

(You can find my masterpost on going net negative on what that actually means here)

It is gonna happen more slowly and shittily than I hoped, but I do think it's going to happen.

And if we can get to net negative emissions in time to save ourselves (which I think we will, the rates of advancement in many of these areas are very impressive), then we'll be able to slowly start to undo and heal lot of the damage.

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if a can of ravioli fell down and started rolling at me and my girlfriend i would Protect her

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when we're talking about what makes a good character ... erectile dysfunction NEEDS to feature more heavily in that conversation

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more doodles

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if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters