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im honestly shocked it took this long for nmkart to get review bombed lmao

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A vicious fluid is probably chlorine tri-florid

please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

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how can people still support her music after she did this

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Have you seen this post?

You probably have. It currently has over 120,000 notes, largely because of this addition.

Of course it's going to get reblogged, this kind of unsourced factoid does numbers on here. But something about it wasn't quite right.

A bit of searching turned up the origin of the "fact".

Alright, so it's someone who posted this on reddit 4 years ago and somehow ended up in the search hits. And the post confuses the electric eel (from South America) with the electric catfish (from the Nile, which the Egyptians would have known about).

Reminder: this is an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). It is from South America. (image from Wikipedia)

And this is an electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). It is from the Nile and would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians. (image from Wikipedia)

And then of course people were speculating in the notes to that post about trade routes between South America and Egypt. Excellent scholarship everyone.

At this point I was ready to call it another made-up internet fact that gets reified by people repeating it. But something was still bothering me.

An ancient Egyptian slab from 3100 BC. What could that be...

Oh.

The Narmer palette. It's the goddamn Narmer palette. (image, once again, from Wikipedia)

So where is this "angry catfish"?

It's not the Egyptian name for the electric catfish.

It's... Narmer. It's Narmer himself.

Narmer's name is written as above (detail of top middle of the palette), using the catfish (n`r) and the chisel (mr), giving N'r-mr. The chisel is associated with pain, so this reads as "painful catfish", "striking catfish", or, yes, "angry catfish" or other similar variants, although some authors have suggested that it means "Beloved of [the catfish god] Nar".

So.

Where does this leave us?

It would appear that this redditor not only confused electric eels with electric catfish, but also confused a Pharaoh's name with the name of a fish. And then it got pushed to the top search hits by a crappy search engine and shared uncritically on tumblr.

In short, "the electric eel is called angry catfish" factoid actually literacy error. Angry Catfish, who ruled upper Egypt and smote his enemies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Also the Arabic name for the electric catfish is raad (thunder) or raada (thunderer).

References

Afsaruddin, A., & Zahniser, A. H. M. (1997). Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns.

Clayton, P. A. (2001). Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.

Godron, G. (1949). A propos du nom royal. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, 49, 217-221.

Sperveslage, G., & Heagy, T. C. (2023). A tail's tale: Narmer, the catfish, and bovine symbolism. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 109(1), 3-319.

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really streatching the defintion of a swamp there

Swamp

Artist: Sam Burley TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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an incomplete taxonomy of christmas music

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I don't know who this is but this is an A grade bit

junna if she stopped fucking around

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You've mentioned that when your boiler tickets expire you need new boilers. How does that work? Can the whole boiler be removed from the frames?

"We don't necessarily need to have them replaced, but the boiler and firebox needs to be revised to renew the certificate. The last boiler shop in Norway closed down in the 80's, so bigger repairs and revisions of steam locomotives can no longer be done in Norway. Then the boiler, firebox or the entire engine itself needs to be shipped to another country where they still do these jobs. Minor boiler revisions, like Setskogen's in 2023, can still be done at our workshop in Sørumsand. Basically they go through the entire boiler, looking it over, pressure testing it and such. If a locomotive needs to go to another country, they load it onto a truck and drive it there. Like UHB No.2 Urskog who is currently in Czechia for her revision. Or SB No.5 "Markus" who is in England right now. Also SB No.6 "Lukas" is having his boiler revised, but instead of shipping him entirely to England, they picked him apart and only sent his boiler and firebox. I've attached some photos taken by the author who witnessed the entire process of dismantling him."

This is "Lukas" in June 2024, running passenger trains.

In late August 2024, the process of taking him apart started:

First, they needed to remove the funnel, dome cover and the cab. The crane is a useful tool for that!

Once the boiler was removed from the frame, they put the cab back. Now this is all that is left of him, standing in SB's workshop. It's hard to imagine that only 11 days before this photo was taken, he was moving under his own steam, pulling passenger trains!

The boiler and firebox loaded and secured on a flatbed, ready to be shipped to England for revision.

"Lukas" is expected to be back in service in 2026 or 2027. We look forward to seeing him back in action!

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Dating Odyssey

im pregnant and its nobodys. it aint even mine

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I slowed down Rock Lobster because I suspected the results would be special and if you can't listen to audio right now I've drawn a visual representation for you:

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The Ghost Buckeye (Junonia prosopon), descended from a species driven to extinction by urbanization and habitat loss, has evolved specifically to ward off humans. When intimidated, they display the uncanny face-like patterns on their wings. The image it creates has inspired many legends about unearthly distorted creatures, and has consecrated entire areas of forest as haunted.

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Yes I made the youtube bait style thumbnail and title, frankly I think both are really fun?? But mine are almost 100% honest!! This space dragon is canonically 976,973,871 meters long. Close enough!! I cannot stress how adorable the writing is in this book. It almost feels like a little kid had to have come up with some of the ideas because they're so excessive.

It also presents a truly fascinating universe in which MOST inhabited planets are currently in a nearly barren or post-apocalyptic state brought about by one nightmarishly deadly lifeform and there are several simultaneous ongoing threats to the entire existence of the universe. So it's a little SCP Foundation and a little Pokemon Pokedex, but it's decades older than both!

I'm going to read the rest of the book sometime this week, or Sunday! But I might also squeeze in another different twitch stream before or after!

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Mountain

Artist: Ann-Sophie De Steur TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet

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This is a positive post

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I think one of my favorite music genres is when a fan has to take it upon themselves to make a cool musical number for a character in a non-musical and they go so hard they make that entire piece of media sound significantly more grandiose and high stakes than it actually was.

the latest example I am aware of is for inside out 2.

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A better world is possible