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mildly offended this guy on rym rated one of my songs two stars ("pretty bad" according to his rating system) but he also rated match my freak the same and i asked myself if tinashe would care and the answer is obviously not

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the start a podcast now worm crawled back into my brain

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A Mummified 44,000-Year-Old Wolf Found in Siberian Permafrost

Scientists perform necropsy on an ancient wolf pulled from Russian permafrost that may still have prey in its stomach.

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a complete mummified wolf was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia, after being locked away for more than 44,000 years. Scientists have now completed a necropsy (an animal autopsy) on the ancient predator, which was discovered by a river in the Republic of Sakha — also known as Yakutia — in 2021.

This is the first complete adult wolf dating to the late Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) ever discovered, according to a translated statement from the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, where the necropsy was performed. The discovery, scientists say, will help us better understand life in the region during the last ice age.

Photos from the necropsy show the wolf's mummified body in exquisite detail. Animals are preserved in permafrost through a type of mummification involving cold and dry conditions. Soft tissues are dehydrated, allowing the body to be preserved in a frozen time capsule.

Researchers took samples of the wolf's internal organs and gastrointestinal tract to detect ancient viruses and microbiota, and to understand its diet when it died.

"His stomach has been preserved in an isolated form, there are no contaminants, so the task is not trivial," Albert Protopopov, head of the department for the study of mammoth fauna of the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia, said in the statement. "We hope to obtain a snapshot of the biota of the ancient Pleistocene."

He added the wolf, which tooth analysis revealed was male, would've been an "active and large predator," so they will be able to find out what it was eating, along with the diet of its victims, which "also ended up in his stomach."

Another key aspect of the necropsy is looking at the ancient viruses the wolf may have harbored. "We see that in the finds of fossil animals, living bacteria can survive for thousands of years, which are a kind of witnesses of those ancient times," Artemy Goncharov, who studies ancient viruses at the North-Western State Medical University in Russia, and is part of the team analyzing the wolf, said in the statement.

He said the research project will aid their understanding of ancient microbial communities and the role of harmful bacteria during this period. "It is possible that microorganisms will be discovered that can be used in medicine and biotechnology as promising producers of biologically active substances," he added.

The wolf necropsy is part of an ongoing project to study the wildlife that lived in the region during the Pleistocene. Other species examined include ancient hares, horses and a bear from the Holocene. The team plans to study the wolf's genome to understand how it relates to other ancient wolves from the region, and how it compares to its living relatives. The team now plans to start studying another ancient wolf discovered in the Nizhnekolymsk region of northeast Siberia in 2023.

By Hannah Osborne.

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— Octavia Butler, always

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it's a crime this song isn't absolutely massive and everywhere ughhhh

Riit - qaumajuapik (Inuktitut)

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"no time for love" by chloe sevigny

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Field kitchen. Chechnya autonomy. Russia. 2000

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“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”

 ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born on November 12, 1815

Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.

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big fish, made out of junk

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Joan Baez in her Los Angeles home, c. 1972.

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Игорь Метельский

Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

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born from a wish..

my trauma and genetically predisposed debasing of mental wellbeing has caused me to live in a dreamlike state, and all form of creation is born from a wish to connect with the physical world. there is no physical reality wherein i am well-adjusted without the ability to express myself in more or less abstract ways. listening to music and making it is one of the things that builds that bridge for me. all sound has colour and sometimes image, and while i have yet to share much work bridging the two in my practice, when i listen to things, my imagination brings its own ideations to mesh with lived experiences. that's why shows are so comforting for me, being in that audience inside the wall of sound. especially with metal. it pierces the wall between whatever bullshit is happening in my mind and in the real world. the absoluteness of what is happening on stage is one thing, and you need to be very conscious of your body and surroundings in that setting which is very grounding. every day life can be a very lonely existence. between me and every face i meet is that wall that i can't find the words to describe. obviously i know it's called dissociation, my psychiatrist taught me that like ten years ago, but if you know what i mean then you know it to be a real and true sensation. it's unbelievable what the mind is capable of, because i go about my life day to day just fine for the most part. my mind really feels absent all of the time, and then suddenly i am delivered an overwhelming volume of information or thought or feeling. all while being in motion and engaging with people and things. it makes me wonder, how many others are always adjusting the lens in their mind to focus on the world around.

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the owls are not what they seem