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i havent seen anyone mention no nut november even as a joke or to mock the concept. its just out of question rn. no time for that. everyones like yeahh well at least i can still get a nut off nobody can take that away from me

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If men put the bodies in the trunk and women find where to bury them, does that mean the enby’s dig the hole?

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But what if I don’t wanna

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You would never survive night at the museum

I understand that museums have to be dark because light can destroy fragile artifacts. That said, I’m always afraid to walk around the blind corners because what if there is a skeleton

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Get that boy some clown shoes this instant

i think maybe we could spend less time thinking about things that make us angry and more time thinking about other stuff

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As an ex-woodwind player, doing that with something on your chest (even a small baby) is incredibly impressive to me

everything is truly so terrible but i just remembered doreen ketchens playing clarinet for her infant grandson and then i was kind of okay again for 36 seconds

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I will add that even though we know A LOT about extinct animals, there are obviously many exceptions. Some species only have a few partial fossils found so far, meaning we know some but not a ton about them, and sadly many many extinct species simply aren’t known about as we haven’t found fossils of them yet.

However! We are CONSTANTLY learning and discovering more about history, extinct animals included. Just because we don’t know everything, does not mean that we don’t know a great deal more than Hollywood and social media would lead you to believe.

Some amazing resources that I personally enjoy watching to learn more about palaeontology and cool animal facts in general (as a casual enjoyer, I have zero academic experience) are a few YouTube channels:

Lindsay Nikole (she’s doing a series called history of the world as we know it rn, it’s awesome, but she makes other stuff too):

Seven days of science series by Ben G Thomas (there are several sibling channels listed on their page, they’re all cool)

PBS Eons (their shorts are very good, and their long form videos are even better)

And History of the Earth (amazing documentaries, worthy of the history channel BEFORE it went to shit)

For non-extinct animals, Real Science is really fun! They’re what got me into marine biology and the reason the octopus is my favourite animal. Also they taught me that pudge ones are cool as fuck. If you like engineering, they also have a sister channel for that linked on their page.

Less specialised, but SciShow has some great episodes about this kinda thing as well! Hank Green and his team are awesome.

And while I’m at it, if you’re also interested in the Human Fossils (aka archaeology and anthropology), Milo Rossi from Miniminuteman is where it’s at! He’s got some great stuff in his channel, super fun, and knows how to do commentary/reaction/debunking videos without being outright mean and instead just sarcastically informative.

I have more educational YouTube recs but imma stop here because these are the most relevant to the post lol

I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.

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One day if you’re very lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it), it morphs into a special interest that constantly looms on the edge of your brain around the 1/3 high point of the graph and if anyone or anything brings it up it skyrockets to the top of the graph within seconds and stays there for an undermined amount of time

What I mean when I do not control the hyperfixation.

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Meanwhile I’m over here a born and raised American with a family that has never once served cranberry anything at thanksgiving. I don’t know why. I found out about cranberry in a can when I was like 13. I still do not know what the fuck is going on with the cranberry in a can. I do not understand its existence or prevalence in thanksgiving. I’ve never even tasted cranberry in a can. Or out of a can for that matter; unless you count cranberry juice.

Instead, my family has a mix of whipped cream and strawberry jello topped with more whipped cream and strawberry glaze for garnish. It is also served during Fourth of July. And Christmas. In unrelated news, almost half the people in my immediate family have diabetes.

And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins

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Obsessed with the completely correct opinion that Disney’s haunted mansion should be our Supreme Court

I need someone to draw all the Supreme Court justices in stuffy suits waiting impatiently in line for the haunted mansion while crying and annoying children and tired parents surround them

And also the supremes court justices attempting to hold an important trial mid-ride. Like they are actively falling in the elevator, wigs flying off into the air, gavel base and gavel in each hand so they don’t get lost, attempting to yell their arguments in a dignified manner (and failing)

Like I can picture it all so perfectly in my brain but I do not have the time to draw it all out (especially cause I’d have to do it all via pencil and paper since I don’t have a drawing tablet or stylus and I hate drawing on my phone)

hi there i saw your comic and i didn’t want to distract from the point but are you genuinely into column differentiation. because if so that sounds fascinating and i would love to hear about it

yes i am!! i opened tumblr to several requests in my inbox for this so here we go, a quick overview:

There are five general types of columns in Greco-Roman architecture: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. I’m mostly going to focus on the Greek 3, as Tuscan columns are basically just Doric columns but bald and Composite are, surprisingly, a composite of other types.

(technically there’s also Roman Doric vs Greek Doric but we’re keeping it simple)

In terms of the shaft, all 3 Greek columns are relatively the same, they differ the most in their top chunk aka the entablature. Doric columns are very simple, growing more complex with ionic and even more so with Corinthian. However do not confuse complexity with appeal! Corinthian Columns are often over decorated and gaudy.

For example, look at the Supreme Court building.

This is an abomination. The Corinthian columns exude opulent wealth and frivolous decor, which is not what you want from a building meant to instill justice. But it’s the US so who’s shocked. Anyways

Compare to the long lasting elegant Doric columns of the Parthenon. They may look simple, but they’re also complex in a way you might not expect: the Greeks used columns to form optical illusions.

The columns actually aren’t straight, they’re curved just right to make the whole building appear perfectly straight. For a modern example, lets look at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland! Surprisingly the imagineers at Disney have an overlap with the ancient architects of Greece: they mess with perspective to create broader illusions of size and depth. And look at those beautiful Doric columns. Elegant. Graceful. A sign of wealth without excess. This should be our supreme court

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Yes please, also can it be gay and can we do spoken word poetry about it?

hey does anyone want to bleed out in my arms it has to be weird

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Morg is joker’s baby and he’s my baby too

listen persona fivers u guys can all personally hate morgana but to fabricate that joker also dislikes him is absolutely insane. that cat went missing for THREE DAYS and akira was literally going through all five stages of grief. literally picked up his schoolbag and started crying bc he was like “oh it’s so light without mona in it………where is he where are you where is my cat”

that bratty little cat is literally his BABY yes of fucking course he loves him he can’t properly function without that little brat cat

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I love cats so much that if I think about how much I love them for too long I’ll start crying

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roommate texted this to me……..

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Idk what this means but yeah I’ll reblog that

A tiny green alien grabs a woodsman's axe with its stubby fingerless nub arms. The axe is nearly three times it's height. It todders towards you, struggling to stay upright. It gets a running start, and throws every ounce of its bodyweight into the swing. The axe hits home, and hacks about 80% through the toes on your left foot. As you collapse from the pain, the little green alien runs in circles.

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People who draw/animate scenarios to tell a story online instead of sharing actual photos/videos of people are my favourite human beings