modern!charles would text edwin pictures of, like, otters holding paws with the caption “u & me :—)” & those “me when I look at u:🥹🥰😭” memes Before he even realizes he wants to kiss Edwin on the mouth, btw. edwin thinks he is the Loveliest Best Friend of All Time & saves each & every one to his camera roll
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Natural history museums hold innumerable misidentified specimens on their shelves. These specimens make their way into databases like GBIF, and muddy data that is used in global-scale analyses and other research drawing on such records. Careful verification of all specimens in a collection holding tens to hundreds of thousands of specimens would be a Herculean task that could take a dozen experts a decade. So, we often rely on spot checks.
Whilst searching our constrictor collection to see if we have any albino snakes (we don’t seem to), I came across this snake that had been identified as a Boa constrictor. It is in fact Malayopython reticulatus, a reticulated python. A quick new label and an update in our database, and I was able to move it over to the right shelf. Now it won’t muddy the waters further, and is able to be referred to by anyone interested in examining a retic.
How many more such cases are haunting our shelves of over 14 million objects? And that’s just the Natural History Museum of Denmark; there are billions of objects in similar collections globally. This is quite literally an astronomically huge problem.
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Steve is a 1st grade teacher with a hopeless crush on his student’s uncle, an instagram model who is way out of his league. One day, Steve dresses up as Peter Rabbit for his kids and has them all make bunny ears for a class project. His students mom takes photos and tags him on instagram, the account he only really has so he can keep up with his crush. The photos are ridiculously adorable and “Mr. Steve” and his class start to go viral. Steve honestly doesn’t get what the fuss is about but if he can use his platform to help kids get school supplies he’s all for it. But then some thirsty mom out there tags the original photo and asks if he’s looking for a Mrs. Rabbit and now his inbox is flooded with women throwing rabbit puns at him and sending him photos of themselves dressed as sexy bunnies. He’s honestly thinking about deleting his whole account until his instagram crush Billy Hargrove makes a detour from his usual content to post photos of himself cosplaying as Jessica Rabbit. Caption *winky face*. Steve gets off to it like six times. Robin thinks it’s a sign and he should hop in Billy’s DMs but Steve isn’t so sure Billy even remembers meeting him that one time. Why would he? It’s probably just a coincidence.
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most bizarre thing about mentioning I have a semi-popular cat blog to anyone outside of tumblr is one of the first things they ask about is if I can/am making money off it. The only thing I'm getting is a vast archive of cat pictures.
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kpop fans posting pictures of their idol taken from 300 metres away with a shaky iphone camera: oh my gooood hes so fuckin hot im gonna lose my fucking MIND god he looks so good he's literally so cute no one's ever been this cute ugh
the picture in question :
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06.28.24 | Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29) lifts the trident postgame after grounding out to drive in the winning run during the tenth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Seattle. the Mariners won 3-2. [x]
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