#like not condensed. just pure fucking autism and hours of typing

[mothcrumbs]

I would liek to hear about the diatoms....

OH BOY YOU JUST PRESSED THE

AUTISM BUTTON

so. algae. we all know em, not everyone loves em, but they sure as hell exist theyre out there doin their jobs, producing oxygen and sometimes toxic chemicals depending on the flavor now imagine algae. but in a Cool As Hell Glass house.

mother.fucking. Diatoms

now these guys are fairly cool just on their own yeah? just chillin in their own lil crunchyass shells, photosynthesizing, vibing, generally just having a good time n not doing much but! some of those fellas? they be absolutely fuckin SCHMOVIN up in this bitch of an earth

i mean look at this totally normal faggot [bundle of sticks]

just a cluster of guys, yeah? totally normal guys that dont do a whole lot of moving

WRONG. THEYRE GROOVIN.

THESE. BITCHES. ARE. MOTILE. the bitches are motile. now that on its own? again, not too horribly interesting. i mean most microscopic organisms are pretty good at moving around in their tiny but huge worlds, but usually they use things like flagella or cilia, but these guys? my favorite guys? good ol bacillaria?

aint shit to be seen. if they have em they aint very visible, so their movement isnt all that well understood.

they just kinda. glide around in this almost elegant sort of way, almost like an inchworm but microscopic and a hell of a lot weirder and cooler

BUT YKNOW WHAT ELSE IS FUCKIN COOL?

thriller movies.

"but moth," absolutely nobody is asking "what the actual hell does that have to do with anything?" well my wonderful motherfucker, let me introduce you to The Birds

a fairly well known thriller that gave many people a [fairly reasonable] fear of. well. birds! in this movie birds are seen terrorizing the residents of a small lil village by the coast, sometimes going full suicide bomber on peoples asses by flying into peoples doors n windows n shit what if i told ya that that movie was based on an actual event? an event caused by our good pal, the diatom<3

ysee, like their non crunchy houseless algae pals, diatoms can sometimes produce toxins [like domoic acid in this case] marine diatoms get munched by filter feeders n such, those guys get eaten by birds, the birds go batshit fucking insane and die en masse, entire flocks just kinda losing it and flying into buildings because of the Fucking Poison they just consumed

real crazy shit, but yknow. circle of life n whatnot. anyways have a nice day<3 and make sure to think about diatoms next time you see a thriller<3