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INFORMATION I WAS NOT PREPARED TO LEARN. MAYBE WE *ARE* ALONE. BECAUSE WE ARE SO *EARLY*. IF THERE IS EVER GALACTIC CIVILIZATION THEY WILL NOT REMEMBER US AT ALL. BECAUSE WE ARE NOTHING. CELLS, JUST BEGINNING TO FORM LIFE. SORRY FOR SCREAMING. BUT ARE YOU LISTENING. ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT IT.

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This looks like Cycloseris!!!! My advising professor has been studying these for like thirty years. Cycloseris (previously Diaseris) distorta is a free-living coral, so it doesn’t attach to the substrate like all the other corals. Instead, it forms these lil pebbles that are super fleshy on one side and skeleton-y on the other. They roll around in these MASSIVE aggregations, and if they get flipped over or don’t like the angle of the sunlight, they’ll inflate their tissues like a balloon and wait for the current to flip ‘em over.

This also means that their primary method of reproduction is by fragmentation! They roll around, smack into a bigger rock, break into two pieces, each of those two pieces roll around and smack into each other and more rocks and then all of a sudden you have thousands of these lil guys

breaking news: (wait for it)

"walking" coral discovered!

ohh...look at it go...

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there r real teens out there who think discovering nirvana is a special achievement 

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"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

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i love it when fish are like

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Thief in a box | prints/stickers

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I saw this image of Athena and Odysseus and it was too freaking funny🤣🤣

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talking about Rosie The Riveter, fun fact: while the We Can Do It picture has become the most-well known depiction of her in modern times, it wasn’t really a famous image when it was made–in fact, it wasn’t even intended to be her

the most famous depiction of Rosie The Riveter during WWII was probably Norman Rockwell’s painting 

note what she’s resting her foot on

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i finished it!! :D

Salmon spawned in non-river biomes, like oceans, use my retexture of salmon (seen in all but one image above) to be accurate to real life. Salmon spawned in river biomes use the vanilla texture that looks like a spawning salmon - which go through rivers to spawn.

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remember kids

Artist 🎨: @vhsdogs

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Inside a thief's pockets | Prints

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The way she screams waiting. It’s like you, how DARE you tell me to fall inlove with you again when I have been waiting for you for so much of my life. Didn’t you think I would have loved you in any form you took? Didn’t you think I knew how war would change you? Didn’t you think that I would be at your side when you came home, no matter what awful, awful things you may have done? I love it so much.

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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A caiman in the Amazon wearing a crown of butterflies that feed off the young crocs salty tears. (2016) Photog. Mark Cowan [source]

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I love how good the ithaca saga characterizes Penelope. And I'm not talking about her being super smart and disgusting loyal, I'm talking about her being so clearly SPARTAN.

Like this saga was so wild and Penelope the whole time was just like, "Oh.. anyways-". I genuinely never seen a character so unbothered by pure insanity in every song they are in (which was only two😭)

Penelope in the challenge: "A supernatural storm just appeared dangerously close to our kingdom in an instant and left just as fast.... My husband must be here!"

Odysseus in the final song: "I treated people as subhuman and murdered hundreds."

Penelope: "Can you pick up our wedding bed?"

Odysseus: "... did you not hea-"

Penelope: "No, I heard. Now pick up the bed."

Odysseus: "No! I worked so hard on that bed!"

Penelope: "Perfect! I still love you."

Odysseus: "I'm a mass murdere-"

Penelope: "And I breathe air. Who cares?"

(Bonus: Penelope was in her room listening to the dying screams of the suitors and was probably like, "Sounds like the boys are having fun😊.")