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Historical medical poster collection, c. 1946-1950. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

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i lied, the guy might be dying actually

the muse isn’t there but the guy tm has rooted too deep in brain already

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starving

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I think people know about cuckoo chicks pushing the other eggs out of the nest they're born in, but do people know about honeyguide chicks which have these sick fangs:

Which they use to kill their nest mates, not by tearing the flesh but to gain enough grip to grab and shake them to death:

Claire Spottiswoode watched as the honeyguide chick used its sharp beak to grasp a young bee-eater, and, like a pitbull terrier, simply shake it to death. If the host chick is tough, it can take several sessions, between which the honeyguide chick pauses to catch its breath before starting again. Because its eyes are not yet open, and it's dark inside the bee-eater nest cavity, the honeyguide chick presumably uses both movement (touch) and temperature to tell it whether more shaking is necessary.

From Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead.

I think with the cuckoo chick pushing eggs out of the nest you can kind of imagine it doesn't really know what it's doing, it's just instinctively trying to make more room for itself or something, but there's something way more unsettling about a baby bird shaking another baby to death and checking whether the body's cold to see if it needs to keep going.

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the guy isn’t screeching

isn’t chewing

he’s just existing and laying on the floor in silence

the muse isn’t there but the guy tm has rooted too deep in brain already

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the muse isn’t there but the guy tm has rooted too deep in brain already

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modernized horatio doodle that im super fucking proud of. got the just some guy energy perfect on this one (the decal on his hoodie is the logo for the irl university of halle-wittenberg)

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extraordinary

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tbob is a shithole /j but the website scratched my brain enough to just focus on the deciphering for four straight fucking hours

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fraud

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you know if you think of every hamlet adaptation over the centuries as horatio spreading hamlets story you will actually keel over and perish

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all this time

I’ve been using a browser mobile version of tumblr

time to upgrade-

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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Technician..

The fact I'm a Rain world fan probably comes as the least shocking revelation ever

They're essentially my slugcat sona original character do not steal (I am confident someone has already beaten me to the punch on their name though). They inhabit the surroundings of an old collapsed iterator structure. A good majority of the areas shelters are fully broken down with the only way to progress being to take apart a working shelter and carrying their components over to "fix" them for a single hibernation cycle.

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He’s not ok

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Thought-to-speech technology that gets hacked by people who want text messages from their pets while they are at work, only to immediately regret it because their pets text them the dumbest things, and the only way to get any kind of a clear image of what's going on is texting the other pets for cross-reference.

Like you get a text from your dog going "END IS HERE DOOM IS COMING URGENT URGENT SEND TEXT G-D HAVE MERCY, HUMAN COME HOME IMMEDIATELY", (you have no idea why the text translator has decided that your dog is jewish, but that doesn't feel important enough to look into or change) and before you do, you text the cat like "what's going on?"

And the cat replies "sunshine is turned off, window is cold >:C" so okay that's a clue. You've got a monitor lizard that doesn't do much monitoring, but will reply with whatever the lizard is feeling right now if you text "?" first.

"hwrmbglhlr the earth rumbles are sexy", replies the lizard. Okay, so dog panic, no sunshine, and the lizard is sensing vibrations. Oh, there's a rain storm overhead. Fuck's sake.