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I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

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Something i feel non jews/goyim don't realize is that being jewish right now is very tiring.

Whilst there are amazing online communities that I am apart of, my irl life is very different.

my ex friend who is still in my friend group is openly antisemetic online. Im not sure if my friends have even picked up on that or seen his posts as idk how often they go on tumblr.

Every day i wonder if my friends ever agree with any antisemtism. None of them have spoken out about it. I feel like I can't even share any antisemitism i experience online or irl with my irl friends without them being uncomfortable because its common for goyim to be uncomfortable with discussions surronding antisemitism.

I just feel so alone and isolated irl all my attempts to fill that void online is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound.

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getting this notification was really depressing. we need to bring back “don’t like, don’t read” because people are literally just writing fiction and the comments were disabled because of abuse towards writers.

be nicer, for the love of god.

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Alex Kurtzman saying lower episode counts helps make "every episode count" and avoids filler since when can "we all know" which of those old Trek episodes were "spinning their wheels" when literally every story arc in the modern serialized live action Trek era has been padded to hell. Picard spent three episodes to get into space, and half a season stuck in a nebula, Picard season two has two episode's worth of plot expanded to ten hours from mostly pointless subplots, and even Disco's best season had a back half full of "okay we found them, whoops nope" episodes but uh they don't have lizard babies anymore so it's better

Just. Filler and wheel spinning *from what*? What plot is it distracting us from. Exploring strange new worlds and boldly going where no one has gone before is the only plot

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Yeah.

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*booktok voice* Do you want to read a gay story about two guys who speedrun enemies to lovers, go against their designed nature by being together, who become unstoppable fighting side by side to much dismay of the gods who created them? Do you want to see one of them eaten alive by the grief for his lover when he dies from a godsent sickness? A book about someone fighting so hard for a chance at eternal life that he doesn't notice he is throwing away the precious time he has got, filling it with agony? Well, in the  2100 BCE poem of Gilgamesh-

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Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS

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Wait, which animals raise livestock?

Several species of ants will 'herd' aphids around (a type of plant lice)- even picking them up and putting them back with the group if they wander off. The ants will attack anything that approaches their aphid herds, defending them. The aphids produce a sugary excretion called honeydew, which the ants harvest and eat.

Some ants will even 'milk' the aphids, stroking the aphids with their antennae, to stimulate them to release honeydew. Some aphids have become 'domesticated' by the ants, and depend entirely on their caretaker ants to milk them.

When the host plant is depleted of resources and dies, the ants will pick up their herd of aphids and carry them to a new plant to feed on - a new 'pasture' if you will.

Some ants continue to care for aphids overwinter, when otherwise they'd die. The ants carry aphid eggs into their own nests, and will even go out of their way to destroy the eggs of aphid-predators, like ladybugs.

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Microhylids – or narrow-mouthed frogs - have an interesting symbiosis with Tarantulas.

While the spiders could very easily kill and eat the much-tinier frogs, and DO normally prey on small frogs, young spiders instead will use their mouthparts to pick up the microhylid frogs, bring them back to their burrow, and release them unharmed.

The frog benefits from hanging out in/around the burrow of the tarantula, because the tarantula can scare away or eat predators that normally prey on tiny frogs, like snakes, geckos, and mantids. The tarantula gets a babysitter.

Microhylid frogs specialize in eating ants, and ants are one of the major predators of spider eggs. By eating ants, the frogs protect the spider's eggs. The frogs can also lay their eggs in the burrow, and won't be eaten by the spider.

So it's less 'livestock' and more like a housepet - a dog or a cat. You stop coyotes/eagles from hurting your little dog/cat, and in return the dog/cat keeps rats away from your baby.

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Damselfish grow algae on rocks and corals. They defend these gardens ferociously, and will attack anything that comes too close - even humans. They spend much of their time weeding the gardens, removing unwanted algaes that might overtake their crop.

The species of algae that they cultivate is weak and and sensitive to growing conditions, and can easily be overgrazed by other herbivores. That particular algae tends to grow poorly in areas where damselfish aren't around to protect and farm it.

Damselfish will ALSO actively protect Mysidium integrum (little shrimp-like crustacians) in their reef farms, despite eating other similarly sized invertebrates. The mysids are filter feeders, who feed on zooplankton and free-floating algae, and their waste fertilizes the algae farms. Many types of zooplankton can feed on the algae crop, and the mysids prevent that.

While Mysids can be found around the world, the only place you'll find swarms of Musidium integrum is on the algae farms that Damselfish cultivate.

Damselfish treat the little mysids like some homesteaders treat ducks. Ducks eat snails and other insect pests on our crops, and their poop fertilizes the land. The ducks can be eaten, but aren't often, since they're more useful for their services than their meat.

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There are SEVERAL species of insect and animal which actively farm. They perform fungiculture and horticulture: deliberately growing and harvesting fungus and plants at a large-scale to feed their population.

Leaf-cutter ants and Termites both chew up plant material and then seed it with a specific type of fungus. The fungus grows, and the termites/ants harvest the mushroom as a food source.

Ambrosia beetles burrow into decaying trees, hollow out little farming rooms, and introduce a specific fungii (the ambrosia fungi), which both adults and larval beetles feed on.

Marsh Periwinkles (a type of snail) cultivates fungus on cordgrass. They wound the plant with their scraping tongue, then defecate into the wound so their preferred fungus will infect it and grow there. They let the fungus grow in the wound a bit, and come back later to eat.

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Best people. #ACAB

Each sentence gets worse. Each sentence gets more MAGA.

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I love how the big picture world-building of true blood is like yeah what if vampires were real and we knew about them? how could we fit their existence into the constitution? how would this affect infrastructure to accommodate their participation in society? what stance would religious organisations take on them? how does their fight for civil rights sideline and appropriate other minority movements? how do capitalist institutions capitalise off them as a new group of consumers? what kind of technology would humans develop to protect themselves? how would the arms industry transform to supply weapons against these new threats to human safety? what does their visibility mean to the privacy of other secret supernatural groups? but then the most immediate issue at hand in this new reality is instead, of course, what happens if you fuck one of them?

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Emo girls these days don’t even Know . . .

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The comment on levar burton’s unprompted laforge posting………

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True Blood Alexander Skarsgård as Eric Northman

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It's important to drink a lot of fluids when you're sick so that your body has the raw materials to generate gallons of snot.

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TRUE BLOOD | 4.01

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You've done such a good job pretending to be big and strong today! Now let me put your collar on, it's time to turn your brain off <3

#yes please

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i've been seeing this around a lot lately as like a little memey jokey thing but "this is what they took from you" is a fascist meme.

"they" are jewish people/"the global elite"/"cultural marxists"/"globalists"/"the woke left" etc.

and it's basically the same as "RETVRN" like this is explicitly a fascist thing that fascists say about their fascist beliefs

please don't go around saying it

you can talk about capitalist enshittification without invoking fascism, and just because YOU mean something different doesn't mean it's not invoking those things it's explicitly meant to invoke