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Tell us where you live! Submitted by @elicrumb

#spanish and portuguese most regularly from colleagues and somali from other campus employees #okay also mandarin and korean from my housemates but I feel like that should’ve count lol #I should learn to recognize amharic and oromo

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#monstrous regiment #discworld #terry pratchett #gender shenanigans

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

#happy weed palindrome day

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An Agonizing and Passionate Eclipse ✨🌑☀️

#yeah get it tillion #The Silmarillion #art #nsfw

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The absolute fucking agony and misery of trying to find posts about feminism that have any teeth and deal with reproductive health and the ways that the (in)ability to bear children has shaped the history of women is like walking through a trying to walk through a beautiful garden but the ground is covered in rakes, and the rakes absolutely HATE trans people.

#as someone who doesn’t really care about gender except that I am NOT a woman #yes this is good!!! #feminism #gender shenanigans #politics

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Cheetah calls for his sibling. (via)

#*incredibly normal cat noises* #*incredibly deep purring* #fuzzy animals #kitty

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as an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because i wont fuck or marry. i only know how to kill.

#lmao #TRAGICALLY I can’t use this line

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me irl

#star wars

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— every costume theatre on tlbd

#oh hello lizzie bennett diaries on my dash in 2k24. delighted to see you! #the lizzie bennet diaries #truly art for the ages

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me, having not worked with upland game birds since 2018: where did I leave my car keys?? i’m gonna be late for the dentist

my brain: according to the book “a woodcock in the hand” (haha)

me: hahaha

my brain: you can determine the sex of an American woodcock by the length of the bill. however, the difference between male and female bill length comes down to mere millimeters. it’s fa—

me: far easier to tell based on the three primary feathers, but that also—

my brain: comes down to pretty tight measurements too, yeah.

me: yeah. wait!! shut up!! where are my car keys??

my brain: idk but do you remember how to age a turkey based on the length of its leg spike?

me: wh—oh my god no I…I can’t remember the specifics.

my brain: you’re gonna get fired.

me: from my…marine biology job???

my brain: okay maybe not but you’re late for the dentist btw

me: FUCK!!!!!

#oh hey we have those diagrams in the prep lab! you can in fact age and sex woodcocks but it is Hard #birds #biology #as a side note this is shockingly similar to my own mental state. oof.

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#actually important shit #politics #also you know. libraries.

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1780-1790 Silk court suit (probably French)

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

#I violently desire this #art #fashion

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i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

#so true bestie #goncharov

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I’d argue that we have excellent evidence that Diplodocus didn’t cause Gonorrhea (knowing what does cause gonorrhea, general understanding of infectious diseases, general understanding of animals).

Direct experimental evidence is not actually the only way to build scientific knowledge!

#source: I am an evolutionary biologist #look I know this was a joke but it also stems from a REALLY common misconception about what constitutes the scientific method okay #one that drives my whole subfield (macroevolution) bonkers #biology #SCIENCE #dinosaurs #amusing things #also: we have even better evidence that diplodocus does not currently cause gonorrhea

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She has a lot to say

#oh she sure does 🥹 #kitty #dawww

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Give me a map of the midwest how you imagine it, and don't just use state lines, show me how you think the cultural area of the midwest actually exists in the US

#wait that final map lines up basically exactly with how I conceptualize the Midwest #I am SO pleased with myself #maps!

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i feel like a lotta people are wildly unhappy and resistant to the concept that the answer to most things is "well, it depends"

#I am an evolutionary biologist which means this is the only answer I ever give to a question #I LOVE saying well it depends. you sound so much nerdier. #biology #grad school #also yes people are bad at this and its annoying