*points at your fridge* what is that a tardis/? your a fucking nerd? *turns around in disgust, sees your couch* wow. wow, a sideways tardis, on the floor. i can’t believe this shit. i can’t believe this shit. *walks outside and sees an apartment building* Are you fucking kidding me
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Pyrostremma spinosum (Giant fire salp)
“Pyrosomes, genus Pyrosoma, are free-floating colonial tunicates that live usually in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths. Pyrosomes are cylindrical- or conical-shaped colonies made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids. Colonies range in size from less than one centimeter to several metres in length.
Each zooid is only a few millimetres in size, but is embedded in a common gelatinous tunic that joins all of the individuals. Each zooid opens both to the inside and outside of the “tube”, drawing in ocean water from the outside to its internal filtering mesh called the branchial basket, extracting the microscopic plant cells on which it feeds, and then expelling the filtered water to the inside of the cylinder of the colony. The colony is bumpy on the outside, each bump representing a single zooid, but nearly smooth, though perforated with holes for each zooid, on the inside.
Pyrosomes are planktonic, which means their movements are largely controlled by currents, tides, and waves in the oceans. On a smaller scale, however, each colony can move itself slowly by the process of jet propulsion, created by the coordinated beating of cilia in the branchial baskets of all the zooids, which also create feeding currents.
Pyrosomes are brightly bioluminescent, flashing a pale blue-green light that can be seen for many tens of metres. The name Pyrosoma comes from the Greek (pyro = “fire”, soma = “body”). Pyrosomes are closely related to salps, and are sometimes called “fire salps”.
Sailors on the ocean are occasionally treated to calm seas containing many pyrosomes, all luminescing on a dark night.” (x)
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pro tip: worry less about your jeans size by only wearing leggings
Cute villains bonding
Files this under things white people can do that black ppl get murdered for doing
lets make this hashtag trend cause I’ve been seeing a lot of white privilege, and white supremacy in protest spaces.
Just a couple pro-tips for white people at these protests:
- Stay off the mics
- stay out of the die ins( use your visibility to hand out flyers or protect the Black folx staging the die ins from being stepped on)
- Don’t be cosigning “I am Mike Brown” or “I Can’t Breathe” neither of those would be true for y’all to say, when y’all say that shit it shows that you really don’t understand the forces of white supremacy and anti Blackness that devalues Black life and make you guys incapable of ever being Mike Brown or systematically suffocated because of your race. Plus, to me this is essentially the same as saying “All Lives Matter”
- If a reporter comes to talk to you about the movement point them in the direction of a Black protestor
- Don’t try to be all in front taking the attention
- Don’t you dare pull that “All Lives Matter” shit
- If you plan on doing any of these things at a protest about Black lives mattering or the lives of any and every PoC mattering, don’t fucking show up.
#whiteprivilegeinprotestspaces #whitesupremacyinprotestspaces
AND IF YOU SEE A COP HARASSING OR MESSING WITH POC GET IN THE WAY AND PREVENT ARRESTS AND MURDERS. I have a few amazing white ally friends that do exactly this but they’re only a handful and they need more.
This
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soon the ancient meme god nyancat will return and slay your false meme idols. the hour of the lolcat is upon us. repent. u can haz mercy
okay so this post made me genuinely curious about how old the lolcat meme is and apparently it’s older than the fucking internet
this picture was taken in 1905
lolcats are older than most human beings jesus christ
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Drew a G1 Star Hopper!
So cute! Really like the stars on her ribbons and the upward stargazing expression.
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Ohhhhhhmygod I forgot how whenever my mom comes into my room she just spends the whole time like…. LOOKING at all my stuff. She’ll talk really slowly and keep looking around the whole time making comments on all my personal items. It makes me so uncomfortable but as soon as I make any indication that I want her to leave she gets all huffy and throws her hands like “fine! Fine! I’m leaving!!!!!” I feel like I’m not conveying this very well but anyways I’m ready to move out