Chefs on top chef always recoiling from the prospect of making sweets like the entomologists I’ve met that recoil from the idea of studying butterflies… like you picked a serial killer career but you’re worried about seeming gay with it
I basically told my work partner today he can have the contract if there’s only funding for one of us… feel good about it too. This job is fine but it’s a) not gonna last more than another year b) not doing anything in particular for my life or career except pay me money. Which literally any job would do lmfao
I often hear that house centipedes have “too many legs” from people who aren’t as fond of all the Appendage as I am.
however, did you know that they aren’t born with all those legs?
this little bug nugget is an hours-old baby house centipede, with only 4 legs to her name!
as she grows, she’ll add a pair or two each time she molts her exoskeleton, until she reaches 15 pairs in the sequence 4-5-7-9-11-13-15. the purple capsule at her butt is a legless segment where the new ones will come in when they’re ready!
house centipedes can grow all their legs in just one summer, but will probably not be sexually mature for another year or two. since they keep slowly molting and growing after adulthood, some of the huge, ancient ones you see might be over 5 years old—what secrets the elder basement fairies must know, gleaned from cobwebs and crevices
All the ladies love me bc i have a an uninterrupted sense of selfhood despite existing as a series of electrochemical signals and a hunk of unreliable wet meat
Ladoum sheep are huge and majestic—rams can weigh as much as three grown men. Startlingly, they are also without wool (which is not a problem in west Africa as it is too hot to wear jumpers). Some Ladoum look more like small horses than sheep. (source)
