the feeling's mootual

lazarus-james: vardaesque: burritwo: adrians: a-creepy-weirdo-has: adrians: I had 3 stitches...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:36:12 -0700

vardaesque:

burritwo:

adrians:

a-creepy-weirdo-has:

adrians:

I had 3 stitches in my ear today and now my ear is swollen like a balloon

I’m not being racist but if you didnt want your ear to swell up you probably shouldn’t have gotten stitches.

how is that racist

they just said they weren’t being racist do you even listen

of course they can’t hear their ear is swollen up like a ballon

next time someone asks me what tumblr is i’ll show them this post

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:26:11 -0700

time-for-maps: Major Mythological Traditions of the World

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:21:51 -0700

time-for-maps:

Major Mythological Traditions of the World

vriksaserket: more metal than the left side of the periodic table

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:45:00 -0700

vriksaserket:

more metal than the left side of the periodic table

pawkeet: hibrid56: cat dude from animal crossing. It’s Bob!

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:56:00 -0700

pawkeet:

hibrid56:

cat dude from animal crossing.

It’s Bob!

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:21:43 -0700

chekov-chan: nominee84: yanagoya: meandmylittlevoices: allout...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:19:55 -0700

chekov-chan:

nominee84:

yanagoya:

meandmylittlevoices:

alloutorg:

URGENT: today in Russia, a terrible bill passed in the Russian parliament’s lower house that censors all things considered “gay”. It’s our local partners’ worst nightmare and we need your help.

This vote comes off the back of two brutal anti-gay murders in Russia, and the trial of a major LGBT rights organisation today.

Tell world leaders to STOP the crackdown, add your name:
www.allout.org/russia-attacks

REALLY IMPORTANT

This really is happening, and it’s scary as hell.

“Update June 12: the situation is worsening. Russia has just passed a new anti-gay law makes it illegal even to say the word “gay”. People in Russia standing up against the crackdown are urging All Out members to keep growing the petition to help draw the attention of world leaders and the media.”

spread this like the plague

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:56:15 -0700

ceruleancynic: seananmcguire: aiglet12: stuckinabucket: This...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:56:11 -0700

ceruleancynic:

seananmcguire:

aiglet12:

stuckinabucket:

This googly-eyed little bastard is the blunthead tree snake (Imantodes cenchoa).

It lives in Latin America and can’t do anything without looking ridiculous. A case in point:

It’s nocturnal, lives in understory shrubs, sleeps in bromeliads, and, unlike its cousin the twig snake, isn’t venomous unless you’re a small frog.

Above: Ridiculous-looking death in a tube.

Below: “Pathetically inoffensive to humans.”*

If you grab it, its primary defense will be to stink at you, because that’s dignified. To give you an idea of how tiny this thing is, here is a jumping spider thinking of trying its luck.

They live off a diet of frog and lizard eggs, small frogs, and lizards about the diameter of a human finger. Females can take slightly bigger prey, since their heads tend to be a smidge bigger than males’.

Nobody’s really done a lot of research on the whys of their itty bitty teeny little bodies, but the skull size and shape is under extreme evolutionary pressure to stay big enough to support prey consumption and sharp vision, while snake ribs and vertebrae are pretty flexible, allowing the rest of the body to essentially collapse into a camouflage-friendly profile when not digesting food.

We do know that their organ position means that their bodies are significantly backweighted, with their center of gravity clocking in at 74% of their nose-to-ass length** (technically their Snout-Vent Length, which is slightly more hilarious but also slightly more obscure if you’re not a herpetologist, because most people don’t go around calling an asshole a vent). The backweighting does give them way more maneuverability in the head section, which helps when you’re grabbing small, quick things like frogs and lizards and I guess can’t hurt when you’re eating their unborn young, either. Like, you can strike the eggs fast and hard like a ninja and pretend there’s some honor in it or something.

Also, there’s some advantage to being so unbelievably long and skinny that this is possible:

At least if you tend to live in short, shrubby trees. See, if you have x amount of biomass, and you spread it out over 3-5 feet, like these little bastards do, instead of concentrating it into one normal-looking snake, you’re much less likely to find yourself unsupported by vegetation. And I don’t mean that like, the vegetation won’t believe in you. I mean, the vegetation will dump you on your ass if you slither across it as a normal snake.

Skinny Minnie up there has much better odds of being able to scoot across a few twigs and leaves without them giving, and the greater length means that it can anchor itself at multiple points along a path. It also requires less strength to remain erect while stretching over fair distances.

Above: Too goofy-looking for words.

*Quote apparently from the field notes of Alejandro Arteaga, a particularly judgmental herpetologist.

**Data but not color commentary from International Journal of Morphology, 24(1):43-48, 2006.

[The line drawing appears to be the work of the authors of “Imantodes cenchoa (Chunk-headed snake) Mating” in Herpetological Review 36(3):324, 2005, but artist attribution isn’t specifically stated, because science journals.]

How cute!

BABBYS

LOOK AT THE BABIES

isthataghost: galicseas: IT’S SO CUTE IM REBLOGGING...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:55:54 -0700

isthataghost:

galicseas:

IT’S SO CUTE IM REBLOGGING TWICE

He’s so proud of himself

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:55:52 -0700

thegodofhellfire: meanwhile in russia…

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:39:47 -0700

thegodofhellfire:

meanwhile in russia…

aanniimmee: - From “Au Fou!,” directed by Yoji Kuri (1968)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:38:47 -0700

aanniimmee:

- From “Au Fou!,” directed by Yoji Kuri (1968)

leedukes: When children’s movies explain life in the most...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:38:42 -0700

leedukes:

When children’s movies explain life in the most simple yet most perfect way.

mudjoe2: jetgreguar: cubemelon: fact: shih tzus are one of...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:38:03 -0700

mudjoe2:

jetgreguar:

cubemelon:

fact: shih tzus are one of the least intelligent dog breeds, and can be easily trapped by invisible soda force fields

HELP

please no bullying for isabelle

death-by-lulz: thekhooll: Life Before Photoshop -1950 Bruce...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:48 -0700

death-by-lulz:

thekhooll:

Life Before Photoshop -1950

Bruce Mozert was renowned for being pretty innovative, coming up with underwater tricks to make these scenes seem as real as possible including using baking powder to create the powdery “smoke” coming out of the underwater barbecue.

qinni: Let’s meet again, you and I. Spirited Away | Done in...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:21 -0700

qinni:

Let’s meet again, you and I.

_{Spirited Away | Done in watercolour}

_{My sketchbook project | My deviantart}

cashewmonster: i sell smash ball and smash ball accessories

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:34:27 -0700

cashewmonster:

i sell smash ball and smash ball accessories

bedquest: dear fucking tumblr this is a fucking bumblebee this is a fucking bee this is a fucking...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:34:12 -0700

bedquest:

dear fucking tumblr

this is a fucking bumblebee

this is a fucking bee

this is a fucking hornet

this is a fucking wasp

as you can fucking see the longer their legs are and the less fuzzy they are is equivalent to how fucking evil they fucking are

purplekecleon: Animal crossing

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:38:32 -0700

purplekecleon:

Animal crossing