Until the heat-death of the universe! :D

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[animentality]

[ellipsis-dotdotdot]

no no you don't get it. unlike other birds, it's not caused by a pigment but by the structure of the feather itself. If you had like a bleach or something that affects the pigments but not the feather structure, and applied it to a blue jay feather, the feather would still be blue. Idk how else to explain it man, but it's a really big thing that it's not the structure of pigment but of the feather itself that makes it blue.

[theriu]

So basically like how polar bear fur is technically colorless, but the hollow hairs reflect or compound or something the light to appear white? But I figured the person is more pointing out that regardless of the specific cause, if something appears a color any time light touches it, it is that color to us (kinda like how you can SAY magenta “isn’t real” but things are still magenta to us). The structure thing is neat though!

[ellipsis-dotdotdot]

lol i got so caught up in explaining why blue jay feathers are special i forgot to agree, but yes, they are blue. arguably, they're more blue than the i think one animal that has a true blue pigment(a species of butterfly. blue pigment is incredibly rare in animals.)

[raptorcivilization]

Some lobsters are blue because they hijack the red pigment astaxanthin to make a new pigment, crustacyanin, which shifts the color range to blue. It’s funky

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[theheroheart]

Just to be clear, this is not a shitpost or a joke. This 22 year old has in fact been appointed mayor of the Welsh town of Bangor.

Source tweet: LINK.
A news article: LINK.

[americanbeautiies]

can we please appreciate their t-shirt though holy

[ID: A photo of Mayor Owen Hurcum, a person with bright green hair. They are smiling and holding up a white mug with a rainbow symbol on it. They are in a black t-shirt that reads, in white letters, THEY/THEM/THE MAYOR]

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[verdantmeadows]

I don't think there's enough visibility for people who have bigoted intrusive thoughts (unwanted, uncontrollable thoughts) especially for those who aren't part of the groups the thoughts are bigoted towards. So shout-out to everyone who has these intrusive thoughts. People with racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, xenophobic, and anything else. Your intrusive thoughts don't define you and don't define how you truly feel about different groups of people. Your intrusive thoughts don't make you a bigot.

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[ocprompts]

is your oc a writer? what do they write?

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[beepbopitsgt]

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

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[beepbopitsgt]

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

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[beepbopitsgt]

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

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[the-cassquatch]

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

[dj-of-the-coven]

Long collection of resources under the cut.

Keep reading

[xerxestexastoast]

ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose

[genquerdeer]

Archive.org has free book lending world-wide (if you make a free account), and free software library of old games! Also a lot of weird public domain video materials.

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[unwelcome-ozian]

[roach-works]

when i was getting trained as a welder the guys started playing sneaky grabass with each other and with me. i almost hit a few people while holding dangerous tools in my hand because they wouldn’t stop grabbing me from behind, then laughing that i ‘almost’ hit them, so i finally had to go to the instructor and say, look, i’ve had years and years of self defense training due the fact i’m a very small weirdo who is in legitimate danger of getting hatecrimed and at some point one of these guys is going to goose me again and im going to bury a wrench in his eye. get them to stop grabbing me, because i don’t want to get kicked out for hitting people.

the next day i ended up punching someone in the face with a doughnut in my fist because she thought i was being a big fucking buzzkill who tattled to teacher about a harmless game, and, guess what, grabbed my butt. i got icing all over her hair. she complained to teacher...who let everyone know that this was why they weren’t supposed to be playing grabass in the fucking shop.

anyway don’t fucking sneak up on twitchy little queers with hypervigilance, it fucking sucks and you’re lucky if you get a doughnut to a face instead of a hammer.

[kyraneko]

given that this was a welding class, I was expecting this to end up so much worse

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[solitarelee]

East Asian fanartists are starting to migrate back to Tumblr because Twitter is insane, toxic, and dying, and what we're NOT going to do is let the fucking exclusionists get them, do you hear me? We are not going to let a bunch of feral idiots try to apply the most myopic version of puritanism to foreign artists we're not we're not we're not. Form an armed brigade if you have to, do you hear me. We're not going to bully the artists who may or may not even speak English because we have our precious standards of moral purity. If we see art that makes us uncomfy we're going to block the artist and tumblr savior their name so we don't have to see them again AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE FUCK ON.

[carlyraejepsans]

Important note for mobile users, you don't actually need tumblrsavior to do this!

All you need to do is go to your account settings, scroll to "Filtered post content" and input their username. This will filter

• all their original posts
• all mentions of their username
• threads where they made an addition
• posts that were directly reblogged from them (unfortunately, these get caught up too)

I always thought this option was common knowledge, but apparently it's not..? It's especially useful since new users and artists who don't speak english are notoriously inconsistent about tagging, which normally means their posts slip between the cracks with the "filter tags" settings.

Another thing I recently realized you should do is look up the translation of various ship names in other writing systems, since they might not use the english equivalent. Also, remember that depending on character dynamic and "who tops", the order of the names in the shipname gets swapped! So you actually have to block two tags per ship. Alright happy filtering MWAH!!

[solitarelee]

#not sure how related to the post this is so I'm leaving it in the tags#but CP is a common abbreviation for the word ''couple'' over in Chinese and Japanese corners of the Internet#maybe some other languages too#point is it does not mean child porn#so we're clear#discourse

This is important enough to not only get peer reviewed but that I wish it had its own post with a thousand reblogs honestly.