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This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of illumination. It even likes to play with humans.

Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.

The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, its purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”

I don’t care if it’s silly. I want one.

Alby 🇪🇺 on Twitter: “Panthers have spots that are only visible in long-wave infrared.

aries: the microbes inside you outnumber you billions to one, but you are bigger than they are.  fuck off, small fry.

taurus: we have read all the letters of your DNA but they will not tell us how your body will die.

gemini: the insides of your intestines replace themselves weekly.  do your laundry.

cancer: you are your body.  you are not a ghost wearing a meat tuxedo.  there is no ghost; the ghost is meat.  you are your body.

leo: don’t cry over spilt milk.  drinking milk is a genetic glitch.  (mistakes are so important.)

virgo: pure white tissue is dead tissue.  the vibrant ugly stuff – that’s alive.

libra: to understand your body we flood it with light and waves and rays and see what gets through.

scorpio: move your fingers.  move them again.  you made that happen but do you know how?

sagittarius: when you were small you had so many teeth, crammed jigsaw-like in your skull waiting to erupt.  what happened?

capricorn: sure, your atoms sprayed from the heart of stars, but it was plants who pulled that carbon out of the air for you.  pyrotechnics first, then hard work.

aquarius: read this and you notice how much you’re blinking.  oh god.  again and again, smear your eyes with water and salt.

pisces: there is a terrible disorder where bruises turn to bone.  you hurt so much and now you are so stiff.

Favorite Tumblr @staff blog descriptions from 2016:

A Brexit post-mortem: 17 takeaways for a fallen David Cameron (via iamdanw)

this is the biggest plot twist of our generation

(via Go West, Young Mans | Very Small Array)