Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

Seriously people, learn fandom etiquette. It exists, it exists for extremely good reasons, and it's been decades in the making.

You know the saying, 'OSHA regulations are written in blood'? Yeah, that applies to fandom etiquette. We didn't make this shit up to lord it over newcomers, these rules evolved as a form of fucking self-defense and by god we'll die on this hill.

Let! That! Baby! Eat!!!!!!

Perfect tags

@catboybiologist

This is one of my favorite videos of all time and I will always reblog it when I see it

US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains

@blinded-by-love

I think we should do this but leave Colorado alone so there’s just an extremely jarring rectangle in one part of this

I like how you think.

enough. to the Box with you

So basically, Dolly the sheep was an accident. They were trying to clone sheep cells, and they ended up unintentally generating an embryo, which turned out to be viable, hence we got Dolly.

The method they used proved unsuccessful in primates, and the risk of cloning primates (and thus humans) outweighs the benefits (because there really aren't any real benefits, scientifically speaking), so they don't do it.

Where it's most likely to be used is in agriculture, cloning livestock embryos.

What they use cloning for is stem cells. Cloning adult cells to create stem cells means they don't need embryonic stem cells, which is probably the most important thing that came from cloning research in the past 25 years.

The reason it was so important was that it proved that you didn't need an embryonic cell to clone live animals. The nucleus of an adult cell contains all the DNA you need to clone, because Dolly was cloned from an adult cell, which was previously unheard of. Now they know that adults cells can be reprogrammed back to an embryonic stage, and was a major breakthrough for stem cell research.

So basically, we don't hear about cloning anymore because they aren't doing anything that is so exciting it will capture the world's interest, like Dolly did. But it was a major scientific breakthrough that is still very important.

One of my favourite cloned animals is Kurt, a Przewalski's Horse who was cloned from the preserved samples from a horse that died in the 90's so that he can hopefully introduce some additional genetic diversity into the Przewalski's Horse population. Oh hey there's actually two clones of this one horse now, the second one is Ollie who was born last year. Kurt is now about four years old. Last I checked he was at the San Diego Zoo.

We don't tend to clone animals that are more common because we already have a very efficient machine for making sheep, it's called sheep.

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*about to call mutual by name* *checks their bio* *i remembered their name correctly* *starts writing the post* *deletes it and checks the url again* *stares at url telling myself i know their name* *checks their bio again and i was still right* *writes post* *drafts it so i can check one more time before posting*

living in 3024 over here

yeah, people do lie on the internet, however i am so passionate about things that if i lie it will feel like i committed an autistic sin

if i just accidentally say something wrong i panic tbh catch me putting "to my knowledge" and "from what i remember" disclaimers on everything to account for human error

From what I remember, 1 + 1 = 2. I think. Not an expert though, feel free to fact check me! This is just an educated guess.

If I had a nickel for every time Ella Purnell played a character who wears a lot of blue and yellow/goldish uniforms with numbers on them , keeps walking in on blood rituals and getting stuck with cannibals I’d have 2 nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

Ella Purnell plays characters who have no idea what the fuck is going on

eleventh plague. emails. 

Pharoah, I hope this email finds you letting my people go

as per my last plague,

shrek is 15 years old today

shrek is 16 years old today

Shrek is 17 years old today

Shrek is 18 years old today

Shrek is 19 years old today

Shrek is 20 years old today

Shrek is 21 years old today

Shrek can now drink in the US.

Shrek is 22 years old today

Shrek is 23 years old today

I will be honest if someone posted "I'm a tutor and everyday I watch zoomers try to double tap on books to open them" thousands of you would reblog it and tag "😱 it's so scary that this is what all kids today are really like they're so helpless and stupid omg!!! those damn kids need to get off their phones!!!!"

things a concerning amount of people aged 25-40 on this site believe about today's children:

there should be a way to enable anons but only from ur mutuals. u wont know who said it but u know its coming from inside the house

i have been constantly in tears over this newly hatched duck i found on instagram last night

This is like the greatest animal ive ever seen

okay i get that a lot of people are frustrated that previously free content is now going behind a paywall, essentially, but I don't think its fair to act like the Watcher guys are just trying to scam people out of their money. They made it very clear in the announcement: they're doing this because they simply cannot afford to keep making the quality of shows they like on youtube. it sucks, but i also think that its understandable. They want to keep making content, and this is the only way they can do so. Personally, I'd rather figure out how to pay for a subscription while knowing that all the money goes to *them*, and not have to deal with a million ads. Plus now theyre not going to be constrained by advertiser's whims - they can say and do whatever they want. I understand if you don't agree with me, but I truly would rather pay to support artists making art they love and are proud to share with the world instead of watching for free knowing that they're struggling for money and trapped by whatever advertisers want