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@aizitzer / aizitzer.tumblr.com

Hi! My name is Amy. And I like stuff: music, art, language, literature, food, horror films, humor, really random stuff. This is an outlet for some of the stuff that amuses and intrigues me.
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sixpenceee

3D CT scan of a 73 year old Algerian woman with a 30 year old calcified fetus found inside of her                          

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when did it become problematic to celebrate the death of a villain? every fairytale and animated movie ever made is telling me that’s nonsense 

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theredkite

The thing that worries me is he’s not dead, and he’ll probably be fine, and then people might fucking vote for him. And if he does die, then they might vote for Pence.

And it won’t be ‘because of’ other people prematurely celebrating his death, because if you’re evil enough now to vote for him you were also evil enough last week. But after the fact, people will pretend it was. I mean, they’ll be people who were always going to pretend their voting was somehow their opponents’ fault. But still it’s not gonna help.

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rhube

I am much more worried about him dying and a wave of people sighing with relief as they vote for Mike Pence - they same level of fascist, but better organised.

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Follow me on Twitter for more vampire nonsense

THIS IS INGENIOUS

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Hey I heard you’re giving out anxiety, can I have 1 anxiety please?

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yes, here is a baby oarfish 

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that’s a BABY?

boy howdy are you in for a treat! introducing, the Oarfish!

MA! THERE’S A WEIRD FUCKING FISH!

Not much is known about Oarfish. Their maximum length is debatable, though there are reports of specimen up to 56 ft long. They live at great depths, and are rarely observed alive. Here’s a relatively small one:

Slightly larger one:

aaaaand, little bigger:

Yeah. these children get long.  hold on a mo’, i might have a better photo

yeah. there we go. a few hundred lbs of Oarfish. like i said, length-variable. that one’s only about 28 feet though. so like, imagine that but double. 

look how excited everyone is. well, everyone but the fish. oh, fun fact! they can self-amputate up to 3/4th of their body. lizard style. 

Historically, Oarfish have been described as sea serpents, and are probably responsible for a fair portion of myths. In Japanese folklore, their appearance portends earthquakes. Though rarely seen, Oarfish live in every ocean. All around the world. Everywhere. No matter what coastline you’re on, they’re always there. Just a few thousand feet below water. Waiting.

Watching.

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fireball-me

JESUS THAT WAS MORE THAN 1 ANXIETY

I AM A WHOLESALE PROVIDER

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kingfucko

do you remember how loud computers used to be

like you’d put a floppy in there and it would just fucking scream at you like a pterodactyl eating a corncob

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calm down edgelords, the whole point of society is that it’s not survival of the fittest. literally the point is that we’re leveraging our collective strengths to lead to better outcomes for everyone. we’ve been doing it for a couple thousand years now

And if I could butt in as an evolutionary biology student, “survival of the fittest” is CONSTANTLY misinterpreted anyway! It was never supposed to mean “survival of the strongest/fastest/healthiest/best”. The original phrasing used by Darwin himself is actually “survival of the most fit”, meaning that the individuals who were the most suited for their environment tended to be the ones that went on to reproduce.

And in a rapidly changing environment spread out across every biome of the entire planet? Our best chance for survival is diversity. Having lots and lots of variation of genes and experiences and abilities makes us EXTREMELY versatile and adaptable as a species, which is part of why we’ve been able to make such a huge impact all this time.

So yes, society means we don’t HAVE to follow biological systems of survival, but even if we DID our best chance is STILL to have a diverse and varied population.

So eugenics and social Darwinism isn’t just cruel and inhumane, it’s also just fundementally wrong. Having a population of just the “fittest” individuals is far more likely to lead to our destruction as a species than edgy “survival of the fittest” people seem to think it will.

survival through diversity

Also the concept of “survival of the fittest” is commonly applied to populations, not mainly individuals!! How well a group works is much more important than how ‘fit’ each member is! And a population isn’t as strong as the weakest member, it’s as strong as the support system for the weak! (because even the ‘fittest’ individuals can suddenly be out of commission, and the ‘weakest’ individual can suddenly become the most valuable when the conditions change)

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“I’ve searched my conscience, and I can’t for the life of me find any justification for this, and I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument”

I… have to admit i was kind of gobsmacked to realize that’s the borat guy, but his point is eloquent and good so keep kicking ass, dude.

Despite being known best for his comedy characters, Sacha Baron Cohen is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he earned a history degree after writing his undergraduate thesis on the American civil rights movement. His mother’s family were German Jews and his father’s family were Ashkenazi Jews; he is also the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. He understands this issue all too well.

A lot of people seem to forget that comedy is derived from history and culture and without an extensive knowledge of both you can’t actually make good jokes. So many comedians are also stellar intellectuals; that’s why they’re funny.

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Suspiria (2018) / Stares of a Lover / Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson / Exposure by Christine Mari / The Dislocated Room by Richard Siken / Mother! (2017)

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tobydammit68

Suspiria (2018) Dir. Luca Guadagnino /// Lucifer Rising (1981) Dir. Kenneth Anger

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