Had a seizure and collapsed, nearly bit though my tongue and they say I was close to going brain dead. Been in the hospital for a while and just got home a few days ago. I... All I feel is tired. I can't do much. My energy is gone. Muscles are pulled and feel shot because I was seizing hard and slammed my head back on collapse. I'm just so tired...
Hungry Woman Throws Food Around the House with her Tiny Hands
The moment when Soma appeared at the end of episode 4x02 of Black Butler
Since I'm not getting much traction. I guess I'll do it here. HI, I'm Jug. I'm a small artist and I lost my job. I'm trying to find a job but the market is horrible right now and everything is expensive. Living is expensive. So here I am, with my whole chest, sharing this GoFundMe so I can my family until I can find a job.
Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”
This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
End image description]
I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation
I used to work for two of the authors, Mark and Nancy Deyrup. They are true naturalists, interested in everything that lives, and wonderful human beings. They still live in central Florida where the tortoise shell moth lives, and have dedicated their whole lives to documenting the Florida scrub ecosystem and educating the public. I don't know if their names reach outside of entomology, but they are beloved figures here.
99% sure these ribs are extremely bruised
Earthbound (Nintendo, 1995)
Imagine holding a baby krill that's so damn fat it just naps in your palm.
anyone else feel like this has the vibes of a renaissance painting? it’s ok if it’s just me lmao
fuck it, shimp.
shimp on da moon
(trying to be romantic) you're one in a krillion.
i found the perfect display for my 100,000+ year old shrimp fossil
