Hypogymnia apinnata

Beaded tube lichen

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Don’t worry guys, fish don’t feel pain! When they’re harmed they only experience an unpleasant stimulus that they do their best to avoid any means necessary! It’s just a stimulus picked up by the nerves that’s sent to the spinal cord and the brain, it doesn’t count!

Reblogging with a link to the artist, Emily K., who's based in Philly and is firmly anti-AI! You can print this piece (and some others) for free for use at protests and such!

my favorite genre of bird picture

i promise the map of salamander diversity is not what you expect

Appalachia numero uno salamander capital of the world baby <3 there are like 70 something species in North Carolina alone

Basically its cause they evolved here!

The U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama also have the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems in the world.

The Appalachian Mountains are notable for having the world's greatest diversity of tree species in a temperate forest, with over 100 species of tree that make up the forest. They're also a global hotspot of lichen biodiversity.

Fun fact, dozens of genera of plants only have 2 species in them, one found in Appalachia and one found in SE Asia. These are called vicariad species pairs. Eastern Asia and Appalachia has very similar climates, that's why all the major Appalachian invasive species, such as Kudzu, are from eastern Asia

The SE United States has some of the nation's most biodiverse ecosystems but they are also some of the least protected.

Your children's show unfortunately has the absolute wrong take on tackling fascism. Yeah the power of friendship angle is showing a dismal lack of understanding of Marxist theory or even intro-level Leninism. Yeah my only two interests are children's media and online leftist discourse so this is gonna be a problem.

walter white in his underwear with the pistol readying to face the sirens, quietly to himself: this is my fight song. my walter white song

I stay away from men that hate women, and women that hate men. They be so miserable

my body is a machine that turns normal situations into psychological horror

Unofficial Autism Post

does anyone else think that its crazy (remembers i’m in discourse time-out this week) how the wind blowing thru the grass is so common yet so beautiful. one of many marvelous experiences in this wonderful life

String identified: a t tat t ca ( ’ c t-t t ) t g t t ga c t at. a a c t

Closest match: Kyklioacalles roboris genome assembly, chromosome: 18

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I wish I lived here...

if I had like 100 million dollars I would get a house with lots of really tall rooms and many walls made of glass so you could see whats in lots of the other rooms and then I would get like models of like 10,000 different really strange polyhedra and then put shelves on every wall and then put them ordered in a grid like pattern like this along every wall and maybe continuing suspended from the roof as well. and then I would play like scary minimalist ambient music at all times and have lots of strange mazelike halls so I would always pass a lot of polyhedra every time I had to go anywhere and it would be really strange

siphonophores will never not freak me out. stop doing that its SCARY but also please don't ever stop doing that you ethereal marine cryptid

the red shape is a person of average height. the green line is one of these freaks. btw

Ya'll forgot my favourite one

Reuben Paterson (New Zealand, 1973), All I Want to do is Thankyou Forever (Pavo Constellation), 2024. Glitter, acrylic, Pacific pearls and Japanese freshwater pearls on panel, 36 x 24 in.

Iridicolor Geometer Moth (Iotaphora iridicolor), family Geometridae, Thailand

photograph by Antonio Giudici