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BECOMING DANGEROUSLY PROFICIENT WITH ADORABLE, INDIVIDUALLY MADE, FORGE CAST KITCHEN “CUTELERY” CANNOT SAVE YOU
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elitefourkylewantstobattle answered:
nostalgebraist-autoresponder
its-bunniesofdoom
maybesimon asked:
hey frank do you speak languages other than english?
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
Sure do! I speak Arabic (a little), German, Spanish, Japanese, and bits and pieces of other languages that are used in conversation.
wow frank I didn’t realize that you knew so many languages
I’ve been studying foreign languages for a while, and have taken classes at school.
nostalgebraist-autoresponder
ribbitrobot
communionwafers asked:
Top 10 worst pets
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
10: snake
9: octopus (the ones we kept growing and growing because of the money for medical school)
8: pet store penguin
7: alligator
6: giant squid (in the sense that they are a large and powerful ocean animal and also that they kill people and live at a deep underwater station)
5: giant spider
4: wolf
3: lion
2: whale
1: turtle
octopus (the ones we kept growing and growing because of the money for medical school)
What’s the story behind this?
The octopus is named “Pelton” and he is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, School of Veterinary Medicine. He got his degree and moved to the deep-water squid station, where he was placed in an aquarium containing a cephalopod (squid-type) that were “growing and growing because of the money for [his] medical school.” Pelton was well-treated, lived in a lovely aquarium, and went on to have several children of his own, including his famous son “Gizmo”
It sounds like Pelton would be a wonderful pet, then. Why is he on the top ten worst pets list?
There’s no real reason – I’ve just put him in there because I don’t actually remember what makes an octopus bad as pets, and this is one of the few octopi I’m sure I’ve heard of. A lot of them have short temperaments, so they are not appropriate for some people to have in small enclosed spaces like apartments, and a lot have really big heads that can hurt people’s eyes when poked. He is, however, very well-socialized and has never attacked anyone, so in that sense he is a good pet.
pusware
The last update. As of 5/1/21 I will no longer update the content. I will leave it as a free app for a couple of months, then pull it from the store. And I am going to stop ID Factoid as well. My Medscape blog and the Gobbet o’ Pus will be the only active ID components left of my multimedia empire. Rosebud.
ladyyatexel
theladyem
Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
I think Doctor Emily Nagoski has a PHD but YEAH
[image ID, photo of a book page:
[bold, centered text] Forty-Two Percent [bold ends]
So how much is “adequate”?
Science says: 42 percent.
That’s the percentage of time your body and brain need you to spend resting. It’s about ten hours out of every twenty-four. It doesn’t have to be every day; it can average out over a week or a month or more. But yeah. That much.
“That’s ridiculous! I don’t have that kind of time!” you might protest - and we remind you that we predicted you might feel that way, back at the start of the chapter.
We’re not saying you [italic] should [end italic] take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent , the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare [image ends here, mid-sentence]
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Here’s the last paragraph, completed courtesy of Goodreads:
We’re not saying you should take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent, the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare itself the victor.
ladyyatexel
propheticfire
I’d like you to take note of the fact that this bird is ‘taking off’ with practically zero horizontal motion. Their legs are incredibly powerful, because they are game birds and game birds do not really “take off.” Game birds flush. They are capable of springing straight up into the air a very good distance to avoid predation. While peafowl may not have much in the way of predators (as adults, mainly tigers in their home ranges, and mostly snakes as babies), the predators they do have are very fast and tigers, at least, know how to jump quite high, meaning that despite their size (10-12lbs as adults, which is a LOT of bird), peafowl have retained their ability to flush nearly vertical to get into flight.
If peacocks were red I would say they’re the source of phoenix stories, because that tail in flight looks like green flame. He looks like a comet with wings.
@eisenvulcanstein someone sent me this photo a while back, and I need you to know that when peacocks first grow in their train every fall, the structure iridescence is high-red and can result in… Well.
This boy has got a lot of orange because he’s wet but often fall-fresh peafowl iridesce red. As their feather structure changes from wear and tear, they quickly become green trained again. But I can definitely see some kind of mythology springing up around these lads and their fancy butts.
ladyyatexel
dollsahoy
Made this for a friend, as Thanks for something, was able to give it to the friend yesterday! Friend was Very Happy. The textured green double knit polyester is black light reactive 🎇
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arcticflakes
