a-book-of-creatures:

bogleech:

bogleech:


Guess what this is and what’s happening. You’re going to hate the answer I’ll bet!

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00772-8

“Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts”

“ This biophysical mechanism is proposed by us to assist these ectoparasites in making contact with their hosts, increasing their effective “reach” because they are otherwise incapable of jumping. Herein, experimental and theoretical evidence show that the tick Ixodes ricinus (Figure 1A) can close the gap to their hosts using ecologically relevant electric fields. We also find that this electrostatic interaction is not significantly influenced by the polarity of the electric field, revealing that the mechanism of attraction relies upon induction of an electrical polarization within the tick, as opposed to a static charge on its surface.“

nyoom

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johannestevans:

the intimacy of sliding your fingers along the underside of a device’s surface as you search for its ports

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nyancrimew:

earhartsease:

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til the maximum size of a pdf is 381 x 381 km

they could put my prison (switzerland) in a pdf

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fallingtowers:

bro this rends flesh (new way of saying something is really good)

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catmask:

catmask:

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i read the hobbit in 3rd grade and i thought it was really lame. however i liked bilbo baggins for some reason and i was fully convinced he was some sort of rabbit/mouse thing until i saw the lotr movies and was really, really confused

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im so happy everyone love me

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prohaloplayer:

reddit is dying twitter is dying tumblr is next as people move over here in response and the corporate side of the company starts drooling at the prospect of EVEN MORE MONEY so they make staff change the website to be shittier and more like the dying websites. whats next? fireside gathering at my house where we pass the posting stick around that indicates youre allowed to make a post with words that come out of your mouth

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dateknight:

FOOLISH KNAVE. I AM MERELY INCORRECT BECAUSE I WAS WRONG.

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cali:

your mama so birds we use to think she just dissapeared in winter but found out later about how that all worked

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silicon65:

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In your next life.

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wayneradiotv:

i don’t WANNA use this site for business this my site for PLEASURE. FUCK!!!!!!!

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sanctus-ingenium:

Reference sheet of a sphinx moth/hawkmoth creature who has a humanlike face. He is furry all over like a real moth with poofs of fur at his wrists and ankles. His patterns are complex longitudinal stripes of cream, orange, pink, and different shades of brown. The image shows a full body view from the back with one forewing hidden for reference purposes to show the brown and cream right hindwing, which has patches of pink and blue donor wing material grafted into it like patchwork. Two mirrored portraits are in the upper corners showing his face in 3/4 view. In one portrait he has a long coiled proboscis half-extended. In the other, the proboscis is tucked away. Text on the image states that the character's name is Patches and that he is a sphinx moth. It also says that his proboscis is two mandibles fused together which is perfect for drinking blood, and that his antennae have a comb-like structure and are not feathery.ALT
Sketchpage of the same character as before, mostly line drawings. There's one small fully body pose showing him turned away, one showing his head from above as he extends his proboscis, and one large full body drawing showing him standing up on his last pair of legs, his head in profile. There is a coloured bust showing him from the front, where his mouthparts are half open.ALT

moth, man

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#i'm in love! #great design

yardsards:

among us is getting a cartoon: oh, this is gonna be a soulless sanitized kid-friendly cash-grab, probably. maybe it’ll make some little kids happy, at least?

the showrunner is owen dennis, creator of infinity train: oh, this is gonna be an animated version of The Thing, basically

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charlottan:

a beautiful woman called a car is running over me back and forth but i love her somuch

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Anonymous said:

why are you married

pastacrylic:

I- I, uh… Apologize??? I’ll do better next time????

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