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

johannestevans:

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

nyancrimew:

earhartsease:

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

they could put my prison (switzerland) in a pdf

fallingtowers:

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

catmask:

catmask:

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

im so happy everyone love me

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

dateknight:

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

cali:

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

silicon65:

In your next life.

wayneradiotv:

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

sanctus-ingenium:

ALT

ALT

moth, man

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

charlottan:

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