have y'all heard about the reproductive biology of honey bees. no, not the thing about the queen and everything. I mean how the males (drones) only exist to fly out and congregate at mysteriously determined locations in the sky in huge numbers, where they meet up with queens on their mating flights. And a drone can only have sex once, because when he mates with a queen, he essentially pops such a massive boner that it drains all the blood from his body, paralyzing him as the act rips his dick off killing him instantly.
The queen mates with a dozen or two drones on her mating flight (which is the only one she will ever take- she keeps the sperm from the drones alive in her body for the rest of her life, which can be several years). The next drone has to pull his fallen brother’s severed dick out of the queen before he too can mate with her, meeting the same grisly fate and the cycle repeats.
Showing up to the gang bang and everybody is just dying like flies around you
I mean this is pretty crazy but if you understand human chromosomes I urge you to look up bee chromosomes
The evolutionary pressures. Good god
Yup. No Y chromosome bullshit with bees. Fertilized eggs become workers, unfertilized eggs become drones. Basically females are diploid (2 sets of chromosomes) and males are haploid (1 set of chromosomes).
In humans, typically the only haploid cells are the sperm and egg cells. The drones are basically sentient sperm.
I debate myself on whether bees should be considered to have 3 sexes or whether they have something else going on…
Basically queens and workers are genetically the same, but if the workers sense that their colony has no queen or a weak queen, they can raise a queen by feeding her royal jelly as she develops. Queens and workers are both “female,” but only queens can mate.
In a hive with a strong queen, her pheromones prevent the workers’ ovaries from functioning, so they can’t lay eggs. But if the queen is dead or if she is weak, the workers’ ovaries start to develop again and they can lay eggs— but only unfertilized eggs (since they can’t mate) which develop into drones.
The queen can lay both workers and drones, and she can actually choose whether or not to fertilize the egg when she lays it.
Fun fact, queens and workers have different stingers. Worker bees’ stingers are jagged and get stuck in mammals’ skin when they sting, thus killing the worker, but queens can sting as many times as they want. This is because queens use their stingers to kill other queens. When workers replace the queen, they raise several new queens at a time, so when a queen emerges she must kill all the other queens still developing in their cells or fight them to the death.
Another fun fact, although we refer to her as a “queen,” that’s humans projecting foolish human assumptions, since she doesn’t actually do anything to direct or control the workers, she just lays eggs. The division of labor among workers and coordination of their behavior emerges without any central authority to control it.
Spellcasters hate this fact but if you just stick your fingers in their mouth while they’re casting a spell with a verbal component it’s literally more effective than a counter spell.
This also works with pinning their hands against the wall when they’re trying to use somnatic components.
Basically if you make out sloppy style while pressed against a wall the spellcasters can’t do anything
BTW when you encounter a character and think “What’s this guy’s fucking problem?” that’s your body trying to give you an out before you fall into obsession.
This is part of the reason the best animated movie category has been dominated by Disney/Pixar for essentially the entire time it’s existed. In anonymous interviews the academy members have openly stated they don’t watch the films because they don’t care about animated movies and then they just vote for the Disney one ‘cuz it’s usually the only one they recognize at all.
Up until now I have never really considered any of the winners as having won fairly. There are plenty of Disney/Pixar films that deserved the win, absolutely, but even then I couldn’t be happy for them because I knew they won by default. It does a disservice to everyone who makes these films, the winners and the losers because it was never a fair fight. Disney/Pixar never won on their own merit and everything else lost for not being a Disney or Pixar film. And honestly since we never knew if they did watch any of the films, all the victories have felt hollow!! You can never be sure if your movie won for being amazing or if it won because it had the best marketing campaign or happened to be the only one the voters watched, and that sucks!!
I’m SO glad they’ve changed the rule. Might actually be able to finally be truly proud of whoever wins for winning fairly, and I hope this means animation starts getting taken seriously.
had sex with a seamstress last night, after which when we were lying there talking, she took some strands of hair from each of us off the sheets and braided them together into a thread, and then before she left she told us she takes bits of hair from all her lovers and stitches them into a patch in the lining of her coat ‘for luck in future love’. it’s sort of romantic in a haunted doll kind of way. which btw, she also makes dolls with the hair that accumulates in her hair brush, and felts little creatures out of her cats’ fur, habits she got from her grandmother who was into hairwork, a hobby i did not know existed still in our modern years. anyways. hi everybuddy. if you never hear from me again i’ve been turned into a trinket for her collection
So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently
Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.
When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?
You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.
Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.
If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.
For the purposes of this poll, I am referring only to migratory ice cream trucks. Stationary vehicles that serve ice cream are not included. No nuance because I ran out of options.
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