EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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for context, scientists have know about these mfs for like a HUNDRED YEARS but only now have they actually seen one ALIVE !!
YOURE KIDDING ME???? NOT JUST THE FIRST SIGHTING BUT ALSO OF IT WHILE IT’S STILL A GLASS SQUID?????? HOLY FUCK
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DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.
Hi, I know this is kind of weird, but I just wanted to direct you to this post about the conservation of black footed ferrets.
The Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance is doing an emergency fundraiser, and they are only at 43% of their goal with seven days left!
Idk, I follow your blog and thought that you and your other followers might care to donate. It is absolutely not going to get them to their goal, but it is something.
from the fundraiser: "Native American Tribes manage fourteen percent of all remaining black-footed ferrets in the wild. Freezes of federal funding are jeopardizing their Tribal conservation programs.
Tribal biologists from the Cheyenne River Sioux, Crow, Fort Belknap, Lower Brule Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribes are working to restore ferrets to Tribal lands. Recovering ferrets includes monitoring populations and managing diseases annually.
Since Tribal endangered species programs receive federal funding, the current freeze on federal funding will eliminate some Tribal biologist positions and jeopardize efforts to recover ferrets on Tribal lands."
(I think I reblogged a post about this on @asterwildalso -- while I haven't managed to make art about Current Events lately I do share links and other folks' posts there sometimes!)
REMINDER: luigi mangione has been accused of killing the CEO, not convicted, and the evidence presented is extremely questionable. luigi mangione is NOT the claims adjuster until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law, and the widespread presumption of his guilt makes it much more likely he will be falsely convicted.
a BNY teleco. poster!
"lolcow" is ultimately a colloquial term describing a phenomena that actually precedes the internet (and well, most of history too) but I can't think of another shorthand with implications that are tacitly understood the same way when gesturing to the spectacle that the world makes around acceptable targets. you go on reddit and someone has crossposted a Courtroom Freakout video like that's some shit anyone should want to derive entertainment from. your mom's cohort watches Dumb Criminal Fail youtube compilations and nod their heads as the perpetrator of a failed robbery bleeds out on floor of a kfc like that's some shit anyone should want to see. your peers are heavily invested in the Worthless E-Drama Industrial Complex, where thousands of people are made collateral of all kinds of violence in the name of forwarding the narrative of the spectacle. and you can't ask any of these people why any of this behavior is normal to them unless you want to be accused of condoning immoral tendencies, compulsion to punish The Other already metastasized in their minds. it sucks how easy it is to kill your own interest in this shit but not anyone else's.
I think we should bring back 1980s style Horrible Little Man animated mascots, but this time extend them to products beyond food.
"Horrible Little Man who's fiendishly addicted to the product and will abase themselves utterly in order to get it", except the product in question is furniture.
"Horrible Little Man who inexplicably hates the product and will go to enormous (and inevitably futile) lengths to prevent others from consuming it" who just can't fucking stand blue jeans.
"Horrible Little Man who wields sinister magic to compel others to consume the product whether they like it or not" shilling for a major airline.
þink again.
getting thorny in the linguistics fandom
þorny*
That also goes for using ß as an aesthetic B.
On my old server, there was a character named ßillyßadass.
This never failed to make me laugh, because that letter is not pronounced like B. It is a sharp S.
That guy named himself SsillySsadass.
Also to people who you Σ as an aesthetic E
that’s an S too, Σo maybe check next time
oh boy
Д as an aesthetic A? Дon’t be a дumbass.
И as an aesthetic N? don’t be sillи.
П as another aesthetic N? stoп it.
У as an aesthetic Y? ty bad.
Ш or Щ as an aesthetic W? nope. it’s “sh” and “shch”!
Я as an aesthetic R? surprise! it’s “ya”.
ah yes, that classic horror film SNYEYAPOVUL DIAYAIES
This is pronounced Stargoat.
Reblogging for Stargoat.
STARGOAT
I saw in Japan a bag of marshmallows named SCANDINAVIAN MÅRSHMÅLLOW and I still have not recovered from that. It reads as SCANDINAVIAN MORSHMOLLOW
I always read STARGÅTE as ‘stargåde’ with a Swedish pronunciation.
Star Riddle.
This one about broke my brain:
There is so much going on here that we need to properly break it down:
Η (eta): Long “e” sound like in “free” Ψ (psi): “ps” sound like in “psychology” or the noise you make to call your cat Ρ (rho): equivalent of English “R” Λ (lambda): equivalent of English “L” Τ (tau): equivalent of English “T,” one of two letters properly employed here Φ (phi): equivalent of English “F” Σ (sigma): as noted above, equivalent of English “S” Μ (mu): equivalent of English “M,” other properly employed letter That “presecription” Rx combo: Does not occur in Greek or any other alphabet, what the Hell is it doing here Θ (theta): soft “th” like in “thing” Γ (gamma): Kind of an asperated “gh” sound like you start to make a hard “g” but stop halfway through Δ (delta): hard “th” like in “there.” Χ (chi): asperated “kh” like in “challah” Π (pi): Equivalent of English “p”
The other letters do not occur in the Greek alphabet, although you will see English letters used for things like names and titles.
So when we put it all togheter, this miracle of title design reads something like:
EEPSRLTFL SMRRKHSSSS THGH THLSKHLPDRKHFL
Okay but in fairness to the Stargate one it isn’t an Å though, it just looks like one but to anyone who doesn’t watch the show you wouldn’t know this.
The Stargate has symbols on it resembling constellations, but every Stargate has a unique symbol that represents THAT Stargate, the “home symbol”. Stargate addresses are 7-9 symbols. The first 6-8 are the address, and the last is the home symbol, the “point of origin”, the Stargate you’re originating from.
This is Earth’s home symbol! It’s called Earth’s point of origin in-universe. This is a screenshot from the show showing a dialing sequence, you need the point of origin symbol to dial out. Using the point of origin symbol as an “A” for the titles is just a fun stylization for the shows.
This symbol is THE Stargate symbol, like the Starfleet insignia is for Star Trek. That’s why there’s no line across it for an A! Stargate fans will get this as a tattoo, I have a friend with one <3
Also since Stargate teams are multiple nationalities, they wear a patch with the symbol on it over a visualization of Earth when they go offworld to say “I’m from Earth”, it’s pretty neat
