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'Wala' (from the species name, walaphyllium monteithi) comes the Dharumbal language meaning 'dance', and phyllium from Greek means 'leaf' how sweet is that 🥺

The language used in communicating scientific concepts is not neutral—just look at how the concept of evolutionary “fitness” has been warped in popular understanding to justify eugenics and ableism. There are some really good papers out there on stuff like the rhetoric of invasive species and how it reflects and reinforces xenophobic and nationalistic sentiments—to the point that some of it just reads like find-and-replace Yellow Peril propaganda.

You can't evolve around air that's suddenly unbreathable (Great Oxygenation Event), sudden onset climate change (Ordovician, current), big space rock (Devonian, Cretaceous), or the floor suddenly becoming lava (Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic): sometimes you're on a great roll with natural selection and the universe still decides "you know what? Fuck you: gamma ray burst, motherfucker!" (Pleistocene Exinction Event)

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its truly unfortunate but the 4chan “>be me” format is the greatest advancement in comedic storytelling since the invention of the slide show

cyberworld season 1 finale tomorrow… that means we getting closer to soundwave!!! 😭🙏

csarite, a multi gem fusion and ruby, a ruby who can't fuse

hot take in a roundabout way i think that's also why so many of us opt out of becoming parents ourselves

Free Will takes practice, and the chance of making someone somewhere Slightly or even Very Disappointed In You. But you're an adult and you can't be made to stand in a corner anymore.