Why? Fuck you, that's why!

im a big fan of how entering "homo" into BLAST's organism-specific search field will show you every way a scientist has ever typo'd homo sapiens

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Fish in the great lake being like

I will add, the 'if you can't care for it properly don't get it' goes doubly for fish. So many think of them as easy pets and they are NOT. They're really, really not. And unless you wanna dedicate space to setting up a large tank, and the time to keeping it clean and shit, you should probably avoid fish (aquatic plants tho, i think those probably are easier).

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

Notes:

someone on reddit shared texts of her and her husband's exclusive english dialect and it's beautiful

a linguist is analyzing it

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.