*slaps shork* this bad boy can hold so many remoras

“The diversity of design in nature is a theme that I’m focusing on more and more at the moment. I’m fascinated by the variety in nature and am delighted to share with you the latest image from this series displaying eggs from 60 different bird species.⁠ ⁠ I had the pleasure of shooting this image at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History recently, one of my favourite museums by far. My thanks goes to Robert Douglas for his assistance in creating this picture.⁠”

yesterday at work we were all talking and i mentioned south america and one of the teenaged girls i work with went “what’s south america” and i was so taken aback that her twin sister answered before me and said “it’s like mexico and shit” which gave me even more whiplash. and i went “mexico is in north america. have you ever heard of brazil” and the first one went “i dont knowwww…..😣” like i know not everyone has a knack for geography like i do but that was fucking scary. they’re both recent high school graduates. today i went to dunkin and the girl making the coffee was chatting with a regular who said he wants to pet lions and tigers someday. i said “well they still eat people” and the worker handed me my coffee and said “yeah, like they’re still venomous animals” and i think ive just started to accept that the average person knows fuck all about the world as long as they think it won’t affect them. i’m not even particularly smart. i just know a thing or two. yet people irl say im the smartest person they know. towards the end of rome’s industrialization period they were smelting a lot of lead, which produced toxic fumes that are believed to have lowered the cognitive capacity of almost every single person in the region by a noticeable amount. i have to wonder if covid and lead (in vapes and the air) and other man made chemical contaminants today are doing the same thing. i wonder if thats part of why fascism is becoming so popular in the west