Mediocre PhD student!

I don’t want to see ANY of you touching that fuckass new Harry Potter series.

That woman has set us back YEARS. YEARS. And whose money is she using to do it? People who continually support her and her sorry excuse for a book series.

If you simply must watch it? Pirate. It’s not hard.

Anti trans legislation was recently passed in the UK as a direct result of JK's funding

She has stated that she takes any interaction with the Harry Potter franchise as an endorsement of her views.

I cannot stand the amount of people continuing to support her work after everything that's gone down recently. Especially the UK supreme court ruling and.. *gestures vaguely at the US*

Holy shit. You're right. Barnacles are crustaceans, like shrimp and crabs.

As a juvenile It's a leggy lil guy that floats around filter-feeding and molting like a shrimp.

When it finds a group of Adult barnacles already living somewhere, it grabs onto that surface, cements itself there, and builds a hard calcium-based shell 'house' to live in.

It then twists around, metamorphs a bit, and reaches its legs out the top of its house to grab food floating by to pull it to its mouth.

They don't harm the surface they attach to, and are still arthropods/crustaceans under that hard shell. Those are bug houses, with bugs inside.

Wait

is this the same post where I said "I thought this was more common knowledge!" last year and got inexplicably dragged for it? Happy anniversary to that!

So you may have also heard that a barnacle has the largest longest penis to body ratio of any animal, this is only the acorn barnacles! Every acorn barnacle has both ovaries and a giant penis, so by settling down near each other they can all reach over and get eachother pregnant without ever having to get up.

This flesh snowflake has also gone around tumblr in a few posts but for those who haven't seen it, this is Dendrogaster, very closely related to barnacles, but it loses all recognizable crustacean anatomy as it matures into a rubbery tree that lives inside starfish. The only truly parasitic barnacle that you can TELL is a barnacle is Anelasma, a goose barnacle that embeds itself in deep-sea dogsharks:

......At least, we thought that was all, but in 2018 one was also found parasitizing the inside of a huge greenland shark's cloaca:

Here's a comparison with the parasitic Anelasma on the left and a normal goose barnacle on the right:

Anelasma is so weird, it no longer uses its legs to filter feed and its mouth is almost vestigial. It turned its stalk into a tuber-like "root" that absorbs nutrients from shark flesh :) Evolution does this kind of stuff all the time!

quick reminder that my own gay ass genuinely supports the hell outta each and every one of you. regardless if i know you or not, im happy to be living in this shithole of a life in the same world with you.

It is really good but it was written ten years ago and already the beginning of the book made me so tired. You see, he outlines what could happen with a five to nine degree Fahrenheit (three to five degrees Celsius for the rest of us) and guess what...we are ahead of schedule because everything he describes is already happening

Yep...we are so fucked. Currently, the rains in Germany have led to massive flooding (which is coming our way because the Danube is so full...but I will be fine because Vienna has heavy flood protection), the US is having a Tonardo season from Hell, and many other parts of the world like Vietnam are having droughts, India, Pakistan etc are baking at 55°C...etc etc etc.

For those of you who are wondering who else the original tweet is referring to, they are talking about Margaret Atwood, a very prominent feminist author (probably best known for The Handmaid’s Tale). Because she is a feminist the terfs assumed that she’d naturally side with them, and it came as a massive shock (for some reason) when she very publicly opposed and humiliated all of  terfdom.

But yeah I don’t know how terfs can possibly get through Discworld books without any kind of self-awareness but apparently they do. I’ve also seen them talking about how the Wives in the Handmaid’s Tale are all trans women (solely based on the fact that they are infertile). If you know anything about the plot or even the basic premise you’ll know how ludicrous that suggestion is.

Also there’s this

Also, this is the one that made me get all teary:

more fucking petitions because this clown car country cannot stop with the bigotry for 30 seconds

uk people it takes 5 seconds and you checking your email to verify

“At 10,000 signatures...

At 10,000 signatures, government will respond to this petition

At 100,000 signatures...

Could you please confirm or deny whether or not you were a Weird Kid™?