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Name: Moss
✝️
Pronouns: any in the sense that I prefer it to be switched around
Asexual, nonbinary, agenderfluid, idek my others at this point I'm just a cave
I block pretty liberally
Scientific interests: Limnology [MY BELOVED], plankton ecology, all ecology in general tbh, theoretical ecology, herpetology (<3), entomology, icthyology (both), ecosystem sciences, microbial ecology (non-human), freshwater, caves (i can never pronounce the actual field name), moss (yeah), soil sciences, oceans (but like casually), animal behavior
Fandom interests ive had at some point (no particular order): mcyt, hermitcraft, dsmp, qsmp, danganronpa, pokemon, zelda, elder scrolls, fallout, undertale, warrior cats, The Magnus Archives, higurashi [not an exhaustive list]
-Fav characters (no particular order): martin blackwood, jonathan sims, traffic!gtws, c!techno, c!ranboo, c!wilbur, q!slimecicle+gegg, q!bbh, q!fitmc, pepito [qsmp egg], pomme [qsmp egg], komaeda, kokichi, ibuki mioda, shion sonozaki, rena ryuugu [not an exhaustive list]
Misc. Interests: singing, magic the gathering, I like to do art to express myself occasionally (i.e. u prolly won't see it here but like playdoh is fun)
Favorite video games: minecraft, pokemon, pokemon mystery dungeon, zelda (WW, TP, MM), endless ocean, in other waters, resident evil 7, subnautica, undertale, fnv, inscryption, fire emblem (awakening, three houses), corpse party [not an exhaustive list]
Favorite music artists: Oh Hellos, Crane Wives, Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Ghost and Pals, Lena Raine, Cosmo Sheldrake, Mother Mother, vivivivivi
Feel free to send asks about ^^^! I love talking about em. I can't guarantee when I'll respond tho I am busy sadge
Some images I think are important:
[If an image/gif is here without credit I apologize, I literally cannot find their ops. Feel free to let me know if you do know who they belong to and I'll add it!]
[I plan on cycling these images in and out cuz there are so many fun images out there]
Tags: [to be added sometime]
If I didn't tag something and u need it tagged lmk, I am unfamiliar with tagging etiquette
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I know that there is more information available on this one specific bug than they put in the Wikipedia stub. I know that somebody out there is a real freak about this specific variety of ermine moth. Let me read about it.
While I do appreciate the good intentions of everyone saying that you can just email the author of a paper and ask for a free copy, that is not what I'm talking about here.
Like, it is definitely nice that sometimes people will let you read an article for free. However, that should be possible without having to 1) track down their contact 2) email them 3) wait days for a response 4) hope the response is yes. For every single article you want to read.
I would like for knowledge to be freely accessible without having to cold contact some dude in China and hoping he sends me a pdf.
that one post that’s like ‘all new internet slang is nazis or aave’ is good except that it implies nazis created -maxxing. that is a gaming term that has been around forever before incels got their grubby little hands around it. i’m not saying there is not serious overlap between nazis and gamers but gaming just also produces a lot of slang by itself and i don’t think we should hand it over. there is a third place slang comes from and it’s Sports
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nobody ever believes me when I list off all of the ways that humans are significantly less sexually dimorphic than people seem to believe and it drives me batshit insane. “you’re denying the biological reality of sex” well you’re sticking your fingers in your ears and saying lalalala every time anyone presents you with data that confirms that women and men aren’t really that different. and refusing to come to terms with the two-way relationship between the “biological” and “social” worlds. I think one of us is ignoring the biological sciences here and it isn’t me
Someone once told me my biology degree was fake because I said humans weren't sexual dimorphic.
A male human and a female human are roughly the same size and same coloration.
Meanwhile, male black widow spiders are brown and a tenth the size of females. Anglerfish females are a full foot long and have a bioluminescent protrusion on their heads; males are barely half an inch long with no bioluminescence or protrusions. Male elephant seals are ten times bigger than females and have massive snouts. Male orangutans have big jowls and neck sacs that look like goiters, while females look more like other apes. Peacocks have flashy coloration and a long tail that they can display. The females are brown and simple.
Humans aren't sexually dimorphic! You only know someone's gender because of cultural identifiers, like clothing or hair.
The big things for primate sexual dimorphism tend to be canine size and body size. Male primates in sexually dimorphic species tend to have HUGE canine teeth for better threat displays, and are bigger for similar reasons.
Lowland Gorilla males tend to be 2.38x on average the mass of Lowland Gorilla females. Humans? That ratio is something line 1.15.
Male gorilla canines tend to be about 2 inches long, easily twice the length of some of their other teeth. Male humans have canines the exact same length as human female canines and the exact same length as the rest of our teeth.
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it sucks that the overwhelming majority of medical messaging around salt/sodium is "evil poisonous substance that you're definitely already eating way too much of," because like. you do still need it. (trust me, as a POTS-haver, I've had to completely rewire my own brain about salt.) and you need more salt when the entire northern hemisphere is hot enough to fry an egg on. ever tried sucking down the recommended 64oz of hydration per day entirely as water, only to find you're peeing constantly without any of the purported benefits of being "hydrated"? assuming you don't have another medical condition that causes frequent urination, your body probably needed more salt/electrolytes to be able to hold onto that water and make use of it. if there was ever a time to keep a sports drink/pedialyte/etc within constant reach, it's when the heat index is 110°F/43°C.
If you had to navigate the internet in Arabic, could you?
I already do
Yes, easily
I could probably find my way around
It would not be easy, but maybe a little bit
I would have great difficulty
No, I would be entirely lost
Other
Remaining time: 4 days 7 hours
If you had to navigate the internet in a language you didn't understand and couldn't even read, how would you go about it?
My friend Wesal (@deemagaza) doesn't speak English. The only way she can find her way around the English internet is by using Google Translate or ask others like me for help. It is very difficult for her.
Yet she has no choice but to do so for her daughter Farah, almost sixteen now, who is autistic and has a kidney problem that - without treatment - makes her deficient in potassium, which, if it becomes too severe, can lead to cardiac arrest.
^ Farah spends most of her days like this now, feeling uncomfortable in her body, but not understanding why.
Farah's medication has become unavailable in Gaza, which has endangered her life and means she has to be treated in the hospital, which is costly and where they are running out of resources as well. Farah's case has now been referred to the WHO to be transferred abroad. If the opportunity for evacuation arises, we must make sure the funds are available!
Please help by donating to Farah's fundraiser and by sharing this post! Farah's fundraiser has been verified by gazavetters, #451!
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tagging for reach, please share and aks your friends to share as well, thank you <3 (let me know if you don't want me to tag you anymore, apologies for any multiple tags)
My daughter is only 16.She has lived her entire life with a disability and chronic kidney failure. Every day is a fight to survive.Please help us give her hope. Every donation—or even a share—can change her life💔🥹
Every mother in this world dreams of a future for her child, but I dream of providing even one pill for the next day of her life. Please take action and help us.💔💔
🦋Thank you to every kind heart, every hand that reached out to help, and everyone who still believes that humanity is alive.🩷🫂
My family's wound is still bleeding, and my little daughter's illness is greater than words can describe. Please don't hold back your donations, your prayers, or sharing our appeal.Take a step for Farah, for the sake of everything you love. I am a mother who, instead of dreaming about my daughter's future, now dreams only of providing the medicine and every dose she needs to keep her alive.🥹🙏🏻🇵🇸
Please help her stay by my side for a longer life. 🙏🏻💔
Thank you to everyone standing in solidarity with the innocent children of Gaza and supporting our people in their time of hardship. Your solidarity means so much to us, and your voices raised for humanity will not be forgotten. It is truly heartening to feel this closeness, and your message reaches our hearts. We are deeply grateful to you. 🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸
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Happy disability pride month especially to disabled people who shouldn't be working full time/at all but haven't been able to access any aid to stop working, or support other ppl who also can't work. You deserve a break, proper support, and you are worth so so so much more than your productivity
to elaborate a little, brown bear cubs at katmai are born between mid-january and mid-february, after a relatively short gestation period. They weigh just 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) when they are born, and they spend the first several months of their life in the den with their mother, nursing and growing.
By the time we see them on the cams for the first time in late june/early july, they have already grown a lot! and they continue to grow very quickly through the first couple of years of their life.
I mean, lets look at the 26 siblings' Fat Bear Junior photos from 2025:
you can find these photos on the katmai national park flickr page, here and here. They are marked as public domain.
Those before & after photos are approximately 2 months apart, and they are visibly larger in basically every direction. They are taller, longer, & broader, they have thicker limbs, and their heads are way bigger too. And that's not even to speak of the fat they've gained! Brown bear cubs grow so, so much in just a couple of months.