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Cat magic is pretty raw and they mainly use it for getting into places they’re not supposed to. They can be trained if you’re patient, and will sometimes do favours for their owners out if the blue, but only if they want to.

Dogs have been bred for specific magic over the centuries and each breed can do certain things. Showing off your magic is an essential part of a dog show.

Horses come in horse, pegasus, and unicorn, each with their own magical talents.

This is not the entire truth.

Collies can multiply themselves for a short time to corral animals

St Bernard’s turn into snow and can feel where an avalanche is going to happen hours before the event

Pigeons have a magic of communication; paired birds can echo messages back and forth. Oddly, they also make bread rise better?

Chickens, like cats, have powerful warding magic.

Parrots (and corvids) are powerful and highly intelligent; they can mimic the magic of anything around them. However, they do this generally for their own ends and have a bad habit of picking up the most destructive magic. Never, ever keep an African Grey with a corgi.

In the past though this was why ravens and crows were associated with gods of magic and knowledge – they often know all the deep secret magic of deer and field mouse and owl and wolf. It’s said they can even teach their magic to humans, though this has never been proven.

On snake magic: it isn’t very well-documented, simply because we haven’t domesticated any snakes for their magic. When “snake magic” comes up, it usually brings to mind the powerful damage-over-time effects that vipers are capable of, but it’s actually very common for snakes to have healing auras, even (sometimes especially) very venomous snakes. Generally this is a low-intensity effect expressed passively by a calm individual, so it goes unnoticed unless one is spending a lot of time in close proximity to the snake.

Some snakes also have emesis-inducing abilities that they use defensively when they feel threatened! This may not sound particularly healing, but it can be very useful in cases of poisoning.

There’s probably a great diversity of serpent magic that has yet to be discovered. Bullsnakes, for example, can sometimes cause plants to grow more rapidly, which is thought to benefit them by providing habitat for their prey.

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

The next generation…

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/10/nft-bots-tshirt-online-twitter-war/

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1. Haleakala Dairy creates a juice of passion fruit (not pomegranate, my bad), orange, and guava and calls it "P.O.G."

2. A game involving milk bottle caps pops up in the 70s, haleakala makes their lids collectable to play that game with the "POG" label

3. Game gets very popular in the 90s, gets called "pogs" based on the og caps (primarily) used having "POG" on them

4. Streamer Ryan Gutierre makes funny haha exaggerated faces in 2010

5. In 2011, same guy releases a video called "Pogs Championship"

6. PogChamp emoji is created, short for the "Pogs Championship' video, and its used to signify excitement (also sometimes "Play Of the Game" since it shares an acronym)

Beachgoers and ocean explorers have been greeted by an estimated countless bazillions of salps caught up in current events, including these donut salps, Cyclosalpa affinis, found just offshore of the Aquarium last week!

Salps are prolific and prodigious filter-feeders and key members of the gelata—the myriad different gelatinous, drifting organisms that make up a significant part of the ocean’s mass of living creatures. Most salps have a bewildering life history that these cyclosalps illustrate beautifully.

The solitary phase of the salp is known as an oozooid—it will asexually produce long chains of clones known as gonozooids that you can see emerging in the photo above.

Now Cyclosalpa gonozooids aren’t just sexy plankton for their enchanting bouquets, oh no no—in this phase, most salps are sequentially hermaphroditic, starting off female with an egg that is fertilized by older, male individuals from other chains.

The embryo develops into an oozooid inside its sexually-reproducing parent—and those developing oozooids may already be growing their new clone chains before they’ve even flown the gelatinous nest! You can see the next generation developing inside these older gonozooids:

This alternation of generations enables salps to be some of the most productive organisms in the multi-cellular world, exploding in numbers overnight and drastically altering the planktonic landscape by feeding on a wide range of food sizes and starting blizzards of marine snow as sinking fecal pellets and food-stuffed mucous pours into deeper waters from the salpy deluge.

Salps are one of the ocean’s most influential biological players, and that’s not the only thing we share in common. Salps are invertebrate chordates, along with their tunicate cousins the pyrosomes, doliolids and sea squirts—those colorful reef-dwelling filter-feeders found throughout the world ocean.

These animals all look rather like we do in their early stages, with a notochord in their larval form that is largely lost in transition to adulthood in the tunicates, while being replaced in purpose by a backbone in fishes, birds and us mammals.

So as alien as salps may appear to be in their midwater manner, they’re some of our closest invertebrate kin—and a key part of the backbone of our ocean planet’s operations.

Really bad boy: