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Itâs always dehydrated, and it's not a great swimmer, but it can somehow cross oceans.
The 62 species of sea snakes are all wonderfully adapted to life in the oceans, but they almost always come ashore to lay eggs. But not the yellow-bellied one; it is the only member of the group that lives full-time in the open ocean. It eats at sea, mates at sea, and gives birth to live young at sea. It has special valves in its nose to stop water from getting in, and can even partially breathe through its skin. It hunts by sitting amid flotsam and picking off small fish that gather beneath it. And it swims by propelling itself with a flattened, paddle-like tail.
And yet, in some ways, it is so ill-suited to life in the ocean that its existence borders on poetic tragedy. For example, a few years ago, Brischoux and his colleague Harvey Lillywhite from the University of Florida showed that the yellow-bellied sea snake is almost constantly thirsty and dehydrated.
If you tried to swallow water in the ocean, your kidneys would remove the extra salt by diluting it in urine. In doing so, youâd actually get rid of more water than you ingested. This is why, when humans drink seawater, they get dehydrated. Some marine animals cope with this problem using special salt-removing glands, but Lillywhite showed thatâcontrary to what scientists previously believedâsea snakes do not. They live most of their lives in the oceans, but they never swallow seawater. Instead, they try quench their thirst with fresh water.
Some species stick close to coastal sites with nearby sources of fresh water, like springs or streams that empty into the sea. But the yellow-bellied sea snake has no such option. Instead, it drinks from the thin layers of freshwater that briefly form on the surface of the ocean when it rains. That seems precarious, and it is. For much of the year, from November to May, these snakes are almost constantly dehydrated.
The yellow-bellied sea snake isnât a great swimmer either. âIt is really small,â says Brischoux. âIt can move in the water, but not for a very long period of time and not against really strong currentsâunlike, say, a seal.â So how could it possibly occupy such a large range? The only other tetrapods that are so widespread are either powerful swimmers like the giant whales or strong fliers like seabirds. The yellow-bellied sea snake is neither, and yet it has spread over two-thirds of the Earthâs surface.
Read full article here.
I support this small, weak-swimming, constantly dehydrated snake.
finally found my patronus: an animal as poorly adapted to life as I am.
Iâve actually done a project on these guys and they actually have to rub against themselves to shed. Theyâre sad little things. Also they canât move on land so this little guy is actually beached.
Oh my. I really feel for these snakes. Their life on land must have been truly tragic, so that this bizarre set of adaptations somehow made sense.
Bryan, on my Facebook Spider Outreach Group did not believe me when I explained to him that Hobo Spiders are harmless.  So, he sarcastically challenged me to put one on my faceâŚ.well, little did he know that it is a challenge right up my alley!  Iâve even been known to put spiders with medically significant venom on my face (hereâs Julia, my black widow, on my nose), so a harmless spider with just a bunch of internet hoopla based on old anecdotal evidence that has since been scientifically proven to be false???  Game on.Â
Iâm in SoCal, so I reached out to other members in the Pacific Northwest to send me their Hobos! Â One handsome little fellow arrived today (thanks, Jessica!). Â
Another myth squished (no pun intended). Bryan was a good sport and admitted defeat.   We still never did figure out what injured his foot thoughâŚ.
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I love this so much. Especially because just a few weeks ago I put a snake on my face to prove a similar point.
Hobo venom might be harmless but the narcotizing bacteria in their fangs can cause HUGE problems. I have something akin to a chemical burn scar that I had to seek medical treatment for. The scar now looks like a cigarette burn and itâs all nasty and concave on my wrist.
The doctor made a point to tell me the hobo venom wasnât the issue but that our local populations had a nasty bacteria they actually cultivated in their fangs much like the mythical komodo dragon dirty mouth bite-except real. At least as far as our local colleges and scientific research centers can determine, anyways. We live in a rather ecologically closed off valley so there are micro climate based evolutionary branch offs in all sorts of animals here. There is still an ongoing debate as to whether it is a venom difference in our local sub species or a bacteria based issue. While I was not too interested at the time (since I was seeking treatment for a day old injury that had aggressively spread all over my wrist with the actual sore the size of a fifty cent piece in 18 hours) the information was fascinating to go back over later when I wasnât worried about my tendons and bloodstream getting infected or rotting.
I have since talked to three different doctor about the scar not going away and they all told me similar information about the spiders venom or bacteria in our area having abnormal-for-the-species responses when bites happen.
It probably depends heavily on the spiders in your area and telling the world that they are harmless when in some micro climates they do this stuff, not cool. Making a blanket statement like that is a really good way to get someone seriously hurt especially if they have some unknown allergy and go out and play with the spiders because they think they are harmless. Also, in some places, if they are provoked or defending offspring they will actually do a defensive charge/front legs up in the air wiggle dance which most people mistake for pure aggression but the end result is still a bite if the person doesnât get out of the way in time... Like I have them in my house, I can take a vid of this behavior given enough time to find one and get it defending children but I would prefer to relocate the family outside instead of stressing myself and the spider fam to hell and back for the sake of proving a point. I can however get a pic of the now two year old and still visible scar I have. I had a roommate move up from Colorado and I guess down there they are harmless too but up here everyone I know who has been bitten and all the cases the doctors in our area have seen have been pretty much the same severity outside of obvious allergic reaction-which are worse. When I warned her about it she thought I was kidding or that it wasnât that bad, then she met a lot of new people up here and they all gave her the same warning (if the topic was brought up) with identical or worse scars-and huge ass medical bills- to back the warning.
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So for those who arenât already aware, the Asatru Folk Assembly FB page had a post earlier this week that pretty clearly shows their support of both racist ideals and rigidly narrow gender roles. In the event it ends up taken down, hereâs a screen shot:
Along with a couple of the comments they didnât delete:
They make it VERY clear their organization isnât open to anyone who isnât whiteânever mind that âwhiteâ was a contrived term that not only erased the cultural differences of people from many different European backgrounds but also deepened divisions among people based on skin color. Plus check out the very overt message that QUILTBAG* people arenât allowed, either. And before you try to defend the AFA as only being about the promotion of European heathen traditions, notice how the comment about âSemiteâ âpoison and tricksâ was never deleted, while comments that the AFA folks didnât agree with have been getting removed within minutes. If thatâs not approval of white supremacy, I donât know what is.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to practice the religion of your pre-Christian ancestors. But âwhite peopleâ are not an endangered species in need of protection, nor should European paganisms be closed off from people of non-European heritage. Considering the amount of travel and trade the Norse and other Europeans did with other communities for centuries, there was plenty of intermarriage with non-European people anyway, so there goes your notion of historical âracial purityâ. And given that a lot of heathens practice ancestor veneration, racial purity is a pretty big insult to those non-white ancestors and the people who loved/married/etc. them and considered them family. As to the insistence on men being men and women being women in a heteronormative framework, the All-Father Odin practiced the womenâs art seidr, Loki became a mare and gave birth to a colt, and women were often trained to fight alongside men. Even among the Norse things were not always that cut and dried when it came to gender roles.
We pagans have known for decades there were bigots in our ranks, particularly those espousing âfolkishâ viewpointsâand now thereâs absolutely no doubt whatsoever. Not all heathens consider themselves part of the pagan community (and definitely not all of them are racists!), but enough heathens of all sorts come to pagan events and otherwise share in pagan spaces that this declaration by the leadership of one heathen organization is relevant to paganism as a whole.
As someone who has walked a pagan path for twenty years, as someone who has written multiple books and led rituals and taught many in workshops and classes, as someone who is seen by some as at least a minor authority, and as someone who fully intends to continue being a part of the pagan community, I say: the stance of the Asatru Folk Assembly is not a part of my paganism.
White supremacy spewing hatred and racist fearmongering against racial and ethnic minorities? Not in my paganism.
Discrimination against QUILTBAG people? Not in my paganism.
Gender essentialism in which men must be one way and women must be another? Not in my paganism.
Insisting that the only ârealâ family is the nuclear, heterosexually-based family while all othersâblended families, single parent families, childless families, families with gay parentsâare invalid? Not in my paganism.
Allowing the bigotry that pervades the dominant culture to infiltrate our community without a fight? Not in my paganism.
Not in my paganism. Not in my paganism. #notinmypaganism.
*QUILTBAG = Queer, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay
For those who missed it this morning.
This makes me really sad... For a group of people so religiously persecuted for so long to be so close minded just boggles me

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The Daily Show, August 18, 2016
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Fucking hell there are so many of them
Sherlock has been in my care for around 3/4th of a year now. He is HUGE, (over five feet long) healthy and climbs like a champ. He shows no sign of any health problems, he puffs to communicate his presence and eats two adult f/t mice a week keeping him plump but not fat, sheds all in one piece now and has a very healthy appetite. He even comes out of his hides frequently now that he has a mild UV light on his tank in addition to the red incandescent that heats his logs for him to sit on. He has no signs of burns or compacting food even though we had to take away his UTH pad since it was getting old and unpredictable. Special thanks to all the help from the reptiblr community, specifically crispysnakes, thlpp and cloudiiedays for all the support and advice on long term snake sitting.
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also guys i think itâs time to start spelling âsmallâ right again,, itâs been long enough
see the thing is, at this point, smol isnât even a âmispellingâ of small anymore; it has its own connotations. while small is a regular adjective, smol acts more like a diminutive marker, which English has been lacking
in essence, a smol dog will always be a small dog, but not all small dogs are smol.
what the fuck are you talking about
Linguistic evolution. Accept the smolness into your vocabulary and be cleansed.
@nentindo, assuming youâre asking in good faith & not just trying to dismiss a perfectly accurate analysis, hereâs an elaboration of what @princeofdoomrps said:
small and smol mean different things, so theyâre different words. smol means something like âsmall in a cute wayâ & not just like both small and cute but the two are related. This is what makes smol more like a diminutive marker (c.f. -tje in Dutch, or -let/-ling/-ie [like in kidlet/kidling/kiddie] in some forms of English*)
note that: 1. not all small things are smol. Microbes and electrons? Generally not considered smol.
2. similar-sized things in the same category can be smol or not depending on cuteness. So, a tiny cottage may be a smol house, but an equally tiny tenement room that is an awful place to live? Not smol.
3. smol can refer to youth (e.g. the people I call my âsmol frensâ are mostly taller than I am but much younger)
4. It also can have implications of fondness/emotional attachment, especially, from what Iâve seen, in fandoms where people call characters things like âmy smol sonâ, which doesnât have to mean someone whoâs actually young, short, or cute at all. Like, IDK if anyone uses that to refer to Hannibal but I wouldnât be surprised?
So! There are contexts where you could call something/someone small but not smol, and contexts where you could call something/someone smol but not small. This is the textbook definition of âdifferent wordsâ. They are no longer the same word and op, you are very welcome to only use one of them! Anyone is!Â
Just be aware that pretty much every part of your vocabulary, someone at some point has decried as âwrongâ usage and complained about people mangling the language this way, and when you do this thing youâre carrying on a long tradition of pompous silliness.
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* English isnât completely lacking in diminutive markers just kinda deficient. And some of those markers have become derisive or dismissive in usage, which i hope never happens to my smol word-child, smol.
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Bless this gorgeous mess of a gem. I was actually planning on drawing the twin corrupted Jasper beasts, but then this happened. I can hardly say no to my main gal going all monstery, right?
There we go
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