Moopsy!

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.

Not only do they grow back, but they come back so well that we cannot even tell where they have ripped off before. This is very weird, because when a lizard loses its tail, it is very obvious where it has been lost and regrown. Not so these chaps. They seek out a humid place to hide, and within a few weeks, skin and scales have started to regrow. The fact that they can do this so well is the reason a team has just sequenced their genome. I believe it is hoped that the skin regeneration tech they have built into their cells could eventually be harnessed for human skin grafts.

Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children

I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.

Can haz snackytreat

autistic monk finds god trapped in a tortoise gotta be my new fav genre of book, i think

good response to a lotta shit you see online can just be "what do you mean we"

another one for you: "i don't know i think it might be a bit more complex than that"

also: "i don't think this is actually a real problem"

thank you for come to brazil

Apologies to my non-Discworld mutuals for this 24 hour service interruption. Normal service will resume on the 26th of May. 🙏

Of course if any of my non-Discworld mutuals are interested in becoming Discworld mutuals that would be cool too 👀

Too much Konjac will definitely morph the phallus

Star Trek is crazy you’ll look away for two seconds and then Kirk is suddenly shirtless in a harness and a shock collar

Okay, this is actually funny

garak and neelix would get along so incredibly well because garak would get so much information from this man who knows the nitty and gritty of the entire delta quadrant and neelix would be delighted to sit down with someone so interested to listen to his stories and ask questions on his experiences and whatever plans garak has for this information would go so far over neelix's head that it wouldn't bother him at all, as long as garak tells him how entertaining he finds him and how passable his food is

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd