*Is Very Not Asleep*

Helloo, what kind of bug is this? I ask because you always have such fun critter facts n takes

I cheated and used inaturalist because I sincerely had no idea, narrowed it down to a genus of true bugs called Jagged Ambush Bugs. Neat, didn't know these guys existed!

Transmissible cancer is only known in a handful of animals (though this is a sign it might be less rare than thought)

Brown catfish in a specific lake high a surprising high incidence of black lesions that were diagnosed as melanomas. They did genetic testing of the melanomas and the host fish and found that the all the melanomas matched each other, but not the host fish (melanomas in humans are genetically unique to the person)

There was also no trace of virus or bacteria acting as a transmission vector, pointing to the cancerous cells themselves being the vector (though aid of a pathogen has not been ruled out)

If Kim Soleum is a character you can pull in a gacha game

the trouble is, you think you have time.

1. nothing

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!