i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE
me when shakespeare plays actually DO have modern-day relevance and universal themes:
a couple months ago someone sent me an ask asking if I’d ever heard of Boquila trifoliolata and I was like ‘no way. this can’t be real’ and i looked it up and it was and I forgot about it until just now when my supervisor and I got sidetracked and I looked it up again to prove to her that it’s real and found out that not only does this plant vaguely mimic the leaves of whatever plant it’s vining on, it does it when it climbs on fake plants too so any theories about how it does it that include gene transfer or chemicals or touching it in any way are just out the window and those were like, the only theories the original researchers had about how it might be doing it. so anyway I am screaming and crying and whatnot
Boquila feels more like a cuttlefish or an octopus; it can
morph into at least eight basic shapes. When it glides up a bush or tree
that it’s never encountered before, it can still mimic what’s near. And
that’s the wildest part: It doesn’t have to touch what it copies. It
only has to be nearby. Most mimicry in the animal kingdom involves
physical contact. But this plant can hang—literally hang—alongside a
host tree, with empty space between it and its model, and, with no eyes,
nose, mouth, or brain, it can “see” its neighbor and copy what it has
“seen.”
Ants normally live just a few months, but there’s a tapeworm that can make its ant host live so long we don’t even know when the host actually dies, so it might just never age at all or it might live 20 some years like the queen.
But the parasite also does something weird with the host’s biochemistry so that it does little to no work, and all the other ants tend to its every need more than they would a queen, to the point the whole colony suffers. All the other ants actually die younger from pampering the tapeworm ants so hard.
No one is fucking talking about it but another black man was killed by the same police department that killed George Floyd they killed him 9 minutes after entering his apartment. No knock warrants are fucking bullshit. He was wrapped in his blanket he was innocent they had the wrong address there is body can cottage you cannot fucking deny this bullshit.
This is being hushed up and covered up and I cannot believe it took me until TODAY, SIX DAYS AFTER IT HAPPENED to find out about it.
Everyone should be talking about this shit.
All the BLM protests and here we are again. We cannot let a single one of these slide because that’s how nothing changes and that’s how innocent people are being killed at the hands of assholes who are happy to pull the trigger without hesitation. I’m so fucking upset right now and so should you be.
deadass saw a cringe comp video that said at the beginning “some of the videos are actually funny, ironic or heartwarming because I want you to use your own judgment and learn critical thinking”
