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I was the cause of a lot of toilet community drama, but this time, I’m not at fault.

Robert, née Bofa, néigh Jorts. Third time's the charm.

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Tim_Eagon, (edited ) to fediverse
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Just curious, have you purchased anything from creators who've posted about their creations here on the ? Please boost for more visibility.

funkula,
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@Tim_Eagon I've never been a sticker collector but when I bought a laptop last year I decided I was going to buy stickers from everyone on here I regularly talked to who had stickers so I could be like "this one is from my friend x" and I'm really happy I did. Should probably go looking for more soon.

funkula, to random
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funkula, to random
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Happy International Cotylorhyncus Day everyone!

You probably have some questions.

  1. What?

Cotylorhyncus was a synapsid from the Permian era, a tetrapod ancestral to mammals. They look somewhat like dinosaurs but are actually not related (the other major clade at the time were the sauropsids, which gave rise to birds and reptiles). He is notable for his head too small for he got damn body.

  1. Why his head too small for he got damn body?

It seems likely that the enormous barrel shaped torso was needed to house voluminous intestines. This would be a crude solution to the need to eat large quantities of low quality forage and then ferment it to get usable nutrients, the same way that ruminants do today with their four chambered stomachs.

  1. Why is today International Cotylorhyncus Day?

Two years ago, I discovered this delightful dumbass and posted about him. Completely coincidentally, so did @checkervest. We decided this guy deserves his own holiday, and thus it began.

Size comparison of Cotylorhyncus and a human. The Cotylorhyncus is 6 meters tip to tail but only comes up to the human's waist, and the head is approximately the same size as the human's.
Cotylorhyncus and a predatory synapsid, possibly anteosaurus, which has an oversized skull in proportion to its body in order to kill large prey. Cotylorhyncus asks "where do you work out" and anteosaurus replies "at the library"

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The more I learn about light pollution harms insects, the more I want to try to help... do something about it.

But I live in NYC. It feels like an impossible ask. A whole city devoted to making the most light pollution possible.

I strongly suspect that we'd see a greater variety of wildlife if we could dim the light a little.

Just using colors like red light can help. So can dark hours and motion sensors.

What if one day, as a treat, every New Yorker got to see the milky way?

funkula,
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@thesquirrelfish @futurebird this reminds me of a time I was delivering doordash and my customer, big mcmansion owner, had a front walk with steps up at uneven intervals and lights flanking it, pointed upward so I literally could not see where to safely put my feet. Perfect illustration that they never use their own front door, just roll the hummer into the garage

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At the Role-Playing Games club today, a fun debate. The whole campaign is on this ice-locked ship in the arctic: the DM introduced the possibility of sirens.

One player declares their character is ace and therefore immune to romantic seduction.

Not so, says DM these sirens call out with "whatever you desire most" ... another player wonders if, since their character is monk seeking enlightenment and the death of all worldly desires are they immune?

Apparently the sirens do enlightenment too.

funkula,
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@JamesDRyan @futurebird I think arctic sirens are probably quite a bit...rounder. Like a leopard seal.

funkula,
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@WhiteCatTamer @JamesDRyan @futurebird

funkula, to random
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For every feral hog you see there are 30-50 more hiding inside the walls of your house

funkula, to random
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A taquito is a meat cigarette

-tightly rolled tube
-shredded filling
-poor health decision to consume 20+ per day

funkula, to random
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Been seeing trucks here and there from a company called Gamer Logistics and I want to believe they deliver freight via glitch-assisted speed runs. Like, maybe if you reverse into a bridge pillar on I-10 as soon as you cross into El Paso and hold it for precisely 39 minutes and 7 seconds, if you then shift into neutral you warp to Beaumont and can skip the entire state of Texas

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Looking at a truck stop and the reviews are split 50/50 between "crawling with lot lizards 😡 ⭐" and "crawling with lot lizards 😍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"

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Politely humoring the robot as it breaks all laws of physics

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Someone has probably already said this, but if we can't make the powerful face any consequences for their monstrous acts, the very least we can do is show their brethren who are regrettably still with us how they will be remembered after their death.

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My favorite part of this movie is just how thoroughly Ghidorah gets disrespected

futurebird, (edited ) to Cats
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This is really about eco-systems but at first I thought it was a food pyramid according to

(she isn't allowed outside so it's mostly just bugs and kibble)

funkula,
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@futurebird one time I was hanging out with a friend, having a conversation, and a cat was investigating a string of Christmas lights that had been taken down but not yet put away, and in a pause in the conversation we heard a distinct cronch. We sprang into action as a team, I held the cat tightly while she fished glass shards out of its mouth. We managed to act quickly enough to prevent any injury, thankfully, but it was funny how quickly we realized exactly what had happened

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Just saw an ac repair place with a sign that said "hot wives want cold air," how's everyone else doing

funkula, to random
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You couldn't do a scene like this today. Not because of woke, but because of John Landis

funkula, to random
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Hanging out at this rest stop cause I heard it's a good place to get your ass eaten

funkula, to random
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Watched stupid 80s cartoons with friends a few nights ago and discovered a new meme format in an episode of Bravestarr

funkula, to random
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Doing sky donuts in the space plane

funkula, to random
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Might start responding to photos of happy families at dinner with "just like Texas Chainsaw Massacre!" and when they get mad apologize for assuming they like movies

funkula, to random
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The only reason they can do this electrical thing is the infrastructure for when everyone puts the kettle on at the end of the footy match

futurebird, to NoStupidQuestions
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I understand that not self-fertilizing is an adaptive benefit for plants (& all living organisms) but I don't have a scenario that shows how the benefit works.

Given a population w/genetic variations some tiny percentage of which are beneficial in the habitat, why is it such a huge boost to survival to mix your genes?

It is precisely because beneficial adaptations are rare? If beneficial mutations were common would self cloning and fertilizing. be more common? #question #biology #evolution

funkula,
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@tuban_muzuru @futurebird as I understand it, it's good for long term hardiness to keep around recessive traits that are not positive adaptations in the current environment, but might be useful to future generations. An example would be the English pepper moth, they had a dominant gene for white wings that camouflaged them against the bark of birch (?) trees but when the industrial revolution happened and the trees were stained black by coal smoke, the recessive black wings came to predominate

funkula,
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@tuban_muzuru @futurebird so you want your recessive genes to kick around without expressing too often. A self fertilizing heterozygous individual is going to express that gene a lot more often and that is not a positive trait

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I love to tell people I shouldn't eat wheat and then eat a bunch of wheat. "btw I'm getting constipated rn, just so you know"

funkula,
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@ray call it getting bricked up

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absolutely fascinating that this 'which disco elysium skill are you''s obligatory song lyric question has TWO insane clown posse songs

funkula,
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@ray one conveys "woop," while the other is more "woop"

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