Everybody Give It Up For Columnar Jointing

How do you stay so silly in the face of adversity? This year is already shaping up to be the worst of my life and, weirdly, I wish I could just channel your incredible perseverance. How do you stay silly? How do you keep the motivation to even post at all? Through the emos, the witches, the death of the Kermit plush, Bucephalus, the fire, nearly getting crucified, getting cursed, losing the job at KFC, and now the whole ordeal that moving always is. How do you stay you?

I refuse to blink first. I refuse to give my enemies the satisfaction. They would love to watch me crumple in despair, but I will look them in the eyes and stretch my Joker Grin ever further, ever more violently, and ever more gleefully. They may try to force my submission, but they will find I have too many teeth.

P!atd is over. Finally some peace and fucking quiet at the disco.

r/stupiddovenests features so many mourning doves which is insane to me i didnt know they were so bad at this. always thought the bad nests was a feral pigeon thing

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baby cats very cute

I was watching a nature documentary on Netflix and all of the animals were just Scarlett Johansson in costumes.

You know what messes me up?

This dinosaur skeleton is incomplete. But, it doesn't look that way to us, because the parts it's missing are parts we don't have.

See how there are ribs on the bottom? Those are called gastralia. That's right, dinosaurs had ribs on their stomachs as well, and modern crocodiles and alligators still have them! (Also, notice that the ribs keep going to the hips instead of stopping above the waist. This is also true of modern birds, and why a bird can't have a concave stomach!)

Next, notice that ring floating in the center of the eye socket? That's called a sclerotic ring! Fish, reptiles, birds--with the exception of mammals (and, oddly enough, crocodilians), pretty much all modern vertebrates still have them! It's literally an eyeball bone. Afaik we haven't found a T-rex specimen with any intact, but since we've found them in other dinosaurs, it's very likely they had them too.

So, keep that in mind next time you see a dinosaur skeleton.