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okay you know those virtual science labs they made you do in high school?

i bet they’d have mad science versions at evil high school

A Limerick I think

There once was a man from New Jersey, Who wrote about buying a jersey His equivocating Limerick caused debating As he had rhymed jersey with Jersey

there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s

it’s really fun

I have bad news, and then good news, and then shit starts to get weird

a companion piece to my previous post

I think that there are a lot of cushy, middle-manager type men who honestly believe that they would be some kind of powerful barbarian warlord if it wasn't for all of these pesky constraints of civilization.

Well now we have ozone layer subliminal message snail rainbows that make you think you’re a snail so hard you turn yourself into one

I think one of the biggest reasons I enjoy jjba is because I envy this level of confidence and sincerity in storytelling. See, I would not have just said something as fucking stupid as "bullet-deflecting oil." I would've come up with some kind of Watsonian bullshit magic-science explanation that at least squared with the logic of the story instead of just saying "Oh, it's an oil that deflects bullets" and moving on to the next thing. But that is not because I am a better storyteller, no, quite the opposite. It's because I'm a coward.

I sure did not

dead. but i refused, and i continue to walk the earth

trick or treat!!

aww and what are you supposed to be!!

Well well well

do i even want to know..?

Ok y’all brace yourselves cuz I just learned about a new animal

Yes, that is an animal. Yes, scientists refer to it as the purple sock worm. No, that’s not it’s real name, silly, it’s real name is Xenoturbella!

When these deep-sea socks were first discovered, no one knew what the fuck they were looking at (and, really, can you blame them?). They have no eyes, brains, or digestive tracts. They are literally just a bag of wet slop. DNA analysis initially seemed to indicate that they were related to mollusks, until the scientists realized that DNA sample was from the clams they had recently eaten (yes, they can eat with no organs. We don’t know how.)

Scientists then analyzed the data again and tentatively placed them in the group that includes acorn worms, saying that their ancestors probably had eyes, brains, and organs, but simplified as a response to their deep sea ecosystems.

Later DNA testing has since shown that they are their own thing! Xenoturbella, along with another simple and problematic to place creature called acoelomorphs, belong to their own phylum called Xenacelomorpha! This places them as the sister group to all bilateral animals. So, they just never evolved brains, eyes, or organs. They are a glimpse at a very primitive form of animal that never bothered to change, because apparently what they do works. Rock on, purple sock worm.