DAMMIT kiefer!

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tattoosforpassionnotfashion: done by mike moses

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tattoosforpassionnotfashion:

done by mike moses

tattrx: BAYLEN...

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tattrx:

BAYLEN LEVORE

Austin, Texas

baylenlevore.tumblr.com

Instagram @baylenlevore

Twitter @PigeonPetal

Email: BaylenLevore@gmail.com

rasputin: Now kiss…

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:29:40 -0700

rasputin:

Now kiss…

Someone teach me how to selfie teach me teach me how to selfie...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:26:55 -0700

Someone teach me how to selfie teach me teach me how to selfie @deandrugh

Licensed to Grill: Mike D's Brooklyn Town House

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:02:35 -0700

Licensed to Grill: Mike D's Brooklyn Town House:

shellvetica:

You guys.

This place is bonkers.

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odditiesoflife: The Astonishing Annual Red Crab Migration Named...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:49:02 -0700

odditiesoflife:

The Astonishing Annual Red Crab Migration

Named one of the planet’s most breathtaking migrations, the Christmas Island red crab exodus is a natural phenomenon that continues to astonish.

Making it onto CNN Travel’s recent list of the “10 most spectacular wildlife migrations,” the island’s annual red crab migration is an astounding event that involves the movement of millions of vividly colored crabs as they leave their in-land homes to breed and release eggs into the sea.

An Australian territory, Christmas Island lies some 2,600 kilometers north-west of Perth in the middle of the Indian Ocean. While just 1,500 people live there, it is home to an estimated 120 million crabs.

Photo credit: James Morgan [website]

femmebotnoir: lacarpa: Cinemagraphs of Popular Films by Tech...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:29:24 -0700

femmebotnoir:

lacarpa:

Cinemagraphs of Popular Films by Tech Noir

Blade Runner, American Beauty and Terminator are three movies that I absolutely love.

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conflictingheart: This made me laugh.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:57:34 -0700

conflictingheart:

This made me laugh.

buzzfeed: Boop

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:57:22 -0700

buzzfeed:

*Boop*

ceruleancynic: seananmcguire: aiglet12: stuckinabucket: This...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:01:31 -0700

ceruleancynic:

seananmcguire:

aiglet12:

stuckinabucket:

This googly-eyed little bastard is the blunthead tree snake (Imantodes cenchoa).

It lives in Latin America and can’t do anything without looking ridiculous. A case in point:

It’s nocturnal, lives in understory shrubs, sleeps in bromeliads, and, unlike its cousin the twig snake, isn’t venomous unless you’re a small frog.

Above: Ridiculous-looking death in a tube.

Below: “Pathetically inoffensive to humans.”*

If you grab it, its primary defense will be to stink at you, because that’s dignified. To give you an idea of how tiny this thing is, here is a jumping spider thinking of trying its luck.

They live off a diet of frog and lizard eggs, small frogs, and lizards about the diameter of a human finger. Females can take slightly bigger prey, since their heads tend to be a smidge bigger than males’.

Nobody’s really done a lot of research on the whys of their itty bitty teeny little bodies, but the skull size and shape is under extreme evolutionary pressure to stay big enough to support prey consumption and sharp vision, while snake ribs and vertebrae are pretty flexible, allowing the rest of the body to essentially collapse into a camouflage-friendly profile when not digesting food.

We do know that their organ position means that their bodies are significantly backweighted, with their center of gravity clocking in at 74% of their nose-to-ass length** (technically their Snout-Vent Length, which is slightly more hilarious but also slightly more obscure if you’re not a herpetologist, because most people don’t go around calling an asshole a vent). The backweighting does give them way more maneuverability in the head section, which helps when you’re grabbing small, quick things like frogs and lizards and I guess can’t hurt when you’re eating their unborn young, either. Like, you can strike the eggs fast and hard like a ninja and pretend there’s some honor in it or something.

Also, there’s some advantage to being so unbelievably long and skinny that this is possible:

At least if you tend to live in short, shrubby trees. See, if you have x amount of biomass, and you spread it out over 3-5 feet, like these little bastards do, instead of concentrating it into one normal-looking snake, you’re much less likely to find yourself unsupported by vegetation. And I don’t mean that like, the vegetation won’t believe in you. I mean, the vegetation will dump you on your ass if you slither across it as a normal snake.

Skinny Minnie up there has much better odds of being able to scoot across a few twigs and leaves without them giving, and the greater length means that it can anchor itself at multiple points along a path. It also requires less strength to remain erect while stretching over fair distances.

Above: Too goofy-looking for words.

*Quote apparently from the field notes of Alejandro Arteaga, a particularly judgmental herpetologist.

**Data but not color commentary from International Journal of Morphology, 24(1):43-48, 2006.

[The line drawing appears to be the work of the authors of “Imantodes cenchoa (Chunk-headed snake) Mating” in Herpetological Review 36(3):324, 2005, but artist attribution isn’t specifically stated, because science journals.]

How cute!

BABBYS

LOOK AT THE BABIES

handsomedogs: Our 8 year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:55:45 -0700

handsomedogs:

Our 8 year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Trixie.

devonbanks: this is still my favorite tweet of all time

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:55:31 -0700

devonbanks:

this is still my favorite tweet of all time

History Meme | One War → The Great Emu War In 1932, Australian...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:53:16 -0700

History Meme | One War → The Great Emu War
_{In 1932, Australian farmers had a problem: A gigantic flock of birds had migrated into their land and were obliterating their wheat crops. And this being Australia, these particular birds were unlikely to be intimidated by a dude made of straw and old clothes. They were emus: flightless, 6-foot-tall eating machines that had decided to take over the local farmlands. And there were 20,000 of them. The situation quickly escalated to the point where you could barely see the fields from scores of Big Birds lounging around. And since the problem was downright cartoonish, the farmers opted to solve it in an appropriately Wile E. Coyotesque way: They asked for military assistance. That is how Major G.P.W. Meredith of the Royal Australian Artillery found himself leading two regiments of battle-hardened soldiers, complete with some big-ass heavy machine guns, to unleash hell on a bunch of helpless birds. When Australian troops spotted flocks of emus, they opened fire. The emus scattered, and even when feathers popped up in the air off of the bird indicating a hit, the emus continued to run. It didn’t seem to matter much to the emus who returned time and again. After a week, Meredith commented}

_{“if we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds, it would face any army in the world. They could face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus…”.}

_{After a week of engagement, having fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition and having killed maybe five birds, the Australian Army withdrew, officially losing the war to unarmed flightless birds.}

_{“The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic.”}

niknak79: Super selfie

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:38:46 -0700

niknak79:

Super selfie

ninihoho: ninihoho: why did the blond fail her calculus test she had a biology test on the...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:55 -0700

ninihoho:

ninihoho:

why did the blond fail her calculus test

she had a biology test on the same day and being that she is a bio major she felt it would be to her interest to put more emphasis on the bio test because she is only taking calc as an advanced elective credit which would not effect her major gpa