Onyxthemysticalraven - Idek

Apart from a ricecooker, a kettle. Can't beat it.

We need to embrace the fact that the tumblr userbase is aging. What’s everybody’s favorite kitchen appliance?

I find this sad but also oddly comforting

“Baby giraffe meets his father and the herd for the first time. Watch the parents embrace at the end.”

(via)

we’re all boring to someone, annoying to someone, ugly to someone, but it’s not that deep

PSA

Reading up on sea witch spells and seeing people suggest putting offerings in bottles and letting the sea carry then away.

This upsets me.

It’s littering. Please leave your offerings on something that’s not harmful to the environment. A sea shell, rock or even just on the beach. Please don’t use anything that could cause harm to the ocean or its inhabitants. Thank you!

Are chicken eggs... one cell?

technically yes, but it's definitely not the "egg" you're thinking of!

see, what we call the chicken "egg" is really a type of very large extracellular structure: it's a wonder of engineering built BY cells, but it is not, in and of itself, a living thing.

no bird children were harmed in the production of this image.

however, if we zoom in on a fertilized egg a little bit....

see that weird little spot? that's the REAL chicken egg!

this spot, called the "germinal disk", IS actually made up of cells. it starts life as a single fertilized gamete cell, just like the one that made you!

at least no one ever called you a "germinal disk" before you had arms to slap them with.

this cell will use the energy stored in the egg structure to grow and divide and grow and divide until it forms a recognizable shape:

and WHAMMO.

so no, chicken eggs are NOT a single cell! but they do HOST the single cell that, given time and warmth, will eventually grow into a baby chicken.

buk buk buk :)