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Every time I reblog something important I feel like a little messenger boy running with news to the town printing press

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.

Is this ad old or did they make them whiter

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

water isn’t wet water is wat and wetter is wet

my answer to "is water wet?" will always change based on what is the funniest/most frustrating response at any given time

(standing at the bathroom sink at 3 am drenched in sweat, tears welling up in my eyes, gripping the sink with my hands, staring directly into the mirror, voice cracking, shivering slightly) i am silly. i am goofy. i am silly. i am goofy. i am silly. i am goofy. i am silly. i am goofy. i am silly. i am goofy. i am silly. i am goofy. i am silly. i am goofy. i am silly. i am

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Honkai: Star rail | Stelle [Caelus Version]

Sure! Here, have this bundle of green leafy parasitic red berry bearing plants I found hanging upside down in a doorway bound in a red ribbon on Christmas Day!

do not be mean to Baldr be nice instead imo

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