Stalemacaroni - Macaroni

wait wait wait mutuals rb this with a description of ur voice

You know, "human for scale" when showing the sizes of animals living or extinct is kind of vague. We should use a specific famous person with a well-known height for scale. Like Sigourney Weaver

we must replace all "human for scale" figures in scientific literature with mr shaquille o'neal IMMEDIATELY

hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus

*ancient seafloor rumbling*

YOU'RE LISTENING TO

*scuttling of trilobites*

107.9

*crunching of exoskeleton*

REAL ANOMALOCARIS FM

*undulating of imbricating lateral lobes*

WHERE WE ROCK THE PRIMORDIAL DEPTHS!

*bubbling underwater sounds*

NO MODERN TUNES HERE, JUST PALEOZOIC ROCK!

*ocean waves crashing*

*clicking of appendages*

THIS AIN'T YOUR SOFT-BODIED ORGANISM'S STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

say goodbye to izitsumi

Friendly reminder that almost half of the states in the U.S. have same day registration! This means you can go to the polling center for your location, register there, and cast your vote same day. So if you are over 18, are a U.S. citizen, and live in one of the states listed below, it is not too late to register and vote! I’m going to put notes for some of the states where voting is extra important due to the political climate of the state.

California

Colorado

Connecticut

D.C.

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Iowa - recent polls indicate state could flip from red to blue

Maine

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina - swing state! Could go red or blue

North Dakota - voter registration not required

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin - swing state! Could go red or blue

Wyoming

You can go here for more info on voter registration

usa.gov

How to register to vote | USAGov

Use vote.gov to register to vote in federal, state, and local elections. If you’re a U.S. citizen living abroad, see how you can register an

I also have a huge list of voting resources here

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What the hell was I doing in my drafts

Cats :)

I was going to make a longer post about how cool cats are but it was getting too long so now I will just list all of the things that make them cool

(Disclaimer: This is mostly a list of anatomical and biological things. I'm not going to get into how they are as pets, as that would make this list even longer than it already is)

Retractable claws; dynamic pupils/low-light vision; crepuscular (most active at dawn and dusk); whiskers; barbed tongue; shoulder blades are attached only by muscle (why they can fit in such tight spaces, use whiskers to gauge if they can fit); Jacobson's organ (why they open their mouth to smell); can hear up to 64,000 Hz (three times higher than humans); 200 million odor sensors (14 times better than humans); have more vertebrae than humans (gives them flexibility); can rotate their supple spines more than most other animals (makes them twisty :)); righting reflex (why cats land on their feet/are able to rotate mid-air, able to do this because of their twistiness); nictitating membrane, also called third eyelid (the white eyelid cats have that sometimes partially closes when they are sleepy or have just woke up, leads to that derpy look); use body language to communicate + growl and hiss when threatened, only meow at kittens and humans; large variation in coats and interesting coat genetics

Cats are just really awesome, and I love them so much. If people ever make the mistake of asking me about cats I will literally never shut up. You would have to knock me unconscious with a shovel to get me to stop