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A male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece. ✨

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Happy May Day, y’all.

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“ I have been waiting all year to post this.
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This has been in my queue for months.
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I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN...

I have been waiting all year to post this.

omg

This has been in my queue for months.

I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

omg i didnt reblog this last year!

I need as many people as possible to watch this video from the official Angry Birds tiktok or else I'll get a fucking hemorrhage

holy SHIT please read the whole thread and many more of these images right here, this artist put together an updated Opabinia reconstruction where every single one of these minute details (except coloration, obviously) are fully sourced making this most likely the first depiction factoring in 100% of current knowledge about it.

Even I didn’t know it had little feet like a velvet worm and could have walked around on them! I never knew exactly how the trunk is oriented or how many “teeth” it is! I especially didn’t know the mouth was that weird!

And I kind of assumed this since it’s a lobopod and all, but the whole animal was soft and squishy except for the eyes and the teeth. It did not have armor plates or a jointed exoskeleton like a lot of people portray. This also means all five of the eyes would have been able to bend and look around independently!

The eye structure in fossils also indicates that they would have PSEUDOPUPILS! That’s the pupil-like dot in the eyes of insects like mantises!

Okay hearing that people actually do this has made me morbidly curious so...

My house was split into Parents and Kids bathrooms growing up

My house was split into Boys and Girls bathrooms growing up

We didn't have a split/split was along other lines

See results

See Results

Cause I heard that people actually did have gendered bathrooms in their houses and I'd love to know how popular that actually was. Please answer only if you actually had this split, not if you've seen it in others. I anticipate the rate will be skewed, but I think the results will be interesting nonetheless.

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He's just the worst.

Tweet: so the clowns at twitter noticed that people were starting to associate the blue checkmark with "annoying assholes I should probably block" so now they're just... focing random popular accounts to have the blue check against their will so no one can tell who paid and who didnt??ALT
tweet: This whole situation has been hilarious. They gave weeks of notice that come April 1st, verification will end. No one paid. They extended it to April 20th. No one paid. Now they can't sell the checkmarks as a status symbol so they're forcing big names to appear as if they paid.ALT
Tweet: RIP to victims of the Blue Wedding. (A list follows with the following names:) Stephen King, Hasan Piker, Owen Jones, Robert Reich, Matt Binder, Dril, The New York Times, LeBrown James.  At the bottom of the image is an AI-generated illustration of Elon Musk yelling and crying "Oh so all of you think the whole blue checkmark thing was stupid? I'LL SHOW YOU HOW STUPID THEY ARE! LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE HAVING THEM BACK!"ALT

it's been quite a day on twitter

The privately-held Twitter corporation is claiming that @chadwickboseman and @normmacdonald, who died in 2020 and 2021 respectively, have paid for the subscription check mark service and supplied their phone numbers. pic.twitter.com/fjCQEhf6O8  — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 22, 2023ALT
its ok he fired the people in charge of telling him its illegal https://t.co/9K01oQwP9k  — slave to Woke (@dril) April 22, 2023ALT
Veering towards the natural conclusion of this website: Dril suing the most famous man in the world for defamation of character. https://t.co/xwAyDBZRry  — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 22, 2023ALT
this is how twitter ends. not with a bang, but with an idiot chasing dril and throwing checkmarks at him as yakety sax plays at 2x speed.  — shauna (@goldengateblond) April 22, 2023ALT

If you are not on Twitter but are interested in what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter, never fear, I am back as your Twitter Correspondent.

So, on Thursday, 4/20, Elon removed all the "legacy verified" blue checks. That means that if you are, say, Taylor Swift or the Pope, and you have a blue checkmark because you have proven you identity and want to avoid being impersonated, that check mark went away unless you paid the $8 to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

The assumption was clearly that, despite all their blustering, when push came to shove the power users would nut up and pay for it, if only to avoid their fans being scammed using their likeness.

That didn't happen. As of 4/21, only weirdo Elon stans had blue checks. Those stans immediately got mad, because they had intended to purchase access to an exclusive club, and all the cool kids left as soon as they arrived.

To make matters worse for Elon, several influential shitposters began posting about #BlockTheBlue, a movement to block all paid Twitter bluechecks, and some even released scripts that would automatically block all bluecheck accounts for you.

However, some people retained their blue checks who swore they hadn't paid for them -- in particular, Stephen King and LeBron James, who had tweeted that they would refuse to pay.

Elon admitted that he had paid for these users' blue checks out of his own pocket. Is he trolling? Is it a weird simp move? Hard to say.

Now, as of 4/22, a whole mess of famous people have bluechecks who aren't paying for them. This seems to be a move to confound the automated Block The Blue scripts. Lil Nas X is tweeting angrily about how he doesn't want his blue check. People are speculating that a new policy has been silently rolled out to automatically assign a blue check to every user with other 1 million followers. Several people have pointed out that this amounts to false endorsement, i.e. implying falsely that a notable person uses or endorses your product without their permission, which is a crime. Blue checks have been posthumously assigned to Anthony Bourdain and Terry Pratchett, whose estates my money is on to be the ones to actually sue.

dril, famous shitposter and Black The Blue promoter, keeps being assigned a blue check as an apparent punishment for crossing Elon, but you can lose your blue check by changing your display name, so dril just keeps changing his display name every time they bluecheck him. Elon and dril have been engaged in this game of cat and mouse all day. The "Elon bans dril and we all throw trash at him like New Yorkers defending spiderman" meme will probably come to fruition today or tomorrow.

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oh god I have zero points, I am pointless and ancient and gentle 

happy 420 and day i reserve a spot in hell

its that time again folks

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/22/23, 32223, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/23/23, 32323, palindrome day

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