idk why i never thought to look for one before even though i've been using firefox literally forever but i just completely eradicated pinterest from the internet this is the greatest day of my entire life i want to marry this man
Genius.
he initially coded this in 2012 as a first-year undergrad and now he has a PhD which he used to this year publish a paper about how google search sucks
this man has been on a mission for almost a decade love that for him
I'm really weirded out by the sentiment that we shouldn't be mad about there being barely any m/m or f/f representation in mainstream media. The sentiment that it isn't going to happen, so caring about the issue at all is wrong or immature.
Unpopular opinion, I guess, but yes, we should. We should be fucking pissed. We deserve to have more than scraps and subtext and niche indie crap that five people you know only through the internet have heard of. We deserve a place in modern myth, such as it can exist under capitalism. And having to watch ourselves being erased from it in real time is genuinely fucking tragic.
I don’t trust anyone who didn’t laugh at this… you gotta be dead inside if you didn’t react when sis delivered that punchline 😂
Palmetto tortoise beetle, Hemisphaerota cyanea, Chrysomelidae, adults and larvae
Native to the southeastern United States, the larvae of this species protect themselves with a nest-like covering of thin strands of their own fecal matter. They eventually pupate inside the fecal shelter.
Photo 1 by eridanxharahi, 2-4 by treegrow, 5-8 by Judy Gallagher, and 9-10 by joemdo
really desperately wish the Libby app had a way to create a to-read list so I could just keep track of all the books I want right where I’m most likely going to access them
I’ve been tracking books I want to to read by updating a draft email, because it’s just simple text and I can access it anywhere I have email access, and I don’t need a fucking account on some other system with too many bells and whistles but it’s not ideal either! (I used to just throw everything into Evernote but … stopped for some reason, I forget why.) There’s no easy way to sort things! I have to manually move or delete things once I’ve read them! No I’m not making a spreadsheet because how will I access it on my phone, whine whine whine this is why at least 20 of my open tabs are about intriguing books, because logging the author/title into my draft email is just ~so hard~
Really great article; some excerpts:
Flies generally get a bad rap. People associate them with dirt, disease and death. “No one except entomologists really likes flies,” Finch says. Yet there’s good reason why we should cherish, encourage, even nurture them: Our future food supply could depend on it. The past few years have seen growing recognition that flies make up a large proportion of wild pollinators — but also that we know little about that side of their lives. Which sorts of fly pollinate what? How effective are they at delivering pollen where it’s needed? Which flies might we harness to boost future harvests — and how to go about it? With insect populations plummeting and honeybees under pressure from multiple threats, including varroa mites and colony collapse disorder, entomologists and pollination specialists are urgently trying to get some answers.
Animals are responsible for pollinating around 76 percent of crop plants, including a large number of globally important ones. Birds, bats and other small mammals do their bit, but insects do much more …
Bees, especially honeybees, get most of the credit, but overlooked and underappreciated is a vast army of beetles, butterflies, moths, ants, flies and more. In Rader’s analysis, only a handful of crops were visited exclusively by bees; most were visited by both bees and other insects. She and her colleagues assessed the contribution of each type of insect and found that flies were the most important pollinators after bees, visiting 72 percent of the 105 crops.
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Hoverflies and blowflies visit flowers to drink nectar, which fuels energetic activities like flying, and eat pollen to get the nutrients needed for sexual maturation. Like bees, many of these flies are hairy and trap pollen on the head and thorax as they feed. Larger flies can collect — and carry — hundreds and sometimes thousands of pollen grains as they fly from flower to flower. Unlike bees, which must forage close to their hive or nest, flies don’t have to provide for their young and can roam more widely.
They have other advantages too: Some flies forage earlier and later in the day; they tolerate a wider range of temperatures and are active when it’s too cool for bees; and they’ll be out and about even in wet and windy weather that keeps bees at home. And for those growing crops under glass or plastic, there’s potentially another plus. “Bees hate glasshouses and are inclined to sting you,” says Finch. Flies might prove more tolerant of working indoors. And crucially, says Finch: “Flies don’t sting.”
…Studies in Israel, Malaysia and India all suggest that blowflies are effective at pollinating mangoes, while trials in the US and New Zealand showed that the European blue blowfly (Calliphora vicina) produced as good a yield of leek and carrot seed as bees.
Hoverflies also show plenty of promise. In trials, a number of species have proved to be effective pollinators of seed crops, oilseed rape, sweet peppers and strawberries. Recent experiments in the UK, for instance, found that releasing a mixed bunch of hoverflies into cages of flowering strawberry plants increased the yield of fruit by more than 70 percent. What’s more, the strawberries were likely to be bigger, heavier and more perfectly formed.
disney: we’re taking all of our movies off of streaming services and we’re going to charge you $10 a month to watch them on our own streaming app
me:
More like
Disney: “We’re going to take all our movies off of streaming sites INCLUDING THE ONE WE ALREADY OWN (Hulu) so we can put them on a separate one and milk even more money out of you.”
Me:
Disney owns everything, and even if they didn’t own it, they will eventually
Holy shit.
I think it would be easier to list what they DO NOT own….
If you were to resort to piracy over being exhausted over the various streaming services recreating the nickling and diming of the cable television industry (and I’m not saying you should - just… if you happen to find yourself there), a full VPN is not required.
You can have your torrent activity go through a proxy (while the rest of your traffic isn’t shuttled through there) using services like BTGuard. All the torrent activity is run through the proxy:
If your ISP has bandwidth caps, you’ll still run into those. But they won’t know what you’re transferring.
Just… information out there that you might find useful, in the age of ten-thousand different streaming services that all want you to keep adding more paid subscriptions.
(via @sansael)
I didn’t even know piracy “stopped” for anyone else I’ve spent 25 years straight never personally paying for a tv show
this image is probably the most accurate visual representation of the United States education system
Oh boy.
Do I have a story for you…
So this is the iconic and beloved clock of Moszkva square in Budapest, Hungary. Or more precisely it was.
It was a very popular meeting point for generations.
„2pm on Moszkva, under the clock?” „sure” It was in the middle of the square, so you could see each other pretty easily from anywhere.
When they „renovated” (rebuilt) and renamed the square that is now called Széll Kálmán tér (only by youngsters and tourists who don’t know any better - it will remain for a lot of us „the Moszkva”) the old clock was removed.
So. Removing the clock was very controversial, but it had to go, because someone dreamed about a new shiny one. Here it is. New, and weird and DIGITAL.
The problem is, it stopped working. For days. (you see, fixing it was time-consuming…) And they came and fix it. But it broke down in a couple of days again and again, so the lovely people around helped to fix it. Some of the best solutions:
Graffity: ?Is this a clock? No" and Where is the old clock? Furthermore, on the clock it states that it shows the right time.
An artistic rendition:
But my favorite one is where people got enough of the breaking down abomination, and the heartless people taking down the actually working clocks (it is a very busy square with a lot of public transport connections), and things escalated quickly:
I think this is the most of them we had taped on at once.
The papers state: In memoriam of the unknown time. Rest in Peace
So… I guess, Hungarians do.
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Anonymous asked:
In northern Turkey, water buffalo roam the wetlands & pick up frogs. Clever marsh frogs figured out that the hairy beasts attract flies, so they jump onto their backs to hunt down bugs. Researchers visited the Kizilirmak Delta near the Black Sea in 2012. Within a week, they recorded 10 individual buffalo carrying teams of frogs, each group numbering up to 27.
doctorstarlock answered:
Hey anon have you seen pictures because they are simply DELIGHTFUL
music meme!
RULES. we’re snooping on your playlist. put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs and then choose 10 victims.
I was tagged by @feralprinceconsort
"I Put a Spell on You" - Jaded Hearts Club
"We No Speak Americano" - Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP
"The New Sensation" - Sum41
"Human" - Carpark North
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" - John Denver
"Let Her Cry" - Hootie & the Blowfish
"Make it Rain" - Fat Joe
"Mistadobalina" - Del the Funky Homosapien
"Black Moon Rising" - Black Pumas
"Fergalicious" - Fergie
That is all over the place lol. Thanks for the tag!
I tag: Whoever wants to play.
The entire library, you say. Ok then:
“Bluesy Revolution” - Hootie & the Blowfish
“Fireworks” from Orchestral Fantasy No. 4 - Igor Stravinsky
“Ó Ég Er Svo Svöng” - Kolrassa Krókríðandi
“Before You Go” - Sarah Jaffe
“Intro” - Muse
“Double Time” - Heavy Mellow
“Call the Ships to Port” - Covenant
“Moment of Tranquility” - Apoptygma Berzerk
“The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts” - Sufjan Stevens
“Someday?” - Concrete Blonde
This was going to be a post about how an underground creek keeps this urban patch of clay and gravel growing like a proper limestone cut, but whatever. Dichondra carolinensis and Euphorbia maculata in the city, you say? Duh.
The main takeaway here is this little erratic eastern poison ivy Toxicodendron radicans, which I’ve not seen anywhere near here before. Cute, if not friendly. I can respect that.
My search skills have failed me. I assume this is some sort of phishing scam, but I’m not finding anything about it online.
I got an email from, supposedly, a CPA. “[name] sent you a document to review.” With a link to a Google drive site.
The link looks like a proper link. The sender’s email also looks legit as does their URL, though I am not clicking any links in the damn email to make sure. The company does exist; they are listed in various online directories relevant to their region.
Anyone else run into this one?
