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apparently one whale years ago was observed doing this for hours and now more and more whales in the area are seen copying it so we think it’s a whole new behavior and it seems to be a response to shrinking food sources.

Instead of expending any energy actively hunting, the whale just holds its mouth open wherever fish are being hunted by birds. To escape the birds, the fish try to hide in the whale’s mouth because it’s a darker area that looks like shelter. …They’re turning into giant, sea-mammal pitcher plants.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mms.12557?referrer_access_token=bXLTS5BeSw_vlIKHkM0bYIta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC654HjreJ8D19K86UreR5JPsSRb0CuGhiJSV1L1ht-N1Gf_K_1a9MREFzQGU9oJDNctsKDin_HXcYEdsLg3EbcTl

#the gazebo....

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spongebob premiered 25 yrs ago today :)

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When a book series is so good, you have to buy it twice.

Necessary? Absolutely not. Does it make me happy? Yes.

#i do want the new covers. so bad #i want to try and get my hands on a hardcover set

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Gang I fear I'm not loving what they're doing with the aesthetics of this show. They de yassified Muthr. But at the same time Rovender looks great so there's that at least. But what I'm really confused by is the fact that they spoil one of the biggest twists on the first book in the press release????

#they took tony diterlizzi's world and smoothed it out. removed the edges. the texture. the shapes #i'll be the first to say wondla's narrative wasn't all that deep but its *art*? chef kiss. that was some brilliant design all around. #the way diterlizzi uses line and shape language is impeccable and they've SMOOTHED IT #it LOOKS like something a youtube content farm would make #like if cocomelon did nausicaa

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Honestly, the Muthr and Eva designs for the WONDLA tv show are. So disappointing.

Muthr got completely overhauled, and in such a disappointing way. She’s got the most bland design I’ve ever seen. She’s not unique at all, she barely even registers as a robot. Her original design (right picture) is so iconic and worked so well, artistically I have no idea why you’d abandon her more alien form (though I imagine it’s cheaper to animate a smooth ovoid blob than a machine that’s so complex it’s practically organic).

Eva-9 is now the most unremarkable person ever. She’s got no iconic visual character traits at all. They don’t give her any of the braids or beads that Eva has in the early books (right picture) , and honestly that’s a shame, her hair did a lot to communicate her personality and it changed as she progressed through her adventures so it evolved to reflect how Eva grew up in her new alien environment. Her clothing does at least appear to emulate the functionality of the utilitunic of the books, so I appreciate that, but otherwise Eva doesn’t stand out from a crowd of protagonists at all.

It’s so underwhelming, and while nothing can compare to the book illustrations for their detail and designs, I feel like Eva and Muthr deserved far more care in the way they were adapted to animation, because their current designs pale in comparison to their originals. Perhaps there were budget constraints, maybe Muthr was too unsettling in her original form, I’ve no clue why they ended up this bland. I hope the rest of the show at least has better designs and story to make up for this. Rovender and Otto looked perfectly fine and clearly inspired from the books, so it’s really jarring to see how much Eva and Muthr have diverged.

#my tin foil hat theory is that they just grabbed stock models where they could. #rovender and otto were too specific to just yoink a pre-existing model (they still smoothed them though. why are they so uniformly fluffy.) #but eva and muthr look so generic and so far from their original character designs #i genuinely wouldn't be surprised if they were just models skydance already had locked and loaded for 'SciFi Female Protagonist' etc

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this is genuinely making me lose it

#SHRIMP. HEAVEN. NOW.

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Submitter never would have thought to do anything other than boil the water in the pot, but has run into quite a few people who boil it in a kettle first, and is curious how common this is!

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#water from the fridge filter into the pot then boil directly on the stove #assuming this is boiling water for. like. soup. something that's going to be cooked in the water. #if i'm just boiling water for tea or coffee that gets boiled in the electric kettle yeah #except for a few months where we didn't have an electric kettle and we boiled our coffee water on the stove #(we use a french press for coffee p much exclusively after multiple instances of Ants In The Coffee Machine) #(which makes it sound like we have an ant infestation but no the ants were never anywhere else) #(this happened twice in two entirely different coffee makers in two entirely different U.S. states.)

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something something a follower who is more devout than their god. a fervent acolyte and a doubtful divine. the obsessive devotion of one who has become a sword for someone who cannot stomach the thought of wielding them. misplaced worship that refuses to be swayed. a invulnerable deity painfully human in its uneasy hesitancy, a fragile mortal made alien by its unquestioning conviction. attack dog and owner with a tight grip on the leash. and make it as fucked up and gay as possible.

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please elaborate in tags :)

#context-dependant #when i'm reading fiction it's mostly fantasy/scifi. for context. #and there is a greater necessity for Explaining the Plot with fantasy/scifi than with more realistic fiction #and for me the world of a book is as important as its characters #so if you're recommending me a fantasy book entirely on the basis that it's about lesbians i'm like. ok. what's the premise. #what's the book about? what's the world like? does it do interesting things with the genre? #is the writing good? are the characters likeable or consistent or interesting?

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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I love baseball

#sometimes blaseball becomes real

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The default length of pasta is designed to fit on a supermarket shelf, not to be the best length for cooking/eating.

Feel free to break it to any length you want (don't let the Italians know I said this)

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soundscape of young green martian playing with pvc pipes