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Still can’t get over how beautiful Astarion is. Like goddamn

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for either way you choose you cannot win

#got here today #played both rounds…. just whispered ‘magnificent’ each time he loved and lost #in love

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"I'm going to play Dark Urge, I'm going to play a Drow, I'm going to play a Half Elf Cleric of Selune-" No. I grow tired of filling Faerun with hotties and encouraging my party's fatherless behavior.

To remedy this I have made Your Dad, the ultimate 1:1 replica of the average New Jersey father to save the realm and put a stop to my party's sad, horny business.

And before you can even ask "oh what is the Guardian Your Mom or something" of fucking course she is you fool

#bg3 is my new hell

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i trust one food blogger and it's claire lower (the woman at lifehacker who waffles everything)

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someone in the fandom has won the bejeweled furby!!!

the reddit post they made ^

it was over 5,000 USD, they won it back in june but it took until a few days ago to ship.

@crayfurbs i know you made some really good posts about the auction, not sure if you've seen this yet but i thought i'd @ you because i think this is a pretty cool part of furby history!

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

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you’re hearing it more and more

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Time shifting

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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic

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hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

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surely this is a good idea that doesn’t have the capacity to end real fuckin badly

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nereid worms (Alitta sp.) prowling the tidal mudflats

nereids and other predatory polychaete worms (such as bobbit worms) are related to earthworms but have a more complex brain, leg-like parapodia, eyes, antennae, and sharp retractable jaws for grasping prey. I think of them as marine centipedes.

normally they stay out of sight buried in the mud, so I was a bit surprised to see these ones crawling out in the open, various smaller invertebrates scrambling out of the way to avoid becoming the worms’ next meal.

(PEI, Canada, 7/29/22)

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Do you have any articles on your site about weird Fish? I know you have lots of weird animal articles but I'm meaning fish specifically. I'm joining a DnD game and want to be a weird fish-person, but don't want to just have my character be a typical vague grouper/pirannah/etc generic fishman.

I have some old articles around about deep sea fish but here are some of my obscure favorites:

I really obsess over the face of the "tube eye," like it has these great big jaws that open up, but they're covered up in skin with just a tiny little hole at the bottom!

Grideyes have normal eyes when they're young but by maturity the eyeballs have degenerated away and been replaced by these reflective yellow pits in the skull for collecting as much light as possible

walking batfish are one of the groups of anglerfish that aren't restricted to the deep sea and their fins evolved into four silly feet they waddle on

rattrap fish or "loosejaws" have jaws that basically detach to grab food like a preying mantis's claws

this illustration is accurate to a live loosejaw and several related dragonfish or viperfish by the way - the mouth just doesn't have a "floor." The jaw is nearly fleshless. This is so it cuts through the water even faster, since the jaw's only purpose is to snare food and shove it down into the stomach as fast as possible.

this is my favorite picture of a stargazer because it just really shows off how their big bulldog face is twisted straight upward

lookit the face on this eel larva !!!

Telescope fish!

Everyone probably knows about the barreleye by now but here's the barreleye. It's not quite that its eyes are "inside a clear skull" like the news sensationalized but that its whole head is encased in a gelatinous bubble, with the eyes inside specifically to protect them from the stingers of the siphonophores it preys on!

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Bilateral gynandromorph stag beetle (Lucanidae ?) [x]

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Managed to get some millipede photos today! Little guy could smell cucumber on my finger and was trying to eat it!

Dw he got the cucumber in the end.

Uploading some videos of the lil guy trying to eat my finger. I'll have those up here in a little bit.

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Sword Illustrations by Ma-Ko (2018-21)

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#sesame street