#cool news

[atheostic]

A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae | New Scientist

#news article #evolution #evolutionary biology #bacteria #algae #did you know #little known fact #cool news #science news

[paddysnuffles]

She's just 2 cm taller than me! (she's 147 cm tall)

That's the first short beauty queen I've ever heard about! :D

Her experiences are SO relatable.

I've personally had people literally coo at me about how "cute" I am in baby talk. As an adult.

I've had complete strangers walk up to me and pat my head like I was a dog. As an adult.

I often talk about the upsides about being short, but god, society makes it hard sometimes.

#short height #cool news #beauty queen #beauty pageant #bullying #news article #yayyy #woot woot #miss england

[everyday-is-brighter-with-you]

congrats chandrayaan 3🌚( dark moon with humanlike face smiling emoji )

#Cool news #I say #Txt #Space #India #Looks like we won the space race this time HSJSJ #AND I HEARD SO MUCH OF THE ISRO SCIENTISTS WERE TAMIL ??

[fan-fangirl-world]

Capcom: By the way RE4 remake is also available for PS4

PS4 owners who were thinking about buying a PS5: Oh... come on love don’t be angry.

PS4:

Needed to get this one out of my system

#resident evil #resident evil 4 remake #re4 remake #let's talk about this #because a lot of people #wanted to buy a #ps5 #but now #ps4 #is again the awesome console to play re #cool news #that capcom #should have said since day one #but okay #still waiting for xbox

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

#this is the grandmother who passed away unexpectedly earlier this month #she was so cool yall #and so weird #they got married twice by the way once when Massachusetts legalized it and once when New Mexico did #they hiked the grand canyon together #they had a european river cruise planned for this fall #she was 89 and she wanted to see the whole world with her wife #and they were working on it #literally i thought they were roommates #and there was only one bed

[reportsofagrandfuture]

#lunarpunk #bioluminescence #cool news

[roach-works]

pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.

pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.

there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?

pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?

this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.

#pokemon #ash: i just found a new region called jotoh! #oak: hey cool so apparently the world is round now #ash: wow! #oak: was the world round yesterday #ash: sure? #oak: great talk im gonna go have some grownup lemonade now bye

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

New Year 2024 Busan, South Korea

#drone fire works #new years #year of the dragon #cool

[primsycoldbottles]

um . warning now that tumblr is allowing gif pfps . PLEASE dont use gifs with flashing or eyestraining colours <3 since the gifs Cannot be turned off it WILL negatively affect photosensitive people

#peach patter #seeing multiple of my mutuals find out this news #PLEASE take care of ur photosensitive friends by not having harmful pfps or reblogging from ppl with flashing pfps #OH yeah its cool to rb this btw

[mroddmod]

everyone be quiet i'm manifesting

#the bad batch #tbb #star wars #star wars the bad batch #sw tbb #tbb omega #tbb wrecker #tbb crosshair #tbb echo #tbb tech #tbb hunter #mods art #mods draws #my art #YAYYYYY ITS DONE #i've been tinkering w this for like a couple weeks now i think #just on and off #whenever i was nervous about their fates or just generally sad about them i would work on this #it was supposed to make me feel better but it would usually just make me more sad 😭😭 #but i still really like how it turned out!!! so that's cool #very self indulgent but!!! whatever #i think i'll add this to my inprnt soon too :) so keep a look out for that i guess lol #okay byeeeeee #ALSO THE NEW EP WAS SO GOOD #okay bye fr

[boysborntodie]

Starting a chain!! With this quiz and this Picrew.

Tagging: @tuff-ponyboy @veggiesforpresident @sleeplessgreaser @fishfishfishfishfishfishfish1 @literallyhim0 @cadesblade @tigergirlpaya @arieshasbrainrot57 @kitty-beloved and anyone else who wants to do this.

#damn plsss I have so few moots #I hope the musical brings in new fans #I haven’t talked to some of you but you all seem super cool

[atheostic]

Hey y'all, I just heard that a new pristine hadrosaur specimen still with skin on it dropped in my neck of the woods this past September!

#cool news #biology #dinosaurs #alberta #did you know #news article #hadrosaur #canada

[vykodlak]

of course, the best part of any character's corruption arc is their cool new outfit

#text #you've got to get a cool new outfit when you turn evil

[mintypsii]

i can't believe one piece invented gay people

#HELP??????? #WHAT #one piece #op #one piece live action #opla #spoilers #min watches one piece #I WANNA MAKE A SEPERATE POST FOR THE NAMIKAYA MOMENTS #DUDE THE LIVE ACTION IS LEGITIMATELY GOOD?? #im enjoying it a lot so far #idk what others are saying but it doesn't matter cuz im having fun #even if the characters act a little different than they do in the show #it's something new though! i think that's really cool #lusopp #zosopp #^_^<- insane #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #usopp #iñaki godoy #jacob gibson #mackenyu

[worm-on-a-blog]

woahh 2024! cheers!

happy new year. worms are rooting for you to have your best year yet.

#worm on a string #new year #i’m trying to think of a fun and silly new year’s resolution (inspired by the Pasta Quest post) and i would appreciate some ideas! #or let me know what you’ll be doing. silly or serious #these worms are using their worm power to make your year very cool & nice. they are trying very hard because you deserve it #happy new year #new year 2024 #new years eve

[chamoemileclown]

i made pearlescentmoon's starter base out of lego!!

#i adore this build its so cool #and i got to try out some new tree techniques #hermitcraft season 10 #hermitcraft smp #hermitcraft fanart #hermitcraft #hermitcraft s10 #pearlescentmoon #pearlesentmoon fanart