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🐙🍍One of my favorite photographers is back at it again with the pineapple stealing Octo ;) #Kleptoctopus 📸: musashi671 photography
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Sumio Shiratori - Muumin Tani Fuyu
Lets just take a moment to reflect on our lives - and cry because of the incredible beauty of the tune - together.
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When you eat a pineapple, it eats you back. Pineapples are the only known carriers of Bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down proteins. Since your body is made of proteins, the pineapples you eat are also trying to digest you. That’s why a fresh pineapple can turn your tongue into a sore piece of sandpaper. Source
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Disparate elements: that is what life is composed of. How does one reconcile that disembodied feel? Being here—being present—yet stuck in your own mind—and hating those too far gone in their own disjointed worlds. Feeling desperate for any connection to normal living. How do they do it? So perfect and carefree, with drama the centerpiece of their existence… Even that sense of normality I lack.
Hubris. My Achille’s heel. I never should have put myself out there. I’m not confident—are you kidding me? I can’t lie to myself and I can’t lie to them. And now I’ve turned something I loved so much into a hated thing. That was my one safe retreat—why did I do it?.
They don’t know what I’ve done—they can’t understand it. I must be better. I must earn their respect. I must demand their respect. I am addicted to that sense of instant gratification. That’s what it’s called. That instant feedback loop—that’s all I want. To know with surety that they respect me..
Before I end this, I wanted to say one final goodbye, even though it comes… let’s see… 2 years (?) too late. Evidently I have not improved much in 2 years.
Thanks for supporting my art—yes, everyone says this, but I know none have ever appreciated it to an extent beyond “oh it looks good”. Anyhow, I don’t anticipate returning after I post this. So long and thanks for all the… well, you know. Take care!
(On a side note, how does this blog still have 3k+ followers?? Are you all not aware I haven’t posted in nearly 2 years?)
Oh my gooooooooooooooood
This blog has just kinda impacted me in ways that I haven’t even fully gotten to grips with (or shown yet) - mostly visually and in terms of presentation but also just everything - and while it’s sad to see it go it’s wonderful to hear back one last time! Definitely worth your perusal.
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Video! The sea slug that looks and swims like a fish
Out there in the open ocean is a nudibranch sea slug that looks like a fish, and for the last five months I’ve been obsessed with it. I wrote an article about this fishy slug, called Phylliroe, back in November (link to original article here, which is also posted below). But despite all my best efforts (including harassing friends and colleagues) I wasn’t able to find a video. So I’ve been looking every few weeks ever since.
Kaj Maney*, an underwater videographer and owner of Dive Centre in Ambon, Indonesia, was rummaging through some old files when he found the video below. He had no idea what the animal was, so he asked for help on the Facebook group “Marine Creature Identification.” And once he realized he’d filmed a Phylliroe he sent the video to me. Kaj told me via email that “the funniest/saddest thing is that I had completely forgotten that I had ever filmed it!!” And it’s flat out the best wild Phylliroe video I’ve seen! …
(read more: Deep Sea News)
Yesss
I’ve been looking for videos of these guys for months now
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In the late 19th century, an inexperienced doctor performed his first surgery n a room full of people. Feeling the pressure, he felt the need to perform the amputation in the quickest time possible, and ended up amputating his patient’s arm in the space of around 25 seconds. In the process of this, he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers too. Both patient and assistant died of sepsis, and a spectator died from shock, making it the only operation ever with a 300% mortality rate.
how badly…can one person fuck up….
THIS IS MY BOY!! THIS IS MY BOY ROBERT LISTON!! LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HIM!!
For starters, he practiced in a time before anesthesia was invented, when performing surgeries and amputations quickly were key to reducing a patients’ pain and upping their chance of survival. He was known as the ‘fastest knife on West End’ and could allegedly take a leg off in 2 ½ minutes. Some say he could amputate a limb in 30 seconds flat if he had to, he was exactly the man you wanted to call in case of emergency like this, because he could get you done and stitched nice and fast, before you bled out or died from shock.
On top of that, he was a theater surgeon, and I mean, he brought the THEATER to it. This man would scream for the students watching him to time him, and when he had to free his hands, shove his BLOODY FUCKING KNIFE between his teeth. Also, the 300% mortality rate wasn’t because he was inexperienced- it was because he was WAY TOO ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT CUTTING ARMS OFF, swinging his knife around for the effect. This was not the only time his enthusiasm got the better of him on the table, once, he amputated a man’s leg and accidentally took off his testicles in the same go.
He was, however, the first man to perform surgery with the use of anesthesia, and was a strong proponent of its use. He’s also famous for having UNSHAKABLE morals, he once got punched out a surgeon IN FRONT OF HIS WHOLE CLASS for displaying a woman’s corpse in a ‘voyeuristic’ manner, then straight-up took the body and had her decently buried (The woman was a murder victim and the surgeon he punched may have been complicit in the whole thing as well.).
Liston is such a coolio figure in early medical history he fight he heal he knock people the fuck out.
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