#sounds about right – @buffriday-with-the-bees on Tumblr

Earlier today my friends and I were talking about those extremely specific, overly verbose t-shirts that show up in targeted advertisements.

I didn’t have any luck finding any that were relatable to me personally, though. As someone who doesn’t own a gun, care about astrology, or have a possessive significant other with anger management issues, I am outside the target demographic for pretty much all of these shirts.

Imagine what an algorithmically generated shirt directed specifically at me would say, though.

teal-deer

This is me but I’m bisexual I do t play the … That, and I’ll tell u about Mesoamerican agricultural practices?

draconym

Actually, I think a shirt that just says “i have to say weird stuff or i’ll die” is on-point enough for most of us.

mortovox

Can I please hear facts about terrestrial isopods they are super cute

draconym

Yes, absolutely

Although they look like a lot of arthropods that we call “bugs,” they’re actually crustaceans.
They go by many names, including pillbug, sowbug, woodlouse, slater, and roly poly.
Like their marine cousins, they breathe through gills, and need a humid environment to survive. This is why you often find them in damp basements.
Not all of them are capable of rolling into a ball.
Female woodlice carry their eggs and young in a water-filled pouch called a marsupium, because the babies would dry out otherwise.
They live in colonies, sometimes quite large ones–at one point I had probably over a hundred living under my doormat.
Though their exoskeleton protects them from many other small predators, some spiders specialize in eating woodlice.
They shed their old exoskeleton in two phases: first the back half, then the front half. Here’s one I found freshly molted:

Thanks for asking!! I love talking about woodlice!!!

draconym

Since the extremely specific targeted shirt (redbubble link) has gained some new attention recently, I wanted to reblog its origin story.

wingleader

I found a leucistic pillbug once….

Oh! So that’s what those fangly spiders are.

#i have to say weird stuff or i'll die #sounds about right #t shirts #insects cw