American Yellow Warbler  (📸  glen.noyer)

Hundreds of years ago, the bright yellow fur of a Pikachu used to be considered a sign that the trainer was fortunate or noble, so many royal families used to own them by the dozen. This is the reasoning for so many old coins having Pikachus printed on them, as well as an explanation for the many circle-cheeked “pikamon” that became domesticated in that time.

Pachirisu (EleSquirrel Pokémon), Emolga (Sky Squirrel Pokémon) and Togedemaru (Roly-Poly Pokémon) are all believed to be descendants of a a now-extinct squirrel-like breed of Pikachu. Their white fur and yellow cheeks were considered a sign of the trainers purity, and old scriptures often compare them to angels.

The only non-extinct pikamons to still truly be in the pika genus are the Pawmi family, categorised by how they’ve retained their ability to evolve. Paldea was one of the only regions not to be involved with the mass Pikachu breeding craze of ‘25, hence how they’ve adapted and evolved to the climate more naturally.

Have there been any papers on the reason for the sudden split into psycic typing within the pika line? As far as I'm aware there nearly no reason for it

People believe it's due to Alola's warmer climate, the regions culture and the food it eats. Morpeko and Dedenne developed secondary typings for similar reasons, and diet plays a surprisingly big part in a species' evolution and behavior.

We're still not sure which part made them become psychic specifically, though. Evolution is weird.

Fresh out the egg with my big feet

Raptors would have been really silly, this is my scientific opinion

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MultiVersus: Collision Detected (2024) #1-6 covers by Dan Mora

He thinks he can follow me to university (He's gonna get a 2.3 GPA)

PLEASE VOTE. IT MATTERS.

It gets worse when you look at past elections. 2020 was the first time Did Not Vote wasn't in first place!

(The numbers for 2016 are different here. I believe the image above included people who are ineligible to vote for its percentage.)

the only thing longer than the list of actors cast in a main role in doctor who after playing a supporting role in a previous story is the list of actors cast in a supporting role in a story after being cast in a main role. and that's not even mentioning all the times doctor who actors play both a main role and a supporting role at the same time

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why'd no one ever tell me before about this lizard that completely lost just its front legs

Steve Jobs' Aquarium

“One of my favourite Steve Jobs stories was the time the engineers working on the iPod brought their finished prototype to him in his office. He said it was too big, they needed to make it smaller. They said it was as small as they could make it, it couldn’t be made any smaller. So he took the prototype over to his aquarium and dropped it in. The iPod sank to the bottom, and as it did, tiny little bubbles came out. ‘See those bubbles,’ he asked. ‘They’re air inside the iPod. Make it smaller.’

“Another story about Steve Jobs was when they brought the prototype for the iPad 2 to his office. The engineers told him it was faster than the first iPad. He took it over to his aquarium and dropped it in. ‘Look how slowly it sank,’ he told them. ‘Make it faster.’

“One time a newly hired intern had been sent out to get Steve a sandwich. When she brought it to him, he looked at it. ‘I thought I ordered the beef on rye,’ he asked. She told him it was indeed beef on rye. He took it over to his fish tank and dropped it in. ‘Does that look like beef on rye?’

“He was always dropping things in that fish tank. We couldn’t stop him. We told him he had to stop, he wouldn’t listen. It was full of stuff that shouldn’t be in an aquarium.

“The fish had all died years ago. One had been crushed under an early generation iMac. The others were all poisoned. He didn’t care.

“It got to the point where there was no room for anything in the fish tank. When we emptied it after he died, we found a body in there. We never found out who it was.”