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not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual
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Nonstick broom
Guys. Stop rebloging nonstick broom. This is just some image I made years ago and found in my photos recently. I don’t want this to get big I beg of you
This is at 38 notes my good friend
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Computer Science major here, it's not working because the computer doesn't respect you. download viruses on it to remind it who's boss.
follow for more tits
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buys lego set that says "ONE PIECE"
opens up box when I get home
several pieces inside
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There is this medieval book with the recipe to make rats
And the recipe is basically something like: left a bag of grain alone in a dark basement for a week, after a week you will enter and have rats.
Spontaneous generation is great
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Please tell me about the bees
Oh no you have activated my trap card
Honeybee facts:
- Honeybees are native to Eurasia and are not naturally found in North America. There are stingless bees in south America and Mexico that produce honey but they are a different taxonomic class than honeybees
- The way you check for varroa mites (a parasite common with honeybees) is absolutely hilarious to me. You take a half a cup of bees (scooped with a measuring cup, which is hilarious) and put them in a jar. Then dump a bunch of powdered sugar in the jar. Then you cover the jar with a screen. And then. You just. Shake the jar a bunch until the bees are covered in powdered sugar. Then you turn the jar upside down and shake out the powdered sugar and look for mites in it. If you have more than 5 you have and infestation. Bees. Shaken, not stirred. It doesn't hurt the bees and you just put them back in the hive and the other bees eat the sugar on them. They're fine. But the mental image of shaking a jar full of bees and powdered sugar is just so funny.
- Importing honeybees into the US is illegal so a while back researchers at WSUs bee lab went overseas to collect bee semen so they can breed calmer more disease resistant honeybees. I desperately wish I could find the article I read about it because the photo in it of a tiny vial of bee semen was also hilarious
- Honeybees can get jet lag. They ran an experiment where they flew European bees to north America and the bees woke up for the day on European time
Cursed honeybee facts
- Bees have hair growing out of their eyes
- When a male bee mates his testicles explode and he dies.
He came and went - In preparation for winter the worker bees kick all the drones out of the hive and then seal up the hive with propolis and leave the drones to die in the cold
Bumblebee facts
- You can teach bumblebees to do tricks. They did a study in the UK where they rewarded bees for pushing a ball into a hole and then tested to see if the bees could teach other bees and they could! (You can download videos of bees doing tricks from that link btw. You're welcome)
- There are no bumblebees south of the Sahara or in Australia because it's too hot for them. The only bumblebees native to the southern hemisphere are in south America.
- They think bumblebees evolved in the mountains of central Asia and that's where the biggest diversity of bumblebee species is
- There was a bumblebee native to where I was born called Franklin's Bumblebee that is thought to be extinct, but people still go up into the mountains looking for them and they are my favorite bee and I have a tattoo of one because I think that says a lot about humanity's capacity for hope. And they COULD still be out there. We've found "extinct" bees out there living their best little bee lived before!! (Here's the tattoo)
Random other bee facts
- There's a bee native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico called the sunflower chimney bee and they're called that because they feed off composite flowers like sunflowers and build little mud tunnels as entrances to their nests in the ground. No one knows why they do that! But I think they're neat!!!
- There's bees native to the southwestern US desert that have evolved to have body temps of 103°F/39°C
- Most bees do not live in social colonies like honeybees do. Most bees are solitary, meaning each female makes her own nest and lays her own eggs. Tho some solitary bees will nest very near each other
- We are learning that bees native to north America like blue orchard bees and blueberry Mason bees are more effective crop pollinators than honeybees, especially for early spring crops when it's still too cold for honeybees to be out and about.
This has been bee info dump time with V. Tune in next time and I'll talk about blue bees!
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yeah, you can go piss, girl... bit it'll cost ya
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add another clove of garlic im not driving
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This screenshot from a gardening Facebook group has been on my phone for several years and I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to delete it. Apparently it comes from a British gardening book from the 80s. I know we all joke that the English are afraid of flavor, but I assure you, you are not prepared for this.
That last paragraph HAUNTS me. How am I supposed to sleep at night picturing Paul Hollywood — sobbing, hands trembling — alone in his kitchen, gingerly rubbing the edges of a salad bowl with a single clove of unskinned garlic, wondering if he will ever be brave enough to do the same to a roast chicken?
No wonder Dracula wanted to come to England
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At work there used to be a sign on a few things that would say like "if this bubbles, run for your life" and "if you hear thumping run for cover" and "bears can and will kill you" and really in general I wish the park service was more willing to say "you are not at home, you are not at disneyland, you can die here and you can die so badly your family will have to bury an empty casket because no one will risk their own life to collect your idiot corpse."
If we're gonna make people more scared of something, it should probably be cars, infections, and heart conditions, not "outside".
THESE FACTS WILL BE RELEVANT I SWEAR:
Boiling point of water: 212°F
Crock pot temperature: 140°F-180°F
Crock pot depth (commercial, 100 gal): 3 feet, could not submerge most humans.
Meat begins to cook: 105°F
Water burns skin within 3-6 seconds: 140°F
Steak/chops/roasts are safe to eat: 145°F
Collagen melts into gelatin, meat "falls off the bone": 160-180°F
Average tourist: 30% collagen
Stomach acid: pH 1.5-3.5 (lower is more acidic)
YELLOWSTONE FACTS!
Max recorded temp of a Yellowstone pool: 280°F in Norris Basin
Depth of spring that dissolved a man: 10 feet, Norris Basin, could and did submerge an adult human
Lowest pH (most acidic) pH of a Yellowstone pool: pH 2-3 in Norris Basin
Yellowstone pools: crock pots full of stomach acid
I think if people ARE outside -- say, tourists near a spring -- they should be warned that the spring will cook them, then dissolve what is left. Because you CANNOT tell by looking.
We should be a LOT more afraid of some parts of Outside, actually.
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I love foreign language films
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