12drakon:

smstransformers:

roboverload:

agent-washingtub343:

smstransformers:

Do you reckon a transformer has just fucking stood on a hill or something in a thunder storm, enjoying the rain, when all a sudden they just get fucking struck by lightening.

I laughed so hard at this

deadass bet you optimus was having a Dramatic Moment In The Rain and then got struck by lightning and had a very visceral moment of “why the FUCK am i still on this planet”

*WHEEZE*

Optimus was having a Dramatic Moment, then got struck by lightning, and then had a very special moment when he overloaded from the electric stimulation. In fact, the special moment was had by all! By the whole Autobot army listening to their Prime’s Dramatic Speech.

Soundwave, who was spying on them at the time, still has the recording. 

For his own private usage.

zoologicallyobsessed:

zoolite
replied to your post “did you seriously just say we should let pandas go extinct to save…”

Disappointing, you don’t need to blame pandas for conservation ills, and if you think they deserve extinction, what about us war torn humans? We’re much more expensive to take care of so perhaps we should be extinct to save costs.

This person is so mad that I hate pandas they replied to my post 5 times (including the above reply) and sent me 11 messages and are still completely wrong. 

Pandas are ecologically useless. They aren’t prey for other species, they don’t pollinate, disperse seeds or control or shape vegetation or the environment.

And on top of that people donate and spend a crazy amount of conservation money on them and despite all these conservation efforts and money thrown at them, like zoolite pointed out in another reply (like this was some amazing break through) they are classified now as vulnerable rather then endangered.

The above reply just shows this person has no idea how conservation efforts or money is raised or spent. 

Any biologist knows about charismatic megafauna and how the general public, organisations, ect. will only really care about species that are considered cute and marketable. 

Literally the only good thing that has come from panda conservation efforts is that the protected environments have benefited actual other important species and that is has helped conservation efforts in a social aspect, that it helped raise awareness to the general public

But the money should be going directly towards those important species instead of being wasted on pandas who are 100% environmentally and ecologically unimportant.

 I’ve never seen someone so personally offended that I don’t care for pandas.

@zoolite, chill. They aren’t saying “PANDAS SHOULD DIE”, they’re saying “it would be really nice if all the money going to pandas went to more important species, since pandas have minimal environmental value and there are many more species with massive environmental value that need protection”. 

Like, y’know, vultures and stuff. 

glumshoe:

A few weeks ago someone tried to debunk a photo by saying “acorns aren’t that small”. I’ve been thinking about that statement ever since and feeling sorry for whoever has never seen mad small acorns.

There’s also giant bristly acorns, bigger than walnuts, with ultra-bristly caps. They’re awesome when you find them for the first time.

I’m just remembering this animal tour I was part of at a zoo once. Don’t remember what zoo, I think San Diego? The zookeeper leading the tour brought out a little three-banded armadillo for an animal encounter. He was like 12 years old and had bristles all on the inside of his shell and along his tummy. He’d been woken up to be brought out, and his tiny armadillo dick was out, so I dunno if he was having a nice dream or if that was just standard male armadillo state. Apparently he’s had a lot of kids, so that might be the standard for him. 

The keeper held him for a little bit so everyone could (lightly) touch his shell and see what it felt like, then put him down (he was getting wiggly) and let him toddle around. He walked like a wind-up toy, all slow and puttery, which is evidently top speed for a three-banded armadillo. The lady who brought him out was apparently the one who fed him, and she was really surprised when I told her that nine-banded armadillos (native to Texas and surroundings, three-banded are from Brazil) run like rabbits and can easily outrun humans. They don’t have armadillos in California, apparently.

I’m still surprised nobody in the group of high-school-age kids remarked on the armadillo dick. 

did-you-kno:

Our excessive plastic pollution has
formed a new kind of ‘stone’ that
future scientists can probably use to
track our existence. ‘Plastiglomerate’ is
a durable material that forms when
melted plastic combines with sediment
and natural debris. It’s so dense that it
easily becomes buried, which will
potentially preserve it in the fossil
record of our current time period. Source Source 2

“hey, look how bad this generation of humans fucked up about environmentalism”, hopefully followed by “look, there’s barely anything in this layer but what they left on purpose, they got real good at this whole deal real fast- and see? all these species start becoming common again, they even brought back some that stopped showing up at all”. 

Source: didyouknowblog.com

lokittyofcatsguard:

The first one was popular so I made a follow up

Basically, the point of this is that fish produce ammonia in their waste. Ammonia is highly toxic, burns their gills, and will kill them. There are bacteria that convert ammonia into less toxic nitrites, and then there are bacteria that convert those nitrites into even less toxic nitrates, which plants can use. This is how you get them useful bacteria so your fish don’t die slow, painful deaths. 

Also, don’t ever wash your gravel or filter in tap water. Those are what all your good bacteria live in. They don’t live in water, that’s a myth. 

You can potentially bypass the wait by adding filter media or gravel from an established tank. You still have to do all these steps, but you might not have to wait for the bacteria to show up and grow. 

Source: lokittyofcatsguard