Meat Bird

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
rubellitegame
laika-the-bitch

in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

laika-the-bitch

scale as in „to climb“ comes from the latin scala, for ladder.

scale as in the measuring device comes from the old norse skal, for a drinking vessel sometimes used as a weighing device

scale as in the dermal plating on the skin of some fish and reptiles comes from the old french escale, for shell or husk.

lolotehe

Three languages enter, one language leaves.

molamolamania
bogleech


Guess what this is and what's happening. You're going to hate the answer I'll bet!

bogleech

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00772-8

“Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts”

“ This biophysical mechanism is proposed by us to assist these ectoparasites in making contact with their hosts, increasing their effective “reach” because they are otherwise incapable of jumping. Herein, experimental and theoretical evidence show that the tick Ixodes ricinus (Figure 1A) can close the gap to their hosts using ecologically relevant electric fields. We also find that this electrostatic interaction is not significantly influenced by the polarity of the electric field, revealing that the mechanism of attraction relies upon induction of an electrical polarization within the tick, as opposed to a static charge on its surface.“

mysteriouslypleasantcat
l0stvegas

Man I hope today’s twitter thing is just temporary because otherwise that site is fucking cooked.

Y’all see the shit he pulled today? You can only load like 300-600 tweets a day before Twitter completely locks you out of reading any new posts or making searches for a whole ass like 24hours I guess

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l0stvegas

Yeah these numbers he’s giving are bogus, I logged into my main acc and maybe scrolled my tl for 3 minutes + clicked on a few different tweets and I was already locked out. I think this is a cap on how many tweets just load for you at a given time in general so if you open a thread with a boatload of comments you just get fucking vaporized instantly

l0stvegas

lmfao everyone’s skeddadling onto bluesky so fast their servers are exploding and they had to disable signups. amazing

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pegakitty

bluesky also allows hate groups on their platform, sadly...


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l0stvegas

oh my fucking god they have a racism level switch