Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Would Have Reblogged This

as a person who started going bald many years ago, that is actually an incredibly popular opinion, mostly from people who aren't losing their hair who see me walking down the street. it's usually the first thing they say, as they crawl out from under a dense foliage of brunette or platinum blonde.

"did you know-" they pipe up enthusiastically and without prompt, "-you sure would look great if you shaved your head!"

but i know the truth. i mean, a working set of kidneys on the average American diet is rare enough as it is, but a full head of hair? these freaks want me to shave my head so they can sneak into my bathroom and ransack my leftover hair. assimilating my hair onto their head must not be easy and i suspect necromancy is involved. BUT I KNOW YOUR GAME AND I SHANT BE PLAYING.

i will instead be following in the footsteps of my short, neurotic forefathers.

a lot of people don't seem to want to look like this anymore. but someone needs to be brave enough to keep this rich tradition alive. balding men are an endangered species, threatened by an all-encompasing compulsion of modern men who want to look like Mr. Clean.

listen, i get it. Mr. Clean is hot. but this trend is disastrous for the Men's Hairstyle ecosystem.

be the bald you want to see in the world.

might be an unpopular opinion but i feel like if you're balding enough you should just shave that shit and be completely bald. stop hanging onto whatever you have left it never looks good. own your baldness

oh well

onto better things

rat gif for the rat gods

Anyway, I'd like to remind everyone that genocide is still being committed in Gaza, not just with guns and bombs but with disease and starvation.

Please take a moment to support humanitarian efforts there:

Islamic Relief Fund USA

Medical Aid for Palestinians UK

Palestinian Children's Relief Fund

Medecins Sans Frontiers

who let biologists play dnd

the food pyramid is actually just the tip of a massive underground food obelisk

stop apologizing for going off on long tangents or rambling in the group chats and discords. that is self-defeating language and it associates guilt with being excited or whatever. instead you should frame it as "so uh anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk on my pokemon oc's relationship to ethics and science whoops". it's funny it keeps the mood light it makes it easier to continue a conversation without the whole feeling of "do i tell them no its okay? like do i need to reassure them???" etc

Senators are going to vote on whether or not we should continue to send aid to Israel on Wednesday, November 13th. Call them, bombard their phone lines with calls. Every fucking day. We have a chance of doing something about this.

Northern Luzon Cloud Rat (Phloeomys pallidus)

@ Joel Sartore