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may your 2023 be vampiric and homoerotic

It doesn’t matter what mental gymnastics you do to justify your consumption of Harry Potter.

Your second-hand shopping, piracy and fanfic don’t exist in a vacuum and it continues to provide JK Rowling with the cultural capital to inflict hurt on vulnerable people.

A deeply evil person.

i found another specimen of a super rare organism yesterday!

this is a rare and remarkable ciliate, a single-celled organism called Metopus verrucosus.

a few neat facts about it:

it’s an anaerobic organism! this means it prefers to live without oxygen

it lives deep in the mud of sulfur- & methane-rich bodies of saltwater. this one was found in the salt marsh estuary on the side of the garden state pkwy in south New Jersey!

it couldn’t survive in these noxious conditions by itself, though! the fuzzyness covering it’s cell is actually a type of bacteria that symbiotically lives on M. verrucosus.

this bacteria has the ability to metabolize sulfur and/or methane, processing these volatile stinky chemicals and turning it into energy, that it then shares with M. verrucosus!

i’m the only known person with this kind of footage of M. verrucosus! the paper The Santa Barbara Basin is an Oasis of Symbiosis has the only other photo i’ve seen of this organism, and it’s actually an HVEM (electron microscope) photo of a cross-section of the cell showing it’s endosymbiotic bacteria.

here are some more photos i took of other specimens:

I am the master of seduction (they didn't text back)

day 12 of growing mold on vincent fennell

sample - he has a little spot right over his face! and also he's purple now apparently

notes: im surprised only one spot has grown but im gonna let it be and see what happens to him!!

new boycott infographic posted by bds today

keep in mind that this list isn't exhaustive; it's only listing US-based companies

have the mold spores taken over your mind yet

nope! nothing for them to take over

so uhh... I just made a new trans pride flag hope you like it 😩👉👈