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cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/40006929

Those strange red dots in James Webb images finally have an explanation

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/950414/brrr

Brrr.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/comicstrips/p/950376/brrr

Source

Alt Text: A cartoon illustration of a person and their pug walking outside in the winter, using a scarf wrapped around both their heads as a leash. Caption reads "It was too cold to even bother with a leash that day."

Absolute gold.

I have amenities for my manatees!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/comicstrips/p/379406/i-ve-been-tempted

I've been tempted

Also available on the Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KigVOyFKbDI

Somaliland becomes a pariah after cozying up to a nazi ethnostate. Everyone sees through the Israeli ruse. Everybody loses.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/36456443

A tropical sea slug that was found in UK waters for the first time could be evidence of warming seas affecting marine wildlife, an expert has warned.

Spurilla neapolitana is normally found in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and western Atlantic, but was discovered off the south coast of Cornwall last week.

Wildlife volunteer Charlotte Cumming took photos of the 10mm-long creature - sometimes called a hair curler slug - at Prisk Cove during a survey for a charity.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24752240

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41163348

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1617730/smoky-the-yorkshire-terrier-in-a-soldier-s-helmet-ww2-1944

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1617730/smoky-the-yorkshire-terrier-in-a-soldier-s-helmet-ww2-1944

Pollen is the balls! We’re inhaling plant balls

Not even that.. really. Your balls or ova are still "yours" as in your genetic material.

So we have gametes, unicellular haploid phases. But plants have gametophytes, and evolved from the gametophytic phase being the "dominant plant body" stage.

So.. in analogy, in plant evolutionary history, the "big obvious plant part" literally was the sperm, and still is in bryophytes, chlorphytes, and some rhodophytes. So mosses are still this way. The big flip happened when vascular plants branched off, with the development of tracheids and plasmodesma.

So its more like.. if we're going to do metaphor imagine each "sperm" or egg being the big multicellular part we would all recognize as the "plant" and the tiny, microscopic bit, being the diploid part, would be us. So like, if there were an equivalent, it would be like if when you cum, the eggs or sperm grow up into their whole totally different looking person, which we might call a 'cum gremlin'. This 'cum gremlin' then finds another 'cum gremlin' to have sex with. Then these cum gremlins get together to have one of you, but you are like a tiny version of yourself.