Jaspurr 🎃

Rana temporaria - common frog/European brown frog - was used prior to widespread refrigeration to slow milk spoilage. their skin mucus contains a LOT of antimicrobial peptides. Iirc it was also known for living/being seen in clean wells? they're very common and surprisingly medically useful

bromeliad tree frogs basically spend their entire lives in one plant, high in the canopy. the coronated tree frog has sharp spines on its head it can use to effectively seal off its bromeliad pool from intruders.

there's a couple kinds of frog that brood their young in their mouth/throat, and one toad that stores them in the skin of its back. the marsupial frog has a pouch.

Frogs retract their eyes to help swallow food

Frogs are often an "indicator species" for conservation. They absorb toxins about as easily as water and air through their skin, and end up serving as an early warning system for the health of an area or ecosystem as a whole. Parasite loads and populations are both valuable clues.

more frogs have teeth than anyone is comfortable with. Usually just a few on top of the mouth, sometimes fangs. Toads NEVER have teeth.

we used to use frogs to help preserve milk in Russia and finland

Toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads. its kind of like pigeons and doves honestly, we're weird about them

who is going to magfest? Who wants me to be aware they're going to mag so that I can harass you to hang out with me

It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.

U.S. catholic bishops will never see heaven and hell is too good for them.

*taps sign*

These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.

Like, how much of this "I talk to chatgpt 5 hours a day and it is teaching me to to become a god" is the result of a normal person glimpsing the abyss that is *literally* a billionaire's every single social interaction, and it fucking destroying them.

In 2017, the sitting president had Thanksgiving with his old friend who had been convicted of sex crimes with a minor.

And we’re only learning about this now?

Me: i wanna socialize
*gets invited to socialize* oh man thats too complicated i dunno

I wistfully reminisce about my boring stable middle class 90s earlyish childhood more and more often anymore because everything is so scary but the fact that people become full on fascists over the same thing is mind blowing to me like. Guys youre the ones making everything so bad in the first place

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

You need to understand that there is both an officially licensed "Avatar: The Last Airbender" RPG where nobody is allowed to be the Avatar AND an officially licensed "Doctor Who" RPG where nobody is allowed to be the Doctor. The situation is dire.

Jeff sitting next to Namor and warning him about danger

Jeff has a tiny throne next to Namor

listen, we've all had a lot of fun today learning that we truly are ruled by a pedophiliac cabal that permeates every level of big business and government, but also let's not take our eye off the fact that the senate Dems completely betrayed their base and must be primaried until they're all gone

Holy shit. This is a huge opportunity.

oh, my high-school hometown is a small town basically built on historical preservation tourism and the historic women's liberal arts college there. Guess what some dipshit man is gutting and shutting down?? the residential, liberal arts, and science portion of the historic college of course!

I had an appt to review my healing progress and it went so well they canceled my social worker appt tomorrow lmfao
grafts are nasty but mine are GOOD nasty, apparently

I just can't envision the current administration as capable of doing any of the shit they literally HAVE TO DO to contain this shit. Horseback patrols along the entire border? More trained dogs at customs? giving a shit about the usda??? how is this not huge news ugh

Panama has a facility and Mexico is making one, but I wanna know when the fuck we STOPPED caring about this and dropped the ball. New World Screwworm infestations are nightmare shit we are not prepared for

Screwworms have been spotted as far north as Mexico as of 2025!! our government announced in August that we're going to construct a domestic facility to coordinate SIT measures - just ONE, in Texas, on an airforce base

i appreciate the grace with which the tumblr zoology pedants allowed me to pretend this was intentional

Okay so is Pluribus a commentary on AI? Because we've literally got the sum of human knowledge and modern memory telling everyone anything they want to hear, whether it enables good or ill, dressed up as your favorite people. If it's not on purpose, it's at least a damn good metaphor.

this is, to be fair, how I think most movies should be consumed