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[queen boba thot ✨ @saraboo_]

People that don’t have twitter just aren’t funny

[Big Iron Chris @bigironchris]

@bryan_johnson bro writing ''This is biblical'' about a granny tripping her face out of senility

[goma @soigomaa]

if he brings out the child in you, you're dating a man. if he brings out the mother in you, you're dating a boy. if he brings out the inner man in you, you're dating a loser

[YT @tolafolaa]

the guy who invented the endless scroll ui might have done a crazier number on humanity than oppenheimer yk

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

what have we done

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. The dancing is the tamest part of the story. Marine biologist Amanda Vincent has spent decades studying seahorses, and what’s underneath that morning ritual goes way deeper than a cute video.

The morning ritual lasts about 6 minutes. Both seahorses brighten their skin, link tails, and pirouette around a shared piece of coral or seagrass. Researchers call it “the carousel dance.” But it has a specific biological function: it synchronizes their reproductive cycles so the female’s eggs are ready the exact moment the male’s brood pouch is empty. That timing matters because the male can’t accept new eggs while he’s already pregnant.

The male gets pregnant. The female transfers her eggs into his pouch through an organ called an ovipositor (a tube for depositing eggs). The whole transfer takes about 6 seconds. His pouch seals shut immediately. Inside, he grows a network of blood vessels that works almost exactly like a human placenta, delivering oxygen and nutrients to up to 1,000 developing embryos. Research from the University of Sydney, published in the journal Placenta, found the pouch wall thins and builds new blood vessels during pregnancy in ways that closely mirror what happens in a mammalian uterus.

He gives birth using skeletal muscles, not smooth muscles like in mammalian labor. That means he has conscious control over the process. Labor can take hours. And within hours of delivering up to 1,000 fully formed babies, he’s ready to mate again. The female already has her next batch of eggs prepared, sometimes the same day.

Less than 0.5% of those babies survive to adulthood. Fewer than 5 out of every 1,000. No parental care after birth. They get swept into ocean currents, eaten by crabs, or starve before they find food. That survival rate is why the morning dance matters so much. Every lost mating cycle is hundreds of offspring that never existed.

The monogamy is extraordinary for a fish. Only about 3% of mammals form lasting partnerships. For fish, it’s rarer still. But in species like the Australian H. whitei, pairs are genetically monogamous across multiple breeding seasons. They greet each other every morning and ignore other seahorses entirely. The bond only breaks when one partner disappears. Amanda Vincent once watched a female keep visiting a male whose brood pouch had been punctured by a predator, making pregnancy impossible. She showed up every morning for weeks until his pouch healed. Then they remated.

About 150 million seahorses are pulled from the ocean every year for traditional medicine and the pet trade. Most pet seahorses don’t last six weeks. 14 of the 47 known species were only identified in this century, meaning we’re losing populations of animals we barely knew existed.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

We’ve known about this for some time. In the aftermath of 9/11, significantly fewer male babies were born. There’s also an interesting relationship between maternal stress and homosexuality. Significantly more boys who went on to become homosexuals were born in East Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

[Lori - Breaker of Curfews @lori_socal]

Here’s a really good idea: you kidnap someone, put a gun to their head and tell them to dig a really deep and wide hole.

When they’re done, they’ll be assuming they just dug their own grave. That’s when you say “surprise! I’m not gonna kill you. You just dug the hole for my koi pond!”

They’ll be happy and relieved, and you just got some free labor! This is a win/win situation with no downsides.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Think about it. When your pet walks in from another room just to find you, that means they were somewhere else for a moment… and decided to come see you.

In their own simple way, their little brain thought about you. They wondered where you were, what you were doing, and they came looking for you.

They didn’t need anything. They just wanted to be near you.

That’s love in its purest form. Quiet, loyal, and completely unconditional.

[Obianujuaku💰 @NnorukaObianuju]

@Akir_a997 Nope. I wanna shake my ass on a yacht.

[abby @paigeblockers]

anywaysssss goodnight

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

Most men are gay. They're literally gay. Because they don't really like us women. Our natural bodies, they think it's gross. Our interests, they think it's cringe. Spending time with us, they think it's like a responsibility. And if a guy has a girlfriend, and instead of date night with her, he genuinely wants to be with the boys, and he feels it's a punishment that he can't spend time with his boys, he doesn't really like her. So I genuinely think most men are gay but they haven't figured it out because being gay is like also too feminine for them and they don't like feminine things.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Ngl my biggest takeaway from dating and being in a long-term relationship is that the relationship your partner has with their parents particularly their mother will always run parallel to the relationship they have with you. Until they've done the necessary inner work, this dynamic will continue.

[love drops @lovedropx]

“Home is where the trees look normal” is the sweetest, saddest, most nostalgic truth I’ve ever heard.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Female dogs can tell when a person doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Dogs have lived alongside humans for tens of thousands of years, and research shows they pay close attention to how we behave not just how we sound or look.

In controlled experiments, researchers tested whether dogs judge human competence just by watching. The setup was simple: two people tried to open a container. One succeeded. One failed.

Later, both people offered the dogs treats.

Most dogs chose to approach the person who had succeeded. The effect was stronger in female dogs, though scientists are not yet sure why.

This ability is called third-party social assessment, judging someone based on how they treat others or perform tasks. It’s also seen in highly social animals like chimpanzees, dolphins, and ravens.

The dogs were not responding to voice, emotion, or body language. They were responding to performance alone. They watched, remembered, and made a decision.

This skill may come from evolution. Early dogs that could recognize reliable, capable humans would have had a better chance of survival. Over time, that ability may have become part of how dogs relate to us today.

It shows that dogs don’t just bond emotionally, they also observe, compare, and evaluate.

Source:
“Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans.”
Behavioral Processes, 2022.

[killy. @broztitute]

There’s an old saying in Tennessee I know it’s in Texas probably in Tennessee

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

Before I had a daughter my husband would travel for work and for dinner I'd end up just eating half a rotisserie chicken over the sink and then washing it down with half a bottle of wine and some gummy bears. Civilization, truly, is just a man and a woman trying to impress each other.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Unless you do it while you attack the U.S. Capitol, then you’ll just get a presidential pardon.

[Appodlachia @appodlachia]

@JDVance The vice president doomscrolling Twitter and getting triggered by someone’s legal analysis. You only do this if you’re extremely insecure.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

For the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either.