I Am So Very Gay Mmmmm

people keep trying to make “ladies and gentlemen” more inclusive.

I think we should go the other way around.

make more and more weird false dichotomies in greetings. “gamers and pianists”. “oil painters and swordsmen”. “vexillologists and entomologists”. “chess masters and diamond artificers”. “accountants and gendered individuals”.

we need to be dropping shit into formal meetings to make people say “wait what? which one am I?”

What a year this week has been.

Carved coral, nephrite, hardstone, diamond, and gilt wild strawberries in a rock crystal vase on a jasper plinth (at Christie’s)

i deserve to be an eel. in a crevice with a bunch of other eels. opening and closing our mouths over and over

Hold still. This creature was recorded going 2,569 days without moving.

Salamanders play the long game, with many species living surprisingly long lives. But among these enduring amphibians, there is one outlier – the olm, also known as the proteus.

It has been well documented that these small white cave-dwelling salamanders can live well into their hundreds, but scientists have now gained new insight into the creatures’ glacial pace of life.

In a study which makes sloths look recklessly hyperactive, divers documenting the movements of olms in Herzegovinian caves found that over a decade, individuals tended to move less than 10 metres in total.

However, one extraordinarily inert individual was found not to have bothered moving once in over seven years.

Olms have no predators, are highly resistant to starvation – able to go without food for several years – are blind and live in complete darkness underground and underwater.

They are apparently only compelled to move in order to mate, which they do on average around once every 12.5 years.

In the caves in which they dwell food is typically scarce, but when they are able, olms feed on small crustaceans such as small shrimps, snails and occasionally insects.

Read the full article here.

Photo credit here via Getty

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.