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day 19(?): boredom got way worse, trying to make myself a victorian friend
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 β 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 creaturesβ 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 β able to go without food for several years β 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.
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What happened in Hungary?? Is there any way we could support you guys?
you can donate to budapestpride, hΓ‘ttΓ©r society and labrisz lesbian association! ill add more organizations if i can think of any
if there is an article in english about the situation i cant find it right now so i'll attempt to sum it up
basically our pseudo fascist government granted themselves emergency powers at the beginning of the pandemic and among other things they have been using it to slowly take away thw lgbt community's rights and freedom. trans people can no longer change their name and gender marker and gay couples can no longer adopt children
and most recently (last night actually) a law that is supposed to protect against child predators was changed so that "sex education in schools cannot promote the changing of one's sex or homosexuality" on top of that sex education programs can only be done by the school or a database of organizations maintained by the government. the breaking of these rules (aka telling kids its okay to be trans) would get both the organizer AND the principal of the school into major trouble (think jail)
additionally children under 18 cannot be shown advertisements or educational content containing homosexuality or transgender "propaganda" these materials MUST be marked 18+
40% of all hungarian lgbt individuals have admitted to suicidal ideation, with 30% percent admitting to attempting it. our government is framing this as the protection of the children but what it will actually do is kill even more lgbt kids.
im incredibly angry so i'm sorry if this is not well phrased but this needs to stop because the path we're heading down is gonna end really fucking bad for the hungarian lgbt+ community
βtransition poses some ethical questions. Such as, from what age should you be allowed to irreversibly change your body.β
This of course completely ignores the fact that puberty makes irreversible changes to your body. But let us just rephrase the question: βfrom what age do you gain bodily autonomy?β Now it gets very easy to answer: From the moment youβre fucking born.
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i deserve to be an eel. in a crevice with a bunch of other eels. opening and closing our mouths over and over
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