It Must Be Defeated Immediately

Young fire bug eating stink bug eggs

"I wouldn't want to bother anyone," I say as the thing inside of me eats me alive.

Saying "mosquitoes are annoying" after one bites me but shaking my head the whole time so the attractive single ecologists in my area know I understand their value in the ecosystem and that we would slowly die if they went extinct

despite everything, it's still you

having a pet fish is so funny. yeah there’s a guy in my house who can move in more dimensions than me, and i’ve permanently trapped him in a 2ft glass cube

Fun fact: The diabolical ironclad beetle traded away the ability to fly in order to become essentially unsquishable.

Driving a car over them would just push them down into the dirt, still whole. Trying to stick a pin through wouldn't be successful without a drill. These guys are tough.

Every part of the beetle's exoskeleton seems to enhance its armor. The flattened body shape distributes pressure to even the load, the multilayered material is strong yet flexible enough not to crack, and the unique interlocking seams between wing cases function better than most joins designed by humans:

It'll be exciting to see what new materials might be possible using these concepts!

Sources: Jesse Rorabaugh, Po-Yu Chen, & Jesus Rivera et al.

I saw a cicada molting this morning, and was so worried she’d get eaten by a bird (usually they molt at night for safety, she must’ve got up late). when I came back to check, she’d fallen from her perch, so I brought her inside to finish hardening.

(Neotibicen linnei)

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?