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#That’s a#That’s a blue ringed octopus#You’re going to die do you realise that#It is literally one of the most deadly animals in the world#Not just in Australia or just in the ocean in THE WORLD#Put it DOWN#And go to a hospital jfc via platonic-rabbit
me tryna find out if this fool died
“The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in.[8] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean.”
Holy shit
And this is why I don’t go in the ocean anymore
Also the blue rings literally only show up when it is distressed so this person has angered it!!! You are in danger friend!!!
Actually this guy keeps them as pets they’re on his instagram (william_exotique) and he frequently holds then and I just? Don’t know why? And also every picture or video he posts of them shows the blue rings so they’re always in distress I just do not understand why he’s doing this
#AMY EXPLAIN HOW DUMB THIS GUY IS
I mean OP pretty much covered it. A blue ringed octopus is almost on the level of CONE SNAIL on the list of things you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PICK UP UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
But ask and you shall receive, On this episode of “Fun Facts With Cuckoo,” DEAD. YOU’RE DEAD. EVERYTHING IS DEAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING IN THE OCEAN EVER AGAIN.
There are many things that will kill you. [citation needed]
There are fewer, but still many things that will kill you FAST.
There are yet fewer things that kill you fast and by such an overwhelming margin of overkill that nervous laughter is our only solace in the dark of this terrible, surprisingly Lovecraftian world of unearthly horrors that we live in.
Of the things that I know about which will kill you fast via just plain insultingly potent venom, which is a not insignificant number of things because I know a not insignificant number of things, there are about 3 things in the ocean – IN THE WHOLE OCEAN – which are so insanely, mind-bogglingly deadly that there is pretty much no possible hope for survival (I mean you CAN, but god help you if you’re ever in that situation, because god’s just about damn near the only thing that CAN help you). THE. WHOLE. OCEAN.
Those three things are the Irukandji (a tiny (1cm) species of box jellyfish, which has stingers not only on its tentacles but on its BELL, for reasons no one has definitively figured out, and is so toxic despite its size its sting can cause a severe brain hemorrhage), the cone snail (a group of carnivorous sea snails that is accepted to be the most venomous animals on earth, with a STUPIDLY fast acting and extremely powerful neurotoxin that has in at least one case killed a human ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY, because the swimmer who found two beautiful shells (unfortunately cone snails tend to have very pretty shells which makes people want to pick them up) was holding them up for a picture and ended up being stabbed in the neck by not one but TWO cone snails at the same time, and it is believed that she was literally dead before she hit the ground, I mean LITERALLY in a 100% non-fictional and non-exaggerated way, in between the time the two cone snails stabbed her and the time her limp body hit the sand, she was not alive anymore), and the blue ringed octopus.
It is POSSIBLE to survive any of these. But not without immediate medical attention. Of these three, the Irukandji is by far the most treatable, because Australia and other coastal regions (including Florida and other parts of the US) are kind of experienced in dealing with box jellyfish.
The blue ringed octopus will fucking kill you. There’s no antidote for their venom, ONE COMPONENT OF WHICH (tetrodotoxin) is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide. It’s a powerful neurotoxin (most of the worst venoms are because the species that produce them need to kill or at least paralyze their prey quickly, like jellyfish whose fragile tentacles could be damaged if their food doesn’t stop struggling) that attacks the sodium channels and causes muscle paralysis. It doesn’t necessarily kill you quickly. It PARALYZES you quickly, so that you can’t really call for help or describe the problem, and you will probably end up slowly suffocating from a paralyzed diaphragm. Tetrodotoxin can be metabolized by the body in a matter of hours, but it can also kill you in a matter of minutes if you get a lethal dose (which isn’t much, the LD50 or median lethal dose, the dose at which you have a 50% chance of survival, is only 8 MICROGRAMS per kilogram of body weight (as tested in mice)). This is, by venom standards, not a large amount, which means the animal that is capable of putting this venom inside your body is very very good at killing the absolute shit out of you.
DON’T TOUCH THE BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS.
Now, because overkill is my motto, let me briefly explain why Conus geographus is the undisputed champion of YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE, AND FURTHERMORE FUCK YOU FOR THINKING OTHERWISE.
A cone snail walks into a bar. You’d expect the bartender to ask, “what’s your poison,” but they were paralyzed before they could ask and OH LOOK they’re already FUCKING DEAD ON THE GROUND.
Conus geographus is about 4-6 inches long and nature’s equivalent of Avada Kedavra. Cone snails literally have their own KIND of toxins named after them: conotoxin. Not only is there no antidote, but their venom AGGRESSIVELY RESISTS our ability to find a cure, because we barely understand how it works AND conotoxins are so internally varied, even within a single species, that any one antidote isn’t going to help because they’re constantly mutating and evolving their venom to prevent their prey from evolving a resistance to it. Plus their venom is like, a bunch of different venoms all at once JUST IN CASE any one of them wasn’t good enough.
I want you to read these two sentences from the wiki page on conotoxin:
- “Conotoxins have a variety of mechanisms of actions, most of which have not been determined.”
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“The LD50 of conotoxin is 50 ng/kg.”
Remember how the LD50 of tetrodotoxin is 8μg/kg? Conotoxin is 160 times more potent. FIFTY NANOGRAMS PER KILOGRAM HAS A 50% CHANCE OF KILLING YOU. A 220-POUND HUMAN HAS A 50% CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AGAINST JUST 5 MICROGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN.
I DID SOME MATH.
IT WOULD TAKE 7-9 MILLIGRAMS OF CONOTOXIN TO KILL A BLUE WHALE, THE HEAVIEST ANIMAL TO EVER LIVE. (based on weight estimates from 300-400,000 lbs.)
Conus geographus is so fucking deadly that “In two cases of envenomation, only 0.0002-0.0005 mg resulted in severe paralysis.”
THIS THING KILLS STUFF SO HARD THAT BEFORE YOU HEAR THE FIRST “MORTAL KOMBAT” IN THE MORTAL KOMBAT THEME, THERE’S PROBABLY ALREADY BEEN A FATALITY.
And guess what? Cone snails don’t do that NOOB SHIT with the superficial biting or stinging. Your wetsuit or gloves won’t protect you. Because homeboy didn’t bring teeth to evolution’s knife fight. Oh no. It brought a motherfucking radula POISON HARPOON. It’s lightning fast and has way more piercing power than some silly little cnidocytes or salivary bacteria.
Another component of their venom is being researched for its potential as a pain reliever. “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT????” you might reasonably ask. And you would be right to do so, because science has gone too far and has surely sinned against the very image of Mollusca Kedavra. Well, it turns out the answer is “Research shows that certain component proteins of the venom target specific human pain receptors and can be up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine without morphine’s addictive properties and side-effects.” That’s right, the part of their venom that SPECIFICALLY DOESN’T HURT YOU is up to 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
Also, Conus geographus (along with one other cone snail species, C. tulipa) is the only known non-human animal to weaponize insulin. In addition to the normal insulin that the snails produce for their own use, their bodies manufacture an ADDITIONAL insulin molecule that is similar to the kind produced in fish (which they eat) for the sole purpose of stunning their prey through hypoglycemic shock. BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY DON’T FEEL LIKE THEY’D KILL YOU HARD ENOUGH OTHERWISE.
IF you are going to survive the ALMIGHTY CONE SNAIL, WHO KNOWS NO FEAR, TRIUMPHANT HEDGEMON OF THE MOLECULAR ARMS RACE, TRUE BORN HEIR TO THE SCYTHE OF DEATH ITSELF, FISHSLAYER, GOD AMONG MOLLUSKS, WHOSE WRATH IS MERCIFUL ONLY IN ITS BREVITY, ADMIRABLE IN ITS BEAUTY AND UNSULLIED BY THE UNWORTHY TOUCH OF MORTAL HANDS OR SCALES OR REALLY ANYTHING IN RANGE OF ITS RADULA HARPOON, then literally the only thing that’s going to save you is for you to be kept alive artificially (externalizing your respiratory functions to force your body to continue breathing, basically) until the effects of the venom wear off. And because of how quickly this venom acts, you need to get that medical attention VERY, VERY FAST.
And if you don’t get it, you will still be conscious while the paralysis slowly suffocates you to death.
Don’t touch the pretty shells.
this is a WONDERFUL use of the medium of the tumblr post
YES.
A perfect educational rant.
Minute traces of tetrodotoxin are what makes fugu (pufferfish) sashimi such an exciting entrée. Improperly prepared fugu can be very exciting indeed, to the extent that the over-excited diner loses interest in anything else.
Like, for instance, breathing.
The end part
Can’t not reblog something this terrifyingly educational.
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- “Conotoxins have a variety of mechanisms of actions, most of which have not been determined.”
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I’ve been sharing some stuff I use on tt and ig so here’s a compilation of it for y'all too
all except for two of these are totally free btw
happy arting 🤙🤙
Links to the sites
HexColorPedia - Color palettes with hex codes
X6ud - Animal photo art references in all angles
Sketchfab - 3D models for art references and modeling
Pattern Monster - Custom patterns for backgrounds and textures
Reference Angle - References of faces of different genders, ages and expressions in any angle
VIShopper - High quality references of people with a detailed search engine
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Texture Fabrik - High quality textures
Figurosity - Library of action poses
Unsplash - Royalty free images
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Bonus:
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Also thanks to peeps who’ve been making transcripts (there were a couple of them)
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Okay, so today’s quest is (rolls a big handful of dice) an evil wizard disguises himself as a pretty princess and gives a rock-man a magic luchador mask which compels him to become a drug dealer.
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I don’t think younger/newer users fully grasp the shit show that ace discourse was around 2014-17
It was so hostile that, to this day, discussions that begin to derail just enough can make me physically nauseous, some specific mockery trigger crying sessions years later. We lost most accounts with any sort of ace positivity. There was no information, no support, and all this damage was done predominantly by other queer people.
All this to say that you, however you identify yourself, should be engaging with aphobic comments the same way you do any hate. We don’t sugarcoat or try to be comprehensive with people who are blatantly racist, homophobic or terfs, so why give it a pass just because it’s coming from a queer person? I see how this tolerance goes and it’s done enough damage as it is.
I’ve met new aces who know nothing about ace culture. We had rings, black for ace, white for aro. We had dragons and space and cake and all of it. All of it got mocked and erased and bullied so completely that it’s not on the site anymore. I still follow the aro/ace positivity tags and sometimes someone brings them up again and I flinch. I honest to god flinch.
Hell, I came out as aroace at the same time as that discourse - and AVEN got so thoroughly smeared that I’ve never gone looking for it. There’s culture I don’t know. It kills me.
I used to run a blog for ace rep in books, I deleted it out of fear that I was going to get harassed.
When ace folk talk about being forced back into the closet we are not joking. Anyone on the ace spectrum were so violently harrassed that it was legitmately safer for them to not ID as ace publicly. Literally anything would get you death threats.
Anti-ace folks were in bed with terfs and I’m sorry if that upsets people but yall really gotta understand that literally every anti-ace talking point was the exact same that is given to bisexuals, pansexuals, and trans women.
They talked about how we were “stealing resources”, about how we were “predators” because we “sexualized children” with our identities as being asexual, about how we are “invading LGBT spaces”.
There were multiple anti-ace “memes” that were just straight up death threats. “Take the shot Jessica” followed up with “Target Sighted” is one that still haunts me to this day.
Some of the biggest “exclusionist” discourse blogs all ended up being white women, several of whom race faked. One even claimed to be a Half-black half-jewish intersex trans woman who would become half of whatever race she was arguing with. It took a massive amount of people all pouring evidence into what she was doing for her to finally get dropped because oh yea, maybe its a bad look to have the white christian perisex girl be the “face” after all of this.
Ace people were routinely told that their sexual assaults didn’t happen. People routinely told us that we can’t have words to describe our oppression because it “groups gay people with straights”. Ace people were routinely told that because we aren’t sent to conversion therapy that we weren’t “actually LGBT”, and the people who did let it clear that they were sent to conversion therapy because they’re asexual? “Oh that didn’t happen.” “Actually that was homophobia, not aphobia”
The “exclusionists” likewise, would REFUSE to not tie anything into conversion therapy. They’d literally use conversion therapy doctrine to dictate if you’re gay enough.
The Acecourse was also around the time “queer is a slur” really started to gain traction, and guess what the exclusionists were doing? They were calling aces and our allies “Radikweers” without a fucking hint of irony while screaming about how queer is a slur and you need to tag everything with Q Slur
There was a DEDICATED sect of “exclusionists” who were lesbians obsessed with the idea of making the existence of asexual women a lesbophoic problem. I’m not even fucking joking. Same group of people would then claim that if you didn’t have sex with them then you’re abusive because you’re “Witholding sex, which is an emotional need”.
Exclusionists were by and large, white gays that were pissed off that they couldn’t do assimilation and respectability politics because the rest of us were too weird rocked the boats too much to be able to slot neatly into the whole 2 kids white picket fence.
^nailed it. “Piss your pants” replaced “kys” and “up the road not cross the street” but we all knew what it meant. Most of the people targeted were like me - 18 and under who dared to like being aroace, ace, or aro. Almost all of us weren’t even “straight” (as in heterosexual or heteromantic). All trying to defend ourselves and our orientations while being attacked by people who proudly called us “kweer”s and “mogai trash” and told us to die. Told us we should be put in concentration camps, once. That we weren’t hurt or struggling or erased, we were just white kids trying to be different and quirky.
Edit: by the by, the reason they changed to piss your pants was because we were mass reporting their blogs for harassment for telling aces and aros to kill themselves. They changed it to piss your pants specifically because you can’t really report that to tumblr and expect a takedown. But again. We knew what it meant.
You’d go into the ace positivity tags and you’d see shit like “Trump ace moodboard uwu” from exclusionists. You’d see it regularly with all kinds of filth like him: Trump, Thatcher, fucking Hitler.
You’d have blogs PROUDLY TOUTING their aphobia. Blogs had titles like “aphobicrosequartz” (who was a fucking mess and a half), You’d have big name blogs reblogging from known aphobes, and when people asked “hey, are you aphobic/an exclusionist,” they’d be like “uwu I don’t want to get involved in discourse” and like, the post below that ask is a reblog openly making fun of aces.
You know how “lgbtpn” was briefly a thing? Yeah, that’s because aphobes used it to explicitly exclude aces, while trying to appease people and include pans and nbs.
There was graphic porn and gore regularly in ace related tags from aphobes. That’s how fucking bad it was. Even now I don’t venture into the asexual tag. It really was horrific, how aspecs were treated. And a lot of aphobes never stopped, they just became quiet about it and started saying “I don’t wanna get involved in discourse” while they openly rb from aphobes and never reblog anything written ace stuff, even in multi sexuality queer posts.
Yeah the whole “i don’t want to get involved in discourse” while having urls that are (if you know what to look for) explicitly aphobic and continuing to reblog aphobic jokes and from other aphobes
It really sucks to follow someone new and scout their blog for any hint of where they stand, how they feel about you, and often there isn’t any hint, so you think it’s safe and for a while it is! And then you get one of those jokes or shitty moodboards and realize what they think about you
I’ve talked about this here before, but a group of fairly big-name aphobes on here straight up made a discord server for the explicit and exclusive purpose of infiltrating the largest ace/aro server at the time, sexually harassing members in DMs, stirring up drama to get original staff taken off the team so they could make their way in, and had dozens and dozens of fake accounts just to continue harassment as undetected as possible.
Imagine: instead of one person being a dick in non-rule-breaking ways enough times that admins catch on and boot them, it’s like a solid 15% of your userbase each doing one shitty thing at a time, apologizing and promising never to do it again, and then the next person picks up the exact same behavior. like fucking keep-away, except you just think everyone is an asshole who hates you and that’s normal now.
oh- and then we found out from one of them that they were pressuring minors in their group into talking about their kinks with the adults, who were also going into detail about their kinks with the minors, all of this set up so it’d be all the adults in a chat with one minor at a time in order to keep them isolated from any potential support.
we had to close the server, comb through all 500+ users by hand for suspicious activity, we banned everyone who even just, like, hadn’t said more than a few things since joining, and then kept it closed for 3 months until things cooled down enough that we could start letting people in again- if they had someone already in the server to vouch for them. the largest space for aro & ace people on discord at the time became an exclusive, private space because these people tracked us down from tumblr and bullied and harassed us so horribly, obsessively, and completely that we couldn’t safely accept any new users.
all of this while they continued to insist we were pedophiles and abusers etc.
it was bad, actually.
Remember when people suddenly turned against Thomas Sanders, previously a tumblr darling? Yeah, he posted something in support of ace people. Real fast, people were accusing him of being a pedophile and all kinds of garbage. Literally because he had the audacity to make some casual supportive comment about asexuals.
I think in the current era of exclusionist discourse it’s important to look at this and say both “I need to be openly supportive of aromantics and asexuals here and now” and “I need to be aware of this pattern and recognize it in the next target”, because there will always be a next target. This stuff is a lot easier to see in retrospect, it’s not enough to just recognize it was wrong years later when immense harm has already been done, we need to be able to recognize in the moment when the exact same rhetoric is being used against a new marginalized group of people who the internet has decided “deserves it”.
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please god above can someone explain to me why we’re still working on self driving cars when trains exist
“we’re training them to interpret road signs!” Train goes same place every day. No road signs.
“when forced to choose between old lady and child, which is more ethical for the car to hit?” Fence around train track. Nobody on the road.
“people with disabilities preventing them from driving themselves can be independent” Yes but also. Train.
“reduces the dangers of fatigue with long distance trucking” Train.
“the technology is not yet price effective for the average driver” Train.
Seriously come on choo choo bitches let’s goooooooooo
We will never invent a car that’s as eco-friendly as increasing our rail infrastructure.
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my heart is so link shaped
you wouldn’t believe
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got a folding fan and i think i might just be evil now
i can make violent gestures with it. i can flutter it in front of my face to hide a smile. i can fan myself during this fucking summer heat. god’s most beautiful invention and i can feel myself falling to the dark side
just killed a mosquito in one wicked strike. god will smite me for my hubris
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I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
Time to drop some links again.
– https://searchmysite.net/
Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.– https://search.marginalia.nu/
Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.– https://www.worldcat.org/
Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)– https://scholar.google.com/
Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
A list of academic databases and search engines.– https://tineye.com/
Reverse image search alternative to Google’s.
Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)(via calysto1395)
