“Many species of polychaetes undergo epitoky whereby sexually immature worms transform into pelagic morphs capable of sexual reproduction. After fertilization, they release their gametes through rapid disintegration.”
worms are out here having insane sex we can’t even comprehend
“what do they mean by disintegrate?” “oh yeah no he fucking disintegrated”
This skips the best part! The epitoke isn’t the “real” or “original” worm. The worm grows an extra body with a simpler brain that only knows how to swim and cum (by exploding) so this part breaks off and the rest of the worm just stays home.
In some species the epitoke, or what I think should be renamed the cummunculus, is advanced enough to have its own eyes and everything, though only so it at least knows the right direction to swim (up) because it’s so stupid and all
As many have noted, the falsification of “the digital age” have been so successfully inculcated that, despite direct evidence to the contrary, there is a pervasive imaginary of the dematerialized status of digital technology. Material and environmental realities are conveniently veiled by miniaturization, the apparent intangibility of wireless setups, the placelessness of data, and terms like “virtual” or “cloud.” One of the many phenomena refuting these illusions is the ceaseless construction of new data centers and server farmers to manage the massive increase in data production. These sprawling single-story structures have staggering energy requirements and generate levels of heat damaging to micro-circuitry, which must be cooled at each unit using millions of gallons of water each day. At current exponential rates of data growth, the required number of server farms fifty years from now would cover vast areas of the land surface of the continental US and other regions. The mythologies of a post-industrial information economy also obscure the persistence of earlier modes of production within the current scramble for resources essential to high-tech weaponry, communication networks, consumer technology products, solar and wind energy systems and much else. Violence to both people and their lands defines these imperial and neocolonial operations, as it has for several centuries. The very possibility of a “digital age” requires the expansion of these destructive industrial practices to world-vanquishing extremes.
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World Jonathan Crary
Anthony Bourdain (sexiest thing you can do on a date)…
“…you learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. If your date makes the experience uptight and restrictive, well, the sex is going to be horrible too. …I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive. Stop worrying about how your breath’s going to smell, whether there’s beurre blanc on your face, or whether ordering the braised pork belly will make you look fat. Eating with abandon couldn’t be more of a turn-on: it shows that you’re comfortable with yourself.
A perfect date is with a person who eats without fear, prejudice, or concerns about his or her appearance. I remember one of my first dates with my wife (Ottavia): She ordered a six-pound lobster. I sat there, enraptured, watching her suck every bit of meat from it—she got a standing ovation from the floor staff. She’s the kind of woman who will order filet mignon as an appetizer followed by a T-bone steak. Her fearless, open-minded approach to food is completely alluring. For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. It’s about exploration and taste. And kissing after dinner. And maybe there’s a little wine and curry on your breath… and that’s nice.”
You want to know a LGBTQ+ historical fact that is not centered in the US?
LGBTQ+ movement started developing in Brazil during the 70s, while there was a right-wing dictatorship here (it must be a surprise to some of you that right-wing dictatorships existed).
There was a newspaper called “ChanacomChana” (translated it would be something like PussyWithPussy) made by lesbians and they used to sell this newspaper on a bar that later kicked out the lesbians from there and prohibited that newspaper to be sold there.
On August 19th lesbians, feminists and other LGBTQ+ activists went to that bar to protest which led to the end of the prohibition of the sale of the newspaper.
This is why here in Brazil on August 19th we celebrate the “Dia do Orgulho Lésbico” (Lesbian Pride Day).
