I need to share this. I made emets food and turned around to get my phone. He showed me that this is his food with a tiny feet protecting it. He was looking so proud, as if he had made it and not me
see the thing is that mitski and hozier are exactly that good, its just that so many of their fans are all collectively competing for the most annoying people on earth award. and winning.
i say this all the time but im fucking right like hozier and mitski are actually geniuses and incredibly respectable and admirable artists with beautiful unique voices and evocative lyrics and moving instrumentals that just fucking tear at your heart and head. theyre so fucking talented and always have been, but their fans SUCK. so fucking bad. they suck ass so hard its unreal.
I’m not sure why I feel this way, but imo this is the most cursed marine mammal fact I have ever heard
THAT’S RIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME SO I CAN INFLICT THIS ON EVERYONE AT 1AM!
Mammals normally shed their skin in small flakes all the time when their skin cells die off, but because whales are living in the ocean -AKA, Bacteria Stew- flaking off like that would cause microabrasions (really tiny cuts) that would mean the whale is continually fighting off infections. So, when a whale needs to replace it’s dead skin cells, it preps it’s new skin underneath, then sheds all it’s dead skin cells at once, like a lizard:
but not having hands makes it hard to remove this gross film, so molting brings many whales clsoe to shore where they can roll around on rocky/sandy coastal seabeds to scratch it off. Here’s a bunch of Beluga coming in for a mass scratch:
And THIS is what a chunk of Sperm Whale Molt looks like, floating in the water before it’s devoured by pelagic microfauna, because you take what calories you can get in the open ocean:
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