Special Thanks To All The 10 Year Olds Out There For Making All Those Music Lyric Videos On Youtube

Flashlight Fishes

The name flashlight fishes usually refer to either the eyelight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratum, or the splitfin flashlight fish, Anomalops katoptron. Both are in the Beryciformes order of carnivorous, ray-finned fishes.

Photoblepharon palpebratum (left), Anomalops katoptron (right)

The most prominent feature of flashlight fishes are the large light organs present under each eye. Each sack contains colonies of bioluminescent bacteria which creates light simultaneously. The flashlight fishes are able to control the amount of light produced by either covering up the sack with a muscular flap, much like an eyelid or using rotational shutter-like mechanisms to rotate the sack inwards, essentially covering the light.

Photoblepharon palpebratum with its light organ open (left) and closed (right). Photo credit: Reef Builders

Commonly found in coral reefs and rocky regions of the eastern Indian and wider Pacific Oceans, it is one of the few shallow water species that can produce light. Predominantly nocturnal, they hide in caves and holes in the reef during the day. At night, they travel in schools far away from the reef surface, foraging for small planktonic prey for food.

It has been theorized that the light produced may help them locate and attract potential prey while allowing to communicate with other members of its species. They can also withdraw the light in the presence of predators to make a quick getaway

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Daaaaaamnnn life, back at it again with the bullshit.

Every Species of Kitten

To celebrate the USA’s win–and it is a win, in spite of all the very real concerns–I thought I’d make another cat post, because they make people happy and it’s a happy day! Going to try to find three images per species, but some are pretty hard to find as many of these cats are rare and/or elusive!

First off, the subfamily of roaring kittens! Pantherinae:

Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa):

Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi), not common:

Leopard (Panthera pardus):

Tiger (Panthera tigris):

Snow leopard (Panthera uncia):

Lion (Panthera leo):

Jaguar (Panthera onca):

Second and final (and much bigger) extant subfamily in Felidae, which is the purring kittens! Felinae:

Marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata) does not want you to see its babies!:

Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii):

Bay cat (Catopuma badia), babies are elusive to say the least:

Serval (Leptailurus serval):

Caracal (Caracal caracal):

African golden cat (Caracal aurata), this is literally all I could find in the way of kittens:

Pampas cat (Leopardus colocola):

Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita), very elusive baby:

Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis):

Margay (Leopardus wiedii):

Kodkod (Leopardus guigna), when the adult already looks like a kitten, the kitten looks…exactly the same as the adult, just smaller:

Geoffroy’s cat (Leopardus geoffroyi):

Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus):

Souther tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus):

Bobcat (Lynx rufus):

Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis):

Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx):

Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus):

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus):

Cougar (Puma concolor):

Jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguaroundi):

Pallas cat (Otocolobus manul):

Rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus):

Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis):

Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus):

Flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps), couldn’t even find any photos, had to screenshot a video:

Sunda leopard cat (Prionailurus javanensis), another not easy to find kitten!:

Jungle cat (Felis chaus):

Black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), just remember this species has one of the highest kill rates of any cat:

Sand cat (Felis margarita):

Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti):

European wildcat (Felis sylvestris):

African wildcat (Felis lybica):

and finally, Domestic cat (Felis catus)!:

Remember, there is only one species of kitten on this list that belongs as a pet, and that is our beautiful domestic cat. Some of the wild species are endangered, and as precious as all these babies, the wild ones are best left to the wild. :)

Apps To Kill Time On

Keep seeing some posts circulating about popular websites and wanted to make a version for apps.

These are apps I’m way too addicted to. Am I missing any?

P.S. I’m on an iPhone so these are iPhone apps, but probably have an Android version too.

Edit: Sorry for all the time I’ve taken away from your life

Spellbound - addictive horror 👻 and romance stories

Bettr - the reason all my friends are jealous of my insta feed 😻

Commaful - popular fanfiction, story, and poetry community 👑

Sweatcoin - get paid to walk

Helix Jump - legit the most addicting game on my phone

Out of Tune - win cash by guessing songs

Baseball Boy - addicting game where you smash a ⚾️

Dune! - Ride the sand dunes like a baller!! so much fun

Color Meme - color in all dem dank memes (surprisingly relaxing)

Sling Drift - beep beep - level 70 is insane 🚗

Ball Gates - it’s surprisingly fun to navigate balls through gates

Bumper - kill them all!!!!! 😈 (i alway win)

1Q - get paid to answer simple questions 

Impossible Bottle Flip - mindlessly addicting

Hole - fuck up a city muahaha

Snakes Vs. Blocks - even more fun than the original snake hehe

Tenkyu - tilt your phone and watch the relaxing magic happen

Twenty48 Solitaire - put your sexy math skills to the test

Paper.io - easy drawing game that is #1 on the app store for a reason

Tornado - be a tornado and destroy everythinggg

Knock Balls - shoot down blocks with a canon - surprisingly relaxing

Wishbone - fun game for comparing stuff like hair, celebs, sports

Dosh - get paid to shop

Current - get paid to play songs and podcasts

Yarn - stories that are seriously creepy af

You’re welcome 😉

Save endangered tumblrs before 17. December

Please submit all endangered Tumblrs you care about in this form.  Also please spread the message.

Hello Tumblr users,

we are the Archive Team, the Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it’s lost forever. We already worked on other Yahoo related projects like GeoCities and Flickr.

You can learn more about us under https://archiveteam.org/.

We plan to save many as many of the endangered blogs as possible. To do that we take multiple approaches.

We use or scan of Tumblr we did in April 2018

Some guys are working on an AI solution to detect endangered pictures

We look for tags manually

But just us looking is not enough. You know Tumblr better than us.

Submit your favorite endangered Tumblrs here. That way we can be sure not miss them and put them in front of our queue.

If you have technical knowledge join us via IRC chat.efnet.org:9090/?channels=%23tumbledown

it costs $0 to not mock others cultures and ethnicities

I’m not worried about Gen Z, us millennials had the cinnamon challenge, and generations all throughout history have done stupid things, like:

Putting poisonous belladonna drops in eyes to make them look bigger (can easily cause blindness, and in rare cases death)

Radioactive makeup

Victorian detachable collars so tight they suffocated people

Certain styles of corsets that could damage organs

Skirts so wide women got stuck in doors

And a billion other things.

It’s not gen z or millennials, humans are just stupid.

the thing about getting hundreds of asks a day is eventually things line up like this:

thanks tumblr

Credit: @ThinkAnneThink