"mommy kink" is when someone tells you they're so so proud of you. and that you are inherently worthy of love as a person.

tell me more about this americano wamericano....

update: it is christmas and i stand by the "christmas is fascist" stuff

now fall in line and prostrate yourself to white santa

• throw immigrants and trans people under the bus at the earliest possible moment
• white men have feelings and they still aren't coddled enough

This is Postmill erasure

I vaguely knew that the smell of rainfall was actually the smell of microbes, and now I know what aeroplankton are. Thank you again for another wonderful Microbe Monday post

YES!!!!!!!!! i love when this happens

YAYYAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kcBxL7-qI

huh, it really doo-bee like that

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perfect addition

ting ting ting

I wanna see yur tings

I wanna be your frined

i like pufferfish because they look like \( :D )/. i appreciate u mentioning this fact in your post

i also appreciate the dire description of the paralysis that pufferfish deliver when you dine on them wrong

i never knew that it was a result of the Pufferfish's Diet. that is my favorite takeaway fact from the post

I hope you are feeling better now. It's hard to pick but I think this might be my favorite paragraph of the post:

I think the main thing I want to emphasize is that oxygen isn't just sitting there. It is dynamic and reactive. We only have what we do in our atmosphere by the result of continuing biological processes. The world lives and breathes with us.

thank u for sharing your Sorceress's Wisdom with us

This is the microbe monday that I fell off at, and also is one of the coolest. Great post, and exciting tidings of the world being Very Cool

One of the things that stops bacteria from being super big is surface area. Most things in biology are down to surface area. Unlike cells of so-called eukaryotes, they lack a lot of the specialized infrastructure used to get stuff where it needs to go (although they have a sort of cytoskeleton analogue). Still, for bacteria, they largely need to rely on sheer probability to get stuff where it needs to be. It's a gamble. Stuff moves around randomly but if you're small enough, they'll slot into where they belong most of the time. Bacteria are chaotically-aligned beings, you understand.

This is still one of my favorite paragraphs. "Most things in biology are down to surface area", I like that a lot

(I'm reading / rereading your series and going to start making a comment on each)

I read this one a month ago but forgot that I had. They're not just shaped like squares, it looks like they come in little Windows logos?

These can be found growing in some of the saltiest, most apparently "sterile" environments on earth, from brine pools to the Dead Sea to saltmaking pans. Bacteria and archaea constantly show us that virtually nothing on this earth is sterile. Even against the fiercest resistance, life can and will withstand. Become as the little square guys and refuse to die. Strain your body until you generate a cool new protein. Form an adhesive mat with your loved ones. Absorb the energy of the sun. Birth a new order.

I really loved this part. Please never stop posting

I got behind on reading your microbe mondays, and am catching up now with some tea. Fantastic writing, I really appreciate the depth of knowledge you're bringing. The world is full of too much mystery, so I appreciate you shining a light on this one. This is great posting

We are not the only creatures to create light visible from space.

<3

That IS cool

YEAHHHH!!! 🎉🎉🥳🎊🥳🎊🎉🍾🎊🎊 I WANNA SEE YOUR POSTS

can you tell me what it said? i can only vote. but it says i can't read it :(

hoppy hollydays!!!

baked beans in jake's jeans

you can speak authoritatively. fireworks rule

wait

well. actually now that i think about it. i don't think i want to be irresponsible with fireworks anymore

oh dear...... is transition right for me?

if you had a friend named jake and wore their jeans during this breakfast, that'd be pretty epic