I like that DS9 had a plot and I like that TNG didn't. TNG was about traveling to new places, finding weird shit, and thinking about it. DS9 was about staying in one place, having weird shit come to you, and dealing with it. Entire genocides happened in TNG and the crew had the appropriate emotional responses and left. DS9 can't leave, so they have to deal with the consequences in all future episodes. TNG is about strangers, and DS9 is about neighbors.

MYTH: Americans set off fireworks on the 4th of July, in honor of our Independence Day

FACT: Americans set off fireworks from approximately June 20th—July 20th, for no reason other than this is the time of year that you can literally buy them at any grocery store

You can’t tell me you’re not racist but you’re friends with people who say racial slurs for fun. You can’t tell me you support jewish people while hanging out with someone who does n*zi salutes. You can’t claim to be an ally to marginalized communities then align with people who are vocally not. Your moral principals and values are a part of your life and they should be reflected on the way you carry yourself and the people you choose to allow into your circle. Words don’t mean anything when they don’t align with your actions. “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist” 

They say romance is dead but Kaz Brekker ripped out a guys eye and chucked him into the sea for hurting Inej 👀

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

….. Didn’t know most of that

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

Earth is an amazing place.

The Ghost General 🥀

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