slightly furious reminder that fish do in fact feel pain and do in fact experience fear and distress when in pain since people seem to love spreading the myth that fish don't feel pain. what is it with people assuming a creature is incapable of feeling pain or emotion just because it doesn't have complex facial muscles. come on gang

As my main income, I work with fish in a specialty pet store that's privately owned (so I'm allowed to say no and be stern to customers when it's needed).

You learn really quickly that not only do fish have individual personalities and emotions but they also have memories and recognize people! There are certain fish who will only come out for me and hide for everyone else. The pufferfish spits at me because she gets pissy that I haven't fed her. The flowerhorn bites everyone but me and my coworker when we clean his tank. I trained a fire eel to come up and eat directly out of my hand.

Fish are beautiful complex creatures and I thank the universe everyday that I get to work in a place where I'm encouraged to tell animal abusers to fuck right off.

So, like, fun fact: all of us, down to nearly the very base of animal tree of life, basically have the same neurotransmitters for motivation/drive. We all seem to have comparable pain receptors and react to opioids (pain reduction)

(Well, invertebrates use octopamine instead of noradrenaline, but supposedly that is very similar.)

And by almost the entire tree of life I do mean all of us: mammals, fish, bugs, jellyfish, POSSIBLY sponges (it is a little unclear if someone checked)

All, that is, except ctenophores.

Also known as 'a swimming string of led lights wrapped in a plastic bag'.

Completely different neurochemistry.

May as well be aliens.

the king has abruptly fired 60% of his wizard staff, so he’s about to be abruptly surprised at who floated 100% of his formerly floating sky castle

I heard they're planning to maintain their levitation rites with autonomous constructs from now on, saying wizards are going to be totally obsolete within the season... so, ah, I'd invest in falling island insurance.

Preserving not-prev-but-someone-elses funny tags in this chain as well because I love both these additions actually,

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I stand before you. Because you’re all sitting. I win.

how are people STILL falling for these obvious dropshipping ads in 2026

if the post:

that’s an advertisement for a dropshipper and you’re doing free advertisement for them by reblogging it

Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space stuff:

During the call with the ISS the Artemis crew asked the ISS crew what they were eating so they could prepare the same food and "share" the meal with them. So both crews had spicy green beans and mango salad.

I don't know why this particular event has struck me as much as it has. It's an almost childlike gesture but I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. I just love the desire to invoke the sensation of sitting down together and share a meal even though they're 200,000 miles apart (on Earth the furthest apart you can possibly be from another person is just under 13,000miles btw).

Hating how Nolan's Odyssey looks on the basis of being into Classics, but chuds have made it a culture war thing, so now I'm fighting for my life arguing that the issue isn't that Nolan cast trans and black people as gods and heroes, it's that he cast those people and then put them in dogshit costumes

compilation of my all-time favorite tweets

i fucking love nexusmods

drinking water for myself like a good waterpig

#hydrationkink #self focused

hey man cut that out right now

to the PNGtuber mines with you!

skweezy jibbs is a international treasure

Saw this in the comments lol

Goodwill, Boston.  Yes, I bought it.  No, I don’t have a cat.

lvl 1: the plural of octopus is octopuses because the plural version of a word is the word with an s at the end

lvl 2: the plural version of octopus is octopi because if a word ends with "us" the plural version replaces the "us" with "i" e.g. cactus -> cacti and fungus -> fungi

lvl 3: actually, that rule is only for latin words. octopus is a greek word and the correct plural is octopuses or octopodes

lvl 4: actually, language is descriptive not prescriptive. since enough people over time have used octopi as the plural for octopus, it's a valid plural

lvl 5: the plural of octopus is octopeese, like geese

official linguistics post