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Hey everyone knows about snapping shrimp right? They have a pokemon and everything but I see people confuse them with mantis shrimp. They both have a claw weapon that makes a sonic blast. But sometimes snapping shrimp are eusocial with a "queen" and "soldiers" that live in sea sponges. Do people know and appreciate this? That there are underwater beehives where the whole hive is an animal and the bees are shrimps and their stings are explosive bubbles???
Giant Malaysian katydids, Arachnacris sp., Tettigoniidae
Photos 1-2 by squiresk, 3 by lkuijvenhoven, 4-6 by yah_japan, 7 by jiroiguchi, and 8-10 by gancw1
Art from Kumari Loves a Monster by Rashmi Devadasan. Illustrated by Shyam.
“The young maidens in these pages all have beauty, brains and talent / They while away the night and day / With monsters fierce and gallant.
A romantic picture book of young girls who have fallen in love with monsters.”
Every time this book comes up there are comments on it who have only seen the illustrations and they’re assuming it’s supposed to symbolize toxic relationships or something but every monster in the book is nice. It is literally just about how this girl likes to go on wholesome dates with tentacle globs.
I love that the pandemic actually definitively proved a lot of those "hard" questions for us. Masking up reduced cases of the flu to almost nonexistent numbers and we had zero flu deaths for a time. The welfare and social service and unemployment programs helped keep people living paycheck to paycheck out of poverty, and those stimulus checks some folks keep complaining about actually massively benefitted the common man and the economy. Individual personal travel was so extremely restricted on a global scale that we basically have concrete proof that individual restraint in terms of driving cars or travelling means absolutely nothing by comparison because the mass pollution is coming from the fisheries and the corporations with private jets and container ships. Working from home actually has massive benefits for a company like productivity boosts and better mental health of employees while also saving gas
and we're just. Willingly going back to how everything was before. We were shown how to do things better and the people in charge said "that's nice but we just want to get everything 'back to normal' :)"
we’re not willingly going back to how everything was before. we are being forced back into it by members of the ruling class who found out that making things better for almost everyone else made them feel bad.