āBout the same usable width, too. Those luxotruk beds tend to have big fat wheel hubs in them. Kei truck beds are completely flat.
how DARE you keep this in the tags!!!
Someone should go dig up that old post about different breeds of trucks, in the style of the usual tumblr pets (clowns, goths, etc) Iām thinking of the one where the truck on the left is called a European Pugnose or something and people are explaining how (contrary to appearance) the Shortnose types are actually very well adapted and can breathe. and it has a picture of an American big rig called, like, a Plains Longhorn or something indicating that itās a healthy truck too.
Someone find that post and aim it threateningly at everyone who is thinking about the lemon demon song
Ok yāall brace yourselves cuz I just learned about a new animal
Yes, that is an animal. Yes, scientists refer to it as the purple sock worm. No, thatās not itās real name, silly, itās real name is Xenoturbella!
When these deep-sea socks were first discovered, no one knew what the fuck they were looking at (and, really, can you blame them?). They have no eyes, brains, or digestive tracts. They are literally just a bag of wet slop. DNA analysis initially seemed to indicate that they were related to mollusks, until the scientists realized that DNA sample was from the clams they had recently eaten (yes, they can eat with no organs. We donāt know how.)
Scientists then analyzed the data again and tentatively placed them in the group that includes acorn worms, saying that their ancestors probably had eyes, brains, and organs, but simplified as a response to their deep sea ecosystems.
Later DNA testing has since shown that they are their own thing! Xenoturbella, along with another simple and problematic to place creature called acoelomorphs, belong to their own phylum called Xenacelomorpha! This places them as the sister group to all bilateral animals. So, they just never evolved brains, eyes, or organs. They are a glimpse at a very primitive form of animal that never bothered to change, because apparently what they do works. Rock on, purple sock worm.
Real āLuigi Wins By Doing Nothingā animal here.
fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk
As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh
(There are fireflies in some parts of Europe but more excitingly there are glow worms in Europe, which are like somebody broke open a green glow stick and spattered lumps of the material on the grass. That solid, artificial-looking green glow is very, very exciting if you grew up with fireflies. Like, it seems reasonable to have little bugs that flash - who hasn’t flashed on a warm summer night? I ask you unanswerably - so it’s cool to witness OMINOUS GLOW DROPS. They look like a dropped magical item.)
(Conversely: If you grew up with glow worms, then bright yellow flashy guys are very exciting. They’re making little patterns! They’re like magical little sprites! Like sparks, going the wrong way! Like a CGI effect!)
There is something here about being glad (not sanctimonious) when visitors and pilgrims are pleased by your local glow.
