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What is that, a bassoon for ants?
In other news, Too Many Zooz enters the chat.
Cultural evolution can you give me MORE SAX?
You mean saxophones?
Yeeeeeeee
actually produces Rahsaan Roland Kirk like a boss
Still using "Nipponites"?
The preferred nomenclature today is "Weebs of the Seas".
de jabadese do love seaweeb in theiw foob
cough sowwy i hab a cold
I’d like to imagine that the shells work in the same way absurdly large packaging works for things like a single SD card, by making the thing incredibly cumbersome to steal/eat.
I hate having to break out the scissors just to eat my SD card.
Japan being funky since 100 million years ago
Junji Ito having a braingasm rn
It's a bit sad that the most interesting creatures lived in a different time from ours.
Says a naked ape that can get wet to run longer.
And I cook too! I'm single
Eh. You'd probably say the same thing no matter what time you were in. Life in general is pretty interesting.
Look up some facts about Platypus or even just how Horses got to be how they are now, we still have wild designs roaming around.
i'd say all the fucked up looking creatures have always been and still are in the ocean, things on land just tend to be more normal because it's harder to survive on land.