Reposted by Tazigo she/her
did you know that we get the word "cockamamie" from a bastardization of a term ("decalcomania") for a period in the 1930s after temporary tattoos were invented by the French and kids were running around putting them on fucking everything?!
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![Tweet from Justin Staggs Ⓥ (@Staggfilms):
GOD: [creating Ant Eaters]: Just glue a Dust Buster® on the face of that big jungle skunk.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w4mumltio4x5yohskj2mo64c/bafkreihqzqnacjw6wf2xq4iqglewge6unzksevhxgel33qfgarvz7etxpm)
![“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.
Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.
Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hkxtqxfvk4xh2roqbkebmoiq/bafkreid675pobhckre5wbkxub5qfu3vaxbls7mpuhlcidhvbbrjw6iua2e)
![[a screenshot of a text message conversation.]
Sender:
"Do you know why sharks live in salt water"
Recipient:
"I mean it's all about osmotic balance. Saltwater fish are usually about isosmotic with saltwater and don't have to regulate their water input and output as much. There are some purely freshwater sharks are rays, though, including Amazonian stingrays, the entirely freshwater shark species in SE Asia and australia, giant river rays, and of course the part-time freshwater habits of bull sharks"
"It's pretty taxing evolutionarily to disrupt that, it has a lot to do with kidney function and water intake. In generally, freshwater fish don't drink water bc they have to retain their ions and such"
"And usually, the ecological niches that sharks would occupy in freshwater are either already taken, or the freshwater system isn't big enough or too inaccessible to support it."
"The Amazon basin, rivers in SE Asia, African Great lakes, and American great lakes are basically the places that are big enough to support it. Of those, the Amazon is taken by catfish and arapaima, SE Asian rivers already do have freshwater sharks, and the two great lakes systems are largely inaccessible from the ocean so it's harder for sharks to get in and speciate"
"Why do you ask?"
Sender:
"Because pepper water would make them sneeze"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreiaxbb7vmqf7e642utkgyo4tax6vk2yvswhjydk4ftc22k3mjkti6y)
