Noel French
David D. LevineUrsula Vernon's Hugo acceptance speech included this delightful anecdote-slash-metaphor-slash-encouragement. https://www.patreon.com/posts/91410900
Prasenjeet Dutta@daviddlevine what I’m taking away from this is that mastication is important.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@daviddlevine
Wow. My BS detector was blaring loudly, but apparently this is true! https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=21-P13-00034&segmentID=4#:~:text=But%20scientists%20recently%20discovered%20that,the%20frog's%20rear%20end%20unscathed.
Wow. My BS detector was blaring loudly, but apparently this is true! https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=21-P13-00034&segmentID=4#:~:text=But%20scientists%20recently%20discovered%20that,the%20frog's%20rear%20end%20unscathed.
Note on Emerging Science: The Beetle That Can Survive Being Eaten
For most insects, getting eaten by a frog is the end of the road. But a unique water beetle species can survive the perils of stomach acids and a lack of oxygen and pop out of the frog’s rear end unscathed. Living on Earth's Don Lyman reports on how an ecologist at Kobe University in Japan studied this beetle’s ability to defy death by digestion.
@msbellows Never question Ursula Vernon's Weird Nature Facts.
TheUltimateTeaCup@daviddlevine "which I'm sure was very exciting for the frog", with it's context, is probably the best thing I've read in some time.
joel b@daviddlevine basically my entire reason for existing
Machine Lord Zero
Advanced Persistent Teapot@MachineLordZero @daviddlevine this beetle needs to be called Coleoptera Dufresnesus or something
The Doctor@daviddlevine It worked for Kenshiro.
PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦@daviddlevine
Love it! Never say die!
Love it! Never say die!
Joan Combs Durso@daviddlevine thank you. Hadn’t seen the news.
mikepop@daviddlevine TIRED: [kitten poster] Hang In There!
WIRED: [beetle poster] Speedrun The Frog!
WIRED: [beetle poster] Speedrun The Frog!
Denny Kozlov@mikepop @daviddlevine "Speedrun The Frog" is the slogan my brain needed tonight. 🐸🤣
Bornach@dkozlov @mikepop @daviddlevine
Are there beetle forums where they discuss cheats to improve their speedrun times?
https://youtu.be/udQ_XUJt34M
If they could stream a sub-5-minute speedrun, I would probably watch
Mario: The Infamous History of Level 5-2
Thomas Sandmann
Violet MadderBe exciting to the frog.
thefathippyFor some reason I have visions of a queue of beetles at the back door. "hurry up, I'm getting digested back here" "Oi! No cutting mate, get in fkn line" "...I tell you Cheryl, I don't know why disembarking always takes so long..."
Sarah Roth@daviddlevine I'd have thought the moral of the story is to always chew your food.
Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲@daviddlevine Can we get text as text, please?
@nik I provided alt text and a link to the original article.
@daviddlevine There is also the bombardier beetle, which can spray boiling acid. If it gets eaten, it gives the predator a serious stomach ache and gets itself vomited out.
bartholin (war, war never changes arc)
Pandathletic@daviddlevine the first beetle coming out... "Wait what? Woaaaa... Guys, GUYS!!!"
Philippa Cowderoy@daviddlevine And if you're going through lots of shit then at least you're past the gatric acid?
Morten@daviddlevine This means that everything frogs eat dies through drowning / suffocation / acid bath. Unless it crawls out of the frog's anus. This is a disquieting fun nature fact.
Laura J Mixon@daviddlevine @FredKiesche That’s so awesome.
BeeCycling has moved@daviddlevine "I'm going out that way whatever happens, the only question is, on the frog's timetable or mine?"
azteclady@beecycling I can't get over the five-minute speedwalking beetle. I wonder if it had an important appointment elsewhere.
@herhandsmyhands @daviddlevine His missus was gonna kill him if he was late home again. And she's not going to buy that "I got eaten by a frog" excuse again.
@beecycling "That tired old excuse again, Frank, and where are the groceries you were supposed to bring home tonight?"
@herhandsmyhands @daviddlevine "What am I supposed to feed the grubs, eh?"
Lucilla Piccari@daviddlevine thank you, I just needed to read this, tonight. 🥲
hairylarry@daviddlevine
I've got nothing to add.
I've got nothing to add.
stoicmike@daviddlevine I wonder if Jonah could have done that?