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Katılım Şubat 2015
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BLAIRE WHITE
BLAIRE WHITE@BlaireWhite·
Holy shit why is this man on Fox News wearing a literal CIA mask
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it cost $0.000 to thank God for another day.
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add sexuał discipline to your prayers when looking for a partner cause
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Orcas have brain structures you don't have. Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex. Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds. When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you. Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back. Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to. Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food. That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.
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Something about Orcas watching you is deeply unsettling.

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⎊ ♡ 𝑒𝒿 ♡ ⎊
⎊ ♡ 𝑒𝒿 ♡ ⎊@OhMyEmz·
they need to put metal music in horror movies again
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Word@umarfof·
Rare deserves Rare.
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prin 𖤍@velcrolezbo·
me moving on with my life doesn’t mean i never cared btw
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𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨
𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨@_ArtMuseum·
The Water Nymphs, by Antoine Calbet (1860-1944)
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Earth@earthcurated·
Cherry Blossoms in Japan 🌸
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Miilato@miiilato·
“u seem off” how ive been feeling for the past 6 months
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L. 𓋹@dollspoet·
house of wax starting with deftones & ending with my chemical romance & y’all wanna tell me it WASN’T peak???
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Cotton@Connor_Cotton_·
The things that happen at labay
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゛★.ᐟ ⋆@veinIuvr·
april fools except i'm the fool because i still have feelings for you when you clearly don't care anymore
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