Fun facts about horseshoe crabs:

• Not crabs, in fact not even close. Chelicerates like the arachnids.
• Have photoreceptors in their “tail” (telson).

Edit: For some taxonomic context, king crabs are closer than shrimp are closer than woodlouse are closer than barnacles are closer than bees are closer than myriapods (centipedes and millipedes) are closer than horseshoe crabs to being crabs.

Haha, yes. I agree, fellow reader. bzz bzz 🐝

So a mask is okay if it’s animal skins[?]

You’re preaching to the choir on the speciesism angle.

This isn’t my own prescriptivist moral judgment; it’s trying to be descriptive of what someone would reasonably think “would otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers […]”. That attempt at descriptivism is why I was hoping for feedback like your comment.

Moreover, if you were to swap out the victims and faces in this comic with cows, pigs, etc., I’d probably still be asking the OP to mark this as NSFW.

There’s no gore or blood.

Interpreting “gore” as “pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death”, this is:

• an intentionally graphic illustration of human faces
• that have been meticulously cut off of the heads of people
• violently murdered by chainsaw
• whose dried blood spatter is coating the apron of one of the characters

Hi, OP. I could see this being considered borderline, but I’d ask per Rule 2 that you mark this as NSFW. At the same time, I’d also like to hear others’ thoughts on that request to get a better idea going forward.

(Edit: Undistinguishing, but still feel free to share here if and how you think the NSFW tag should be applied/enforced.)

@VIRAL

> programmer

> humor

Congrats, OP, for not giving a single shit.

Family members were in tears during the hearing at Cheshire Coroner’s Court as Coroner Jacqueline Devonish announced that she found Lucy Harrison died due to unlawful killing on the grounds of gross negligence manslaughter.

The coroner said: "To shoot her through the chest whilst she was standing would have required him to have been pointing the gun at his daughter, without checking for bullets, and pulling the trigger.

“I find these actions to be reckless.”

Do you think anyone really loves you, or are you just lying to them about who you are?

Is the camera icon in the bottom left part of that 95%?

In Indonesian, it’s “lastborn tooth”.

Incidentally, we keep track of translations on Wiktionary, and we recently added a picture dictionary so you can see the names of the other teeth too. ^_^

Edit: Also, incisors in Japanese are “gate teeth”, which I think is lovely.

Yeah, it’s a tautonym too. H. sapiens sapiens is the type subspecies for species H. sapiens.

That’s because they’re calling you diabetic, which means you’re really sweet. ❤️

Rattus R. Rattus is his well-to-do British uncle.

Not nearly, actually! Exact tautonyms are pretty uncommon, all things considered. Trinomial tautonyms even less so, like Bison bison bison. I don’t think I can give you actual data, but I can say knowing a fair bit of marine taxonomy that it’s the exception there.

Edit: It’s also prohibited in botany and, I learned today, used to be prohibited for bacteria.

Edit 2: Wikipedia maintains an incomplete list, incidentally.

Edit 3: Forgot to mention I was specifically talking about binomial/trinomial tautonyms. Near-tautonyms are very common as you go up toward the middle of the tree of life, e.g. a family, superfamily, and order sharing basically the same name, just with a different prescribed suffix.

Crucially, I forgot to note the taxonomist who described it:

Thanks!

Hi, Picard. Per Rule 4, you’re supposed to either credit the original artist or at least attempt to determine who they are and disclaim as much if you can’t.

The signature is illegible and therefore does not properly identify the artist to most people.

Shagadelic, szivi!

Honestly, I liked that you didn’t. It felt like a little adventure and discovery of my own.

“Wow, they’re really clearly inspired by the Foxtrot artstyle.”

—My ass five seconds before learning who Bill Amend is