Garter snakes were long thought to be non-venomous, but discoveries in the early 2000s revealed that they produce a neurotoxic venom. Despite this, garter snakes cannot seriously injure or kill humans with the small amounts of comparatively mild venom they produce and they also lack an effective means of delivering it. In a few cases, some swelling and bruising has been reported. They do have enlarged teeth in the back of their mouth but their gums are significantly larger and the secretions of their Duvernoy’s gland are only mildly toxic.

Evidence suggests that garter snake and newt populations share an evolutionary link in their tetrodotoxin resistance levels, implying co-evolution between predator and prey. Garter snakes feeding on toxic newts can also retain those toxins in their liver for weeks, making those snakes poisonous as well as venomous.

What took you so long?

Ahh, so you make yours the way I used to. An entire oz of good good from the dude 3 doors over, made into cannabutter, then made into a single batch of brownies.

Blackout brownies was such a good week.

Well, I guess this applies to me. I say that a lot.

Indeed. Only death will cure what ails our society. /s

Malaria has killed a quarter of all humans who ever lived.

I wanted to be like the kid from Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide and have a mouse wired up to it. Lol.

Ashurbanipal - King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

I try to limit my tuna to a couple times a week. I already bioaccumulate enough plastic and PFAs, don’t need to add too much organic mercury to the pile. But agree on the maruchan.

Make sure your friends are printed with masks.

I prefer Gambusia affinis. Close second is Gambusia holbrooki.

I’d read that study.

You wouldn’t download a friend, would you?

Looks like beans and rice again tonight boys!

Who am I talking to? I can’t afford friends

Oh no! It me!

You probably aren’t far off. Add in a little collective apathy for flavor and you’ve got a viable head cannon.

Isn’t… Isn’t he already dead?? Like 25 years ago?

So, who’s gonna be Robespierre?

I swear autism is the default state and combustion based pollutants, asbestos, lead, and other contaminants cause the so called normative states.

The amount of old people I have met that claim to be normal and very clearly show signs of lead poisoning is far higher than any other constituency of old people.

I don’t trust anyone born before '75 to be fully there upstairs.

I’ve never heard this word in my life and I somehow knew it was antisemitic?