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[-] InternationalHermit@lemmy.today 57 points 2 weeks ago

So are avocados. The creature that was supposed to eat avocados whole is long gone.

[-] morto@piefed.social 59 points 2 weeks ago

I am very alive right here

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago

You're eating them whole? Impressive.

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Just make sure you defecate in the woods as nature intended!

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

Passing an avocado seed seems rough but doable. I don't know though, and I wouldn't want to find out the hard way.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 2 weeks ago

Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don't think it would be too difficult to pass. I'd be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's part of what I don't know about. Or other transition points, like exiting the stomach. Not to mention actually swallowing it.

[-] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've never thought to compare the sizes of those particular two objects... but now I'm sure there is someone out there considering some very kinky and unsanitary actions.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

How do you add a flared base to an avocado seed? Asking for a friend.

[-] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta use your pocketknife to whittle it.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like the limiting factor is the small intestine

[-] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 28 points 2 weeks ago

the great sloths are who we can thank, and some of the massive holes they dug for burrowing are still around

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago
[-] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Millennials are still here though.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It'd be a lot cooler if we weren't this shit sucks

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Evacuating the seed sounds fun.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Avocacuation

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

About as fun as eating an avocado whole, probably.

[-] AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

nature’s anal beads

[-] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I haven’t been able to afford them for a hot minute

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 weeks ago

Poor ginkgo trees.

Too old for their original friends, too young for the new friends after this wave of evolution collapses upon the banks of human wanton destruction of the environment.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 25 points 2 weeks ago
[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago

Warning: Reading this article may cause a whiplash-inducing paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild areas the same way. Your concepts of “pristine wilderness” and “the balance of nature” will be forever compromised. You may even start to see ghosts.

Damn, what a hook!

[-] Mnem667@retrofed.com 26 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently there's a fungus that grows only on the ginkgo, and it's also a living fossil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartheletia

[-] megopie@beehaw.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

Ginkos are crazy because like, they were the last branch of a dead tree of life, secluded deep in mountain range in central China, likely to go extinct next time there was a significant climatic shift in the area.

And then humans were like “damn, I like this tree, I will plant it literally all over the world” and in all likelihood this just massively improved their chances of surviving a few more million years, since now they’re not liable to get one shot by a single event in the area they’re native to.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

Fern: hold my beer.

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ginkgo Balboa, Rocky Balboa, what can you say its a tough genus

[-] luxadazy@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

gingko fruits smell like vomit. we have several female trees on my street & they dump a ton of the fruit on the sidewalk, meaning i track vomit fruit into my apartment when i walk to & from the grocery store.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

There’s a female ginkgo on the campus of the college I went to. We called it the “poo tree.”

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