The most important thing for new people to understand about mastodon is that etymologically it means “boob tooth”
back in the 1790s, Georges Cuvier noticed that the molars of indian and african elephants were totally different and proposed they were actually separate species; more importantly, he also noted that there were other fossil molars, also apparently from elephant-like creatures, but which didn't match any living animal. his lectures about this popularized the radical idea that life forms could go extinct.
anyway he called them that because the tooth looked like it had boobs on it
@prehensile If your boobs are made of teeth, see a doctor. Or stay on Mastodon TBH, the cryptid-fuckers will love you.
Hrm, see a doctor or see a dentist?
@prehensile I think there should be a warning when a toot looks 100% like it's a shitpost but isn't. Maybe CW with “information”?
@void_friend i might have gone to grad school if i was allowed to do all my writing in this format