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Hard to believe, but I totally forgot to blog this cutie last night :O I have not seen Titmice in my yard in a while, so I was very happy to spot them yesterday. I hope they will be back today.
In the meantime, enjoy your day, which is hopefully filled with good food, loved ones and laughter.
One, two, three, four.
<b>Unreal</b>
Can we get a name???
This is Chinese artist, Luo Li Rong
Here’s a snippet about her from this article (that also features more photographs of her work, including this sculpture):
Rong has pursued sculpting since an early age. She studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, then under the tutelage of sculptor Wang Du, and later she “immersed herself” in figurative sculpture techniques used by European artists in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Their sense of femininity plays a defining role in Rong’s contemporary works, and the stylistic guidelines help carry on the tradition of realistic sculptures in art.
TERRIFIC stuff by the cat!
outstanding
“Now the cat is gonna have to take a lap”
Aww, turns out that someone working for the team was able to adopt this kitty in the end.
https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2017/04/13/marlins-cat-adopted-employee-marlins-park
this is the absolute sweetest thing I’ve seen in my entire life. i wish nothing but the absolute best for this dude for the rest of his life, he deserves it more than any of us
i swear it takes seconds to break over a decade of trust. im so hurt
my cat knocked over my drink and stole my ham
no notes but it keeps getting faster
Anxiety
That head tilt makes me weak
i know way too much about how large psittacids are bred to ever support the pet parrot industry
consider the blue and gold macaw, Ara ararauna. b&g macaws reach full sexual maturity within the first five years of their life, though their breeding age in the wild (though variable) tends to be anywhere from 15-30 years old. they will typically raise one clutch (1-3 eggs) about every other year. like (almost) all larger psittacids, they’re monogamous and have incredibly long lifespans.
going by their natural reproductive habits, the blue and gold macaw is impossible to profitably breed. even a super active, 100% successful pair would only produce three chicks a year, which is a pathetic payout when you factour in the costs of food, equipment, veterinary care, etc.
breeders know this, and they know they cannot change the nature of those birds, but they can tweak the environment their birds are in to maximise profit and profit exclusively. enter the current standard practise for breeding: stimulus deprivation. when you put two birds in a wire cage with nothing but a nest box and perches, the only real stimulation they get is from interacting with one another, and ultimately that leads to more mating. so, too, is the reason for the breeder’s minimal contact with the birds past the provision of food and water – bonding and interacting with one or both birds from a breeding pair significantly lessens the chance that they’ll breed. in addition to that, breeding pairs are often
coerced into breeding at a younger age, with the “advisable” window being 4-12 years,
separated from their mate if production is slowed down, then paired up with more active/virile birds,
and often deprived of the ability to hatch their own chicks, but if they are allowed to incubate and hatch, the chicks are taken from them within the first week.
as it stands, the profitable average for large parrots is 2-3 clutches per year, or about 8-10 eggs annually, with 4-6 breeding pairs of each bird available being the general standard to maintain a regular and available stock.
at the end of the day, the basic living requirements for these birds (food, clean water, space to move around, a sanitary environment, veterinary access) are met, but the birds are far from properly cared for. missing toes, bald heads/breasts, obesity, and stereotypies are rife in medium- and large-scale breeding facilities. more unfortunate still, however, is that parrot breeders aren’t measured by the treatment of their breeding pairs as much as they are by the cleanliness of the establishment and the treatment of the chicks. that “lots of love” standard that these breeders always seem to brag about never extends past the animals they intend to sell, because that’s an active danger to the profitability of their business.
so i repeat: there is absolutely no way to breed macaws, amazons, cockatoos, etc for a profit while also keeping their health in mind. there is no way to make a living off of breeding them without ignoring their needs and effectively exploiting them. it is impossible to make any money off of breeding them unless you compromise their health.
(since i’m obligated to say it, parrots are not pets. all psittacids, with the debatable exception of the english budgerigar, are wild animals and not suited for household life. the appeal of sweet baby parrots or a smart “talking bird” or some high-class exotic is not worth the intensive care these birds require. and contrary to popular belief, the “pet” parrot industry does not support captive breeding and reintroduction efforts, and as a matter of fact, the rising popularity of hybrid macaws and excessive “pet” parrots flooding the market makes things worse.)
I feel like this would be a slippery slope towards making it illegal for people to choose to not vote.
that’s already how it is in australia
That’s just so fucked up. :( Do certain medical conditions exempt you?
?????? why is it be fucked up to have compulsory voting? that’s the way it is in most democratic countries? it’s a part of being a citizen, like paying taxes and obeying speed limits? the fine for not voting is only like $50 and because of the compulsory voting law, our country bends over backwards to make it accessible: it’s always on a weekend, lasts most of the day, and is set up at schools and community centers so there’s one within easy reach of almost everybody. you can also mail your ballot or vote early if you’ll be out of the country on the day. like, IT’S EASY TO VOTE, and the penalty isn’t even that ridiculous. i don’t understand why the usa doesn’t have this, except obviously it would make it harder to literally stop minorities from voting.
I think we Americans tend to forget that a lot of other countries don’t actively work to make it harder to vote.
Adding to this here, in Australia you don’t have to vote. Or, more precisely, there’s no way they can tell if you ruined your ballot. You have to turn up, get your name marked off, but you can put a line through the ballot if you don’t think any of the candidates are worth voting for. Or do this:
Or this:
Or this:
You have get your name crossed off (if you don’t want to wear the fine), but you don’t have to make your vote counted if you’re opposed to it.
And it is so, so easy to vote. Stuck at work or on holidays? That’s fine. Do a postal vote. Stuck in hospital? That’s fine. They’ll go to you. Stuck in an old people’s home and can’t get around? Again, they’ll go to you. It’s amazing to me that it’s so hard for so many Americans to actually vote. If you make it compulsory, than at least the government is obligated to provide you with the means to vote.
And look, I get it. Sometimes I don’t want to vote either. But I suck it up, I walk three minutes down the street, and I hope that this year they’re selling lamingtons again. Oh, and I buy a democracy sausage, which, even if all the candidates suck, makes the effort of turning up pretty worthwhile.
ALSO, you can see even on the fucked up ballots that you NUMBER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. There’s no need to calculate whether I would be throwing away my vote on the candidate that I most agree with if they’re not from a major party. I can say, I want that independent person to get in, but if not them, give me Big Party A, and if not them, that minor party person is still better that Big Party B, and I’m not giving any preference to the Lunatic Fringe Party.
Our system certainly has some issues still, but I can show up to somewhere nearby, line up for a few minutes (if at all), vote exactly in line with my values (on paper, leaving a paper trail that can be recounted), and then buy a sausage and some home made cupcakes on my way out.
A country’s voting system matters a hell of a lot and every citizen deserves one that makes it easy to vote and results in a government that is representational and accountable.
And by the way, one time I had a bad asthma flare-up on Election Day and didn’t make it to my polling station. I got my fine in the mail, I filled out the form explaining why I couldn’t vote, no more fine. I would rather have, you know, expressed my preference for who should run my country, but they were cool with the fact that I couldn’t do it that day.
“oh no, what if people actually have to participate in picking the government officials who will impact their lives” jesus christ
owls are bullshit and here’s why
@dubydoods
this is what an owl looks like without feathers
look at it.
its like it came from the labyrinth.
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A perfect demonstration of how naked dinosaurs in media completely change our perception of them as animals. A feathered owl = looks like a recognisable animal, floof, form, grace. A featherless owl = alien hellbeast, not even real, v likely to attack humans out of senseless malice.
Australian Night Parrot
The night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is a small parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. It is well known as being one of the most elusive and mysterious birds in the world, with no known sightings of the bird between 1912 and 1979, leading to speculation that it was extinct. The first photographic and video evidence of a live individual was publicly confirmed in July 2013. Another live individual was photographed in March 2017.
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I’m convinced that imprints have no bones in their necks
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[holding back tears] The final song I wrote for Gravity Falls. It didn’t get used, but use your imagination!
Alex contacted me during production of Weirdmageddon Pt I because he wanted Bill Cipher to have a big musical number. I recorded the demo (with temporary lyrics, since I wasn’t sure what could be animated.)
It would’ve been fun to force Alex to sing this, but sadly it never got to that stage, as these things go. Here are the lyrics:
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