lincoln-era battle hooves

I love birds, guinea pigs, my friends, Animorphs, Gerard Way, and D&D. I overuse the reply feature and I'm probably covered in fabric paint. she/hers, 21 ♥♫♥♫♥ if we're mutuals please read my blacklist

[memehumor]

Local council suggest you need to be 460ft tall to use the new exercise equipment. Thankfully they corrected it. Now you only need to be 46ft tall.

[1o9]

[tredlocity]

Mike Teavee and Veruca Salt are kinda terrible so they deserved what happened to them. Meanwhile, Violet Beauregard was just ambitious, which is in no way a crime, Augustus Gloop just really liked candy, which is a weird thing for a candy tycoon to punish, and Kyle Wilkins is dishonest, sure, but did he really deserve to be erased from existence and all our collective memories?

[adelle-ein]

femslash february 2019 ➝ anon​ requested paninya and winry rockbell (fullmetal alchemist)

paninya, help me out in here. // okay!

[flyse]

Young Woman Fastening a Letter to the Neck of a Pigeon, attributed to Johann Christian von Mannlich (German, 1741–1822), ca. 1760

Oil on canvas

[urfavelistenstomcr]

Anghel Higure from Hatoful Boyfriend listens to MCR

requested by @funassghoul

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

So my friend’s kid has celiac and dyslexia and reading labels is difficult for them (also they’re like 7) so he’s teaching their pigeon, Grey Boy, to read the labels and identify ingredients with gluten. It’s going well, other than Nick thought it would be a good idea to make the behavior when the pigeon does find a bad ingredient to just fucking…wing slap the box. Just beat the shit out of it like, “no! BAD gluten! BAD!”

[solsticexolos-deactivated202407]

I see a lot of “they taught a pigeon to read?” comments and thought I’d explain a bit more.

So it’s not really like their friend’s pigeon now knows how to read. He’s not going to be terribly interested in a novel you hand him (unless he decides it looks like a good nest.) However pigeons are remarkably good at pattern recognition, especially visual patterns. They out-perform humans when it comes to things like identifying artwork/distinguishing between different artist’s works. So it is pretty easy for them to recognize a visual arrangement of ink, such as a printed word, and be taught to respond to that particular pattern. So when looking at an ingredient list the pigeon learns to pick out the specific pattern(s) he’s been taught to react to among the other patterns (words.)

So he sees “wheat” and doesn’t read it the way humans do (w-h-e-a-t spells wheat), but rather sees the arrangement of pigment that he has been trained to slap. So he slaps it.

He will have to be taught every single gluten containing ingredient for it to be super useful, but it is definitely possible, which is super cool! Plus it makes a little kid’s life easier, and enriches Gray Boy.

Skinner did experiments with pigeons that showed how a pigeon can learn to respond to a visual pattern cue, if your interested more in the science behind it.

[alloverthegaf]

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times

[owlmylove]

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

[birdthany]

The art in this show is so pretty

[birdthany]

HxH mutuals- So Leorio was just randomly transmisogynistic in episode 11, but I'm aware that there's a well-received trans girl character later- Does Leorio grow as a person? Or should I just hate him for the rest of the series?

[lonelyroommp3]

what’s wrong with les mis

victor hugo failed in his duty to visit a psychic before writing it who would have warned him that 150 years in the future his decision to include nine shippable twinks as minor characters in his magnum opus would lead to the development of one of the most insufferable fandoms of the twenty first century

[eribent-deactivated20241005]

reblog if you think the man on the left is just as beautiful as the man on the right

[travisekedal-deactivated2015100]

German luthier Jens Ritter wanted to create a Jazz guitar that was able to cover classic Jazz tones, yet achieved this while being a solid body guitar. This is the remarkable instrument he came up with. I present to you The Princess Isabella Blue Dragon.

[kosmonin]

[birdthany]

Jays making fun of me because I want to start watching HxH because of all my cool lesbian mutuals who blog about it even though he tried to get me to watch it like four years ago and I said no because there aren't enough main female characters

[birdthany]

I'm very tired