memes and dreams

and dogs

[steveyockey]

What a journey this life is! dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

I know we often lose, and that the death or destruction of another is infinitely more real and unbearable than one's own. I think I know how many times one has to start again, and how often one feels that one cannot start again. And yet, on pain of death, one can never remain where one is. The light. The light. One will perish without the light.

James Baldwin, “Nothing Personal.” 1964.

[buleczka-cynamonowa]

My sister's cat just walked in and spread her toes like this and I have no idea why.

[thefiresontheheight]

asserting dominance

[vinnybox02]

[catsbeaversandducks]

Cats eating corn on the cob.

Via Cats, Beavers & Ducks

[teenagerposts]

lil ass me walking around with my man feeling on top of the world, untouchable and protected

[catchymemes]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[jaspurr]

the best thing about this is that when there’s plenty of resources, domesticated cats will naturally form colonies. in these colonies female cats raise their kittens communally with their kin. so you get situations where moms will raise kittens with their daughters from a previous litter, cats from the same litter will raise kittens together, etc. so not only does this little old kitty see her human as family, she is also excited to help her with her kitten.

[bogleech]

Sometimes a grandma is a little creature that lives on the floor

[gunsandfireandshit]

[italiancore-deactivated20220107]

AWW

[catsbeaversandducks]

HE CAMPIN’

Via Cats

[coyotepack-official]

[jenniferrpovey]

Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.

One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:

Wolf eat elk.

Elk eat fewer willows.

Willows become healthier.

Number of beavers increase.

Number of songbirds increase.

Overall health of streams increases.

Number of fish increases.

Water table stabilizes.

This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.

What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.

When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.

Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.

[odd-lil-duck]

[191195-deactivated20240210]

exactly.

[mens-rights-activia]

Lets Goooooooo Shoutout to @leanmeantrashmachine and @dingdongyouarewrong

[darth-rainbow]

“I said the Nile runs up, you going down for a while.”

[leatherleaves]

🚫NO FREE FEET🚫

[everythingfox]

“So what are you doing during the lockdown?”

(via)

[thenatsdorf]

Papa, where did you go?! (via)

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[true-me-snafu]

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

[flowerinaflame]

[bogleech]

This is the funniest and most thoughtful I’ve ever seen an organization use a meme and it’s good people with good goals who don’t just want your money on top of it

[imnotoverlyobsessive]

For those of you who aren’t aware the Monterey Bay Aquarium is actually a really cool place!

• they are non-profit

• they have a living kelp forest!

• it focuses on local ocean wildlife

• they were the first aquarium to get a great white shark to eat and they are the only public aquarium to display a great white shark for more than sixteen days

• they have a seafood watch program where they promote sustainable seafood

• they are actively fighting against ocean pollution

So yeah support them, they’re awesome and I love them

[satan-666s-stuff]

They also have a tumblr @montereybayaquarium

[unlettered-heathen]

It looks like there’s-

there’s m-

there’s many bene-

[fanficswriter123]

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[renthony]

this post made by aquarium gang

[pro-gay]

*sends this to all my extended family*

[pro-gay]

‘tis that time of year

[pro-gay]

[notvoid]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[gooberitis]