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i can never face my family again
You ever see something so funny you bypass laughing entirely and go straight for crying?
always reblog
I fucking HATE how this has almost one million notes and ive NEVER seen this. I have missed out on life. This was the best study break video I have ever seen. Iâm dying. I most def sharted.Â
I never know which version Iâm going to get when I see this video.
Purple Starling
I love birding so much. I found someone who knew the location of a bird species Iâve been after for 4 years and she sent me the exact coordinates (an abandoned farm in the middle of nowhere) and I instantly found one. Nothing gives me more dopamine than someone saying âgo to this location and youâll find the beast you seekâ and itâs there
Just wanted to share some shockingly good news in these difficult times. The full article is really worth reading. [Find it here]
important reminder (esp to those in liberal states) to never doubt the power of queer folks in red states to get đ shit đ done đ
This also goes to show that, yes, it is in fact productive to argue your case. It isn't a waste of time to reason with your opposition. It may never upend their entire worldview but it can change the course of their moral choices.
I wanna see some middle eastern birds
And so you shall...
Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea), male, family Nectariniidae, order Passeriformes, found in parts of the Middle East and Northern Africa
photograph by Hasan Rimawi Photographer
Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis), family Alcedinidae, order Coraciiformes, Saudi Arabia
photograph by Munzir Khalid Khan
Diederik Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, found throughout much of Africa and the Middle East
Photo: @rockjumper_birding_tours
Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor), parent with chicks, fdamily Glareolidae, order Charadriiformes, found in North Africa and the Middle East
photograph by Seyed Babak Musavi
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata), family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Iran
photograph by Seyed Babak Musav
Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, Kuwait
photograph by Shajahan Valiyakath
Arabian Green Bee-eater (Merops cyanophrys), family Meropidae, order Coraciiformes, found on and near the Arabian Peninsula and into the Levant
photograph by רץ×× ×××
Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), male, family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Kuwait
photograph by Shajahan Valiyakath
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Ghost Rain, Ch. 33 Preview (for realz)
Kikai continues to be the best boyfriend Eiji will never have :'D
Go read my comic âGhost Rainâ on Webtoons!
Celestial flock đŞś
(print available on inprnt!)
compiling some mutual aid projects and nonprofits working in sudan. though depending on where you get your news you may not see very much coverage of the unfolding crisis, millions of people are in danger every day as the situation continues to deteriorate. i've been really astounded by the scale of your response to the earlier list of gazan initiatives, and i hope you extend the same support to these organizations too!
khartoum aid kitchen - currently running 12 community kitchen sites and supporting five others that collectively provide food for over 10,000 people
fill a heart - provides financial support to sudanese hospitals and families displaced in egypt. updates are available on their instagram.
sudan solidarity collective - supporting civil society organizations and providing psychological and educational programs for displaced people. can also donate through their paypal
darfur women action - runs programs for displaced women and girls
sudanese american physicians association - provides medical treatment and supports healthcare infrastructure
amal for women - currently focused on providing water, food, hygiene products, and shelter for displaced people. general projects include education programs for children, support and professional training for single mothers, and providing trauma care. also has a gofundme
hadhreen - provides food, water, solar panels for hospitals, children's educational programming, and a variety of other support services
hometax - provides necessities for displaced people, including food, shelter, and medical assistance. updates can be found on their instagram.
barana hanabneiho - originally focused on rebuilding and equipping schools, currently providing food, water, tents, mosquito nets, and weather-appropriate necessities to displaced people. they have an instagram and also accept donations through zeffy
saving algeneina initiative - provides a variety of necessities, including food, rain covers for tents, and medical care. works with displaced people in both sudan and chad.
sudanese red crescent society - runs health programs across all 18 states as well as delivering essential supplies
sadagaat - various initiatives including water stations and community kitchens
hope relief and rehabilitation for disabilities support (hrrds) - originally focused on disability justice programs. currently providing food, water, hygiene products, mobility aids, and other necessities with a focus on supporting disabled people and other vulnerable groups
medglobal's sudan emergency appeal - provides medical supplies, equipment for doctors, and fuel for hospitals
sudanese american medical association - provides food, water, and medical equipment, as well as training clinicians and sending extra doctors to hospitals
siha network - provides menstrual products and obstetric/gynecological care
as before, this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add any similar initiatives or organizations you know of. and as always please donate whatever amount you can and share! every small action makes a difference, even if it feels inconsequential to you.
I couldnât reboot it for some reason
âthe good news is you can donate to PBS directly yourself. When they say âmade possible by viewers like you,â they mean it.
PBS is not one monolith out of DC or Los Angeles. Itâs dozens of regional nonprofits working together as a network to produce content dedicated to telling meaningful stories about the communities you live in, made by people in your community, with the purpose of uplifting underrepresented communities in a respectful and nuanced way that isnt clickbait or rage bait-y. as intended by their national founding charter. And some of that programming, yes, just so happens to be nationally syndicated and distributed.
Watch PBS and donate. You can even stream it through your local channel on their national app thatâs available on iOS, Android, Roku, and etc.
This sounds like an ad but I swear itâs not. I just fucking love PBS ok. And it doesnât get nearly as much appreciation as it deserves.
25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025
Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality
Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway
Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups
Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay
Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward
Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient
Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative
Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!
Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community
DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!
Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?
Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.
Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability
Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough
Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing
Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work
Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market
Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question
Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them
Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area
Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...
Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable
Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact
Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive
Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people
I mostly talk about transit and local politics but seriously do as much of this as you can, it really does help
Respire
Part of my Ashes collection
The fact that this is 80 fucking years ago but still just as relevant is terrifying.
A gift for my amazing discord moderator Sabina, who has been helping me moderate my online communities for almost 7 years now and has a soft spot for magpies. I do too đ¤
Do I dare share my art? WHEEZE.
Have my newest Pathfinder girlie, Vysseria. A Kitsune wizard who spends most of her time in her Elf form so she can have easier access to the knowledge she craves as she blindly pursues her quest to become a master of multiversal magicks.
Fun fact, itâd been my first time drawing in SO LONG that I was so proud/impatient with how it was turning out I refused to draw her feet. Itâs now become canon that sheâs just a barefoot girlie
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My favorite detail about Jurassic Park is that it has a baked-in justification for any and all retcons it might need to make due to paleontology advancing forwards.
Because there is not a single dinosaur that has ever appeared in Jurassic Park.
Not one. Not in the books. Not in the movies. Not ever.
"Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park was to create genetically engineered theme park monsters." ~Alan Grant
Grant says that in a moment of cynicism. It's part of his arc for the film. But it's not inaccurate. What Jurassic Park has, what it's always had since the very first novel, are "Mostly Dinosaurs".
"And since the DNA is so old, it's full of holes! Now, that's where our geneticists take over!" ~Mr. DNA
It's impossible to recover a fully intact gene sequence from an ancient amber mosquito. Cloning a pure dinosaur would have been completely impossible, and so the park filled in the gene sequence with whatever works. Frog. Lizard. Bird. Whatever they need to get the result they are trying to get.
Every single dinosaur is a chimeric beast made up of mostly dinosaur and a bunch of other stuff that some scientists thought would achieve the appropriate dinosaur-like result.
"Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different." ~Dr. Henry Wu
Which, from a writing perspective, is fucking genius. Because now you have a preset excuse for each and every plot hole your movie has.
Like. Why don't the raptors have feathers? Because of the chimera DNA.
Why do dilophosaurs spit venom? Because of the chimera DNA.
Why do T-Rexes have movement based vision? Oh, they don't. But Rexy does. Because of her chimera DNA.
Why is the Spinosaurus so fucking big? Because of the chimera DNA.
Why are the velociraptors mislabeled? Because Hammond's a dipshit.
Like. I've always marveled at the way Jurassic Park started out by giving itself a blanket excuse to be wrong about every single thing it ever said about the central attraction of its franchise. It's honestly beautiful, and allows the series a degree of immortality well into the era where we know better about its animals.
