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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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[ID: A digital illustration of Thimble and Occtis Tachonis from Critical Role. Thimble is the size of a human and grinning as she hugs Occtis, lifting him slightly off the ground so his feet dangle just above the floor. Occtis is hugging Thimble back and looking very surprised to be in the air. End description.]
Big Thimble!! Strong Thimble!!
hobbits were the peak of civilization in tolkien verse. jobs were Gardening, Stall At The Farmer’s Market, or Mailman. Shoes OFF, capris ON, 6 meals a day, high and fat as all shit. Names like Daddy Twofoot….why the fuck are we horny for elves
Finally they’re starting to ask the right questions and figure out how real communism works 💖
can’t risk it
THIS PIECE OF PICTURE WORKS.
Gotta take all the chances…..
Never risk it
Too close to final’s week
I could use it.
Why not, spread the luck
Could use some of that. Why not? :)
Absolutely need
Oh well. Why not?
Running dog. La chronophotographie. 1899.
I made her into a Gif so she can run again!
me, unloading a fitted sheet from the dryer: *squinting* what's that you've got in your mouth
fitted sheet: nothing :)))))))
me, prying open its twisted jaws: na-ah!!! give it to me RIGHT now!!
fitted sheet: *resentfully spits out a wad of 3 very damp dishtowels, a pillowcase, and a pathetically sodden washcloth*
Maybe this was just how my family did things growing up but when I was a kid and we saw a lady with chin hairs or a small chest or large feet or a broad shoulders we’d say “it’s rude and mean to pick apart someone’s appearance” and mind our own damn business.
Apart from being reductive, transphobic, and anti-woman, all this “transvestigating” nonsense is just plain bad manners, and I think we should say that more
Bison herd By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955
It feels so gross to call this group of 20-something bison a "herd" but I didn't know what else to call it.
Before bison were wiped out (as a deliberate tactic to starve the Plains Indians), small bands like this would only exist in the non-breeding months, throughout fall/winter. But as spring approached, they would join other bands on their migration, eventually forming herds that could number up to 4 million heads.
So numerous were bison, that it's estimated a herd could lose 20,000 individuals in a single river crossing without making a dent in the population. For comparison, this is the Atka Bay emperor penguin colony, numbering 20,000. Imagine this many bison corpses, solely due to one river crossing, without impacting the population:
(Photo by Bertie Gregory)
Diary entries by colonizers describe in graphic details how dead bison would cover the river banks for miles upon miles:
(Excerpts from The North American Buffalo (Frank Gilbert Roe, 1972, 2nd edition), one of my favorite books)
With no exaggeration, the American prairie was covered in bison during the summer. There's no other migration today that can match its size. The closest thing we have are the wildebeest migrations of East Africa:
(Left photo stock, right photo by Gail Woloz)
But even that doesn't come close. The greatest wildebeest herds 'only' number a little over 1 million. A wildebeest herd of that size may live behind 4000 drowned bodies. Imagine the size of this bison herd that left behind over 7000 bodies:
They piled bison skulls three stories high, and turned the prairie white with death, but it should've made no difference. There were millions of bison.
But somehow it did. The bison population was brought down from possibly as much as 60 million to a mere 600. So today a gathering of 20-something heads might as well be called a herd.
#sorry to be such a downer but this is what gives me no hope for the human race
You know the Plains Indians are human too, right. And all the people who brought the bison population back to 20,000 heads. And the people still working to protect them and grow their numbers. Never let doomerism grab such a hold of you that you dismiss the humans trying to right the wrongs of other humans. The problem has never been humanity. The problem is colonialism and cyclical violence.
seconding OPs response. While the bulk of the colonial history of the plains bison is a horrible example of genocide and humans absolutely wrecking the planet, the bigger picture of the history of these animals is way more complicated and just as important. From the land management techniques used by a diverse array of indigenous people to allow that many of these giant beasts to not destroy any land they trampled, to the modern conservation efforts. Bison are no longer an endangered species! You can go see them Right Now in large herds (as OP mentions!) You can buy bison products and even eat bison meat (it's amazing!).
Colonialism was a horrible thing, but brushing it off as dooming all of humanity ignores the humanity of all the people who fought against it and continue to fight against it. It ignores the people who came before it.
Go read about Yellowstone tourists getting gored for being idiots and approaching a 2000lb/900kg+ megafauna and donate to a wildlife charity or something
“go early, it’s hard to find parking” you want public transit. “don’t go on weekends, traffic is terrible” you want public transit. “once i parked i had to walk half a mile to the entrance” you want public transit. “it took me an hour to get out of the area after the concert” you want public transit. “ugh somebody needs to DD” you want public transit. “can you drive? my car won’t start” you want public transit. you want public transit. you want public transit. you want public transit.
le miserable. there's just one of him
im joining the war on gross disgusting pornographic content on the side of gross disgusting pornographic content
"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"
if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰
now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.
ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!
people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.
"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"
Sapphics who don't like fat girls are so weird to me. You're supposed to like girl. Why wouldn't you want more girl per girl
