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Eastern Spadefoot (Scaphiopus holbrooki), family Scaphiopodidae, Alabama, USA
photograph by Justin Doll
$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think
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uhh did i forget how time works or was the first post in december 2018 and the second in august 2018
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Speaking of knitting my grandmother doesn’t know how to knit or crochet and for a long time she was under the impression that because I know how to knit I must be very good at tying knots.
Surprisingly though knitting involves very little knot tying so like. I know how to make a slip knot and that’s basically it.
You tie basically two knots when knitting. One at the beginning and one at the end and basically everything in between is held in place by those two knots.
Making fabric is like uh. Controlled tangling.
At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes
Here’s a doozy. How would you reply to this one professionally and in a kind way?
Background: someone asked how to humanely euthanize their betta who has tumors.
The blunt version: Death is inevitable. Nothing is immortal. Cancer is painful. A fish does not have a concept of "the future" and there's worse things than being dead. Existing in pain with no way for that to change is worse for an animal than dead. "Dying peacefully" in cancer patients as seen in obituaries is due to being drugged into insensibility in most cases. It is a comforting lie of omission we tell each other. But we can't give this fish morphine in a hospice situation. In the wild this fish would get eaten as the cancer causes it to slow down. Something is going to kill it, the only question is in what manner. A painless death in the face of a terminal condition is a thousand times better than any other option. To not do otherwise it's cruelty.
This person is also almost certainly projecting their own fear of death onto animals.
tbh I'd be out in the comment section saying "So, you support forcing animals to suffer?" but while I feel this would address the cowardice behind such an opinion as that commenter is showing, I feel perhaps that answer is not kind or professional.
but that IS what it comes down to: Do you support forcing - or even allowing - animals to suffer without end? If no, then you must support preventing and/or ending animal suffering. And sometimes that does mean treatment, but sometimes the only way the suffering ends is when the life ends. There are cases where nothing can be done, and the only future an animal has is one where they suffer. In this case, the absolute kindest thing anyone can do is prevent the animal from having to go through that, by ending the life swiftly and painlessly.
No one gets out of life alive. A good end is the best way out of it.
I accept that I should listen to the experts here, but, emotionally and intellectually, have never understood this at all. Every single thing an animal does is for the continuation of its own life, shouldn't we do as the animal's natural instincts would want? To do otherwise would just be us humans forcing the animal into something it never would have chosen for itself. I've seen videos of antelopes with their guts torn open, dragging their own intestines on the ground, and still they are eating like it's normal. They have the ability to just lie down and allow themselves to die, but they don't. Their lives are already over, yet they continue to do what it takes to extend their own lives as long as possible, even when survival is impossible. Animals have no concept of what an end "should" look like, all they know is more life and non-life, and almost every time that an animal has the option, they choose more life. I accept that I have to do what makes no sense to be because the amount of people who think I'm wrong outnumber me, but I have always felt that this entire mindset is based on us giving animals what we think they should want, and not what they actually do.
The place where you've taken a wrong turn is "they choose more life." That's anthropomorphization.
The antelope did not lie down and die because it has no concept of life or death, and it was not making a sapient choice for life but rather following instincts which dictate all of their behaviors. This is not the same thing as choice.
Most animals have no concept of their own death ahead of the time it occurs, at the very least not the human concept of death. Instead, they are alive, until they are not. They are aware of the former as an experience (they are experiencing life via seeing things, they are hearing things, they are feeling things, etc), and most of them cannot anticipate the latter before it happens. They are not aware of "life and non-life." They are not aware they are alive, and they are not aware that they will die someday. Most of them aren't even aware of The Self (some are, but most are not). These are human concepts you've assigned to an animal.
They cannot avoid something they have little to no concept of. Instead, they avoid pain. We have documented, scientific proof that animals avoid pain if they can anticipate it, and predators are something which brings pain. Showing pain is likely to bring more pain. Showing weakness brings pain. Animals limp to avoid experiencing more pain. They graze with their intestines hanging out because they are hungry (or because signals from the GI tract are messed up from this injury), and being hungry can cause pain or at least discomfort (hunger pangs), not because they are thinking "I have to eat to stay alive." (and just for the record, "not eating" is like the single most common thing sick or dying animals do. it's like a top tier "this animal does not feel well/is dying" symptom. some random video of an antelope that at this point could have been AI does not change thousands of years of this being a most common and prevalent symptom of animals being unwell/dying. this is how we KNOW that it's not connected to any thought about staying alive, or every sick/dying animal would be horking down food to live longer). Animals give up and lie down to die all the time, but they will attempt to avoid pain in practically every situation.
So we must assume that, if given a choice, animals would choose to avoid pain. Because we see that happening, over and over and over, across all animals we've studied that can feel pain. It's universal. They avoid it, if they can. This is hard wired into every animal with the nerves and functionality to experience pain. The whole reason pain exists is to learn to avoid it, because the things which cause it are usually bad and can cause injury or death. Avoiding pain leads to avoiding death, which can be mistaken as avoiding death, but it's not the same thing.
Which all means that when we know that an animal is in pain, and we know that nothing else can be done to assist them in avoiding pain, the only assistance we can give is a painless death. Doing this IS working in kind with their instincts.
Watching this forever goodbye
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Thats a ShrimplyBeautiful video! And that's a critically endangered cardinal sulawesi shrimp!
The accounts are run by a person named Timothy Utterback, he's a conservationist who posts videos of his shrimp "dancing" (this is how they eat!) to rave music and uses the revenue to fund their maintenance. There's typically a couple of shrimp rave livestreams a week over on tiktok, so check it out!
(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ
One more for the collection. Book is Stars at Last by Jessica Jocelyn
in 2015 we didn’t have AI psychosis so people had to make do by believing a dress was white and gold
Because it was
Is the gold in the room with us right now?
yes. the dress is gold.
...
the dress has always been gold
r u saying this doesn't look white and gold to u???
...
what.
it's a white and gold dress in cool blue dim lighting w/ bright warm light behind it, making an optical illusion. we're not fucking doing this again
oh god fucking damn it
I know tumblr likes to exclusively make it about bloody hospitals but this is what Color Theory is about
HOW DID THIS DISCOURSE COME BACK IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026!???
when I tell you people were shouting up and down my dorm's hallways about this when it first happened
(the dress was by Roman Originals and it was in fact blue and black. but they made a one-off white and gold one for charity later)
as someone with aragorn's kind of face framing layers i just know the front pieces are hanging in his eyes all day every day... "my path is hidden from me" you are 4 bobby pins away from utter clarity.
People say about Gen AI ''well its going to be basically in every game in the next few years so get used to it" like, no... do you have any idea how stubborn I am? I will never play another new game in MY LIFE if that is the case. There are plenty of old ones I missed. "Oh what about books and TV?" SAME. I do not care. I will stop consuming new media forever if GenAI is going to be in everything.
Yes, This is absolutely the hill I will die on (AND WE WILL ALL DIE ON IF COMPANIES DONT STOP PUSHING AI AND BUILDING FUCKING DATA CENTERS EVERYHERE FUCK)
[Footsteps] Dot: “Sorry, miss.”
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 3x04 Blood & Money
Okay, have to lose my mind over this again. The way that Phryne tilts her head, inviting Jack to show concern. The way that he pulls back as soon as his touch causes her pain. The way that his fingertips are juuuust underneath the fabric of her blouse as he slides his fingers down her throat towards her chest. The way his smile fades into something altogether more serious and sincere...
Also, that fifth gif where Jack is all concern, but looking to Phryne's lead. In the sixth she makes clear that this is flirting, not a request for caretaking, and Jack is happy to go along.
I have nothing to add except that the way his fingers slide down to her chest is insane, and I still don’t understand why Phryne didn’t immediately send Dot on an urgent errand and demand a much more thorough investigation in the privacy of her boudoir. For professional reasons, obviously.