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Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs
jesus that is good to know.
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS
this post just got so much better
THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST
this is emmett and cullen they are best friends
This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.
Dogs are truly angels.
so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist
the anxiety cat
Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great
this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.
so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.
Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah
Dog: :) fine, thanks
Cheetah: :) oh, okay
Wasn’t expecting this of all posts to be the first tumblr post I’ve ever seen crest 2mil notes, but I’ll take it
So the thing about cheetahs is it’s the males that are social. The females actually aren’t once the cubs are weaned, and having females have too much contact with each other will make it hard for them to get pregnant. They need their own, non-overlapping territories, with minimised female-female fenceline contact. Too much female-female contact stresses them out in general and makes it hard for them to conceive. The whole ‘I need to be chased to get in the mood’ thing is another thing that makes breeding hard for cheetahs, you need enough space so that that part of the breeding/courtship process can happen too.
Males on the other hand, form coalitions and are very social in their social group . Coalitions are usually 2-3 brothers that share food and resources and play together and it is adorable.
Cheetahs also usually have twins or more, and a cheetah that births a singleton will often abandon it. We don’t know why this happens but it does. But if you have another cheetah with cubs, you can sneak that cub in and she goes ‘oh another one, okay’ and the cub can be reared that way (the process of sneaking the cub in involves some scent transfer too iirc).
Monarto Safari Park in South Australia, which has one of the highest rates of cheetah breeding success, makes this work by giving the females their own territories but the males have their own shared space for that particular coalition. I very recommend going to check them out if you’re ever in the area, as it’s an amazing place doing a lot of great work in animal conservation and science and improving our understanding of what is needed to keep these animals happy and healthy. Also last time I was there I saw two rhinos playing tug of war with a stick and it was ADORABLE AS HECK.
[Image ID: Tweet from madoka magicock (@/ rifflexielian) reading: my preferences for fiction often run dark but i genuinely cannot handle 'no one showed up to their birthday' 'no one showed up to their event they worked really hard on' etc. Just give me the cannibalism I can't do this shit man /End ID]
Anything that claims that it can sort all humans into neat categories is bullshit, sorry to say. The sex binary, the gender binary, astrology, MBTI, love languages, whatever. Humans are hugely complex and unique and not a single person on this earth can be accurately described using simple terms like that.
I don't think it's fair to mock people for not knowing how to do things like housework because many people aren't taught any of that growing up, they're expected to just know, and then they grow up and either have no idea where to start or they're too embarrassed to ask.
But on that same note, you as their partner are not obligated to parent them or do that work for them or even teach them all that, especially when they don't actually want to learn or if it's a huge drain on your energy. And you also can't mistake weaponized incompetence for genuine ignorance; a big sign that someone is bullshitting you is when they struggle to do anything for you or around the house but are magically more competent at work, with friends or other family, or when it comes to their own belongings and interests.
And for those who genuinely do not know how to do things like clean, do laundry, wash dishes, cook, load the dishwasher, etc, you can find a ton of resources from very nice people online, especially places like youtube. You may even be able to find classes irl around you, including free and low income programs, depending on your location. It is never too late to learn something.
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Not the point in the slightest but are cigarette ads not illegal in the USA❔❔❔For some reason that one is blowing my mind
Only as of 1999. The original, unedited version of this cartoon, by Clay Butler, was published in 1996, and looks like this:
Someone went to a lot of effort to not only remove the cartoonist's credits, but also make the joke weaker. In the original, the graffiti is a lone and comparatively small, unremarkable tag in single-line monochrome. It contrasts with the billboards and signs by being unobtrusive, making it all the more absurd that the pig notices it with such vitriol. The edited version loses the impact by making it stand out in bright color and cover the whole of the wall.
You show a cat something and they're like sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff ooooh I understand now. Don't care
People rightfully deride purley identity based marketing (this comic has an asexual transgender protagonist! The genre is unimportant!) but you know. You know what. You know what really pisses me off
“Jennifers body meets little fires everywhere” “for fans of silvia moreno garcia and southern folk horror” “immersive horror fairy tale marrying crimson peak and pans labryinth” “steven king calls this novel a a modern tour de force” DESCRIBE YOUR BOOK
some people can't fathom "rudeness" as a concept outside of identity, power, and oppression dynamics. so you point out they're being assholes and they start doing identity math at you to prove they're justified.
like sure, it's true that you are technically "punching up" in terms of that framework. but we're just hanging out rn, so why are you punching at all? you aren't challenging any power structures, you're just being mean to my friend kayla who has been nothing but lovely this evening.
I was explaining the numb white scars on my right index finger, and someone asked "but why would you put your finger against the blade of a hand mixer" and the entire chat repeated "intrusive thoughts" and "call of the void" immediately and almost in synch. And people started talking about how they've injured themselves that way, and a few people said they learned a genuine lesson.
yikes. I've almost never had that with anything -- but I have felt the siren call of the Hobart Dough Hook
This is an industrial stand mixer (often it has a grating attachment to that round top port sticking out like a pipe end on the top left of the pic) and Hobart is a very popular brand for these machines, which are often nearly as tall as a person
the thing hanging from the mixing arm into the bowl part is a dough hook
it looks like this and spins around mixing the dough
Here is a smaller one, but you can see what it looks like when it goes
So one of my first kitchens, everyone who got shown how to use the enormous 5ft tall Hobart we had, they got some variation of this speech:
"DO NOT reach into the mixer while it's on. I know, you think that now, but you're going to get comfortable around it, it's going to seem like it's moving slow, and you're going to feel like reaching in there to check the dough or something without turning it off. DON'T. DO THAT. One guy a couple years ago went to the hospital with every bone in his arm broken and a dislocated shoulder and it was from reaching into this exact machine we're using today. You're going to feel like you can reach in real quick without stopping the machine, and I'm telling you, turn it off first."
I got that speech too, and sure enough, there came a day when I felt the urge. Which i resisted. But then. Then there started to be reasons to reach in there.
Like maybe the person using the grating attachment hadn't cleaned the port good enough and a couple of strips of grated carrot fell onto the dough, where it would stay sort of oscillating on the top of the dough ball for a little bit before getting sucked down to be kneaded deep into the dough. It's a single button to stop the machine, but, for some reason it just seems like such a hassle, and you've always wanted to do it, c'mon, look how slow it's moving...
So i did. And it was fine! Altho i could see why people get it wrong, what seemed like about a 3 second window actually turned out to be less than a full second once you got your hand down there, and there really wasn't as much space as it seemed like there was, and the angle you had to go at did slow you down just a little... But now that i knew all that, i should be fine to do it as long as i was careful, right?
Then one day it happened. I must of brushed ever so slightly against the metal of the dough hook. It is shaped and moving in a way designed to draw material in toward the center and down and it tugged my hand ever so slightly in and down.
Which would have been fine but I was already touching the dough, so it tugged my fingers into the dough just enough for it to get the slightest grip on them, which tugged my hand in just enough to get caught between the hook and the dough which gripped it surprisingly hard and yanked my hand down and in a circle like having someone hold your hand tightly and spin in a circle and all my joints locked up against each other painfully so fast!
Luckily I was able to get my arm out before I suffered more than a sore shoulder, hurt elbow, and sprained wrist and sprained finger... but things went from totally fine to sheer panic faster than anything i've ever experienced.
Even so, only a week later and barely recovered, I caught myself just before i reached my hand into the dough bowl while it was on, the siren call of the Hobart singing strongly still.
So many people felt it. I heard so many close call stories. Some models like the Hobart 660 comes with this wire cage safety guard now, and I guarentee it is 100% because no matter how you warn people, they can't resist reaching in while it's running
tags: #hobart is perfect size for arm of person perfect safe for to put arm in
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This was inevitable. Thank you.
I swear to god, moving machinery is so entrancing and once you get used to it, it can be sooooo tempting to go "oh, I can totally stick my hand in and Do The Thing, that will definitely be faster and easier than stopping production" and you might get lucky for a while but eventually, you will learn:
PLEASE DO NOT THE MACHINE, IT WILL BITE
- PSA from someone who spent 5 years in a factory operating heavy machinery
I've reached a few times into the cutting machine to see if the blade did cut through the stickers or if i have to stop everyting to change the pressure settings. I can attest to the speed being way more than you expect even after dealing with and looking at it work very closely for almost 5 years.
Also have a few guillotine cuts, can tell you that a paper cut from a 200g paper corner is way worse than a 70g one and that it does happen way more than you'd want or expect it to, and that you should never, ever, disable the safety stoppers.
Remember, if you dont take your hands off the machinr, the machine will take your hands off. It is always thirsty for blood, do not feed it.
See this?
This is what happens when your employer decides it's cool to make you ignore safety protocols and reach into a moving conveyor belt guard to clear a jam.
It took three months to close and another year for the scars to heal to the point I got full range of motion back.
Another two cm to the right and I would have lost a finger.
Don't fuck with moving machinery.
My old shop had a compressor dumpster for cardboard waste. Picture this but twice the size in all directions:
It was up against the side of the loading dock and the button to start it was round the other side of the machine. So you had to go down the stairs and back around the loading dock and the machine itself to start it.
Important to note the emergency stop button was also on the side with the start button.
Naturally, all of us thought it was perfectly sensible to shimmy across the lip of the machine right above the big gaping maw of it and crouch down to hit the button. The lip was about the width of my foot. And usually soaking wet with rain.
Body hair.......
Ya I'm trans like as in transcendent. Transcending above this fucking dog shit
MET GALA "Costume Art" Exhibition 2026 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com The idea, curator Andrew Bolton said, is “to reflect on your own lived experience, hopefully to create a connection, empathy, compassion towards each other.” Not only does this interactive element transform a visit to the museum into a small voyage of self discovery, but it is a bodily experience that cannot be replicated digitally. This at a time when humans are being replaced by machines and AI anxiety is pervasive. “The whole show is structured around a typology of bodies, and these are bodies that you see across the museum when you encounter artworks,” Bolton explained. “The simple thesis for the show really is the fact that the dressed body is the connecting thread throughout the entire museum.” What you won’t see anywhere else at the Met are mannequins of diverse body types modeled after named individuals, like those commissioned for “Costume Art.” And this is transformative in many ways. As the scholar Llewellyn Negrin notes in her catalog introduction, not only do mannequins project a beauty standard, but their “dimensions often dictate the sizes of the garments shown, and the garments’ sizes correspond to the idealized proportions of the preferred mannequins, resulting in a mutually reinforcing process that perpetuates the privileging of culturally esteemed body types.”
Literally gasped when I saw Karan Johar's outfit. Absolutely stunning. THIS is how you turn fashion into ART!
Doechii attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com
oh my fucking god doechii
Some of my favorites of the night …. I love black women
