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Blog for the human member of Tricks for Clicks

[daughter-of-sapph0]

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[great-and-small]

Yeah okay there are like 11 species of heron native to the USA and yes fine I’ve only managed to spot 10 of those species. You might think I’m bitter about that one species evading me but I’m not. I’m actually the Least Bittern person about it in the entire world

[secondbeatsongs]

I wish I had stopped to savor it, the last time I saw a kung pow penis. I never knew it was to be my last

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

For old times sakes.

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[the44th]

[veterinaryrambles]

I know I’m so late but we literally did stab a dog named Caesar in the back yesterday at work (he needed a microchip and those needles are huuuuge)

[veterinaryrambles]

Reblogging this on time this year! Beware the idea of March! But if you’re a dog named Caesar it’s a a great day to get a microchip.

[boatgrave-deactivated20250901]

[memorycycle]

dont take bird noises for granted

[memorycycle]

next time ur outside and you hear birds just think about how awesome that is and how much it would suck if they were gone

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[gumi-megpoidd]

"did you find it shrimple?" no it was really prawnplicated for me :(

[great-and-small]

We’re gonna getcha

[wbicepuppy]

oh no

[sioltach]

Your quality of life will increase ten-fold when you learn to appreciate the sight of a little bird

[sioltach]

Imagine romanticizing the grind when you live in a universe that has a large expanse of grasslands and colorful endemic birds

[hbmmaster]

how much does the aurora borealis weigh

[hbmmaster]

it's pretty light

[qsycomplainsalot]

[mobilis-in-mobili]

*breathes deep breath* *slams reblog button*

[halemerry]

Hey everyone what's your favorite mug look like?

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

[satusepiida]

His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually

[coyotegestalt]

I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept. 

[blackwoolncrown]

Let’s help him out. Likes charge, reblogs cast

[ladycharles]

My new single Child of the Night is out now! (streaming embed below video)

It's a wild bit of proggy indie disco for fans of Of Montreal, MGMT, David Bowie, Franz Ferdinand, Late of the Pier and more

Hope you enjoy 💖💖💖

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[super-lazer-piss]

When you're driving home at night and you meet a Ford F-150 on the road

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of educational trivia is that if you've had a sex ed class anywhere in North American in the last 25 years, and they did that demonstration thing where they put a condom on a wooden penis, that wooden penis is probably made in Canada – not because Canada has a well established wooden penis industry as such, but because there was a government-funded sex ed initiative about 25 hears back where somebody misplaced a decimal point and ordered like a hundred times more wooden penises than the program really needed, and they've been trying to get rid of them ever since. Consequently, the greater part of sex ed condom demonstration models in North America over the past quarter century have been drawn from this one specific batch of surplus government-issue Canadian penises.

[latining]

They ordered so many that they had to burn a bunch in a huge bonfire dubbed the “Great Saskatchewan Weenie Roast”.

The Star Phoenix might still have details if their online archives go back that far.

[ebrithilbowser]

@prokopetz I'm gonna have to ask for a credible source on this.

[prokopetz]

The actual program was apparently funded in 1994, which is just barely pre-mainstream-Internet, so digital sources are thin on the ground. I did find an article referring to the fiasco from mid-1996, though; the digital archives I presently have access to for back-issues of Canadian newspapers unfortunately don't go back further than May of 1996, so this is literally the earliest source I can prove exists:

Pictured: the front page of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix newspaper for Saturday, June 22, 1996. The relevant article appears in the right-hand column, headlined "Sex ed props flop". A transcript of the article appears below the cut:

Sex ed props flop

By Bonny Braden LeaderStar Services

REGINA - The Consenatives say the government should hold a "weenie roast" to dispose of 1,000 wooden penises that are being kept in storage because school divisions don't want them.

The 13 centimetre long "wooden demonstrators" were purchased in 1994 as an optional part of the health education curriculum. They could be used to show students how to put on a condom if teachers wanted them.

But only 46 of them were sold to health districts and three to school districts, says Craig Dotson of the Department of Education.

The department made a mistake and ordered too many of the demonstrators.

They are now gathering dust in a Regina warehouse and the government is trying to convince the supplier to take them back.

"We will seek to dispose of them in an orderly fashion." Dotson said Friday.

PC MLA Ben Heppner said the department had no business spending $4,000 in taxpayers' money on wooden penises.

All curriculum is "resource-based" so kids can use maps for geography, cubes for geometry and wooden demonstrators for health education, Dotson said. Using resources is better than a "chalk board and lecture," he said.

Heppner said he supports the government trying to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. "That's valid, but I don't think this is the way to go about it. You need to address something like abstinence. Condoms are only 75 per cent effective.

"You just picture 35 Grade 9 students each with a wooden penis standing in front of them on their desk trying to strip a leaky condom over it.

"That's going to be a learning experience? The government has to be a little bizarre on their thought process to think that's actually going to work. There isn't an educator in Saskatchewan that's going to want to do that."

Parents and teachers obviously don't want this kind of education for their children, he said.

Dotson said abstinence is taught in the health curriculum and the use of a condom is taught in relation to the AIDS section.

Teaching health is crucial for young people, he said, so it's difficult for him to find the humor in the government being stuck with 1,000 wooden penises.

Heppner had no such trouble. "Maybe we can give them to the provincial parks for firewood so the campers could have a big weenie roast." he said.

[necarion]

I'm slightly amused at the fact that the error everyone is yelling about is...$4000 Canadian dollars, which at 1994 exchange rates was about $3000 USD, equivalent to about $6000 USD today. That's not even a rounding error for the budget in a small city. For the country, it's barely a floating point error.

Seriously, how did they manage to get decent-quality wooden phalluses for under $4 apiece? That should have been the national scandal, that the government was driving too...hard...a bargain.

[prokopetz]

Never underestimate the ability of Canadian politics to foment national front-page-news scandals over ridiculously small sums of money.

(As for the dimensions of the story not touched on in that article, I'm not privy to any evidence that the proposed "Weenie Roast" was actually carried out – it was possibly only ever a joke. That the wooden penises were eventually given away in large numbers, and that sex educators throughout Canada and the US still have the stupid things kicking around to this day, is something I've come across anecdotally when speaking with actual sex educators, so I don't have a solid source for that part; I'm not sure where I'd even begin to find one!)

[clicksfortricks]

Can confirm them didn't go to provincial parks to burn. I regularly volunteered in that time frame and didn't come across any