[naamahdarling]

Aeris needs a new home, urgently.

I have been asked by my sister to help her good friends place Aeris, who is a 16-month-old, 50-pound Lab mix, and a very sweet girl. She is in Columbia, Missouri.

Before anything else, I need to be completely honest about why she is being rehomed.

During play, Aeris accidentally caused a fatal injury to the couple's younger puppy. This was a tragic accident between a larger, energetic adolescent dog and a much smaller puppy. Aeris has never shown any aggression towards any dog, and never showed aggression towards the puppy. They got along. However, the outcome cannot be ignored, and because of that, the shelter that originally adopted her out, and the local SPCA, have declined her. She will have to be rehomed privately.

Please understand that the decision to rehome has been heartbreaking for everyone involved. This choice is being made out of concern for Aeris above anything else, and for the people caring for her, who are deeply grieving. We are trying to find her a responsible placement and give her the best outcome possible.

About Aeris:

• 16 months old

• Approximately 50 pounds

• Lab mix

• Crate trained

• Loves car rides

• Extremely affectionate and attention-seeking

• Thinks she's a lap dog

• Equal parts energetic runner and couch companion

• Enjoys other dogs and has done well at dog parks

• Can be anxious and thrives with regular interaction and attention

• Still has some puppy manners and will jump up on people and lick faces

• Only partially leash trained and can be nervous on walks

Aeris enjoga strong, physical play. She is rough on toys and can be unaware of her own size and strength. Because of that, she should not be placed in homes with cats, small animals, or very young/small dogs.

She would likely do best with experienced people who understand large, energetic young dogs and can provide training, exercise, and plenty of attention. The owners are also willing to place her as a farm dog.

Aeris will come with her crate and supplies.

She is currently located in Columbia, MO., and can also be made available for pickup in Tulsa, OK.

If you believe you may be the right fit for Aeris, or know someone who might be, please reach out to me via message here, tell me a bit about yourself, and I can put you in contact. More than anything, she needs a safe place and a second chance.

I think we can find that for her.

Please help by boosting. I mostly exist on catblr and need to reach dog people with this.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

podcasts could have been so good but they decided to make the main genres True Crime and Men Talking. shut up shut up the public yearns for audio dramas

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i appreciate how tumblr LOVES podcasts but not what most people think of when they hear "podcasts." y'all like fiction podcasts where strange and terrible things happen and everybody is queer. i respect that

[shutyourmoustache]

*whispers* holy shit people are amazing.

[annabelle--cane]

gothic horror is when there's a location. cosmic horror is when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing. folk horror is when you're outside.

[stalker-among-the-stars]

Okay, what is it when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing lurking outside of a location?

[of-starships-and-wombats]

Then you’re in John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing

[stoptheantisemitism]

No it's not libel if it's true

[stoptheantisemitism]

For example it's not libel to say that Israelis love killing children. They have killed more children at a higher rate in a single year than anyone else in the last two decades.

This article is almost two years old and Israel has continued targeting women and children at a disproportionate rate even after the "ceasefire"

This is a country of child killers

[ranticore]

it's been a while since i made a mouth freak so here's one from my dream this morning

it walks along the bottom of a river and snatches its prey off the banks. it was born in the headwaters in the first degree stream and now it lives in a broad lowland depositing river, having travelled incrementally downstream as it outgrew its previous habitats. maybe one day it will reach the sea.

[plaguedocboi]

My article, for those who wanted to read it (I believe @bunnybloggereshi and @sarcasm-n-insomnia asked about it)

[smol-paw]

Is anyone able to make a transcript of this? I cannot read the text, and I bet our screen reader friends would love to have access to this too! 😄

[plaguedocboi]

Image ID: a picture of a newspaper article that reads;

“As a biologist, I have been asked by many, many people; “why do we need mosquitos?” and “Why can’t we just kill all the ticks?”. People may argue that they serve no purpose in the ecosystem, and nothing would really be affected if we got rid of them. After all, these animals are just nuisances, right? Everything would be better off if there were no parasites to bother them.

This is, of course, an untrue claim. Parasites play many roles in the ecosystem and their presence is absolutely necessary. For instance, let’s look at mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes are remarkable animals. There are many thousands of species, and only a few drink blood. Mosquitoes of all species subsist primarily on nectar, just like bees. This makes them critical pollinators. Of the few species that drink blood, only the females are interested in doing so, and they only do so to secure vital proteins for incubating their eggs. The males will continue to only feed on nectar for their whole lives.

But, besides being pollinators, what makes mosquitoes really incredible is their larvae. These larvae are aquatic and capable of surviving in extremely hostile conditions and in very small volumes of water. A mosquito will happily lay her eggs in an otherwise barren muddy puddle, and thousands of babies will thrive there, filter-feeding on microscopic organisms. This, in turn, provides food for other animals. Other aquatic insects as well as larval amphibians subsist largely on mosquitoes. Some insects will seek to lay their eggs in areas that mosquito eggs or larvae already exist, because it is a guaranteed food source.

This sudden abundance of life will attract predators of those animals, and so on and so forth. Suddenly, an entire thriving ecosystem has sprung up around this muddy puddle that otherwise would have supported little to no life, all thanks to these hardy larvae. In this way, mosquitoes are the foundation of many food-webs and allow life to colonize new, formerly inhospitable places.

However, defending the ecological importance of any animal is ultimately an exhausting task for biologists. The idea that animals must serve a purpose, must benefit humans in some way, is a fundamentally flawed way to view the natural world.

Every living organism that exists is a result of billions of years of evolution, all interwoven in a delicate balance with each other. If any of these pieces are removed, things will begin to collapse around it. We cannot sort animals into the categories of “useful” or “not useful”, because animals do not exist to be useful to us. They all have a place in the world, and we don’t get to pick and choose which species deserve to live without sending catastrophic ripple effects throughout the surrounding web of the ecosystem.

Whether we like it or not, parasites are part of the world and we have to coexist with them. Our focus should be on prevention of diseases associated with these parasites, by deterring them from biting, vaccinations against the bacteria they may carry, and affordable treatment if infections do occur, rather than figuring out a way to remove them from the planet entirely. Nothing in an ecosystem exists in isolation. Everything is deeply interwoven, and every species is necessary. The moment we allow ourselves to debate which species could be driven to extinction without consequence is the moment we will begin unravel the world around us, and, ultimately, humans will feel those ripples too.”

There is a picture of a mosquito in the bottom corner. End ID.

[souvenirs]

[ungovernablesf-blog]

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[brainscrems]

Also, please keep in mind, this is 100%, without a doubt, wholly unconsitituonal. They will try to enforce it regardless, but that does not make it legal. Do not treat this as law because it is not.

[catsuggest]

Cat, what do you suggest for someone who had a really bad day?

worry not for im know somebeody whom is expert in vanquishinge bad days

[catsuggest]

he is beinge summoned. remain calmb

[catsuggest]

cousin bartók is arrivinge imminently !

[catsuggest]

cousin bartók have arrived bearinge mighty furs & soothinge gift of moss. bad days are now vanquished permanentlé

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[bowelfly]

happy pride monk

[coonincoat]

[spicymochi]

your month, your seal!

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

When we were children, my sister had private music lessons at her violin teacher’s house. I only visited there once, but I still remember that afternoon. The teacher had an artificial pond in her yard, a large beautiful thing with lily pads and plant life. And in the pond, there were goldfish. I had never seen such enormous goldfish. 

I spent several minutes just staring at them (and trying to convince them to bite my fingers.) When my sister’s violin lesson ended, her teacher came out to the yard and explained that these goldfish were the same small creatures that were often unfortunately sold in plastic bags at state fairs. They were only about two inches long apiece, when she bought them and put them in the new, empty pond. In essence, they were like every goldfish I had seen before, but they had been given a much larger, much richer environment in which to flourish. As a result, they had grown into some of the most remarkable, vibrant creatures my twelve-year-old self had ever met with. All because of a pond. 

Funny what lessons children remember. My sister doesn’t play the violin anymore, but that was the first time I caught a glimpse of the overwhelming extent to which it matters, the way the world treats us.

[yellow-hatco]

Reblogged again for this drawing I made for it

[221b-hound]

Give us room to grow and see how we flourish.