Origami Around
tumblr dot com
sheepfilms
todays bird
Jules of Nature
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
will byers stan first human second
NASA
Not today Justin
Three Goblin Art
almost home
No title available
JBB: An Artblog!
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
taylor price
No title available
Claire Keane
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
No title available
One Nice Bug Per Day
seen from Malaysia
seen from Brazil
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Israel
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
@dinohunter5904
Check out my writing blog @dinohunter594 for surreal and existential short horror stories! I also reblog things that fit the vibes.
My Linktree
UPDATE 2/7/25 I made a Batman/DC comics sideblog in case you happen to be here for that. @batcave-dinosaur
i dont WANT pride months to be over,
on the other hand...
Testing the definition of a "cat"
that's a cat ✅️
Owning this thing would fix me.
Professional cat sitter here. I've watched a couple of these babies. While they are very cute, their respiratory problems are severe. The ones I've met sound like they are choking when they purr. Please do not buy one from a breeder. The creation of more of these cats is cruel and should not be incentivized. One of my clients goes out of her way to tell people her cat is a rescue for this reason.
Adopting this breed from a rescue is a good deed, but they will have higher than average medical needs. Be sure to do your research to determine if you are financially and emotionally able to care for one before adopting.
Sorry this is a bit of a bummer.
You are right and you should say it.
Thank you for giving me the chance to say what I am going to say.
These cats are not something we should be bringing into the world on purpose.
Please don't create demand for them.
If you want a soggy muppet, and can handle the expense and the possible heartbreak, you absolutely can find Persians and Himalayans in shelters and rescues, and they need homes desperately.
Just be ready. I wish it was different, I truly do, but you cannot adopt a cat from a Problems Disorder breed without accepting that they will, in fact, have Problems.
I was in the trenches with one for fourteen years.
I needed something damp that would sneeze into my mouth, so I got this alleged cat from a shelter when he was just under a year old. Here he is at ~13.
Dried Pickle Man.
Nothing about his skull was put together right. Even his ears were uneven. If I'm being honest, the rest of him wasn't so great, either.
Here's a list of the breed-related problems I knew about.
Wry nose/mouth. Very common in brachycephalic breeds, which are also prone to cleft palates.
Breathing problems when he got excited or slept on his back.
Chronic sinus infections and URIs.
Tooth problems. His mouth was so jacked up.
Eye and tear duct problems.
Hyperesthesia, which made grooming painful. We sedated and shaved him twice a year, and in between I trimmed mats myself.
IBD. Strongly associated with intestinal lymphoma.
Bladder crystals and bladder stones. Painful. Expensive. Can absolutely kill them. He had both.
CKD. Kidney disease. All cats are at high risk for this. Since it is a dominant gene, Persians and Himalayans, with their, um, ergonomic family trees, are even more at risk for it, and it is hard to catch early. There is no cure. To manage just this, we did bloodwork at least three times a year. He needed regular urinalysis, prescription food, medications, and sometimes subcutaneous fluids. Three times he started to spiral downhill. Three times some of the best vets in the country pulled him back. The fourth time, they couldn't.
Y'all, this was just one cat. Their genetic code can fit so many other problems inside it.
This backyard-bred bog haint averaged around $200-$250 a month just in routine care and food. For most of his life we were never below $3,000 in vet debt.
My god, I loved him, my stinky son with Every Disease. Can you understand? That I loved him?
The night before we were going to help him along, he drifted peacefully into the Bog Eternal while in bed with us, after snackies. We did everything we possibly could for him before he went. His quality of life was good, we didn't keep him longer than was best for him. It just took an incredible amount of effort, money, and love to keep it kind to him. The love, at least, was easy, but it hurt the most.
I knew exactly what I was signing up for before I adopted him. I thought harder about that decision than I'd thought about any adoption before or since. Could I handle it?
I decided yes. And by the skin of my teeth and the grace of his tusk, I did. I did.
I have never regretted adopting him.
I would absolutely regret paying someone to make me another one.
Beautiful yucky boy...
^^^
while we're at it, Scottish Folds (the floppy eared cats) have a painful cartilage disorder that makes them develop arthritis while they're still kittens, and Lykoi (werewolf cats) develop gruesome and painful cystic acne because of their coats. Manx cats (the ones with no tails) can have spina bifida and incontinence related problems because of their short spines. Munchkins (short leg cats) have a form of dwarfism that causes problems with their spines and joints.
A cat born with a disability can live a happy life, provided the effects can be helped and accommodated, but so many "cat breeds" are the result of people intentionally creating more cats with disabilities we know cause pain for profit
learning to notice an absence of people of color is crazy. you start seeing it everywhere. ill see a random pic of characters or people or whatever and be like "these are all white people. why"
all the babies in those baby youtube video memes. humanized character posts. like. its the little innocent shit. and like, the people making those baby memes probably arent seeking out white babies. maybe theyre just easier to find. but why are they easier to find? a complicated question, surely... but you know what it probably comes down to. someone, somewhere, maybe a lot of someones in a lot of places, made a choice. maybe knowingly, maybe not. but they made a choice. it starts to make you feel like a conspiracy theorist!!
its really funny that after 2 months this post is still making racists come into my askbox treating me like im a horrible person for pointing out that sometimes people of color are excluded from things in visible and offputting ways. cry about it
hey. dont cry. 566 california condors, okay? 369 free flying.[1] it's gonna be okay.
for the record, in 1987 there were 27. [2] things can get better.
HEY. DONT CRY. 607 CALIFORNIA CONDORS, OKAY? 392 FREE FLYING. [3]
Can we see cool/cute pics of some of them?
IMMMM so glad you asked! all of the above are from the internet, and the below are my own!
Death by a thousand $10 purchases
I am a friend to all cats. Yes even the mean ones. They have their reasons.
dress up is one of the most important pillars of gameplay that is often ignored by game developers to disasterous results
I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”
And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.
People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.
And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.
And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?
Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.
I'm also perplexed by the use of "settling."
Like, I would agree that we (society) shouldn't settle for shitty welfare systems meant to be difficult and inaccessible. But its insane to me to imagine that "settling" means "using current social services" or "supporting the use of current social services."
I feel like a major issue with maybe Western culture in general is our chronic short-sightedness, our apparent inability to think on a long-term scale and to understand what it means to act in pursuit of long-term goals. Its very apparent in the capitalist mindset (number go up, sustainability is for chumps, oh no why is everyone starving and mad and the planet is on fire???) but its also very apparent in leftist/anti-capitalist mindsets that seem to imagine anything other than total system rejection and immediate revolution within the next 5 years is "settling." It goes right along with an aversion to complexity and distrust of anything that isn't black and white.
The problem with a lot of "baby steps" in US politics is that their isn't actually any clear goal, or there isn't any actual desire to get to the goal, or both. You can spend 20 years taking baby steps only to have walked in a circle and nothing has meaningfully progressed. But that is very different than spending 20 years taking very carefully thought-out baby steps towards a specific goal you really believe in.
This is also why its not "you must support the Democrats no matter what" or "no Democrat has ever done anything good for anyone"; there are some liberals that actively support and work for the steps that would help us get to revolutionary goals they might not even necessarily support, and there are some liberals who would actively sabotage those attempts in the name of not pissing off Republicans or billionaires. You need to be able to tell which is which, and that requires patience and discernment and the ability to handle nuance.
I'd consider myself a pragmatist and an idealist. Idealism allows us to see beyond our current circumstances and motivates us to try for something better. Pragmatism allows us to understand what is achievable and how we can actually achieve it.
You know what the Black Panthers did to convince people that they shouldn't settle for whatever shitty services the U.S government gives them? They started the People's Free Food Program (aka Free Breakfast for School Children). They just did the thing they felt should be done, and they did it in an organized and productive manner that made it really successful, and that convinced a lot of people that maybe this socialism thing was more than they'd heard it was.
If you want to convince people that we can do better than food stamps, then find the people in your community who also feel like that and have the skills necessary, and then make something that is better than food stamps, or at least helps people and provokes the conversation. Have a long-term goal and then think about the steps you need to take to get there. Otherwise, you do what the person op argued with does and its very obvious that you have no real plan or material understanding of the problem you are angry about. It actively turns people off from more idealistic or revolutionary solutions when you present them like a fool.
[ DO YOU UNDERSTAND? ]
im really into driving
he was doing so good before everything fell apart
I really like simple but heartbreaking lines. "I'm tired." "I want to go home." "I'm just... sad."
"I want my mom." (bonus points if character doesn't have parents or a good relationship with their mum)
"I want my mom" GUARANTEED to destroy me.
i absolutely LOVE grace's character arc in phm of learning how to be really truly selfless BUT the thing i don't get is people acting like that end state of selflessness is somehow this natural effortless default for him and not the cumulative result of very hard work and deliberate choices. grace's default state and the way he acts for most of that movie's runtime is this bizarre mix of entitlement and insecurity. he's like the classic undersocialized white male academic who both prides himself on self-sufficiency yet laments his isolation. he thinks he should be able to get whatever he wants. his personal comfort is worth more than everyone else's.
he's obviously the Fun Teacher but he still is slightly patronizing to those kids. they aren't stupid, they're paying attention to the news, they know what's going on with the sun and what the implications are. but he's talking down to them like they haven't figured out what the true stakes are when they clearly already have. it's sweet and noble to want to keep them calm, and sometimes keeping kids calm requires lying by omission, but the kids still had to trap him in the rules of his own hackey-sack game to get him to actually answer their damn questions instead of waving them off like he wanted to.
on some level he resents where he's at in his career and is ashamed of it, but at the same time, he insists he didn't do anything wrong to get there. he is shocked when somebody else is able to find out what he did and call him on acting like an innocent victim of censorship when he was actually excommunicated for his temper tantrums. and then he threw another tantrum when his argument got refuted again.
he enjoys all the freedom and authority of being the hotshot microbiologist on the project and fully believes he has worthwhile skills to contribute, but he wants none of the responsibility when it's time to put his money where his microscope is. he insists he knows what he's doing yet acts surprised and inconvenienced when people order him to do it. he is also upset that being privy to top secret intergovernmental information requires a limited range of movement and minimal exposure to the outside world.
he woke up on somebody else's spaceship with no memory of what it was out there for, what its budget was, or who was responsible for its deployment (any sane person would assume the answers to those questions are "something very important", "billions of dollars", and "government(s) that will likely not appreciate sabotage") and was immediately like "well let's scrub everything this ship was intended for so i can go home and be comfortable asap."
he was genuinely pissed off at the only other sapient lifeform around for lightyears, who had previously admitted to living in total isolation for decades and is clearly deeply traumatized by all the death and loneliness, for moving onto his ship so they can save their home planets more efficiently and socially.
the only belongings he will have access to for the forseeable future, his use of which the existences of entire stars are depending upon, are whatever's already on that ship, and he punched one of the damn laptops and broke it.
and again, like, HE GOT BETTER, he absolutely Learned His Lesson, but being a brave and protective guardian angel is still not his default state and it's something he had to first be completely broken down and humbled for. this guy went through a dickensian odyssey to learn the importance of generosity and charity.
like seriously we have got to stop always making the blonde one a sweetiepie, everyone's always hitting the blue eyed blondes with the princess peach beam and it drives me a little nuts. ryland grace would put a hole in drywall during an argument
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
