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unfamiliarsculptures

A fancy little cat sculpture for my next shop update! It’ll be available Friday, May 22nd.

herpsandbirds

Pacific Banana Slug (Ariolimax columbianus), family Ariolimacidae, Redwoods National Park, northern CA, USA

* This individual was about 6 1/2 inches long

Photographs by Paxon Kale CC

organicmatter

Being hairy is so awesome #mammal

mossworm

I like ichthyosaurs, they are like if a lizard was also a tuna

pangur-and-grim

she never looks relaxed

pangur-and-grim

dxmedstudent

She looks like a cat who worries about her taxes.

dog-journey

Dog Health/Behavior Scales

Body Condition Score (VCA) (WSAVA) (AAHA)

Faecal Score (Purina) (Royal Canin) (Waltham)

Periodontal Disease Stages (AVDC) (Greencross Vets)

Canine Acute Pain Scale (CSU)

Canine Fear and Anxiety Spectrum (FearFree)

Canine Gaits (spotsvet.com) (canine fitness and care center)

Short Form Glasgow Composite Measure Pain Scale (WSAVA)

Kendal Shepherd’s ladder of communication (PDSA)

guineapiggies

Via aleksartemporium

to-orrr

here are some more cats 🍓

tsalala

Soggy and upset about it.

Lion cub from the Fig Tree Pride Taken in the Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographed by Saleel Gharpure

everyday-cutephoto

innerchildabortionclinic

sweetiepie OFFICIAL meeting

roycohn

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

figtreeandvine

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

writing-with-olive

Literally this.

Saying "there's no point in doing something small until the big thing is fixed" is literally just the Glorious Revolution Rapture story all over again, and it's not helpful.