Friendly Activism & Animals

The streams cross more than you might think.

[kaelio]

Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[depsidase]

[a-great-immortal]

This is why I get so tired about “whose a real women” and “are transgender people real” and the like because it’s so irrelevant. We have group or people that have an insane suicide rate and we have a solution that reduces that by an insane amount.

No matter how you slice it no theoretical reason nor gender rhetoric can change the gender affirming care is improving more lives than it’ll ever hurt

[aster-is-confused]

i think this belongs here too

all the statistics are massively in favor of gender affirming care no matter how you slice it.

[rowanjasper]

Adding to that last one bc that statistic made me feel nervous post top surgery- post surgical depression is an extremely common response to ALL SURGERY. You feeling really bad in the weeks after gender affirming care does NOT mean you made a mistake or even that you're part of the regret statistic. Those knee surgery and back surgery folks also got it too!!

[jaubaius]

🔥 A giant curious moose inspecting a wildlife photographer 🔥

[mornington-the-crescent]

Never forget: Moose are legit Ice Age megafauna that never died out.

[dr-falcon-fox-and-coyote]

He just….just….pet the wild moose…the bravery, the hutzpah

[thegreenmeridian]

The forbidden snoot!

[kedreeva]

With roughly 3 seconds of looking for a PROPER source, (here), it turns out that the moose, named Lovey, while indeed wild, is also very familiar with this photographer (Dan, or akshiloh on instagram), who has spent Lovey’s entire lifetime cultivating a friendship with her. This is why the photographer is able to pet a moose. Please do not try this at home.

Here is the origin video, and the channel has extra footage of Lovey:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwud7CtlNlb/?igshid=ijuqxp1r1ihc

Dan lives in Alaska and moose cows apparently give birth right up next to his house at least once a year (different cows every year!), of which Lovey was one. The moose cows in his area seem to be used to him, if not outright friendly with him, and it’s clear he has years of experience doing what he does. He advises on most of his videos that folks should not attempt to interact with large wild animals as it can be very dangerous.

[theconcealedweapon]

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

pride juice (it makes you gay and transes your gender) 🧃🏳️‍🌈

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

and alas, the long-awaited gender fluid ✨

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sam Reich: for once, this Game Changer episode isn't specifically targeting Brennan Lee Mulligan!

Ally Beardsley: Think Again

[stitchthisfiona]

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

[cleolinda]

[cleolinda]

[lotus0kid]

[lotus0kid]

[pomme-poire-peche]

[lotus0kid]

[sashaforthewin]

[jack-of-no-cows]

[ghirahimbo]

[dumbbitchawards]

I cant understand people who are like "why is everyone in aziraphale's neighbourhood gay" like my brother in christ he lives in soho

[dumbbitchawards]

Did aziraphale move to soho because its the gay area or did soho become the gay area because aziraphale moved in and gay people began naturally congregating around him

[nonasuch]

[fellshish]

girl help the eldritch horrors are organising a pride and prejudice party and making us dance to mirror their forbidden and repressed love. yes there is a michael jackson thriller video reenactment outside trying to get in. no yeah i still want that rare doctor who annual

[fathermulcahyofficial]

[important-animal-images]

[katameme-deactivated20250120]

[teamwhimsy]

Oh my God my vandalism has escaped containment

[nonasuch]

[danwithouttheplan]

I like big butts and yet I possess the capability to lie

[charlottan]

-one of the two guards

[fossilizedmiku-deactivated20260]

(-@4rsene)

[mistergandalf-deactivated201601]

one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

[mistergandalf-deactivated201601]

some of my favorite tags on this post

[theelvenkingshalls]

Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.

Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.

Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?

Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.

[jumpingjacktrash]

to be fair, you’d assume the name means “there’s a lot of spiders here,” not, “there is one spider the size of a draft horse here.” so you go up expecting to have to shoo a lot of skeeter eaters out of your tent, and instead you have to figure out how to rope and shoe godzillarantula.

[ceescedasticity]

Hmmm…

They do live in a world where godzillarantulas feature prominently in mythology and history (Ungoliant plunged the world into darkness, scared the crap out of Sauron’s old boss, etc) and existed within the last century in Mirkwood. Assuming they ever talk to anyone who’s been to Mirkwood. They… probably know they were giant spiders in Mirkwood pretty recently? It’s hard to figure out how much anyone in Middle-earth has been talking to anyone else when we didn’t actually see it.

On the other hand – what if it’s the giant evil spiders’ prominence in history/mythology that’s causing trouble? What if lots of evil/nasty things/places get called “spider” just to indicate how nasty and evil they are, rather than any association with literal spiders, and it’s just… overloaded? Maybe the bad part of town in Minas Tirith is the Spider District. Maybe every tavern trying to be edgy calls itself the Spiderweb.

Actually spider/Ungoliant references could be really appealing to Gondorians trying to be edgy. They’re dark and evil! Plunged the world into darkness! But they AREN’T involved in the war they’re actually fighting, they aren’t directly associated with Sauron at all, so getting too interested in them would be creepy without being potentially treasonous. Because no one’s ACTUALLY going to worship those dangerous but not epic spiders up in Mirkwood, and no one’s heard anything from any proper spawn of Ungoliant in ages and ages.

In fact, spider/Ungoliant references might be appealing to ORCS trying to express that something is nasty and creepy! Nobody likes Ungoliant.

Maybe Faramir’s been to fourteen different Spider Caves across Ithilien, and half of them he didn’t even see regular spiders in, they’re just dark and damp and may have had orcs at some point, or something, and at some point in history someone got spooked. So you know, it’s POSSIBLE Spider Pass has something to do with spiders? But really it just means people don’t like it.

(The problem with this theory is we never actually SAW anyone overusing spider references. But it’s plausible they would!)

[wordswithkittywitch]

“The average spider on Middle Earth is the size of a dinner plate” is a statistical error. The average spider on Middle Earth is smaller than a coin. Cirith Ungol (lit: Spiders Gorge), which contains a spider larger than a horse, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

OH MY GOD

[superstressedspidergirl]

@dendritic-trees

[theleakypen]

Come for the Tolkien linguistics, stay for the Spiders Georg reference

[roach-works]

this map, by jonathan hull, shows all the places in the USA named after the devil or hell. assuming big giant awful spiders were a common thing in middle earth, it’s likely that there were a shit ton of Spider Stairways. 

you don’t wander into Devil’s Lick assuming that satan himself is gonna give you a rimjob. you presumably also don’t head up Spider Stairs assuming an arachnid the size of a cottage is gonna try and eat your friend. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

FUN FACT: A huge portion of the “Devil’s [OBJECT]” names in Wyoming are from a poor bastard called John Coulter, who was probably the first white man to see Yellowstone! He saw it because he got seperated from the Lewis and Clark expidition on their way back east, decided that with winter coming on, he should head south to stay ahead of the weather, rather than east to try to catch up with the party, and instead got lost inside the Yellowstone caldera, the COLDEST fucking part of Wyoming, with its scalding, posionous geysers, earthquakes, massive packs of wolves that weren’t afraid of people yet, and temperatures hitting as low as Negative 40, and naturally assumed that he had somehow taken a wrong turn into the Nnth Circle of Hell.

He lived, managed to get out of the caldera, took extensive notes on the landscape, eventunally met up with some Blackfoot tribesmen who gave him a horse and directions to the nearest european settlement, and he left, naming every single notable feature after hell or the Devil, because Wyoming is clearly His Infernal Country.

So as far as Frodo knows, “Spiders Pass” was just named by a particularly disgruntled and arachnophobic field cartographer.

[babyanimalgifs]

Coyote found a squeaky toy I accidentally left outside. Turns out coyote love squeaky toys too. 

(Source)

[samanthalan]

A danger baby!!! 😭😭😭

[catchymemes]

[tio-trile]

When I was a kid in Chengdu, China, there’s a public phone number you could call to ask about general stuff like train schedule, the weather, phone numbers to businesses, etc. I thought I could ask them anything, so I once called the number and asked “do pineapples grow on trees or the ground?” and the operator, after a moment of silence, said “go ask your mom” and hung up.

[catchymemes]

The man at the end was NOT happy 😭😭😭

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[handypolymath]

fan function: i want to solve the canon for X

fan friction: i want to add X to canon

fan fraction: i want to divide the canon by zero

[diycraftsnmore]