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What they say: "I'm anti zoo"
What they mean: "I've seen pictures of outdated zoos from the 1800s and assume that all zoos are that way. I also don't understand that zoos are one of the few things on this planet keeping us from completely destroying its biodiversity. I have not been to a zoo since I was eight and refuse to go back to one with an open mind."
In all of the PewDiePie discourse, I think my favorite recurring defense is, “It was the heat of the moment! He was angry at the game! We’ve all been there!”
I like videogames. I’ve liked videogames my whole life. And I’ve raged with the best of them. Remember Red Dead Revolver? Those fucking duels? The ones that took HOURS to beat. Remember the early days of playing Duty on Live when you had no idea what you were doing and got your head blown off? I do. I had to MAKE UP NEW SWEAR WORDS to express my rage. I was 12 with the mouth of a sailor because I just kept getting blown away.
But, for a more recent example, a few months back I finally got an Xbox One. And I got Fallout 4 because it seemed like it would be fun. But I was wrong. Because I SUCK at Fallout 4. I don’t know what it is about that game but I suck worse at F4 than most people suck at ANYTHING. Imagine dropping 3 bills on a new console and another 30 bucks on a game you thought you’d love just to completely and utterly BLOW at it. I die… So much. So much. SO MUCH. And I scream. I rage. I curse the heavens. But do you know how many racial epithets I’ve thrown around? Do you know how many times I’ve said the N-word? None. And do you know why? Because I’m not a fucking racist. It never occurred to me to casually hurl that slur at my TV because it’s not part of my everyday vocabulary. I haven’t shouted it at raiders because I’ve never used it in my life. I am, however, from New Jersey, perhaps the swearing capital of the world, and so I’ve thrown out words like twat-bag and dick-fuck and shit-skull but racial slurs? They just don’t instinctively come out of my mouth when I’m upset at a fucking videogame. Never. Not once. Because they’re not words that I use in any other part of my life.
This is so not the first time PewDiePie has done or said something utterly disgusting, and it won’t be the last, especially with all of you sucking his dick no matter what he does. I’d love to use the hypothetical, “What if he said something massively offensive like ‘kill all Jews’? Would you still defend him?”
But he did. And you did. PewDiePie will go down in history as both the most subscribed YouTuber and somehow the most bulletproof. And all of you PewDiePie stans, the ones so content and complacent about casual, passive racism, will be right there with him. Congratulations on the guy you stan. You, uh, you sure picked a good one.
A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.
I have literally never seen a single person say you can’t call yourself the slur, I don’t understand why people who like this word are so determined to hallucinate these commands. Just respect our damn right to not be called it ourselves, because it IS a slur. Words don’t become slurs based on usage. “Gay” and “lesbian” have never been slurs, no matter how much venom they’ve been hurled with. You wouldn’t call us Fags and Dykes United, you’d throw around those terms with a certain degree of wariness, which you should be applying to “queer”.
And I hate this “Queer History” that proponents always pull out of their arse when the subject comes up. A lot of people in your circles may have been all about using that word! And that’s great! For them! But you can’t fucking telling me that EVERY LGBT person in the 70s and 80s was completely fine with it. You can’t tell me every LGBT person over 40 today is happy to be called a queer. It’s absolutely untrue. And jesus, even if it was true (which it isn’t), that doesn’t change the fact that a lot of people are currently uncomfortable with being referred to as such. You don’t need to make these threads just to establish that personal usage - fine, blanket usage - bad.
And all this basic decency aside, what the fuck, “the t was moving from transsexual to transgender, and what about married bi folks”. Last I checked Brenda both “transsexual” and “transgender” begin with T, and bi people who get married are still bi. Just use the damn acronym when you’re making sweeping statements, Christ.
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Meet the bush dog of South America.
Since that (albeit deceptive) picture of the maned wolf is going around, I thought I would post this. This little buddy is actually the closest living relative of the maned wolf. Of course, their both the only living members of their respective genera so they aren’t that closely related, but given their evolutionary isolation it’s as close as one can get for a living relative. So, let’s take a moment to revel in the irony that this stubby little cutie is a cousin of that leggy maned wolf.
Bush dogs are diurnal hunters, preferring wet savannas and forests. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, they typically hunt in pack of 10-12 individuals and communicate through whines. Their favorite prey is the paca, a large rodent.
Let’s just appreciate this post that I had forgotten about. It may have gone largely ignored, but I love it still.
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I should just kill some shit.
My sister needs the orphan child, not it’s infested puppet.
I know there’s not a decent meal to be found anyway. I might just walk to Subway tonight. Good times.
My step dad got up early last night, so I haven't had a cigarette in over 24 hours now, nor have I eaten since like 2am last night. I feel like dying and I don't want to be here anymore. Why is this my life?
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Artist: Walt Kuhn Year: 1922 Type: Oil on canvas
KNOW YOUR BATS: Emballonuridae family
Emballonuridae is a family of bats commonly known as sheath-tailed or sac-winged bats. I’m surprised these bats aren’t better known, because they have very uniquely appealing little faces. I think it’s the perpetually upturned nose.
They also have a stunning variety of colors, from the pure-white northern ghost bat to the dark chocolate of the Hill’s sheath-tailed bat.
Among them are some excellent camoflaugers, such as the proboscis bat, which looks like a bit of lichen or damaged bark on a tree.
In fact, many species in Emballonuridae roost on the trunks and branches of trees, in broad daylight, depending on their camouflage to keep them safe. They like to do it in neat little lines.
Sometimes they also stack.
You may have noticed their short little tailed. They’re sometimes called sheath-tailed bats because these tails protrude out of the membrane between their back legs, which can be pulled up to “sheath” the tail. Here’s a video if you don’t quite understand what I mean.
As I mentioned earlier, they’re also called sac-winged bats. This is because they have special pouches near their wrists designed to release pheromones into the air when they flap their wings. Below is a close up of the pouch, closed and then opened.
For the most part these are very small bats, with weights as low as three to four grams- one of the smallest, the proboscis bat, can get caught in spiderwebs and eaten.
Aside from roosting in trees, these bats roost in caves, crevices, and occasionally, human-made structures like wells or stone tombs. Because of this, several species are known as tomb bats. They’re pretty adorable little harbingers of death if you ask me.
Photo credits:
Main set (species in photo caption): Bat Conservation Intl / Jasmine Vink / University of KwaZulu-Natal / Merlin Tuttle / Michael Penney
Emedded in text: Bateleur Nature Reserve / ARKive / Riley Pearce / PSUNHM / Christian Ziegler
