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Francisco Oliveira is a talented barber who dedicates his craft to creating wigs for individuals facing hair loss, with a special focus on children. His work goes beyond hairstyling, turning into a form of art that restores confidence and brings joy to those affected by medical conditions.
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Did you know that the band KISS has produced a KISS themed casket?
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national suicide prevention
national domestic violence hotline
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trans lifeline and resources
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list of suicide hotlines by country
domestic violence hotlines and resources by country
sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country
international trans resources
edit: taking this opportunity whilst this gets traction!
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Hi, Tumblr. Itās Tumblr. Weāre working on some things that we want to share with you.Ā
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unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won't opt out. those who don't see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don't anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they're on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn't have opted in but don't/can't opt out in time. automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.
I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can't opt out.
when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you've posted before you opted out?
and if they're especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying "this image is from a blog that's opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn't opted out, so we're selling the image that's on that non-opted-out blog."
making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don't respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.
remember when people said the best thing about tumblr was that it didn't collect your data like other social network sites did
How Twisted Sister Outclassed Congress
Other rockstars: Boy gee I better dress demure and respectable or else all will be lost
Dee Snider, professional chad: You WILL behold me and you WILL get the fuck over it
Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work
Fascinating to see how low energy this ecosystem is. This is the greatest bounty these animals will probably see in their lives, and theyāre sleepily shuffling toward it, because their body literally lacks the energy to move any faster than that. To them it probably feels like breakneck speed.
aren't these the same people who made fun of an octopus to his face
Yes! (Though it was actually a stubby squid) AND they're ALSO the people who had the "fight [with a] crab over mysterious purple orb" that was also going around a little while ago.
Their YT is "EVNautilus" and they have a lot of really cool (and very funny) stuff over there, as well as full streams of diving missions.
One of my favorite clips is one where they're at some brine pools and there's a fish poking around them and it "dies" like four times. The timing for each couldn't be more perfect
Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and bored
Once the birds had learned how to initiate video interactions, the second phase of the experiment could begin. In this āopen callā period, the 15 participating birds could make calls freely; they also got to choose which bird to dial up. Over the next two months, pet parrots made 147 deliberate video calls to other birds. Their owners took detailed notes about the calls and recorded more than 1,000 hours of video footage that the researchers analyzed.
[ id: screenshot from the linked article: "Two weak, older macaws, for example, became very close and even called out to one another "Hi! Come here! Hello!" from their respective screens" followed by a fucked up crying emoji man. /end id ]
Why doesnāt snow melt when you light it on fire?
The answer is: Science is weird, matter is weird
*ACDCās Back In Black starts playing*
Aargh. This kind of thing drives me nuts, because it gets posted, it gets made into a simple image with text, it gets spread all over the fucking internet (twitter, facebook, you name it), and itās just one more piece of misinformation out there.
Coyotes are not āinvasiveā to the Yellowstone National Park region. They are native.
The issue is that wolves were exterminated from the region, until they were reintroduced in 1995. With the wolves gone from the ecosystem, the coyotes there over-populated. (But did not completely fill the wolf niche; coyotes were not a major predator of elk/wapiti, or any kind of predator of bison.) Wolves being reintroduced caused a steep drop in coyote population immediately after the reintroduction (wolves will often regard coyotes as competition, and go after them). But in the end, they really just brought the coyote population down to what it should have been.
How does misinformation spread? By people being too clever.
The title here comes from a reddit thread 2 years ago. Some person found the image and slapped a ācleverā title on it.
Within the thread (but not by the OP), the source of the photo was posted as AmWestPhoto.wordpress.com ā a Wordpress page unfortunately now deleted. But from the Wayback Machine, you can still see the article (from 2018):
āA Thousand Words: The Wolves of Yellowstoneā
Guess what? The original article, by the photographer (whose credit the poster cropped out of the image), never calls the coyotes invasive. (Because they arenāt.) The photo is from 2005 ā not ācoyotes first encountering reintroduced wolves in Yellowstoneā, because they were reintroduced 10 years before that.
And, despite what the photo may imply story-wise, in fact these two coyotes (and 4 more of their friends) drove this black wolf and a pregnant female off of an elk kill the wolves had made. (Even for the biggest, baddest predator, things donāt always go their way.)
(Actually, to do the reddit poster some credit ā they might not have been the person to crop out the photographer credit. They might have happened across the image already cropped. They ARE the person who put the misleading title on the photo, though, which has followed it ever since, mis-educating more and more people.)
The real story is dramatic enough, and interesting enough, without embellishing it, let alone just making up something completely new and inaccurate. But even though Iāve written up a correction post here, and maybe others have back through the reblogs of this, that wonāt really help correct the thousands of shared and reblogged instances of the wrong info that are floating around out there. My corrections are unlikely to make it as far as the original. Most people will just see it and share it; if you arenāt especially interested in wolves and coyotes, and in the Yellowstone wolf reintroduction, then you wonāt know off the bat that this title is wrong.
Anyway, the photographer is Brent Paull, and his website is now here. He has tons of beautiful photos of wolves and other wildlife. I canāt tell whether the write-ups he did on that old Wordpress were ever archived elsewhere. His site has a section for archived newsletters, but that begins in 2019, and the article linked above is from 2018. A pity to lose all those good write-ups he undoubtedly had on the Wordpress page.
A journey to the abyss between the real world and the ideal world, and a romp across our mightiest bridge between the two.
These two pictures are of a peahen (top photo from April 2019, and bird on the left in the bottom is the same bird in November 2019) that is currently going through a transformation from traditional hen plumage to cock plumage- which I suppose makes him a peacock now! The bird is 17 years old and while this sort of transformation is not unheard of (called āhenopauseā because it usually happens to older hens), itās not usually such a stark difference. This bird went all out though!
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Here is an 18 year old pea that began life as a hen, but stopped laying at 14 years old and grew in male plumage!
And a blackshoulder peahen:
Who 14 years later decided nah, and swapped to male blackshoulder colors; QUITE the difference!
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And a video from a very confused man who has had this happen 5 times on his farm so far:
Peacocks said trans rights!
Another transitioning bird was posted to the group Iām in not long ago!
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Another bird, this one only 2 years old, was posted yesterday. The owner had this bird genetically tested after she noticed a lack of displaying among other typicalĀ āpeacockā behavior. The result came back as a hen, which means most likely this birdās working ovary (birds only develop one, the left one) has been compromised or failed to develop normally, resulting in male plumage at a very young age.
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Because this transition only occurs when the henās working ovary (they only have 1, the left one) stops working (or fails to start), thus ceasing production of the hormones which suppress male plumage, they are not fertile. They also do not change sex organs, just their plumage.
Itās Pride again, so please enjoy my collection of trans peafowl!
Just replace the entire bar exam with this honestly
wonder how ikea monkey is doin
His name is Darwin, and he is doing extremely well! After he was found and apprehended from the Toronto IKEA he was found at after escaping his owner's car, he was taken from his owner who had him illegally and brought to the Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary in Ontario. Since then he has managed to learn how to live life to the fullest, and has formed friendships with other members of his species. He even has been taken in by an olive baboon named Pierre that acts as a father figure to him, showing him the ropes of monkey life and keeping him in line when necessary. Suffice to say, Darwin has found a happy ending and won't be making any more IKEA appearences. However, IKEA did donate $10,000 towards Darwin's care at the sanctuary he now calls home.
#as someone who grew up in cougar country this is all 100 percent on point#also: if you have like a jacket or sweater on that you can hold up over your head to make you look even taller thatās a really good move#as long as you can do that while maintaining your balance#to be clear: very few people get attacked by mountain lions BECAUSE mountain lions do not like to attack people#but they are still predator animals and this advice is exactly right for when you are in areas they are
Friendly reminder that this blog is pro-choice and if you donāt think everyone should have full control of their own body, then kindly unfollow me right now and go to hell
could I get some cursed biology facts about shrimp please? thank you!
shrimp are normally pretty slow swimmers, using their swimmerets as paddles to cruise slowly through the water looking for food!
but in an emergency, shrimp can skedaddle AMAZINGLY fast, scooting away at about 30 body-lengths-per-second over short distances, which is so quick that they straight-up look like theyāre teleporting.
small shrimp: *approaches*
big shrimp: donāt like that *yeets self into orbit*
Shrimps can fast travel when enemies are nearby
Why JFK's Casket Stayed Closed
"They have to remember Jack alive."
