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alisonzai

hilarioushumorfromouterspace

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keeps me going

guerrillatech

esoanem

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

datasoong47

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

blacktabris

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

thegreenpea

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

wakandamama

Masai giraffes look cool af

uzumaki-rebellion

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

sepiaseraph-deactivated20221120

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

rattle-my-stars

littlegreenfag-deactivated20240

reblog if you're an autistic person who would make a better snl host than elon musk, know an autistic person who would make a better snl host than elon musk, or just really hate elon musk

origamicrow

take a break while watching this little bunny cross your dash

tiralatele

finofilipino

Wait for the master.

thebroccoligoblin

The amount of confidence oozing from this dude

sosuperawesome

Embroidered Brooches and Decor

Magical Fern on Etsy

sosuperawesome

The Power of Words / Power of Music Pins

Mu And CoCo on Etsy

humorstar

saccharinescorpion

That design document predated the decision to exclude gay relationships in the game. Its pages described a web of social interactions, in which every kind of romantic relationship was permitted. That week, Barrett confounded the expectations of his disbelieving boss. He successfully wrote the basic code for social interactions, including same-sex relationships.

“In hindsight, I probably should have questioned the design,” Barrett, who is gay, said. “But the design felt right, so I just implemented it. Later, Will Wright stopped by my desk,” Barrett said. “He told me that liked the social interactions, and that he was glad to see that same-sex support was back in the game.” Nobody on the team questioned Barrett’s work. “They just pretty much ignored it,” he said. “After a while, everyone was just used to the design being there. It was widely expected that E.A. would just kill it, anyway.”

In early 1999, before E.A. had a chance to kill the design, Barrett was asked to create a demo of the game to be shown at E3. The demo would consist of three scenes from the game. These were to be so-called on-rails scenes—not a true, live simulation but one that was preplanned, and which would shake out the same way each time it was played, in order to show the game in its best light.

One of the scenes was a wedding between two Sims characters. “I had run out of time before E3, and there were so many Sims attending the wedding that I didn’t have time to put them all on rails,” Barrett said.

On the first day of the show, the game’s producers, Kana Ryan and Chris Trottier, watched in disbelief as two of the female Sims attending the virtual wedding leaned in and began to passionately kiss. They had, during the live simulation, fallen in love.

TIL i learned that the team behind The Sims had originally decided to leave same-sex relationships out of the game until a newbie on the team by the name of Patrick J. Barrett III coded all basic interactions of the game due to one of his senior team members being on vacation, TIL Barrett unknowingly had been given an old design document and everyone just assumed someone else had reversed their previous decision and rolled with it, and TIL that all that plus a rushed demo led to the team’s presentation at that year’s E3 featuring an unplanned lesbian kiss

parakavka

bloodyvalerie

Transphobes can die mad 🤷🏻

femmesweetheart

A closer look because these ladies deserve to be appreciated 💓

aeforvirra

yes, always 🌻 here are some photos from the 1920s and early 30s!

theabigailthorn

For added historical context, there’s a reason all the people in these photos are white, and it’s because if you were trans and white in the 50s you could maybe get some sliver of acceptance, if you also assimilated into the dominant norms for your gender. Christine Jorgensen got her own show (briefly, before she was later hounded in the press); Lucy Hicks Anderson and Jim McHarris got arrested.