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vladimir nabokov’s first letter to his future wife, véra (26 july 1923)

bunjywunjy

Everyone's meming this weird deformed raccoon named "Jimothy" but all I wanna know is, is he in pain :(

Like from all the vids I've seen he seems to be behaving normally but at the same time wild animals mask any symptoms of pain or injury since they would be easy targets for predators so they could be in horrible agony and you wouldn't know from just looking.

I just hope this "wholesome" meme everyone's having a good laugh over isn't actually horribly and ignorantly cruel 😭

I did some research on him when he first showed up!

short spine syndrome is known in dogs and it does not seem to cause extreme pain, nor does it shorten an animal's life- but it does present mobility issues and probably causes some postural pain. overall it's more of a static functional disability than a painful deteriorating condition, at least as far as we can tell.

enjoy away!

hellbent-boy

My question is, is this comparable to human dwarfism? Obviously there are tons of versions of dwarfism, but is short spine syndrome also a human thing?

bunjywunjy

no, humans can't get short spine syndrome so it's not really related to any of the multiple syndromes that can cause human dwarfism

seekeroftheextraordinary

Here's a racoon biologist talking about Jimothy. Basically, she thinks that he's probably in pain (unsure bc she hasn't personally examined him), and might die from being hit by a car or eating unheathily due to human habituation.

zhanael

Not just any raccoon biologist, that's Tumblr's own @raccoonmilf, aka the founder of the original Dashcon; she posted that five days ago. But yes, his condition is probably painful, because of the pressure he puts on his spine just living as a raccoon. Dogs with this condition use their spine differently and can be accommodated.

Also "short spine syndrome" isn't a real diagnosis.

raccoonmilf

Yeah, he’s probably in pain. Additionally, humans can get “short spine syndrome.” It’s not a real medical diagnosis, but the kind Jimothy likely has (spondylocostal dysostosis) does occur in humans. And yes, it is a form of dwarfism (short-trunk dwarfism, to be specific.)

If you google it, you can find both human and veterinary X-rays. I’m not gonna post pics here though because I know a lot of folks don’t like bones.

kropotkindersurprise

July 22, 2026 - People around the USA are taking down Flock AI surveillance cameras. [video]

noneedtofearorhope

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

butchfagminotaur

on another note i know i’ve ranted about this before but im mad about it again

true crime has done irreparable fucking damage to middle class white women

every time i see some middle class white mom of two saying “girlies! you need to get a visible tattoo because then a rando won’t try to snatch you in broad daylight in the middle of the walmart checkout to put you into sex trafficking!” i get pissed off because you are NOT the primary target of trafficking! poor children of colour in underdeveloped countries, indigenous women, sex workers, these are the people in danger!

true crime podcasts always talk about the rare instance a middle class white woman is taken and so these true crime girlies only ever hear about it happening to women like them and start thinking they’re the main target, but if there were a true crime podcast for every poor non-white child who has been trafficked there wouldn’t be enough data centres in the entire world to hold them all! the fact that white women are the focus of these things is because society only gives a shit about white women, and turns a blind eye when women of colour are the ones being victimized!

i’m not saying that middle class white women are completely safe in society, far from it. but the fact that these podcasts prioritize stories of white women is because of white supremacy, and comes with the underlying sentiment of “these stories matter because they happened to the group of people it’s not supposed to happen to”, and the way white women are eating it up and making themselves the centre of the issue is a huge fucking problem

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escuerzoresucitado

One of the darkest moments of France’s colonial history has never been properly acknowledged. That could be about to change.

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wandering

insta • twt • bsky

what-even-is-thiss

I know that lesbian is also a word that can refer to someone from the island of lesbos and when Herodotus says that a king “sent his lesbians” to do something he’s referring to soldiers from lesbos

but I can’t get the image out of my head of a king or general pointing at a city and yelling “go, my lesbians!” and then a bunch of gay women running in to burn it down

catsofyore

Business lunch. This is from a negative in my collection and when I posted this to Bluesky previously, a sharp-eyed follower identified the likely location as the dock in front of the Lightship Ambrose in NYC!

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ME AND WHO

shieldfoss

#why do they call it the little death if not to remind you to do a post mortem.

lmao

closertotheheartofthesunrise

no no @nogoodhorsethief, you have something here

luna-azzurra

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

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herpsandbirds

This is easily one of the CRAZIEST videos I've ever gotten. I was rafting down a river when a Yellow Jacket came, landed on my bright pink waterproof phone pouch, and started drinking from the water droplets that had gathered there.

The most amazing part is how the water droplet magnifies the Hornet's mouth parts, so you get to see them up-close!!!! It was FASCINATING to witness!