we will beg great auks for their forgiveness

fry. i post a lot about bugs and birds. 23 years old. bugs: #ento | birds: #orni | marine bio: #mbio . sometimes im too lazy to tag. Go jerk off in a lake

[soymoss]

Lil damselfly 🪷 they remind me of little fairies on my walks, everywhere but also impossible to capture on video !!

[an-atlas-or-other]

Soccer players are the horses of men’s sports. They run around in fields for hours on end. They stub their toe and they die. They fall and they die. They run into each other and

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[kawasemi-automatic]

[oakleybillions]

Recently reached master ball rank in pokemon TCGP with my jolteon deck! She reminds me of my cat who also loves chewing wires lol

[burningfudge]

WORST DAY FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN SINCE 1945

GERMANY AND JAPAN OUT AND ITALY NEVER MADE IT IN

AXIS DEFEATED

[astelofvoid]

[vet-and-wild]

you know the obsession with keeping cats indoors is a purely American view of the world? Most Europeans let their cats outdoors without any problems. Many Europeans even think it's cruel to keep them indoors all the time

No, it’s not. European cats aren’t magically smarter and less environmentally impactful than American cats, it’s just more socially acceptable to let them roam. Do you not have cars in Europe? Foxes? Raptors? Stray dogs? Rat poison? Parasites? Diseases? What about the Croydon Cat Killer in England, where the dismemberment of over 400 cats was being investigated, and it turned out that foxes were mutilating the bodies of cats that were killed by cars? Suddenly it’s all ok because it was only horrific death via automobile, instead of decapitation like they suspected? Totally acceptable to outdoor cat owners, who cares if your cat gets hit by a car and dies on the side of the road? There is real concern for the hybridization of wildcats in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but sure, it’s just a US problem. How about how outdoor cats are effectively reducing the protective area of a national park in Poland? How about the increased incidence of lungworms and GI parasites in European free roaming cats? How about this small study from Denmark where 90% of free roaming cats tested positive for GI parasites on necropsy (and the risk was higher in rural areas). Not Europe, but for the sake of completeness, free roaming cats kill ~377 MILLION birds per year in Australia, and 61 million of those kills are thought to be from owned cats. You can also talk to @drferox about how problematic outdoor cats are in Australia. Free roaming cats are bad for the environment, and are put in unnecessary danger. Why don’t you provide enrichment for your cat instead of letting them run around unsupervised where they will kill native wildlife and get sick or injured or die (or all of the above). Other resources from @catsindoors about the impact of domestic cats around the world. Snagged a lot of these links from their blog.

[prettyprettypretty-good-deactiv]

Humans would also be safer and the environment protected if we all just stayed indoors. No passing of parasites, bacteria, or viruses. No harm to other species. No cross breeding either (if that bothers you). Do you want to stay indoors?

[vet-and-wild]

I generally try to ignore responses like this, but I want to address this because I see this ridiculous argument a lot.

The reason that this comparison is inaccurate is because humans have the ability to use reason and make logical choices, but cats don’t. Humans see a car coming and wait until the street is clear to cross. Cats don’t. Humans know not to eat strange food on the ground. Cats don’t. Humans can look up which plants are toxic and avoid them. Cats can’t. Humans don’t eat raw rabbits and rodents that may carry disease. Cats do. Humans who hunt follow laws that prevent them from killing endangered species (besides shitty poachers). Cats don’t.

A far more accurate comparison would be a cat and a toddler. They lack the ability to recognize danger and don’t have the ability to reason that an adult does. I’m sure a toddler would have a great time roaming around the neighborhood, but no one is going to argue in favor of that. People can understand that doing that is irresponsible and dangerous. But no sane person is going to lock their toddler inside and provide them with nothing to do; no one is saying we should do that for cats either. Play with them. Provide cat trees. Rotate their toys. Give them puzzle feeders. And if you want them to go outside you can leash train them. Or build a catio. The options aren’t let them roam vs. never provide them with entertainment. If it is unbearable to entertain and care for a cat that is kept indoors, you probably shouldn’t own a cat.

Would you let your dog roam? Or your bird? How about your rabbit? I’m sure all of these animals would have a great time running (or flying) around the neighborhood, but we generally recognize that this is a bad idea. It’s no different for cats. We are caretakers for our animals, so it is up to us to use our big brains to make logical choices about what they should or shouldn’t do. We have the ability to understand the risks associated with free roaming. Cats don’t. We can weigh risks and benefits before making a decision. Cats can’t.

tldr: Humans have the ability to make logical decisions to keep themselves safe but cats do not.

[scienceshenanigans]

Outdoor cats are also more or less an invasive species. They are such good hunters, they are capable of permanently changing an ecosystem by killing native prey animals. 

Protect your kitty and local biodiversity–keep them inside!

[r33naytealeaves]

I just wanted to tack on that, there is no “more or less”, cats are an invasive species. Domesticated animals are invasive species and allowing them to interact with the local environment without monitoring will harm the local biodiversity. Cats especially. Domestic cats have a very high success rate for hunting. Historically, they have lead to multiple extinctions of animals because people brought cats along as pest control and pets.

[neshamama]

ana mendieta, 1976

[kyotoprotocols]

[headspace-hotel]

im still sick and feel like crap so ive been dusting off the ol Pinterest and adding stuff to my nature boards, and whenever im seeing Philosophical posts im getting into strong disagreements with them

[headspace-hotel]

yes there is a lot of ecofascist stuff on there but when saying disagreements i mean a more nebulous sort of way than that

can't fucking find it now but htere was a post that kept getting recommended to me that was like "complexity is not the problem, ambiguity is. simplicity is not the solution, clarity is"

I hated this post. there was not much context for the statement in the post itself so I don't have much of a basis for it (I think there was like, a field of grass in the background or something?), I can imagine contexts where this statement makes sense

But I always thought to myself, "Why is ambiguity a problem?" and it stuck with me like something stuck in my teeth.

Nature troubles people because ambiguity is an eternal presence throughout all of nature, and i observe a culturally programmed need to reduce and eliminate ambiguity instead of calmly accepting it. Nature is nurturing OR she is uncaring. Evolution is elegant OR it is a clusterfuck. Ecosystems are virginal wilderness OR they are tainted by man. Native vs. invasive, natural vs. unnatural, binary binary binary box box box.

In one of my classes my professor (who likes to mess with people who haven't thought about this before) asked the class "What is a forest?" And i was like oh boy we're going to be here FOREVER

Cause like, a forest needs trees right? Okay, how many trees? How close together? What kind of tree? What is a tree? What else is in a forest besides trees? Wildlife? What is a wildlife? And the harder you try to come up with a definition, the worse the definition gets.

That's why its so hard to make laws about alive things, because these things are always going to defy clear definitions in some way or another. We have the endangered SPECIES act but what is a species? We have wilderness conservation but what is a wilderness?

[chainmail-butch]

Hi, its me. The warmest creature in the world. I love you. Im the warmest creature in the world and I love you so much and I need to be in your lap right now. Yes, I know about the heat wave. That's okay though because I was already the warmest creature in the world so I don't mind. I love you and you need to let me sleep in your lap right now. I'm soooo warm and I love you sooo much. If you say no you'll be saying no to a thing that love you. Let me sleep in your lap. When I fall asleep I get warmer. I love you

[everydaylouie]

fluffy

[anarchistmemedistro]

[queersknight]

Guys, i am begging you to start pricing things in hours instead of dollars. It will fuck you up.

[househunting]

$750,000/2 br/1 ba

800 sq ft

Alpine, CA

Built in 1979

"The Davidson Residence designed by architect Robert Thiele and artist James Hubbell, and hand-built by the homeowners, is one of only a handful of structures to see the designers' (as Earth Form Builder) visions fully realized. Singular in its vision and execution, the home is as much a respite from urbanity as a chapel to the surrounding native flora and seasonal stream."

[househunting on substack - free]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I genuinely wish people would stop engaging in algospeak when it comes to topics where discussion can legitimately be diluted by it. I don't know how to drill it into your head that censoring "rape" and "sexual assault" is extremely counterproductive no matter how much discomfort reading the words brings you.

[tamamita]

Strait closed again because the Israelis are way too genocidal and can't stop murdering people

[tamamita]