Hey, welcome~ @kai-watertribe - Tumblr Blog

Me: Just because you can’t feel the old gods, don’t assume they’re dead. They’ve been asleep but when they wake, you’ll feel like a fool

My co-worker who sits next to me at my new office job, after literally just asking how I am: What the actual fuck

incendavery

energie………..

eloseeoh

playygrl-deactivated20221219

People: What do you do for a living?

Me: What i want.

allhailnjadaka

YEP

wadey-wilson

mcu + improvised scenes

raylalas

Does marvel even write scripts

wadey-wilson

chicken-fluff-butts

*slappy wattle noises*

fuckyouasshole123-deactivated20

haha just like cat

durbikins

funny noise

toothydimwit

cat login sound

fuckyouasshole123-deactivated20

haha just like chicken

mysharona1987

nocountryforlesbians

assigned goth at birth

nocturan

(Not so) Fun fact: conservatives believe that this was a subliminal message from satanists foreboding the takeover of “good ‘ol ‘merican values” and that witches everywhere are cursing babies so that they become Evil and Gay™. That Celine Dion is a satanic high priestess and that this was her warning to the world

I wish I was joking. Just throw the whole GOP away y'all

that-twink-over-there

wolveswolves

Four Canadian wolves airdropped into Isle Royale National Park, Michigan to hunt moose and reproduce

March 2019 - A crack team of Canadian wolves were airdropped in Michigan last week to carry out two important missions—hunting moose and making babies.

The four wolves were captured by specialists at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF) and transferred to Isle Royale National Park, a wildlife preserve on an archipelago in Lake Superior.

The relocation is part of an ongoing joint project with the US National Park Service to restore a healthy population of the iconic predators to the island chain after years of decline. If all goes to plan, the wolves will also cull the booming moose population, which is damaging the island’s ecology due to the herd’s overconsumption of plantlife.

The Canadian quartet joins an existing group of four wolves in the park. Two of those wolves are the last surviving descendents of the island’s original pack, while the other pair were captured in Minnesota and introduced to the park in 2018. The new total population of eight wolves is equally split between males and females.

The Isle Royale wolf population has experienced dramatic booms and busts since scientists first started studying it in 1958.

Since the study began 60 years ago, fluctuations in populations of wolves and moose on the island were studied because of how direct the predator-prey relationship is between the two species. Wolves were the island moose’s only natural predator and moose were the wolves’ main prey. So when one species’ numbers grew because of good food availability, limited disease or good weather; the other proportionally declined; and vice versa. Wolves helped stabilize moose herd numbers by preying on the old, young and sick, while strong moose numbers ensured that the wolves had enough to eat during the long, brutal winters. Both helped keep the ecosystem of the island in balance.

But by 2011, the wolf population had taken a sharp nosedive and by just five years later, only two wolves remained because of inbreeding on the islands after the wolves living there became largely stranded from the mainland

Historically, the wolves had come to the island via an ice bridge between the island and the Canadian mainland. For decades, they would continue to use similar ice bridges, which would usually form for about 50 days a year during the winter, to move to and from the mainland. New wolves would come, old wolves would leave; regular, seasonal migrations were common.

However, over the last 20 years, warming temperatures made these ice bridges less and less common, and when they did form, they were not consistent. This limited the wolves ability to leave the island and prevented new mainland wolves from joining the pack. With no new wolves, the genetic diversity of the pack declined through inbreeding, the wolves stopped thriving, and their numbers dwindled.

The newcomers were captured by OMNRF teams that fired net guns from aircraft. The animals were sedated and examined by veterinarians before and after their helicopter trip to ensure they were healthy enough for release. They were also deliberately selected to be over two or three years old, when wolves become sexually mature enough to breed, but not too old, so that they have a shot of surviving multiple breeding seasons. All of them are collared so that researchers can track their movements.

The elite Canadian crew includes a female and male from a pack based on the mainland near Wawa, Ontario, and two males from Michipicoten Island Provincial Park. The female was released on Isle Royale last Tuesday, while her pack mate was set loose a day later. The Michipicoten males were introduced separately to the island on Thursday and Friday.

One of the wolves in its transport crate. (Photo Credit: A. McLaren / OMNRF)

The wolves are probably a bit weirded out by the week’s turn of events, according to John Vucetich, an ecologist at Michigan Technological University and leader of the Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale project.

“They live in families, so imagine what happens to a dog when they’re plunked into a foreign place,” Vucetich told The Guardian. “They are being introduced to each other. It’s tense and nervous, and it’s tough to find food in a new place. It’s stressful.”

That said, the wolves are apparently adjusting to their new homes and pack mates without major issues. Mark Romanski, who is the project manager for the park’s wolf reintroduction as well as Division Chief of Natural Resources for Isle Royale National Park said he was “blown away by the resilience of these wolves,” in a statement.

“Within hours after undergoing capture and handling and arriving on Isle Royale, [the wolves] immediately got on the trail of their pack mates,” Romanski said. “These large males, all around 90 pounds, will almost certainly know what to do when they encounter a moose.”

Moose are the main food source for the Isle Royale wolves, and their unique predator-prey relationship has fascinated scientists for decades. As the wolf population dwindled, the moose population exploded from 975 individuals in 2013 to about 1,500 in 2018. This ecological disruption may sound like a good deal for moose at first, but a similar population boom during the 1990s led to thousands of moose dying of starvation in the winter.

Isle Royale National Park officials and their collaborators hope to avoid similar calamities by introducing 20 to 30 wolves to the park over the coming years. As Phyllis Green, superintendent of Isle Royale National Park, said in a statement, “To see these wolves disappear into the forests of Isle Royale and to have an opportunity to start a new generation of wolves on the island fulfilled a major objective in the first year of reestablishing the population.”

>> More on the Isle Royale situation

Photo: A white wolf is airlifted and released at Isle Royale National Park. (Photo Credit: OMNRF, National Park Service, and National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation)

Source, source

opossummypossum

Please remember

Opossums are not rodents! They’re not even closely related to them. They are marsupials.

abstractobject

Wrong! They are baby

spooniestrongart

fadingnowimruined-deactivated20

Not just opioids. Things like Seroquel too.

squirreltastic

https://www.drugs.com/article/grapefruit-drug-interactions.html heres a article with a list about drugs that could be effected by grapefruit

transmxnfenris

I knew this was with my sertraline so didn’t eat it but wow o.o

shaneduderson

Oh shit I’m on a really high dose you just saved my ass

flootzavut

I think it can also interfere with birth control pills.

illness-adnauseum

If you take any oral medication, assume you cannot consume grapefruit by default, until you are reliably informed otherwise. Including for OTC meds and supplements.

Grapefruit ain’t that good.

But your health is.

Parden my obnoxious giant rainbow, it’s for maximum visibility. This shit is important.

retrogamingblog

This 7-year-old boy is making light-up Pokeball badges to keep kids safe while playing Pokemon Go in the dark.

Check out his gofundme page here

weed-breath

This is so cute

pigmentblue-deactivated20140824

HE TALKED TO ME

followthespinningarrow

I THOUGHT DEER DIDN’T MAKE SOUND OH MY GOSH THIS IS ADORABLE

andthenthereshaley-deactivated2

“YOU ARE SO CUTE” “NEH!”

tinkaballa-blog

CAUSE OF DEATH: CUTENESS

succulove

!!!!

powerfulwizard

men have set the bar is so fucking low, where i think a lot of girls get distracted by the questions of “is my boyfriend a good person? does he respect me? will he hurt me? is he interested in anything other than my appearance?” rather than “are me and my boyfriend compatible? do we have fun together? do we have interests that align? am i enthusiastic about my love for him?”

powerfulwizard

there was this guy who liked me on okcupid, and he would message me a LOT, and i never ever responded. his profile was basically, paragraphs of assurances that he’s a good person like and was all long versions of saying “i like consent, i dont like cops, i dont like racism, i don’t like toxic masculinity, i dont abuse people, i dont condone pedophilia” and i feel like all that stuff should be a given. all that stuff shouldn’t be what i’m thinking about when looking for a long term romantic partner. his profile didn’t have much about his interests, or much about anything at all. it was all about his politics and morals. all i knew about him from his profile is that he probably passes the very low bar of not being a horrible person.

powerfulwizard

“people are more than their politics” shouldn’t mean “people can be horrible racists and still be good people.” it should mean “you deserve to seek out more in friends and partners other than just the lowest bar of not being a horrible person”

powerfulwizard

And this isn’t about whether a man’s politics are genuine or not. Its about whether they have any other redeemable characteristics besides their politics. A man can have great politics that are completely genuine and still be just a boring dude whose future interests don’t align with yours.

red-wasabi89

My abuela used to say” dating/marrying a person because they’re good is like buying the car because it came with the steering wheel.

powerfulwizard

Holy shit this is the best comment on this

luminarai

I never add onto these so sorry if it’s annoying but I felt like this was relevant: whenever one of my female friends or cousins would get a new boyfriend and all she could say about him was “he’s nice” my mom would always go “So are the cows. you wouldn’t date them”

powerfulwizard

Holy shit here is the next best comment on this.