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The plot expands. Again.
So you remember the first part of Câtaqa doing some Srs Investigation into his lineage?
I got the second bit done.
No refunds on the feels. You read em, you bought em.
Keep reading
Youuuu! *shakes fist, sobs* NO REFUNDS!? I love ya, tho... <3 Excellent writans as always! <3
short trans people be doing stuff, call that micro trans actions
Dammit. I r lol.
More Dog Snapchats On Bored Panda
We donât deserve dogs.
I went to a presentation that showed by thousands of years of breeding weâve bred a bit of our own selves into dogs and made them the most human companions of man.
DâAWWWWWW. I have my own doggos and theyâre lovable derps and I donât deserve them. ;_;
NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
tagged
tagged by @arthur-morgvnâ *mwah!*
rule: weâre snooping on ur music so put your library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs before choosing 10 victims.
âYou Want a Battle? (Hereâs a War)â - Bullet for my Valentine
âGothkillerâ - Eisbrecher
âIâm a Wanted Manâ - Royal Deluxe
âSaturday Nightâ - Misfits
"Fire, Ready, Aimâ - Green Day
"Silver and Coldâ - AFI
"He Isâ - Ghost
"A Demonâs Fateâ - Within Temptation
"Devilâ - Late Night Savior
tagging @harlot-of-oblivion @drusoona @exsultry @synchronmurmurs @lady-of-spades @the-void-queen @jasontoddism @copper-wasp @queenmuzz and for the hell of it @totally-not-vergil >:) And whoever else wants to do this!
Uwohhh thank you friend!!!!! đđđ
Affirmation - Savage Garden
The Duel - Casey Edwards
Cave In - Owl City
Flight of the Zinger - DKC2 OST
Surreal - Ayumi Hamasaki
You Are So Last Summer - Taking Back Sunday
Theme of Vergil - UMvC3
Iron - Woodkid
Beautiful World - Utada Hikaru
Crash And Burn - Savage Garden
Aite, so lemme gently tag uhhhh @julieis5ftofdork @shiranyaaww @bettybattaglia @but-two-days-old @shon95 @music-of-chaos @thelyingelf @possumon And like heck if you feel like sharing yer music, go nuts!!!! â¨â¨
WELL FIEN
(am on mobile right now; will link em later linkeths providedâŚeth)
1: Uematsu Nobuo - The Salt Flats (from Final Fantasy VIII, one of the best damn songs from the whole game, fite me) 2: Alan Kuo - Zero 3: Kim Yoon - November 4: Shikata Akiko - Katayoku no Tori (may actually be read "katahaneâ? idk I donât have furigana on hand but that is what she singsâŚbut itâs usually read âkatayokuâ and thatâs what most transliteration saysâŚaugh must research) 5: Hamada Kenji - Kattou wa Shiroki Yami no Hate ni (is not video, is link to song itself, but hey) 6: Rurutia - Tsuki Senichiya 7: Hosoya Yoshimasa - Kirameku Mono-tachi 8: Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply (âŚshut up) 9: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Toccata - Carpimus Noctem 10: Vangelis - Conquest of Paradise
âŚmy phone is a weeb. :|a
Tagging, uh⌠@silversapphyre, @valkyrjapride, @crybabyxprince, @keeroo92, @sakkajagga, @gunbladequeen, @virberos, @tehrevving, @keirod and @level44endershaman.
Sheeit. Alright, my playlist is...
1: Aoife NĂ Fhearraig - The Best is Yet to Come - MGS4
2: Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary
3: Alison Krauss - A Hundred Miles or More
4: Aoife NĂ Fhearraig - Cianach Corrach
5: Celtic Woman - SiĂşil a RĂşn (Walk My Love)
6: Jenni Vartiainen - Missä muruseni on
7: Chalice and Blade - I Hear You Calling
8: The Chieftains - Lullaby of the Dead
9: The Tannahill Weavers - The Sound of Taransay
10: Radwimps - Sparkle
I'ma tag @silverfyre-kitten, @reisareads,@sleepymegdraws, @blue-vixen and lastly, @tophatsampersandroses.
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I beg your pardon.
*mashes face into refrigerator*
Shitposting (shitreblogging?) while I try to convince my body I will not actually suffocate of snot if I lay down and try to sleep.
Also tempted to go mash my face into my fridge. I blame the Benadryl.
Dammit, Lymle. I donât think Iâve actually _seen_ her do that... but then again, my playthrough of TLH was interrupted. ;_; Can totally see her doing that, though. DAMMIT LYMLE.
Since the ocean has meat, salt, and veg in it, it is technically a big thing of soup. (source)
but itâs COLD >:(
The Ocean Is Gazpacho
I lolâd. Youâre not wrong, though! ... tasty soup though? GIMME ALL THAT SHRIMP CHOWDER SOUP!
So I was told that Human Planet had a segment about pigeons in the Cities episode that I might be interested in and I was honestly so underwhelmed. I havenât finished the episode so maybe thereâs more pigeon stuff but I feel like all I saw was more Birds Of Prey Are The Only Cool And Acceptable Birds and pigeons are Trespassers In Our Urban World Who Shit On Everything And Are Useless On Top Of It. Which isnât true and Iâm so tired of this being framed as some horrible burden that humanity must face. Pigeons are the victims here, not us.Â
Hate of pigeons didnât start until the 20th Century. Before that was about 9,900 years of loving them. The rock pigeon was domesticated 10,000 years ago and not only that, we took them freaking everywhere. Pigeons were the first domesticated bird and they were an all-around animal even though they were later bred into more specialised varieties. They were small but had a high feed conversion rate, in other words it didnât cost a whole lot of money or space to keep and they provided a steady and reliable source of protein as eggs or meat. They home, so you could take them with you and then release them from wherever you were and theyâd pretty reliably make their way back. Pigeons are actually among the fastest flyers and they can home over some incredible distances (what fantastic navigators!). They were an incredibly important line of communication for multiple civilisations in human history. You know the first ever Olympics? Pigeons were delivering that news around the Known World at the time. Also, their ability to breed any time of year regardless of temperature or photoperiod? That was us, we did that to them, back when people who couldnât afford fancier animals could keep a pair or two for meat/eggs.Â
Rooftop pigeon keeping isnât new, itâs been around for centuries and is/was important to a whole variety of cultures. Pigeons live with us in cities because we put them there, we made them into city birds. I get that there are problems with bird droppings and thereâs implications for too-large flocks. By all means those are things we should look to control, but you donât need to hate pigeons with every fibre of your being. You donât need to despise them or brush them off as stupid (they have been intelligence tested extensively as laboratory animals because guess what other setting theyâre pretty well-adapted to? LABORATORIES!) because they arenât stupid. Theyâre soft intelligent creatures and I donât have time to list everything I love about pigeons again. You donât need to aggressively fight them or have a deep desire to kill them at all. Itâs so unnecessary, especially if you realise that the majority of reasons pigeons are so ubiquitous is a direct result of human interference.
We havenât always hated pigeons though, Darwinâs pigeon chapter in The Origin of Species took so much of the spotlight that publishers at the time wanted him to make the book ONLY about pigeons and to hell with the rest because Victorianâs were obsessed with pigeons (as much as I would enjoy a book solely on pigeons, itâs probably best that he didnât listen). My point is, for millenia, we loved pigeons. We loved them so much we took them everywhere with us and shaped them into a bird very well adapted for living alongside us.
Itâs only been very recently that we decided we hated them, that we decided to blame them for ruining our cities. The language we use to describe pigeons is pretty awful. But it wasnât always, and I wish we remembered that. I wish we would stop blaming them for being what we made them, what they are, and spent more time actually tackling the problems our cities face. Â
I just have a lot of feelings about how complex and multidimensional hating pigeons actually is
ALL OF THIS
And also pigeon poop was a very valuable fertilizer before we had other options, people would hire guards to stop thieves from stealing their flockâs poop.
#LovePigeonsAgain2016
Late night, reblogging, so bear with me here⌠Thank you for posting much of my thoughts over the past year and a half! I am known by many as âthat guy who keeps the raptorsâ. Yes this is true, I do keep and handle raptors for educational purposes, but what many fail to realize is, I am fascinated with pigeons. My interest with birds began with the obvious, the raptors, corvids, and parrots. Then I discovered pigeons. These wonderful little birds with big attitudes and the incredible ability to thrive among people. The organization I work with got its first pigeon a little over a year ago. She was a rescue with nowhere else to go. I was quickly drawn to her character and attitude about life. We rarely handled her, but we did spend time with her. She grew attached to our volunteers very quickly because their were no other birds she could socialize with in our facility.Â
We never intended to train her for educational programs. It was a job reserved for our raptors. It was our pigeon who decided she would be a part of what we were doing. One day, when we entered her enclosure to change water and food, she decided to fly to my hand and perch like our raptors do.Â
No training, no treats, just the reward of being with us.Â
What we hadnât noticed for the couple months prior was her watching us. This brilliant little bird had been watching us every day as we trained and worked with our raptors. Finally she decided she didnât want to be left out any longer. She made her place on our hands.
This occurred several times before we finally put her on a glove and brought her into the public. Needless to say, she was right at home. She fluffed up and preened the entire evening while people gawked and asked us why we had a pigeon on one glove and a hawk on another.Â
Since then, weâve added 5 more rescued pigeons to our growing flock. And our pigeon (Tybalt) has become a mainstay ambassador for our programs. Each of our pigeons are incredibly fun to watch and interact with. Pigeons simply donât get enough love. They are marvelous creatures incredibly suited to life alongside people both physically and mentally.Â
Raptors my have been my introduction into birds, but pigeons opened my eyes to a new appreciation for them and the fascinating world of bird cognition.
NOT ONLY are pigeons very amazing, worth our respect, and INTERESTING (did you read any of that stuff above?), but they are beautiful too! Look how lovely:
Photo by .jocelyn.
They have a complex and fascinating social structure, both within a flock and with other individuals:
Photo by Ingrid Taylar
AND THEY ARE JUST SUPER CUTE, HONESTLY:
Photo by Musical Photo Man
Not chickens, but I feel compelled to spread this gospel.
hmmm. this is making me rethink my new york pigeon hate
and, AND, havenât you ever wondered why city pigeons come in a magnificent rainbow of unusual colors?
Most wild animals all look alike within a species, with TINY, RARE individual variations in terms of rare color morphs, unusually big or small animals, different facial markings and other subtleties. But there is no evolutionary benefit to having species where everyone looks slightly different, and in fact, itâs beneficial for species to be similar and consistent, with a distinctive aesthetic. Especially if youâre trying to blend into the environment - a black wolf is all very well, but it looks positively silly in the summer tundra, where its grey/brown/brindley cousins blend in. A white deer has a great aesthetic - and a very short lifespan in the forest. Distinctive Protagonist looks are rare in the wild, simply because natural selection usually comes down heavily on them.
To humans, most wild animals are visually indistinguishable from each other.
As a result, most wild animals are like
âOh itâs obvious - you can tell the twins apart because Kara has a big nose.â
Wild animals usually have a pretty consistent aesthetic within their species. Itâs important to them!
SO WHAT IS GOING ON WITH PIGEONS?
Look, in one small picture youâve got a red color morph in the center, several melanistic dark morphs, a few solid black birds, a few variations on the wildtype wing pattern, a PIEBALD, a piebald copper color morphâŚ
Like, there are LAYERS UPON LAYERS of pigeon diversity in most flocks you see. Pure white ones with black wingtips. Solid brown ones with pink iridescent patches. Pale pinkish pigeons.
WHY IS THAT? When other wild animals consider âbeing slightly fluffier than my brotherâ to be dangerously distinctive in most circumstances? BECAUSE CITY PIGEONS ARENâT TRULY WILD.
MANY OF THEM (POSSIBLY MOST OR ALL) ARE FERAL MIXES.
THEY WERE ONCE BELOVED PETS, SPECIAL MESSENGERS, EXQUISITE SHOW-WINNERS, AND PRIZED LIVESTOCK.
THEIR PRETTY COLORS WERE DELIBERATELY INTRODUCED BY HUMANS.
AND NOW THEIR HUMANS DONâT LOVE THEM ANY MORE.
See, pigeon fanciers bred (and still breed!) a huge array of pigeons. And the resulting swarms of released/discarded/escaped/phased out âfancyâ pigeons stayed around humans. What else were they going to do? They interbred with wildtype pigeons.
Lots of the pigeons you see in public are feral. Theyâre not wild animals. Theyâre citizen animals. Theyâre genetically engineered. And now thatâs what âcityâ pigeons are.
These âwildâ horses are all different colors because theyâre actually feral. Mustangs in the American West are the descendants of imported European horses - theyâre an invasive domestic species that colonized an ecological niche, but they are domestic animals. Their distinctive patterns were deliberately bred by humans. A few generations of running around on the prairie isnât going to erase that and turn them back into wildtypes. If you catch an adult mustang and train it for a short period, you can ride it and have it do tricks and make it love you. Itâs a domestic animal. You canât really do that with an adult zebra.
No matter how many generations these dogs stay on the street and interbreed with one another, they wonât turn back into wolves. They canât. Theyâre deliberately genetically engineered. If you catch one (even after generations of rough living, even as an adult) you can make it stare at your face, care about your body language, and love you.
City pigeons? Well, you donât have to like them, but theyâre in the same boat. Theyâre tamed animals, bred on purpose, living in a human community. Their very bodies are marked with their former ownership and allegiance; they cannot really return to what they once were; if you caught one, you could make it love you (in a limited pigeon-y way.) They have gone to âthe wild,â but not very far from us, and theyâd be happy to come back.
So next time you see a flock of city pigeons, spare a moment to note their diversity. The wing patterns. The pied, mottled and brindled. The color types.
All of it was once meant to please you.
I am now on Team Pigeon. Â Thank you.
Good lawd, this was a great smack to the face from history!
Hello Siouxsie, how can a tulpa and host become as cool as you and Agent Nycto?
DNS Moved to Incapsula
DNS Moved to Incapsula
I know, I know. I said Iâd delegated DNS to CloudFlare. However, a colleague and friend of mine, Kradorex had advised that CloudFlare was suspected of helping booter/stressor services. What is a Booter/Stressor Service? A: A Booter/Stressor Services are generally those that hire out their services. Itâs designed to take down a website or a set of servers. Such as the Playstation Network DDoSâŚ
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DNS Delegated to CloudFlare
DNS Delegated to CloudFlare
So, Much as I hate CloudFlareâs particular set-up⌠I have decided to resume delegating Heimkoma Servicesâs DNS duties to CloudFlare, as they are a pretty good CDN (Content Delivery Network) company with a fairly robus DNS infrastructure. My only gripe with regards to CloudFlare is the fact that you cannot use back-up nameservers. Letâs say you want to take advantage of CloudFlareâs many DNSâŚ
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Upgrading to Windows 10
Upgrading to Windows 10
So, Windows 10 was released on July 29th. Naturally, I upgraded the moment I knew it was available. The process wasnât quite as smooth as Iâd hoped it was. It took several redownloads and attempts at updating Razer hardware before I was able to successfully upgrade to Windows 10. What I Did Wrong: I did not install the Razer updates first. In fact, I didnât install all the updates that WindowsâŚ
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Fluffy = Keiro!
Dummy deer = Buck!
Yay, fluffies and awesomeness! :D
Thanks, Buck! <3
Thoughts on Hearing Aids Part Two
Thoughts on Hearing Aids Part Two
So, I briefly touched on the subject of how much a hearing aid costs in Part One. I did not discuss the subject of why a hearing aid is expensive.
I will discuss that subject below in this post, now.
Why are hearing aids so expensive? Why arenât they covered by insurance? And why donât they ever get any cheaper, while computers and cell phones are constantly getting cheaper?
The How
Letâs talkâŚ
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2014 WorkList â Refreshed
2014 WorkList â Refreshed
The first list you usually make isnât always the best list. At the time of my writing for the original worklist, I had mostly been speaking in general. This oneâs a refinement of that list, with clarifications and/or additions to the list.
So, without further ado:
Fociiâ The following are items that will be focused on as 2014 moves on. I will also be adding and removing things from this list asâŚ
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Setting Up a VAP on DD-WRT
Setting Up a VAP on DD-WRT
Hi,
Since it seems a lot of people are having issues in setting up a VAP (Virtual AP) with DD-WRT on their devices, Iâll write up a guide on how I got my set-up going with Mile-Lileâs help on this thread that I opened on the DD-WRT forums.
I followed the
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