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Couple + Sibling/relative third wheel is honestly an S-tier trio dynamic and I wish we saw more of this in media.

"You are my soulmate. We are forged together by battle and tears and love. Also my brother's coming along."

"Yo."

Bonus points if the non-related half of the couple is just as committed to keeping the third wheel around as the related half.

"Isn't it weird that your brother in law is always hanging around?"

"You've got a problem with Andrew?"

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If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

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I used to kinda laugh at the whole "Zuko's so dramatic, he did one good thing and passed the fuck out with a fever for several days" thing

But then i had an anxiety attack so bad that it actually made me feverish for a whole ass 24 hours and i'm like "damn, it really does happen just like that, huh?" Lmao

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The Gum nebula and the winter Milky Way in the Abu Dhabi desert - Author: RhiannonWisp

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Game Night

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Fireball is currently and temporarily BANNED

until further notice (world less on fire)

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These people are sexual predators.

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If you are in WASHINGTON this is not yet law, this initiative will be on the ballot Nov 3 THIS YEAR. VOTE NO. You have the ability to prevent this from becoming law.

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ship: I love that you have a nemesis

me: yeah and its a fucking squirrel

ship: yeah

me: it's great. makes me feel like I'm in rocky and bullwinkle

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You can observe me on a mossy tree.

bedupolker

It feels cool to be "in" on celebrity gossip before anyone else. I ran into Californian Condor V9 and looked her up on the condor lookup website. It says her current mate is dead and she has no kids but I saw her with a new man AND a juvenile.

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@bedupolker I hope you don't mind but I made a tabloid cover out of this

I used two more condor photos by Andrew Orr and Alam Clampitt from peregrinefund.org

Gotta use the skills I learned from making tabloids out of the Jane Austen novels somewhere right?

Great, now I feel like I'm bird shaming. Congrats V9 on your new family!

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...I don't think a straitjacket and a warning sign are enough to protect everyone from Alastor's antics 🤭🤭🤭

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YEE-CLAW :D

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@joy-and-whimsy-official

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Joy and whimsy detected! This Yee-Claw is joyful and whimsical!

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distressing things to say to your friends

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only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

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there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

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I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

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GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ

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Is the discrepancy due to taxonomic arguments between lumpers and splitters/the validity of cryptic species/subspecies or do the websites just have different policies for updating the numbers?

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Both, actually! Amphibian Species of the World (ASW) is pretty much exclusively updated by one man, Darrel Frost, and consequently has a rather consistent, if sometimes somewhat particular, taxonomic perspective (this means he looks at the quality of taxonomic works and assesses them before adding them to the database). In contrast, AmphibiaWeb is maintained by a much larger team, and they seem to be less exacting on the whole about which new species are added to their database (and also somewhat less consistent when it comes to updating across the database after there have been major taxonomic changes).

But fundamentally the two databases serve different purposes: ASW is a 'real' taxonomic database, providing detailed reports on taxonomically relevant details like specimen numbers, original publication data, discourse around subsequent taxonomic changes, etc. In contrast, AmphibiaWeb is a knowledge resource: it is aimed at basically being a non-Wikipedia source for accounts of species, giving lots of biologically relevant details like their biology, ecology, anatomy, etc., but keeping taxonomically-relevant details to a minimum. These are very different functions, and it is for this reason that I generally follow ASW and not AmphibiaWeb when it comes to things like species counts.

It pains me to share that I missed out on managing to also nab the 8000th frog species on ASW by TWO species! The actual 8000th species was apparently Oreolalax wumengmontis.

So, onward to number 9000!

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oviraptor mom and her odd-looking but still very good son

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

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I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

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It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.