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yeah man i bet your package came. In the male
The Texas State Aquarium has taught their crow to play connect four and I am DELIGHTED.
why does the texas state aquarium have a crow
it works there
Today's Seal Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast
I have never seen "wtf" so clearly expressed on an animals face
He looks so fucking upset I can't breathe
accidentally spilled everything thats ever existed on the floor
op didn’t add a link so here’s a link to his patreon where all of his minis are free to download please support him if you can
I would absolutely download a dragon, and I’ve already shared this with my D&D group. We’re gonna have some adventures! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!
This is leaving out the best part of his patreon, which is that he’s been doing polls for “silly models” to create for years, bringing us such wonders as the Baba Yaga Taco Truck, the Horse Head, Goostarian (Goose Astarion), a Pirate Ship Mimic, the Honkdra, and Definitely The Five-Headed Dragon God Tiamat And Not Five Wyrmlings In A Trenchcoat
@elodieunderglass I feel like there are a few here that you might appreciate
Oh they’re really nice! thank you!
okay the taxonomy of the genus Canis is completely fucked
iNaturalist recognizes gray wolf, "eastern wolf" and red wolf as three different species, though from wikipedia it seems like all three have hybridized like crazy with each other and with coyotes and domestic dogs for their whole evolutionary history, and they all split apart very recently.
Also African wolves are hybrids of gray wolves and Ethiopian wolves, but Himalayan and Indian wolves are more closely related to African wolves, and golden jackals are nested within the same genus.
But the African wolf is more closely related to gray wolves and coyotes than it is to golden jackals. (????)
I don't know. I'm not sure if any of that is even correct. There are a gazillion genetic studies trying to figure out how all of these species are related and how they hybridized with each other, and it's all over the place.
ANYWAY the reason this is so weird is that in the USA we have coyotes, which are abundant, viewed as vermin, and can be hunted year round without limits, and wolves, which are extremely protected and endangered and vital to ecosystems. A lot of people LOVE wolves, but they have much more negative or indifferent feelings toward coyotes.
Here, coyotes are thought of as so strongly and sharply different from wolves, TOTALLY different things. The main distinction being size; wolves are huge and gigantic and coyotes are small.
But now I'm learning that many of the animals called "wolves" in other parts of the world are much more similar to our coyotes, both in size and social behaviors. And furthermore, it seems like size and social behaviors convergently evolved in different species or populations of wolves, rather than the "small, more socially flexible" wolves and the "big, tight-knit social structure" wolves forming two separate branches of the family tree
So like, it's undeniable, whether you go by genetics or by appearances or by behavior, that coyotes are just a type of wolf, they're one of the several wolf species that exist.
And then you get to the fact that basically all of the coyotes in the Eastern USA are actually verified to be hybrids between coyotes and gray wolves, and that the endangered red wolves, which used to inhabit the area where these new coyotes live, were threatened by hybridization with coyotes, and that the extant red wolves were selected out of a pool of red wolf-coyote hybrids. But actually, red wolves were thought to be themselves hybrids of gray wolves and coyotes, but actually actually, the species have been all hybridizing for their whole evolutionary history, so what does that even mean?
The red wolf reintroduction program has been struggling because people keep shooting and killing the animals. They wear bright orange collars, but people shoot them anyway. The enemies of red wolf conservation say they are not genuine wolves and are "just coyotes."
The wolves don't know what a species is, but the law is called the Endangered SPECIES act, so red wolves have to be a "species," or it is legal to slaughter them all. Species is fake, but we need it to be real to justify the value of certain populations of animals.
I don't know, like. I'm not an expert on this stuff! I'm just having a lot of thoughts on...the strong cultural distinction between coyotes and wolves? Like the cultural difference is SO much stronger than the biological difference. Wolf conservation is forced to prove that wolves are Totally Different than coyotes, and to decide that mixes between coyotes and wolves are automatically coyotes.
And I'm always seeing this common idea that reintroducing wolves will totally transform the ecosystem and fix what's wrong with it, because wolves fulfill the role of large predators. But if there's coyote-wolf hybrids already here, what are they doing to the ecosystem? And if they're behaving in the ecosystem more like omnivorous scavengers than large predators, is that because of what they are genetically, or is it because of the environment they have to survive in?
Yellowstone wolves were so impactful because of how they interacted with large herbivores, but if you introduced wolves into much of the eastern USA, where elk and bison have been wiped out, what would that even do? Would the wolves be able to thrive at all? Would they stay wolves, or would they breed with coyotes and make coyote-wolves again? Coyotes have thrived in the ecosystem humans have built over the past 100 years, becoming ever more successful and numerous. How could wolf genes take the place of coyote genes in an ecosystem that is so coyotegenic?
What about areas where the elk have been reintroduced? Do the coyote-wolves stay coyote-like, or do they start to wolf-ify because of different genes being selected?
Why's everybody swear up and down that somebody they know owns a wolfdog, but nobody ever has a coyotedog, even though contact between coyotes and dogs seems way more likely?
So many questions that gnaw at the very foundations of what we know about wilderness.
just tried to show my older brother something while my little brother tried to show me something. poetic cinema in motion
Generational Constants, artists rendition, 2021
The colour alignment implies that the littlest brother is gonna eat the oldest brother’s phone
That’s just what little brothers do
Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.
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I went to a bakery and said “I’d like to buy a muffin with chocolate chips.”
The baker said, “Sorry, we only take cash.”
When I am elected president I will institute a law saying that anyone with a net worth over 50 million must, at their own expense, employ a Jester. They must feed, clothe, and house the Jester according to the Jesters wishes, may not fire the Jester, and may not retaliate against the Jester, as the Jester will have Jesters Privileges.
One must spend at least three hours per day on the company of your Jester, and allow the Jester access to your quarterly reports.
The Jesters will be chosen by voluntary lottery. Jesters will be regularly interviewed to make sure they have not become Lackeys.
This law will prevent rich folk from being surrounded with vapid yes-men. A lot of problems with the world right now are happening becuse rich and powerful men don’t have anybody on hand to say “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
@oblivionsdream The first law Jester passes as ruler of the world
OH MY GOD YES
Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.
There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.
Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:
No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.
My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.
#i firmly believe that the reason why concussions and brain damage in general#are not taken nearly as seriously as they should be#is because of football#if we take concussions and brain trauma seriously then we have to acknowledge the risks that children are undertaking at even#high school level football#but we can't do that#because the kids need to play football in high school so they can play football in college so they can join the NFL#This time I'm really gonna queue it.
Not a single one of my wife's fingers is completely straight. If you look at them closely -- which I have, many times, over the past 22 years -- you can see where they were broken, over and over, taped in place, and where she just kept fucking playing.
When I first met her, she used to joke about how her coach said, "I could get more than that out of a pig if I kicked it hard enough," and that was the nicest fucking thing he said. Two decades later, she's like, "Yeah, that man verbally and physically abused all of us for years."
There is at least one football game she played in high school that she simply doesn't remember, because she was a linebacker. She got a concussion. She got up and kept playing... or so she's told. She doesn't remember, because she had a fucking concussion and they let her keep playing.
I hate football so much. It ruined her back, her knees, fucked up her hands... everyone was so obsessed with how tall she was, how broad-shouldered. No one ever pushed her to transition, but I fucking wish someone had at least suggested it. That would have hurt her so much less than FUCKING FOOTBALL. Like, it would have been actually beneficial to her.
I heard that one of the actual reasons that organizations like the NFL have tried so hard to downplay CTE and other injuries like it is because they’re terrified that moms will refuse to let their children play football anymore and that entire massive industry will come collapsing down because of it.
That fucking scans.
One thing that doesn't get mentioned is how much high school football injuries factor into opioid addiction. Kids were getting prescribed oxy for various breaks, got addicted, and...yeah. I worked with a guy who was like 22ish and was having to take methadone and had a criminal record due to getting addicted to oxy after a major football-related shoulder injury.
"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.
it's been like 2 years. i havent touched it. never needed to. "you don't really have a choice," are you so swift to forget the recent past? Bitch i still use itunes to download mp3s to so i have them forever and any song i want, then my sister burns them to CDs. When boycotts rolled out my other sister got no thanks to scan what products we shouldn't buy. i still use corded headphones not because "its older" but because it's easier. a fool criticizes those who buy candles 200 years after the invention of the electric light until the power goes out. become ungovernable. you are not immune to propaganda. you've never had Chatgpt forced upon you, the only thing forced upon you is the idea that Chatgpt is forced upon you. why claim you need something today that you didn't need yesterday. little bitch.
I've been waiting for Dick Cheney to beef it for almost 25 years, it's been so long I almost don't even know what to say.
I don't know if people younger than 30 really understand what a monster that man was and how much harm we still feel today.
The man was such cruel bastard that he the 2004 reelection campaign on opposing gay rights to the point of rallying for a federal ban on legal gay relationships while having a gay daughter.
He orchestrated lie after lie after lie to kill millions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The social environment in the mid-00's was honestly even worse than it is today. You couldn't be hyper-patriotic at all times let alone be critical of them.
He's one of the main reasons we have the patriot act and drones and militarized police and ICE and DHS and why we lost nearly all of our civil liberties.
All of the bad shit Trump is doing now is because Dick Cheney set the stage for him. None of this was possible without him.
man i cannot believe that Cheney died the same day that Zohran Mamdani got elected mayor of nyc
Dick Cheney died and the democrats genuinely fucking swept this whole off-year election
nature is healing, etc
okay for real though:
maine rejected a heinous voting restricting law & passed a red flag gun control law
colorado passed a tax on people who earn more than $300,000 a year, which will be used to fund food assistance programs
california passed its redistricting proposition, which heavily favors dems in a direct attempt to counter Republican gerrymandering on the national scale, in a landslide vote
in viginia, the state delegation went from 51-49 (D-R) to 63-37 (D-R), and dems also won the races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General
and, again, Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the race for Mayor of NYC
like, holy fuck
Reminder that this film, like everything relating to this brand, validated and puts money in the pockets of the man who spends his money like this. Cawthon is just one step removed from the re-legalizing of conversion therapy happening in America right now.
What’s particularly sad is seeing people smart enough to understand that supporting Rowling’s work is bad still somehow justify supporting Cawthon’s work because “the games are important to me.”
Cut off the parasocial umbilical cord and start exploring new art instead. Don’t say you can’t.
Fans discovered that the animator donated to several Republican candidates and campaign groups in 2020.
Did we forget this? That he immediately changed?
I actually love the song Yankee Doodle because the lyrics seem like complete fucking nonsense to modern ears. you hear it as a kid and it's like oh dope the Wiggles made a sequel to Jabberwocky. but you look it up and "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" is actually 18th century British for "Americans all want to be hipster twinks but they're too poor and stupid to do it right." and to top it off Americans in general were just like "this is unironically a bop"