I am probably your father.

Aspiring world dictator. In the mean time: artist, feminist, and general ray of sunshine.

[sandersstudies]

Sometimes I see some variety of North American Little Guy (opossum, raccoon, etc. ) and I’m like “okay”

BUT THEN I start thinking about how excited somebody from not-North-America would be to see this Guy. Like, would an Australian be excited to see the only marsupial not from their country? Are there raccoons in zoos on the other side of the world that are regarded as unique and exotic creatures? Idk but it’s made me more excited to see Guys in my area.

[narcissistcookbook]

it's me, i'm the person described in the tumbl

[seananmcguire]

I went to a zoo in England this past summer, and there were crowds around the skunks, raccoons, and coyotes.

[shallow-between-stars]

So, as an Australian, going to the zoo in China with a USAmerican and a Jamacian was an experience.

The first thing you should know about this experiences is I'm a fairly bush-raised child. Not entirely, but the vast majority of my school holidays were spent camping or on a property or otherwise out in the bush. (Not the Outback, although sometimes, but definitely the Bush. The great south-west forests, to be specific.)

I have seen more than my fair share of actually wild Australian wildlife. I am severely immune to snakes, spiders, frogs, kangaroos and wild foxes, rabbits and pigs (those shouldn't be in Australia, but they are. Also, if you ever see evidence of pigs in the bush, you leave immediately.)

So here we encounter jarring moment of dissonance the first.

We were walking past the kangaroo paddock and I'll admit I didn't even give it a second glance - it was a case of "Oh, kangaroos, how normal," And moving on. Didn't even register that they would be something to get excited about. It was literally like seeing a bird or the neighbour's cat.

Anyway, after awhile I noticed that I was no longer with my fellows because they were amazed by the kangaroos. They were staring, they were laughing, they were paying money to feed the fucking kangaroos like they were some sort of weird, special, exotic animal.

"Oh for fuck's sake, guys, they're just kangaroos!"

And then I realised I was with non-Australians and felt properly shamed.

We spent some (far too long of a) time with the kangaroos and moved on.

Anyway, as we were leaving we were walking through the American animals section and I've stopped dead in my tracks and squealed with excitement and raced over to an enclosure to coo and generally be a weird, animal-obsessed little moron. I'd never seen this animal in real life before but it was adorable and lovely and the cutest thing ever. And my Americas friends were looking at me like I'd grown another head because the animal that I was enamoured with and had never seen in person before, the animal that I was most excited about out of any that was there (including the baby tiger that I actually got to hold, guys)

The animal was a raccoon.

[maybethings]

Your trash creature is someone else’s treasured encounter

[mitochondrial-evil]

My partner recently visited the US with me for the first time and was DELIGHTED by squirrels.

[paramaline]

keep forgetting to crosspost my best content

[avastbastion]

look at how the spirit of dunks tries to bridge the gap between east and west ma

every dunks wishes to be joined hand in hand. they are family.

no dunkin donuts left behind...

[paramaline]

thank you for making me realize that these Dunkin’ Tendrils represent the massachusetts turnpike. whenever i’m headed west on a road trip this is the exact point where the concentrated nothingness of the berkshires makes me feel abandoned by god. the precise geographic point james taylor was talking about when he said “with ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go”

[kafkasapartment]

Endurance frozen in the ice, 1914-1917. Frank Hurley Platinum print.

The Endurance was an exploration ship that became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica in 1915. It was Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship was squeezed by the ice for ten months before being crushed, but the crew all survived.

[sergeifyodorov]

FUCKING HELLO?

- jessie holmes (current race leader as of now, 3:37 pm EST, first out of Rainy Pass) punched a moose in the face

- dallas seavey, previous 6x champion (currently in 3rd and in Rainy Pass checkpoint) killed the moose and, per rules, had to field dress it

- paige drobney (currently 4th, somewhere between Finger Lake and Rainy Pass) then later RAN OVER THE MOOSE WITH HER TEAM

[thedailygoat]

[forsvinne]

Power affirmation stance

[orpheusilver]

hyperfixating on this is not enough i need to eat it

[heartshop]

Christians with jesus christ

[no-thats-absurd]

why is there a new popular post with a joke about eucharist every week on this website

[steakplissken]

Mass is on Sundays

[catadromously]

the dubious philosophy of salmon

[catadromously]

the number of people who have looked at this is officially too large a number

[palaeosinensis]

This will never stop being unspeakably beautiful or moving me to tears.

[hedgehog-moss]

I got a phone call from the police station about my teenage llama this week, telling me some tourists had called them upon seeing a llama crossing the road, who “stopped when she saw us” and “refused to give way” (their complaint in French sounded amazingly traffic-related, “elle n’a pas cédé le passage”…) The policeman told them yeah that’s our Pampe! don’t worry about it she’s living her life, you can try to pet her but she’s shy with strangers… Imagine calling the police about a llama refusing to abide by basic road rules and being told haha that’s our girl! Give her a pat for me! Pampérigouste, you are very annoying and very loved.

I started following that road looking for her, occasionally calling her with my special I Come Bearing Muesli whistle (and it was a lie), and as soon as I got mobile reception I received a text from a neighbour telling me “Ton affreuse est là” (“your horrible one is here”). I turned around to go pick her up, and discovered that he had locked her in the Horny Bull Pen, aka his most securised enclosure. When Pampe escapes to his farm just to be a pest she usually hangs out with his cows until I arrive and he doesn’t mind, so it was a little joke, and it was so funny finding Pampe languishing in a high-security prison. She looked very put out and I told her she absolutely deserved her sentence. Then I opened the gate and I didn’t even need my rope, she was happy to be pardoned and to see Pandolf, and followed us readily, on the road and then through the woods to my farm, it felt so companionable, the three of us walking home together.

[llamanonymous]

oh this is such a happy tale

[alicent-florent]

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[plaidos]

honestly the reason why so many feminists get ridiculously upset when trans women correctly point out the transmisogyny problems within the movement (except the fact that they just flat up hate us ofc) is because most people who identify as feminists or put “feminist” in their twitter bio or whatever don’t actually want to be part of a global political movement dedicated to dismantling gendered violence worldwide, they want to be part of a pop culture club with a common enemy (Ew boys!!) where meghan trainer will make #girlboss songs about how cool and strong we all are. the actual long term goals of feminism have been condensed down into individualist capitalistic liberties that only extend to like, middle class white cis women who go on tinder dates

[tilthat]

TIL that the Hoover Dam is expected to be one of the last remaining visible structures from our species, and it contains a star map that if no other means were available, could be used to determine the exact date on which Hoover Dam was completed.

via reddit.com

[daco-broman]

we could’ve just chisled in the fuckin date on it it’s not some stone age creation

[armedandgayngerous]

yhea because the squid people that inherit the earth will know when Christ was born

[skelegun]

They 👏 Will 👏 Be 👏 Catholic

[monamoni]

[cosmicallysad]

finland esc victory summoning circle

[because-its-eurodisko]

Vote for Finland ❤

[delphinidin4]

[milflaralorvan-deactivated20231]

US State Showdown Quarterfinals

We're getting close, gang! Vote in the four tournaments listed below to advance your favorite states to the semifinals. Polls will last 24 hours.

Alaska vs Massachusetts Oregon vs Minnesota California vs Colorado Hawai'i vs Pennsylvania

Reminders:

Only officially-recognized US states are being included (so not DC), and I'm including all 50 because while I acknowledge that Hawai'i is a sovereign nation under illegal colonial rule, this tournament is just for fun. Leaving Hawai'i out of a popularity contest with no material stakes to make a political statement seems counterproductive and performative to me, especially when you consider that (nuances of Hawai'i's specific situation aside) all of our states are on stolen land and shouldn't exist. With that in mind, if anyone has any Hawai'ian or other indigenous mutual aid funds they'd like to promote please feel free to add them to this post and look through the notes for ways you can help out!

Gentle trash talk is encouraged, but let’s not get classist or dunk on people who are being actively oppressed by Republican governments who can’t vote them out due to gerrymandering and voter suppression. I’m looking at you, blue state big city liberals. I’m a gay Jewish leftist who lives in and loves Montana and if you get nasty I WILL block you.

The tag to blacklist is #us state showdown

Round One | Round Two | Round Three

[samwwise]

happy 20th anniversary to this scene and this scene only