People avoid animation on purpose?? That's wild

Lori; She/Her, 34. This is my multi-fandom personal blog. Expect to see various anime, cartoons, pictures of things that I like, and social issues! Ko-Fi @ mizulyn89

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tonight I had the privilege of hearing a 13 year old explain the terms “cooking” and “cooked” to my 45 year old manager and she said something so excellent I have to document it.

“cooked is bad. cooking is good. you’re either in the pot or you’re holding it.”

[deliverancefromfear]

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So can we vote for Dire wolves now? (I know they are grey wolf based hybrids including jackle, red wolf, timber wolf, and artic fox dna arcoding to some sources idk how accurate that entire list is so please correct me) but still 😂

Nah, those aren’t Dire Wolves, sorry. 😅

What Colossal Biosciences did was examine some Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus) DNA and edited 14 genes of Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) DNA to match it. They even made sure to make the animals white, using a coat coloration gene expressed in Domestic Dogs, because they believe Dire Wolves would have been white (based on no published evidence; Dire Wolves were a temperate species and their coloration was more likely similar to jackals or Dholes).

DNA contains millions of genes. You can not make 20 changes in only 14 genes and have a whole other species, let alone a whole other genus.

Despite what the company is claiming, Gray Wolves are not the closest relatives of Dire Wolves, which we know from a (peer-reviewed) DNA study done in 2021. They are more close to jackals, African Wild Dogs, and Dholes than they are to wolves. Despite being around the same size, they do not share “99.5%” of the DNA of Gray Wolves; there are hundreds of thousands of genetic differences between the species.

What Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi are are three Gray Wolves that have been genetically modified to look like pop culture “Dire Wolves” from a TV Show. They do not contain any Dire Wolf DNA and they can not and will not fill the same niche that Dire Wolves did.

Apparently, Colossal is doing legit conservation work alongside their clickbait-y work, and they use the sensationalized concepts to get funding from rich idiots and celebrities. If they can get some Elon-Musk-awesomebro-type to fund their “Dire Wolf de-extinction”, they can use that money to clone critically endangered Red Wolves (Canis rufus) on the side.

Personally, I do not trust them. What they’re doing is shady and irresponsible, and even if it’s bringing in money for conservation it’s still misleading and misinforming the public about how DNA works and about how irreversible extinction actually is. It’s taking money that could be used to save the animals we still have, and instead using it to make a hairy Asian Elephant and claim that it’s a Mammoth.

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There is genuine conservation potential in this type of cloning and genetics work but like,, at some point you have to decide whether the potential benefits of Colossal's real conservation work are worth the absolute tornado of misinformation that they create for their publicity stunt "de-extinction" work. And I don't know where that line is, but the way they present this "dire wolf" stuff just leaves a terrible taste in my mouth.

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Remember: the more difficult you make it for them to realize a report is false, the more useless you make the portal.

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you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"

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lots of ppl making this about adults who have interests they find cringe but let me be clear this is about emotional immaturity. idgaf if you're 35 and like goku okay but can you have an adult conversation without making yourself the victim is the matter at hand here

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Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City but make it Harajuku 🎀🍓🎀

Prints of this drawing are available on my Etsy shop, kaitlynillustrations.etsy.com ♥️

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btw while people continue to fight the system don't forget about Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), a charity that buys and forgives medical debt. on average a donation of $10 will forgive $1,000 of medical debt.

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I'm fairly confident that this is now the one original post I've made that has gotten the most notes, and I honestly couldn't be happier. the more attention we give this, the higher the chances that someone will see this and donate. medical debt is both one of the most crushing things a person can deal with and one of the stupidest things humanity has invented. and if you live in the US, I have no doubt that you've had to deal with medical debt in your life, either for yourself or a loved one. even a small donation can do so much good, and now is the time of year when we are encouraged to think of others.

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People forget that Kendrick isn't a hater of Drake for no reason.

Kendrick is defending the raping of Black American culture, calling out Drake for his mistreatment of Black American women specifically (Serena, Megan Thee Stallion, hood girls etc), calling out the weird alpha bro behavior where they basically describe wanting control over girls cuz grown women don't wanna date their misogynistic asses.

It's bigger than Drake. We have some former white rappers who turned country singers claiming rap/hip hop isn't a real art form while trying to gatekeep Beyonce from country. We have people using AAVE incorrectly and trying to correct Black Americans on their own dialect. We have anti Blackness skyrocketing during Black History Month via the hate spewed at the Black Grammy winners Beyonce, Doechii, and Kendrick.

Yes, the beef was entertaining to a lot, but to the Black American community the beef represented Kendrick fighting for our respect and using his hatred to protect another genre Black people created that would've been dubbed "vapid party music" due to Drake's colonizer mindset.

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using a 20 year old computer to look at gandalf pics at 12:30am

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hi i’m rly glad people enjoyed this and i want to share that yes, i’m exploring Gopher, the archaic alternative to the world wide web aka every single website that starts with http://

for people who don’t know, Gopher “websites” uploaded with this protocol are exclusively plaintext directories that lead to either text files, images, or other downloadable files. its so stripped back, there’s zero advertising or corporate tracking, and everything uploaded there is hosted by random nerds who still have stuff up from the 90s.

if youre on a modern machine, where most browsers don’t natively support loading Gopher pages, the best way to explore it is to access it via an http proxy. this link takes u to one:

https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

(alternatively u can pick up an old ass secondhand computer, and find a browser designed for its OS like Classilla on my 2001 iMac, which natively runs Gopher)

from there u can read some helpful text files about how to use Gopher servers, but i highly recommend scrolling down and just clicking on “All the gopher servers in the world”. and just click on random shit. there’s also a (unreliable) search engine, Veronica2. just typing random things and exploring servers is how i found this stuff.

I’ve genuinely not had this much fun in years being “on the internet”. so much random niche stuff and genuine cultural resources, as well as cool tools using those limiting constraints. its such an antidote to being on a corporate-controlled, advertising riddled web that wants to track you and sell you like a product for data harvesting. i highly recommend exploring it and feeling like ur doing internet archaeology

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rb to explode a terf ^_^ nonrefundable ^_^

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Coca-Cola (and Dixie Cup) pioneered the recycling movement in the 40’s to get people to return valuable glass bottles by charging almost half of the cost of the drink in a returnable fee. Nearly everyone returned their bottles; it was a huge success. When they switched to plastic in the 50’s it became more profitable to just toss bottles away so they used shell organizations to secretly lobby congress and senates to kill recycling bills while simultaneously creating massive ad campaigns to convince the public that recycling was all the consumer’s responsibility. This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s public knowledge that gets drowned out in the noise made by their PR firms.

Last year Coca-Cola was still up to the same environmental villainry. More recycling advertising campaigns and killed bottle-fee bills which have been long proven to massively boost recycling rates but also push the cost of recycling from the consumer onto the manufacturer. That’s also detailed in the previous link.

Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that large corporations care about this world or anything in it other than profit. They’ll engage in charity as an investment if the campaign offers good return for their brand value and public image, but don’t think for a second we can get capitalists to behave ethically through any other means than forcing them to do it.

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