Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
It is migration season in North America and hundreds of millions of birds will be flying overhead every night. This is an incredibly vulnerable time for migratory birds, and there are several simple things we can do to help them.
Data on window strike survivorship. Over 1 billion birds die of window collisions in the US every year. This makes windows one of the TOP killers of wild birds, after domestic cats.
Building collisions are a leading threat to wild birds; however, only those that are found dead or fatally wounded are included in current m
Bird Forecast! See how may birds are flying over you!
When, where, and how far will birds migrate? How many birds passed last night? Our tools help you explore the answers to these and many othe
1. Turn off outdoor lights if you are able
Outdoor lights confuse and disorient migrating birds. They can cause them to fly off course and exhaust themselves, or they can fly into buildings or other objects.
If you have areas that must be lit at night, consider using downward-facing fixtures.
2. Bird proof your windows
Birds are disoriented by the reflection on glass. External screens or interior shutters/blinds can help prevent collisions, but ideally markings should be on the outside of the window, covering the entire window, no more than 2 inches apart and larger than 6 mm in diameter.
If you are interested, here are two companies that make films and tapes meant to help birds see windows. They are pretty affordable, and are generally stick-on products that are easy to apply.
What if you could protect birds from colliding with your windows while maintaining an attractive building appearance?
3. If you find an injured bird, contact a wildlife rehab center.
injured birds may:
be unable to fly or stand
not resist approach or handling
stand crookedly or not use both feet
look ruffled and unkempt (caution: often confused with molting birds)
squint or close their eyes
breathe with their mouths open
Don't try to care for or treat a bird yourself: you will do more harm than good. Birds are very fragile creatures that are frightened of humans, and need to be handled and treated with great caution.
If you are in the United States and cannot find a wildlife rehabber, you can also try contacting your local fish and game commission to see if they have resources. Some local veterinarians may be willing to help.
Here is a resource to find a rehabber in the US:
Get help for orphaned, sick or injured wildlife using this state-by-state listing
4. Keep your cats inside
Right what it says on the tin. Some studies estimate cats can kill as many as 3 BILLION birds in North America every year.
There are many types of enrichment that can help keep cats happy and healthy indoors or safely contained outside. That's a bit of it's own topic, which I can make a separate post about if interested.
Wild birds, especially migratory species, face a lot of threats! there are simple things we can do to help them, so please give these things a shot, and tell your friends to do the same <3<3
Has a baleen whale ever been kept in captivity for any length of time? If so was it successfully released or did it die?
there have been several instances of young baleen whales running afoul of something and being captured for rehabilitation, yes! they were mostly gray whales.
which makes sense, gray whales are slow enough to get caught in the first place and hardy enough to not immediately stress themselves to death over being poked and put in a tank (as long as hundreds of pounds of delicious shellfish are on offer, anyway)
none of them were ever kept very long, they were rehabilitated to a healthy weight and then released. (healthy weight for a juvenile gray whale is almost 20,000 lbs. BIG baby)
The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up
The first photos are coming in from Artemis II, and they are stunning. Photos of our home planet from humans we are sending further than anyone has gone before.
And now two more. The first of which being taken by Commander Reid Wiseman just minutes from the other Blue Marble picture seen above, showcasing the effect of different camera setting on space photography. Pictures of our home, where all but four of us are looking up from.
The Artemis II Moon rocket lifted off from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026. Our live launch day coverage continues on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo
Stick with us for more Artemis II content including live broadcasts for lunar flyby and splashdown, daily news conferences, and 24/7 streams providing views from the Orion spacecraft and from NASA Kennedy.
