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Hey there!!! Today I felt inspired, and it's been a while since my last good quality post, so we're gonna make a fabric pin of a death moth! You can also follow the steps here to make your own patterns of another bug. If you make this, I'd *really, really* love to see it. Let's start!

You'll need: Dark fabric, a small piece of cardboard, a paper with the patterns (you can print or trace them, glue, a little of wire and bleach or white paint

1- First, you have to cut the patterns and pass them onto the fabric.

2- Cut the pieces off.

3- Now, in order for the fabric to not fall apart, we're gonna add a little of glue around the edges. If you have synthetic fabric you can melt the edges with a lighter, but be extremely careful with that.

4- Cut another B piece, of cardboard now, and glue it to the back of A

5- Glue four small wires to the wings of A and C making sure they overlap with the body a little. This is in order to make them stronger. You wont need them if you use fabric that doesn't bend easily.

6- Take another wire, fold it slightly in half and paint it black. This is to make the antennas. You can also use cardboard, or pipe cleaner to make them fuzzy.

7- Glue the pieces together in this order from back to front: A, B, C and D (unexpected, I know). Don't forget the antennas between C and D.

8- This is the fun part; paint the moth. Go wild. I went for the classic but you can make geometric shapes, eyes, spirals... I used bleach because I like the look, but be careful with that. You can use white paint too.

9- Glue a pin to the back. If you prefer it to be a necklace or anything else, glue whatever you want.

I hope you liked it!!!

snapsicle

secret thoughts of flying animals

petfinder-names

jointphotographicexportsgroup-d

they: wyd me:

regrettablyjake

I’m obsessed.

regrettablyjake

This woman is operating on a level I cannot begin to comprehend.

kyuubijrr

I'm-

vua-dreams

y’all are missing the best part

mold-brain

bastardcore/chaoscore hits different when ur high

liminalwurld-deactivated2023070

some more :-)

i-was-once-a--tortoise

hey just a reminder that The Dodo (the publication not the actual extinct bird) is at least partially owned by PETA, consistently shares “cute” animal videos of genuine animal/human endangerment (”this couple adopted a puma and treat it like a big housecat”, etc), and is extremely anti-zoo, even in the context of conservation. so like. maybe stop sharing stuff from them. there’s plenty of other places to get cute animal content.

talesfromtreatment

Milk drunk

talesfromtreatment

Different day, still drunk.

talesfromtreatment

To-day, too drunk

talesfromtreatment

I'm beginning to think he just simply doesn't have any dignity.

talesfromtreatment

Drunk with family.

talesfromtreatment

19 days drunk

Also drunk beans

talesfromtreatment

Druuuunk. And only 20 days old. For shame.

talesfromtreatment

21 days old. That's old enough to drink, right?

talesfromtreatment

Success! Dunk again!

talesfromtreatment

25 days old now.

theunimpairedcondition

Tiny football belly

elderly-scrolls

animal crossing players are like “i HATE bill wibbly, he’s a BASTARD and i want him OFF my island, he KILLED my family and BURNT my crops” and then i look up bill wibbly or whatever and he looks like

yinqors-deactivated20141206

nesft-deactivated20180108

#CROW NO

Crow: CROW YES!

notcuddles

It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.

pardonmewhileipanic

science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing

red3blog

Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.

Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:

pardonmewhileipanic

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE

whitmerule

BECAUSE IT IS FUN

queenbloo-blog

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

askfordoodles

birbs just wanna have fun

huntersonthewingarchive

Sorry to hijack a little, but to put it bluntly, corvids are also pretty BALSY. They are more than prepared to harass other huge birds of prey which could deal them a lot of damage. There’s plenty of cases of corvids ‘riding’ other birds as well. It’s often to harass the larger bird out of the area, but as @red3blog said, they quite often (in layman’s terms) enjoy fucking shit up for fun.

‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’

I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo

Literally no fucks are given by corvids. Ever.

daniels-ramblings

@neurodivergent-crow

neurodivergent-crow

I haven’t seen this post in ages but it’s my fave corvid post.

softwaring

a masterpost

agent-jaselin

you know what? Fuck this. Like, absolutely don’t poison your lawn or keep adding grass seeds and over water it and shit. But having a damn space where you can move and your dog or child can run around is perfectly fucking fine? And does in fact require the plant area to be relatively short. Like yes, absolutely have a part that’s a vegetable garden or what the fuck ever. But also consider that having a place where you can run, eat, exercise, or lay down is also good. Also, long grass in most places? = mice, venomous snakes, ticks, and fire ants. Especially when you live right beside a couple hay fields like I do. So excuse me if I want to walk from my car to the drive way without getting bit or getting a huge rash from all the damn plants. (because I am in fact allergic to most of them touching my skin)

dear-ebony-rose

*sigh* I deal with water quality issues every day as part of my job. So yes, I HATE lawns.

Lawns lead to more flooding, more runoff, more pollution in out streams, more algal blooms in our lakes, less wildlife, less bees, and less potential for a healthy future. Many cities have combined sewers systems and grass acts as green concrete. Meaning, when it rains, stormwater flows into storm drains, goes into sewer systems, overflow them, and combined sewer water flows untreated into streams, rivers, and lakes. Human waste flows into habitats and drinking water sources. Lawns help this happen. Even if you live in an area with separate systems, more runoff means that more rainwater flows quickly across the land, picking up pollutants, and carrying them into streams unfiltered. So water gets more polluted, moves faster, causes more erosion, and degrades streams. Most new housing developments compact the land so much the soils act like concrete, and then short rooted Kentucky blue grass is planted on top which does nothing to heal the destroyed land below it. So yes. I HATE lawns. Lawns are often planted with invasive grasses, and there’s no reason for them. You can have a ‘lawn’ of forbs, mosses, native short grasses cut to 5″ high, and that’s a healthy yard. Native or prairie grasses have longer roots, allow for infiltration, prevent compaction, prevent erosion, feed pollinators, improve air quality, and do so much more. See? Look at Kentucky blue grass on the left. No roots. Look at buffalo grass on the right. It’s short with amazing root systems, holding our earth together, and allowing water to soak down, replenishing our ground waters.

Even if you want short grass, please plant some native plants in different areas. Our land desperately needs help. Also, I have killer allergies, so I get how terrible they can be. They’ve put me in the hospital before. BUT having a native and diverse yard does not mean an increase of allergy attacks. It can actually lower changes. Different plants can improve air quality, leading to less pollutants and less particles for allergies to cling to. Having a biologically diverse yard is nothing to shy away from. It is something to embrace, and it can be embraced in many ways. You can have native vegetative strips with a slightly shaggier yard.

If you know you’re not allergic to a certain forb or to bees, you can plant a beautiful yard of it. If you have bee allergies, than a mowed native grass is still better. You can do a ground cover like native strawberries, sorrel, or clover.

Please, before you say “Fuck this,” know that there are more ways to have a yard without having a lawn. Maybe even talk to your local Soil and Water Conservation District (if you’re in the US) to see what options there are. Our planet is in dire need of help, and sometimes we can make a difference, starting in our own backyard.

i-hate-chick-fil-a

MAY DAY (MAY 1ST) DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE. NO AMAZON. NO INSTACART. NO TARGET. NO WHOLE FOODS.

these companies are making RECORD PROFITS while their workers are dying from being on the job. boycott them on may 1st. the power of our efforts lies in the efforts of the working class.

profeminist

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”

- @robinlayfield

villanellethepoetic-deactivated

Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.