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Cassidy //23

[luckymohair]

Glass mosaic face bead, 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D., Roman, Eastern Mediterranean

[johnnyjava]

[glumshoe]

loons’ legs are positioned so far back on their bodies that they are incapable of standing or walking on land

in fact one major cause of death is from them mistaking wet pavement for bodies of water and trying to land on it, causing them to be stranded and vulnerable because they can’t take flight or move beyond a weird scooting crawl

[gryphonablaze]

Is it possible if (somehow) someone encountered one in that situation to help it picking it up and hold it high in the air? Would it be able to take flight then?? Like if you just hold it up?

[glumshoe]

No—they have to have a sufficiently large watery runway to get up to speed for takeoff. If you find one away from water, you could take it to a rehabber since it may have been stranded for a while and starving or injured, but they’ve really got to be released on lakes, huge ponds, or wide, slow-moving rivers.

[glumshoe]

like look at this shit

[miluiel-erynion]

Can confirm -- Loons are the weirdest creatures. When I was a Naturalist living at a Raptor Rehab center they took one in because it had "landed" in a hot parking lot. It stayed overnight and I was greeted at Lunch to, "DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE LOON IN OUR TUB???" and of course I was like, "...HELL YEAH!"

[glumshoe]

aw man I’d kill a man to see a loon in a tub :(

[glumshoe]

lest we all think poorly of loons, remember that they are water birds adapted for diving, at which they are extremely good:

and unlike penguins, they can still fly! 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

[irelyre]

So: in Canada, there are many lakes. Loons can land in small lakes but they cannot take off from small lakes. This makes small lakes a loon valve, and at equilibrium they accumulate loons.

There is a job in canada for a guy who goes around to the loon trap lakes, gathers the stranded loons, and moves them to a takeoff-compatible body of water.

the loon harvester, the loonbus, the loon collector

[glumshoe]

I take it back, loons are an evolutionary mistake, because that’s a stupid as hell problem for a bird to have and stellar diving adaptations do not make up for Lake To Small Syndrome.

[genderoutlaws]

Vintage pins from the Lesbian Herstory Archive’s button collection | 70s/80s

[orriculum]

"Nobody wants to work anymore!!!! >:("

So far, jobs I've applied to have lied to me about:

- where the job was. The posting listed a town a few minutes away from me, but the interviewer said I needed to commute to NYC 5 days a week, an hour plus for me.

- remote options. They promise remote work until the interview, when they tell you remote is no longer supported.

-the hours. A number have listed full time only to tell me they could only offer part time, but the worst offended told me I could only have 8hrs a week

- how much the job paid. Posting promised 20$hr, the interviewer said it was minimum wage, 12$ in NJ.

- that the job was paid at all. It listed something like 50k a year at the top, but reading the job description, revealed it was an unpaid internship

- the job itself. I applied for a graphic design position, but during the interview they told me that I had to work as a door to door salesman for their product for a year before I could be "promoted" into the job I actually applied for.

-hiding the fact that that it was a military job and that you have to enlist. Nope nope nope.

I dont know how much of it is employers just don't know how to use job posting websites properly (like the guy in South Africa who listed his location in nj) but I think if you post the pertinent information people are looking for and then contradict it later, you make it clear you don't respect the people you need to hire

[high-quality-tiktoks]

I didn’t factor those extra 15mins into my miserable day

[fluffmugger]

So here’s a fun thing, admittedly very AU centric as this is an AU vid:

If they pull the “company policy” line, ask to see it.  Ask to see it in writing.  Ask to see that they have put in writing that you will be performing 15 minutes unpaid work every day.  Check your contract. 

Spoiler: They haven’t.  ‘cos it’s illegal.

[sgam76]

Absolutely agree. This is really common in the US as well, and I’ve yet to see it written anywhere.

[triplefrustration]

what we do in the shadows is great because it begs the question "what if immortality made you stupid"

[1o9]

[evilscientist3]

They’re in a band together

[cipheramnesia]

Toots, Tinkles, and the Almighty Funk Engine

[ninjapancake314]

Ladies and gentlemen! Give it up for Toots, Tinkles, and the Almighty FUNK ENGINE!!

[behindnightmaresanddreams]

This. This is a Good Post.

[c0mmon-curtesy]

[starrywisdomsect]

Background art from various “Scooby-Doo Where Are You!” episodes.

[felidform]

[chloelemay]

12 frames of animation I made using knitting! I spent a long time on this and I’m so pleased with the results, really looking forward to trying more ‘yarnimation’ in the future. Process video out now too! 🐑

[kodachromism]

@boppingalongside

[libralthinking]

Amazing!

[fuckblast]

Are any of y'all aware that there's been four zebras loose in the Maryland suburbs for a month?

[fuckblast]

Seriously I cannot believe everyone isn't talking about this.

One Month Later, Five Escaped Zebras Are Still Roaming the Suburbs of Maryland

A long way from their native environment of Africa, these free-roaming zebras seem to like the grass in Maryland just fine

[fuckblast]

I feel like I'm going insane. There's been five (not Four!) Zebras in Maryland unaccounted for and no one is talking about this.

[themythicalcodfish]

Better yet, they’ve split into two groups - a duo and a trio - and if they survive the winter, which is entirely likely, professional opinion is that this could be the start of a Maryland zebra population.

[hotvampireadjacent]

i just remebered the jeremy renner app

[70sscifiart]

Chris Foss concept art for Jodorowsky’s Dune

[mellie-mp3]

there should be a new austin powers movie where it’s his daughter and she’s exactly like him cuz he passed down his mojo genetically so she’s just as horny

[figdays]

Amethyst Halloween Dice Set // URWizards