There are scavengers, and then there are scavengers; of the two, hooded vultures are definitely the latter. As one of the smallest vultures in the world, hooded vultures come in to feed only after all the other, larger scavengers like hyenas, jackals, and bigger vultures have gone. However, that doesn't mean they're left with nothing! Their thin beaks are perfect for scraping meat from joints and other hard to reach places, and they supplement their carrion diets with a variety of insects, mollusks, and even scraps of human food in urban areas.
(Image: A pair of hooded vultures (Necrosyrtes monachus) by Jacob Bahar)
Her “violent revenge” was asking him to find a new job because he had an affair at work, btw.
That was her violent revenge. Find a new job so he doesn’t keep having an affair with his coworker.
She kept the abortion pills on hand because she had 6 children already and her last child was unplanned, and she did not feel capable of caring for a 7th.
Listen up ladies, never talk about your marriage woes publicly because if you do, the Daily Mail will refer to you as “violent” internationally after your husband shoots you and your six children to death and then sets the house of fire before killing himself.
Investigators have ruled a murder-suicide in the case of eight family members found dead inside a burning Grand Haven home.
Where’s that fucking tweet about the photos they use for men who turn into family annihilators? JFC maybe she had abortion pills on hand because there were already six kids trapped with this man along with her and she didn’t want a seventh to die at his hands?
The 'ingredients you can pronounce means it's healthy' line implies a world in which the kind of nutrition a person requires scales with their biology education and grasp of phonics. Which isn't true, of course, but sure would imply some interesting worldbuilding if it were
"Potassium cyanide. Arsenic trioxide. Polonium 210. Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin," I say, smugly and with full confidence, before downing the glass of wine my political rival insisted on pouring for me. Seconds later, she watches with a smirk as I collapse writhing to the ground, in the knowledge that I never could hit that "R" in "pinot noir" quite right
I trust my patients—and Massachusetts legislators should, too.
OVER THE PAST several years, we have become familiar with stories of patients traveling hundreds or thousands of miles for abortion care because politicians have stripped away access in their home states. As a physician who offers second- and third-trimester abortion care in Maryland, where abortion is legal throughout pregnancy, I expect to see several patients each month from states like Texas or Louisiana.
What surprises people is how often I see patients from Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has earned its reputation as a leader in reproductive freedom. It has passed landmark protections for abortion access and telehealth shield laws that have become a model for the nation. Yet, despite those achievements, I continue to care for Massachusetts patients forced to leave their home state for abortion care later in pregnancy, as the Commonwealth still restricts care after 24 weeks.
By the time these patients arrive in my clinic, they have already endured some of the hardest moments of their lives. Many are carrying deeply wanted pregnancies and have just received devastating fetal diagnoses. Others are facing serious pregnancy complications or changes in their own health. Some are parents trying to make the best decision for themselves and the families they already have. Every patient’s circumstances are different, but they all have one thing in common: They never imagined they would have to leave Massachusetts to receive medical care.
The need for abortion clinics like mine is only continuing to grow. As more states across the country ban or restrict abortion, patients are being forced to wait longer and longer to obtain the care they need. There are only a handful of clinics nationally providing this level of specialized care later in pregnancy, and every week we see the strain on patients, providers, and clinic staff alike.
When Massachusetts patients must travel to us because clinicians in their own state cannot provide the care they need, they join that same queue as patients from states with more extreme bans and restrictions. They compete for the same limited appointments as patients fleeing total abortion bans. That means longer waits, more logistical hurdles, and additional pressure on a system already stretched to its limits.
Now, more than four years post-Dobbs, it’s time for other protected states to step up and pass laws to make this care accessible. Massachusetts has an opportunity to do that and to serve as a safe haven for patients in New England.
Last week, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, which would allow physicians to provide abortion care after 24 weeks based on the physician’s clinical expertise and professional judgment, rather than forcing patients to leave the Commonwealth to access care elsewhere. It would allow patients to stay close to their support systems and continue receiving care from clinicians they know and trust.
This was deeply important progress from the House, recognizing that health care decisions should remain between a patient and their doctor, without political interference. Now, I am hopeful that the Senate will take up the bill and ensure its passage before the Massachusetts legislative session ends on Friday.
I trust my patients—and Massachusetts legislators should, too. Removing gestational bans in Massachusetts and allowing patients to make their own health care decisions would help ensure that no more families are forced to cross state lines to receive compassionate care.
The Commonwealth has long been a leader in protecting reproductive freedom. Now it has the chance to ensure its laws fully reflect that commitment.
none of you people know the socio historical context of the new testament + judea at the time of the new testament and it fuckin shows… most of you haven’t even read the new testament without that context!
jesus was one of half a hundred type of guy during that period, his sympathies to rome’s oppression were apparent, and his gripes with the pharisees were nonsensical, not to mention that they became the basis for the next couple thousand years of virulent antisemitism. i do not in any way Gotta Hand It To jesus. fuck off 5ever
Finished photos of this marten sculpture! she is a prize from a raffle I held awhile back. 🐾 🔺04 terracotta clay, underglaze, glaze, beeswax. ~8'' long
this is probably the only sex gif i will every reblog, because for some reason i feel like it’s more than just sex. i don’t know if it’s how they’re actually looking at one another or the way they can’t get close enough. he’s actually looking at her like a person and not just a sex object.
but then again, it could be all in my head. i mean, this is how i would want it to be. but that’s just me.
i think hamas and hezbollah and the irgc and basically every terrorist organization hellbent on killing the jews makes a little more sense or is at least more morbidly interesting to look at when you view it under the lens of them being people who just don't know how much power they've lost. because the arab conquests happened so long ago that landback people refuse to acknowledge that colonization happened in the first place, and in that time across the entire world really there were basically zero consequences for oppressing jews. nul. efes. because sure there was that occasional pesky uprising but anyone but jews caring about antisemitism is a very very recent historical development. and at the end of the day these groups are religious extremists, and religious extremists more often than not are people so conservative they're basically stuck in the middle ages. so like yeah they're aware that the jews have a state and an army now and all that but just by the osmosis of the kind of culture they live in and absorb jews are still viewed as something very destructible. a century or two ago you could commit a massacre, you could commit many massacres against jews and walk away relatively unscathed. but now jews have actual agency in the world and we have the power to retaliate, retaliate hard even, and that simply doesn't register to the islamist mind. it doesn't compute.
a century or two ago you could commit a massacre, you could commit many massacres against jews and walk away relatively unscathed
Yeah, this is what really kills me when I look up things like the Hebron & Safed Massacre of 1517, 1834, and 1929, or the Jaffa Riots of 1921, Arab Riots of 1936-9, the Tiberias Massacre of 1938, the Farhud of 1941, etc.
If you don’t understand Hebron and Safed 1929, you don’t understand the conflict.
I've spoken with multiple Muslims from the Middle East who earnestly tried to explain (in what I think is good faith) that their "loss of land" in 1948 was super traumatic, and wouldn't you do the same in their shoes?
But when I pointed out things like the Hebron & Safed Massacre or the Farhud, they quickly scoffed and brushed it off, like, "Ugh, that again? Why do Jews keep using the Farhud? / When will Jews get over it?"
And I genuinely, earnestly, not snarkily, 100% sincerely believe that a lot of Middle Eastern Muslims are culturally used to attacking and killing Jews whenever the whim suited them, and then brushing it under the rug and pretending it never happened afterwards; and they're simply not used to Jews fighting back or holding them to account, and they genuinely think it's super unfair that Jews keep winning or bringing it up now.
They think, "Ugh, you're still on about that?" because they've gotten over it, so why haven't we?
They've never had to put themselves in someone else's shoes and walk around in it, so they can't put themselves in the Mizrahi Jewish dhimmi's shoes when on the receiving end of a pogrom.
To borrow the Leftist term, "To those accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
but now jews have actual agency in the world and we have the power to retaliate, retaliate hard even, and that simply doesn't register to the islamist mind. it doesn't compute.
Pretty much this. Under the Pact of Umar, Jews were not allowed to own weapons or raise a hand to strike a Muslim under any circumstances (not even in self-defense), so massacring Jews was SUPER EASY because Jews were, by design, an easy target.
This all changed under the British Mandate, when Jews were allowed to own weapons and build militias, and suddenly Jews who embraced British colonial changes (like the end of Muslim dhimmi status) were no longer easy targets.
On ‘Nakba Day’, we should recognise that the man who conceived the idea was describing the inability of the Arabs to stop the establishment
The guy who coined the term "The Nakba" completely railed against Arabs who talked big about crushing the "Zionist" opposition, but then quickly turned heel and fled the second the enemy started to fight back, embarrassing them all.
The thing is, in 1948 the British and Americans imposed an Embargo against the baby-state of Israel when the seven surrounding Arab nations (Egypt, Gaza, West Bank, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon) attacked in 1948, so Jews had to smuggle weapons from Czechoslovakia. The second Jews were able to fight back, the Arabs who were used to to slaughtering defenseless dhimmi whenever they felt like it were unprepared and quickly fled when their own lives were in danger.
I think Jews being able to own weapons or raise an army or para-militia is a fairly recent development in Middle Eastern history, ever since the British Mandate taken from 400+ year Ottoman rule, so I think a lot of Israel's enemies are stuck in the 1300+ year mindset of, "Jews are weak and easy targets," and then they're shocked, appalled, and flabbergasted that Jews can hit back... and think it's super unfair to them when we do.
Again, not trying to be rude, just... trying to unpack the human psychology behind the seemingly nonsensical endless attacks against Israel, even though Israel keeps winning.
"Degrees are actually meaningless, expertise means nothing, and anyone should be able to cheat their way to the top" is the exact kind of anti-intellectualism that the right uses to justify attacking higher education and installing lunatics like RFK Jr. into positions of power, but you also hear it on left-leaning sites like tumblr and bluesky combined with smol bean victimhood to justify cheating with ShitGPT and never having to experience the shocking trauma of being expected to do an assignment on your own and turn it in on time instead of scrolling through tiktok 24/7. I'm beyond fed up with it. We're witnessing the consequences of having violently unqualified jackasses in positions of power right now. I don't care about your excuses for why academic dishonesty is heckin' valid.
Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.
Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.
There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.
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