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excerpts from an interview with kathee muzin about the first time she fell in love with another woman, published in the montreal gazette, december 1991

#quotes #special

kaijuerotica

save me, rice mixed with some bullshit

moonflowero1

when are game devs going to be brave and add customizable wheelchairs as functional player character features/props

moonflowero1

this post is randomly taking off today and all I can say is godspeed. spread my disabled agenda!

mostlycatsmostly

Dragon’s Claw (by Jak O'Dowd)

genderfluid-druid

[ID: Photo of a small dragon statue. The statue has one claw upraised, and a tabby cat is using it for cheek scritches. Both the dragon and the cat have pleased expressions. End ID]

katmaibearfan

Here's the latest statement from Mike Fitz -- the Resident Naturalist with Explore.org, which hosts the bear cams -- about when the cams will go live.

For a bit of background, Katmai National Park is extremely remote, and there is not enough infrastructure to stream directly from there to the internet. So, there is a repeater on top of Dumpling Mountain that sends the live streams to a facility in the nearby town of King Salmon, and the live streams are sent out from there.

Usually, the Naknek River Cam runs year-round, and i believe the Dumpling Mountain Cam is usually up and running by now as well. The fact that Naknek went out and Dumpling Mountain isn't on indicates that there is some pretty significant damage done to the system, likely by a winter storm.

Additionally, getting qualified people and repair parts to the relevant locations is a massive logistical challenge, which can delay things. Brooks Camp is only really accessible by float plane, the repeater is on top of a mountain, and there are many large animals that must be respected and avoided. Its all possible to do, obviously, but there is a lot of unavoidable waiting involved.

As always, we are forever grateful to Explore.org and their technical and maintenance workers for doing everything they can do to get these streams up and running.

measured-words

In the past several years, they use Starlink to send the signal directly from some cams, and only some of them go through the repeater.

I keep waiting for them to decide to go all in on Starlink to save having to deal with the infrastructure stuff, especially since Starlink is supposed to be introducing a new 'back country' package this year with better upload capacity.

So far I have quality over starlink tends to be shittier, plus of course, the whole elon musk of it all.

katmaibearfan

thanks for the additional info!

jurassicpeanut

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

glassgrayve

snail tiffany lamp

parakeet

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

crowcryptid

awheckery

from the above-linked ebird.org:

Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills, typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups.

oh my god

roach-works

groove billed anis are a hilarious cuckoo situation where they ended up laying their eggs in one another’s nests instead of anyone else’s. they hang out together in groups of up to five pairs until a nest gets built (sometimes by committee, sometimes they just hang around hopefully until someone does it all on their own) then they start sneaking over and laying an egg in at a time. the females who lay for the first time will sometimes flip prior eggs out of the nest like ‘oh i KNOW this one isn’t mine! away it goes’ but eventually everyone’s laid a couple eggs in there and is stuck with the mutual hostage situation. then they take turns incubating until all the kids hatch and everyone pitches in on feeding them, because no one knows which of the kids are theirs so they all might as well.

they also like to do a team handshake where they clump up and mutually make a low bubbling noise together, to signal group affiliation. go team!

keeskiwi

Also their eggs are incredibly beautiful. They’re a very pretty blue color, but covered by a white chalky outer layer that is easily scratched off, so they end up in various stages of in-between.

(Photo © Henrique_Anizio, shared under CC BY-NC).

kloperslegend

Okay,I just want to share the super cool fucking site I found

Ever wanted to exercise more, but didn’t know how/didn’t have a plan/were overwhelmed by the insane number of choices online/no money?

Look at darebee. All of their workout plans are FREE, come with timers and checkboxes right on the page, and even better, ARE OFTEN RPG THEMED so you can fucking role play while you exercise wtff (and yes, the story and the workout changes with your choices)

They have programs for if you only want to do seated exercises, programs if you don’t want to get on the floor, and programs for ALL levels of fitness, including injury recovery.

Plus, if like me, you get anxious about making sure you’re doing it right, they have a full free library of videos for each exercise.

AND ALL THIS SHIT IS NOT JUSTS FREE, IT'S AD-FREE

Go forth and defeat your enemies

rapidashrider

No lie, I am on day 5 of this and it’s a game changer.