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JVL
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hello vonnie
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Misplaced Lens Cap
trying on a metaphor
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#extradirty
Stranger Things
Andulka
The Bowery Presents
KIROKAZE
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@penfan-gibb
I forgot about the quarantine and, for a moment, thought the joke was that Spongebob and Patrick had passed away and Squidward was simultaneously silently mourning them while internally wishing he had treated them better while they were alive.
      ŃĎĐ˝ĘĎ & ŃĐ˝Ń ŃĎĐ˝ĐźÎąŃ â ĆĘĎ ÎšŃŃ Đ˛ÎąŃĐşŃŃ Ń02 ŃĎ01
Hopefully Minakoâs right about this oneâŚ
The weirdest guy I ever met in a church was this boy who referred to âBuzz Aldrin and his husbandâ going to the moon. I was completely baffled, and when I asked if heâd misspoken, he got really angry and accused me of being deliberately ignorant of the facts. It turned out that he was somehow comvinced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were married. It took five Wikipedia articles to convince him otherwise.
That is the best moon-related conspiracy theory I've EVER heard.
maybe the real moon landing was the husbands we found along the way
I cannot bring myself to edit this photo
This is like a van Gogh painting
That IS van gogh
7.4.20
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the fact that the Emperor from Mulan just walks away without giving a fuck while his life is in danger
âOh, my tea is ready.â
Today is the 15-year anniversary of the premier of Avatar the Last Airbender. It won't be the anniversary of the first episode I ever saw until tomorrow though.
I saw the second episode the 2nd day that it aired, and after that, I never missed the air date of a single episode. Not even when I was in the hospital and had to watch The Beach on my room TV and listen through the clunky bed speaker.
Have any of you guys been watching it from the beginning?
Anyway, thanks for 15 years, Fire Lord of My Heart. đĽ
the apocalypses this year
January:
February:
march:Â
April:
wait whatâs happening with April?
@what-a-silver-liningâ This is whatâs happening with April
Holy cow! This year is really trying to outdo itself every month.
its like an advent calendar but instead of candy its apocalypse
Oh
FUCK
As someone who loves seamstressing
WHAT THE FUCK
THIS IS FUCKING BLACK MAGIC AND I NEED TO KNOW JUST
HOW
Theyâve found the thneed.
Welcome Ereshkigal!
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Sanson-san's relaxation
Idk who needs to hear this but some characters just hate eachother. No hidden love. Yeah sometimes people just do not like eachother.
golden eagle having a relaxing time
This is the worldâs largest flying Engine of Murder marveling at the fact that it can actually have its tummy rubbed.
I feel like this is the next step up on âloose your fingersâ roulette from petting a kittieâs tummy, but just below belly rubs for say a lion.
Can someone who knows birds better than I do tell me whether this eagle is as happy as it looks? Â Because I want it to be happy. Â It looks so happy. Â Bewildered by having a friend, but so happy.
Just popping on this thread to confirm: yes, the eagle is happy about the belly rubs. Golden eagles make this sound when receiving allopreening and similar affectionate and soothing treatment from their parents and mates. Itâs the âI am safe and well fed, and somebody familiar is taking good care of meâ sound. Angry raptors and wounded raptors make some pretty dramatic hisses and shrieks; frightened raptors go dead silent and try to hide if they can, or fluff up big and get loud and in-your-face if hiding isnât an option. They can easily sever a finger or break the bones of a human hand or wrist, and even with a very thick leather falconerâs gauntlet, Iâve known falconers to leave a mews (hawk house) with graphic punctures THROUGH the gauntlet into the meat of their hands and arms, just from buteos and kestrels way smaller than this eagle. A pissed off hawk will make damn sure you donât try twice whatever you pulled that pissed her off, even if sheâs been human-imprinted.
If youâre ever unsure about an animalâs level of okayness with something thatâs happening, there are three spot-check questions you can ask, to common-sense your way through it:
1. Is the animal capable of defending itself or making a threatening or fearful display, or otherwise giving protest, and if so, is it using this ability? (e.g. dog snarling or biting, swan hissing, horse kicking or biting)Â 2. Does the animal experience an incentive-based relationship with the human? (i.e. does the animal have a reason, in the animalâs frame of reference, for being near this human? e.g. dog sharing companionship / food / shelter, hawk receiving good quality abundant food and shelter and medical care from a falconer)
3. Is the animal a domesticated species, with at least a full century of consistent species cohabitation with humans? (Domesticated animals frequently are conditioned from birth or by selective breeding to be unbothered by human actions that upset their feral nearest relatives.)
In this situation, YES the eagle can self-defend, YES the eagle has incentive to cooperate with and trust the human handler, and NO the eagle is not a domesticated species, meaning we can expect a high level of reactivity to distress, compared to domestic animals: if the eagle was distressed, it would be pretty visible and apparent to the viewer. These arenât a universally applicable metric, but theyâre a good start for mammal and bird interactions.
Pair that with the knowledge that eagles reserve those chirps for calm environments, and you can be pretty secure and comfy in the knowledge that the big honkinâ birb is happy and cozy.
Also, to anybody wondering, falconers are almost single-handedly responsible for the recovery from near-extinction of several raptor species, including and especially peregrine falcons. Most hawks only live with the falconer for a year, and most of that year is spent getting the bird in ideal condition for survival and success as a wild breeding adult. Falconers are extensively trained and dedicated wildlife conservationists, pretty much by definition, especially in the continental USA, and they make up an unspeakably important part of the overall conservation of predatory bird species. Predatory birds are an important part of every ecosystem they inhabit. Just like apiarists and their bees, the relationship between falconer and hawk is one of great benefit to the animal and the ecosystem, in exchange for a huge amount of time, effort, expense, and education on the part of the human, for very little personal benefit to that one human. Itâs definitely not exploitation of the bird, and most hawks working with falconers are hawks who absolutely would not have reached adulthood without human help: the sick, the injured, and the âruntsâ of the nest who donât receive adequate resources from their own parents. These are, by and large, wonderful people who are in love with the natural world and putting a lifetime of knowledge and sheer exhausting work into conserving it and its winged wonders.
reblogged for excellent info, Iâm so glad that big gorgeous birb really is as happy as it looks!
Todayâs bit of positive activism: A reminder that, although the world may contain many bad and awful things, it also contains an enormous winged predator clucking happily as a human gives it a belly rub.
@jewishmagpie
This post has been going around for a while, and if you can, look up this post on Why Animals Do The Thing; that blog got the backstory behind this video. If Iâm remembering it right, this is a fairly young golden eagle who was reared by the falconer, who has known he likes a nice relaxing message after a good flying session, which is the situation here. Heâd been doing a flying-workout, which is why he has the big olâ rope on his jesses and why heâs also breathing as heavily as he is.
Wearing a face mask takes some getting used to. To get the most benefit, you need to avoid these common mistakes.
Very important information.
