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Murmuration of Starlings that looks like one huge bird

#fun fact but starlings are massively invasive in NA #100 years ago this moron was like 'I love shakespeare - I want all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to here in the new world'#so he released a bunch of fucking birds and now they are everywhere and steal nest sites from native species #they are pretty and can learn to talk tho #luckily starlings were the only ones that took

paxamericana

official-kircheis

As per my last clay tablet,

lurking-latinist

CCing Ibbi-Ilabrat on this one just to make sure we’re all on the same page!

littlethingwithfeathers

Hope this helps! Thanks!!!

#wish I could make a complaint to last 4000+ years #I don't even write letters anymore tho #emails won't last lol

grifalinas

I live my life under the basic principle that people know their minds, bodies, genders, and orientations better than I do so I just take them at their word when they say they are a thing.

grifalinas

"But people could be faking for-" I don't care. I would rather show someone a kindness they don't need than not show them one they do.

weaver-z

I've been laughing about the Mark Hamill gaygay tweet for six hours

weaver-z

Ben grinding his teeth over this might be the funniest thing I've seen in years. Bro. You're seething over the Mark Hamill gaygay tweet.

seldo

This addition made by coniferous and deciduous gangs teaming up.

irateyourposts

8/10

robotsandfrippary

anyone in L.A. will tell you when palms drop their leaves and it’s usually on top of your car and it will scare the shit out of you every damn time. So they give the palms embarrassing hair cuts to shame them.

#heck yes top shelf

Could Izuku’s dad be a nomu?

*Some mild manga spoilers ahead*

I’m just getting caught up in the manga and like... So, Izuku’s quirk doctor is clearly a League villain (Kyudai Garaki) and that kid, Tsubasa, from Izuku/Bakugo’s childhood was implied to be the winged nomu in the extras...

I heard people mention that Horikoshi said Izuku’s dad is going to show up eventually, but with Midoriya senior not being mentioned (basically ever) couldn’t it be possible that it’s not a big reveal? Or it is, but not the kind we’re expecting.

All we know about him is that his name is Hisashi, he works overseas, he has a fire-breathing quirk, and Inko/Midoriya never talk about him - not even to avoid talking about him.

Unless I missed it, the topic of his father has never been brought up outside that one time at the doctor. It would feel weirdly out of place to just plunk father drama in the middle of everything now without a proper set-up after 300+ chapters...

What doesn’t feel out of place is the weird connection between Dr. Kyudai Garaki, Tsubasa, and their neighbourhood connections to Izuku/Bakugo. Hisashi said in the extras that he was going to, “spell out all the details of the nomus when [he] can”, in the Tsubasa hint page... seems like he intends to address the connection and it would make sense to address Hisashi at that point too.

Maybe Hisashi was just a normal dude who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and the League covered up killing him by saying he left for overseas.

Maybe his tragedy is that he tried to do something good (like save Tsubasa or something... be a hero in his own right), but he was actually killed and now everyone thinks he’s a runaway deadbeat dad.

Maybe what we get is the same thing as Tsubasa?

A fire-breathing nomu.

#bnha manga #bnha theory #deku's dad #isuku's dad #bnha spoilers #bnha

dankmemeuniversity

zerosocialskillz

Today is the only day you can reblog this meme, everyone

thefallenbibliophilequote

Happy 22/2/22 day!

niuniente

Not to mention that today, 22/2/22 Pluto has finished its trip around the sun which started in 1774.

hydro-homies

There’s like 12 different kinds of tension in this image.

chocohybrid

quick question

why is the one in the middle wearing 5 shirts

goblinparty

that’s why she’s being bullied

neurotypical-karen

ok but they also have different versions that show each girl in the group getting bullied by the others

wispycreator

This is a modern work of art

seizerofdarkness

I’ve seen them once labeled as “homoerotic bullying pictures” and honestly don’t know what else to call them

sarahseeandersen

#hah

lambily-deactivated20200702

moonwatcher13

As someone who ran track and cross country for 4 years in high school, this always fucking mystified me the most out of all the insane shit PE had us do.

Track and field club taught all new runners how to properly warm up, stretch, pace, etc. Its a process, and doing it properly takes 15-20 minutes to make sure your body is ready so you dont hurt yourself.

PE didnt do jack shit, they just said "go run a mile" so 70% of the fucking kids sprinted flat out the first lap and basically walked the other 3. Multiple people did it in boots or tennis shoes. I'm amazed more of them didnt pull a muscle or worse in the process.

I dont know what the purpose of PE was, but it sure as shit wasnt proper exercise. And I think a lot of people suffered for that. If they spent the time teaching us about the importance of physical health, proper nutrition, how to safely stretch/exercise, etc, we would all be better off now.

renthony

Let's be real, PE exists to shame and torture the fat kids, and for pretty much no other reason.

genderfluid-and-confuzled

*Insert that thing with all the people who dread gym*

homemade-potato

this one?

sea-glass-and-fire

the purpose of PE, as it currently exists in the American school system, is to prepare kids to join the military. that's not some sort of moral-panic hyperbole. that's...pretty explicitly the purpose.

most of the prominently nightmarish features of PE, such as running the mile or doing sit-ups, originate with the Presidential Fitness Test. This test, which president Eisenhower implemented in schools in 1956, was created after a different fitness test (the Kraus-Weber test) revealed that Americans were less fit than Europeans -- specifically the Swiss.

The difference between the Kraus-Weber test and the Presidential Fitness test is that the Presidential Fitness test was specifically designed to test military fitness. While the Kraus-Weber test measured total fitness by testing things like core strength and flexibility, the Presidential Fitness test doesn't really make much sense in the context of ordinary fitness -- only in the context of military fitness. Do you remember being tested on how far you could throw a softball? That test mimicked throwing grenades. And it's pretty easy to see why Eisenhower went this direction. In 1956, the Cold War was in full swing and WWII was barely in the rear-view mirror. There was a real possibility that we would be at war with parts of super-fit Europe in the near future. Eisenhower wanted the nation's children ready to fight in that war.

The main issue with the Presidential Fitness test is that, as pointed out above, it really doesn't teach kids how to stay fit or incorporate physical activity in their day-to-day lives. A soldier at war might need to run a mile with no warm-up, or perform a pull-up, but for the average middle-schooler? The tests were just kind of...pointless exercises in misery. You're only really good at the Presidential Fitness Test if you've been practicing the specific exercises tested. And what 12 year old child is doing pull-ups for fun and pleasure? So instead of inspiring America's children to train themselves into a super-fit army, it just humiliated kids who didn't perform well.

There's been a recent push for PE classes to focus more on life-long fitness (things like actually teaching kids to warm up, exposing them to different types of physical activity, etc). Unfortunately, the Presidential Fitness test has already done its damage. It continued to be used in schools until 2013. That's 60 years of teaching kids to associate physical activity with shame and dread. The idea of military PE classes is pretty much baked into our cultural memory, giving us all a background dread of physical activity. and guess what, eisinhower?? that's just going to make people less likely to be physically active!! Maybe if we're trying to emulate the fitness of the SWISS, we shouldn't have gone with MILITARY TRAINING FOR CHILDREN!!

anyways. take some comfort in the fact that nobody will ever judge you for your mile time again. and if they try, ask to see them run a mile. directly away from you.

picea-rubens

This is more so related to one of the above posts, but I have a great story about awful school “warm-ups” that hurt me. Once, my PE teacher was like, “for our warm-up, we’re going to have a race, but instead of running, we’re going to do walking lunges.”

And because I’ve always been a competitive hoe when it comes to physical exercise (and I was very into Crossfit at the time), I was like, “yes - I’m going to murder you all.”

But joke was on me (and the teacher bc warm-race-lunges is an awful idea) because I proceeded to rip a muscle in my groin within the first minute so badly that I went into actual shock and couldn’t walk properly for a couple weeks.

#I love working out but I've never liked PE really