Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.
that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?
These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.
Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.
After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.
For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.
Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.
Very funny to me that Ch'en's legendary heirloom sword Chi Xiao has the brand of a Columbian weapons manufacturer stamped right on the blade. Don't lie Wei Yenwu, that thing came with a serial code and a three-year warranty
it's symbolic of wei yenwu's character! quoting @hexdrake
wei yenwu had chi xiao, the ancient artifact sword representing the yanese throne, a two-bladed jian
reforged into a one-bladed dao
by an american weapons manufacturer
there's kinda this distinction in wuxia (maybe other chinese fiction in historical settings i'm not an expert) where one-bladed swords (often translated as just "blades") are considered base and common, while two-bladed weapons ("swords") are considered weapons of nobility. so in the context it is literally wei yenwu disguising his nobility AND westernizing; two things he did when he became the Chief of Lungmen. he too was reforged by the west into a common blade, as it were.
Getting blown up by a Shahed and they start talking about how you had a ridge wallet, a Gamer Supps subscription, loved your Raycon headphones and accumulated 6k worth of credit card debt playing raid shadow legends
i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.