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Noah Kahan
One Nice Bug Per Day
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Jar Jar Binks Fan Club
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Game Changer & Make Some Noise
The Bowery Presents
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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@poikilomatters
Amazing how Some Reptile Dude (bonus points if it's a "respected" community figure) will crawl out of his cave to Um Achtually his incorrect, outdated knowledge with full confidence
fuck it here it is, cuz we aaaallll know ✨A Reptile Guy Like That✨
Amazing how Some Reptile Dude (bonus points if it's a "respected" community figure) will crawl out of his cave to Um Achtually his incorrect, outdated knowledge with full confidence
Tail can also be chin rest!
Gonyosoma jansenii
im so enraged with the culling of the brumbies
CW: discussion about animal death, culling
I held off responding to this because I know there's some really intense feelings about this issue. And, as someone who grew up reading and watching The Silver Brumby and have even met and ridden brumbies - I feel that same outrage. No one wants to see these beautiful horses shot and killed.
But I'm also deeply saddened by the state of our politics and how the environmental impact of this introduced species has been completely disregarded in favor of a bizarre culture war, colonialist mythology and death threats towards environmentalists. Nothing which is safeguarding the welfare of the horses.
Simply put, the Australian landscape is not equipped to handle large hoofed mammals. The peatlands across Australia's alpine regions are incredible carbon sequesters - yet they are 45% less effective at absorbing carbon when brumbies have trampled through them.
The damage that these horses are doing to natural habitat is significant.
A visual example: to the left, no hoofed animals. To the right, hoofed animals
Brumbies damage the habitats of the critically endangered Corroboree Frog and other threatened frog species including Growling Grass Frogs, Alpine Tree Frogs and Dendy’s Toadlets.
What is happening is an introduced species, an animal that was brought over to Australia to colonise and kill the indigenous population, has now been romanticised into an icon of Australia. And is being given priority over the native species of the land - which are vital to the ecosystem.
And due to constant lobbying and blocking of culling under "cultural reasons", these horse populations have gotten out of control and are putting native species under the real threat of extinction.
The Australian Brumby Alliance and other lobby groups provide minimal evidence to support their claims that horses are not causing damage and seem to just use whataboutism's rather than refuting the environmental science reports with data
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Like... kangaroos are not tearing up the soil because they have padded feet. Thankfully, humans, bicycles and and vehicles are not tearing through the peatlands on a day to day basis - otherwise I'd say they would absolutely be considered an impact on the environment.
"Hoof-like" feet is doing a lot of work too given that you can look up Australia's megafauna and you won't find any with the same hooves as modern horses - or really any ungulate.
But, its not really about the actual environmental impacts of the horses. It's about the romantic ideal of them. I have no issue with people who want to conserve brumbies and gentle them and adopt them as a way to move them out of the high country. But clearly these methods are not effective enough in controlling these populations.
Aerial culling is an upsetting thing to think about - but an independent review did find that horses didn't suffer for prolonged periods of time the way people often claim.
It's a horrible thought and very very sad but also... we have to be careful about allowing colonial stories and mythology get in the way of a very well established body of research and large amounts of data indicating that the brumbies are detrimental to alpine ecosystems.
And I support any efforts into reducing brumby numbers without lethal culls through sterilization programs and bringing them into human care. But it just doesn't seem like those programs alone will cut it and culls will sometimes need to happen to preserve our very fragile alpine ecosystems and the native species that rely on them.
The horses didn't ask to be abandoned in the bush and its not fair on them to have to deal with the consequences of Australian colonial history. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be effectively managing their numbers to reduce their impact on an environment they were never supposed to be in.
Pierog mornings are good mornings
I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit.
Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks!
Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you.
No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset.
It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast.
Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.
From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!
Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!
The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)
The Sumatran Tiger
The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur
The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon
The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey
And the Mexican Spider Monkey!
Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!
Scylla was super curious about my phone!
0.1 Gonyosoma jansenii
Eternal floof beast, ft. shed tuft caught in his hind paw.
Right as the lights turn on, André is always there to greet me in the morning.
Today's wasp of the day is Astichus longevittatus!
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So much style in an insect only a single millimeter big! This dazzling diva is a parasitoid of beetles that make their homes within bracket fungi. They're quite a rare find though, perhaps so that we don't become too jealous of their beauty.
Posting wasp propaganda because my ass is seething yo!
Update! Edited background to be lighter for better legibility, usually use grey backgrounds for artwork and forgor that it probably wouldn’t be great to read!
whats something you would say to someone looking to get into reptiles?
If I had to say one thing, it'd be this:
Quarantine - cannot stress this enough. Learn the basics and know your species - start learning about sterile technique/no cross-contamination.
Know that wild-caught/imports, boids (esp. Boa - arenavirus), pythons (esp. Morelia and Python spp. - serpentovirus/nido), and certain colubrids (corns/hognoses - cryptosporidium) will take months, at the very least, to be in quarantine because of the diseases and parasites they can carry.
Learn about parasite loads, and treat accordingly. Do this with a trusted exotic vet's guidance, NOT a petuber or influencer - I don't care if it's NERD, etc. And don't not treat for parasites either.
(on that added note - if you decide to add natural decor like wood and leaf litter - TREAT THOSE TOO. Do you want ants, wood boring beetles, or ticks in your residence?)
Being patient and careful will save you headaches and heartaches later.
I get to see a lot of cool plants in my line of work, like this Epipremnum giganteum
Itty bitty Homoeomma chilense doing a lil dance
Happy 12 yrs Cinder! Here's to many more 🐍🎉
