[sokodraws]

fine, you want the butcher? come on

[codylabs]

Markiplier does on the surface seem like an odd choice for directing and starring in a serious scifi horror movie, but in terms of getting scared at a computer screen and dying badly in space, his resume is remarkably stacked.

[sokodraws]

this is not an expedition...

[leaving-earth]

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

Friendly reminder that the intro to Lion King….the non english bits leading up to the “circle of life” is not random yelling in *Africa voice* it is an actual language, Zulu, spoken by 10 million people, it is the most widely spoken language (out of 11) in the country of South Africa (1 out of the 54 countries in the continent of Africa, the continent home  to somewhere between 1500-2000 languages and around 3000 distinct ethnic groups)

this isn’t to say that you have to friggin learn the language to sing along with a disney film, it just means that you should be mindful, respectful, appreciative and respectful. don’t be yelling out whatever noise comes in to your head when you hear it

[melancholic-pie]

Ok but someone knows what does this say?

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

The lyrics before the english comes in…in “circle of life”

Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father] Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion] Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father] Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion] Ingonyama [It’s a lion] Siyo Nqoba [We’re going to conquer] Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala [A lion and a leopard come to this open place] (repeats) [queue English lyrics]

I would like to further add that language has there own cultural nuances so something that can sound extremely meaningful in one languages may not sound as majestic when translated to another (I know this as someone who has an understanding of 5 languages and speaks 3 of them fluently) so if you are thinking “oh it ain’t that deep they are just yelling: the lion is coming!” dial it back

[haileyastraea]

Worth noting that “lion” and especially the word Ingonyama is a very respectful word to talk about a Zulu king, especially in praise. It’s so heavily associated with royalty in isiZulu that a different word is used for an animal lion - Ibhubesi. This isn’t just announcing the arrival of an animal, it’s celebrating the arrival (or coronation?) of the king

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

/\ Whoop, I didn’t know this

[toastbutteregg]

This is so informative thank you so much

[krakenartificer]

Lemme tell you, I was not dividing those syllables into words in the right places AT ALL

[the-loquacious-lark]

I would also like to state that the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is an extremely washed out version of the original song “Mbube” by Solomon Linda, a South African musician. It was appropriated by the west and he never received credit or money for what became an extremely famous song. His family eventually received a small sum from Disney for the song but again, not much considering the history of the song. There is a documentary about it right now on netflix. 

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

full article here

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

This is one of my most favourite posts I’ve made but I hate all of the typos on my part….but I’m grateful it landed with people

[cricketcat9]

Learned something new 👍👍👍 today

[usaghinanami99]

And The Lion King is the only Disney film officially dubbed in Zulu! https://disneyinternationaldubbings.weebly.com/the-lion-king–zulu-cast.html

[takaraphoenix]

I'm going to sound very old and very tired here for a second, but iIt is so dystopian to me to have ads on my computer.

Ads used to be on the internet. And that's that. The things that were installed on my computer did not show me ads.

And that goes even beyond the questionable practice that free versions of programs such as Avira now show you lil ads in the corner of your screen like once a day.

You used to have free games on your computer.

I was in the mood to play a game again, a very rare mood for me, and I opened the game center for the... first time since I had this version of Windows (as I said; very rare mood).

And there's ads. You play the "free" games that live on your computer and there are ads left and right and beneath it and between levels there is just a 20 second ad break.

You can go premium to no longer have ads.

That's dystopian to me.

When things that used to be fully free and just part of something are now riddled with ads and to get the ad free experience that, again, used to just be the experience, you have to pay.

And it's not even a one-time-payment.

Back in the day, you used to pay for something and then you owned it. You used to pay for a program or a game, and you owned a physical CD that you put in your computer to install the thing and it was just yours. It belonged to you, because you paid for it.

Now everything is a per month subscription, which is just so sinister because many look like oh, that's not that much money! Sure, I'll pay 1,99€/month to play games ad free. Every single month sums up, and it sums to a lot over the years though, for something that used to be free. (And I've complained about subscriptions before, in the context of Adobe, which isn't just dystopian anymore, it's actually plain evil to demand 25,99€/month to use a singular program, that you can now no longer buy to actually own.)

And I know - I know - you can find free games online to download or play in browser (already did that for mahjong) - but I'm talking about the principle here. The principle of getting ads on your computer, directly, and to have to pay to no longer have ads and use something that had been a part of the Windows experience since... forever.

[jerico3193]

[frizz01percy]

this should be the most reblogged post on tumblr before it dies

[xan-thos-blog]

We need to reblog this so much that the post breaks

[bittymoonbear-deactivated201807]

Do not like

[secret-unicorn-sierra-blog]

Keep. Reblogging.

[dawn-machine-official]

If we reblog enough we could save it

[vwidjojo]

Reblogged at 1.7 M notes

[weirdo09]

reblogged at 1.8M notes

[earhartsease]

how did this lose over 5k notes

[cybermax]

I’m glad we cost Yahoo 2 billion dollars.

[cybernetic-divinity-deactivated]

it’s like a perfectly preserved body at Pompei

[jjsbizarreadveyj]

Finding this on my normal dash is like taking a stroll through the Park and suddently stumbeling upon the Codex Hammurabi just lying there.

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

[raginrayguns]

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

[manyblinkinglights]

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

[tell-the-stars-hello]

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

[emoracreations]

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/

[naurielrochnur]

Update: you guys this is an amazing resource for learning asl. Bill Vicars is an incredible teacher. His videos are of him teaching a student in a classroom, using the learned vocabulary to have conversations.

Not only is the conversation format immersive and helpful for learning the grammar, but the students make common mistakes which he corrects, mistakes I wouldn’t have otherwise know I was making.

He also emphasizes learning ASL in the way it’s actually used by the Deaf community and not the rigid structure that some ASL teachers impose in their classrooms

His lesson plans include learning about the Deaf community, which is an important aspect of learning ASL. Knowing how to communicate in ASL without the knowledge of the culture behind it leaves out a lot of nuances and explanations for the way ASL is.

Lastly, his lessons are just a lot of fun to watch. He is patient, entertaining, and funny. This good natured enthusiasm is contagious and learning feels like a privilege and not a chore

And it’s all FREE. Seriously. If you’ve ever wanted to learn ASL

[crazy-brazilian]

[britttaperryhasmoved-deactivate]

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

YOU GUYS IT’S DECEMBER 10TH YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS HAS BEEN IN MY QUEUE SINCE FEBRUARY

[donttwalkaway-deactivated201302]

you have the rest of the day to reblog this

[angremlin]

You know how King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard famoulsy left Spotify bc of their bad politics and promotion of AI? Well, Spotify seems to have responded by trying to replace them with an AI copy using a copycat name and the same song titles

You have to quit Spotify

[ralfmaximus]

Fucking horrifying

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

The Addams Family renting out rooms in their huge mansion cheaply to broke college students.

The students digging it because the craziness and the bugs are pretty much the same as any other dorm house. Also, Morticia and Gomez treat them all like visiting cousins, not like tenants to abuse and exploit. 

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

One of the tenants is a creative writing major and Gomez and Morticia house them up in the tower because of the quiet and the inspiring view

They’re supposed to be working on a typical coming-of-age story but after living with the Addams for just a week the project is becoming a horror-Gothic-romance

They go to their room after classes one day and find Thing correcting the grammar errors in the manuscript with a red pen 

[specialstarfish]

and yeah, the students pay roughly market value for their rooms, but that doesn’t stop gomez from shouting “capital idea!” and handing them wads of cash when they tell him about their weekend plans or what they’re researching, so they basically end up living there for free

[gholateg]

In the same vein, half the them have to turn into exceptional fencers, because Gomez just doesn’t give a shit, and if he sees you in the library, its fucking Sword Fighting Time. 

Fester and Pugsley find out one of the college students is trying to get into chemistry and woo boy, there has never been a faster study of how to counter various acidic chemical reactions due to “water” balloons in campus history. 

Morticia and Grammy are keeping the horticulturalists on their toes with their Black Tulip/Rose hybrids, which can flick their barbs a foot away from their stem system. But it’s fine, one of the kids has managed to breed Aloe with the anti venom. 

Lurch makes sandwiches for everyone who’s too much of a coward for Grammy’s cooking. Any music major will find him looming over them, utterly stone faced as they practise until they finish, when he’ll smile, and slowly applaud. 

And the spookiest thing of all

Wednesday and Thing will find your thesis. They will critique it in every way imaginable. 

There is no escape. 

[aardvarkingmad]

I especially love the idea of Gomez spotting a student in the library, throwing a sword at a startled student, shouting, “En garde!” and lunging at him/her with a sword of his own.

Student (later in life), when asked how she jumps from quietly doing research to handling a sudden influx of ER cases so quickly and easily, says, “When you have to snap out of deep concentration on biochem to fight for your life then get back to biochem without losing your train of thought…you learn or you die.”

[soap-stains]

This has made me laugh so hard-

[tinygiantrobotsinouterspace]

And you know how chatty Gomez is when he fights, he’d probably help more students work through creative blocks via swordplay than any education counselor in a stuffy little office.

[breelandwalker]

Gomez Addams as the embodiment of the Rubber Duck Method for struggling students via surprise swordplay is directly on brand.

And I firmly believe that long-term residents who finish their degrees suddenly, mysteriously, find that their student loans have been paid off. The family attends every single graduation ceremony and claps and cheers for “their” students as boisterously as any parent. They make a particular point of doing so for the ones who have no other family in attendance.

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

do u ever want something so bad that you can’t even write wish-fulfillment about it u just. cry. instead.

[swindle94]

I fucking CRY everytime I read these. Out of the good feels.

[quirkykaty]

Yes pleeeaasssse 😭

[headspace-hotel]

okay the taxonomy of the genus Canis is completely fucked

iNaturalist recognizes gray wolf, "eastern wolf" and red wolf as three different species, though from wikipedia it seems like all three have hybridized like crazy with each other and with coyotes and domestic dogs for their whole evolutionary history, and they all split apart very recently.

Also African wolves are hybrids of gray wolves and Ethiopian wolves, but Himalayan and Indian wolves are more closely related to African wolves, and golden jackals are nested within the same genus.

But the African wolf is more closely related to gray wolves and coyotes than it is to golden jackals. (????)

I don't know. I'm not sure if any of that is even correct. There are a gazillion genetic studies trying to figure out how all of these species are related and how they hybridized with each other, and it's all over the place.

ANYWAY the reason this is so weird is that in the USA we have coyotes, which are abundant, viewed as vermin, and can be hunted year round without limits, and wolves, which are extremely protected and endangered and vital to ecosystems. A lot of people LOVE wolves, but they have much more negative or indifferent feelings toward coyotes.

Here, coyotes are thought of as so strongly and sharply different from wolves, TOTALLY different things. The main distinction being size; wolves are huge and gigantic and coyotes are small.

But now I'm learning that many of the animals called "wolves" in other parts of the world are much more similar to our coyotes, both in size and social behaviors. And furthermore, it seems like size and social behaviors convergently evolved in different species or populations of wolves, rather than the "small, more socially flexible" wolves and the "big, tight-knit social structure" wolves forming two separate branches of the family tree

So like, it's undeniable, whether you go by genetics or by appearances or by behavior, that coyotes are just a type of wolf, they're one of the several wolf species that exist.

And then you get to the fact that basically all of the coyotes in the Eastern USA are actually verified to be hybrids between coyotes and gray wolves, and that the endangered red wolves, which used to inhabit the area where these new coyotes live, were threatened by hybridization with coyotes, and that the extant red wolves were selected out of a pool of red wolf-coyote hybrids. But actually, red wolves were thought to be themselves hybrids of gray wolves and coyotes, but actually actually, the species have been all hybridizing for their whole evolutionary history, so what does that even mean?

The red wolf reintroduction program has been struggling because people keep shooting and killing the animals. They wear bright orange collars, but people shoot them anyway. The enemies of red wolf conservation say they are not genuine wolves and are "just coyotes."

The wolves don't know what a species is, but the law is called the Endangered SPECIES act, so red wolves have to be a "species," or it is legal to slaughter them all. Species is fake, but we need it to be real to justify the value of certain populations of animals.

I don't know, like. I'm not an expert on this stuff! I'm just having a lot of thoughts on...the strong cultural distinction between coyotes and wolves? Like the cultural difference is SO much stronger than the biological difference. Wolf conservation is forced to prove that wolves are Totally Different than coyotes, and to decide that mixes between coyotes and wolves are automatically coyotes.

And I'm always seeing this common idea that reintroducing wolves will totally transform the ecosystem and fix what's wrong with it, because wolves fulfill the role of large predators. But if there's coyote-wolf hybrids already here, what are they doing to the ecosystem? And if they're behaving in the ecosystem more like omnivorous scavengers than large predators, is that because of what they are genetically, or is it because of the environment they have to survive in?

Yellowstone wolves were so impactful because of how they interacted with large herbivores, but if you introduced wolves into much of the eastern USA, where elk and bison have been wiped out, what would that even do? Would the wolves be able to thrive at all? Would they stay wolves, or would they breed with coyotes and make coyote-wolves again? Coyotes have thrived in the ecosystem humans have built over the past 100 years, becoming ever more successful and numerous. How could wolf genes take the place of coyote genes in an ecosystem that is so coyotegenic?

What about areas where the elk have been reintroduced? Do the coyote-wolves stay coyote-like, or do they start to wolf-ify because of different genes being selected?

Why's everybody swear up and down that somebody they know owns a wolfdog, but nobody ever has a coyotedog, even though contact between coyotes and dogs seems way more likely?

So many questions that gnaw at the very foundations of what we know about wilderness.

[tredekim]

so uh. dare i ask... what *is* a fox?

[headspace-hotel]

Ummm so according to Wikipedia, there are three groups of canids, that are commonly called "foxes": fox-like, South American, and other.

Kit fox, red fox, fennec fox, arctic fox, bat-eared fox, and some others are actually related and in a group together, but everything in South America including bush dogs, maned wolves and crab-eating foxes are in a different group together, and gray foxes are their own thing completely different from all the other canines.

this is amazing, the pampas fox and indian fox look almost identical to me but the pampas fox is closer to the maned wolf and the bush dog than it is to the indian fox

[headspace-hotel]

by the way, this is also why the colossal biosciences "revival" of the dire wolf is stupid, because dire wolves were very genetically different from all the animals we call "wolves" now and only looked similar because of convergent evolution. you might as well try to re-create dire wolf using african wild dog

[headspace-hotel]

Coyotes are so diverse! i have to show some pictures of coyotes from iNaturalist that i saved to my collection

First we have this very nice coyote

This one has the same colors and markings, but it is a more slender and smaller-bodied version, with the narrow snout clearly shown

This one on the other hand has much broader face and jaws

Very interesting variation in color! Brindle, with no white parts on the face or chest.

This one is a pale, sandy orange shade with extraordinarily tall, straight ears.

Dog-like, reminds me of a dingo, with wide set ears and orange fur.

Narrow snout, tall legs, and sandy red fur again, with darker shading on the back and face. The ears are tall, and more pointed than we saw before.

WHAT IS THAT

This is one of the smaller-bodied and mischief-adapted types.

The tall ears are extremely round instead of pointed, and the jaws are wide. It has a heavier body. (I believe this was in the East Texas area known to have high rates of Red Wolf hybridization.)

This one has a black coat and extremely wide set ears on a broad head.

Its head appears large compared to the rest of its body, and very broad and heavy-jawed, with a noticeable forehead wrinkle. (I believe this was also in the East Texas area known to have high rates of Red Wolf hybridization.)

This one has enormous, very round ears, paired with a narrower, more lightweight snout and jaws. It has a long body and long legs.

This one has a very heavy and robust body and large, triangular ears, with much more gray toned fur and a fully white patch covering its snout

It has a very striking square muzzle and head.

Looks quite large and more wolf shaped, but still with large, coyote-style ears.

I have shown this one on here before...this was the inspiration for the collection. It looks pretty big, still with a long, narrow snout, but the ears are small.

Those are some truly fascinating markings--seems to have a uniform creamy-orange coat with black extremities, and the ears are so big and close-set there is almost no space between them.

Another black coyote, this gives you a good look at how long the snout is. Again, on the larger side for coyotes.

This is another example of a black coyote, but a smaller-bodied and more compact version.

Their variations are so fascinating! i will certainly bring more...

[chase-solidago]

i hate that concerns about urban gardening/foraging safety is often met with "What are you, a cop?" scorn. I believe it's a suspicion of anything that hinders the punk/anti-system urgency to jump in immediately and do whatever feels right.

Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.

I know anti-intellectualism is viewed as activist these days, but like, surely you don't want to literally eat lead, right?

[chase-solidago]

Let’s check in and see how those rascally solarpunk kids are doing, surely they’ve learned by now that…..

Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.

Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.

Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:

REUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils

Steps to Creating a Community Garden or Expand Urban Agriculture at a Brownfields Site

[fyeah-tmnt]

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[fyeah-tmnt]

[neubauje]

Reblogging for the mewtwos, the WoW trolls, and any other toon with just three fingers.

[laneynoir]

Fixed it.

[headspace-hotel]

My version of "doomscrolling" nowadays is just going to iNaturalist, browsing pictures of animals and fantasizing about where I would introduce them outside of their natural range if I was some kind of ecology-focused evil scientist. I do this when I'm depressed. I don't know if it helps.

[hawk-rose]

If i was evil and feared no consequences and had a magic item that spawned extant animals on command, but only outside of their current range, I would introduce:

Snow leopards to the rocky mountains along with any prey needed

Tigers and leopards to the midwest US

Bring. Back. The. US. Jaguar.

Bactrian camels to the midwest, love those guys

Reintroduce wolves (magically immune to rabies so they don't get wiped out again) to Japan to control the deer and boar situation

I'd say introduce raccoons everywhere, but that's pretty much already been done

Tanuki to the US!

Finish what the Greeks and Roman's started and introduce Asclepian snakes everywhere via healing snake cult

Bring back great plains elk and moose, make people afraid to drive

Zebras to the great plains and well

And giraffes

Bring back forest bison to the southern US

Europe gets forest bison back, too

Europe, the Middle East, and Asia get leopards, lions, and cheetahs back

Introduce mountain lions to Eurasia for the chaos

Give everyone who wants one and can take care of it a pet cheetah

Breed WILD colorways of tigers. Their coat diversity is so cool.

River dolphins and hippos into the Mississippi

Introduce hummingbirds to Hawaii to absolutely wreck the pineapple industry

Boat tailed grackles to the PNW, I miss them

Anything critally endangered into a simular habitat elsewhere so you have more and maybe they get a population boom

[scrambled-pine]

out of genuine interest and curiosity, how would hummingbirds wreck the pineapple industry? would absolutely love to hear a detailed rambling explanation

[hawk-rose]

Okay, so this all started because I kept killing air plants, so I decided to research them. I, um, still keep killing my air plants, but at least I know why now!*

So, did you know that pineapples are basically terrestrial airplants? I didn't! One of their major pollinators in their native habitat is hummingbirds. The thing is, the pineapple industry really prefers unpollinated pineapples, since unpollinated pineapples are naturally seedless, so there is a law in Hawaii forbidding people from bringing in any hummingbirds.

This seems like a silly law, like making it illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket**, but since some real-life supervillians back when intentionally introduced friggin cardinals to Hawaii multiple times and now they've spread to pretty much all the islands, you can see why the pineapple industry (also real-life supervillians) lobbied to make it a law.

Nowadays, the government of Hawaii is much more invested in preserving biodiversity, thank goodness, but yeah. That happened.

So yes, introducing hummingbirds to Hawaii would result in the pineapple industry suddenly have to deal with fruit full of hard seeds, which would make consumers unhappy and make them have to update a lot of factory equipment.

It would also hurt native nectivores, many of which are threatened or endangered, so, very bad idea.

* I am soaking them in water like you should, but I keep accidentally leaving them in overnight, and I don't do it consistently. So I overhydrate them and dehydrated them in turns. They... don't like that.

** This law actually makes sense! People would steal horses by luring them away via ice cream/other sweet treat in a back pocket and then claim they found a lost horse and kept it.

[scrambled-pine]

fascinating! thank you so much for sharing, this was a delightful experience