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“Fish rarely get love from people in the way that dogs or dolphins do when they should.”

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Fish like to be pet because our hands probably feel like a cleaning station to them 😊 when I was interning at an aquarium waaay back in the day, one of my jobs was to pet the new fish/rays/sharks in the petting areas to get them used to hands. Sharks and rays appreciate light scritches…and aallllll fish love the feel of a bristle brush, once they’re acclimated to it!!!!!!

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secretspaceship

“6 wings” “2 heads” “6 legs” linocuts from my exhibition “7 maa ja mere taga” 2019

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paintedjumper

Couldn’t find the horses in the fog. Luckily they found me.

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mamoru

my personal opinion is that using a wheelchair and then doing separate intentional physical therapy is much better than trying to walk everywhere and making every outing short and painful. getting out should not require pain and the ideal exercise is focused and intense anyway and nobody wants to collapse in public when ambulance costs are so high. too many people hide their ableism towards wheelchairs behind concerns about deconditioning when in reality wheelchairs can be the difference between whether someone gets out of the house at all or not. there is no freedom in being forced to be miserable all the time.

#important #ableism #q

pangur-and-grim

my favourite part of the Evolutionary Biology courses I took at the University of Toronto was learning that several bird species have 3+ sexes? the ruff bird is a great example - each male variant has a different (and successful!) reproductive strategy, and a different chromosomal sequence.

unlike the ruff bird, human sex falls into a bimodal distribution - this means there are two strong peaks (”typical” male and female morphs), with a whole lot in between.

evolution is nice way of saying “statistics played out longterm among living organisms”, and evolutionarily successful traits….aren’t something to hold up as natural or moral, or representative of an advanced state. it’s literally just fuck tactics that make your group size increase.

(though fucking isn’t always the best route, as asexual reproduction is massively advantageous as a short-term strategy, and certain species dominate the landscape by switching between sexual/asexual depending on environmental conditions)

besides all that, the strength of humankind has always been our ability to work together communally, and that’s straight science. so even if you went down the extremely problematic path of valuing fellow humans based on their potential evolutionary contribution (coughs, eugenics, coughs), there would still be zero scientific basis behind discriminating against trans, non-binary and intersex people.

tl;dr here’s a challenge to all the bigots out there: please stop using “science” as a defence when the actual science is (overwhelmingly) against you.

the-awkward-turt

Here here!

Almost 100% of the time people using “science” to defend bigotry do not actually understand the full complexity of said science.

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esteepreda

Power Plant, 6” x 9″, gouache on paper, 2019.

https://society6.com/hillabovewilds

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sunfish-exotics

Rae & Perwinkle

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sosuperawesome

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topwizzynum

Listen he’s just minding his own business

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sharky-chan

Meant to draw this during Chinese New Year, and very nearly missed commemorating my three guinea pigs entirely during their very auspicious Year of the Pig!

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