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cr: 百变花央
I’m out here buying tshirts and pants like a chump while some people are just wearing the world’s best rectangles
Never underestimate a big rectangle and a belt.
I… wow. I need to show my wife
Customer Service Wolf.
That wolf embodies the thoughts of most in customer service
What the hell.
I thought this was fake, but no, it appears you cannot open the door to a Tesla model S from the outside if it's not powered. Somebody legit died because of this.
So in the past few years I’ve seen so many videos / posts that are like:
“Actually wolves don’t have hierarchies! They live in family groups where the ‘alphas’ are mom and dad and the other wolves are their CHILDREN and offer their respect willingly! :D”
and I just have to say
how dare you try to make normative nuclear families out of wolves
Yes, a lot of the old “nature red in tooth and claw” stuff about wolves is nonsense. (Like anything from Jack London.) And anything ‘alpha’ you see sleazy men trying to relate to dating (yikes!) is especially nonsense.
But wolves are complex social creatures and they create complex social structures. Just as you can’t say “THIS is the way human society is structured. Just THIS single way and no other”, so too there is no single form for a wolf pack.
Some packs are a mom wolf and a dad wolf and their wolf children. Others are two small ragged packs that combine to form a large pack. Others are packs where a lone wolf joins and eventually becomes a leader. Others are packs where a grown child-wolf has pushed their parent out of the leadership role.
Speaking of the latter, let’s look at the tale of Wolf 40 and Wolf 42.
Wolf 40, Wolf 41, and Wolf 42 were wild Yellowstone wolves, daughters of the alphas. Their father was illegally killed by hunters and shortly after ambitious Wolf 40 ousted her mother, driving her out of the pack. Wolf 21 became the new alpha male, and 40′s mate.
Wolves have personalities, and Wolf 40′s personality was “volatile”. Imagine Scar from The Lion King combined with the boss from Office Space, and you have Wolf 40. She habitually bullied the other female wolves, attacking them until they expressed abject submission. And the wolves that got the worst of it were her sisters, Wolves 41 and 42.
Wolf 41 got tired of the bullying and left. Wolf 42 remained, perhaps because she was close to Wolf 21, the alpha male. Despite that, Wolf 21 did not interfere when his mate harassed Wolf 42.
Unlike 40, Wolf 42 got along well with the other female wolves, spending time grooming them and relaxing with them. Wolf 40 could have followed her sister’s example and built up positive social bonds. But she didn’t.
One day, Wolf 40 went out on an important task. She was going to kill another litter of her sister’s pups–having done the same in two previous years. This isn’t uncommon wolf behavior (but is not universal, as we will see.) Typically only the alphas breed.
However, Wolf 40 never returned from her important task because Wolf 42–who previously had submitted to her alpha and sister, who had allowed the killing of two previous litters of pups–had had enough. She fought back.
And the other female wolves jumped to aid her.
Collectively, they killed Wolf 40. Because “alpha” isn’t a magic cloak of protection, it doesn’t even mean “strongest wolf”, it’s just a job title.
The next day Wolf 42 carried her pups, one by one, to her sister’s den. She set her children among the pups of her dead sister and raised both litters together. And when another wolf in the pack had pups, Wolf 42 carried them to the den to be communally raised as well. She was the alpha female now and she made the rules, and the first rule was “we don’t hurt pups here.”
As for Wolf 21, he became the mate of Wolf 42. Maybe he understood that Wolf 40 had been riding for a fall.
As alpha female, Wolf 42 continued to be supportive and kind towards the other pack members. Wolves who had been nervous wrecks under Wolf 40 began to relax and come into their own; one of the former omega wolves gained self-confidence and became one of the best hunters.
“Alpha”, for wolves, just means leader. They might be good leaders, whom you respect, or they might be bad leaders, who fill you with dread. They might be your parents, or they might not. Even if they are your mother or father, wolves don’t contextualize those relationships the same way humans do.
But one thing wolves have in common with humans is that they have individual personalities and experiences, and their actions derive from those. There is no “typical wolf pack.” And I think that’s beautiful.
If you want to learn more about wild wolf dynamics, I recommend reading the annual Yellowstone Wolf Project Reports. Which are FASCINATING. There are also some good wildlife specials out there.
Wolves are my favorite animal. <3 It pains me to see them misunderstood as crazed bloodthirsty brutes, but it also pains me to see them woobified. They deserve better than that.
This is your daily reminder:
"New year, new you" is not a requirement or an obligation.
You don't have to stay up until midnight tonight.
The demon you summoned is very excited about fireworks. It might be out all night.
I still can’t stop laughing at this.
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I’ve been sent this video a number of times, and I’m very sorry to have to break it to everyone, but this is just outright kind of horrifying treatment of this bird.
Those eggs are not a part of a peahen’s clutch- they have been placed there for the purposes of making this video (a peahen lays, at most, a dozen eggs in a scrape and it’s usually more like 6-8, and they don’t share unless confined because they spread way out when nesting. there’s no evidence of a scrape, either). The cock has been stressed and likely hobbled to keep him in place on the ground, as the cocks don’t sit on eggs at all- they don’t even go near the scrapes usually, as hens leave the area/party to lay. He is being thrown off screen not in order to collect the eggs (because he doesn’t care and will absolutely not defend them at all), but because it’s “funny.” He doesn’t catch himself in the air when tossed, like he would if he were well, meaning he hits the ground awkwardly and could have been injured. Whoever is waiting of screen then throws him back at the woman to make it look like he was getting revenge. However, while peafowl actually will do that (kick someone/something for perceived or actual offenses/spooks), that is NOT how a peacock attacks someone. They run forward and then leap vertically to use their spurs to flog. This is unfortunately just humans chucking a stressed out, helpless bird at someone else to get views online. And it is working.
Anyway, please stop reblogging this awful video, or at least do it with an explanation of why it’s real shitty.
Always question videos involving animals that aren’t already domesticated pets.
Always question videos involving animals that aren’t already domesticated pets.
Always question videos involving animals that aren’t already domesticated pets.
Peafowl are domesticated pets. They’ve been captive bred for thousands of years, they are kept domestically on every continent except Antarctica. Domestic Pavo cristatus (the Indian blue species) as a whole actually show physical changes indicating domestication; shorter limbs, shorter neck, broader chests, different carriage of their trains. The temperament between a wild blue, or even a low-gen offspring of a wild blue, and a domestic blue is night and day. There are dozens of color/pattern morphs in the captive bred population, some of which are continent specific. They are classified as a domestic game bird/farm animal in most places, the way turkeys are; in fact MOST places if you can keep farm animals like chickens/ducks/turkeys, you can keep peafowl.
I had a teen peahen get injured once, one that I didn’t imprint or baby, and when I brought her in the house for care, she decided actually she did like getting pettings and cuddling and would come seek us out to sit in our laps or get chin rubs. You’d never see a wild bred (or low gen captive bred) one doing this, they don’t have the domesticated temperament for it.
I’m not saying this to say “don’t question animal videos” I’m saying this because you should question ALL animal videos, whether they’re domesticated animals or not. I’ve seen things like videos of cats *clearly* having a seizure be passed around like “lol look at this silly cat spazzing out.”
Domestication doesn’t get a pass. Question animal videos. I don’t blame people for not knowing things, everyone doesn’t know something. But learning to pause and ask “is what I think going on what is actually going on?” is a worthwhile endeavor, because a lot of the time the answer is no.
Always, always question viral animal videos. Nevermind if it's a tiger or a dog having a "cute" time.
In fact, people are more prone not to realize a domestic is stressed or suffering because those are most of the times wrongly assigned with human emotions because of their behaviour.
Heck, a few months ago there was a viral video of a vet practitioner (I think either a vet, or a vet to be) taking a dog's paw while examining that prayed "look for a man that looks at you as this dog". The dog in question had a fear while menacing stance (ears back, white part of eye showing, tense lip, rigid neck and front, while not taking his eyes from that woman's face) and ANY person that would actually know something about dog behaviour would tell you that said dog would 100% bite that woman if she made any wrong movement. He was probably really scared, while trying to signal that to her, but people shared it because "he not taking his eyes off of her" was something confused as "in love" or "mesmerized" instead of menacing.
this is some horror movie shit
#Jesus is a reverse-Dracula #vis a vis appearing in photos
Examining the other evidence, we find:
Feeds other people his own blood
An affinity for crucifixes
Not only able to cross water but can also walk on it
Shows up uninvited in people’s houses Can’t turn into a bat
ok now i dont wanna be that guy but i feel like crucifixes were like, still pretty harmful to jesus actually
he reclaimed them
neil hilborn, a place where someone loves you / [deactivated user] / @filmnoirsbian / anne sexton / sonnet by neil gaiman / caitlyn siehl, start here
today at work a man brought a pug in on a leash and that pug was so excited and happy to see me it was as if we were old friends who havent been in contact in 7 years i felt so loved in that moment
today a bassett hound came in and wagged her tail so furiously all of her loose skin started to jiggle and she was so pumped to see me i want more dogs to come into my store they make my life whole and worthwhile
I’m so glad this came back cause a golden retriever named Milly came in today who put her paws on my register counter and wanted to say hi to me and I loved her so much and I scratched her ears and she gave me that classic dopey dog smile
yesterday a girl came in with her boyfriend and in her hand was a tiny tan colored dog that she told me was a chihuahua/pekingese mix and he had a severe underbite and one little canine tooth was poking out and his ears were like bent at the tips and i immediately commented on how amazing he was and she goes omg thanks do you wanna pet him and i was like there is literally nothing more i want to do while being on the clock right now than to pet this incredible tiny dog and he was so sweet and licked my hand and his name was spike
yesterday these people came in and put a blanket into one of our shopping baskets and it started to move and i was like omg whats in there and they set it down on the counter and the blanket kept moving and the suspense was so good like is it gonna be a cat is it gonna be a ferret maybe a lizard and then the smallest chihuahua ive ever seen in my life popped her little head out and licked my finger and i died
A baby german shepherd named Jonathan came in tonight and since i was on the sales floor and not behind a counter i say to the owner omg can i pet this angel and they were like yeah of course and i crouched down and Jonathan ran into my arms and almost tripped over his puppy feet it was 12/10
TODAY a german shepherd named london grabbed one of our lanterns off the shelf and was carrying it around and the owner was like, “london no, we’re not getting that” and gave him the merchandise she was buying instead and he carried it to me and dropped it on the counter at my register and i could have cried
I want everyone to know both London and Jonathan (Jonnie) came in the other day on the same day. Jonnie is much larger since the last time I saw him but still sweet and still acts like a pup, he barked at something in our footwear department. London still likes to carry things and put his paws up on my register to say hello, he carried the insoles his owner bought out the door for her. Also thanks for the notes, it’s nice to see so many people appreciate dogs on here. Another reminder, I see a lot of dogs because I work in a sporting goods store in a strip mall next door to a Petco and we absolutely allow dogs in our store. I live in a mountain town in Colorado and dogs are common here because there are lots of fun outdoor stuff to do with them.
A sheltie in a Petco shopping cart came in yesterday and her name was Sadie and she was so excited to say hi that she jumped out of the cart, onto my register counter, but she missed and Mufasa’d her way to the floor, but she was okay. The owner just let her sit on the counter and she was very well behaved and she gently smelled every item I scanned and also my hand. She was obsessed with her neck being scratched.
today a black lab name paxton came in off leash and he jiggled his way into our back room because the door was open and i yelled He Is Employed! and told his owner that we’d be happy to hire him and then eventually he made his way up to the front by himself and into the register area behind the counter and now he’s my new manager
my boss sent me this picture she took from the window at work today after i left. its not a dog, but it is a goat wearing a cowboy hat.
today a 12 week old dichromatic pitbull puppy named Spot was so tired that he was splayed out on our tile flooring, all four legs sticking out while his people tried on shoes. i asked to pet him and he wagged his tail and rolled over so i could scratch his belly
Today my boss found a lost little Australian shepherd puppy without a collar running around the parking lot and caught her and brought her in the store and I played with her on my lunch break and she was so cute and so sweet and was probably no older than like 9 weeks. Eventually her people came and claimed her. Her name is Panda and she’s in the process of being trained as a service dog for an elderly veteran with one leg.
today a bengal kitten named strider came in and he licked my finger. hes not a dog but hes is very important
This has cured my depression
This post justifies the entire existence of the internet.
Baroque fantasy
Clever billboard advertising the BBCs Dracula. (This is why you hire artists.) Follow it to the end.
Pretty clever, right?
https://www.facebook.com/KushFeed/
The moment where you are going through a stressful time because of a workplace situation that you have already reported and are waiting for its resolution, and wrongly, decide to confide your problem onto a friend (hoping for support), for them to nitpick everything about it, making you feel more frustrated and stressed.
I desperately crave a friendship like the teen titans have in Gabriel Picolo’s art
aminals
As someone who learned to ride a horse before they learned to ride a bike and who still has clocked way more hours on a horse than a bicycle (even though I mostly stopped riding ten years ago), it is sometimes difficult for me to regard a bike purely as a machine. Even after you get past the differences in stance and muscle usage between bike riding and horse riding, there are some riding habits that are difficult to break:
Signalling to the bike that you are turning by turning your head in the direction you intend to go (I have been told I also do this when driving a car)
Standing up in the saddle whenever you go over a speed bump
Counting down from three before you go over an obstacle even though your bike doesn't have legs and therefore doesn't have a stride
Sitting down and leaning back when you use the brakes so as not to give your bike mixed signals
Feeling discombobulated when walking or standing on the right side of your bike
Patting the head tube of your bike to reassure it that it did a good job going up that hill