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Iâm autistic and this impacts the way I communicate with people.
I use any pronouns.
I am an antizionist Jew as well as deeply religious. This can be a very lonely position, and I'd love to hear from any other religious AZ Jews, regardless of your style or level of observance đ
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identifying a maladaptive coping mechanism is so bitter sweet like thatâs great now i know what i need to stop doing. but thatâs literally my something
itâs actually quite easy to take over a small local government group if you really want to, bc if you volunteer consistently people will just put you in charge of whatever. Iâm now one of like three people at a nature preserve making official decisions about trails, putting in a prairie, and designing a series of illustrations for a storybook trail etc., and itâs just because last summer I started coming over once a week to help the naturalist out for a couple hours. Mine now. you too can steal an organization and shape it to your will đ«”
Well, thatâs length-wise rather than height-wise, but yes! That would be the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), fellow countrymen of mine!
In fact, saying theyâre 170 cm (5â7â) from head to tail is lowballing it a little. Some individuals as long as 180 cm (5â11â) have been recorded! Which is longer than I am tall đ
You might have noticed that giant otters have a bit of a big cat-like look about themselves. Thatâs the origin of their name in Brazilian Portuguese, ariranha, which is a term from the Tupi-Guarani language and means âriver jaguarâ. And, just like ground jaguars, giant otters are apex predators as well: they mainly eat fish, but will hunt anything from snakes, turtles and even small caimans if given the opportunity!
Besides their size, giant otters have other traits that set them apart from their smaller cousins. For one, unlike most mustelids, theyâre social animals who live in familial groups of up to twenty individuals, which whom they communicate constantly through a variety of different noises. Also, unlike other species of otter, whose tails are thick at the base and pointy at the end, giant ottersâ tails also start out with a thick base, but they end up flat, which helps propel them through the water. The interesting thing about it, however, itâs that itâs not flat in an horizontal way, like the tails of other semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and platypuses. Itâs flat vertically, not unlike the tail of a newt!
Source of the 2nd image: @resgateariranha on Instagram
âaverage otter looks like fuzzy teddy bearâ factoid actualy just statistical error. average otter looks like big wet weasel.
Sea Otter Georg, who lives in cold ocean & has the densest fur of any mammal, around 1200 times denser than human hair, to keep warm is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Clockwise: Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus), Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), spotted-necked otter (Hydrictis maculicollis) and sea otter (Enhydra lutris).
Coincidentally, although not closely related to each other, giant river otters and sea otters share a distinguishing trait in common: theyâre both really big! Sea otters are only a bit behind giant otters when it comes to body length, ranging from 100 cm (3â3â) long to 140 cm (4â7â) long. This means that, at their smallest, they're about as long as a Great Dane! Here's a picture of one next to a person:
Source: Still from ââA Love Like No Otterâ from Aquarium Love Storiesâ, video from the Georgia Aquarium YouTube channel
already kicking the hornetâs nest by criticizing Tolkien today so I may as well praise Steven Universe lmao. I listened to a few of the better songs last night and man that show really grappled with a level of interpersonal emotional complexity that even adult shows rarely handle. at the time all valid criticisms of the show really got lost in the deluge of arguments that boiled down to âitâs bad to depict toxic dynamics between humanized characters who care about each otherâ which lol.
obviously it was groundbreaking for depicting lesbian relationships and genderfluid characters but it was really quite a nuanced depiction of like. the parentified child forced to bear the burden of emotional intelligence because no one else will or can. Rose as a benevolent antagonist whoâs avoidant and inconsiderate to the point of profound cruelty and the frustration of not really being able to have the catharsis of properly hating your mother. everthing going on with pearl lmao. genuinely a very ambitious exploration of what it means to hurt and be hurt by the people you love and the kind of toxic baggage literally everyone carries into their relationships without intending to. didnât always hit the mark of course but imho it was usually a smarter show than tumblr gives it credit for.
Don't look so worried. You'll be fine. As long as you're a student at my atelier, I'll do everything I can to protect you. There's nothing for you to worry about. Nothing at all.
Tongari Boushi no Atelier Episode 08 - Coco & Qifrey
