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[skyedoms-seals]

Creature:

[sealsandlacenet]

banzai🔝banzai🔝banzai🔝banzai🔝banzai🔝

[ampervadasz]

[verthanthi]

Stromboli got game

[scoriarose]

You're not doing it wrong if no one else knows what you're doing.

[killercalvin]

THE IDEAL MALE BODY

I fucking love this photo

[slushyseals]

[fernsnailz]

my seal drawing

[captainhaterade]

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

“More than fifty research and development facilities across thirty-one states. Gone. Consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado. And ‘consolidated’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because what it actually means is that decades of place-based, long-term ecological research—the kind that literally cannot exist anywhere else because it depends on specific forests, specific watersheds, specific ecosystems studied over generations—will be snuffed out.

You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die. The datasets end. The partnerships with universities that took generations to build collapse. And the institutional knowledge of the scientists who ran those programs walks out the door, because the administration damn well knows most of them won’t follow a forced relocation to a single consolidated office that has nothing to do with the ecosystems they’ve spent their careers studying.”

[arianaderalte]

The U.S. Forest Service, Dismantled

Nine regional offices. 57 research labs. 193 million acres. An interactive map of what was lost.

[aetherograph]

Call your senators. Both of them. Tell them the Forest Service reorganization is proceeding without the congressional approval required by Section 716 of the Agriculture Appropriations Act and Section 421 of the Interior Appropriations Act. Use those numbers. Say them out loud. Staffers write down what they don’t recognize, and these are the provisions their bosses voted for.

If your senator is a Republican, the question is simple: you voted for a law that requires USDA to get committee approval before reorganizing or relocating any office. USDA didn’t get that approval. Their own lawyers declared your law unconstitutional. What are you going to do about it?

If your senator is a Democrat, the question is just as simple: the legal basis for stopping this already exists. Where are the subpoenas? Where are the hearings? Why is USDA’s general counsel allowed to declare a duly enacted law unconstitutional by internal memo and face no consequences?

Make them answer. Make their staff write it down. Call back next week and ask what happened.

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5 Calls

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied

[slushyseals]

The shark is very polite about not being allowed in the club house

[scoriarose]

Scoria surveying her garden. She loves plants, and laying among them!

Sudden bulldozer!

Her garden is destroyed :c She's very upset about this and keeps going between the two remaining sprouts and looking at me like she wants me to fix it. (The other succulents are plastic, she knows they aren't real and doesn't care about them or interact with them like living plants.)

She was sleeping in her hide and didn't see why this happened. I'm pretty sure she thinks I did it with the side I'm getting.

It's okay though, because it will be back again soon! This is Chia seed and I specifically picked it because it's super cheap in bulk and grows back incredibly fast. So perhaps Scoria might start to understand it like seasons, when this Chia dies I just take a sprinkling from the bag and let the isopods eat the prior ones. And more sprout up again within a couple days. (It's also really tasty, you put some in a glass and stir it with water and it makes this jello-like fruity gel.)

[fivetrench]

Shit just happens to you when you're a tuna crab

[slushyseals]

Little man blessed himself as he saw that wave acomin'

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[pinniposting]

NOO DONT EAT THAT!!!

via

[scoriarose]

Sakura is responding to my voice by actively changing her behavior in response.

Please note at the end, I tell her to come back, and despite wanting to go to the gap, she does as I request.

This matters because a snake able to hear, let alone respond to verbal commands is believed by most to be impossible. I see it constantly, many times throughout the day. If me filming it still doesn't show people they can in fact hear and respond intelligently, I honestly don't know what to do.

This kind of behavior is something she regularly does, and something I've not seen documented before. This is not a coincidence as she VERY much wants to go toward that crevice and explore it. She would have continued if I did not ask her to stop.

This demonstrates many things, not only that she can hear me but assigns meaning to the sounds I make. I'm not saying she specifically understands words. She might. But she certainly understands context and what my voice/tone means in regard to what she wants to do and what will happen if she tries.

My talking to her is an active deterrent. Now, it's also worth noting she can only resist the call of the void so long, and will hit a point where if the temptation remains present she'll go for it anyway because she just can't take it anymore, much like a child with their favorite candy on the table in front of them and their mother telling them not to touch it. They can only resist so long.

I'm not claiming she's a perfectly obedient animal, but being able to listen, understand, and follow through with a behavior contrary to her own wants just by being asked is incredible for a snake, don't you think?

[slushyseals]

Pretty much any other hognose would have lunged for the gap at "come back". She wants to so bad. But she understands.

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[s0fich]

me and my wife plumping our way to work (we're both seals)

[scoriarose]

Snakes after eating on food day