Equality, Humor, & Animals

follow if you want to laugh a lot, approach social issues, and see cool things. 25, pan, she, fave song this week: teeth by 5seconds of summer. fave song last week: if the world was ending by JP Saxe and Julia Michaels

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[meanplastic]

[lizardsexposed]

nature is beautiful  💖

[qats]

so a 90’s computer hacker was at walmart today

[mfluder-blog]

everything i have ever needed

[snowmean]

[catchymemes]

[babyanimalgifs]

Aw, this is cute.

[chewedcorn]

Baby elephant crossing a river

[wherehappythingsgo]

HIS

LITTLE

TRUNK!!!!!!!

how freaking adorable!!

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

[catsbeaversandducks]

This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.

Video by Christina Hunger

[trustmeimanengiqueer]

[jenniferrpovey]

Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.

They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).

They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.

As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.

So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.

The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.

In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.

And also that is a very good boy.

[sandersstudies]

^ Would like to agree and make one amendment - very good GIRL. This is Stella the dog!

Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak. 

The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.

In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.” 

In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)

Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”

By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”

Wanna know my favorite part? Stella sometimes pushes the buttons for “Stella good” when she’s done a good job. Stella IS good! :D She also makes phrases using “love you,” like “Christina, love you, come play!”

[recoil-operated-deactivated2021]

@liberty-outlaw here, have some feels

[party-werewolf]

Thank you silent hill artist and creator of pyramid head Masahiro Ito

[party-werewolf]

This is WHAT

[party-werewolf]

When I imagined one of my favorite artists responding to me on Twitter it wasn't like this tbh

[zovsko]

we make eye contact and i connect to the wifi in your brain and i delete half of your memories and make you left handed

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

But I am left handed. And I already have a poor memory, so good luck finding anything worth deleting.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WAIT A MINUTE

[westsaintpaulpanerawhore]

send me a 🍒 if u would date me + a reason why?

[lovnin]

or send a 🍓 if u wanna be friends + a reason why

[matriarchoftheworld]

Or send me a 🌶 if u wanna kill me + a reason why

[the-catholic-inkling-deactivate]

You: This generation wants to fuck vampires and shit. What happened to the time when vampires were scary?

Me, an intellectual (who wrote her BA Thesis about this very topic): The Vampire as a literary device literally developed out of east European folk stories as a way to explore anxieties and fears around sex. You’re supposed to want to fuck them, that’s the whole point!

[ace-of-moons]

How dare you post this and not link your thesis. I want to know more!

[probablybadrpgideas]

If Cthulhu can be summoned by humans who are so far beneath it, why can’t humans be summoned by ants? The answer is they should be.

[20thcenturyvole]

Well if a bunch of ants formed a circle in my house I’d certainly notice, try to figure out where they’d all come from, and possibly wreak destruction there.

[weaselle]

That’s why knowing and correctly pronouncing the true name is so important to the ritual. Imagine how impossible it would be to not go take a look if the circle of ants started chanting your name. And they’re like, you can’t leave because we drew a line made of tiny crystals - now you have to do us a favor. And you’re like, let’s just see where this goes “yup, you got me… what’s the favor?” and usually the favor is like, “kill this one ant for us” or “give me a pile of sugar” and you’re like… okay? and you do, because why not, it isn’t hard for you and boy is this going to be a fucking story to tell, these fucking ants chanting your name and wanting a spoonful of sugar or whatever. And SOMEtimes you get asked for things you can’t really do, one of them, she’s like, “I love this ant but she won’t pay any attention to me, make me important to her” and you’re like… um? how? So you just kill every ant in the colony except the two of them, ta-da! problem solved! and the first ant is like *horrified whisper* “what have I done”

[writtenskyes]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Dick Grayson:

Source

[kunfyouzed]

THIS. This IS Dick Grayson! And I can completely see him having a page and posting these videos and in the end is one with Bruce, who just looks so tired, the looking at the camera meme

“Dick, can you please just walk normally for once?”

Dick: “No.”

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

i looked this guy up and he is a circus acrobat and oldest of like 7 lol 

extremely Big Dick Grayson energy 

[darkrai10]

Me: *successfully avoids social event* nice

Me: *is really lonely* shit