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River. Made in the 80's. I reblog what makes me happiest.

[savannahcore27]

[knightofleo]

[mananabuffins]

I've never seen a more deserved cat slap

[teaboot]

Oh he had SO MANY WARNINGS

[autismsam]

rancid. flaccid. i stick my dick in acid. queerbaiter. alligator. make a blog to be a hater.   fuzzy socks. chicken pox. i fit my doors with extra locks. softblock. hard cock. going to live under a rock

[yourclashatdemonhead]

[targetedknowledge]

[1anonyymous1]

“Woaah look at the moon” Me literally every night no matter what phase the moon is.

[augustarambles]

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

[mandyseley]

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

ratratratratrat

[augustarambles]

Thank god this is still circulating because of your wonderful art, Mandy. I needed it tonight

[stitchposts]

what is your LEAST favorite stitch?

I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.

[rabbitindisguise]

reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

[stitchposts]

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.

[the-dragongirl]

Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot

[stitchposts]

Don't you dare malign my girl again

[im-a-dream-wizard]

Ok the french knot is very useful but it is a BITCH to do it consistently

[stitchposts]

[ao3-anonymous]

We talk about how this website’s hate mail game is insane, but this might just be a new level

[talbatross]

"skill issue" made entirely from French knots is a next level roast. no coming back from that one. damn

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[cosmicanger]

Petoskey stones ~ fossilized coral that lived 350 million years ago - the rocks rounded in the surf along the shore of Lake Michigan near Petosky, Michigan

[finalgirlguy]

lucy dacus review for stone butch blues is so beautiful 💌 happy lesbian visibility week

[cuntylestat]

dunelopoulos 3

[herpsandbirds]

Could I request please, some beautiful Bateleur?

Indeed.

Bateleur Eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus), GETTIN PUFFFY!!!, family Accipitridae, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Sarina Crous

Albert Beukhof

photographs by Ray Coombes 

 photograph by Johan Wandrag

photograph by Nick Dale

[herpsandbirds]

Hello I'd like to request some secretary bird pics if thats okay.

ELEGANZA!!!

Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius), family Sagittariidae, order Accipitriformes, found across grasslands and arid areas in Sub-Saharan Africa

ENDANGERED.

These birds stand at a maximum height of 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in).

They feed on a wide variety of small animals, including venomous snakes.

Endangered due to habitat destruction.

photograph by Birdingsafarissouthafrica & Devadatha Kumar SR

photographs:  Michael Bourquet, Antero Topp, Marco Valenti, Subramanya CK

[homophobla]

Our age of heterosexuality is collapsing

[herpsandbirds]

Out of curiosity, what’s your favorite frog?

Favorite Frog...

Okay, so I cannot possibly answer this. I love frogs so much, that I cannot pick just one favorite.

Here, let's engage the RANDOM FAVORITE FROG GENERATOR, and see what pops up...

Turtle Frog (Myobtrachus gouldii), family Myobatrachidae, Western Australia

These burrowing frogs dig forward, like a turtle, and not backwards into the soil, like most burrowing frogs.

After pairing up, a couple descends into a burrow, where they later mate, and lay eggs. The offspring go through the larval stage in the eggs (not having a free swimming tadpole stage).

They feed on termites.

photographs by Andrea Ruggeri

photograph by Steve Wilson

photograph by Thomas Mesaglio

photograph by Jacob Loyacano

photograph by Akash Samuel

photograph by M. Anstis

photograph by Greg Harold

[herpsandbirds]

Shorebird migration is upon us! Can I get a selection of your finest sandpipers?

VERILY MY LIEGE!!!

Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) LEUCISTIC, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, CA, USA

photographs by Mary Beth Cantrell

L - Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) and

R - Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Coast of WB, India

photograph by Santanab Majumder

Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea), T- winter plumage, B - breeding plumage, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes

Breeds on the coast of the Bering Sea.

Winters in SE Asia.

photographs by tareq’s photography & Jan van de Kam

Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes

Nests on the northern prairies and tundra of North America.

Overwinters on grassland in South America.

Not usually found on beaches or shoreline, like most other sandpipers.

This is one of my nemesis birds! I’ve never gotten a great look at this bird, so this is the year I make a concerted effort to finally get one!!!

photographs: Johnath & Sean Evans

Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius), family Scolopacidae, order Chradriiformes, KY, USA

photograph by Mike Blevins

Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis), HE STRUTT!!!, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, North Slope of Alaska

photograph by Stephen Dunaway

Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, TX Coast, USA

photograph by James Corgill

Tuamotu Sandpiper aka Kivi-Kivi (Prosobonia parvirostris), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in the South Pacific

ENDANGERED.

While this sandpiper feeds along shorelines, like other shorebirds, it is also found in thickets and scrubland.

Endangered due to habitat destruction and the intorduction of rats to their islands. (Rat eradication on some islands has greatly benefited the birds).

photographs by Marie-Helene Burle/Island Conservation

[herpsandbirds]

hellooo. here is a brown anole perched in the yard :]

Tell him that he is a cutie please.