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[Video of venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough standing amid vegetation. On a near-horizontal branch above his head is a brown and yellow greater bird of paradise, about the size of a crow, with big floaty yellow plumage puffing out along its back.]

Bird: Pwuk. Pwuk. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: This, surely – Bird (hopping along the branch): WUKWUKWUkwukwukwukoooh. Oooh. Oooh.

[Cut. Same shot.]

Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: This, surely, is one – Bird: Kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: This, surely –

[Cut. Same shot but the bird is on the other side now and venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough has his hand on the branch.]

Bird (hopping up and down on venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough’s fingers): Eh-eh. Eh-eh. Eh-urrrr. Eh-urrrr. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: Close up – Bird (hopping away from him): Tiktiktiktik. Tiktiktiktik. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – the plumes – Bird (hopping around): Huek. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – are truly – Bird: Huek. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – exquisite. Bird: Huek. Eh-eh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: The gauzy – Bird (hopping and spinning on the spot): HukWUKWUKWukwukoooh. Oooh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: …

[Cut. Same shot but the bird is back on the original side of the branch.]

Bird: Aark. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: Of course, by the eighteenth century – Bird: Ehhh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – naturalists realized that birds of paradise – Bird (hops across to the other side of the branch) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – did have – Bird (hopping back again): Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – legs. Even so – Bird: WUKWUKWUKWukwukwukooh.

[Cut. Same shot.] Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (apparently trying to tickle the bird’s tummy): – by about the eighteenth century – Bird (hops away and spins round) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – and so – Bird: AAAAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK aaak. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (wearily): … Very well.

[Cut. Same shot.]

Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – but Karl Linnaeus, the great – Bird (vibrating rapidly on the spot and then flapping its wings): PWAAAAAAAK. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – classifier of the natural world – Bird: AAAAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAUUH. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – when he came to allocate a scientific name – Bird: … Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – to this bird – Bird: … Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – called it – Bird: Wooo-ooo. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – wooo-ooo – Bird (surveys the surroundings with a dignified turn of the head) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: ‘paradisia apoda’: the bird of paradise – Bird: Hoooo. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – without legs. Bird: Eh-eh.

[Close-up of the bird.]

Bird: WUKWUKWUKWUkwukwukwukwukoooh. Ooh. Bird: Ooh.

[Fade to black.]

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birdies getting ready….or not

#aloy #art

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Endless gifs of Ilya Rozanov 9/∞

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Parks and Rec 4.06

thefugitivesaint

"It is easy, as the Trump administration attempts to consolidate authoritarian power and to rearrange the US into a formal white nationalist autocracy where power is defined by displays of violent domination, to think that the moral degeneracy represented by the immigration agents and those who command them represents a core truth of the American spirit – that ours is a country diseased in mind and soul, incapable of fulfilling the lofty goals of dignity and equality for all that have so long animated our national myths. There is some truth in this dark thought.

But there is another truth, too: that everywhere ICE goes, they have been met with ridicule, resistance, and contempt from ordinary Americans, unarmed and unbending, who have faced down the kidnappers and bullies in persistent protests and street actions – sometimes even succeeding in freeing a kidnapped neighbor or bullying the thugs out of their neighborhoods. This, too, is a truth of this country: that people like Martinez, and like Good, are more numerous than the racists and the autocrats."

Moira Donegan, the Guardian

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i’m never gonna stop laughing about this. it debuted on tumblr in 2017 and i think of it OFTEN.

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Official silly sign

#laugh rule

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Right, partner?

UNCHARTED: THE LOST LEGACY (2017)

#uncharted

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A spooky little Christmas 🎄 👻✨

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booksavvy

Always Reblog

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THE ORIGIN

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THIS IS WHERE ITS FROM…HOLY FUCK… IVE ONLY EVER SEEN PEOPLE MENTION THIS

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This is a decade old next year.

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I have been lurking for years but I can’t resist the temptation of my first post in eons to be for the 10th birthday of Harold they’re lesbians

#harold they're lesbians

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Accusing the HBO drama of egregiously misrepresenting their experiences off the ice, the National Hockey League Players’ Association blasted Heated Rivalry Friday for what it described as incredibly unrealistic depictions of anal sex between players. “The show’s portrayals of hockey players having sex with each other are wildly misinformed, and we are disappointed by the producers’ utter failure to accurately represent what we do to each other behind locker room doors on a daily basis,” read a statement cosigned by each of the NHLPA’s more than 750 active players, adding that the series’ glitzy, overwrought lovemaking scenes miss the mark on even the most basic details regarding the day-in, day-out sexual encounters that define their lives between games.

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Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)

Courtesy Alain Truong

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I feel you, Neolithic hedgehog. I feel you.

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TAYLOR SWIFT The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Dec 10, 2025

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:> made a shrimb ornament

nim-lock

number 2!!

nim-lock

Ingredients:

4x3" piece of felt

1 pipe cleaner

thread/scissors/needle

stuffing (teeny bit)

Optional: 2 small black beads, other bead decorations

nim-lock

digs up my shrornament recipe for anyone who wants to do a liddol craft

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I am once again reblogging this for the holidays ✨

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I think I'm going to remember this phrase every time I cook for the next five years

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*tastes an undersalted meal* what gutless loser cooked this food

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“Do not be obscene, but do not fail through your own gutlessness.”

hope-for-the-planet

Lush, green and brimming with trees and wildlife, forests are the Earth’s lungs and source of livelihoods for many communities.

The most recent analysis by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization found that every region on Earth has seen a decrease in deforestation over the last 10 years.

From the article:

One fifth of the world’s forests are in legally established protected areas – that’s 251 million ha of additional protected forest since 1990 – according to the assessment. Asia has the highest share among all regions, with 26 per cent forest covered. Beyond protection orders, over half of all forests are managed. That means that the land is either being used to produce timber, fibre and bioenergy, or for the protection of soil and water and the conservation of biodiversity – or for tourism, among other uses. In Europe, a staggering 94 per cent of forests are managed. If forests are managed, who owns them? As of 2020, 71 per cent of the world’s forests are under public ownership. In North and Central America, Indigenous Peoples and local communities owned 41.6 million ha of forest.