Thoughts 17

My name is Katie. 33. Jewish. Transplant recipient. Groomer so I can pet doggos all day. Pet parent to Trouble the cat! RIP my rats Merry & Pippin, Arwen & Eowyn, and TJ the Fish. She/her, queer, sleepy. They/Them is cool too, I don't particularly vibe with that one but it's fine. But neutral pronouns are MANDITORY for me if it's gonna piss off a bigot.

[targetedknowledge]

[fallout-lou-begas]

[chinesewednesday]

[quantumm76]

Do you ever look back at a friendship and think "Wow, they were an asshole werent they"

[togetherweliveforever]

I actually fucking despise how I look

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species

[noshamehustle]

[formerglory25]

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

[emily-e-draws]

a tasty hoard for a tiny beast!🍓🐉✨

[whatisamildopinion]

'rocky learns to swear in english' is great and all but have we considered the equally hilarious alternative: rocky makes grace a little harmonica so he can use tone indicators in eridian, does not realize how terrible of a mistake this is until it's too late. grace catches onto tone indicators FAST and he is DEVASTATING with their application. grace does not use eridian swears but rocky gets to hear "are we choosing kind words" and "I'm not mad I'm just disappointed" in eridian roughly thirty times per day

[marijayne-phm]

But these tags tho! I just want to ditto all of them

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Ya can't blame them, who doesn't want free gas? And, they didn't specify.

[the-haiku-bot]

Ya can’t blame them, who

doesn’t want free gas? And, they

didn’t specify.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[shadowen]

I'm scrolling Tumblr. I pause to watch a video of Amaury Guichon. He pours chocolate into a mold, then carefully removes the shape of a human head. There are time lapse clips of chocolate being formed into a body, limbs, and hair. As the final detail is finished, he steps back to reveal the figure of a beautiful woman, uncannily lifelike. He steps forward and places a delicate kiss on her lips. The figure, now a living human woman, stirs and looks around in wonder. Amaury Guichon looks into the camera with a wide smile and holds out his arms in presentation.

"Fucking chocolate guy," I mutter to myself before scrolling to the next post.

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[couldntrelate]

[psychephrenic]

[virtualgirladvance]

[daggernoballs]

[dovand]

[sighinastorm]

[rannulfr]

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

URGENT AUTISTIC HOMELESS ARTIST NEEDS SALES TO GET A PLACE TO SLEEP TONIGHT!!! AND TOMORROW NIGHT...AND ALL THE NIGHTS.

Buy art. Keep weird people off the street.

All Advances and SALES Made before 6pm June7th, will be counted as double, ie pay $100 for a painting you haven't chosen, it will count as $200. Wanted a 22"x 30" piece but can't swing $900? Today it's $450.

Venmo- Kate-Havekost

Paypal- [email protected]

I understand why people aren't listening to me but it's 8:30pm and I don't have a place to sleep. If I can make a couple of sales I can get a place for the night at least.

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

[covid-safer-hotties]

Ableist discrimination, pure and simple.

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that there's something about The Backrooms and how they endlessly recycle formless modern office architecture and grotesque reshufflings of the signifiers of late 20th century culture, stripped of all meaning, that really just feels like a concretization of modern culture.