vulture culture

lazy vulture with too many projects

[oddarticulations]

Calf with 6 legs. Stillborn, thrown away, went through a trash compactor, and I dug through a landfill to find it. 2 extra front legs on the right side, deformed spine, fused ribs, split knee joint, and other deformities.

[naturesoddities]

A very large and unique-looking coydog. The long, slender features suggests possibly collie or sighthound in the mix.

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[heedra]

if you buy a nonlethal rat trap at the local hardware sales store in order to unsuccessfully trap an abandoned pet rat at your local park during your shifts as a boat inspector its a good investment because then you can reuse it to unsuccessfully try to trap a wild rat that you've dubbed 'Slippery Todd' who moves into your house's vents the next winter and then you can even later use it as a container for burying a dead mole that will let you recover the mole's bone's later and protect them from scavengers in the meantime.

just so you know

[heedra]

if you buy a nonlethal rat trap at the local hardware sales store in order to unsuccessfully trap an abandoned pet rat at your local park during your shifts as a boat inspector its a good investment because then you can reuse it to unsuccessfully try to trap a wild rat that you've dubbed 'Slippery Todd' who moves into your house's vents the next winter and then you can even later use it as a container for burying a dead mole that will let you recover the mole's bone's later and protect them from scavengers in the meantime.

just so you know

[morgue-of-morgan]

Finally finished this beautiful bird. Common R.aven!

[schrodingo]

By far one of the DOPEST sheds found. This pic is very telling and shows sometimes the predator underestimates the prey; inevitably paying the ultimate cost. I can imagine seeing this buck stroll about with a rotting carcass hanging until it shed that late winter/early spring. Imagine all the doe loving it missed out on spooking the ladies with a predator puppet adorned its crown. (SRC: Urban Outdoorsman on FB.)

[crossroadshoosiers]

American Natural Resources Inc. Taxidermist in Griffith, Indiana.

[orgyporgy]

The difference between 1/2 cup of rice and 1 cup of rice is like 18 cups of rice

[strayfriend]

I have received a preserved fetal kitten as a gift from a technician at another clinic do y'all wanna see

[trans-gothic]

[thevoicegrowslouder]

There’s some company, blackstone, blackwater, something like that, buying up houses that go on sale for 30k above asking price. Immediately outbidding anyone who tries to buy. Corporations are also buying property all across america.

[raimagnolia]

Fuck…

[possumcollege]

Nobody comes to my tumblr for this, but Americans need to understand that THIS is why my generation can’t afford to own a house outside of Smallest-Town USA. THIS is also why people my age in bigger cities struggle to find decent apartments that don’t consume half of our monthly income.

Housing Speculation is when rich folk, corporations, and wannabe landlords buy up property and sit on it like dragons hoarding gold. The Dutch have a dragon-adjacent term for this because speculation devastated their housing market in the 70s-80s leading to some gnarly Dutch squatting culture. They let homes sit empty, good as money in the bank and watch the value increase as everyone else competes for the remaining houses. That’s value they can borrow against, that’s a few hundred-thousand dollars if you need some quick cash, that’s a property you can rent out for regular income while charging tenants for repairs or maintenance and fining them for wear and tear. If property values go up and laws prohibit raising the rent by a certain degree, in many places they can find shady ways to evict that tenant, make no changes and charge the next renter more. It’s probably illegal but if you rent to people below a certain income, you can be assured most can’t afford to take you to court.

I live in Chicago. Many of the properties that used to house students, small families, single parents, older people, low-income folks have been gobbled up by little airbnb barons who colonize previously well-established neighborhoods and price out families who’ve lived there for generations because they can’t keep up with the artificially inflated property values. The airbnbs spread like cancer until a handful of people can dominate the “affordable” housing for an entire neighborhood. It’s gentrification on meth, but without the kind of localized money circulation or community improvements you get when people live and work and spend within their neighborhoods. It pushes residents further and further from services and resources until all that’s left is the locked-in commodififation of an exploitable renting class.

If that wasn’t bad enough, it also means that when large areas of habitable property are being hoarded by investors with portfolios of empty houses and airbnbs, that reduces the number of actual residents, which can spoil legislation on a community level. When all the storefront space in a neighborhood like mine is controlled by 4 people, you find the number of businesses and services that catered to lower income families start to become whiskey bars, boutiques, vintage shops, and upscale chain retail, businesses that bring money into the property owners at the expense of community accessibility, turning a once largely Hispanic neighborhood community into a posh little destination for travelers, tourists, and other aspiring business speculators who see every empty building as their next revinue stream. Gut a block of apartments with attached commercial space and build half as many luxury condos above a combination tapas bar and day spa and you’ve instantly got half as many tenants on that block to vote against your expansion schemes. Replacing low-income residents with higher-rent folks also bakes in support for future “improvements” that further contribute to the commodification of communities.

Property ownership has always been a tool of the most privileged class to extract value from the working class because the only options become rent, move, or live on the street for all they care. At which point, the police will sweep you further and further into the gutter until they have an excuse to send you to prison. This kind of speculation and consolidation allows people with excess resources to buy up the things the rest of us require to function and sell it back to us forever.

These are the same people that invented the fairy tale about how if we work hard enough and save and spend like smart people, then we can be landlords too! We can own businesses, raise families, chase dreams and be happy if we are smart like they are. But if we can’t it’s because we’re lazy little parasites who need to have our lives portioned out to us lest we waste time that could be earning money for the landlord.

I hate these fuckers so fucking much.

[werpiper]

people need shelter. corporations that exploit this at the expense of humanity are a nightmare.

the original idea of airbnb is that people would let out their spare rooms, or their own while they were out of town. that was wholesome. what it has become is just not.

[drafthearse]

skull of a common dolphin, University Museum Utrecht.

[eldritchidiot]

the whole squad

[kalichnikov]

Thanks I hate it: sarcastic disdain, you don't enjoy this at all that's insufferable, I love it: prankster solidarity. A compliment for mischief. You gotta try this dude, it sucks: solidarity through communal self-flagellation It's terrible, watch it immediately: Your classic so-bad-it's-good media

[simplyclockwork]

@annecumberbatch

Can’t forget, ‘gross, I love it’

[rosetta-stoned-bitch]

Not to forget the iconic

[edible-drywall]

How could people forget Data?

[lindleland]

[gaypiratebrainrot]

@emi--rose about malort

[emi--rose]

Correct

[flayote]

a beautiful kitty tanned for her family 🐾🤎

the shaved arms always get me right in the heart

[wolfuhboo]

the rise of "ethically sourced bones" as a term in general is a load of hogwash-- you could raise animals in luxury and cull them humanely, but people will say that because the animal died directly under human hands its Unethical. they will then turn around and insist that roadkill is Morally Clean, because the animal was struck accidentally and died out of sight of whoever killed it. as if an animal dying on the side of the road over minutes to hours is more morally correct than a quick clean death administered by a professional.

and if youre buying bones there is literally no way to tell how something died. you just gotta trust that whoever's selling them is telling you the truth, and not trying to upsell their own products from a moral high ground

[nabsthevulture]

Do you have any tips for putting ankle bones back together? Having a hard time with this gray fox.

Yes, I have both the front and back feet done in my articulation guide.

Front feet (Carpals and metacarpals)

Back feet (Tarsals and metatarsals)

ko-fi

[totefischy]

a very cool 1800s Barn Owl mount owned by the nature center where i work. this specimen was collected here in Michigan, where Barn Owls are now sadly extirpated.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[is-the-fox-video-cute]

you know i actually dont think it's hypocritical for VC people to be anti-fur, esp if it's farmed? I respect your position on farmed fur, but I personally only collect roadkill/vintage pieces because that's what makes sense to me ethically and to me that's what the 'vulture' means, that it's scavenging existing remains not creating new ones

Ethics really varies depending on the individual. What's ethical to one person may not be to another. A lot of things I see people in the VC community call ethical I personally disagree with.

From an animal welfare point of view, I don't consider roadkill to be particularly ethical. Animals hit by cars often suffer for hours or even days before dying of their injuries. A lot of roadkill also comes from animals that are hit deliberately. It's estimated about a quarter of all foxes killed on the roads were hit deliberately, with people swerving/speeding up in order to hit foxes. I've personally seen someone speed up to hit a cat crossing the road. It's something that is a LOT more common than people realise. Even if you weren't the one to hit it, I personally feel it's still important to recognise that animal probably suffered a lot more than one who was shot or euthanised.

Of all the foxes in my collection, the two I feel saddest for were both 'natural' deaths. One (skull and bones) died slowly from mange and starvation and was in a horrific state when I found him. The other (full skeleton) was hit by a car and killed when she was just 4 months old. To me that's a lot sadder than an animal that lived a good life on a farm or one who was shot and killed before it even knew what was happening.

As for fur farms, those animals are going to be euthanised for their fur regardless. That's the whole reason they were born. It's not creating new deaths as that animal was always going to die. Same for things like animals shot for pest control or food. The hunter/pest controller would have killed that animal regardless of whether it's fur or other parts could be sold. Most foxes shot for pest control in the UK are simply left to rot, so I'd much rather see them made use of, whether that be for fur clothing or taxidermy etc. Real fur is much better environmentally that faux fur and it seems a shame that so much is wasted.