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[franziskavonkurma]

Look at them 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[justanothersquidblog]

I got the great pleasure to work on the art of this video, organized by the lovely @yumesstudio!! Please check it out and support the wonderful vocals, editing, and music!!!

[music-daily]

Lil Nas X gives a life update.

[lazer-t]

Red Wolf for a $15 Ko-fi supporter

[shinypokemonpolls]

Gen 4 polls are officially coming to a blog near you! Polls will start June 26th!

The queue will start at 12 pm (CDT)

Happy Pride and we'll see you here!!!

[leonkennedysprostate]

"don't assign human morality to non human things" is so true except when it comes to printers. they know what they are, they understand dilemmas and ethics and morality. they choose to be how they are, they choose to be evil, at their very core they are rotten

[homeofhousechickens]

can you pet chickens on their back? i've seen some people yell about not petting birds on their backs. and then someone saying that when your hens squat, you should never touch their backs or rump.

When people say "dont pet a pet bird on its back!" They usually assume they are talking to someone about psittacines or they have heard that been said so often they assume it applies to every bird regardless of how closely related the species are. Parrots and other popular exotic pet birds (since unfortunately parrots are the most common house pet bird, one of my goals is to help change that with my blog) are tamed wild animals that havent lived with and been raised systematically by humans for 8,000-10,000 years like chickens have. When you pet a parrot on its back you can trigger intense hormonal behavior and stress especially since most parrots are territorial and monogamous animals that have only one partner, sometimes for life. A parrot seeing the person they perceive as their mate touching other people or birds can really upset them and lead to unwanted aggressive behavior and plucking. For parrots touching on the back, wings and chest is usually mating behavior while platonic flockmates will usually only preen each others heads. So when you pet a parrot on its back your giving them like a lot of mixed signals and its kind of rude as well. By touching them especially a hen your saying "Its mating time! time to lay eggs and protect our nest from threats!" which can lead to broodiness (which can leads to body condition loss) or chronic egg laying where the hen, since the normal behaviors she should be doing with a mate dont happen, starts constantly laying eggs. She will usually lay more then a typical clutch for her species which is very detrimental to her health. There is also some other issues with exotic parrot breeding that encourages this but ill get into it another time. These are the reasons you should not pet a parrot like a dog or cat. Now chickens, they have a lot of reasons for why petting them doesn't really cause any issues. The only issue I can really think of is our hand oils can make their feathers a bit greasy if you pet them a lot but this can be fixed with a bath.

Firstly, we have had them domesticated for at least 8,000 years. They are very well adapted to human care and touch, way back in time if there were birds who got sick or aggressive due to handling they were likely just straight up eaten. Our ancestors likely favored brave, confident, comfortable birds since chickens were originally religious idols and the birds who initiated first contact likely already had those traits. Secondly, chickens have completely different social structures then most psittacines from what i have read. A chicken may rub up against a flockmate while foraging, they preen any debris they see on their friends regardless of placement, when they sun bathe they sprawl out and even lean against each other and cuddle in the sunshine. Chickens take dust bathes with their flockmates where lots of rubbing and sprawling can happen while they writhe in the dirt. Chickens also are very social and competitive nesters, hens like to use nesting spaces that have already been deemed safe by other hens and they are not afraid to cram into a small area together. Chickens naturally have a lot of physicality in their social structures which can easily translate to their humans as well. My chickens want to lay eggs on my bed because I have proven its a good cozy nest, my birds want to be petted because I'm their flockmate and it feels nice. A lot of chickens have also been raised by humans closely since chickhood so the touching of the back is likely similar to their mother settling over them, they associate it with warmth and comfort. Thirdly, chickens are not monogamous and have a harem type of situation going on. Usually with chicken breeding groups you have one dominant male and his harem of females. On the outskirts of the flock are the subordinate males usually under a year old or older birds that aren't as spry anymore. While the dominant rooster tries to keep a tight ship about breeding rights the hens will mate with whoever they please when they are out of eyesight. So really this means chickens don't get jealous and aggressive over people in the way a single bonded parrot can because its not really built into their social structure like that. Not saying they cant get jealous over other things! Lastly, about petting chickens on the back specifically when they squat. Its a bit awkward but are you performing a mating behavior towards your bird? Yes, but is it harmful? No it isn't. Unlike with parrots you're not going to trigger chronic egg laying or unwanted behaviors from the chicken by doing it, in fact one could argue that it kind of helps with bonding because it means your hens see you as a good rooster or that your the boss. Of course this makes some people uncomfortable but to me I just see it as another social behavior for the chickens, its not like chicken owners are getting gratification from it besides thinking the rousing is funny. Someone might pearl clutch about it but its harmless to the hen and the person, she just shakes her feathers and struts off. Again to reiterate, you aren't going to trigger reproductive issues by petting your hen also because we have bred them to produce eggs year round, she is going to lay eggs regardless if you pet her or not! Here is one of my favorite videos of me petting Beeper. She sinks to the ground in coziness while she get petted while sunbathing. Beeper actually doesn't lay eggs at all anymore despite not being super old and I pet her every single day.

[lindleland]

there is so much to unpack in this clip

[lindleland]

[sudaca-swag]

[sudaca-swag]

Visas being denied to players and their families

Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv

Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs

Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

And all this just in the first week....

[lixel-5]

[potat0bag]

shiver warmups (oxymoron)

[potat0bag]

callie cut a fish

[melon-official]

boooooo tomato tomato tomato 🍅🎭

[kaijutegu]

Happy World Crocodile Day!

What's your favorite crocodile? Mine is the Cuban crocodile.

There are 23-26 species of crocodilia (depending on how you split a couple of species) in three families: Alligatoridae, which has the American and Chinese alligators and all the caimans; Gavialidae, which has the gharial and tomistoma, and Crocodylidae, which contans the true crocodiles.

Cuban crocs have been my favorite of the true crocodiles for many years, ever since I got to work with the pair at Louisville Zoo when I was... much younger.

They were such babies back then...

I love that they gallop!

This is footage from the now-defunct Smooth Waters Wildlife Park, not a pet.

You probably love them too, even if you don't know it- if you've been around the internet long enough, you've likely seen this video.

These are baby Cuban crocodiles being hand-raised as part of a conservation project at the Dragonwood Conservancy, not pets.

Those laser noises are baby Cuban crocs making an affiliative call (not a distress call) when their caretaker shows up!

While I love all species of crocodilian, Cuban crocodiles are definitely my favorite of the true crocs. What's your favorite?

[megaceros]

All of the canidae!

[empty-movement]

GOGAI, GOGAI!!!! Freshly cleaned cover to cover kibbles just in time for Adolescence of UTENA, playing in the North American theaters this weekend!!!!

Art of UTENA - 'Revolutionary Girl Utena' Making of Visuals Book

This 112 page color and black and white combined artbook from 1999 celebrates both the series and movie artwork and production process!! You can now peruse the totally reasonable copy above on the Empty Movement forums, or you can go hit the Internet Archive for the bonkers 8k pixels across per page version!!

One of the interviews featured in this book has already been translated, should you want to read more from Juugo Kazayama about script and storyboarding the series!

This artbook was an early source of some of the rarer pieces of Utena art, and has been part of the Empty Movement gallery for over 20 years! I'm hyped to finally share a copy of it that I think gets across the 'experience' of the book in person as best I could manage! The images have been descreened and selectively cleaned for legibility..a miserable process given the annoying repeating background that the scanner choked on. But my work is your win! Check it out, download it, share it, and enjoy it!!!! :D

[punk-parade]

fight me on the fart fight

Art Fight

An art gifting game