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can anyone remember that post about how children write the best poems & it had an article attached showing the differences between little kids' poetry & preteens?? im desperate to find it again
ok i found it! it's called the average fourth grader is a better poet than you (and me too)
here are three of my favourite excerpts
I wish all my body hair had cool patterns like tiger stripes or some shit
dates with bakugou includes: aggressive smorches and caprisuns
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soon may the wellerman come, your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
Omega mart in Las Vegas felt like being on tumblr in least nightmarish way possible , it was beautiful and I highly recommend going.
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So I was told that Human Planet had a segment about pigeons in the Cities episode that I might be interested in and I was honestly so underwhelmed. I havenāt finished the episode so maybe thereās more pigeon stuff but I feel like all I saw was more Birds Of Prey Are The Only Cool And Acceptable Birds and pigeons are Trespassers In Our Urban World Who Shit On Everything And Are Useless On Top Of It. Which isnāt true and Iām so tired of this being framed as some horrible burden that humanity must face. Pigeons are the victims here, not us.Ā
Hate of pigeons didnāt start until the 20th Century. Before that was about 9,900 years of loving them. The rock pigeon was domesticated 10,000 years ago and not only that, we took them freaking everywhere. Pigeons were the first domesticated bird and they were an all-around animal even though they were later bred into more specialised varieties. They were small but had a high feed conversion rate, in other words it didnāt cost a whole lot of money or space to keep and they provided a steady and reliable source of protein as eggs or meat. They home, so you could take them with you and then release them from wherever you were and theyād pretty reliably make their way back. Pigeons are actually among the fastest flyers andĀ they can home over some incredible distances (what fantastic navigators!). They were an incredibly important line of communication for multiple civilisations in human history. You know the first ever Olympics? PigeonsĀ were delivering that news around the Known World at the time. Also, their ability to breed any time of year regardless of temperature or photoperiod? That was us, we did that to them, back when people who couldnāt afford fancier animals could keep a pair or two for meat/eggs.Ā
Rooftop pigeon keeping isnāt new, itās been around for centuries and is/was important to a whole variety of cultures. Pigeons live with us in cities because we put them there, we madeĀ them into city birds. I get that there are problems with bird droppings and thereās implications for too-large flocks. By all means those are things we should look to control, but you donāt need to hateĀ pigeons with every fibre of your being. You donāt need to despise them or brush them off as stupid (they have been intelligence tested extensively as laboratory animals because guess what other setting theyāre pretty well-adapted to? LABORATORIES!) because they arenāt stupid. Theyāre soft intelligent creatures and I donāt have time to list everything I love about pigeons again. You donāt need to aggressively fight them or have a deep desire to kill them at all. Itās so unnecessary, especially if you realise that the majority of reasons pigeons are so ubiquitous is a direct result of human interference.
We havenāt always hated pigeons though, Darwinās pigeon chapter in The Origin of SpeciesĀ took so much of the spotlight that publishers at the time wanted him to make the book ONLY about pigeons and to hell with the rest because Victorianās were obsessed with pigeons (as much as I would enjoy a book solely on pigeons, itās probably best that he didnāt listen).Ā My point is, for millenia, we loved pigeons. We loved them so much we took them everywhere with us and shaped them into a bird very well adapted for living alongside us.
Itās only been very recently that we decided we hated them, that we decided to blame themĀ for ruining our cities. The language we use to describe pigeons is pretty awful. But it wasnāt always, and I wish we remembered that. I wish we would stop blaming them for being what we made them, what they are, and spent more time actually tackling the problems our cities face. Ā
I just have a lot of feelings about how complex and multidimensional hating pigeons actually is
ALL OF THIS
And also pigeon poop was a very valuable fertilizer before we had other options, people would hire guards to stop thieves from stealing their flockās poop.
#LovePigeonsAgain2016
Late night, reblogging, so bear with me hereā¦ Thank you for posting much of my thoughts over the past year and a half! I am known by many asĀ āthat guy who keeps the raptorsā. Yes this is true, I do keep and handle raptors for educational purposes, but what many fail to realize is, I am fascinated with pigeons. My interest with birds began with the obvious, the raptors, corvids, and parrots. Then I discovered pigeons. These wonderful little birds with big attitudes and the incredible ability to thrive among people.Ā The organization I work with got its first pigeon a little over a year ago. She was a rescue with nowhere else to go. I was quickly drawn to her character and attitude about life. We rarely handled her, but we did spend time with her. She grew attached to our volunteers very quickly because their were no other birds she could socialize with in our facility.Ā
We never intended to train her for educational programs. It was a job reserved for our raptors. It was our pigeon who decided she would be a part of what we were doing. One day, when we entered her enclosure to change water and food, she decided to fly to my hand and perch like our raptors do.Ā
No training, no treats, just the reward of being with us.Ā
What we hadnāt noticed for the couple months prior was her watching us. This brilliant little bird had been watching us every day as we trained and worked with our raptors. Finally she decided she didnāt want to be left out any longer. She made her place on our hands.
This occurred several times before we finally put her on a glove and brought her into the public. Needless to say, she was right at home. She fluffed up and preened the entire evening while people gawked and asked us why we had a pigeon on one glove and a hawk on another.Ā
Since then, weāve added 5 more rescued pigeons to our growing flock. And our pigeon (Tybalt) has become a mainstay ambassador for our programs. Each of our pigeons are incredibly fun to watch and interact with. Pigeons simply donāt get enough love. They are marvelous creatures incredibly suited to life alongside people both physically and mentally.Ā
Raptors my have been my introduction into birds, but pigeons opened my eyes to a new appreciation for them and the fascinating world of bird cognition.
NOT ONLY are pigeons very amazing, worth our respect, and INTERESTING (did you read any of that stuff above?), but they are beautiful too! Look how lovely:
Photo by .jocelyn.
They have a complex and fascinating social structure, both within a flock and with other individuals:
Photo by Ingrid Taylar
AND THEY ARE JUST SUPER CUTE, HONESTLY:
Photo by Musical Photo Man
Not chickens, but I feel compelled to spread this gospel.
hmmm. this is making me rethink my new york pigeon hate
and, AND, havenāt you ever wondered why city pigeons come in a magnificent rainbow of unusual colors?
Most wild animals all look alike within a species, with TINY, RARE individual variations in terms of rare color morphs, unusually big or small animals, different facial markings and other subtleties. But there is no evolutionary benefit to having species where everyone looks slightly different, and in fact, itās beneficial for species to be similar and consistent, with a distinctive aesthetic. Especially if youāre trying to blend into the environment - a black wolf is all very well, but it looks positively silly in the summer tundra, where its grey/brown/brindley cousins blend in. A white deer has a great aesthetic - and a very short lifespan in the forest. Distinctive Protagonist looks are rare in the wild, simply because natural selection usually comes down heavily on them.
To humans, most wild animals are visually indistinguishable from each other.
As a result, most wild animals are like
āOh itās obvious - you can tell the twins apart because Kara has a big nose.ā
Wild animals usually have a pretty consistent aesthetic within their species. Itās important to them!
SO WHAT IS GOING ON WITH PIGEONS?
Look, in one small picture youāve got a red color morph in the center, several melanistic dark morphs, a few solid black birds, a few variations on the wildtype wing pattern, a PIEBALD, a piebald copper color morphā¦
Like, there are LAYERS UPON LAYERS of pigeon diversity in most flocks you see. Pure white ones with black wingtips. Solid brown ones with pink iridescent patches. Pale pinkish pigeons.
WHY IS THAT? When other wild animals consider ābeing slightly fluffier than my brotherā to be dangerously distinctive in most circumstances? BECAUSE CITY PIGEONS ARENāT TRULY WILD.
MANY OF THEM (POSSIBLY MOST OR ALL) ARE FERAL MIXES.
THEY WERE ONCE BELOVED PETS, SPECIAL MESSENGERS, EXQUISITE SHOW-WINNERS, AND PRIZED LIVESTOCK.
THEIR PRETTY COLORS WERE DELIBERATELY INTRODUCED BY HUMANS.
AND NOW THEIR HUMANS DONāT LOVE THEM ANY MORE.
See, pigeon fanciers bred (and still breed!) a huge array of pigeons. And the resulting swarms of released/discarded/escaped/phased out āfancyā pigeons stayed around humans. What else were they going to do? They interbred with wildtype pigeons.
Lots of the pigeons you see in public are feral. Theyāre not wild animals. Theyāre citizen animals. Theyāre genetically engineered. And now thatās what ācityā pigeons are.
These āwildā horses are all different colors because theyāre actually feral. Mustangs in the American West are the descendants of imported European horses - theyāre an invasive domestic species that colonized an ecological niche, but they are domestic animals. Their distinctive patterns were deliberately bred by humans. A few generations of running around on the prairie isnāt going to erase that and turn them back into wildtypes. If you catch an adult mustang and train it for a short period, you can ride it and have it do tricks and make it love you. Itās a domestic animal. You canāt really do that with an adult zebra.
No matter how many generations these dogs stay on the street and interbreed with one another, they wonāt turn back into wolves. They canāt. Theyāre deliberately genetically engineered. If you catch one (even after generations of rough living, even as an adult) you can make it stare at your face, care about your body language, and love you.
City pigeons? Well, you donāt have to like them, but theyāre in the same boat. Theyāre tamed animals, bred on purpose, living in a human community. Their very bodies are marked with their former ownership and allegiance; they cannot really return to what they once were; if you caught one, you could make it love you (in a limited pigeon-y way.) They have gone to āthe wild,ā but not very far from us, and theyād be happy to come back.
So next time you see a flock of city pigeons, spare a moment to note their diversity. The wing patterns. The pied, mottled and brindled. The color types.
All of it was once meant to please you.
I am now on Team Pigeon. Ā Thank you.
Iāll never forget that one time I was talking to this boy and I rejected him (mind you I almost gave him my address because we were supposed to go out) and he stalked and harassed me for an entire month and put my number on Craigslist (I was getting hundreds of calls and texts every day to the point my phone stopped working).
Men are crazy.
I had one throw a water bottle at me for ignoring him as I walked down the street. I was 6 months pregnant with my daughter on my way to a doctors appointment. The bottle missed me.
Heās lucky I was pregnant. I pulled my box cutter out on a dude one night on the train when I used to work nights a few years back. I scare myself sometimes because Iām gonna kill somebody one day.
I always carry my knife with me just because dudes love to act stupid so Iām prepared to cut they ass accordingly :)
Omg where can I get a pocket knife?
Amazon! They have these knifes disguised as keys.
I got this on amazon. Closes up and looks like a leaf. Sits right on my key chain.
WomenOnGuard.com also has a selection, many of which you can find on Amazon - but should you find yourself spending $50 on self defense weapons, WomenOnGuard.com offers free pepper spray & free shipping (as of March 14, 2018 - in case that offer ends at some point)
As someone with limited strength and physical mobility, but who can press a button pretty easily, I recommend personal keychain alarms that are set to make a VERY loud noise (140dbāabout the same noise level as a chainsaw). Theyāre about $8 a piece usually, but you can buy 3 for 16 and split them among your family and friends. If it doesnāt startle and deter the harasser/attacker, itāll definitely get someoneās attention.
I usually end up taking most my classes in evening so I can go straight to work after. For a year or so I never carried anything with me. When the security guard at my job found out he was livid. He went and got me mace and a little pocket knife.
Within the last year Iāve had a guy follow me in the parking garage when aināt no other cars there.
Iāve had guys waiting outside my job and no one is there to walk me to my car at 3am.
Strap up ladies cause these men do note care how scary they are, they donāt care that they intimidate you into talking to you.
But also ladies RESEARCH THE LAWS OF YOUR STATE/CITY, cause some of the things you buy may get you arrested & possibly charged; even in self defence. For example: Itās illegal in NY state to carry and use a taser or possess a knife longer than a certain length. This is also very important, shitty to find out but important.
To ALL my female followers, please be safe!
Reblogging for the personal Keychain alarm for us disabled ladies. I canāt handle a knife with my hands so this is super helpful.
I have a knife disguised as a key. I got it after my friends refused to walk home with me as it was getting dark
I have a money clip knife that I clip onto my bra strap every time I get dressed. Stay safe everyone.
Thought: If feeding everyone would break the economy then the economy deserves to be broken
Counter thought: The economy is already broken if it enables millions to starve.
in 1994 when green day first became famous, they invited pansy division, an openly gay punk band, to open for them for the entire dookie tour knowing full well the responses would be mixed. in 2016/2017, on their revolution radio tour, green day chose only female led punk bands to open for them to help create recognition for these artists in a male dominated scene. this band has always been using their voices for the right reasons and i love them so much for that.
And Against Me! Is opening for them too! A band fronted by a trans woman! Fuck yeah Green Day
If Iām not mistaken, there was a prom somewhere that was cancelled one time because a lesbian couple wanted to go, so Green Day rented a venue and had a prom for them. Not sure about accuracy, my mom told me about that
yes this is true as well!! green day helped to fund and organize this second prom when the first one was cancelled. the second prom was actually open not only to the students of the school, but also to any other lgbtq+ students as well as supporters in the state of mississippi who wanted to attend as well!!
Billy Joe Armstrong once literally leapt into the crowd at Green Day show and drop-kicked a guy who wouldnāt leave a girl alone.
This exemplifies how do to representation right. Being a straight ally doesnāt mean creating things for LGBT+ people. Its about giving those who are already creating a better stage.Ā
Heās not a āstraight allyā heās bisexual.
Heās not a āstraight allyā heās bisexual.
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