[youareextremelyfuckinselfishdie]

i don’t think i follow enough people back so reply to this or something if you want me to fyb and we can be friendes 🤝

[sugar-petals]

hot take in a roundabout way i think that's also why so many of us opt out of becoming parents ourselves

[qqchurch]

[theboredvoid]

[virtualgirladvance]

[sapphireh3arts]

btw we're at the "cops use ai to invent evidence against you" level

[virtualgirladvance]

big fan of the bag with a tiny baggy in it on the left and the gold $00 bill

[orcinus-veterinarius]

One misconception I see shared a lot by well-meaning zoo supporters is that all the animals in their favorite zoo or aquarium are rescues. This is often used as a put-down to “bad” zoos, who capture their animals from the wild or “force”them to breed.

The truth is more complex. There are certain species in zoos and aquaria of which nearly all the individuals you see are almost definitely rescues, such as sea otters, bald eagles, and grizzly bears. But for the majority of others, while there may be one or two non-releasable rescues in the collection, most individuals were indeed either born in human care or collected from the wild.

Nowadays, mammals, birds, and many herptiles in accredited facilities are essentially exclusively captive bred. For long-lived species, such as cetaceans and elephants, there are still some older wild-born individuals alive from wild capture days. They have spent their entire lives (40 or 50+ years) in human care and are not candidates for release.

For the vast majority of fish species (around 90%), including many sharks and rays, they are still collected from the wild, either by the zoo itself or a third party organization. Accredited facilities take care to ensure their fish are collected sustainably and will not negatively impact wild populations. In recent years, there have been great strides made in aquaculture (such as through the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory at the University of Florida) and other captive breeding efforts. One cool example is the birth of Rip, a critically endangered sand tiger shark pup, at the AZA-accredited Ripley’s Aquarium of Myrtle Beach.

[rubysapphrald]

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

[rubysapphrald]

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

[gh0stienj0yer]

i need to get off tumblr i’m at the aquarium admiring the fish and my brain goes “posts that make you want to get in the water” what are you talking about. these are live fish in the room with you. what post.

[gh0stienj0yer]

posts that make you want to get in the water

[beemovieerotica]

someone on reddit shared texts of her and her husband's exclusive english dialect and it's beautiful

[beemovieerotica]

a linguist is analyzing it

[bamfspock]

Bosses and Coworkers: you've got a great work ethic, going above and beyond

Me: I am literally just doing my job. Everyone else is slacking off.

Everyone Else: (magically knows somehow the secret amounts of work the boss is actually asking of them, which the boss cannot tell anyone for Reasons)

[bamfspock]

There always seems to be a gap in instructions (from bosses, parents, teachers, friends, whoever) between 'required' and 'expected', and this gap is:

invisible

never explained

always a different size

you have to guess the size

if you guess wrong you either get Praised or In Trouble

[bamfspock]

At least on 'the price is right' you know (because someone *actually told you*) that you are playing a guessing game and that there is an over/under mechanic and that the conquence of guessing wrong isn't a punishment or damaged relationship or getting fired

[bamfspock]

On an unrelated note my psychiatrist has given me a referal for a formal ASD evaluation

[bamfspock]

This post is about the neurodivergent frustration of having to deal with neurotypical authority figures who don't say what they mean but I love the pro-union labor-rights energy I'm seeing in the notes

[rbvcdeluxe]

my three girlfriends; past, present and future

[aliceisaperson]

But do they smoke weed

[randomwordzard]

[retquits]

there is something so crazy and powerful about having art of your oc that was made by anyone other than yourself. like oh my god you actually exist outside of my own brain that's WILD

[ravioliet]

[ratantics]

I needed to see this today.

[ot3]

to get the most of out ot3s you have to consider that they consist of smaller 2 person subdynamics where the third person is always in a weird and fucked up position of being a permanent voyeur to an interpersonal dynamic they are privy to but never a fully participant in. that whatever u have with them its not the same as what they have with each other, in a way thats equally intimate and alienating. yeah a throuple is fun when its a couple and their third but in an ideal world per 1 threesome you should be getting three somewhat volatile couples with their own dedicated third. and i think yoohankim #gets that.

[ot3]

of all the non yhk ships that people tagged on this post the realest one by far was krusielle. and we did just get an absolute buffet of this vibe with chapter 5 huh. shoutout. i love what those kids are doing man

[queer-as-city-folk]

The New York Post is a rag

[throathole]

Oh thanks but what the fuck does any of that mean

[anariel-the-elrond-apologist]

I’ve seen quite a few of these in my time, but this one takes the cake.

[throathole]

This is fucking killing me

Golp: a roundel purpure.

Repeat this to yourself until it begins to have meaning

[a-book-of-creatures]

Okay then since some of you need to be reminded of this:

Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Let’s meet them!

Bezant: roundel or (gold) 🟡

Plate: roundel argent (silver) ⚪️

Torteau: roundel gules (red) 🔴

Pomme: roundel vert (green) 🟢

Hurt: roundel azure (blue) 🔵

Golp: roundel purpure (purple) 🟣

Pellet: roundel sable (black) ⚫️

If your field is strewn with roundels, you can describe it appropriately as being bezanty, hurty, golpy, and so on.

[cognitohazardous]

[tourdion]

classic post rant quora phrase

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

mark, my words. *mark brings me my dictionary* thank you mark