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Anonymous asked:
hey i know you're a gimmick blog but genuinely, being able to give my names to you has actually given me a lot of closure and freedom as a trans person. im sure you get a lot of messages like this so feel free not to answer, i just want you to know that your work is good and it does good things and it matters to me. i hope you're having a great day!
I get them less often then you might think, I really appreciate this.
do you have any facts about goth culture
Goths dress dark to hide themselves. Goths who are easier to see from their brighter clothing are called Visigoths.
so the real question is ostrogoths
(my girlfriend says 'ratites')
Do not approach them, lest they bury their heads in the sand and get their earrings stuck.
Bird Count: 2
Type: Ostrich
Medium: Text, Photoshopped Image
i did a redraw
1986-1993 Toyota Supra
Trying to get people to realize birds are full on actual no holds barred dinosaurs on the internet is like playing a constant game of whack-a-mole
The game never ends there's just another mole to whack
whack whack whack
I understand that you guys aren't being totally serious, but birds are categorically NOT dinosaurs. They're BIRDS. Being descended from and very similar to an animal does not make them literally the same.
Bats are mammals. If every mammal except for bats went extinct, bats would still be mammals. This is what happened with birds. They're a type of dinosaur that evolved within the dinosaur evolutionary tree, and existed alongside other types of dinosaurs until all those other types of dinosaurs were wiped out. Surviving when the other dinosaurs went extinct doesn't mean they stopped being dinosaurs at any point.
OK, well I'm descended from a fish. If everybody but me went extinct, I'd be the last fish left on Earth? It doesn't make any sense. It's just a semantic argument, at the end of the day. Where do you draw the line?
incorrect, because we define dinosaurs as a family group and that group then by definition contains birds, to the point that we can't agree where birds starts.
please stop questioning an actual paleontologist.
also, yeah, we're lobe finned fish. deal with it.
OK I'm not gonna engage with a condescending Tumblr paleontologist who doesn't seem to understand the issue I'm raising.
for fucks sake dude....
stop linking me to educational articles and engage with the issue at hand
I know I'm only adding another voice into the fire, but if you're issue is definitions, Birds are, by definition, Dinosaurs Dinosaur: Any animal that shares the same Most Recent Common Ancestor with Megalosaurus and Iguanodon, or, in more recent times, Triceratops and Passer (Which is the Sparrow, a true bird)* Regardless if you use the modern or initial definition set by Richard Owen, it says the same thing, Dinosaur = the Most Recent Common Ancestor between Saurischia (of which Megalosaurus and Passer are the representing members) + Onrithischia (of which Iguanodon or Triceratops are the representing members)
Birds are, without a doubt, part of the Theropoda, which means they're within Saurischia, which means they share the most recent common ancestor between Megalosaurus and Iguanodon (using the initial definition for this point), and of course with the modern version Birds are dinosaurs in the definition entirely. There is no good reason for Birds not to be called Dinosaurs.
*Diplodocus has also been added to the modern definition in some instances because Sauropods were at more of a risk of becoming non-dinosaurs due to Ornithoscelida being a possible option for early dinosaur taxonomy
Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this
penicillin was first discovered in 1928; vaginoplasty is less experimental
ibuprofen was first discovered in 1961; phalloplasty and HRT are less experimental
Adderall was first applied as an ADHD treatment in 1994; puberty blockers are less experimental
would also like to note that every single one of these procedures and treatments has been through rigorous testing usually both on animal models and humans in order to be approved as safe and effective by the FDA and not a single one is considered experimental. just in case anyone tries to be like "well HPV vaccines and Adderall are also bad"
could i see some very fluffy bears please?
you sure can!
fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.
Anonymous asked:
this guy: if you call birds dinosaurs you may as well call humans fish
me, who actively does just that: :)
right?
hello, my fellow opisthokont!
isn't it great to be an archaean with an endosymbiotic eubacteria today?
get fucked archaeplastids and you’re codependent, simp plastids! opisthokants are rugged individualists who get their own food.
Greetings, fellow synapsids!
@a-dinosaur-a-day are humans synapsids?
yes we are! I mention it frequently!
back in the day one of my catchphrases was "stinkin' synapsids", emphasis on sweaty mammals that literally drink our own highly nutritious sweat (aka milk)
(ey said, a proud consumer of cheese)
Saw this a few times on the road - never got a good look at the front and finally caught it at a stop light. Was hoping you could help ID it!
1985-1987 Toyota Corolla Levin (AE86)
CORRECTION: This is a Kouki, not a Levin! I was mostly looking at the tail lights when I did this one and totally missed the pop ups up front. Thanks to the replies for correcting me!
Me: "that is such an easy ID i actually wonder if it's a joke"
The car IDing hero: gets it wrong twice*
*The car in question is a Toyota Sprinter Trueno** - Kouki, meaning "later model" in Japanese, is used to refer to later, facelifted examples (which this indeed is**)
**Or at least it looks like one - but the only visual difference between it and earlier models, and indeed between those and the Corolla Levin, are easily swapped body panels, so this could technically be any one of those with different body panels swapped onto it (this is why car enthusiasts refer to them all by AE86, the chassis code they share).
yeah i probably should’ve just said ae86, i really wanted to get the specific one since there’s so many models under one chassis code and most people assume the ae86 is just the sprinter trueno from like initial d (and people have a tendency to get a bit pedantic when i’m not specific), but it meant i bit off a bit more than i could chew trying to get the specific model. the taillights are off a kouki or maybe a levin i think, but i have a rough time with the bodies on these. it’s like the GM g bodies, they’re kinda tough to distinguish since so many parts were interchangeable.
good to have times where i just royally miss the mark like this though to remind everyone that i’m not an expert or a genius, just a casual enthusiast and some guy doing this for fun.
People who had to teach themselves how to be decent people, how to interact with the world, because their parents didn't set an example, deserve so much recognition.
If your parents' example was reacting to everything with anger or passive aggression, seeing the worst in others, being self-centered, driving people away because they refused to compromise, if they taught you to feel like you weren't a person and you had to fight to be whole again and feel love and not be ugly -
You deserve the world.
Source: eldritchbagel
mine is "I dream of a world in which chickens can cross roads without having their motives questioned" is that anything?
Caesar was a punk. If it had been me, I woulda seen those assassins coming a mile away. I woulda been like BAM! and knocked the knife outta Cassius's hand with karate. That's what I woulda done.
amateur hour. I would have convinced the assassins to love me and wish me well instead of yearning for my death. I'd do it with my gentle heart and forgiving nature and good ideas and it'd work every time, if it was me instead of Caesar
I woulda learned Kung Fu. I woulda killed them with ki blasts.
Nun chunks, etc.
All the "birds are dinosaurs" deniers got me thinking:
Is there a specific word to refer to dinosaurs as common non scientific perception defines them??? Like, everything I can think of is either too specific (ie 'jurassic period dinosaurs') or just. "Extinct/prehistorical dinosaurs" or something like that, and that's just... eh. "Extinct" is at least kinda funny because it includes ivory billed woodpeckers but not pileated woodpeckers lol
Sometimes when I speak about dinosaurs to friends and stuff (and what that one person who was like "I want to see a dinosaur and it makes me sad that I can't!" person was probably getting at) I want to specifically refer to the sorts of species that are old enough to be fossils, you know? Including the old avian dinosaurs! :)
Apologies if you've answered this sort of ask before! But since I don't know the word I cannot search your blog for it lol. Thank you in advance, I love seeing you on my dash and learning things!
so there's a few different things you could mean depending on the situation.
here's the thing:
what's a bird, to you?
if you want the smallest group you can pick, ie the clade that consists of all the birds of today and nothing else, then you mean
"non-neornithine dinosaur"
aka
dinosaurs that aren't in Neornithes, which is that smallest possible group
so if you want to say "nonavian dinosaur" (aka, a dinosaur that isn't a "bird") you have to know what you're saying
bc there is also "nonavialan dinosaur", that is often just "nonavian dinosaur", aka the group of dinosaurs that have traditionally been considered as such exclusive of things that sometimes got put with birds instead
aka it includes Velociraptor but not Archaeopteryx
but the difference between the two is honestly miniscule at this point and things jump around a lot. many scientists do not think that's how we should define bird versus "classical dinosaur"
hence non-neornithine, aka neornithes being just the dinosaurs that survived the end-cretaceous extinction (most likely don't worry about it) and into the cenozoic, and non-neornithine dinosaurs being all that went extinct
being the most exact term for what you're looking for
you also could just go simple and do "classical dinosaurs"
but most often you'll see "nonavian dinosaur" which usually means, in practical parlance, non-neornithine dinosaur, or maybe non-avialan. sometimes non-pygostylian if they want to be contrarian, even non-maniraptor(iform?) if they want to be hipster
it's a fun time
what is a bird, indeed
You may know, if you’ve ever seen a Jewish house before Passover, it’s hard work. It really is. I try and be away from home when it’s happening. You have to clear the house of all products that contain leaven, you’ve got to clean everything, you’ve got to take out a new set of utensils and cutlery and crockery, and it is really hard work. I got somebody in England to design a special apron for Passover cleaning that read, “For this, we left Egypt?”
I used to wonder, why make Passover such hard work? And now I know: because freedom is hard work. And it has to be fought for in every generation. We have to tell and re-tell the story. We have to remind ourselves what it feels like each year to eat the bread of affliction and taste the bitter herbs of slavery.
...
Freedom is hard to attain, but it is very easy to lose. And that’s why it has to be fought for in every generation.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"tl, "In Defence of Religious Liberty," the acceptance speech at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty award ceremony
i think the world would be a better place if people were more willing to accept that birds are dinosaurs
like. you mean the animals i spent my entire childhood mourning the extinction of still exist and even have some in my own backyard?? HELL YEAH
(this ask may or may not just be an excuse to share chicken pictures)
are you kidding I love them all please convey this to them how you see fit
Anonymous asked:
technically we can all shoot acid if we have a weird enough stomach ph balance and a bad enough stomach ailment!
yes but should we
I’m not funny. That’s just the cordyceps in your brain.
