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I've found a gif just for meee!! ^^
I can't do a more deep opinion on this orca thing because yeah one can say "go orcas!", it feels good, doesn't it?...
but in fact those must be very scattered cases that won't change the fact that the current situation is that ocean transport is noisy, it's everywhere, and it must be driving these very, very sensitive animals crazy. Before motors, a whale could listen to what was happening in South Africa from the Argentine coast. Now their range of communication must have dropped to only a few kilometers: moreover, all the noise must be insane. There have been studies saying that even things like lawnmowers can make permanent ear damage to small rodents, and birds have had to adapt to city noises (their songs changed to a more "natural" pattern during the pandemic lockdowns) So I can't imagine what such things must be doing to the minds of orcas, one of the animals with the most complex and intelligent behavior registered outside of primates, and extremely sensitive to sound. Can we even understand what they're going through right now.
And this is not to mention the widespread whale (baleen whales, not orcas) hunting that decimated their populations to an absurd degree. All the world is currently going through a beyond worrying trend of defaunation, but whales were particulary hurt. There were 250.000 (estimated) blue whales before whaling, and they were decimated to less than 2000. Even today, with strict conservation measures, there's around 10-25k blue whales, and that's one species. Let that sink in.
Is there a solution to this, besides returning to the age of sail and banning ocean explotation? I don't know, there might be. I hope there is.
When I read about orcas, about their behavior, about their pods with their own almost cultural quirks and even dialects, so much we don't know about them, I only remember Arthur C. Clarke, when he spoke about blue whales: “We do not know the true nature of the entities we are destroying”
also before it starts to happen: if i see a single person calling july "gay wrath month" or saying "we deserve a second one" it is ON SIGHT. that is DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH. abled queers i will run you over with my wheelchair if you so much as reblog one of those comments.
hello! reblog this version instead!
Hello! Disabled person here. Did you know those of us declared legally disabled and collect SSI and benefits are barred from getting married? Yep! I'm also queer so this isn't hate at all, it's a call to action: if you love marriage equality, come help us fight for ours.
Strange that it never occured to me. There are times I've been so upset that I've stamped around while cussing, that I've lain flat on the floor and groaned for as long as I had breath, that I've ranted my frustration aloud in an unhinged monologue, that I've swung my limbs about in a fury. All until I'd vented enough to just ... resume my normal life.
And if I'd had not the privacy of my home, I'd either have had to bottle that all up ... or open it all up where the public could scrutinize my every move. It really is a privilege to not be constantly on display like that.
thinking about mutual obsession again. lets merge our souls together in this life and every life after
I've seen multiple locked tomb posts about Gideon's vocabulary and how many hyper-specific or uncommon descriptors she uses and such tracing this trait to her rivalry with Supreme Nerd Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Which is very fair, but I think it's ignoring the real explanation for why they are both Like That in terms of vocab, which is that they were raised in critical proximity to Ortus.
"I hope Gideon and Harrow kiss in Alecto" this, "I hope god dies in Alecto" that, well I hope Gideon accidentally quotes a line from the Noniad half ironically and Harrow unconsciously finishes it. i hope Ortus' poetry lives on in their fragmented remembrances.
Anonymous asked:
So given the Faunus are a racial minority is yang thinking Blake’s cat ears are cute racist in some way? Is it like fetishizing her? Or the more likely option, I’m reading way to much into it
Tho that laser pointer joke in volume 2 shows yang has some biases to unlearn
i feel like i see a lot of people saying that it’s fetishizing and stuff but?? not really? to me, the ears are just another part of her. like if i tell someone i like their eyes it’s just a regular ol compliment. it’s not really worth reading into imo. i think i can understand what you’re trying to say since the cat ears are unique TO blake, but it’d be a weird fetish if like. yang pointed out many traits on different faunus and complimented them. if that makes sense??
the laser pointer joke was probably just the writers going off the cat thing. they do this a LOT in the show (like ruby saying “she does really like tuna”), and especially in chibi, but i don’t see anyone else really complaining about those moments? laser pointer thing was just a very throwaway scene for jokes more than anything.
sorry if this seems like an aggressive response lol i see people complain about this a lot and then people go on and call them microaggressions when it’s really not that deep 😭 there’s no point in seeking out a problem where there isn’t
A lot of things that happened in Vols 1-3 need to be taken with a grain of salt unless you believe a corgi can be used as a projectile.
I'm glad the writing improved and moved away from."Blake is a cat" jokes. But none of that makes Yang racist ffs. This feels like invented discourse.
I mean, Blake was so tired and so not thinking clearly she followed it. I... uh... I’ve been there.
That's a thought that never occurred to me. If someone was shining a laser at me I think I'd go look too
Corgis can actually be used as projectile in this universe. That's pretty clearly a thing that can happen if you train their aura
You ever notice nobody ever criticises the writing of BB anymore? It's always "yeah well, the writers are straight white men" or "it's probably queerbait anyway" or "it's not Monty's vision" or "it's pandering to shippers," these pre-canned gotchas meant to shut down the issue by vaguely gesturing to some sort of bad intentions on the part of the creators based entirely off projection. None of them actually comment on the merits of the writing because they all either haven't actually watched it and therefore can't offer specifics or they have watched the show and are thus painfully aware there's actually just... not much to complain about.
As someone who isn't even invested in the relationship very much, this romance arc has been "fine" at worst. The only real "criticism" I could think of would be that, as the show has such a wide focus, these two cannot be fully focused on by the series because they are not The Only Main Characters but that's not what this show is and that's fine.
If you think about it, Shakespeare pioneered the genre of real-person fiction, paving the way for works such as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Therefore, Shakespeare is directly responsible for Miku binder Thomas Jefferson. In this essay, I will
Hey man don’t do this to me. Come on man. Let’s talk this out. Like mature people. Please please please don’t do this.
Anonymous asked:
Its 2am
you know what that means
FROG TIME
Sorry to be a downer, but under natural conditions, frogs will almost never open their mouths like this. It happens during swallowing, and sometimes when they are stressed, although I have personally never observed the latter, in spite of hundreds of hours of handling thousands of frogs. Frogs cannot breathe with their mouths open, because they breathe using buccal pumping. Oxygen exchange via the skin can help to compensate, but only for so long in frogs like this. Based on the admittedly impressive but very highly staged portfolio of the photographer on Dreamstime, I don’t *think* they would go so far as to open the mouth with a hook and fishing line, as some other photographers apparently have, but I do think this frog is opening its mouth in distress. And 2 am is not stressed frog time. It’s happy frog time. Here is a moderately happy frog:
Anonymous asked:
Is it wrong that I believe the writers did a terrible job at making Ironwood a bad guy? Like volume 8 didn’t make him heartless, just really really dumb but honestly it just felt like he was forced to be this way instead of just…idk progressing into said bad guy trope? It just felt rushed and forced imo.
I mean, it's "wrong" insomuch that I disagree, I think that Ironwood's downfall was pretty clearly set up and executed fairly well. But I dunno man it's been like 2 and something years since volume 8. I'm not your mom you can think whatever you want.
Rushed? It’d been going on for seven volumes!
The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they're just "parented" to whatever tweet they're commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they've placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you've requested without checking a. whether they're the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you've already seen that particular entity today.
Thus, the limit isn't really "600 tweets". A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it's responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!
The upshot is that if your account isn't verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.
so that’s why i ran out in like two hours
If anything, two hours reflects a very restrained usage pattern. Owing to the way that tweet views are counted, somebody who's using the site the way its user experience "wants" it to be used might burn through their daily 600 views in as little as five to ten minutes!
The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they're just "parented" to whatever tweet they're commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they've placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you've requested without checking a. whether they're the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you've already seen that particular entity today.
Thus, the limit isn't really "600 tweets". A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it's responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!
The upshot is that if your account isn't verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.