I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme

"Rise of Jurassic" (2022)

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thinking about d

dinosaurs

Ten reblogs with ‘be more specific’ in the tags and I’ll remake this meme specifically referencing BLoSC. (that’s reblogs, people, not total notes) 

@herbalwolves look what you made me do

How to protect yourself during stampede

this isn’t the usual thing I’d share on my stupid nerd blog, but this is SO important. I was nearly crushed in a crowd like this once. It was terrifying because you have NO control over the panicking mass of humans around you. you are just at the mercy of all this chaotic force. this is a real thing that can happen very suddenly! it did happen in the news recently! My situation was, the olympics was happening in my city, I was on my way home from school, and a crowd of people suddenly flooded into the street around me. in seconds it went from, busy-city-street-crowded, to, wtf I can’t even move crowded. I was so pressed against the backpack of the man in front of me, my feet lifted off the ground a moment. People were climbing lamp posts, signs, bus shelters, trees, everything to get up out of it. it was like the street became an ocean of people, and all the people’s survival instincts were making them dumber. everyone was yelling. no one knew how to solve it. police, fire fighters and medics saved us by breaking the locks on the inside of the mall we were trapped next to. a huge group flooded into the building, releasing a bit of the pressure on the people outside. I was in that group that got in.

We were trapped in the mall awhile. Because the olympics was on, they had big screens in a few sitting areas of the mall that would normally be showing the games. but now the coverage was focused on this crowd surge. They showed a helicopter shot of the building we were now in, totally surrounded by colorful dots. a solid mass of humans with no space between.  I know someone was partially trampled and needed medics, because I saw that, but i don’t know the statistics on who else was hurt, hopefully no one killed! I don’t know if these methods can definitely save you, but they might give you a better chance. so watch and share!

Sharing to my own stupid nerd blog for the same reason, this is SO IMPORTANT. Human crushes are one of the most unexpected ways to die. People go out to a show or a sports game, and make it there, but they never come back. Other strategies include staying away from large obstacles (like fences) that you could get crushed against, and doing your best to stay above the crowd. Try to climb onto something if you can.

And also — not to get nitpicky with deadly tragedies, but they’re called “human crushes,” not “stampedes.” It’s an important difference in description and also in respect. The deaths usually happen because the victims are pinned together in a tight space, they can’t breathe (as in the video) and they suffocate. “Stampede” doesn’t convey what actually happened to those people. The crush that happened in Seoul recently wasn’t because people “stampeded,” it was because they couldn’t move at all and they suffocated. But calling it a “stampede,” you’d think it was the people themselves that ran over each other, like wild animals. It’s disrespectful and untrue.

Horrifyingly, the victims of many human crushes have been blamed for their own deaths, which are usually purely accidental or due to criminal mismanagement from authorities. If you’re in a mental place to read about tragedies and police corruption, check out the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 97 people died due to the incompetence of the police, who then blamed everything on the victims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

If you can’t play the video:

1. Stand like a boxer. Nice wide stance, arms up like you’re preparing to either throw a punch or shield against one, i.e. elbows bent by your waist and fists by your shoulders. That will keep some space around your chest

2. If you fall and can’t get up, roll onto your side and curl up in the foetal position

Now that I think about it, Zefrank would be perfect for some PHP fandubs. The guy's a pro at this, and this is a real gift to the world.

SHE SAID THE THING!!!!!

Happy Pride Month!

Please stay safe.

Kentrosaurus

Kentrosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Small for a stegosaur, adults measured around 4 m in length and weighed 700–1,600 kg. It had a small, elongated head with a beak used to bite off plant material that would be digested in a large gut. Kentrosaurus had a double row of small plates running down its neck and back, which merged into spikes on the hip and tail. The longest spikes were on the tail end and were used to actively defend the animal. There was also a long spike on each shoulder. The thigh bones come in two different types, suggesting that one sex was larger and more stout than the other.

Pride events happening with no covid safety policy in place is exactly as vile, reprehensible, and irresponsible as telling people to go share needles and fuck strangers with no condoms or HIV testing plans, because the AIDS Crisis is "over," even though AIDS killed 650,000 in 2021, and in the same year 1.5 million were newly infected with HIV. (Source)

Wear a condom, don't share needles, wash your hands, wear a goddamn mask.

There is a genocide brewing against queer people in Florida, and my disabled queer ass can't even take comfort and solace in my local queer "community" because they don't have mask or vaccination or covid test policies for anything.

I posted on the local pride center's FB page for an event not too long ago, asking if they had any covid policy, and they told me that they "didn't need one" because the CDC "isn't advising it right now."

It took every fucking scrap of willpower I possess not to respond with, "Ronald Reagan told everyone not to worry about AIDS, too."

i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

Imperobator

Imperobator is a genus of paravian theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica. The only fossil specimen consists of an incomplete left foot, so most of the body is unknown. It is estimated that Imperobator was around 2 m tall. This shows that it exhibited gigantism, a trait not often seen among paravians. Despite prior assignment to Dromaeosauridae, Imperobator has since been assigned to the clade Paraves due to certain characteristics that differ from those of dromaeosaurids, including the lack of a sickle claw. Based on evidence from other paravians, Imperobator likely had a feathery covering on most of its body. It was probably carnivorous, however it is unclear whether it scavenged or hunted its prey.

Here's my contribution to the Spread the Love challenge animation collab. Had a lot of fun with this one. I'll be sharing a process video of this soon.

“A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain”

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Omg they’re all so small and thirsty and they know where to go to get a drink why am i crying