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trash kitten

@ru-debega / ru-debega.tumblr.com

[Ru she/her/they/them] [I will prob reblog stuff that makes you mad] [I'm too old for tumblr but too gay for anything else]

creature in fiction: *is portrayed as bad and mean*

8 year old me: but what if there was a good and nice one :0

there’s no age limit for this

youre right…………..

me at 8: but what if you gave it a hug?

me at 31: but what if you gave it a hug?

The neurodivergent reaction to bad and mean creatures: but what if someone loved this unlovable thing? Maybe it would be possible for me, also a strange and burdensome and unlovable thing, to be loved as well?

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soooo.

fuck discord.

Turn these off NOW. If you wait they can use whatever you've said or shared with your friends on there until whenever you turn it off, even after you turn it off.

Turn them off and tell Discord to get their head out of their arse and go fuck themselves.

The New York Times had an article about "Chonkosaurus", a very large snapping turtle spotted in the Chicago River. According to a wildlife biologist they quote, she's female and probably full of eggs, one reason she looks so...chonky. The wildlife biologist estimated her weight at 40 pounds (18kg) and her age at 50 years based on photos and video.

The article went on to say that the Chicago River had essentially been an open sewer before the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1973. Now it's a nice place to go kayaking on a sunny weekend!

But they never quite connected the dots. Ms. Chonkosaurus hatched about 50 years ago--in other words, she was born at the same time as the Clean Water Act passed. She's lived through the entirety of the river recovery. When the eggs she's carrying hatch, they will be born into a profoundly different--better!--world than she was.

I'm a little older than Chonkosaurus and the Clean Water Act. When I was a child the idea of swimming or kayaking in a metropolitan river would have been...well. Jokes about up shit creek without a paddle because the paddle dissolved in the toxic sludge? I remember seeing the oily sheen on the Ohio River in Cincinnati. It was just what a city river looked like.

Now...May 2023...there are warning on television about swimming in the Willamette River in Portland during the current heat emergency. Because the water is too cold! Jump into the water and the cold shock can paralyze you long enough to drown. But it's clean (clean snow melt fresh off the Cascade mountains, brrr).

Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive

It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.

So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.

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until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”

why are we sleeping on this

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Jさん, hello! I would like to ask your help! 🐈 We were feeding a hungry stray cat, and after she was invited in, she had babies! What do you think should I name these two sweet kittens? (Calico is a girl, and black&white is a boy!)

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Hm...how about Mikeko & Hachi?

Mikeko(like "me-que-co")means calico baby...and Hachi means eight(八) , one of the lucky numbers of japan. That black and white kitten has that ハ in his face and we call such cats "hachiware" in Japanese.

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I know I'm two days late, but I couldn't let the 25th of May pass without a drawing... And these days we could find worse role models than Reg, still fighting for justice and equality despite having been dead for over 30 years...