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@secretagentrubberducky

Hello! I'm a feminist, an anthropologist, an avid yaoi/slash fan and enjoyer of animals.

(3rd grade greek gods project) artemis is so cool! she’s an independent person!! and doesn’t need a man! 

(5th grade) i just dont like the idea of getting married…boys are icky! and… i mean… my aunt isn’t married and she’s really cool!

(9th grade) {there is one lesbian couple at school} they’re.. so cool.. i mean.. relationship goals.. like they always cuddle during lunch.. and hold hands… not like the people who stand in the hallways and make out… not that it’s because they’re gay :))

(now) hmm… i mean… this isn’t really proof… i think if i was a lesbian i would know already… and the fact that i think about it every day doesnt have anything to do with it… doesn’t everyone wonder if they’re gay??

Crows are scary They

  • use tools
  • Can be taught to speak (like parrots)
  • Have huge brains for birds
  • like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
  • They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
  • they are scary smart at solving puzzles
  • some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies
  • they can remember faces
  • SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.  They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows.  Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag.  But the nice guys with masks they left alone.  THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight.  THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
  • They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.

Guys I’m really scared of crows now. (q

Yeah but have you seen this 

A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. “Oh hell,” she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.

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dansknapp

Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill

I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’.Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.

Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.

That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him. 

Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree. 

That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.

Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.

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aph-romania

that last reply made me wanna cry. that’s so beautiful.

Don’t forget the Russian Crow SLEDDING DOWN A ROOF not once, but twice. 

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rassoey

this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws, i remember it was like 5am, LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE, so loud that i could hear it through a closed window, and i eventually went outside to check it out. there was a crow on my front lawn, it had an injury on its head and couldn’t fly and there were two other crows circling right above it, and they were cawing like mad. 

i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.

a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up, he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.

i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like i’ve adopted a son.

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spookyrawr

Best birbs !!

Is it true that doctors make the worst patients?

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Nahhhh…. I mean my blood pressure has just been in the 140s/90s range for a few months now but I’m totally going to get it checked out. Eventually. And I’ll probably also mention that breast lump that I’ve been watching for about 6 months that I’m like 80% sure is benign. You know, when I get around to it. I should probably also see a dentist since it’s been about 2 years…

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I’m probably not the first person to make one of these, but this movie is clearly the bomb diggity ok

You will not the hell regret watching it, if you haven’t already. ;)

oh and I forgot this. stupid me.

Hillary Clinton: “In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse cause then I can go in and makes some money.’ Well it did collapse.”

Donald Trump: “That’s called ‘business,’ by the way.

Hillary Clinton: “Nine million people lost their jobs. Five million people lost their homes. Thirteen trillion dollars in family wealth was wiped out.”

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Spock: Well fuck
Anonymous asked:

What's wrong with grandpa??

he lied in bed for thirty years or whatever the fuck. while his daughter struggled to put food on the table. but then!!!! ohhh then! charlie gets a golden ticket and all the sudden that jackalope is hopping around the shack like he’s fuckin simone biles. i hate him i hate that free loader i hope he busts a hip and falls into the chocolate river

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I saw Suicide Squad, because I thought it would be bad but fun, a movie I could secretly, shamefully enjoy. I mean, I like Army of Darkness and Showgirls and Grease. I even kind of enjoy Zack Snyder movies. I am super easy to please if you’ve got enthusiasm and a sense of style, no matter how absurdly ill-advised. I liked Grindhouse–both parts! I know how to appreciate a trash movie, I thought.

It turns out I was completely wrong and Suicide Squad is just regular bad.

thank you so much because I too love so bad it’s good movies, and maybe I would see it to support all the up and coming actors of color/make fun of the movie in general, but this sealed the deal

Oh yeah, speaking of actors of color… while Viola Davis is pretty bad-ass and Will Smith is Will Smith, the only Asian character is named “Katana” and is an inscrutable mystical warrior who (almost) only speaks Japanese. The only Latino character is a gangster introduced with the line “drop the burrito, ese!” Killer Croc doesn’t have human skin but he’s coded black in some cringey ways, culminating in him telling his captors he’s okay with being in jail as long as he can watch BET.

I would not go see this movie to make an anti-racist statement.

oh YIKES. Yeah, i’ll take a hard pass on that then.

Oh yeah, also the main antagonists are ancient gods from some kind of “native” culture, although no one ever bothers to specify which one. They’re sort of Mayaztecinca-ish. Not important; what’s important is saving the white lady they’re possessing! (They also possess a black man, but he dies and nobody seems to notice much.)

I’m honestly not cherry-picking this movie, these are major plot points.

The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.

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pyronoid-d

It’s trapped on a floppy tho this is some dark shit it has been denied its purpose forever bound to this obsolete storage

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cactiofficial

am i glad it’s in there and we’re out here

people reading fantasy novels ask “why did the ancient ones seal the evil away for ten thousand years instead of just killing it” but then we go ahead and do this shit

We have learned nothing from every fantasy novel ever O.O

The best part, from the wiki article: “According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.”

It was intended to do good, but the programmer made a mistake and it got out of hand, becoming viral.

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hotcommunist

the year is 28AW (after worm) and the effects are still being felt 

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gracielovessjesus-deactivated20

2015: Man-on-man marriage 2017: Man-on-child marriage 2019: Man-on-dog marriage 2021: Man-on-car marriage 2023: Hopefully the world ends by then tbh

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thepreciousthing

Two consenting adults, be they man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, or any other combination not specified by the above, are now granted the right (as they always should have had) to enter a legally binding contract and obtain all its attached benefits.

Children cannot give consent. Children cannot legally sign contracts. Children cannot get married.

Animals cannot give consent. Animals cannot legally sign contracts. Animals cannot get married.

Optimus Prime is a sentient being and leader of the entire Autobot race and I don’t think you have any place telling him who his people can and cannot marry. If he is okay with Rewind and Chromedome or Astoria and Powerglide then you need to step off.

WELL SAID

It’s very easy to make Gracie’s mistake here if you persist in thinking of marriage as “a man and his chosen marriage object” rather than, you know, “two people choosing to marry each other.”

Says something about how some people view heterosexual marriage.

DING DING DING DING DING we have a winner.

None of these people have ever expressed a worry that dogs will start wanting to marry men, or that houseplants will start wanting to marry cars.

This way of thinking only makes sense if your view of straight marriage depends on “man actively choosing, woman passively chosen” and gay marriage only fits into your worldview as the distortion “man actively choosing wrong thing,” as though it’s a Sesame Street comedy sketch with Mr. Noodle trying to marry a pocket watch by mistake, presumably with his pants on his head.

Interestingly enough, I’ve never heard someone warn us about women wanting to marry anything, either.

thank you for that mental image.  and yes, this is exactly right.  i’ve never seen any anti-marriage assholes talk about what they’re afraid WOMEN will do.

It’s very easy to make Gracie’s mistake here if you persist in thinking of marriage as “a man and his chosen marriage object” rather than, you know, “two people choosing to marry each other.”

This, holy shit, yes. Literally until now I never understood how people couldn’t understand “can’t enter into a legally binding contract” when it came to children, animals, whatever. And now it’s clear as fucking day. And even grosser than I realized.