thinking about noah’s nameless wife takes inventory

“are you a boy or a girl?”

“well i’m actually multiclassing so i have levels in both”

Love my crazy precious little guy

everyone hates orange until they actually see her in context. "oh it's such an ugly color, too bright!" look at sunsets and autumn, look at campfires and deserts. she's the most beautiful and special part of the scene. now apologize.

She is also the most delicious Gatorade

banger after banger after banger 🍊🧡🥕🌅🎃🐅🦊🍁🏀

really the meaning of life is when a singer stops singing and the crowd knows every single word

Seeing people shoot raptors in other countries is fucking wild to me because we have a whole system of super strict laws governing how you can handle an individual FEATHER off of an eagle, and it doesn't have to even be a dead eagle. One can molt and you can find it on the ground and if you're caught with it the warden will fuck your entire life. What do you mean people are out there shooting them to protect a fucking pheasant. A pheasant??? That thing I have to avoid running over approximately 459 times any time I leave a major highway???

My good friend @prismaticate has asked a very good question here, and while I’m not entirely sure I’m qualified to explain it and would love some input from more qualified sources, my SUPER simplified understanding of why the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and its numerous modern revisions and addendums have clauses about this included is this:

-It’s basically impossible to tell a feather that’s been picked up off the ground from one that’s been taken from a poached bird

-This used to be a MAJOR problem when bird-feather hats and the like were in high demand back in the day, because several bird species on the edge of extinction kept getting poached in spite of the new laws protecting them since people would just say they “found” any feathers from protected species used in the stuff they were selling, and you couldn’t prove otherwise unless you literally caught them in the act of poaching

-This eventually got SO bad that they had to just make it illegal to have the feathers at all, with certain exceptions made for members of different indigenous groups, or authorized organizations that display them as part of efforts to educate the public about the species they belong to

@zooophagous is this a reasonable rundown? Was there anything I missed/any better sources you might recommend to learn more about this? I know it’s probably far more nuanced than that, but this was kind of the explanation I’d always seen floating around. 😅

That's pretty much the gist of it! Eagles and eagle feathers have more laws on top of that because of their sacred uses in certain indigenous practices, how they relate to legal falconry, and because eagles at one time were highly endangered while at the same time being a national symbol. Where a cop or a game warden may shrug and look the other way if you, say, illegally picked up a chickadee feather from your bird feeder, if they see a real eagle feather they will notice and will be VERY interested in where it came from.

Not long ago here someone was arrested and charged for violating these laws because they tried to sell a plains feather bonnet at a pawn shop, claiming they had "found it while exploring an abandoned house."

The clerk suspected it was real eagle, the warden confirmed it was, and because those feathers are so tightly tracked they were able to locate the family of the previous owners who said the item had been stolen some time ago.

If nobody knows you have it, obviously you can get away with it. But if they see it, or God forbid you try to SELL it, the hammer will fall.

Im surprised every time people think it's a crazy sounding law, it is genuinely one of the only things preventing a lot of native birds from extinction or any asshole could kill as many as they want and just say they found them on the ground

i love being sober and talking to drunk people at parties cause i asked a guy “if you were a wizard what kind of spells would you cast” and i know he wasnt lying when he said “summon creatures”

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A series of pictures depicting issues for those who rely on wheelchairs.

A person with glasses sitting on a wheelchair stares at a door entrance located on a set of stairs.

A crowd gathers in front of a bus, with a person on a wheelchair on the back, trying to get other people’s attention.

A woman with a hijab and glasses sits at a receptionist desk. A person on a wheelchair wearing a kippah is unable to reach the top to get her attention.

A person on a wheelchair wearing a baseball hat backwards is unable to close the door to the restrooms. Despite this, the sign outside is marked as wheelchair accessible.

A person on a wheelchair is frightened as their wheelchair goes down too fast down a ramp.

A man wearing a kippah is about to enter a temple, but covers his wheelchair wheels with a cover to keep the inside of the temple as clean as possible.

A picture of a parking lot Two cars are parked, one with most space to allow a disabled person to get on and off. A woman holding crutches is angered at a motorcycle parked in front of her car, which isn’t supposed to be there. A person on a wheelchair nearby notices her anger.

Two people stand in front of an automatic door. One is a child attempting to wave their hands to get it to open, and the other is a person on a wheelchair.

A bus is waiting at a stop. A person on a wheelchair is unable to get to the stop due to a steep ledge in front of them.

A person on a wheelchair is using an ATM machine, which is placed at a lower position so they’re able to reach and use the machine comfortably.

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dj pensive got the whole club saying hmmmm

DJ wise got the whole club weighing their options carefully

I could be the person writing one time verification codes. 873726. 290971. 041452. 667656. It comes naturally to me.

They look so good

You have the best verification codes

I do what I can

I think more people need to learn the phrase "I don't know enough about that to have a strong opinion" its literally a cheat code for awkward conversations

its ok if you actually do know a lot about the thing and/or have strong opinions about it btw. you can just lie

saw this massive onion bigger than my entire hand in the produce aisle and immediately snatched it up solely to weigh it and a guy across the aisle asked how much it weighed because he was curious as well and when i told him it was two pounds he excitedly was like “it’s like the biggest one i’ve ever seen..” humanity rocks moment. bonding with strangers over giant onion

more and more I feel strongly defensive about the animals that people hate or look down upon and view as evil, malicious, dirty, stupid, vermin, or otherwise worthless

There are some animals where disgust or fear responses are probably to some extent hardwired in us, for example snakes. I love snakes and think they're adorable, and my brain is still highly sensitive to detecting snakes and seeing one pulls me totally out of whatever I was thinking about so I realize THAT'S A SNAKE!

Likewise with insects and other arthropods, some of them can harm you or spread disease, so it makes sense to be cautious about them and even to fear some of them. Some level of aversion to bugs is probably an adaptive thing that helped our ancestors avoid angry swarms of stinging insects and parasites like ticks.

However, regular everyday exposure to bugs, including positive or at least non-aversive experiences, would be needed to shape this instinctual fear into something that makes you appropriately vigilant about harmful bugs and able to distinguish them from bugs that won't hurt you.

My sister, who loves spiders and is a firm defender of spiders, frequently cites the fact that arachnophobia is most common in Britain, a place with no spiders hazardous to humans. The worldwide decline of insects means that many humans are getting less of that critical neutral-to-positive experience with insects that lets them be comfortable with bugs.

I see people in my notes constantly talking about how the sight or sound of a bug, any bug, immediately drives them into a terrified panic. This makes me sad for the people, and afraid for the bugs, because this kind of non-discriminatory fear probably couldn't develop in an environment that wasn't empty and devastated of life. Without the magical experiences of catching a firefly, letting a praying mantis crawl up your arm, putting crumbs from different foods down onto the sidewalk to see which ones the ants like best, or watching a spider spin her web, getting stung by a wasp will certainly be a powerful and formative trauma.

But there is another kind of distaste for wildlife I have seen, which is different— a disdain or hatred for animals just because they are common and thrive among humans.

If city folk view deer as majestic and wondrous creatures, and country folk think they're stupid and annoying, then the city folk are right. For what it's worth, I am not a city folk and I was downright shocked to see someone say that deer are "stupid" and "basically rats" in rural areas. My dad was a hunter growing up and he impressed upon me very strongly that deer are majestic, intelligent animals worthy of awe and reverence.

Having grown up hearing about the rarity and precarious existence of precious endangered species, some humans have absorbed a framework of life on Earth where important, valuable animals are rare and live somewhere far away, and any animal that is abundant among humans is worthless vermin.

Particularly repulsive is when an animal lives in human environments and has its own needs, behaviors and agendas that don't treat humans as special exceptions to the law that we all live in an ecosystem.

Raccoons will eat your trash, because it's a source of food. Moles will dig burrows in your lawn, because that's their lifestyle. Squirrels will eat your bird seed, because their diet overlaps with that of birds. Coyotes will eat your outdoor cat because a coyote is a predator that eats small animals and a domesticated small animal is mostly dependent on humans to protect it from predators. That's a major reason to become domesticated, actually.

I have never had a goose be mean to me or bother me at all, but then again I have never chased or harassed a goose or otherwise intruded upon its personal space.

I think there is embarrassment about being awed and enchanted by animals. No one wants to be a "horse girl" that's cringe, so horses must be evolutionary mistakes and anxious couches with legs. No one wants to be the gawking city slicker staring at a common and everyday creature, so deer are idiots and vermin. No one wants to be taken as naive about the inconvenient or vexing attributes of animals, so it's better to treat any commonly-encountered animal with a mix of indifference and scorn. Only an idiot who's never met a skunk would think skunks are cute, right? You think wasps are important? Spoken like someone who's never been stung by a wasp! You want to defend spiders or snakes? You've probably never lived out in the country then. Insects are everywhere and annoying so who cares about bugs. Goats are mean and stinky.

So? You're mean and stinky too.

I’ve heard from many sources that in cultures that live alongside lots of tarantulas and regularly eat them, the kids thrill in scaring white tourists with them. It’s absolutely amazing to them that anyone could be scared of such a mundane animal, let alone one that their moms frequently fry up for them as a nice little treat. People who historically lived around the deadliest snakes also have the *lowest* prevalence of phobia towards them. And that makes sense, because a panic response does not actually protect you at all. You’re much more likely to get bitten by something if your response to it is to flail around and yell. Animal phobias are totally definitely a symptom of being cut off from and unaccustomed to real nature.

flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn't the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community

why do we bother with I hate my partner jokes when your boss is right there

I love my wife. my boss though? that ball and chain??

do you understand my vision

Oh this is too fun

Bestie, your brain, your VISION, ahead of your time

when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

because of the huge response to this post, I decided to make a version of the art that includes the text

I’ve also uploaded this design to INPRNT, and all sales proceeds will be donated to environmental and humanitarian charities!

this is still going around with the old dead links - please help me share this version