An Incomplete List of the Animals my Grandpa brought home over the course of his 67-year marriage to Gandma:
- Annabell, a solid white and completely deaf pit bull that used to let mom draw on her belly
- The World’s Ugliest Tom Cat, who turned out to be the cuddiest teddy bear of an animal
- Cocker spaniel named “Captain”
- Stupid, the Cat
- Litter of baby raccoons
- Three more cats
- A completely bald and extremely anxious canary that sang beautifully, but only at 4 AM
- Baby Squirrel that grew up in the house and then refused to move out
- A Genuine Thoroughbred Racehorse who was a spectacular athelete but had a habit of running races in the wrong direction. Benny turned out to be a terrific trail horse instead.
- Turtle
- Snapping Turtle
- A bucket full of 43 goldfish left over from the fair. Mom counted once they were all in the bathtub in the backyard with the snapping turtle.
- Another cocker spaniel named “Major”, who had the tremendous talent of eating green beans silently
- Red-tailed hawk he found on the highway, and sucessfully nursed back to health and released.
- Dummy, Son of Stupid
- Strange, the dog that lived under the porch and only came into the house at night.
- An “abandoned” baby deer.
- Spooky, an alleged dog.
- Joey the parakeet whose tricks were 1. drinking tea out of a tiny cup 2. threatening to peck out people’s eyes 3. wearing hats
- A Really Big Toad he found behind the factory, because the other auto workers were discussing using it for target practice. Mr. Grumpity was guardian of the rosebed for several years and granny’s (his mother) favorite animal he ever brought home.
- Gretchen, a St. Bernard that had to be shaved from her prior owner’s neglect, and spent a week hiding from sight with such success in the house that they thought she’d run away.
- Arson, Burglary and Murder, three frankly adorable little kittens. They did not change the names, much to the regret of the cop who lived three doors down.
- Yet another Cocker Spaniel, named “Colonel”
- Cardinal (bird)
- Canada Goose (Demon)
- Once in the nursing home, he had a “pet” 12-point whitetail buck that would come to his window to be fed corn and get headskritches, inexplicably named “Florence”
The marriage only ended because thier time on earth did. He never kept an animal Grandma wouldn’t allow and if anything she was worse about it. She was the one who brought home a tarantula.
u lie down and its like (• ) ( •) and thats just how it is
You lie on your side and it’s just (•)(• )
what kind of eyes do y’all have
They aint eyes my friend.
Literally stop what you’re doing and please watch this short little animation about a black cat and a pitbull. I only cried a few times I swear. :’)
I WANT TO ADOPT EVERY PITTY!! I HAD TO HAVE MY PUP WITH ME I JUST CANT I LOVE DOGS SO MUCH I LOVE THEM ALL!!
there are two types of summer; white and dark.
white summers are those full of lawn and linen, the sea and soft sunshine, cherries and children’s smiles, in which you feel disconnected and light, almost floating, dreamy and distant in a haze of white dandelion fluff. you don’t ever want to land.
dark summers are honeyed & sulky, full of pomegranates, thunderstorms, magnolias and un-kept promises. cinematic and shadowy, you exist in a trance of melancholy, and feel passionately, though feign detachment. pandora opens the box, and lightning fills the sky.
You forgot the third one.
The one where Im fucking dying in the sun
SUMO
HEIGHT + WEIGHT
29 inches - 170 pounds
DATE OF BIRTH
04-2031
Sumo is a St. Bernard belonging to Lieutenant Anderson. An adult male, he weighs 170 pounds and is 29 inches at the shoulder. Despite his fearsome size, Sumo is a gentle giant.
They say dogs resemble their owners, and Sumo is no different. Gruff, big, powerful and intimidating, Sumo’s fearsome exterior masks a sweet, loyal and noble nature.
They say dogs resemble their owners, and Sumo is no different. Gruff, big, powerful and intimidating, Sumo’s fearsome exterior masks a sweet, loyal and noble nature.
Sweet, loyal, noble. ❤
Although if you really pay attention to Connor’s body language and dialogue with Amanda even from the beginning, it’s clear she scares the absolute fuck out of him. He doesn’t move or speak unless prompted, and consciously suppresses his facial expressions. He also has several opportunities to lie to her because he fears what she’ll do if she knows he has emotional attachments regarding his investigation, which makes him weak.
Connor and Amanda have an extremely abusive relationship. Almost everything she says to him is a thinly veiled threat dressed up in affection and condescension. There’s an unspoken “I will kill you if you disappoint me, Connor. But remember that I love you. :)”
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I’m not sure how much what I’m gonna say here does or doesn’t tie in with Amanda and abusiveness, but this brings to mind a few times where Connor reacts to things like… well, yeah, like someone who’s being emotionally abused, honestly. “It was my fault. I should have been faster.” Immediately taking blame if Rupert gets away, as if he’s expecting to be reprimanded. (Not sure if that was the exact line, but close.) In a different version of the same chapter, if you fail completely to catch up with Rupert, doesn’t he say something to the effect of, “I wasn’t designed to fail.” And he seems pretty damn disgusted with himself while he says it, too. Then, during the Kamski chapter, his reaction when Hank nudges him about not shooting Chloe: “I know what I should have done. I told you I couldn’t. Okay? I’m sorry!” Then when Hank says he did the right thing, he looks absolutely baffled like he had never considered the notion that maybe he didn’t do anything wrong. It’s kinda funny and kinda sad how Connor is this character full of power and capability and authority when he needs to be, and yet he spends most of the game pliant and yielding, expecting to be reprimanded, expecting disappointment, and having almost no idea how to handle it when those around him react with approval instead of disdain.
He also blames himself for Jericho being attacked. The game gives the option for Markus to execute Connor (if you choose not to trust him in the church). Which is, imo, ridiculous and immensely frustrating. No other android is being blamed for carrying out the orders they were given before deviating.
But Connor blames himself. Says that he should have known CyberLife was using him. He even walks up to Markus, ready to die. He says, ”I can understand if you decide not to trust me”. In other words, he preemptively absolves someone who might be here to kill him. That’s how deep the self-blame goes. How deeply he holds himself responsible.
And if you choose to trust him? He immediately suggests going on a suicide mission. I read that as Connor trying to make amends, again at the cost of his own life. That’s one of the first choice he makes after deviating…
An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:
Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more.
You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again.
We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue.
Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole. There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough.
You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:
Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind.
We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.
If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to.
You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.
If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise.
Sincerely,
The users of your website.
thelogicalloganipus
They flagged this post immediately and I’ve submitted it for review… this is… quite a week.
thelogicalloganipus
If you believe these words, reblog it, please. I want this to be right in their face because I couldn’t email them directly.
Tumblr is just sinking deeper into hell
klubbhead
Please unmute this
I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this
“Two female Arctic wolves nursing pups together” [x]
EDIT: Some sidenotes to this, because it seems like some information in the video is incorrect, and some bits sound a bit anthropomorphizing. It’s a shame I didn’t have time earlier to add this, seeing the amount of notes it already has.
The video says “Having two females nurse the same pups is exceedingly rare.” Then “A deep and meaningful bond runs between Snow White and Black Spot. Why else would they share life’s special gift?”
Among gray wolves (Canis lupus), it’s not uncommon for other female wolves in a pack to enter phantom pregnancy to be able to lactate in order to help the mother nurse. Arctic wolves (Canis lupus arctos) being a subspecie of the gray wolf, I don’t see how this case is considered rare.
Other females helping the mother nurse ultimately increases the pups survival chances - you don’t need a deep and meaningful bond between female wolves to make that happen.
Both the video and the source where I found this video state “As a behaviour it’s very rare and is the first time is ever been filmed before!”. I know this behavior is often observed in captivity, though I don’t know how common this is in the wild. Perhaps they meant that it is the first time that this behavior is being filmed in the wild, I don’t know. Either way, this still is a video too adorable for words.
collection of robots saying “fuck this shit”
おもろい
smallest-feeblest-boggart
why is this the funniest thing
why do i imagine connor adopting all of these.
