Reblog to spread it around but pleas

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Everyone please. Please look at this animal. It’s called a tenrec and they live in Madagascar and lOOK AT IT!!!!!!! He’s just a little guy! A creachure!!!!!

That's a guinea pig that got into the punk scene.

That is a Cyndaquil.

Below the poll is a series of animal images labeled A through J. A is the least close to the birds we have today; J is the closest. If you encountered these animals in the wild, which would you call birds? If you pick a higher up option, then that means you consider all the below ones birds as well - so if you pick A, then BCDEFGHIJ are all birds. If you pick J, only J is a bird.

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PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO IT CAN LEAVE PALAEOBLR. I NEED PEOPLE WHO DON'T RECOGNIZE THESE ANIMALS ON SIGHT TO VOTE.

I apologize to all of y'all with vision impairments for whom this poll is inaccessible. Alas, this is an experiment, and I cannot name the taxa. Thank you.

All alt text includes artist attribution; I did not make these pictures myself.

just mami and her weird dog totally nothing bad going on

Happy Pride Month 2022!!!

Faust the Crow loves you even more than she did last year!

Elon Musk’s attorneys are immolating themselves as we speak

If you’re NOT following @LucyKnisley on Instagram for more comics of her glorious cat, what are you doing with your life??

Helicopter purring

Have you ever seen a poster and thought.

Wait what.

I just did so i googled

Huh. That seems.... not that far? What about...

Okay. Okay that's... still.... but maybe I'm seeing distances wrong let's try what the poster said

.....

Huh. That's. I'm. Wait what is...

Okay so the international space station is roughly 10 times closer to me than the west coast is that's fine this is fine I'm fine what

Up is very very near by, it's just hard to get to, because the planet loves us very much and hates to let go.

Boss's wife upon hearing I'm a medieval scholar: Isn't it crazy all the things medieval people thought would stop the plague?

Me: *Fighting all my devils & angels not to bring up that she drank horse antiparasitic last year.*

You’re a better person than I

Catnip trimming day. (via)

This fella is not lost in the sauce, he is precisely where he means to be in the sauce

still thinking about yesterdya’s nancy, it’s so so good

I don't know about the rest of you, but I got a letter from my good friend Jonathan today saying he's alive and well and done with his business and heading home in a week. It was strictly businesslike, not at all his usual style, but I figure he's just In The Zone. Lawyers, amirite?

Need to settle something.

If you could tag with the area you grew up, I would appreciate it. Having a West Coast vs East Coast discussion with my partner.

I don't want a direct sequel to the DnD movie

I want more DnD movies with the same cast, but they play totally different characters every time, except for Xenk, who is the only recurring character in the entire franchise

and he gets the exact same amount of introduction, too.

The Victorian Era was shite compared to now obsiously but also titty piercings were popular everyone was on heroin and they thought bad sex made your kids ugly so the zeitgeist must have been wild

I wish I could remember the source, but I once read a sociologist's take that the Victorian era was a complete abberation of human development. It was uniquely weird, never existed before, will likely never exist again.

I wonder how much of that was on the back of the industrial revolution. Maybe humanity had a similar "weird" moment in the Fertile Crescent when we figured out farming.

But yeah. Victorians were an odd bunch. Delightfully contradictory.

I feel like the wild combination of Suddenly Having So Much New Technology We Barely Understand and Suddenly Using So Much New Technology We Barely Understand *May* have resulted in such new and novel situations as:

D:

this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

... I did name my mobility scooter Isaac after Isaac Asimov....