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Hat tip @eloso ! Love the charm!

two prints. chickens made last month and an osprey made back in March.

i know they're really messy but like whatever

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I think a very important unwritten piece of locked tomb canon is that corona and ianthe are absolutely both writing home regularly to mummy throughout the entire series - not with any helpful plot points or anything, they just want pocket money. Their mother, hatefully running a planet that she also hates, has the knack of silently wiring pocket money in an incredibly nasty and hurtful way - despite not accompanying it with a note or anything - just a sort of careful psychic warfare involving timing, amounts of money, the transfer service, etc.

(Although at at one point she asks if one of them has Babs, or if he’s dead or what. Corona ghosts her and ianthe texts back “who”)

Anyway, breaking off your meeting with god or the rebels or whatever because mummy has just sent you $465.73 in THEE bitchiest possible way

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that’s a whole man.

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I get very bored on public transportation and snapchat emoji mosaic is actually a pretty solid medium

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A Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) sits in an apple tree in Dorset, England

by Pam Parsons

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Difficult questions now being asked, such as “why was your 12-ish year old MacBook running Lion?” (Unspeakably old OS) To which the beleaguered small english man is replying that he doesn’t know, in his time it had a completely different cat.

I’m very sorry about this Dr Glass but the poor thing IS fully like twelve years old.

Oh you’ve gotten it to work!

Dr Glass….. ☹️

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Science error in the group chat! Pivot, boys! Get him!

I’m very sorry about this Dr Glass but the poor thing IS fully like twelve years old.

Oh you’ve gotten it to work!

Dr Glass….. ☹️

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Our friends didn’t even take the time to roast him. They are air-frying this poor man

I’m very sorry about this Dr Glass but the poor thing IS fully like twelve years old.

Oh you’ve gotten it to work!

Dr Glass….. ☹️

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I’m very sorry about this Dr Glass but the poor thing IS fully like twelve years old.

Oh you’ve gotten it to work!

Dr Glass….. ☹️

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I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do, and I am glad about software that lets me control it and opt in and out, and I dictated this rant on insta so I am resharing the images here and will attempt to turn this into a useful text post on my blog in future, when my hand is working better 🤘👍

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I am 100% playing the long game with the Native-Americans-ate-all-the-animals-overnight theory, holding space for its disproval for a decade now based on the rancidity of its vibes, and when it is finally conclusively disproved with a single fossil toe bone or some other tiny thing, I will erupt screaming from the ground like a cicada and perch in a tree, drilling “I TOLD YOU THIS DAY WOULD COME” like a public service announcement, and everyone will be “ok grandma cicada we’re over it already; we never cared that much.”

“You should have,” I will stridulate, plangently, “because I have an absurdly high success rate on these things and it went from having to fight for my life in the old days to now, when people are so taken with my clever tumblr posts on the topic that they gave me several million dollars. You don’t understand how brave I’ve had to be about this.”

So until the day that someone finds the fossilized inner ear bones of a mammoth in the wrong place and goes hoHO, until that day!! whenever I see posts about human causes of the extinction of the North American megafauna I must climb up a telephone pole and BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

There was this post a while ago where somebody was saying that Cheetahs aren't well suited to Africa and would do well in Midwestern North America, and it reminded me of Paul S. Martin, the guy I'm always pissed off about.

He had some good ideas, but he is most importantly responsible for the overkill hypothesis (idea that humans caused the end-Pleistocene extinctions and that climate was minimally a factor) which led to the idea of Pleistocene rewilding.

...Basically this guy thought we should introduce lions, cheetahs, camels, and other animals to North America to "rewild" the landscape to what it was like pre-human habitation, and was a major advocate for re-creating mammoths.

Why am I pissed off about him? Well he denied that there were humans in North America prior to the Clovis culture, which it's pretty well established now that there were pre-Clovis inhabitants, and in general promoted the idea that the earliest inhabitants of North America exterminated the ecosystem through destructive and greedy practices...

...which has become "common knowledge" and used as evidence for anyone who wants to argue that Native Americans are "Not So Innocent, Actually" and the mass slaughter and ecosystem devastation caused by colonialism was just what humans naturally do when encountering a new environment, instead of a genocidal campaign to destroy pre-existing ways of life and brutally exploit the resources of the land.

It basically gives the impression that the exploitative and destructive relationship to land is "human nature" and normal, which erases every culture that defies this characterization, and also erases the way indigenous people are important to ecosystems, and promotes the idea of "empty" human-less ecosystems as the natural "wild" state.

And also Martin viewed the Americas' fauna as essentially impoverished, broken and incomplete, compared with Africa which has much more species of large mammals, which is glossing over the uniqueness of North American ecosystems and the uniqueness of each species, such as how important keystone species like bison and wolves are.

It's also ignoring the taxa and biomes that ARE extraordinarily diverse in North America, for example the Appalachian Mountains are one of the most biodiverse temperate forests on Earth, the Southeastern United States has the Earth's most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems, and both of these areas are also a major global hotspot for amphibian biodiversity and lichen biodiversity. Large mammals aren't automatically the most important. With South America, well...the Amazon Rainforest, the Brazilian Cerrado and the Pantanal wetlands are basically THE biodiversity hotspot of EVERYTHING excepting large mammals.

It's not HIM I have a problem with per se. It's the way his ideas have become so widely distributed in pop culture and given people a muddled and warped idea of ecology.

If people think North America was essentially a broken ecosystem missing tons of key animals 500 years ago, they won't recognize how harmful colonization was to the ecosystem or the importance of fixing the harm. Who cares if bison are a keystone species, North America won't be "fixed" until we bring back camels and cheetahs...right?

And by the way, there never were "cheetahs" in North America, Miracinonyx was a different genus and was more similar to cougars than cheetahs, and didn't have the hunting strategy of cheetahs, so putting African cheetahs in North America wouldn't "rewild" anything.

Also people think its a good idea to bring back mammoths, which is...no. First of all, it wouldn't be "bringing back mammoths," it would be genetically engineering extant elephants to express some mammoth genes that code for key traits, and second of all, the ecosystem that contained them doesn't exist anymore, and ultimately it would be really cruel to do this with an intelligent, social animal. The technology that would be used for this is much better used to "bring back" genetic diversity that has been lost from extant critically endangered species.

I think mustangs should get to stay in North America, they're already here and they are very culturally important to indigenous groups. And I think it's pretty rad that Scimitar-horned Oryx were brought back in their native habitat only because there was a population of them in Texas. But we desperately, DESPERATELY need to re-wild bison, wolves, elk, and cougars across most of their former range before we can think about introducing camels.

#quaternary extinctions and other things that cause me to climb telephone poles and hoot

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my friends grep and bomp

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Sorry are we just casually living in a world where Bertie’s DEAD

The villain laughs. “The Chosen One cannot spill blood on holy ground. I have won!” You draw your blade. “The Chosen One died the first day of our journey,” you say. “A Valet may spill blood where he pleases.”

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bagel with ceam cheese and lox is like a girl i havent seen in a while and she always had some new crazy story to tell . i wanna date her but shes just a free spirit. until next time