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stop railroading us

whimpers sweetly, but in private

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You probably won’t find it in any official field guides, but you should know that in my neck of the woods we call a baby spoonbill a “teaspoon”

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Hey, don't cry. A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shines, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design, ok?

#just watched Prince of Egypt for the first time #and this is the first post on the dash #huh #great movie btw

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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The Bearded Vulture is the only known animal whose diet is almost exclusively bone.

The bone-eating giant bird which coats itself minerals like copper to get its rusty hue for unknown cosmetic reasons, most likely to show dominance. The brighter the hue, the more dominant the male.

They probably need the copper because its anti-bacterial properties. useful if you’re a carrion eater.

The bird has a 9 ft wingspan.

Bearded Vultures provide an indispensable service to the ecosystem, checking the spread of disease by consuming corpses. But the bearded’s diet is 95 percent bone. It can wait for the other scavengers to strip the body clean, then stroll in at its leisure to take its fill.

#what is going on in that birds throat?? is it just a trash compactor in there?

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Yeah that’s valid! The main reason I’m so suspicious is that at this point idk who else the cloaked giant could be. Brennan really likes to do “hiding in plain sight” villains, so in a sense I’m metagaming with my conspiracy theories lol.

anyway this episode basically confirms that jace stardiamond is evil. ragh is the only name kalina can say—Brennan hinted it had to do with the Spy’s Tongue Curse—ragh saw jace talking to kalina and arianwen back in sophomore year

kalina’s trying to warn the bad kids about jace by uttering the name of the only person they know who has a memory of an incriminating event and isn’t bound to silence by the curse

(even though ragh didn’t know exactly what he was seeing at the time)

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Secret about autistic people: a lot of times we don’t actually miss a social cue. We see it. We just decide to ignore it because we think it’s a stupid social cue.

#DING DING DING it’s me

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#it’s hard to watch other people living your dream

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It makes me happy when they listen

#yeah #this is also a big part of what makes dungeon meshi so good #it’s just this interaction over and over with varying degrees of Stakes

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Are you really John Green? Or someone he hired to deal with us? Which is a decision I would respect lol

Like I'd pay someone to be on tumblr for me when I can get those fresh hits of dreadrenaline myself.

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A hexagonal storm with a diameter of 25,000 km raging at the north pole of Saturn.

#fun math fact: a circle can be surrounded by precisely 6 circles of its same size #that’s (probably) why honeycombs form hexagons: the bees just make circles and as it congeals it forms lines wherever two circles touch #it means the bees can use less materials too

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Common Raven (Corvus corax) teasing a gull (Larus spp) - series by Sandra Gilchrist

According to the photographer, the raven eventually left and the gull seemed no worse for wear after the interaction. 

#I LOVE CORVIDS THEYRE SUCH DICKS!!!

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Mal's Avatar: The Last Airbender rewatch: Bitter Work 2.09

#this is THE BEST SCENE in all of atla #hands down. thesis statement—line up. swoosh. nothing but net

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#extremely funny worldbuilding in this country o’ mine

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Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

#this works because much of the time even the perpetrators think they are the bystanders #ALSO because people are inherently amoral. only actions can be evil or good. trying to fix someone’s soul will always be less effective than #teaching them how to direct their *actions* towards good #a college friend of mine did their thesis on this. its crazy how many kids SELF-IDENTIFY as rapists when you don’t use the term ‘rapist.’ #we can’t base our morals around labels because the human brain is great at shifting labels around. it has to be based on ACTIONS #always actions. and this problem needs intervention sooner rather than later #TEACH KIDS TO EMPATHIZE WITH OTHERS AND RESPECT THEIR AUTONOMY #rape tw #rape #sexual assault #sexual assault tw

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Ryoko Kui please return my calls

#op your mind… #kabru your thighs…