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I have never seen Pokemon this visceral and terrifying, please even if you’re not a fan WATCH HISUIAN SNOW!!!

It’s a beautiful and epic experience!

platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

this beautiful baby is the son of ibrahim abu raida, the 25 y/o executive director of the al nasser charity in gaza, an organization working to distribute food to the displaced. they have many different ways to donate linked on their instagram (linked above) and also have a personal gfm to help with their own rebuilding efforts that is over 80% of the way to its goal.

Let my people know.

Memes of Judaism

When are we going to talk about the fact that the encampment protests are actually taking attention away from what’s happening in Gaza

anera feeds people in gaza every day. they are very transparent and they post images of their work on social media. they are also highly rated by multiple charity watchdogs.

Wool-carder bees build their nests in existing cavities, usually finding a hole/crevice in a tree, a plant stem, a piece of rotting wood, or a man-made structure, and then lining the cavity with woolly plant fibers, which are used to form a series of brood cells.

The fibers (known as trichomes) are collected from the leaves and stems of various plants, including lamb’s ear (Stachys byzantina), mulleins, globe thistle, rose campion, and other fuzzy plants.

From the University of Florida's Department of Entomology & Nematology:

These are solitary bees, meaning that they do not form colonies or live together in hives. Each female builds her own nest, and the males do not have nests at all.

Female wool-carder bees will sometimes sting if their nest is threatened, but they are generally docile. The males are notoriously aggressive, however; they will often chase, head-butt, and/or wrestle any other insect that invades their territory, and they may defend their territory from intruders up to 70 times per hour. The males do not have stingers, but there are five tiny spikes located on the last segment of their abdomen, and they often use those spikes when fighting. They also have strong, sharp mandibles that can crush other bees.

There are many different types of wool-carder bee, but the most prolific is the European wool-carder (Anthidium manicatum), which is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but has also become established as an invasive species throughout much of North America, most of South America, and New Zealand. It is the most widely distributed unmanaged bee in the world.

A few different species of wool-carder bee: the top row depicts the European wool-carder, A. manicatum (left) and the spotted wool-carder, Anthidium maculosum (right), while the bottom row depicts the reticulated small-woolcarder, Pseudoanthidium reticulatum, and Porter's wool-carder, Anthidium porterae

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It’s Saturday! 👊🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️#womenmarch #fightthepower #puppetry #puppets #puppetstudio #puppeteer #puppetgirl #feminism #handmade #girlpower (at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza)

I had the honor of making a piece for @lemonheadandlollipup recently! One of my favorite webcomics, and by a wonderful person. Go give it a read if you haven’t! and Gut (belated) Pesach!

Adorable art commission by @truebuggy! His art is really cute, (and he’s a total sweetheart,) and you should check out his artwork! I wrote this little one-panel comic, and he drew it! Happy (embarrassingly belated) Passover, everyone! ^_^ 

i wish people talked about watusi more

look at how absurd their horns are i love them in every way

@bovineblogger ?

fun fact their horns are mostly hollow! theyre full of blood vessels, and it helps them cool down ! :3

Where are they located? My first thought was "somewhere in Polynesia, of course," but then I remembered that since they're bovines, that's probably not very likely.

theyre mostly found in america now, but theyre descended from african sanga cattle!

fun fact, the three main types of cattle include the sanga (originating in sub saharan africa), zebu (originating in south asia), and taurine (originating in the levant, turkey, western iran) cattle! zebu and taurine cattle descend from two seperate domestication events, but we arent sure if the sanga was a third or is related to the taurine!

^sanga, zebu, and taurine cattle

A horseshoe crab being a home to other sea creatures!

U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

Daily reminder that the US, who love to scaremonger about "communist labour camps," have legal slave labour if you're in prison

Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skink (Egernia depressa), family Scincidae, found in Western Australia

Photograph by Ryan Francis