(by nathanleeallen)
Palestinian students rode swings at the Al-Bashir amusement park on the outskirts of Gaza City on October 18, 2012. (Majdi Fathi/Zuma Press)
some other taxonomic facts for you to get mad at evolution for, instead of "birds are dinosaurs"
- "Insects are Crustaceans" (Pancrustacea)
- "Dolphins are Hoofed Mammals" (Artiodactyl)
- "Mushrooms are closer to Animals than they are to Plants" (Opisthokont)
- "Hyenas are Cat-like" (Feliformia)
- "Herpetology is a LYING BASTARD since Amphibians are equally close to Mammals and Reptiles, and there's no reason it should be included like that. if anything, Herpetology should be a parent science of Ornithology, since birds are reptiles. why the fuck are toads here??" (Amniota, Sauria)
- "really, we're all just fish" (Sarcopterygii)
Bug Edition:
- termites are cockroaches
- ants are wasps
- bees are wasps
- butterflies are moths
- ticks are mites
- fleas are scorpionflies? this one's weird
- horseshoe crabs are almost definitely arachnids
- insects are crustaceans
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Eliot’s Books (Toronto, Canada) Gustavo Thomas
Megan’s Instagram Update (June 29, 2023)
it’s pride month you know what that means..... straight people owe me weed
A (rightfully!) quite famous picture, Saturn eclipsing the sun in natural colors.
all the things I’ve been dreaming about keep happening in reality (art by @elektrakute on IG)
A Continental Art Nouveau Ceramic Butterfly Statue
.c. 1900
Marks : P. Feffer
Source: Heritage Auctions
...that doesn't mean I'm predicting that in a millennium or so we'll all be androgynous, or announcing that I think we dammed well ought to be androgynous. I'm merely observing, in the peculiar, devious, and thought-experimemtal manner proper to science fiction, that if you look at us at certain odd times of the day in certain weathers, we already are.
Ursula K. Le Guin in the Author's Note (1976) to The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
top six raccoon pics
These are my Children
Black Couple Says Texas Authorities Seized Their Newborn Because They Chose a Midwife Over a Hospital
Two weeks ago, Dallas parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson opted for a home birth for their newborn daughter, Mila, with licensed midwife Cheryl Edinbyrd. As of Thursday, she remains in the custody of Dallas Child Protective Services in what the Jacksons and their advocates at the Dallas-based, Black women-led birth and reproductive justice organization Afiya Center have likened to a “kidnapping.” Minutes before the start of a scheduled Thursday morning hearing for the couple to get their newborn back, the hearing was postponed to April 20th—two weeks from now.
What the fuckkkk so happy to have worked w afiya in the past, we definitely need their work in Texas!!!