“they’re burning all the witches” 

ARTIST CREDIT

And there it is

Wow

And meanwhile, assholes with no sense of irony or history refer to the naming of sexual predators as a witch hunt. 

Not all animal photos are cute.

If you have ever been on tumblr, you have likely stumbled upon seemingly adorable animal photos such as these.

While these photos of frogs riding on a crocodile look innocent enough, the reality of what these animals went through for the sake of a cute photo is anything but humane.

This photoset will be a great example of cruel photography. You may notice that the frog’s mouth is open in these photos. In the wild, frogs usually only open their mouths to release a distress call, or to eat. This frog has his mouth open in every one of the photos. It’s clearly not eating, and if it was making a distress call it would be in a defensive position.

So, why is it’s mouth open?

Easy. This entire photoshoot is fake.

This frog was likely put in a fridge to cause it to become lethargic. The barely moving, and likely extremely stressed frog was placed on the beetle and was posed. In the first photo, the fingers on the frog’s extended hand are curled. While engaging in a hand movement tree frogs keep their fingers straight so the hand can land properly in the chosen spot. Frogs don’t make fists, so the most likely answer for the frog’s hand “movement” is a wire. Another thing to note about putting herps in cold temps is that it causes their muscles to weaken. The frog’s mouth was very likely pulled open, and the frog didn’t have enough energy to close it due to being exposed to cold temperatures.

So, how can you identify which pictures are real or not? The easiest way to tell is to simply look at the behavior of the animals pictured. For the frogs and the crocodile, the easiest way to tell is to look at the species pictured. An arboreal frog such as a white’s tree frog has no reason to be on the back of a crocodile low to the ground, and it’s even more unlikely that multiple happened to be posed in that exact position.

Many of these photos seem endearing, but think about what you’re looking at before sharing it.

I will now leave you with this cruelty free frog photo to show you that frogs can be cute without being forced into a fridge.

fog is just a rlly big land ghost

fucking christ I am sobbing

“If the men find out we can shapeshift, they’re going to tell the church!“

i didnt learn anything about contouring but that’s okay

Just flip ‘em!

Please do this for them if you find one… They are so completely harmless and just want to get back to cleaning the sea floor.  I love them so much :)

they’re literally just ocean roombas please be nice to them

Just Flip ‘Em! :)

it’s midnight and this tweet is giving me a heart attack

@ any male celebs i mildly admire

hope you have your shit together bc i wont hesitate bitch!!!

This picture i took of hector while i was drunk last night looks like a damn renaissance painting

Hector

Hector

georges de la tour, la madeleine a la hector, 1640

I feel like this would be a slippery slope towards making it illegal for people to choose to not vote.

that’s already how it is in australia

That’s just so fucked up. :( Do certain medical conditions exempt you?

?????? why is it be fucked up to have compulsory voting? that’s the way it is in most democratic countries? it’s a part of being a citizen, like paying taxes and obeying speed limits? the fine for not voting is only like $50 and because of the compulsory voting law, our country bends over backwards to make it accessible: it’s always on a weekend, lasts most of the day, and is set up at schools and community centers so there’s one within easy reach of almost everybody. you can also mail your ballot or vote early if you’ll be out of the country on the day. like, IT’S EASY TO VOTE, and the penalty isn’t even that ridiculous. i don’t understand why the usa doesn’t have this, except obviously it would make it harder to literally stop minorities from voting.

I think we Americans tend to forget that a lot of other countries don’t actively work to make it harder to vote.

Adding to this here, in Australia you don’t have to vote. Or, more precisely, there’s no way they can tell if you ruined your ballot. You have to turn up, get your name marked off, but you can put a line through the ballot if you don’t think any of the candidates are worth voting for. Or do this: 

Or this: 

Or this: 

You have get your name crossed off (if you don’t want to wear the fine), but you don’t have to make your vote counted if you’re opposed to it. 

And it is so, so easy to vote. Stuck at work or on holidays? That’s fine. Do a postal vote.  Stuck in hospital? That’s fine. They’ll go to you. Stuck in an old people’s home and can’t get around? Again, they’ll go to you. It’s amazing to me that it’s so hard for so many Americans to actually vote. If you make it compulsory, than at least the government is obligated to provide you with the means to vote. 

And look, I get it. Sometimes I don’t want to vote either. But I suck it up, I walk three minutes down the street, and I hope that this year they’re selling lamingtons again. Oh, and I buy a democracy sausage, which, even if all the candidates suck, makes the effort of turning up pretty worthwhile. 

ALSO, you can see even on the fucked up ballots that you NUMBER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. There’s no need to calculate whether I would be throwing away my vote on the candidate that I most agree with if they’re not from a major party. I can say, I want that independent person to get in, but if not them, give me Big Party A, and if not them, that minor party person is still better that Big Party B, and I’m not giving any preference to the Lunatic Fringe Party.

Our system certainly has some issues still, but I can show up to somewhere nearby, line up for a few minutes (if at all), vote exactly in line with my values (on paper, leaving a paper trail that can be recounted), and then buy a sausage and some home made cupcakes on my way out.

A country’s voting system matters a hell of a lot and every citizen deserves one that makes it easy to vote and results in a government that is representational and accountable.

And by the way, one time I had a bad asthma flare-up on Election Day and didn’t make it to my polling station. I got my fine in the mail, I filled out the form explaining why I couldn’t vote, no more fine. I would rather have, you know, expressed my preference for who should run my country, but they were cool with the fact that I couldn’t do it that day.

“oh no, what if people actually have to participate in picking the government officials who will impact their lives” jesus christ

aesthetic: im spotted out in the woods wearing nothing but a pair of ARE YOU NASTY? booty shorts. im covered in dirt. my hair is full of twigs. im not lost or anything. just making my living stealing nuts from squirrels and slurping creek water. i become a local cryptid. the nasty woodsman.

PETE GODDAMN

“UNLESS YOU’RE A NAZI, THERE IS NOBODY WHO IS OPPOSED TO THE IDEA OF BEING AGAINST NAZIS”

“but the hornets nest is full of Nazis so fuck those guys” is an iconic line tbh

Spotter.