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The Galápagos penguin is endemic to the Galápagos Islands and is the rarest penguin. Because they can't breed when ocean surface temperatures are above 25C, they're especially affected by climate change. Ecotourism is also a threat, due to littering and irresponsible birdwatching.
“really?” I say to inanimate objects that are not working like they usually do
“Stay.” I glare at inanimate objects that continuously fall over
“Thank you!” I say exhasperatedly to the inanimate objects when they do finally work right/stay put
“Sorry! I say to the table I bumped into
“SHHH” I say to the inanimate object that keeps making noise
“Yeah, yeah, I’m coming,” I huff at the persistent kitchen timer.
“why are you like this?,” I grumble at the inanimate object that is doing it again
“Please don’t yell at me,” I say to the inanimate object that is making vague beeping/the- function-you-attempted-didn’t-work noises
“Good job!!” I say to the inanimate object that has completed the task it was created to do.
“come on, you can do it, I believe in you,” I say to the inanimate object that I know WILL work like it’s supposed to but it’s gonna take a minute first
‘I love you so much’, I say tearfully to the inanimate object that I thought was going to do the Wrong Fucking Thing, but which actually did the Right Fucking Thing
why small kittens are always either the most pathetic or the most evil creature you've ever seen
I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor
Acab because the people that made this meme thinks the cops should just kill someone like this
Cops having a chuckle because they’re too cowardly to take a beating in order to save a life. All cops are cowards.
[ ID: meme image of two cops laughing, which reads:
Watching the social workers try to “de-escalate” the “unarmed” 6'3", 280 pound, buck naked psycho who is covered in his own shit and swinging around a metal pole.
next is a screenshot of a reply by Catherine, which reads:
One of my social worker friends posted this response to this meme and I think it’s important to pass it along:
This is what I get paid to do and yes, some days I end up pinned to the wall by my neck, pulled to the ground by my pony tail, threatened with a shiv, or take a rock to the back… but you know who is alive at the end of the day? Everyone. Because we have trauma informed care, safe utilization of psychiatric restraint techniques which prohibits ALL horizontal (or “side lying”) restraint, padded blocking shields to allow someone to work out their energy in a safe way or to get staff close enough to remove the pipe in this case, and when necessary physician/psychiatry ordered and medically supervised use of medication for deescalation, which is also then taken to a review board post use. All incidents which require ANY form of restraint are reviewed, any video is analyzed and from which we learn, grow and retrain staff as necessary.
This “psycho” probably needs a shower, a snack, and then a nap or maybe someone to talk to about whatever triggered this episode. Possibly a full review of his medication and its efficacy.
Or maybe he was a black kid with autism in Austin, TX, whose group home didn’t pick up his meds and give them to him for a week so he was having a meltdown, going door to door trying to find someone to help him, and he gets shot to death by an armed homeowner. #jaredjames #blm #blackautisticlivesmatter
Fuck whoever made this meme and fuck you if you think it’s funny. Mental health isn’t a fucking joke, asshole. /ID ]
Herdwick Sheep, crossing the beck…
by James Rebanks
count dracula? um, okay. 1. now what
*he turns into a swarm of bats* ah shit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
why is the metal community so pressed abt this it’s literally hilarious. 10/10. love it. i want it.
capybara
If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!
Reading as a kid: "I can tell that this is supposed to be an emotionally moving ending, but I genuinely cannot remember who two-thirds of these characters are."
Reading as an adult: *reads a paragraph* *pauses* *reads the same paragraph again* *flips back and re-reads the preceding page to make sure you didn't misunderstand something* *stares into space for ten minutes as the Implications sink in*
added to this: most of us have a whole lot more going on in our lives as adults than we did as kids, in the sense of having a constant background awareness of Tasks That Need To Be Done, which impacts your ability to immerse yourself in a book. so whereas your middle school self could effortlessly devote their whole brain to reading, your adult brain is equivalent to an overtaxed CPU attempting to juggle thirty open tabs across two browsers, an excel spreadsheet, bloatware, security popups, the trial version of adobe, and a song that won't stop playing because itunes froze
um anyway. kererū appreciation post
normalize having more than one best friend. "best friend" shouldn't just be a title reserved for one person... best friend is a species...
