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in conclusion

look at me. listen to me. this is directed at americans for the record. the reason you think North American animals are boring is because you live here. there are so many cool and beautiful animals here. we have beavers. we have wolves. we have moose. we have sea lions. we have armadillos. we have mountain lions. we have alligators. we have foxes. we have bighorn sheep. we have manatees. we have bears. we have ocelots. we have BISON. and that’s not even touching on the birds! or the turtles! or the snakes! we have amazing beautiful and diverse wildlife right here and it deserves to be appreciated and protected

Possums are the only North American marsupial, they eat ticks and keep down cases of Lyme, and they can't carry rabies! We only have two native boa constrictors; the rubber boa and the rosy boa! Bison and the American Alligator are LITERAL MEGAFAUNA LEFT OVER FROM PREHISTORY!

^small correction: the thing about possums eating ticks originated from a flawed study that has now been questioned, and the thing about possums not carrying rabies is true *EXCEPT* if the possum has an existing sickness and has a fever, it can raise their body temperature enough for them to be able to carry it

Otherwise, YES THANK YOU

Here's some you forgot

Pronghorns! They are the only living member of their family!

Wapiti (also called Elk, though that's confusing because it refers to moose as well) The second largest deer species! These beasts are returning to my area after being gone for over 150 years and I'm so excited!!!

Caribou are sadly extirpated from the USA, but they can come back someday...

...and don't forget the whitetail deer even though it is "common," not everybody can go out and see them just anytime

Birds too! How lucky that we have HUMMINGBIRDS! (Only found in the Americas) I get to see great blue herons and wild turkeys all the time, and there's also blue jays and cardinals you can see whenever you go outside in many parts of the country. Roseate Spoonbills. American Flamingos. Roadrunners (yes they're real). Sandhill crane, american kestrel, bald eagle, red-wing blackbird, baltimore oriole, california condor and YES, EVEN CANADA GOOSE needs to be appreciated

We have ALLIGATORS! And snapping turtles—the largest species reach over 100kg in weight, making them some of the largest extant turtle species! We have freshwater fish that can weigh more than a human, too. Including Alligator Gar which are a living fossil from the Cretaceous period and are known to reach 2.5 meters length and almost 150kg weight

I don't want to make this post sad, but...

...the reason why people think American wildlife is boring is also because settlers tried to exterminate almost all of it, and most of our animals are only nowadays starting to recover

The sheer devastation of the mass killing of Bison, of wolves, of cougars, and of almost all of our native large birds can hardly be expressed. The whole country used to flourish with large animals, and we came terrifyingly close to making the land empty forever of some species...

But it doesn't have to be sad! If the new generation learns love and respect of the animals, they will be able to return, and it will bring healing to the land!

Take care of the creatures, and they will take care of us!!!

I would also like to add: the Mustang/Wild Horse

Technically, they are feral horses, since they are descended from Spanish horses that returned to the wild hundreds of years ago, however: Horses did exist in North America before becoming extirpated 10,000 years ago or so. That period of time is the blink of an eye in geologic time, so in many people's opinion, the introduction of the horse is more like the re-introduction of a native species.

And I COMPLETELY FORGOT JAGUARS

"Jaguars? Aren't those just in South America?" Wrong, look at the Jaguar's historic range!

There used to be Jaguars in Louisiana! We can bring them back!

i'm adding this creature too

adorable mammal with 1 brain cell that waddles around and sprays the equivalent of literal tear gas on things it doesn't like.

For the skunk-unfamiliar: A human that knows what a skunk is usually won't get sprayed, since they are very polite and give you 2 or 3 warnings (feet stomping, fluffing up their tail) before spraying, but God help you if your dog runs into one. It's like a mix of weed and burning sulfur, except it's the most powerful and penetrating smell imaginable.

So this was originally a response to this post:

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Which is about people wanting an AO3 app, but then it became large and way off topic, so here you go.

Nobody under the age of 20 knows how to use a computer or the internet. At all. They only know how to use apps. Their whole lives are in their phones or *maybe* a tablet/iPad if they're an artist. This is becoming a huge concern.

I'm a private tutor for middle- and high-school students, and since 2020 my business has been 100% virtual. Either the student's on a tablet, which comes with its own series of problems for screen-sharing and file access, or they're on mom's or dad's computer, and they have zero understanding of it.

They also don't know what the internet is, or even the absolute basics of how it works. You might not think that's an important thing to know, but stick with me.

Last week I accepted a new student. The first session is always about the tech -- I tell them this in advance, that they'll have to set up a few things, but once we're set up, we'll be good to go. They all say the same thing -- it won't be a problem because they're so "online" that they get technology easily.

I never laugh in their faces, but it's always a close thing. Because they are expecting an app. They are not expecting to be shown how little they actually know about tech.

I must say up front: this story is not an outlier. This is *every* student during their first session with me. Every single one. I go through this with each of them because most of them learn more, and more solidly, via discussion and discovery rather than direct instruction.

Once she logged in, I asked her to click on the icon for screen-sharing. I described the icon, then started with "Okay, move your mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen." She did the thing that those of us who are old enough to remember the beginnings of widespread home computers remember - picked up the mouse and moved it and then put it down. I explained she had to pull the mouse along the surface, and then click on the icon. She found this cumbersome. I asked if she was on a laptop or desktop computer. She didn't know what I meant. I asked if the computer screen was connected to the keyboard as one piece of machinery that you can open and close, or if there was a monitor - like a TV - and the keyboard was connected to another machine either by cord or by Bluetooth. Once we figured it out was a laptop, I asked her if she could use the touchpad, because it's similar (though not equivalent) to a phone screen in terms of touching clicking and dragging.

Once we got her using the touchpad, we tried screen-sharing again. We got it working, to an extent, but she was having trouble with... lots of things. I asked if she could email me a download or a photo of her homework instead, and we could both have a copy, and talk through it rather than put it on the screen, and we'd worry about learning more tech another day. She said she tried, but her email blocked her from sending anything to me.

This is because the only email address she has is for school, and she never uses email for any other purpose. I asked if her mom or dad could email it to me. They weren't home.

(Re: school email that blocks any emails not whitelisted by the school: that's great for kids as are all parental controls for young ones, but 16-year-olds really should be getting used to using an email that belongs to them, not an institution.)

I asked if the homework was on a paper handout, or in a book, or on the computer. She said it was on the computer. Great! I asked her where it was saved. She didn't know. I asked her to search for the name of the file. She said she already did that and now it was on her screen. Then, she said to me: "You can just search for it yourself - it's Chapter 5, page 11."

This is because homework is on the school's website, in her math class's homework section, which is where she searched. For her, that was "searching the internet."

Her concepts of "on my computer" "on the internet" or "on my school's website" are all the same thing. If something is displayed on the monitor, it's "on the internet" and "on my phone/tablet/computer" and "on the school's website."

She doesn't understand "upload" or "download," because she does her homework on the school's website and hits a "submit" button when she's done. I asked her how she shares photos and stuff with friends; she said she posts to Snapchat or TikTok, or she AirDrops. (She said she sometimes uses Insta, though she said Insta is more "for old people"). So in her world, there's a button for "post" or "share," and that's how you put things on "the internet".

She doesn't know how it works. None of it. And she doesn't know how to use it, either.

Also, none of them can type. Not a one. They don't want to learn how, because "everything is on my phone."

And you know, maybe that's where we're headed. Maybe one day, everything will be on "my phone" and computers as we know them will be a thing of the past. But for the time being, they're not. Students need to learn how to use computers. They need to learn how to type. No one is telling them this, because people think teenagers are "digital natives." And to an extent, they are, but the definition of that has changed radically in the last 20-30 years. Today it means "everything is on my phone."

we stopped having computer classes because 'everyone knows how to use a computer' and then we suddenly fucking didn't

if house was a drag queen his name could be ms.diagnosis

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HOLY CROW

This panic happens like every few months.

Prints here!

Pens are playing with a stacked deck this year

Is it Ken? Ken’s just a really good friend. And this is my Dreamhouse. It’s Barbie’s Dreamhouse. It’s not Ken’s Dreamhouse. Right? Right as always. And it’s girls’ night.

astrokatiemack: Had a wonderful time hosting @hozier and his band mates (@kayrog, @larissamaestro & @ajax_ryan) and tour manager for a visit to @perimeterinstitute yesterday! We talked black holes and dark matter, quantum gravity and the Einstein Field Equations. It was a rare pleasure to have the chance to share my passion for physics with someone whose work is so meaningful to me! Thank you @hozier for stopping by and thank you @perimeterinstitute for being such a wonderful place to work and to bring visitors!

Barbie (2023) // The Good Place (2016-2020)