this rules
Yeah dude who do you think catches your freshly cut salmon
the bear catching your salmon
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this rules
Yeah dude who do you think catches your freshly cut salmon
the bear catching your salmon
A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.
!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.
Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food.
i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!!
Isn’t this the potion Snow White’s stepmom used to turn herself into a witch
I love how pleased with this whole process he looks.
^^^😊
need someone to look at me the way this man looks at his science experiment
“Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.”
issue: the kittens are still trying to learn words. gus knows his name and daisy knows hers, but they don’t seem to quite grasp that when I say “babies!” im referring to both of them.
hypothesis: “babies” is too similar to “daisy” and they’re getting confused
test: start saying “gamers” instead
Outcome: they’re understanding it and it’s hysterically funny
me, calling down the hall from stirring a can of cat food: LET’S GO, GAMERS
the kittens:
Yes please show us the gamers
here’s the gamers! Daisy is on the left and August is on the right! i spent 45 minutes trying to get this shot
I love drawing cats
OH MY GODDDDD
you learn about a hummingbird species named “flame-throated sunangel” or “sparkling-tailed woodstar” or “purple-crowned fairy” or “shining sunbeam” or “sapphire-spangled emerald” or “amethyst-throated sungem” (these are all real hummingbirds). and you think “all the superlative descriptions of hummingbirds must be exaggerations”. then you learn that this hummingbird has like magnificent luminous aquamarine or sparkling-gold or iridescent flaming-orange feathers on its back, or glittering throat patches with mesmerizing color transitions from deep purple to vibrant pink. and maybe its maximum size is smaller than a bumblebee, with an adult weight of 0.09 ounces (this is a real hummingbird). maybe it hovers in-place in mid-air and can beat its wings at 200 beats per second (this is a real hummingbird). maybe multiple flower species have essential mutualistic relationships with the birds. maybe there is an entire lineage of so-called “flower mites”, tiny arachnids that use hummingbirds to travel between plants and can only feed on specific flower nectar pollinated by hummingbirds (this is real). or maybe the species lives only very high on the slopes of a single mountain where its beak is specially customized to feed on the nectar of a single flower species (real). and maybe there are two dozen or more species of hummingbirds which only live in small isolated pockets of high-elevation fog-shrouded cloud forests in very specific humid microhabitats in the misty and forested peaks of the tropical Andes or Mesoamerica. where every mountain range’s special combination of mist and fog and flowers and nectar creates a home for a unique bird. maybe they love sugar, just like me. and you’re like “this can’t be real”.
Rude of you to paint such a beautiful word picture but make me Google the birds themselves.
Flame-throated sunangel:
Sparkling-tailed woodstar:
Purple-crowned fairy:
Shining sunbeam:
Sapphire-spangled emerald:
Amethyst-throated sunangel:
Coming this November: Pokémon Pink Diamond™ and Pokémon Renegade Pearl™
the thing about carrying tension in your jaw is that once you've started it's really fucking hard to stop
reblog to make your followers unclench their jaws and be painfully aware of the fact that they’re actively unclenching thier jaws
please make this post go viral i need it to show up constantly in my activity feed thereby reminding me to relax my jaw
Sweet smell of summer 🌼
If you stopped masking, it’s time to start again, today. I’m not asking you to stay home, just to mask as well as possible, and do hand hygiene.
In multiple communities all over the USA and Canada, every pediatric hospital bed is full, mostly with babies and toddlers who have severe respiratory infections. It seems to be a combination of flu, RSV and COVID, sometimes more than one at a time in the same child.
We can sort out why this happened later. Right now, there’s an emergency that should be front page news, and isn’t, and the best way to stop it is to reduce the circulation of all respiratory viruses in our communities by masking everyone who can mask, before babies start dying because there isn’t enough care to go around.
Get your current flu shot and bivalent COVID booster if you haven’t already, but also please mask now.
Please do it for the babies! Nov 15, 2022.
The hospital my friend works at has been filling up with pediatric cases with a worrying amount of “airborne and droplet precaution” cases because of this flu and COVID uptick.
Mask up, stop the spread.
If you stopped masking, this is your sign to start again. Please.
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Posted on: Nov 11, 2022 4:38 am EST
Video description: the caption reads, “pov your professor forbids laptops”. The point of the view of the video is someone sitting amongst rows of students in a lecture hall. At the front is the professor, trying to talk about something but his words are indecipherable over the sound of typing. To the right of the camera is a student with an old fashioned typewriter. As they continue typing, the sound of the typewriter is so loud the professor briefly stops talking to look at them and the typing also briefly stops. As the professor begins to speak again the typing sounds starts again and this time the typewriter dings and the class erupts in laughter. End video description.
… Clockodiles? Is that pun very bad?
CLOCKODILES.
somewhere captain hook is shitting himself
TICK TOCK MOTHERFUCKER
Then he starts going into this very— This oddly disjointed, horrifying but beautiful journey of… No, it's real bad. It's incomprehensible. At times you think either he's dancing, or he's having a physical issue. You're uncertain. But he seems into it, at the very least.
I have a simultaneously amazing and appalling memory which means that I’ll remember that months ago you quickly mentioned you collect bookmarks once and then you never brought it up again so for your birthday I’ll buy you a mermaid related bookmark because you brought up you like mermaids once but you won’t end up getting it on your birthday because I forgot when it is
This Halloween costume is freaky 😱😱😱