This is the 11th time -that we know about- this dog has bitten a Secret Service agent. He has only ever bitten Secret Service agents.

What does Commander know that we don’t?

GSDs are absolutely bred for temperament and commands* due to the legacy of the breed as a working dog in law enforcement, and I assume that the Secret Service, like all other law enforcement is trained on how to engage with GSDs and other working dog breeds and training where the presence of dogs is considered a security threat or liability. Aggressive and reactive dogs are pretty much aggressive and reactive towards all humans/animals.

Signs absolutely point to dangerous/aggressive/and therefore incompetent behavior by Secret Service agents specifically.

*also prevention of hip displasia** **one of my community college professors is one of the top breeders of GSDs for both law enforcement agencies and civilian owners so I wound up learning a lot about the breed

The Biden dogs - Major and Commander - haven't eaten the cat in the house or even bowled over the two elderly people. No other staff report bites. The president can afford the best dog trainers in the world.

The secret service is absolutely doing anything from teasing the dogs to abusing the dogs. Or just lying about play teefies. Secret service is pretty heavily maga and there have been occasional articles hinting Biden doesn't trust them.

I repeat, the fucking cat is still around and the old lady hasn't broken her hip being jumped on. Secret service's fault

Those dogs know. They *know.*

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/06/homeland-security-watchdog-secret-service-texts/

I sense a new children's book in the works.

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked

“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”

To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”

I sincerely hope she is recognized more than she currently is.

She won a Nobel Prize! (02 October 2023)

CHRIS EVANS as STEVE ROGERS CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014)

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY | 2x07 – “Attack Ad” I do not agree with anything in that commercial. I just think that we need to find a different way to get what we want. If we stoop to their level, we’re no better than they are.

CHRIS PINE laughing at memes of himself

SEBASTIAN STAN SHARPER (2023) Dir. Benjamin Caron

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) dir. Ron Howard

That’s completely fucking awesome!

I have complicated feelings about marine mammals in captivity but (a) this seal’s tango ability deserves recognition and (b) I’m inclined to think that this level of coordination suggests the seal legitimately enjoys it. 

@gordonthesquid

ok, so I’m not at all an expert, but what I’ve learned from visiting various marine research centers and talking with people who work with these animals:

1) At this point in the US, all of the large marine animals like this you see cannot be released into to wild, and they come to the centers from things like injury and rescue. We do NOT just go out to the ocean and capture random animals. That is super illegal.

2) All performances like this are purely voluntary on the animal’s part. If a seal or sea lion twice the size of a person doesn’t want to do an activity with you, there is nothing you can do about it. You can encourage behaviors through positive reinforcement, but in the end the sea lion does what the sea lion wants.

3) This kind of training is actually very necessary for proper care of large, intelligent animals! The more intelligent an animal is, the more important it is to have sufficient social and mental stimulation, and training with keepers provides both. The displayed behaviors that these tricks utilize are often seen as play and/or social behaviors in the wild.

4) And perhaps most importantly, training large animals to move and position themselves in certain ways is necessary for minimizing stress during routine medical care! You can’t safely manhandle a large sea lion into showing its belly, so if you need to do a medical check without tranquillizing the animal (which carries its own risks and stresses), you need to be able to ask the animal to roll over on its own. If you watch the dance in the above post carefully, you’ll note that a lot of the different “dance moves” are effectively presenting different parts of the body. So what this performance does is take all of the stances/actions you might need it to do for a health checkup and sets it to music!

A young girl lying on a statue of a blacksmith, Bismarck National Monument, Berlin, 1961 - by Floris M. Neusüss (1937 - 2020), German

that is the face of a man worried he will be next

Good news, he was not next! In fact, she accepted him as her mate, he learned the crane mating dance and now every year, he artificially inseminates her with crane semen to expand the very endangered crane population. True story.

Sorry, he WHAT? Imagine being this man's boss and having to sit him down like. Listen. Brian. We need you to fuck the bird. You have to act like you're excited about it.

crane husband.....

this is the diametric opposite of all those awful swan wife stories and i love it.

(WalWaPo makes you jump through like three separate hoops before you can read the article, so I will share some of the highlights:

Legit cannot pick the funniest part of this

she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she's simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)

His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)

the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and "sitting" on artificial eggs so she thinks he's performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)

"chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES." (alternately: "chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She's 36, she's very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! ...Is there a downside? WELL...")

chris sits any potential human partners down, like "my love, you must understand before we wed,,, i am already... Attached" (camera drifts wistfully to the above photo) "Lady Walnut and I have an,, Understanding... the relationship is open, but very committed"

just had to explain this post to my father bc he thought my stifled laughter was a signal of illness.

well done, everyone, good game. hit the showers.

Not only is he 'married' to walnut, this has apparently happened SEVERAL times, so he has MULTIPLE crane wives, none of which know about any of his other crane wives. This man is, for some unknown reason, irresistible to cranes

the “this content has been removed for violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines” notice really adds a lot of flavor to this post and somehow makes it MORE obscene than whatever that actually was

@i-eat-men-like-air

CRANE WIVES.

My good people, I give you: Amatonormativity.

THIS FUCKING THIS SO HARD. Do you know how many times I get asked why I haven't "found" someone because I'm so great and a catch, and I have to be like, "I DON'T WANT TO BE FOUND?"

Sure, I'd be fine finding a partner that I click with and could spend time being with, but I actually love being single and people look at me SO WEIRDLY when I say it. I love being the person who decides what I'm going to do with my time. I love being fully self-sufficient and making good money in a career I can focus on instead of feeling guilty about. I love being able to put myself first when I've spent most of my life as an emotional caregiver for people around me.

Only society makes me feel like I'm weird. But then I look at people who are busy treating me like I'm odd for not needing to be in a relationship and 9 out of 10 are unhappy if not fucking miserable in some way about their lives. They compromise constantly on their happiness to be in a relationship and I'm like WHY?! For those in a happy relationship, I'm thrilled for you. It's rare and I think it's great. But making pairing off some kind of necessity is how you create toxic relationships.

It's fun being single. You can still have sex, make your own choices, and focus on yourself. It's fun being in a relationship that you're happy in. Nothing is wrong with either.

What is wrong is making people feel that a lack of a partner is somehow a failure, or that you're not whole. I like my life and myself after years of feeling like there was something wrong with me for not wanting to constantly be in a relationship. I choose when I want to be with someone and when I don't. Teaching your kids how to be happy with themselves is one of the best ways to help them develop healthy relationships with others.