that's me

I will not elaborate.

I worked at a grocery store. We did this same shit with literal tons of food and it radicalized me more than any book ever could.

Legitimately I would start giving away pastries to anyone who tried to buy one after 8pm because I felt viscerally disgusted by the idea of selling someone a muffin I was supposed to throw away in an hour.

I love that natasha lyonne sounds like that. more women should sound like that.

my iphone made this video of my roommate’s cat Gilda

Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.

One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:

Wolf eat elk.

Elk eat fewer willows.

Willows become healthier.

Number of beavers increase.

Number of songbirds increase.

Overall health of streams increases.

Number of fish increases.

Water table stabilizes.

This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.

What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.

When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.

Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.

listen as much as i respect other podcasts’ naming conventions i absolutely Must recommend that you listen to friends at the table if you want some Next Level names. some examples:

“A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain”

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Friendly reminder to assume that all my OCs are Bisexual unless explicitly stated otherwise.

This t*k t*k ends too soon

1. Trump calls CNN "the enemy of the people."

Cesar Sayoc sends pipe bombs to CNN.

2. Trump tweets about "anarchists and agitators."

Kyle Rittenhouse kills two people in Kenosha.

3. Trump tweets "LIBERATE MICHIGAN."

Six men try to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.

But of course there’s more:

4. Trump says there is a caravan invasion coming.

Patrick Crusius grabs a gun, drives to El Paso and kills 23 people, quotes Trump in his manifesto.

Donald J. Trump is a stochastic terrorist. And here are FIFTY-FOUR (54!!) more examples:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-cases-invoking-trump/story?id=58912889

This was a necessary part of the process for Nazis to take over Germany. The use of street gangs, self-appointed militias, violent thugs, mad-dog killers and lone-wolf gunmen to create fear among the general populace and to intimidate political opponents was an important part of their stretegy. And also like Trump, they made sure that they coddled and cultivated these criminals and developed their ties to them, but without ever admitting it out loud so their opponents did not call them out on it. Fascism thrives by bringing violence, thuggery and criminality to societies that are tolerant, complacent and open-minded enough to let them do it without putting up a fight.

Please behold Octavio Costello Gainglynn and Zarael, Song of the Stars and Seraph of the Chord of Creation….the hottest parents in existence

this tweet really threw me, somehow

i expected this to be a conspiracy theory at worst and a misunderstanding at best, but NOPE THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN BALTIMORE IN 2018