xenosaurus:

xenosaurus:

xenosaurus:

my parents just got back from vacation and my mom befriended an octopus????  she scared off a small shark (because you don’t want them near you in the water) and realized the thing it had been circling was a little octopus, which then came over and stayed near her feet for a few minutes.  I’ve never been so jealous in my entire life

she didn’t even realize it was an octopus at first because it was pretending to be a starfish.  i love my new octopus sibling.

I’m glad you’re all so supportive of my newest family member

Apparently the Dodo is getting its own TV show on Animal Planet: Dodo Heroes. Did you hear about it?

why-animals-do-the-thing:

Ew, no, I hadn’t. And here I thought Animal Planet might be moving back to actually educational programs with stuff like The Zoo.

Friendly reminder that The Dodo is trash – they can’t fact check, they trick people into signing away control of their own media content, and they’re super buddies with PETA (if you share media from The Dodo, you’re giving ad revenue to PETA).

cobaltmoony:

spikedbat:

glumshoe:

One of my favorite tropes is “Villain Decay”. It’s not a redemption or reformation – the character themself doesn’t necessarily change morally or behaviorally, but the as the stakes become higher and more serious antagonists are introduced, the original villain seems harmless and friendly in comparison.

that’s how you end up in an elevator with your adopted emo god of mischief brother trying to convince him to stop being mildly evil for five minutes so you can defeat your mega evil older sister who is destroying your home planet 

@misspaperjoker

ysera:

mildhorror:

itriedthatonceitwasabadmove:

acquaintedwithrask:

killbenedictcumberbatch:

Twilight may be trash but at least they cast actual native americans to play natives

you know you’ve fucked up when Twilight does something better than you

Okay story time

So I went to college at Western Washington University, which is super close to the Lummi reservation.

I went to see New Moon in theaters with a couple of friends (we love hatewatching stuff, and had a few drinks before going to the theater). We were super confused when we sat down, because for some reason about half the theater was full of 12-year-old boys. The movie starts, it’s just as terrible as we expect, and then about halfway through the movie theatre erupts into cries of THERE HE IS!!! THERE HE IS!!!

Turns out the boys had come to see their Lummi buddy who had been cast as one of the werewolves in the movie. It was absolutely adorable, and my friends and I instantly felt super irresponsible for having come to a movie to trash the film a kid’s friends went to to support.

Hey guys FYI the Quileute tribe (the one depicted in Twilight) is currently fundraising because they have to move their entire town of La Push to higher ground to avoid everything being destroyed by climate change related rising oceans. Maybe give them some money okay.

https://mthg.org/

help them out but also remember that the Quileute tribe disagrees with their portrayal in Twilight and have been trying to dispel misconceptions that Meyer created

palezma:

So I am sure Rose’s pregnancy was a very weird time for Pearl. Both because she did not understand the process itself and because she had no idea what to make of it in regards to her own relationship with Rose.

But amongst that I like to think that she developed at least a little bit of ‘my pregnant lover must be made as comfortable as possible’ instincts. Hence this comic.

Bonus:

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thegreatpigeonking:

goopy-gan:

doofcas:

mrcleanheichou:

doofcas:

mrcleanheichou:

doofcas:

doofcas:

Me: *picks up “dead” bat in my yard so my dog doesn’t eat it*

“Dead” bat: O_O

Me: O_O

Me upon realizing I am holding a very not dead bat and not dead bat realizing it has been picked up by a large creature at the exact same second: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

He scream

You want rabies? That’s how you get rabies

1.I picked it up with a towel and gardening gloves and never once touched it with my bare hands.

2.

3.The bat was at the bottom of my porch where I have to take my dog out but I guess I should have just left it there for her to eat right?

4.It was in a position that made it clear that it was most likely hurt from hitting my house and not just sick. It’s warming up in my area and they are just coming out from the winter and it was most likely confused because I live right next to the highway and there’s a lot of noise.

5.You can only get rabies from a bat by being bitten or otherwise getting its saliva in your bloodstream. And it was two inches long and I’m a grown ass adult with a towel and gardening gloves and a thick ass sweater.

Good thing you tagged it as “stupid people” because you obviously don’t know enough about the situation

I’m sorry I tagged it that way. That was incredibly childish of me. I’ve just had it pounded into my head that you don’t mess with sick or injured wildlife because of the risk of exposure.

I’m a registered Veterinary technician and I’ve worked with a rabid cat and it was terrifying

I’m sorry I got so defensive. I’ve seen a lot of bats killed in my area because people are misinformed about the rabies situation. I used to play with them as a kid by throwing sticks in the air and watching them swoop to get them and each year they were noticably fewer until they were just gone.

That was the most adult way I’ve ever seen an argument addressed on the internet.

It’s good practice to never touch bats directly for their own safety as well as yours. If a bat is known to have had any direct contact with humans in which a bite or exposure could have occurred, rehab centers (in the United States, at least) MUST euthanize the animal and send it off for rabies testing. It’s the law and not doing so could result in massive repercussions for the rescue.

At a rehab center where I used to work, one younger and inexperienced volunteer inadvertently caused the death of a perfectly healthy bat because she decided to take it out, touch it with her bare hands, and actually KISSED it before anyone else noticed what she was doing. That bat was rabies free and had just been stunned by hitting a window.

Rabies testing requires brain matter, which unfortunately means the animal must be dead. Follow this person’s example. Alive or dead, never touch a bat bare-handed.

Also, if you aren’t sure whether or not a bat is alive, nudge it with a stick. Don’t jab it in case it is alive, but nudge the side of it and see if it moves.