shrineart:

fantasticbeastsandhowtokeepthem:

equalitymeanseveryonethesame:

tinysaurus-rex:

tinysaurus-rex:

tinysaurus-rex:

It’s that time of the year again so just gonna remind everyone that Canada geese are capable of breaking a human arm with their wings, bite hard enough to cause stitches, and otherwise injure you. Do not taunt or torment geese. Just avoid them and keep your distance, move slowly and calmly, always stay facing the geese. If a goose is already beginning to chase you, stand your ground as both fleeing and assaulting the goose will encourage it to attack. If you stand facing the goose and move back slowly it will usually cause the goose to back off. And remember:

Do Not Feed The Geese

Some tips if a goose does start attacking you:

• Obstruct their line of sight, move behind something, put something like a bush or bench between you and the bird

• Move in groups. A goose is more likely to attack an indivual than a whole flock of human

• Please don’t hurt the goose! I realize it seems like an asshole, but they’re just trying to defend their family and you could be in violation of the law. Don’t go to jail over a goose

• Move in a 90° angle if the goose is flying at you, they can’t turn that sharply and will miss

• Don’t get on their level as they can more easily injure you

• Keep children away from places geese roam

• And once again, don’t feed wild geese. At All.

If you know you’re going to be in a goose area, carry an umbrella with you! Just pop it open when a goose approaches, it can scare the goose away and also be used as a shield. Just don’t hit the goose, please.

@tinysaurus-rex why can’t I feed wild geese? I often bring them chicken food (never bread) or spinach. They know me and are quite tame. Sorry if this sounds rude. I would hate to hurt an animal. Am I doing something wrong?

It’s not a good idea to feed them because it acclimates them to humans. You may not want to hurt them & you know how to act around them, but if they get used to accepting food from humans, they could easily go after someone who doesn’t have food or can’t get away from them safely (like a kid).

Added to that, it’s not a great idea to feed wild waterfowl because when that gets normalized & lots of people are doing it, it can actually encourage them to stay put when they should be moving for winter. No one feeds waterfowl during the winter & they can starve since there’s not enough food for them.

I always hear stories about how dangerous geese are. I don’t doubt it becaus the sheer NUMBER of people who have told me they’re dangerous and stuff it’s pretty clear it is A Thing. But like, my experiences with Canadian geese have been. “Oh hey look! Geese.” when we’re walking to appointments. Like, we’ve gotten within 5 ft of them (kinda had to, they were on the path) and they seem wary and will move away but aside from that they don’t seem to care. One time we even saw one with babies and she pretty much ignored us. (also the babies were adorable)

We never approach them, we just sort of walk by, maybe take a few photos, and go on our way.

So like, I don’t doubt them as dangerous. I’ve just never had the Scary Goose Experience TM

Alright, that first post? That’s nonsense. Geese cannot break your bones. They will hit you with their wings, but they can’t actually break anything that way. Their wing is much more fragile than your arm. They aren’t that strong! They weigh like 10 pounds!

They also can’t make you need stitches. Geese don’t have teeth made to tear skin. Seriously, I’ve been bitten by waterfowl before. It hurts, but they can’t actually injure you. The worst a goose can do is bruise you a bit.

Also, you’re a lot bigger than a goose. If one comes at you in the air, protect your face until it’s not in the air, then spread your arms, look big, and slowly back away. Move away from the goose family so it won’t have a reason to attack you, while making yourself intimidating. 

If a goose comes at you on the ground, just reach down and grab its neck, right behind its head. Hold firmly but without crushing, pull towards yourself, put your other arm down and around the goose to pin its wings to its sides, and lift. Voila. You have captured a goose. Carry it to the nearest body of water and throw it in. It’ll make a big splash and will probably leave you alone after.

If one is approaching threateningly but not outright attacking you yet, walk away. Don’t run, don’t wave your arms, just leave. It’ll leave you alone once you’re out of its space.

Here’s a video of a goose being very territorial and attacking a guy’s dog. Please note that the dog is not bleeding or having any bones broken. This is also about the best way to deal with a goose attacking your child/your dog/etc; grab it, throw it away from whatever it’s attacking, and leave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OStX_wrWGg

C’mon, people! Geese are aggressive as heck sometimes, but they’re just birds! And not even predatory birds like hawks. They aren’t equipped to seriously injure anything larger than they are.

reinetteinthefireplace:

dynamic-asteroids:

daltongraham:

Huh

Look, I’m sorry, but that’s an awful lot of presumptions wrapped in a faux Woke™ package and I’m in my feelings enough right now to call it out. 

First of all, I’ve never in my life spent anywhere near $8 on a single drink, and looking at their menu, that is almost double the cost of most drinks they sell. I feel like she’s purposefully misrepresenting the price to drive this weird “only rich people go to Starbucks” narrative, which is really…untrue.

There were three Starbucks on my old college’s campus and I can tell you I have never seen a single student there drive a fucking Lexus. Starbucks is a chain. It’s everywhere. You don’t have to be Bill Gates to go to one. 

Also I feel like if someone is kind enough to engage in a “pay it forward” thing, especially with any kind of regularity, they’re also likely they type of person to tip too. There’s no need to force some black and white one-or-the-other narrative around it where people who do something nice for someone else are depriving a barista of additional tips.

There’s nothing wrong with reminding people that being a barista is a demanding job paying only minimum wage and that they could certainly use the money, but writing judgmentally about gifting a coffee to another customer is the wrong way to go about it. 

Life is hard and doing something nice for anyone is a nice thing to do, and the truth of it is, you don’t know who is in the line behind you or in the car behind you. They might be a millionaire or they might be buying themselves a rare treat, and honestly it doesn’t matter because grilling a stranger on the state of their finances before deciding to do them a favour or not is certainly not in keeping with the spirit of said favour. 

So, appreciate and tip your baristas, engage in “pay it forwards” if you want, but above all, don’t be a sanctimonious dick and assume you know the state of other people’s finances or that they don’t tip or give to charity just because you personally don’t see it happen right in front of you.

I’m glad someone translated my incoherent rage about the original posts into real words

jirvaerka:

actualborossoldier:

obi-one-drop:

actualborossoldier:

goblintinkering:

bisexualzuko:

geoducks:

When i was like 13 was allowed to use the internet unrestricted for the first time and i spent a lot of time on Runescape. One of the people i talked to on there was this person who had much higher levels than me in every skill and had, to my perception, a seemingly overflowing amount of game resources. One day i was taking about wishing i could get gold ore to level my smithing and not having access to any and they like “here, you can have this gold that i have” and just gave me this big stack and i was like “i don’t even have anything to offer back”. They told me they didn’t need anything and just wanted to be nice. I said that they didn’t have to and what they told me honestly has stuck with me since, they said “life’s too short to spend it being mean to people” and like it’s such a simple thing to say but combined with their actions and the weight they bore to me at the time was hugely influential on my outlook on life and the way i treat others. I don’t know who that person is but they changed my life that day and I’m so thankful to them.

high level MMO-ers are either the nicest people on earth or the spawn of Satan there is no in between

Runescape was a big part of my formative years for better or worse. Age twelve left me impressionable at best and the free lobster this guy gave me one day just stuck with me. We fished together for days on end and we talked about our parents and stuff. If you’re out there NinjaKirby69 I miss you buddy.

I forgot to type it up yesterday but one of my best experiences didn’t even involve me. It was when my younger sister, Runescape user cooldudetha, crashed the steel market single-handedly out of sheer boredom.

I need to know this story

So if you’re not aware, Runescape has the Grand Exchange, which is basically a global trade market controlled by supply and demand. It’s an incredible system, and deserves a lot of commendation. 

Well one day back in…I think Summer between 2010-2012? my younger sister and I had nothing to do but play Runescape in our free time. I did what all aspiring heroes do, I was happy to go out and commit mass goblin murder. My sister was more creative. At first she went to train Smithing in Al Kharid, which is this desert area with easy access to iron, coal, a player bank, and a smelter. So basically she made craploads of steel for hours on end for like a week. But then she realized she had nothing to do with the steel. She could go find a smith with an anvil and train Smithing further, but that was boring since she’d already been grinding forever. So she went to the Grand Exchange and sold it all. 

Thousands of units of steel ingots. 

And it sold like immediately, since there was always a large amount of people training Smithing at the level they could use steel.

Obviously she became fabulously wealthy and didn’t know what to do with her newfound wealth. But since she spent a lot of time at the Exchange, she knew basically how the market worked. I’m not 100% sure on what the thought process was for her, but she essentially realized a basic economic principle: If she could control the supply and demand for steel she could accelerate her profit margins. 

So like any reasonable 12-14 year old, she bought out about twice as much steel as she sold. Flooding the market had almost halved the price, and she now was both the supply and demand. Of course, as a result of some mystery person buying tons of steel, the price went up again. So she went and sold it at the higher price. She spent about another week or two playing Carnegie before it got old and she retired to Lumbridge with fat stacks of gold and the finest armor money could buy (but she couldn’t wear due to low Defense level). 

I found out from a friend later who was part of one of the big trade guilds that the big market guilds were all pissed that somehow the steel market had crashed, skyrocketed, then crashed in quick succession for no goddamn reason and all of them had lost thousands of coins in the process.

My favorite thing about this is that it validates my entire Master’s Degree. This. This is how games can develop incidental learning and teach kids valuable lessons. This 12 year girl figured out, and manipulated, a free market economy because she was bored. She was able to recognize, understand and utilize a fundamental principal of economics to entertain herself.

notyourexrotic:

cersei-the-truth-bombardier:

johnwatsonismyspiritanimal:

hedwig-dordt:

soyeahso:

mooncaps:

liamgalgey:

notawhatbutawho:

ryvenchan:

dragoon811:

gallifreyan-hallows:

harrypotterconfessions:

I really don’t believe Molly was capable of killing Bellatrix. Bella is a Dark Lord trained Death Eater who frequently is using dark spells. Molly has been a house-wife for most of her life. Surely in reality she wouldn’t know those spells, let alone have ever used them before. Bella knows more and has been practising her skills (even through Azkaban), and yet Molly wins? I cant believe it.

(Taiga’s note: never, ever estimate the power of a mother protecting her children.)

I can’t wait until some of you idiots have children. See what you’re capable of when your child is in danger. She wasn’t just a house wife, she was a mother. Y’all moms should slap the ignorance out of you.

Molly was part of the Order in the first war. She lost her brothers to Death Eaters. She just lost her son, who was named in honour of one of those brothers. Her daughter, her only daughter, is threatened. You can damn well believe that her conviction was strong and she meant every spell she cast in defense of her family. Of course she knows those spells. Of course she wins.

^^^^ This.

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, ‘Well, you know, she’s just a mother.’ And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, ‘Well, I’m going to raise my family and that’s going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that’s my choice.’ Doesn’t mean that that’s all she can do. And as we proved there in that little battle, Molly Weasley comes out and proves herself the equal of any warrior on that battlefield.

– J. K. Rowling (x)

Molly was a warrior before she was a mother.  Male soldiers become fathers all the time, I really don’t see how this is a problem.

I haven’t read the book in ages, but wasn’t it demonstrated fairly often that Molly was a powerful witch? Did this person miss that because of the fact she used her powers in a domestic fashion?

“Did this person miss that because of the fact she used her powers in a domestic fashion?“

In a word: yes.

Also, supposing she was “just a mother” and all that mothering made her forget everything that happened in her life prior to her children being born

Her house

you know (to be a stereotypical as possible) the thing that she spends all her time and energy cleaning and taking care of

has been a central hub of the resistance against Voldemort’s resurgence 

Unless she’s walking around with her wand snapped in half and the bits of it stuck in her ears, she’s probably heard about a killing curse or two

soyeahso and hedwig-dordt hit the nail on the head – Molly is hella powerful.  She casts silent spells all the time in her house.  She has the pots scrubbing themselves, the broom & dustpan working by themselves, and she’s out in the yard yelling at Fred and George, or whatever.  That’s not frickin easy.

And I think there’s still a lot of classism toward the Weasleys just kind of in general, even though the narrative of the books (& movies to a lesser extent) want us to question this (by showing the Malfoys’ classism as A Dick Move).  Not only were the Weasleys instrumental in the first war against Voldemort, but their children all kick ass too. Bill is an Auror, which we learn requires very high performance in class as well as incredible technical skill.  Charlie works with frickin dragons, nuff said.  Percy makes prefect (and head boy right? can’t remember) and goes to work for the government.  At sixteen Fred and George are so proficient at charms that they’re able to develop the entire line of Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes by themselves and they also manage the business.  Ron, while hindered by persistent self-esteem issues, also on several occasions casts silent spells, performs well athletically, and is a quick thinker and great strategist (book 1 chess game anyone?).  Ginny carries around Voldemort’s horcrux for nearly an entire school year and lives to tell the tale, and is basically Professor #2 for Dumbledore’s Army. 

If the Weasleys were rich, everyone would know them as the greatest wizarding family in Britain, but they’re not, so instead it’s “red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford.”

The story kicks off with the power of a mother’s love creating magic that is miraculous even by the Potterverse’s standards, and the fact that it was a MOTHER’S love that saved Harry is repeated over and over and over again.

Why would this case be any different?

Not to mention that there’s gotta be some magical value in a mixture of adrenaline and sheer rage.

tikkunolamorgtfo:

cptsdwillgraham:

you know the thing where nt people are like “autistic children are bad at Play because they just take toys and line them up :/” those fuckers. don’t understand. how satisfying and fun it is to put things in an order and then behold them

You come into MY house, you disrespect MY elaborate Barbie tableaus?

The point of play is to be entertained. If you’re entertained, you are playing properly.