alx-972:

I just wanted to do a quick appreciation post for one of my favorite pinnipeds of all time, Chippy the sea lion.

Sea lions generally stay, well, in the ocean.  Chippy decided to swim 100 miles up the San Joaquin River and attached irrigation canals until a farmer found him chilling by the roadside.  The farmer called the Highway Patrol, who raced to the scene, determined that yes, that was a sea lion, and called a higher authority (in this case the Marine Mammal Center).  While they waited for the experts to arrive, Chippy decided that the trunk of the CHP patrol car would be an even better place for a nap, so he hauled his 300 lb self up there.  (If you look closely in the pictures, you can see the dents he left).  When the MMC staff and curious journalists arrived, he took the opportunity to pose winningly before being cajoled into a large crate and driven off to Sausalito.  But in case his adventurous spirit and flagrant disrespect for the Law wasn’t enough to endear him to you, upon examination it was discovered that Chippy had done all this with a bullet lodged in his head.  What.  A.  Badass.

Chippy was nursed back to health and released with a radio transmitter which tracked him around the Bay until he got tired of it and neatly deposited it on Pier 39 before going off to further, unknown adventures.

Source: sule-skerry

iopele:

glumshoe:

i-am-an-adult-i-swear:

rowantheexplorer:

anarchyisfunandfree:

anarchyisfunandfree:

anarchyisfunandfree:

Fun fact, hammering metal spikes into tree trunks is a federal crime in the US because environmental activists used to do it in the 80s to fuck up chainsaws and logging equipment.

So you should never use this effective strategy for disrupting logging operations because it is illegal.

Here’s a link describing exactly how to do it, so you can make sure not to by accident.

Okay, but a laborer working a shit job for a shit logging company doesn’t deserve a chainsaw chain snapping in their face. Like most agriculture jobs in the US, logging labor is dominated by undocumented immigrants, paid far too little cash under the table, and who most certainly don’t have benefits like medical or workplace injury coverage for when a 2000 rpm chainsaw blade snaps and whips them in the face.

How about we instead find another way to disrupt logging operations that don’t put incredibly vulnerable laborers at risk? By all means, tear down the system, but don’t hurt the very people you’re supposed to be helping.

^^^ this and driving spikes through trees can severely harm the tree and even kill it. Copper spikes will kill trees, and putting holes in trees can open them up to fungi and other things that feed on the cambium and destroy the tree.

Logging is literally the #1 most dangerous industry in North America, with the highest rate of professional fatalities per year. Laborers themselves are already calculated as rather expendable and replacing parts is… not difficult. 

Trees can easily heal from branches being pruned, but breaking the bark on the trunk, even just to carve your initials, can seriously injure a tree even without leaving potentially toxic metal in the wood. 

this method of “protest” gets people KILLED. there’s a reason it’s illegal. don’t do it, no sarcasm, just fucking don’t. be an activist in ways that don’t kill humans, because as others already said, killing a logger does nothing to stop the destruction of forests. they’ll just get another poor person desperate to support their family to take the murdered one’s place.

the-porter-rockwell:

mojave-wasteland-official:

anotherjadedwriter:

anotherjadedwriter:

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.