So some of you who have been around a while know I used to work at a small, privately-owned, bird-focused pet store, right? And some of those of you might remember that we had a black palmed cockatoo, Artie, there. He was wild-caught illegally back in the ‘80s–the shipment was seized by Fish & Wildlife, some of the birds were sent back to Indonesia, but some were not. Artie bounced around to a few places–a zoo, a couple private people, and eventually ended up at our store (the owner was heavily involved in the bird community and was involved with all this somehow, idk I wasn’t around). Anyway, he had been with us for more than a decade, and since he was wild caught he was never really tame, and the owner always wanted to find a breeder to take him, since black palms are so endangered. She figured since he’s here, and being wild caught his genetics would be diverse from captive populations here, it would be awesome to help propagate the species.
ANYWAY a year or so ago, he finally went to a breeder, and he almost IMMEDIATELY hit it off with one of her females, and they laid an egg very soon after. The breeder & Ruth weren’t sure it would be fertile, since it was so fast and all, BUT IT WAS AND IT HATCHED AND LOOK HOW CUTE THIS BABY IS IM CRYING.
one time i meant to send my qpp a hashtag millennial joke txt about my ptsd but i accidentally sent it to my manager and i died that day n never recovered its arguably the most mortifying thing ive ever done bc hes a war veteran of 26 years in the military
mISTAKES
one time i told him that i hadnt eaten in a couple days bc i was stressed out n he was like “yeah i know that feeling, i didnt eat for two weeks once” and i was like oh no why were you sick? and he goes “well i was in the cafeteria and a bomb flew over my head and blew up our kitchen and bathrooms and so i just didnt leave my room for a couple weeks lmao yeah it really fucked me up” AND I WAS KUST LIKE OH OK JOHN HOLY SHIT???
i told him that i went shark diving a few years ago and evenTHEN HE WAS LIKE “oh yeah i remember scuba diving in like shark infested waters for training it was really cold” JOHN PLEASE
hes a super chill dude tho who just wants hugs and hes always rly respectful n is asking ppl about their boundaries so he doesnt cross over any lines and like one time we were talking and i confided in him abt my mental issues n i was like “i know it probably sounds stupid to hear from me like oh haha yeah sure dave youve got ptsd ok stop being dramatic ur like three years old” but he immediately was like “anybody can have ptsd, its post-TRAUMATIC and what causes that is something BAD, you dont have to b in a war for bad things to happen to you” and i was like How Are You So Nice Thank You John Thats So Sweet WTF
10/10 guy n he laughs at my jokes when i flip out
gonna wrap up this post set with one more quality john moment: he was frumping around the back of the store and was like “i dont understand why customers r intimidated by me? i guess im scary” n i was like
john ur not scary you are like a tiny delicate flower
AND HE JUST GETS ALL BASHFUL AND SMILES N LOOKS DOWN N GOES “aaawe, thanks,,” LIKE GAAAHHHH
i highly recommended ppl finding more johns in their lives
the fact that the weight of chris and scarlett still doesn’t equal to thor look at their feet actually sliding lmao hemsworth is strong af
Look how fuckin DELIGHTED evans is holy shit
Chris Evans is like a three year old who thinks Chris Hemsworth, age five, is a deity. In every image where they’re together he’s almost invariably adoring. There’s one where Hemsworth has him in a headlock and Evans is just like “this is my life now and that’s ok.”
Chris Evans is embodiment of that picture of the dog who goes to the dog park for the first time and get sat on by a bigger dog and just accepts its fate with a smile.
Right so today in class my math teacher, a human who is taller than our door and probably more awkward than it, casually mentioned how he isn’t married and how he never really felt attraction to any gender.
So a pan girl in my class puts up her hand and asks if he was Asexual.
One confused state and three queer people explanations later…
HE WAS BEYOND EXCITED TO FIND OUT THAT HE WAS VALID AND SEEN AS AN ACTAUL HUMAN TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY.
I shit you not.
My way too tall and way too smart and way too dorky and way too awkward maths teacher lived his entire life thinking that he was strange and abnormal for not feeling any attraction to anyone.
And a class of insane grade elevens changed that.
This kind of thing is why I am basically inclined to inclusivity.
I have a nibling who is not even two and has a model toy of the Endeavor space shuttle that he calls “my plane” when he plays with it. He loves it. And today we went to the California Science Center see the ACTUAL Endeavor space shuttle and I tell you what-
that kid lost his goddamn mind. It was the ACTUAL BEST.
Cool fact about kids: they are small and dumb and they don’t know anything.
Like, for instance, their life experience gives them no reason to know that their toys are often based on actual things that exist.
It took him a while to realise the shuttle was even there because- protip about space shuttles: they are freaking huge. So like it didn’t even really register to him as an object? It was too big, it just seemed like the ceiling? But he saw the photos on the wall and he saw the gift shop and he was looking all around like “MY PLANE! MY PLANE!” because his toy “plane” was on every single thing. Models. Shirts. Mugs. Plushies. Books. This was a whole warehouse dedicated just to his plane, and that would have been amazing enough. Except, also, the actual life-size real has-been-to-space thing was there too.
So eventually we got him to look up at the actual shuttle like, “yeah, look! There it is! It’s your plane, and it’s REALLY BIG” and when he finally took it in he literally screamed and I swear I thought for a second he was gonna die right there “IT’S BIG. MY PLANE MY PLANE MY PLANE” (looking at all the other people in the science center, pointing at a NASA space shuttle, shouting “MY PLANE!” like the actual proudest person in the world who just willed an entire spacecraft into existence).
Anyway I had a migraine for most of the day, but I’m still super glad I went out because it was totally worth it.
lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism
this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard
I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the
pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.
can I volunteer to be a penguin
I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.
So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.
Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army
Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.
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