So over the past three Thursday nights I’ve driven back home from the city and there is this one road/bridge that had storm drains that you could see straight thru to the metal structure underneath. Or so I thought. What it actually turns out i was looking at (that i only found out yesterday) was that in fact it was not a hole but rather a fucking puddle, reflecting the metal barrier on the side of the road. I nearly had a heart attack last night before i figured it out because one of the puddles had crept over some and it looked like a giant, ragged edged hole in the road.
Gotta love it when you’re feeding the chickens and they decide to wipe the food off their beak and onto your hand, like thanks, i really wanted the mushy food remnants that you didn’t want.
Starting in 1 week there will be an online dinosaur evolution class! It is free and you can take it for a full grade (with maximum assessment feedback from the instructors), pass/fail (for minimum feedback), or for an audit (with no feedback). We will be covering the evolution of dinosaurs and birds and the modern science of dinosaur paleontology! This is part of an ongoing study in how well online education in paleontology works. We’re looking for students and registration is open! I and Allos of @verybadpaleontologyjokes are the main instructors and Alb, @albertonykus and Henry, @raptorcivilization are the teaching assistants :)
There has been SO much interest in the Dinosaur Class that we have to put a cap on registration! For the sake of our workload, we’re limiting registration to 120 individuals receiving grades (so you can still sign up to audit after the fact). Currently there are still 65 spots left! Sign up while you can!
Anyone else have those books that are just so precious and well loved by you that immediately after you finish it they go safely back to their designated spot on the shelf
Went outside while it was raining to check on my chickens. I ended up getting distracted started digging up worms for them, 15+ minutes later im sitting there in quite heavy downpour, with a fair bit of mud on me and all but one of my girls has left. I took pity on Frankie standing in the rain waiting for food so i put her under my raincoat and she sat there waiting for food.
The aftermath:
Some soaking, but full bellied chickens. And not only that, theyve decided to dry and shake themselves off right next to mums drying washing.
Now not only is the concrete covered in old chicken shit, its covered in fresh chicken shit, loose feathers and slightly drier chickens.
Went outside while it was raining to check on my chickens. I ended up getting distracted started digging up worms for them, 15+ minutes later im sitting there in quite heavy downpour, with a fair bit of mud on me and all but one of my girls has left. I took pity on Frankie standing in the rain waiting for food so i put her under my raincoat and she sat there waiting for food.
The aftermath:
Some soaking, but full bellied chickens. And not only that, theyve decided to dry and shake themselves off right next to mums drying washing.
I saw a thing about a lighthouse so naturally i went to sing the round the twist theme to myself but my brain decideds that aint happenig and instead forces out “SomeBODY once told me” in place of the actual lyrics
i went to a party and put 3 whole loaves of sliced bread all around the house i put bread under the kid’s pillow and in all 3 of his bathrooms, in his rugby shorts and the breast pocket of his school shirt, on his roof and his neighbor’s roof, in his couch and on his tv i’m laughing so hard he’s going to wake up hungover tomorrow and be like why the fuck is there bread everywhere
Now, I intend no offence to any religion,
but one of the more bizarre stories I’ve heard from people on how they
initially thought babies were made is the one I dub ‘God Picked’. In this tale,
God supposedly hand picks each part from a pile of parts in the manner of
“Yes, this arm will go perfectly with this torso.” and so on. Now
this would work fine on a small population, but on a population where millions
are born every minute it would be more like 'God’s Sweatshop’. The rate at
which those poor workers would have to churn out babies is insane!
“Oh fuck, I’ve got one long leg and
one short one. Hey guys, does anyone have a spare leg?”
“No! Just make do, hurry up or we’ll
fall behind schedule!”
“Ah shit, I dropped the head.”
“We haven’t got any replacements, just
put it on!”
Have you come across a fic like this in your travels? I cant remember whats its called and i want to find it if you dont mind helping. I cant remember much but i do remember that sam and gabriel could change into merfolk at will and at one point (it was a short fic i think) gabriel was a merman, sam comes up behind him to give him a hug and gabriel tries to get sam to change into his merman form. Thank you.
This sounds really awesome! Anyone have an idea what this fic is?
When you watch Hannibal on your laptop and its too dark so you turn the brightness up and then the intro comes on it its like looking boldly into the sun expecting it to be a cloudy day, too fucking bright and ever so painful.
I live in
Australia, were pretty much 98% of cat owners seem to have outdoor cats, and
then we all equally complain about our fading endangered wildlife and
overpopulated strays. Granted, I grew up in a family that pretty much got a cat
for funsies and then just let it roam and come inside for food and a cuddle. As
I’ve gotten older I’ve definitely given an ear to people who talk about the
wildlife and how dangerous it is for cats but have never been able to fully comprehend
what they mean.
I think after
you work in a general/emergency vet clinic it quickly changes your once-unsure
opinion on outdoor cats, and I confidently say I will never, NEVER have a
roaming cat again.
My first night
working I had some poor owners walking in balling while holding their dying cat
after being hit by a car. I’d never seen a HBC (hit by car), and it is one of
the most terrible things I tell you.
The amount of
times I have “stray HBC cats” rushed in by a founder only for me scan them and
rush them down to the hospital only to get their owner on the phone saying “but
I only just saw her 20 minutes ago”.
Every week now:
Horrific
motor vehicle accidents
Lost
‘strays’ being bought in after an accident and there’s only so much you can do
as you can’t reach their owners
Countless
phone calls asking if their lost cat has come through
Unchipped
wandering cats that now have no home (happens to dogs too, please microchip)
Terrible
dog attacks
Snake
bites
Poisonings
Respiratory
infections
Mysterious
broken limbs
Cat
fight infections and wounds
Cat
fight abscesses
FIV
FeLV
FIP
(arguably indoor cats get these too, but it feels more common in outdoor
animals)
HUGE
worm loads
Very sick cats that their owners didn’t notice before because
they toilet and vomit outside (out of view)
Generally the 16-22 year old cats I see are all pretty much indoor kitties
(injured wildlife) Regardless of how you feed them, they will hunt the wildlife
Not only it is
an epidemic to our slowly-wiltering wildlife population but your cat is not
better off anyway. I will never have
an outdoor cat again, and I don’t really know why I hadn’t realized this sooner
(I lost one of my cats HBC and my other two just never came home one day, I’ve
never had a cat past the age of 7, I loved them so much, but was too young and
it never crossed my mind that it was dangerous for them).
For some reason
no-one ever complains about apartment cats and that we have to keep our dogs
contained, but as soon as we do it for cats it’s “cruel”.
“Cats are
easier than dogs”, damn well they can be, but that doesn’t mean you feed,
cuddle and forget about them. Clean the litter tray, play with them, build a
cat run, get them cat trees and shelves they can climb on, get slow feeders
they have to hunt for, give them a window ledge to hang out on, teach them
walks are fun, love them, cuddle them, they’ll be around longer if you do.
People will
scoff and call you silly and that it’s too hard, because we’re stuck in this
backwards lazy notion that that is “owning a cat” and have never given it
another thought, we need to change it.
I’ve just made a bet against my Dad that if this post gets 2 million notes then i can get a Puppy. [like the one underneath]
I didn’t realise how much 2 million was and i couldn’t take that number down now. It should look like 2,000,000 in the notes bar.
He’s convinced that this will never reach that number, and very confident about it so Let’s prove him wrong!! He thinks this will get about 25 notes beofre it’s left in the dust.
You don’t have to do it for me. But for the point and to prove him wrong. He has to pay and everything so let’s make him suffer with it!!
Hung-Chang Liu, and Taiwan ecologist, encountered a female sea turtle nesting on Christmas Island in Australia. The mother sea turtle digged a hole, laid eggs, and covered them with sand and marine debris, the beach was full of litter.
Despite large amount of marine debris, newborn sea turtles hatched satisfactorily, trying so hard to go back to the sea.
Thank to plastic debris, marine turtles suffered serious wounds from entanglement, leading to maiming, amputation or asphyxiation. In case where turtles survived, they dragged discarded rubbish and debris with them. The impact is greater in the newborns and in the youngest specimens, but the number is probably underestimated.
Also, half of the sea turtles on the planet have ingested some form of plastic.
Turtles can be killed directly by ingesting plastics, through blockage of the intestines or through piercing of the intestinal wall. The harmful effects plastic has in the ocean is so great that it seems that sea turtles will not be able to tolerate this threat for long time.
There will be many people,who over the next couple of days will be experiencing a hard and difficult time alone. Thoughts and best wishes are with you. Take care.
