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if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie.

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Did you know that many gastropods can create a pearl, including terrestrial snails? The difference is nacre which is only found in some species of mollusks and which which gives pearls their beautiful shine. Terrestrial snails occasionally produce very small translucent white pearls which are usually lost. One non-nacre secreting sea snail, the melo melo, produces gorgeous pearls that are extremely prized and rare.

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i went to the SCP website

 this shouldn’t be so funny to me

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Avoryx’s plush is available for preorder for a week more! Link:

Plushie

We reached the production milestone a little while ago, which means she is guaranteed to be made! :)

And yes, that is the same knight from the previous comic! Who knows what they’ve endured to reach these two. Weeks of travel, and not once did they stop to wonder if they might be biting off more than they can chew.

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More little miss Rovi.

Everybody meet her ladyship, Princess Rovi.

She is a 9 week old Barred Rock and she will be joining the flock permanently.

She is as close to a perfect pullet as I could hope for. She is super friendly, clever, and bold. She isn't flighty or panicky but she also isn't oblivious or sluggish. She loves a good run about in the grass but is easy to recall to the coop. She has a wonderful, proud posture and doesn't hesitate to run in and take what she wants if she thinks she can get away with it. She isn't afraid of the older hens, but she is respectful. I believe she will grow into an ideal member of the flock.

And what's best, my partner loves her. Her presence has been a great comfort during recent times of great stress and a death in the family. She is happy to cuddle up on or next to someone, and she feels safe being scooped up and petted. She is a very good little lady.

When I got the variety pack of hatching eggs and realized I had gotten barred rocks, my reaction was just "neat" but now that I have had these birds. I am amazed. They are the most docile, sweet, friendly, and honestly funny little birds. Rovi, Monkfish, and Sea Bass all have big personalities. Rovi is crafty and proud, Monkfish is a needy little baby, and Sea Bass is a silly puppy.

I'm not saying the other chicks don't have big personalities, but the rest of them (Australorps and Bresse) aren't nearly as friendly so they don't display them directly to us as much. I can scoop the barred rocks up like I am holding a taco and they peep at me and wait patiently to be put down wherever.

The original plan was to only keep 1-2 pullets, but with the aforementioned death in the family I know we aren't going to be keeping to that number.

I don't know who will be the other ones we keep, but I know for certain we are keeping Rovi, and I hope she stays with us for another ten years. My girlfriend's favorite little pullet.

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Making friends with people from other countries is so crazy. I sent my group chat a Big Bird gif.

And this one girl says, “why isn’t he blue?”

I’m like, the fuck you mean??

So today I learned that in the Dutch version of Sesame Street, they do, in fact, have a blue Big Bird.

I was baffled by this so I went on Muppets Wiki and guess what.

In Mexico, Big Bird is green and his name is Abelardo.

Turkish Big Bird (aka Minik Kus) is apparently fucking orange.

This looks like a fuckin alternate universe or smth. I can’t.

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day 1

day one of posting a gay chicken every day for pride month

Lesbian

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I should start talking to my psychiatrist like he exclusively asks yes/no questions. Every few months I forget what he acts like and I think "surely if I rationally explain-" nope! Stop it babe! He ain't listening! Just give him a hard yes or no because even though we pay for half an hour he refuses to have an appointment go longer than 8 minutes. It doesn't matter if he just asked a complicated question, he will cut you off and talk over you within 15 seconds of you opening your mouth. Just give him a yes or no and stop trying.

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Why is it that shows accidentally portray autism or ADHD well without ever realizing it, but any time they try to intentionally do it they fail terribly at it.

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Another comic based on a favorite post of mine, because what can I say? I love posts

Original post by @cryptotheism

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I have made the assumption that all of the Bresse boys are half-siblings (I can't prove it, that is just my assumption since their eggs were all bought from the same farm) so it is truly fascinating how much of a difference there is in all of their growth patterns and combs.

[Photo set description: three close up photos of cockerels faces in profile. The first had a large comb with thick points, the second has a lot of wrinkles over the nose and under the chin, and the third has short points but a lot of small ridges.]

And I think I have also isolated their crows, too

Salmon has the classic COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO

Comet had a raspy EEE-KA-GEEK-EEK

Tuna however. Tuna's is AAAAAAAAAAAAWR.

They're still practicing.

Obsessed with their comb shapes right now

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There is NOTHING IN AMERICA that hasn't been touched by racism. NOTHING.

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so a Blorbo is a type of spiritual chew toy, i gather

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and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

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you have to admit it: most if not all animals are very brave. they do a lot of things and dont always know whats going to happen. they have beautiful eternal souls because of this

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So I was at SDCC this year, and I passed a stall in the ladies' and heard someone sobbing inside. Just bawling, fully melting down. My-dog-just-died levels of crying. And I've spent a lot of time in therapy trying to learn better boundaries around helping people, but I'm not made of stone, so I stopped outside the stall door and asked, "Are you okay?"

The woman's breath caught, and she said, "Yeah, I'm fine," in the least fine voice I have ever heard.

So I walked away. Made it all the way to the sinks. Washed my hands. And turned around and went back because nope, not fine, not okay.

"Look, I don't want to be a dick, and you don't have to tell me what's going on, but is there anything that would help? I've got water, ibuprofen, and safety pins, and I could find other stuff."

"No, no, it's fine. I have those too."

"...okay."

I made it to the sinks again. She went back to sobbing like her heart was being torn out one strand of muscle at a time.

An older woman sidled up to me. "Did she tell you anything?"

"Nope. I offered her water and ibuprofen, too."

"Oh! I've got snacks. Maybe that'll help."

"Worth a shot. Oh, hey, I think I have some of my business cards for my Etsy shop in here—I could write my number on one if she needs help later."

"I've got a pen!"

We hurried back to the stall, offered the snacks, and were rebuffed. Finally we slid the card and the pen under the stall door, explained that we were both mom friends/teachers/etc. and trying to help-not-creep, and reluctantly fucked off. I personally felt like shit about it, but I had places to be and I felt like I was close to overstepping the crying woman's boundaries if I hadn't already done so. And if I'd made her feel unsafe, well, she could toss the card.

The following morning, I got a text from an unknown number.

She identified herself as "Rose from the bathroom" and explained that she'd had a hell of a day, with multiple people being cruel to her, seemingly for no good reason. She'd hit her breaking point and fled to the bathroom to cry it out ... at which point two strangers had rocked up, checked on her multiple times, and generally done the dance of most social mammals when a member of their group is in unexplained distress. The two of us had, more or less accidentally, restored her faith in humanity by being worried apes at her. 18 hours later, she was having a much better time, and a lot of it was due to the two of us shoving things under her door.

Anyway, turns out we live about 20 minutes apart, and we're going to meet up for tea after we've recovered from con exhaustion.

So if you ever feel like humans in general and/or fandom humans in particular are irredeemable shits, remember that sometimes the same species who'll ruin your con day will try to slide trail mix and ibuprofen under your stall door in case it helps.

I still don't know what Rose looks like, btw (although apparently she knows what I look like—I mentioned I was in cosplay and she said she'd seen me around). I don't know whether she's cis or trans. So next time you hear someone bitching about trans women in the ladies', feel free to tell them that it never once crossed anybody's mind to ask. If you're crying in the bathroom, you're my sister.

Maybe take the trail mix, though. We apes worry about one another.

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some of the things that are recommened for vaginoplasty are so funny like. there's a four week period where i'm "encouraged to sensually explore the area" but "not allowed to climax" like okay doctor-mandated edging. if you say so lmao