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totally crazy example to use to demonstrate The Comparative Loneliness Epidemic Of The Twenty-First Century. melville was lonely as hell just jerking it unreciprocated to nathaniel hawthorne every night. that's a different thing

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So, redbubble fucked up in the best way possible for my shrimp design

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this is killing me. get cherried idiot

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Hope Mike Parsons never knows a day of fucking peace

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Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II at Fontevraud Abbey

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Very annoy when this happens

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one reason abusive and neglectful parenting is common that people are scared to acknowledge is the sheer amount of couples who only had children because it was expected of them. as a result, they're going to first and foremost view their children as a status symbol, something to prove they're a good family.

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Not to be a killjoy (though it is what I do best) but the unsafe and rough handling of a baby Pygmy hippo in a pretty substandard Thai zoo being meme-ed into something funny and cute really shows just how much groupthink plays into public perception of animal welfare.

Moo Deng shows avoidance, threat displays and stress around her keepers that are constantly man-handling her, blasting her with a hose and harassing her. The enclosure is mostly concrete, which is horrible for her soft feet. There looks to be some substrate but there doesn’t seem to be any areas for wallowing or deep water wading.

There’s also very easy access of this hippo to the public with no places to hide. I’d love if someone could shed more light on the enclosures but from what I’ve seen it’s not great.

Also the free contact and forcing into tubs that the keepers do is only going to create an avoidant and potentially aggressive and dangerous Pygmy hippo.

But the public happily overlook that because she’s cute. It’s a similar attitude with seals too.

Stop rewarding bad husbandry with clout. Baby animals deserve agency and respect and to grow up without getting harassed and feeling the need to defend themselves constantly.

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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

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type of shit im on

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had a fun experience on the subway the other day

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saying "thats a dracula": inaccurate because Dracula is a specific person, funny because we all know that Dracula is a vampire but by choosing to refer to any vampire as "a dracula" we imply that we are familiar with dracula but not familiar with vampires

saying "thats a nosferatu": accurate because nosferatu is not nosferatu's name