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October can’t come soon enough

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remember go nuts show nuts whatever

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Shoot, meant to post this to my main, not my writing/art blog, haha

I don't make it into the city often. But when I do, I feel like a fish out of water 😅

But yeah, truck a little too big for most parking lots here to accommodate. We would have taken my truck, but I had a scraper bucket in my box and we didn't feel like unloading that. So the flatbed it was for the night out.

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reblog to share a plate of delicious waffles with your followers :D

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This kid is on to something.

#dogman

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO TEMPTED TO CROSS STATE LINES AND COMMIT ELECTION FRAUD

[id: Headline: Internet picks "werewolf clawing off its own shirt" as new Michigan "I Voted" sticker. Background image: an absolutely RIPPED werewolf, head back and howling at "I VOTED", its shirt in ribbons under its claws, the American flag behind it. End id.]

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LET'S PLAY "MAURY"

So we are waiting on DNA results on this baby because his color is just a lil questionable. So I'm gonna share pictures of the sire and dam along with "their" baby and yall gonna say "You ARE the father." or "You are NOT the father" and when we get results back I'll let yall know. Sire- (Sired by a grey stallion, and a chestnut mare with a history of bays, blacks, and chestnuts only in his pedigree.)

Dam- (Sired by a black tobiano out of a sorrel mare. No sabino or roan in either pedigree, only spots and blacks and bays in hers)

THE BABY- ^that's also him nursing in above picture

His owner insists she brought her stallion to the farm to collect, was directly handed the semen, and it went right into the mare.

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Plains Bison | Bryan Maynes

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hot take apparently but i think it's good for white people to relate to poc's art. i think it's good for straight people to relate to queer art. stop acting like we're different species who could never possibly understand each other what the fuck is wrong with you

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Okay. So. You know how some people want to finish exterminating all large predatory mammals so they have less competition for deer and so they don't occasionally lose livestock? And you know how native deer species in North America have been hit increasingly hard with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the past couple of decades due to overpopulation thanks to the eradication of large predatory mammals that normally keep them in check?

We already have evidence that reintroducing predatory mammals to their native ranges not only knocks deer populations back to a healthier level, and now we've discovered that apparently the digestive systems of cougars and bobcats are lethal to CWD prions. Prions are among the most difficult pathogens* to eliminate; you have to heat them up to about 1,800 degrees F in order to thoroughly destroy them. And prion diseases like CWD are almost universally fatal.

So to find that these wild cats can safely eat CWD-infected animals AND significantly reduce the chances that the prions will be spread to other deer is a pretty big deal, especially since some other animals like coyotes and crows do pass prions undamaged through their digestive systems. And it's just one more example of why an ecosystem needs all of the species that have evolved in it over thousands of years, not just those are convenient for humans to have around. The spread of CWD is directly related to the overpopulation of deer, and it's likely that continuing to reintroduce large predatory mammals to their native range will help quell this awful prion disease.

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huge shoutout to everyone who started their blog when they were teenagers and now they are in their 20s and 30s

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Prepare yourself.

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Mechanical snencils

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Always wild to see how much of plants is roots

Especially grassland plants

Like, look at this guy

One true leaf and less than a centimeter tall, and already a 21cm taproot

That's hella carbon sequestration! Once mature these guys make enormous perennial taproots, and that carbon isn't going anywhere soon