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no fucking way

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Time for a new Jelly, new good vibes! Good luck everyone, it’s gunna be good soon

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I sat down outside to hang out, and Bug jumped up to get some love (and a break from the children)

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crafting a plane launcher with chopsticks by 小小折纸手工

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first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

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non-ffxiv players, please describe what is happening in this image

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excuse me while i nerd out for a minute

i have five words for you, fellow linguists

The Law of Ablaut Reduplication

Literally the coolest thing EVER

So you know how in English, adjectives have to go in a specific order when placed in front of a noun?

(determiner, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose)

Almost all phrases in English follow this rule. It’s why saying “the brown big dog” sounds weird, but if you change it to “the big brown dog” it sounds fine!

You can see this rule in other phrases such as “cheap red dress” or “round wood table.”

BUT

Some phrases don’t follow this rule! (I know, English is built on rules that aren’t actually rules.)

Think of the Big Bad Wolf. If we apply the adjective order rule, it should be “Bad Big Wolf,” since opinion comes before size. But that sounds weird, right?

That’s because some phrases instead follow the Law of Ablaut Reduplication!

In this law, words are ordered based on the sound. More specifically, they follow this order:

I -> A -> O

That’s why we say things like “flip flop” or “hip hop.”

Or, my personal favorite example, “splish splash splosh.” (i -> a -> o)

Thanks for listening to my rant 🔥🔥

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

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I don't breed guinea fowl but I have some. I give greens and dry oatmeal to mine as a treat, but I've been giving them that since they were keets so I don't know if other guineas would like it. Mine were raised with chicks so they don't mind being enclosed and will return to the coop with the others when I let them have supervised free range time. They really like insects as well. Beetles, ticks, mealworms, and soldier fly larvae are huge hits. They're not really smart. I catch mine by putting treats into a dog kennel and standing close, motionless, until they go in and then I just close the door. Hope this helps.

Read your post about the missing peacocks and was reminded today that there is a guinea fowl living in the woods behind my parents house; I saw it just today trying to make friends with the local game birds which did not seem impressed. Do you have any recommendations for catching it and perhaps who to talk to to get it cared for?

I don't! I am a peafowl blog, and I don't know the first thing about guineafowl. My understanding is that they do not like to go into enclosed spaces (unlike peafowl), so getting them into a closed space may be a problem. I recently found myself in some guinea groups trying to find guineafowl eggs for my neighbor who wants a couple to hang out with his other birds, and as it turns out, everyone just wants a couple to hang out with their birds, no one appears to be super enthusiastic about breeding guineas. I could not locate someone to purchase eggs from, because everyone I talked to or saw in the group just had "a few" incidental guinea fowl who all fuck off and hide their nests somewhere. I don't even know what would be favored treats. I don't even know where to direct you to find answers, as I couldn't find much when I went looking for someone else.

But maybe someone else knows something.

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Silly question but how would you rate different gamebird chicks on a scale of "no brain cells, head empty" to "wait! I think I just saw a thought happen?!"?

You've mentioned before that turkey poults have the survival instinct of a chicken nugget, and I've raised coturnix chicks before which are like...death seeking missiles. Are other gamebird chicks as dumb? Are any recognisably better suited to not immediately kamikaze-ing into the nearest water fountain/single square millimetre of loose tape/one cold spot they can find in the brooder?

Peafowl chicks rate the highest. I know I talk a lot of shit about them, but outside of not eating unless shown the food (which IS a valid survival behavior, for avoiding toxic things in their native environment), they're not prone to doing anything actively stupid. They have great eye sight, they tend to look before they leap (and can fly if they do get into trouble). They have a sense of time ("bedtime" is a concept they have! Every hand raised baby I've ever had has had a strict idea of when they think it's time to go to bed and will scream at me until I agree). They will return themselves to the heat when it's time, I've never had one fail to do this or start screaming because they're on the cold side of the brooder and don't know how to move 1 foot to the left to get warm. I've never had one drown in the water dish even though they get a bowl or are raised outside with a pond/big water bowl. They can coexist with just about any other bird, which is great because their only flaw is they need to be shown food for the first few weeks, and adding something like a chicken will cause the chicken to show them where to eat. And because peafowl are large, all the other babies will follow them around for everything else. For creatures who grew up in an environment where very little (predator wise) can kill them, they're surprisingly adapted to not dying in really stupid ways in captivity. They ARE fragile in other ways (pick up parasites easily), but that's not a matter of stupidity.

Coturnix are so far the worst, and I am including Turkeys in this metric. Turkeys are at least hardy in a brooder setup, even if they are very stupid outside with mom. Coturnix on the other hand have to have a tiny lip to their water dish so they don't get into it and drown or chill (and they still do their level best to get into it, even with the tiny lip where they can barely reach the water, I sometimes check on them and find one Mystery Sopping Wet.... how..... and why...... and also HOW). I have watched one grab a drink of water, throw its head back to swallow, choke, and die immediately. There is NOTHING you can do for them if they fail at drinking water, by the way. If you pick them up too soon after they drink, or any other time, there's a non-zero chance that they immediately panic-vomit any water in their system, choke on it, and suffocate/die instantly so you have to be careful about handling them while they're doing their very best to make that as difficult as possible (and this lovely trait persists into adulthood). They cannot have access to anything they can get caught in/under, I have to put barriers in their cage and not give them a cold spot in the brooder until they're a few days old because they will CHARGE to it and sit there until they die screaming about how cold they are while 1 foot away from the heat. They still throw themselves at this barrier because they can see through a 1mm gap to either side that cold death awaits them with open arms and they desire it so badly. It's why they always look like this:

If you have them standing on your hand they WILL just walk off - nay, run full tilt off - without regard for if there is anything below them to fall ONTO, and they are fully capable of beaning themselves so hard upon impact that they die. I had to find a stuffie that was very light and a stuffie that was very heavy, because a medium weight is just light enough for them to shove themselves into the shavings beneath it and suffocate because they can't get out again, and they will also actively seek to do this. They have to have a solid-sided brooder because if they can stick their head through a gap a) they can probably get out of it if it's just a little bigger than their head and b) they will get stuck in it and break their necks if it's just a little too small.

The vast majority, 99% of them, are extremely easy to raise, and doing a minimal amount of guardianship in their brooder will protect them from themselves, but they do have a deep and abiding desire to be dead, I think, and there will be some you cannot save from themselves. No other game birds/fowl I've raised are like this- not peafowl, not turkeys, not pheasants, not chickens, not bobwhite quail, not even guinea keets... the closest would be button quail and even they are not death-seeking missiles until they're a bit older.

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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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@i-am-a-fish It's you!

A Pair of Victorian Reverse Painted Crystal Intaglio Earrings, 1870

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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A friend has once again brought it to my attention that it is unusual to have an intact chronological memory of life prior to age 12 and you know what’s weird to ME is that the rest of yall forgot how to sing the clean-up song