#see you in cleveland

[xariarte]

every 2023-24 national basketball association team as a terrible news headline - pt. 1: playoffs edition

[hawleywilby]

[field-of-sungflowers]

hiiiii if you're anywhere near any of these shows you should go see rich aucoin, he's an absolute BLAST and the tickets are like $16 with fees

[medufasa]

Expect some more family guy/hotel transylvania/scooby doo and teen titans artwork coming soon

[dreamlandgirlie]

i love you so much carlos carrasco

[stepfordgoth]

We are now into day 5 of being unmedicated! I feel like garbage and I want to die lol

[millesbianforce]

Moms are hilariously bad at trying to ask you sneaky questions about something they're thinking about getting you for Christmas

[sacredthethreadgvf]

Omg I see Mac Saturn tomorrow and my Greta girls are coming to visit 😭😭

[sortanonymous]

*Sees it's May, when we literally couldn't be more separated from playoff baseball and everyone's focused on two completely different sports' postseasons* "How about a World Series video, guys!"

Every World Series-Winning Run of the Wild Card Era (1995-2023)

aka the run that makes it a number the opposing team never reaches in the deciding game; for example, the 2nd run in a 5-1 final. (oops, sorry Dodgers fans!) If you're familiar with hockey and its rules on "game-winning goals", then it's like that.

[opencommunion]

EMERGENCY PROTESTS FOR RAFAH

CANADA Feb 12 Edmonton - 4:30 PM Montreal - 5 PM Ottawa - 4:30 PM Toronto - 5:30 PM Vancouver - 5:30 PM Feb 13 Montreal - 5:30 PM UNITED STATES Feb 12 Austin - 5 PM Baltimore - 7 PM Chicago - 4:30 PM Cleveland - 5:30 PM Las Vegas - 6 PM Little Rock - 5:30 PM Los Angeles - 3 PM New York - 4 PM Seattle - 6 PM Washington DC - 6:30 PM

Feb 13 Amherst - 12 PM Atlanta - 7 PM Hartford - 5:15 PM Houston - 4 PM Philadelphia - 5:30 PM Pittsburgh - 5 PM Salt Lake City - 6 PM San Francisco - 5:30 PM

I'm sure more will be announced in the next few hours, please add any you see!!

[allpromarlo]

best guy in my fantasy league dropped amari cooper 2 days ago and now he's doing this. god works in mysterious ways

[grimandghoulish]

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[ladystoneboobs]

on this tully tuesday, fuck you ryan condal, i see what you're doing. merging kermit and oscar tully and killing off their dad elmo without even naming him, you're trying to hide the muppet-naming pattern by only including the more mundane names. people may have heard of the name grover elsewhere like nonconsective us president grover cleveland, and certainly would with oscar like oscar mayar, the baloney/weiner man, but if you hear the names elmo and/or kermit you're thinking muppets right away. smdh, if you can embrace the gothic horror of harrenhal, you should be able to embrace the whimsy of grrm naming his dance-era tullys after sesame street muppets.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Very, very fresh bison calf.

Months and months ago I promised y'all photos of the bison birth I was lucky enough to observe at the Cleveland Zoo last spring. As requested, they'll be under a cut, because unlike this lovely photo from the zoo announcement post, my photos are... goopy.

His name is Tighee, a name which the zoo said is "the name of a Shoshone chief."

We walked up just as things started to get going, and the story is below the cut...

This is Blue, a female bison who arrived at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in fall of 2022 already pregnant. When we got to the habitat, there were a ton of people gathered around, and it wasn't quite clear what was going on.

Then we noticed her full udder and the extra pair of feet.

She was dead-center in the (pretty large) habitat, which was nice - though there was a crowd, she had some good distance from everyone for most of it. The calf came pretty quickly, all things considered (something especially helpful when you're holding a heavy camera up on full manual zoom without a tripod). Because she was at a distance, my friend and I spent a bunch of time showing people near us photos on my camera screen so they could get a good view.

I was honestly really surprised at the number of people who asked why the zoo staff weren't in there with her, helping her give birth. So we explained to folk that zoo staff don't normally go in with bison on a normal day because they're so big and dangerous, and that during a birth (a time of potential stress for the whole herd, the rest of whom were off to the side of that habitat) it would be especially risky to do so. But you could see people in the zoo's uniform colors clustered around the fence, keeping a close eye on her.

And then there was a calf! For folk who haven't seen what a whole amniotic sac looks like, I'm including the next couple photos.

This one is still mid-birth, as you can see. The hooves come out first, with the calf's head laying parallel to them.

Blue immediately moves to break the amniotic sac and clear the calf's airways of mucus. Om nom nom.

We have open eyes and an awake baby! The amniotic sac is full of fluid that helps protect the baby while it's in the uterus, which means once it's broken, the baby is goopy. One of mom's first jobs is to lick all of it away to dry the calf off.

A first attempt at using legs!

Nope, being born was too hard and legs don't work yet. Time to rest and recover from the effort of thinking about standing up.

The first inquisitive member of the herd, another young female, comes to check out the newest addition.

More attempts at legs! Getting better but still not coordinated enough yet.

They're starting to help the baby stand up. In a non-captive setting it would be important for him to be able to walk pretty quickly after being born, and he has to stand up to be able to nurse!

Everyone comes to check him out, now.

We have legs! They work! He hadn't quite figured out where to nurse from yet, though.

And that's your bison birth for the day!

[dreamlandgirlie]

“ well clase may lead the league in saves but he also leads the league in blown saves— ”

shut upppp SHUT UPPPPPPPPP

[neil-gaiman]

Hey I'm sort of curious. I haven't read the book, but I'm a fan of the show and was genuinely disappointed that the phrase "going Native" had an exclusively negative connotation when I watched. Idk if this occurred to you or not, but that's pretty blatant racism. It's especially tone deaf considering this is a show about angels and demons - which have been a tool to commit genocide against us for upwards of 500 years.

Why not just use "human"? It's accurate and doesn't frame an entire demographic as inherently bad or undesireable.

Not trying to garner any ill will, it just rlly bummed me out bc I'm Native and it's an identity I wear with great pride bc ppl have tried countless times to rip it away from me. To see it treated with such disdain was very hurtful.

I understand your concerns, and do not wish to minimise them, or your hurt. Obviously the phrase has colonial roots. However, it's a lower case N, and isn't intended to talk about Native Americans. When the angels talk about Aziraphale "going native", this is the meaning they are using. It may be negative for the grumpy angels, but it's positive for humanity and for Aziraphale and Crowley.

From Mirriam Webster online:

go native

idiom

: to start to behave or live like the local people

After a few weeks, she was comfortable enough to go native and wear shorts to work.

Example Sentences

Recent Examples:

But dogs that go native make bad guards, hunting companions, and friends.—David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 29 Oct. 2020

Let your yard go native: The Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District is offering seven native plant kits for sale that are adapted to the local climate and do not require excess watering or fertilizer once they are established.—Joan Rusek, cleveland, 6 July 2020