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Jumping over Mama

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fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

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Sea World on the Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) is *the* number one place that shows up to help if a whale beaches itself along a fair stretch of the eastern Australian coastline. They help with other stuff too, including dolphins snagged in fishing nets or shark nets, but whales are the rescues that are most likely to make the news.

Are they for-profit? Sure, and they've never claimed otherwise. Do they use a solid chunk of that profit to genuinely help marine animals who would otherwise suffer and die? Yep, and they do it pretty quietly a lot of the time. Maybe if they were louder about it people wouldn't misjudge them so much.

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nothing has fucked me up more than knowing the australian white ibis has a near-identical sister species called the african sacred ibis. the african sacred ibis is associated with thoth, ancient god of wisdom and reason. the australian white ibis is most commonly referred to as a “bin chicken”.

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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SANTA CLARITA DIET, 2017-2019 Season 3, Episode 1 - “Wuffenloaf”

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Me leaving comments on fics.

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we need a gamma reader

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subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update

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Photographer Debbie Parker captured this lightning strike in West Virginia. - Author: sco-go

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question: how does it feel to watch people you care about be mistreated? how would you describe that feeling?

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Today I saw a pic of a baby cowbird next 2 its nest "parent" and it was so much bigger!!!!! Which is the sort of thing that gets normal people upset about the injustice of nest parasitism but makes *me* worry if baby cowbirds get bird dysmorphia

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“if you’re sensitive to sounds when sleeping, just use earplugs!” i cannot stress enough that the sensory feeling of having my ears fully blocked AND now being able to hear my own heartbeat and breathing and every other sound that’s happening inside my own body is a million times worse than whatever ambient noise may be keeping me awake

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I wonder if, in superhero universes, the villains ever get contacted by those “Make a Wish Foundation” and similar people.

I mean, the heroes do, of course they do, kids who want to meet Spiderman or Superman or get to be carried by the Flash as he runs through Central City for just thirty seconds.

But surely there are also the kids, who - because they are kids and sometimes kids are just weird - decide that what they really, really want is to meet a supervillain. Because he’s scary or she’s awesome or that freeze ray is just really, really cool, you know?

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I had a very young kid with a hereditary heart condition come in today to be seen. My colleague excitedly told him that I play “that ‘dungeons and dragons’ game just like you do!”

The kid deadpans me with “I DM for 8 people who keep splitting the party, I think that’s why I’m really here.”

Relatable, kid, relatable.

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I got stung by a jellyfish today and it didn’t feel at all how I expected. I thought it would be similar to a wasp; an initial sharp stabbing pain that faded gradually. But instead I barely felt it at first, and then it turned into an itching, and gradually intensified into a deep burn over several minutes. I was very surprised by how unusual it was.

I started thinking about it and that actually kind of makes sense. A bee or wasp uses its sting defensively. It’s supposed to hurt right away, to tell whatever is bothering it to Fuck Off. But a jellyfish isn’t defending itself, it’s hunting. And once something is tangled in its tentacles, it’s already done for. The venom doesn’t need to have an initial punch of pain, it can take its time. The prey isn’t going anywhere. Obviously this depends on species but yeah it does make sense that jellyfish stings feel very different than wasp stings.

The sheer diversity of ways that animals can hurt you is beautiful and astounding.