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Animal of the Day!
Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus)
(Photo from San Deigo Zoo)
Conservation Status- Critically Endangered
Habitat- China
Size (Weight/Length)- 25 kg; 115 cm
Diet- Fish; Insects; Crayfish; Frogs; Other salamanders; Crabs
Cool Facts- The Chinese giant salamander is both the largest and rarest amphibian in the world. Completely aquatic, these giant salamanders spend the majority of their time sleeping under rocks. When not sleeping, they eat practically anything. They prefer freshwater crabs but they have been reported to engage in cannibalism. Despite their near blind state, they are expert hunters by using vibrations sensed on nodes along their spine. Females and males only live together during the breeding season and until the eggs hatch. The male protects these eggs with his life while the female hunts for food. Due a mass decline in population from population, illegal hunting, and habitat destruction, zoos and breeding facilities around the world are working to save these massive salamanders.
Rating- 13/10 (Absolutely massive, friendly friend.)
shout out to the literal fan fiction happening a few blocks from my apartment. there has been this halal meat market on the corner for like 19 years that the owner’s son just inherited and directly across the street this woman opened a kosher grocery store and since day one they’ve had this very friendly fake rivalry, playing it up for the customers, it’s always been super goofy and light hearted. so turns out last night she proposed in the middle of the afternoon rush in the meat market and he said YES and she’s moving her store to the adjacent empty storefront on the left so they can have a JOINT GROCERY STORE it is so fucking cute I wish them the happiest marriage ever
I learnt something today that I think is just beautiful. My grandmother was a very sick woman and pretty much housebound for the last of her life. She derived great pleasure from watching her neighbour’s backyard chickens. She adored these chickens. Every time I called, she had new chicken drama to tell me—think Linda Belcher and the raccoons. It turns out that at some point, their neighbour was no longer able to have chickens because due to a disability he could no longer afford to keep them. My grandfather, upon learning this, immediately used his spending money to keep the neighbour in both chickens and chicken feed so that my grandmother would have chickens to watch since my grandfather didn’t have time to keep chickens at their home. He did this for ten years, guys. TEN YEARS he secretly funded his neighbour’s backyard chickens so that my grandmother would have chickens to watch every day until the day she died. That’s true love.
love in fiction when scientists get a little too wild in the pursuit of science and end up a little fucked up because of it. you inject yourself with alien dna, you meld minds with some kind of mysterious creature, you let the parasite infect you. like yesss express your total devotion to your field by sacrificing a part of yourself to it and becoming slightly unhuman in the process
For so long I’ve been trying to understand what exactly in Narnia made it the story that affected me in the most profound way in my young life and continued to stay there, gently nestled in my heart, for the entire duration.
Not Harry Potter, nor Lord of the Rings, but this weird little story about a girl and her stupid brother and a wardrobe and a lion, followed by this other story about this boy who always yearned to see the North only to discover he was the long lost crown prince (the Horse and his boy will always be my favourite Narnia story).
When I think of Narnia, the country, I think of the joy of discovering that things you find impossible yet beautiful could indeed happen. That there’s comfort for every aching heart, that if you long for something – something more, something gentle and sweet and at the same time great and fascinating and daunting – all your life, that means that this is where you were always meant to be.
That your bravery will be rewarded, that it is not stupid to believe in justice and to believe that people could be honourable and kind. That it’s okay to be naive when you’re young and it’s okay to trust people. That it’s okay even if your trust was misplaced, definitely don’t shut yourself out if you make a mistake, because you will be forgiven.
In our world, we’ve been taught to fear things since we were young. In Narnia, we were taught to trust ourselves.
In our reality, girls are punished for being too trusting or too pure and naive when they are kids, they’re taught by worried mothers and by society to be guarded and jaded and to expect disappointed and harmed, but in Narnia, Lucy’s pure heart and her faith in goodness were rewarded.
In Narnia, greatness lay in kindness and courage, whereas the alignment of our world is a bit askew and you’re supposed to be cunning and smart. These qualities aren’t bad, definitely not, but it goes unspoken that they’re supposed to contradict the first two qualities.
Most importantly, in Narnia you don’t have to wonder if God is real, if you’re protected. You know it. You’ve spoken to God, you’ve seen Him and it gives you this sense of rightness that all Narnians seem to have, and this sense of comfort and goodness the people in our world who doubt or don’t believe, don’t have.
If I have to sum up why I love Narnia so much even as an adult, I think it would be this: because, if only when you’re thinking of Narnia, you truly believe that it’s alright to trust your belief that there’s something More in this world, that you were born to be comforted, that it’s alright to be kind and courageous and gentle and this doesn’t mean that the world will fuck you over. That it’s alright to feel safe. That some higher power has your back and loves you and supports you and helps you. That it’s okay to trust yourself. And in these moments, when you think of Narnia, you feel Narnian, and that’s the best feeling in the world because you finally feel like you’re allowed to shed all your heavy, heavy layers of doubt and anger and cynicism and guardedness that the real world makes you wear. And you’re free. And when you go to a forest and you hear the wind rustling through the leaves of the trees, you don’t feel like you’re alone, you feel like you're home.
I was in there for five seconds, I come out and I’ve lost five years of my life. HAWKEYE (2021) || BLACK WIDOW (2021)
ROBERT PATTINSON 2022 | Jack Bridgland ph. for GQ Magazine
In every wood in every spring there is a different green.
i am a simple girl i seek academic validation and get absolutely destroyed when i don’t receive it
Ok, I'm not okay. I just saw someone on TikTok saying that the worst thing is that we'll keep getting older, but the fictional characters we love won't grow, they will stay their age.
So I just realized that Edmund was 18-19 in the last book of the chronicles of Narnia and I'm 17 rn. I will be 18 next year and then 19 soon. Now I just wanna cry in my bed.
Our system is broken. It is cruel. It is dehumanizing, degrading, and it’s vile nature is so, so unnecessary.
We need universal healthcare today in America. We needed it 40 years ago. It’s cheaper, it’s simpler, it’s more efficient, it’s more effective and it is so, so, so much less cruel than what we have.
Additional sources/references:
Universal Healthcare Cost in America would be cheaper by trillions of dollars
The US has worse life expectancies than socialized healthcare countries
We have worse generalized healthcare results
We have the most expensive care
Our system is so cruel and unique that doctors from other countries literally can’t believe what happens here
I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this. There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways. I can tell you when, though.
Now.
“why are you sad?” i ask myself
“because i want to experience love. what is it like? why are we so scared?”
“i suppose we’re waiting for when it’s safe. when we’ve gotten to a place mentally that it’s ok to let someone in”
“sometimes i feel like this wait will be never ending, for maybe i won’t ever feel like we’re ready for love”
ATTENTION WATTPAD USERS AND NON-WATTPAD USERS!!
teenfic.net IS STEALING BOOKS FROM WATTPAD!!
This is really serious case! Website called teenfic.net is actively pirating every book from wattpad probably including yours.
The worst thing about this is that everyone can just copy your hard work and claimed it us theirs. Go and try yourself. Just ctrl C, ctrl V random fic, book there (which you can't do on wattpad). You can also find yourself, by tipping your nickname (i did that and all my published books are there).
Those books are mine and all of them have copyright policy on!
What they're doing is ILLEGAL!! And you can help to stop it!
This is a petition to shut down this website. It's completely free and will help a lot of creators, our whole country here! So don't wait and sing this petition to stop piracy!
Pls inform others and share awarness among other users and outside wattpad if you can!
ATTENTION WATTPAD USERS AND NON-WATTPAD USERS!!
teenfic.net IS STEALING BOOKS FROM WATTPAD!!
This is really serious case! Website called teenfic.net is actively pirating every book from wattpad probably including yours.
The worst thing about this is that everyone can just copy your hard work and claimed it us theirs. Go and try yourself. Just ctrl C, ctrl V random fic, book there (which you can't do on wattpad). You can also find yourself, by tipping your nickname (i did that and all my published books are there).
Those books are mine and all of them have copyright policy on!
What they're doing is ILLEGAL!! And you can help to stop it!
This is a petition to shut down this website. It's completely free and will help a lot of creators, our whole country here! So don't wait and sing this petition to stop piracy!
Pls inform others and share awarness among other users and outside wattpad if you can!
Back in June, my friend Mia invited me to Birthday More, a small adorable café recently opened by two lolitas. We then walked to Parfaiteria Bel in Shinjuku to have their famous parfaits. Since it was in the middle of the afternoon during a week day, there was almost no one there. (See extra pictures on my Instagram post) On our way back to the station, we saw those very pretty hydrangeas on the side of the street and took some photos. It was at the end of a long hot day wearing a mask, so excuse the tired makeup. For outfit and makeup details, see my previous post.
Is it just me but life feels very stagnant and meaningless lately? This quote has been playing in my head alot lately "How we spend our days is how we spent our life" and i feel as if I'm just existing and wasting my days if this is how i spend my life based on my day to day activity then it just truly is such a bland and boring one
POST PLUS IS COMING, WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!
Despite the fancy survey, changes to the UI and TOS reveal we’re getting the service in the future whether we want it or not. Obviously, Post+ is a terrible idea that is trying to bank revenue on user content. Unlike patreon or onlyfans, tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content. The legality of this is NOT in the users favor and as the new tumblr TOS states, said users will be entirely liable for whatever legal matters arise.
SO WHAT ARE WE DOING?
Besides filling out the survey, it’s time to show tumblr we mean business and show our displeasure by hitting them where it hurts.
Ad revenue.
We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as phase one of this protest.
WHEN IS THE PROTEST?
AUGUST 6th, 2021 12 am Eastern Time (US) 5 am Greenwich Mean Time 6 am Central European Time 8 am Moscow Standard Time 1 pm Australian Western Time 2 pm Japan Standard Time 3:30 pm Australian Central Time 4 pm Australian Eastern Time
AUGUST 5th, 2021
11 pm Central Time (US) 10 pm Mountain Time (US) 9 pm Pacific Time (US)
THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM START TIME!!!
So no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs!
WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?
Like this post and share it AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. Use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media.
WILL THIS WORK?
Maybe, maybe not. It’s an attempt at doing SOMETHING.
BECAUSE I’M A TIRED IDIOT, USE THIS TO DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE!!!!
Every time I wrote your name, I lied. Every time I wrote your name, it was the truth.
1.Clarice Lispector | 2.Nickie Zimov | 3.Warsan Shire | 4.Pablo Neruda | 5.Madeline Miller | 6.Nickie Zimov | 7.Madeline Miller | 8.Vincent van Gogh | 9.James Joyce | 10.Nick Lantz | 11.Ocean Vuong | 12.Nickie Zimov | 13.Richard Brautigan | 14.Keaton St. James
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.
I was literally JUST having this conversation with my sister but I think one of the most difficult aspects of committed long term relationships is that there will be times when your partner is not okay and you just gotta drop everything and show up for them, no matter how inconvenient the timing might be for you, no matter how HARD and not-fun it is to steadfastly sit with someone in depression and anxiety and grief. that’s what for richer for poorer in sickness and in health means. and in a balanced relationship those roles reverse bc you both do that for each other
someone said renegade could be joe’s pov for taylor back in 2016 and this thing is blowing my mind up
“I, emotionally, was really struck by the first time I heard it just the way she talks about how anxiety and fear get in the way of loving someone or create an inability for someone to love. And I think it's incredibly relatable, but it’s expressed in the context of this fairly experimental sound world. The way it came together as a song it just really I think sums up the whole the Big Red Machine record.”
— Aaron Dessner to Zane Lowe on Renegade (x)
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Honestly Woman
Me, Fred, and George: *Waiting to board the Express*
Molly: Alright Fred your turn.
Me af: He's not Fred, I am!
Fred: Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother.
George: *Laughing his arse off*
Molly: I- Emily you aren't even one of my children, luckily.
Me, Fred, and George: *Dramatic gasp*
Fred: DISOWNING ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN?!
George: HOW DARE YOU
Me: *Fake crying* I JUST WANTED A HOME
George and Fred: *Holding me in a huddle* HOW COULD YOU, YOU BROKE HER
Molly: These kids-
Out of all the fictional characters i can choose from to obsess over , i always end up with the ones that die. Why am i like this? every time i get reminded of their death i feel like my chest is splitting open because it hurts that bad 😔
From the fundraising webpage:
This fundraiser is to help our dear friend Mohammed Abu Matar to rebuild Tashkeel3D; a key manufacturer of 3D-printed medical equipment in Gaza that was destroyed by Israeli Occupation Forces during this week’s attack on Gaza. Tashkeel3D is where Gaza’s first 3D printer was built, where medical devices have been manufactured for years and led the opensource culture was in Gaza. Tashkeel3D is the original Gaza affiliate of the Canada-based Glia Project, an organization founded by ER doctor Tarek Loubani which works with regional partners to develop and produce low-cost and open-source 3D-printed medical equipment. Among other tools, Tashkeel3D has developed 3D-printed tourniquets: compression devices used to limit bleeding. They were threatened with bombing previously by the Israeli Occupation Forces. While no specific reason was given, they were producing tourniquets to support Gaza’s medical system at the time, which was likely what brought them to attention.
The destruction severely hampers efforts to produce 3D printed tourniquets. Tashkeel3D’s offices effectively represent half of Gaza’s 3D printing capacity. All proceeds will go to Mohammed to help him rebuild Tashkeel3D. We ask that you please donate any amount that you possibly can and that you share this link with your network.
(campaign verified with Mohammed Abu Matar)
hi all, palestine’s going through a mass genocide right now and really needs help, here are a few ways you can do that
palestine children’s relief fund: provide urgent humanitarian care for children in gaza
anera: provide on-the-ground emergency relief
medical aid for palestinians: emergency relief for women and children, psychosocial support, disability help, other medical needs
doctors without borders: medical teams on the ground treating injured palestinians as needed
feel free to add on in the notes, notify me if any of the fundraisers listed arent necessary/actually helpful to donate to, and let me know if anything needs added on/modified
as always, if you cant donate then please share and spread awareness
UPDATE: this post has been edited to remove an organization by the UN (details in reblog by @petite-elf )
UPDATE: companies to boycott have been added due to the direct harm they cause towards palestinians (c. @/sleepallsummer, letstalkpalestine on instagram)
Caterpillar: Caterpillar bulldozers are regularly used in the demolition of Palestinian homes and farms and in Israel’s massacres in Gaza
HP: Hewlett Packard helps run the ID system that Israel uses to restrict Palestinian movement
Puma: Puma sponsors the Israel Football Association, which includes teams in Israel’s illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
SodaStream: SodaStream home drinks machines are one of Israel’s best known exports.
Ahava: Ahava cosmetics are another of Israel’s best known export companies.
Sabra: Sabra hummus is a joint venture between PepsiCo and the Strauss Group, an Israeli food company that provides financial support to the Israel Defense Forces.
Motorola: Provides Israeli military, police, prisons and immigration authority with communication technology
For more information, see bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp, investigate.afsc.org, whoprofits.org