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[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Reminder that if you are located in any of the areas with a dot, especially green or yellow, you need to take your bird feeders and bird baths down. If you have cats and dogs, watch them closely while they play outside to ensure they don’t find and eat a sick/dead bird in your backyard as this is fatal to furry friends as well. If you have pet birds or poultry, take extreme caution to wear different shoes between each bird area, don’t get any new birds until the virus burns itself out, and disinfect or discard any potential fomites any time they come into contact with one of your birds or anywhere outside that could be contaminated by wild bird feces.

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[moodyyehudi]

Rejection sensitive matzo brei

[life-on-the-spectrum]

Auditory processing disorder tiramisu?

[behaviornerdwithahat]

Hyperfixation Pizza

[vet-and-wild]

wtf mine too @behaviornerdwithahat​ It was a weird sensation to think that and then scroll down and see the exact thing I’d been thinking already typed out

[quicksilver16]

Anxiety Cookie Dough

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[soberscientistlife]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

Right now, and for a “limited time,” anyone in the United States between the age of 13 and 21 can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library eCard, which gives access to 350,000 eBooks, 200,000 audiobooks, and online databases. (Normally, Brooklyn Public Library eCards are only free for people who live and/or work in New York state.)

More Info

[bitchesgetriches]

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

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[prolifeproliberty]

Not liking this thing where tumblr is slowly trying to push us to the algorithm rather than the chronological timeline of posts from people we follow.

It starts with adding the “Stuff For You” tab, which is not actually stuff for me, because stuff for me would be stuff from the people I chose to follow, also known as the “Following” tab. But as long as I don’t switch to that tab, no big deal, right?

Now when I open the app, I’m on the “Stuff For You” tab by default. Now I have to make a conscious decision to switch back to the “Following” tab, even though that tab is itself the result of many conscious decisions I made to follow people.

Cut it out, @staff. The chronological timeline of posts from people I follow is what makes tumblr better than other social media sites. Leave it alone.

[larmalot]

fucking PREACH

kill this default @staff i'm begging you

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[allthebrazilianpolitics]

How a Brazilian dinosaur sparked a movement to decolonize fossil science

Rather than excitement, the discovery of the species set off a Latin American movement to stop colonial palaeontology.

In December 2020, a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research sent shock waves through the palaeontology community1. It described a dinosaur species that the authors named Ubirajara jubatus — the first dinosaur found in the Southern Hemisphere to display what were probably precursors to modern feathers. The 110-million-year-old fossil had been collected in Brazil decades earlier — but no Brazilian palaeontologist had ever heard of it. The authors of the paper were from Germany, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

It was the latest instance of what some researchers now call palaeontological colonialism, in which scientists from wealthy nations obtain specimens from low- and middle-income countries without involving local researchers, and then store the fossils abroad. The practice can sometimes be illegal. For instance, according to Brazilian law, the country’s fossils belong to the state, although the authors of the Ubirajara paper say that they had a permit signed by a Brazilian mining official allowing them to export the specimen. “As far as the authors are aware, the specimen of Ubirajara was obtained legally,” says David Martill, a co-author and palaeontologist at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

The practice can also deprive nations of knowledge and heritage, say researchers. “Fossils are special to us,” says Allysson Pinheiro, director of the Plácido Cidade Nuvens Palaeontological Museum in Santana do Cariri, Brazil, near where U. jubatus was found. “We have literature, arts and crafts, and music based on them.”

Unlike previous incidents, however, the publication of Ubirajara sparked a revolution.

Through the Twitter campaign #UbirajaraBelongstoBR, Brazilian researchers protested against the paper, which was eventually withdrawn, and called for the fossil’s return. The Ubirajara specimen is currently located at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany, but officials say that the museum is involved in negotiations to send it back to Brazil.

Even more significantly, the incident prompted paleontologists and paleontology associations across Latin America to join forces to end the practice. The growing movement is even attracting interest from scientists in Mongolia and other countries beyond Latin America that are affected by colonial palaeontology.

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[pensivelyplayfulme]

Since Citizen's United made corporations legally people, I think, like people, they should be jailed (separated from society, unable to do jack shit) instead of fined when they commit heinous acts and I think we should impose a "natural lifespan" on them where if a corporation reaches a 100 years old they just die.

And I'm not kidding.

[pensivelyplayfulme]

• Think about what happens if work knowingly and purposefully shorts you $100 on your paycheck versus what happens if you pocket $100 from the register.
• Think about what happens for on-the-job negligent deaths versus the maximum sentence for manslaughter by an individual
• Think about what happens if you defraud the federal government versus if banks do it

If they get human rights they deserve human culpability

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[inkskinned]

In my class we have a worm day. If they promise to be gentle and not tug, they can hold one of those beautiful squiggly caretakers of dirt. The wonder they have for it is so real - and I say, did you know they have 5 hearts and love you with all of them. Then I say, “are you holding a boy worm or a girl worm” and they guess. They are all right, and they are all wrong, because worms are both. And I say that. I say, “they are just like people; sometimes not a boy or a girl but something in between, or sometimes they’re both on different days. And they still love you with all 5 hearts.” “Cool,” says one kid. “I don’t want to be a boy, I want to be a girl sometimes.” And I say okay. Children are taught fear. They are taught that the worms are gross. It isn’t until they’re a few years older than my class - up in 3rd or 4th grade - that they start shrieking at my little worm friends. They won’t play the silly games or sing the silly songs or even promise not to tug. A fourth grader hears my lesson about gender and says, “That’s so weird,” and suddenly I hear from the mouths of these beautiful children, “Yeah,” “this is weird,” “No, mine is a girl.” It is not the 4th grader I blame. It is the person in her life that saw something beautiful and ruined it for her. It is the “put that down, it’s gross,” “you don’t want to get dirty” “there’s us and there’s them.” I want to show her - without the humble little blind noses of worms, we are nothing. We need them. Did you know if they grow a belt they’re over a year old! Spent tunnelling through the secrets of roots. I want to show her: it’s okay if tomorrow you feel like a boy or maybe something neither, something different that is entirely you. But fear, once discovered, is not an easy stain to get out. We say, “What will we tell the children” and forget - the children already heard. They heard you snickering about the person down the street. They saw you talking to your friend about “those people”. And they internalize it, burrow it into them. We don’t tell the children, we model hatred until the children can’t hear you, can’t hear you declare, “do as I say, not as I do.” Later the 4th grader goes home. “Ugh,” her mother says with a shudder, seeing my box, “I hate worms.”

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[scottsumrners]

every time someone talks about how “capitalism breeds innovation”, i think about the fact that capitalism killed the streaming service in less than ten years

[scottsumrners]

like…the entire point of netflix when it started was that you could log into one service and you could find thousands of different tv shows and movies in one place, for one price, AND you didn’t have to wait for several weeks to watch the conclusion of a tv show AND you didn’t have to worry about your favorite new show getting cancelled half-way through a season for lack of viewership.

and then every single other channel out there thought “hm. why are we using a third party site to do what WE could do ourselves?” except not a single one of them had enough material in their libraries to do what netflix was doing. but they still pulled all their content out of netflix anyway and tried to do what netflix was doing. and then disney decided to do it as well, which… essentially just killed netflix.

but not only did they kill netflix, they just restarted cable! the whole point of a streaming service was being able to watch one show in one go, over a weekend or something. but bc these services don’t have enough material to keep people invested on paying every month, they have… to…. release shows one episode at a time, so that by the time one show ends they can roll out a new one and keep the subscriptions. which just? defeats the point?

and now we’re all just. back to torrenting one episode at a time, because nobody is paying for “cable…but on the internet”. all because capitalism breeds innovation

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[cyan-opinions]

The video of the dude using his ratchety washing machine for a beat while he plays "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" brings me intense joy

[cyan-opinions]

Im losing my shit rn. Went to grab y'all a link, and I found that even tho this cover of some dude and his broken washing machine wants for nothing

Someone decided to play violin over it and you gotta listen to that too I'm BEGGING

[i-am-the-broken-bride]

Both of these are incredible and everyone should watch them but you FAILED TO MENTION that the original dude SINGS the fiddle part.