thingy

cool-critters: Ornate fruit dove (Ptilinopus ornatus) The ornate...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:33:30 +0200

Ornate fruit dove (Ptilinopus ornatus)

The ornate fruit dove is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

photo credits: Bruce M. Beehler, via news.bbc.co.uk, writhedhornbill

doktorgirlfriend: failure-to-adult: beka-tiddalik: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: rouge-fox-expanded...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:36:27 +0200

doktorgirlfriend:

failure-to-adult:

beka-tiddalik:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

rouge-fox-expanded:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

doktorgirlfriend:

The Riddler hijacks the local TV airwaves and appears onscreen holding a comically long roll of paper. After dramatically clearing his throat, he proceeds to read from it.

“The following is a list of people who can suck it. Number One: The Joker. I don’t think I need to explain that one. Number Two: Cluemaster. Fuck you, you stole my bit, and I will be like a plague unto your house. Number Three: King Tut. You also stole my bit, but did it while killing people and got me arrested for murder. Also, I’m, like, 93% sure you’re a white guy and your costume is racist.

“Number Four: The Scarecrow. I know you ate my leftover Chinese, Jon, even though I wrote my name on it. I was saving that for lunch. I had to eat a goddamn peanut butter and jelly sandwich like a five-year-old. It was all you had in the hideout. For fuck’s sake, go shopping, not all of us can live like a bridge troll.

“Number Five: The Penguin. You- No, no, wait, wait… That one should be crossed out. He replaced that and apologized. Never mind, Oswald, you’re fine. Drinks at 7:00 tomorrow, right?

“Anyway, where was…? Ah, yes. Number Six: The Mad Hatter. You carded me and left me like that for six hours because I, and I quote, ‘would not stop talking about Mythbusters.’ Well, excuse me for trying to make intellectually stimulating conversation on a level you could understand. I suppose every time you prattle on about mome raths and borogoves it’s goddamn Shakespeare? Well… Well, it’s Carroll, but… Oh, you know what I mean!

“Number Seven: Catwoman. You left me hanging by one hand from a ledge five stories up and holding a twenty-pound bag of jewels and very pointy objets d'art while you ‘distracted’ the Dark Knight. I know you were making out with him, Selina. You were gone for fifteen minutes. My shoulder almost dislocated. Very unprofessional.

“Number Eight: Kite Man.”

Here the Riddler pauses, lifting his narrowed gaze to glare at the camera, voice dropping to an ominous tone.

“You know what you did…”

His demeanor shifts quickly, and he’s back to reading from his list almost cheerfully.

“Number Nine! Th-”

He’s interrupted by a crashing noise in the background and looks over his shoulder just an instant before a deep voice angrily growls, “Riddler!”

“Oh, for the love of-” He turns to glare at the camera, speaking quickly. “Number Nine: Batman! Interrupting me while I’m on television making very important- Hm-mmph!”

He’s reduced to muffled curses as a black gloved hand covers his mouth and pulls him out of frame. The camera tilts, a cracking noise is heard, and the broadcast turns to static.

KITE MAN’S CRIMES WERE NUMEROUS AND TERRIBLE

If I were batman I’d give him like a five minute warning, because this actually sounds theraputic.

Batman: Riddler, you’ve hijacked the TV airwaves and you know that’s wrong but I think this is actually theraputic. So I’m giving you five minutes, and then I’m taking you to Arkham

Robin: Geez get a facebook account for this crap, hell if you wanna vent to millions of strangers just get youtube.

“RIDDLER YOU CAN’T JUST GO ON TV AND SCREAM AT PEOPLE

THAT’S WHAT YOUTUBE IS FOR”

Riddler takes this advice. He gets his own youtube channel called RiddleMe_Th15. It starts out as being purely therapeutic, a platform for publically calling out those who have annoyed him. Then someone leaves him a pathetically easy riddle to solve in the comments, and he spends his next segment ranting about it, and then posing a better one.

This starts a dialogue with a number of other youtube users who both attempt to answer his riddles and pose their own riddles in return.

Riddler has found his people, and his hit count is climbing.

Seriously, Riddler would KILL IT (metaphorically speaking) on YouTube. He just does those weird animated puzzle videos where he poses lengthy, overly complicated puzzles, game theories, and riddles, then gives away…fuck I don’t know…Amazon or iTunes cards to whoever gets them right.

“Riddle me this: How can I ensure there are more videos like this one? The answer, my little quest solvers, is simple: Like and subscribe, and consider donating to my Patreon! Which isn’t much of a Riddle, but seriously I’m down to eating crackers and ramen right now and YouTube keeps demonetizing my videos because I used to be a supervillain.”

Bringing this back because “YouTube keeps demonetizing my videos because I used to be a supervillain” has to be shared and because I have some followers who have not experienced The Riddler Post.

Seriously, if you ever need a good time, just read all the responses in the notes. This post still ranks as one of the best things I’ve ever done.

purenonsens: shared interests (my fav BNHA hc is Aizawa being a...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:05:37 +0200

purenonsens:

shared interests

(my fav BNHA hc is Aizawa being a mentor to Shinsou like All Might is to Midoriya, I really want this to happen~!)

whitebeltwriter: weresehlat: grouch314: hot4triangle: sssn-ne...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:18:54 +0200

whitebeltwriter:

weresehlat:

grouch314:

hot4triangle:

sssn-neptune-vasilias:

points-at-my-hand:

Ever wonder how big wolves are and why running from them is a really bad idea?

This had me so fucked up the first time I worked at the zoo. Because honestly they just look like big German-Huskies when they’re not wild. They look like big puppies. And then… they get close to you… And it’s suddenly kinda fucking terrifying. Like “oh this is the animal that used to scare people shitless.” “This is the animal that used to run through nightmares and poems so much.” And you suddenly fucking get it. As cool as these animals are far away, as important as the animals are in their natural environment, as much as we need them to survive… they’re still pretty fucking terrifying

can you believe these things became our friends

And then people domesticated them and now sleep with them in their beds.

We’re not a species meant to last

I’d actually argue the opposite!

We took these super efficient killing machines and befriended them and now they love and protect us as much as we (ideally) love and protect them

Cats basically domesticated themselves so that they could share in our food, medical care, and affection

In urban spaces, prey species know that there’s a higher likelihood that humans will help you if you’re stuck or injured than them killing or maiming you

It’s just, over time we see trends of our species overcoming environmental pressures that would and do lead to extinction in other species by sharing and forming close bonds with other sentient organisms and just kinda… aggressively community-bonding our way out of it?

For a long time there’s been this pervading idea that we, as a species, are just innately violent and terrible and “sinful” and it’s been that violence that let us survive (see the hunting hypothesis of human evolution). But that’s not what we see

We are, at our core, a species that looks into the face of something other, and thinks “I wonder if they want to be friends?” so long as the individual isn’t actively trying to kill us. Sure, tons of people do awful things every day, but for every terrible act or thought on this Earth, there are a dozen acts of kindness that people do casually for complete strangers

So yeah. We looked at these massive fluffy monsters with the sharp claws and crushing jaws rooting in our garbage just beyond the campfire and thought, the way no other species before or after us has done to the same extent; “They look friend-shaped!”

And they were. And that is how we got to be the dominant species on this planet

“They look friend-shaped!”

watchoutfordinosaurs: homopositivity: this book is worth more...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:50:21 +0200

watchoutfordinosaurs:

homopositivity:

this book is worth more than a dozen restaurants that grow their own microgreens on the roof

ACCESSIBLE GARDENING FOR PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

firrelord: dammitjakz: penelopevalentine: official-sauron: bcfurs: cakeisnotpie: desidesidesi: ...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:49:58 +0200

firrelord:

dammitjakz:

penelopevalentine:

official-sauron:

bcfurs:

cakeisnotpie:

desidesidesi:

cortohdow:

glorfy-the-bright-haired-ellon:

elvenkingtranduil:

anonymoussong:

huntinthedwellin98:

un-rare:

let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy

Not a rock THE ARKENSTONE

Why just one rock
Why not three
Why not the silmarils

#i’m pretty sure there’s an entire book on the topic ‘why not silmarils’ (x)

And one on why not the arkenstone

You’re right. Just get them a ring.

do not get them a ring

Can’t not reblog this again

@wolkking

guy knows what’s up. i’d trust him

wapiti3: Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:07:58 +0200

wapiti3:

Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae. drawn from nature
by J.G. Keulemans and hand-coloured.
By Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900
Publication info LondonR.H. Porter1890
Contributing Library:
Gerstein - University of Toronto
BioDiv Library

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you which fictional character you remind them of.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:05:43 +0200

notbecauseofvictories: Listen, I hear what you’re saying, but Young Sam being the deadly combo of...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:05:11 +0200

notbecauseofvictories:

Listen, I hear what you’re saying, but Young Sam being the deadly combo of his mother’s powerful Ladies Who Organize tendencies, and his father’s stubborn anti-authority pragmatism makes him an ideal community organizer. He’s cheerful and unflagging and drinks coffee at a rate that would impress even Maladict; he has a dartsboard in his office with an iconograph of Lord Downey II pinned to it, and when asked his response is invariably a chilly, “he knows what he did.”

When you look deeply in his eyes you can see the abyss looking back.

(It wants to know if you’ve signed that petition yet.)

Ok, but what is his opinion on the new Patricia n, Moist

awwww-cute: King Duck. (Source: https://ift.tt/2trsdoS)

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:24:32 +0200

awwww-cute:

King Duck. (Source: https://ift.tt/2trsdoS)

No, Jesse Singal, the fact that life is complex does not mean that you cannot trust the identity of transgender people

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:58:39 +0200

No, Jesse Singal, the fact that life is complex does not mean that you cannot trust the identity of transgender people:

crossdreamers:

Some of you may have read Jesse Singal’s article about transgender people in The Atlantic. Singal presents a narrative where female to male transgender people are confused and misled. Since some gender variant people find peace with their assigned gender, the story implies, others could too.

If you are trans, I am sure some transphobes will show it to you, your friends or your family. The misgendering in The Atlantic’s promo tweet (above) gives them all they need.

“Liberals” who try to undermine the legitimacy of transgender identities can actually do more harm than binary conservatives. Singal makes use of the fact that there is a spectrum of gender identities to imply that the ones who truly need help transitioning, may not be who they think they are.

Anti-trans “liberals” like Singal will often argue that since life is complex, messy and fluid (which is true), means that trans kids cannot be trusted when they tell you who they are (which is not true).

If a young person continuously and persistently – and over a long period of time – tells you that they are a girl, a boy or some shade of non-binary, you’d better believe them.

Andrea James has written an excellent analysis of the text over at Boing Boing, which gives you the ideological and political context.

I am also taking the liberty of republishing a twitter thread written by Booker Mendes. It gives you the main arguments for why the narrative presented by Singal is so dangerous.

See also trans philosopher and activist Julia Serano’s twitter thread about Jesse Singal’s history of anti-trans activism.

Serano also has an article that gives an overview over the transgender children debate. Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation.

Finally, Zack Ford of Think Progress has a good comment here.

ameliacareful: hazeldomain: theywear: captain-jaybird: i’ve...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:13:44 +0200

ameliacareful:

hazeldomain:

theywear:

captain-jaybird:

i’ve been trying to watch a new tv show

@ameliacareful

Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

feminists-against-feminism: wylltingtrees: steve-spaghetti: re...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:59:45 +0200

feminists-against-feminism:

wylltingtrees:

steve-spaghetti:

renirabbit:

pizzalecki:

pkmnbreederbrianna:

togamijail:

chandra75:

im-sherlocked-in-my-mindpalace:

socially-awkward-supervillian:

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

jesus that is good to know.

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.

So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying.

So what’d they do?
They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!

The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

this post just got so much better

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

God makes cheetas, god kills cheetas, god makes man, man makes dogs in order to live, man gives dog to cheeta in order for them to live, god is dog backwards

mapsontheweb: You can travel a straight sea route from Zeeland...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 18:30:51 +0200

mapsontheweb:

You can travel a straight sea route from Zeeland in the Netherlands to one of the islands of New Zealand.

Keep reading

berry-muffin: MAN JUMPS IN THE FREEZING WATERSAVES THE...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:49:33 +0200

berry-muffin:

MAN JUMPS IN THE FREEZING WATER
SAVES THE PATRICIAN’S DOG
and then the next day the very same man walks into the ankh-morpork times building to do a job interview for a photojournalist position
he’s very polite and he’s wearing a vest and small round sunglasses
william and sacharissa continue to be ridiculously simitten
- - - - -
more morpork 99
- - - - -
[insp.]

vonexplaino: stephendann: mrozna-janina: the-privateer: gaynezha: gaynezha: Detroit:...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:03:40 +0200

vonexplaino:

stephendann:

mrozna-janina:

the-privateer:

gaynezha:

gaynezha:

Detroit: Androids face oppression! No one likes them! They are dehumanized!

Actual literal real people I know: This is my roomba. His name is Gilbert and sometimes I drop cheetos on the floor just so he has something to snac on.

Whenever I play this game all I can think about is that story where someone coddled their roomba during a thunderstorm because “it was scared”

i’m genuinely surprised i never see in any sci-fi story/movie/ect. a character forgetting that an advanced AI/robot isn’t a person and keeps having to remind themselves that. like accidently buying enough food for them and the tech before remembering that the robot/ai doesn’t eat

One word: Stabby

I’ve just come to the conclusion that there’s a certain level of sci-fi writership that lacks basic emotive capacity to feel empathy. Robots are gonna be fine, it’s the hyperserious Dark Time Lines Only (NO HAPPINESS) dudes who are going to be problem.

Which is why I give praise to our lord and sharper adjudicator of life, Captain Stabby

Robots are fine as long as they don’t look like humans. We’ll anthropomorphize them just fine.

Once Robots start looking like people, then we either hit the uncanny valley of “wrongness”, or they’ll fall into the racist trap of “not like us” and they get othered. Already happening, white cis-het males and the othering of women, LGBTIQ, non-whites, etc. Android is just another “not-us-person” to other.

As per before, we anthropomorphize objects, and objectify people.

photorest: 50 Most Beautiful Flower Pictures on Instagram

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:51:42 +0200

photorest:

50 Most Beautiful Flower Pictures on Instagram

apollongay: witchh-bbitchh: psycholostrology-pll7: littledarkfairywitch: sereneswan: erlqueenshun...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:51:33 +0200

apollongay:

witchh-bbitchh:

psycholostrology-pll7:

littledarkfairywitch:

sereneswan:

erlqueenshunt:

littledarkfairywitch:

I keep fantasizing about how cool it would be if humans were supernatural creatures and their powers and physical features were based on their sun, moon, and rising sign.

Hear me out: sun signs determine the basic physical features like nails that are strong like claws or goat horns or gills that can be activated and deactivated. Moon signs determine what powers you have; Aries moon can have pyrokinesis, Gemini moon can multiply, Leo moon can manipulate heat and fire solar beams, etc. And the ascendant can determine your color scheme, physique, and secondary characteristics like hair and eyes.
Hehe sorry, excuse my brain fart

If that were the case, I’d be a psychic centaur with water and empath powers with a gryffindor color scheme.

….Write a book about this. Now. I want to read it.

okay no maybe not a book but like make a chart!!!!! with all the stuff!!!! please!!!!!!!

Alrighty as promised I’ll make a chart of this

Aries

Sun: Ram horns regardless of gender, strong foreheads, and bones are stronger than average since they’re prone to injury

Moon: Pyrokinesis, quick self healing factor, or precognition

Rising: Red and orange color scheme, hair often curly but can be any “natural” color, eyes are either a warm red or a bright orange, most are average height or smaller

Taurus

Sun: Bull horns regardless of gender, large hands in proportion to their bodies, and stomachs and immune system allow them to eat anything without harm

Moon: Super strength, stone manipulation, or can communicate with any mammal

Rising: Brown and green color scheme, eyes could be either color, hair often thick and usually black, green, or brown, often either chubby or beefy physique (some more or less thick than others)

Gemini

Sun: Second set of arms, eyes can zoom in and out of long distant range, and have a much easier time learning other languages than others

Moon: Super speed, can shapeshift into any human form, or physical duplication

Rising: Color scheme is light blue and yellow, eyes can be either color, hair can be any “unnatural” color, physique varies but they have long legs proportionate to their height

Cancer

Sun: Hands can morph into crab claws (color determined by rising), skin glitters when exposed to moonlight, all of them are empaths

Moon: Lunar abilities ( produce and shoot lunar beams, control tides; however this can only be accessed at night), psychic absorption (can absorb and use one power at a time, this only tires the victim) , or producing force fields

Rising: Silver and shades of blue color scheme, eyes can be either color and are very glossy, hair is either blue or black, tend to be short

Leo

Sun: Feline like canines, nails are long and strong like claws, skin glitters when exposed to sunlight

Moon: Solar abilities (produce and shoot solar beams and control heat; this can only be accessed during the day), laser eyes, or sonic boom roar (explosive, can physically push away anything in its close range)

Rising: Gold and red color scheme, eyes are often gold, hair almost always big no mater the length, can be any “natural” color, either really tall or really short

Virgo

Sun: Large feathered wings (color determined by rising), they look human otherwise

Moon: Portal creation, telekinesis, or poison manipulation

Rising: color scheme is green and yellow, eyes can be either color, hair is either brown or black base with any second color, physique varies but all have longer than average fingers

Libra

Sun: Skin on the hands and forearms are metallic gold or silver, have glowing eyes (color determined by rising), can always tell if you’re lying

Moon: Plant manipulation, siren song, or sonic scream (not explosive but can stun any living being in its range and break close enough objects)

Rising: Green and pink color scheme, eyes are either pink or yellow, hair is either white, brown, or pink, are often tall with wide hips regardless of gender

Scorpio

Sun: Fully functional scorpion tail (proportionate to their body), can easily see in the dark, very silent walkers who can sneak up on anyone

Moon: Shadow manipulation, mediumship (includes the dead and powerful spirits), or selective mind reading (can’t communicate mentally)

Rising: Black and red color scheme, eyes are either dark blue or bright red, hair can be any dark color, can easily blend in with their surrounding

Sagittarius

Sun: Can switch from biped to centaur and back, keeps their tail in any form, hair grows long and fast

Moon: Can shoot energy arrows or spears, light manipulation, or power jump (can leap as high as 50ft off the ground)

Rising: Orange and brown color scheme, eyes can be either color, hair is red or dirty blond, often tall but short ones are faster runners

Capricorn

Sun: Goat horns legs and hooves, pretty much satyrs

Moon: Ice manipulation, telepathy, or temporarily slow time

Rising: Brown and black color scheme, eyes are any shade of brown, hair is black but can have any secondary color, often average height and have a very fit physique but that varies, they throw some of the hardest punches

Aquarius

Sun: Are the most human looking of the signs but they always have at least one robotic body enhancement, can retain more information than the others

Moon: Electric manipulation, technopathy, or wind manipulation

Rising: Electric blue and black, eyes are any shade of blue, hair can be any bright “unnatural” color, often tall but body type varies

Pisces

Sun: Can switch from biped to mermaid and back (scale colors determined by rising), have a set of gills that closes on land, often have scales grown on stray parts of their body that shows even on land

Moon: Water manipulation, aura manipulation, or invisibility

Rising: Sea green and lavender color scheme, eyes can be either color, hair can be any shade of blue or purple, physique varies but they have large glossy eyes

Great post!!!

uh i love this!!!

the writer in me is dying right now

firebender-in-the-tardis: Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal We’re going to find the author by...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:45:28 +0200

firebender-in-the-tardis:

Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

storyinmypocket: pervocracy: Everyone knows that on Uber/Lyft you should always give the driver...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:45:05 +0200

storyinmypocket:

pervocracy:

Everyone knows that on Uber/Lyft you should always give the driver five stars unless they, like, drive the car into the ocean or something, right? You can’t say “the ride was fine, nothing special, so I gave them three stars,” because the company will punish them for being anything less than perfect.

Well, you should know that the same rule goes for any kind of customer service survey. Unless the service you received was unacceptable, give them 5/5 or 10/10 or whatever. It’s annoying, because it ruins the sensitivity of the survey, but it’s how it’s gotta be. 9/10 gets treated like a problem and 6/10 gets treated like a disaster. Understand this and do the workers a favor by grading easy.

Also, remember that when the survey says, “How likely are you to recommend [Company] to others?” or “How satisfied are you?” that really refers directly to the last person to help you, and will show up in their personal metrics.

Not the idiot who screwed everything up three calls ago, not the company as a whole: the last person you spoke to. If they fixed your problem and you answer the “Would you recommend the company?” question with a 3/10, you’re not providing criticism of the people who couldn’t help you – you’re hurting the one who did.

It sucks, and it makes it super hard for the incompetent people to get weeded out, while it punishes the competent ones. I’ve lost track of how many surveys I’ve gotten back with a ridiculously low score and a written-in comment that says, “Jacqueline was wonderful, but I really hate [this policy/this other agent/etc]” and, I mean, it’s great that they said nice things about me in the comments, because it means my boss doesn’t have to listen to the entire call to find out if he needs to yell at me, but that still reflects on me, personally, as far as the number-crunchers at the company are concerned.