luckystrikereds:

stained glass snoopy at redwood empire ice arena, 2007.

helloneels17:

kallistoi:

nyaa:

via

[video description: a video of a baby fox playing in a graveyard. end description.]

its okay babe i know things are pretty bad but one day a baby fox will frolick over our bones. the rubble, the decay, the decline….it will all be beautiful again

nitewrighter:

nitewrighter:

This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.

Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.

Vox

DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.

I fell in love with these animals as a kid traveling to our National Parks. Their rarity and ferocity made me sharply aware, even as a child, of just how much of a responsibility we have toward our environment. I can’t bear the thought of them being a fucking casualty of Trump and Musk.

Look at them! They do war dances.

Okay I don’t want to end this on doom and gloom, so I’m also going to add that the Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance was one of the indigenous-lead organizations who were supposed to receive a $1.1 million dollar grant that has since been frozen. But they do have a website and they do accept donations.

BUFFALO NATIONS GRASSLANDS ALLIANCE

BUFFALO NATIONS GRASSLANDS ALLIANCE

horce-divorce:

carnival-phantasm:

Mushroom Playing Keyboard

She’s playing for her friends in the mushroom farm….

conarcoin:

conarcoin:

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die

cat-mermaid:

Luigi Mangione prosecutors risk 'full acquittal' after first major 'mistake': legal expert

Criminal defense attorney and former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Mark Bederow believes that prosecutors in the Luigi Mangione case

Alternet.org

GO APOLLO GO

SIC 'EM

EVERYONE LEND HIM YOUR STRENGTH!

feralratboye:

seymour-butz-stuff:

posttexasstressdisorder:

qsycomplainsalot:

so i noticed that graph is based on data collected in 2011, and i got curious. the most recent one they have now is 2016.

also the website is a wonderful resource i’ve been exploring. it breaks down the intimidating complexity of US politics to help busy folks who want to understand better but don’t know where to start. and as someone who is neurodivergent, the charts and graphs they use are so helpful for comprehension!

Home - Connect the Dots USA

Easy-to-understand, easy-to-share, informative eye-candy on the Federal Budget, Healthcare, Jobs, Economy, Income Inequality, Voting and Fra

Connect the Dots USA - Civics and Policy Basics for the Busy Majority (TM)

muffinworry:

idiotcommander:

rafterdarkr:

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where’s the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

Absolutely genuis

Every few minutes, someone honks. The woman behind the wheel shifts and lowers her sunglasses to glare at the circling cars in the rearview mirror. Vultures. Let them curse. She keeps her doors locked and her phone battery charged. Penelope has been waiting in the arrivals lot for far too long, and she refuses to give up her place for anyone.

life-on-our-planet:

❄️🪶Goofy Ravens Playing in the Snow🪶❄️

why-animals-do-the-thing:

reasonsforhope:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

likelyapsychopath:

cbcbiology:

ALT

These little dudes are not only chillin’ but also warming themselves in heated cubbies to help them beat a fungal infection!!

Photo from the article in Science.

Research abstract: Nature

Y'ALL this is exciting

as hell! Idk how many of you are familiar with chytrid fungi, but they cause a nasty disease in amphibians called chytridiomycosis, where the fungus infected and spreads across the skin. Amphibians both breathe and absorb water through their skin, so once the infection spreads enough it makes it difficult for them to breathe and drink. It’s often deadly and has been introduced all over the world, likely from people releasing captive amphibians into the wild. Research has linked chytridiomycosis to the extinction of over 90 species, and is considered one of the primary causes of the global amphibian population crisis we’re fighting.

Worst of all, there is no cure viable enough to use on wild populations.

This ‘hothouse’ method, if it continues to prove effective, would be a cheap and easily-implemented tool to help wild frogs cure themselves!! This could help save dozens – if not hundreds – of species from extinction!

Be excited about this! (Otherwise I will find you)

Medicinal frog spa!

Article via Science, June 26, 2024

This is really interesting, and so important.

The conservation world is going to extreme lengths to try to find a way to help amphibians survive chytrid. It swept the world really quickly and it’s absolutely just nuked a lot of wild frog populations, which has had nasty fall-out effects on the ecosystems they live in and the food chain there. Researchers are testing things like “vaccinating” frogs with pre-exposure, and searching for wild survivors of certain species to try to breed populations with some genetic resistance. The biosecurity protocols at breeding centers are incredibly strict to protect the resident animals.

And… maybe just giving them access to areas of higher heat could help, according to this study. Mind blowing. And it’s not super high heat either - they’re talking about a difference between 18C (64F) and 30C (86F) - like that’s really achievable with greenhouse type materials that don’t need a separate heater.

There’s still a lot of practical stuff to work out re: if it works to implement frog saunas for wild populations, and I don’t think it’s a magic bullet solution, but it’s really need to see progress being made. Everything helps.