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Today's Seals Are: The Colors Brothers

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I'm not a fan of basically anything in US politics, but I think one of the best ways to strengthen public outrage towards the treaty principles bill is to try and stir up a similar level defensiveness of and loyalty in Pākehā to our founding document, Te Tiriti that Americans have for the constitution. Like, are we seriously going to let David Seymour, who has no legal qualifications, no social mandate, and who looks like a cursed reject from the Jim Henson Muppet workshop, mess with the legal fabric of our nation?

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Project 2025 ain't gonna roll out all at once. So what we're gonna wanna do is make passing each individual part of it as difficult as possible, so there's less to undo once we finally get this country back on the rails.

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Keeping all sane Americans in my thoughts tonight. It's hard watching an election and realizing that half the people in your country are as dumb as rocks.

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These are fantastic guidebooks! They're very easy to read and include descriptions of invasive marine species too!

NIWA has a bunch of free online guides for marine life in aotearoa that ive been using a lot recently because theyre very handy and i love all the titles they always make me smile and giggles

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From the October 31, 2024 article:

“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know,” Roberts says in the ad as a woman on screen meets up with her husband after casting her ballot for Harris.

The voter winks at a fellow female voter as her husband asks if she made the “right choice.”

Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair.

“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

Other GOP members including Charlie Kirk said the thought was “nauseating.”

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I'm just a girl, standing in front of my university's zoology department, asking them to please give me just a small amount of money so I can go looking for seal lice and potentially sequence their genomes

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do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

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I'm dead serious some of y'all need to stop commenting shit like "Kill it with fire!!1!" on every post of a bug or any "scary" creature you see. Idgaf if you have a phobia or how many legs it has, having such a violent hateful reaction to any animal is just not normal behavior. And that goes double for posts by someone who's happy about the creature, I'm not asking you to go cuddle bugs just to mind your own business, people don't want to hear how much you hate something they like.

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I love her

NEW ALBINO WHALE DROPPED

Her name is Mãhina

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They found that the bat noises are not just random, as previously thought, reports Skibba. They were able to classify 60 percent of the calls into four categories. One of the call types indicates the bats are arguing about food. Another indicates a dispute about their positions within the sleeping cluster. A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances and the fourth happens when a bat argues with another bat sitting too close. In fact, the bats make slightly different versions of the calls when speaking to different individuals within the group, similar to a human using a different tone of voice when talking to different people. Skibba points out that besides humans, only dolphins and a handful of other species are known to address individuals rather than making broad communication sounds. The research appears in the journal Scientific Reports.

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A leopard seal has been spotted within an hour of my house but there is no public transport to get there. Screaming, crying, throwing up rn.

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Drew a bunch of stupid whales