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Historical photo: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs a decree to raise egg prices in the United States of America.

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to anyone who missed it:

blorbo - a favourite character

glup shitto - star wars names are fucking nonesense

eeby deeby - youre going to hell

plinko horse - a horse that was stuck in a plinko board

scrimblo bimblo - super smash bro fans can be very angry when characters aren't in a game

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saw this very [ben affleck depressed smoking image] comment and thought why does blue job / pink job sound like an established concept so I looked it up.....

what's next?? having a bank account is a blue job 💙🏦☺️ not being legally recognised as a person in your own right is a pink job 🩷🥰💅

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Cape Rain Frog (Breviceps gibbosus), family Breviceptidae, Cape Town, South Africa

photograph by Chad Keates

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Slurpin isopod (gouache on canvas)

Commissioned by @franzanth

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California Newt (Taricha torosa), family Salamandridae, CA, USA

Poisonous (very!)

photograph by Kevin P. Hutcheson

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sunset/peach/flaxen

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Hi! Thank you for such amazing blog! Can we have a post with harpy eagles? They are my fav birds and I think they are amazing

Thank you so much, and watch the sky when you're in the emergent layer, eating fruit...

Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Colombia

photograph by Daniel Mideros (@diche_mideros)

Brazil - photograph by Keith J. Freeburn (@keithfreeburn)

Colombia - photograph by @ernestoobandog

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Hi! I am absolutely enamored with your blog 🫶 could I make a request for endangered/near extinct reptiles or amphibians?

Thank you so much booboo, here are some endangered herps for your enjoyment...

Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), female, family Gavialidae, National Chambal Sanctuary, India

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Clpramod 

Cochin Forest Cane Turtle (Vijayachelys silvatica), family Geoemydidae, from the Western Ghats of India

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Davidvraju

Earless Monitor Lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis), family Lanthanotidae, endemic to Borneo

ENDANGERED.

Semi-aquatic.

Closely related to the true monitor lizard in the family Varanidae.

The only member of its family.

They do have inner ears, and are capable of hearing, despite the lack of ear openings and tympana.

photograph by Chien C. Lee

San Francisco Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia), family Colubridae, coastal California, USA

ENDANGERED.

Photograph by Garter Kings

Northern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi), family Myobtrachidae, found in SE Australia

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

Poisonous.

Though it’s found in SE Australia, it is the more northerly species of the 2 Corroboree Frogs.

Found in wet grasslands, and surrounding moist forest habitats.

Endangered due to the Chytrid fungus, climate change, introduced species, and habitat degradation due to cattle grazing.

photographs by Damien Esquerré and Michael Swan

Central Asian Salamander (Ranodon sibiricus), family Hynobiidae, found in streams in Kazakhstan and NW China.

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Henk Wallays

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So watching a science/biology youtuber yesterday (if i recall correctly he's an evolutionary biologist) I learned that one of the relatives of hummingbirds, (and this is exactly how the scientist describes them) look like muppets and many would think their photos are ai. So- your thoughts on birds that look like muppets?

Muppets - Hummingbird Relatives

So I'm not sure what the youtuber is talking about. The closest relatives of hummingbirds are Swifts and Treeswifts, but I suppose if you go up a level they are also a little more distantly related to nightjars, oildbirds, owlet nightjars, nightjars, potoos, and frogmouths.

family Trochilidae - order Apodiformes - (undefined clade) Strisores

Im not sure which relative looks like a muppet to this person, but i do agree that many members of the Strisores look like muppets.

I mean... I'm don for muppet ass lookin birds.

Spine-tailed Swift aka White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus), family Apodidae, order Apodiformes, Australia

Resident (year round) in the Himalyas

Breeding in East Asia

Wintering in Australia

photograph by British Trust for Ornithology

Whiskered Treeswift (Hemiprocne comata), parent sitting on egg, family Hemiprocnidae, order Apoformes, found in SE Asia

photograph by DM

Blyth’s Frogmouth (Batrachostomus affinis), family Podargidae, order Podargiformes, Perlis, Malaysia

The frogmouths used to be included in the Nightjar/Goatsucker order Caprimulgiformes, but as of 2019, are now in their own order. They are not as closely related to nightjars, as previously thought.

photograph by Junaidi Ismail 

Northern Potoo (Nyctibius jamaicensis ), mother and chick, family Nyctibiidae, order Nyctybiiformes, Costa Rica

Potoos used to be in the same order as nightjars, but are now placed in their own order.

photograph by Alvaro Cubero

Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis), EAT UP A TASTY BUG!!!, family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, Salt River, AZ, USA

photograph by Deep Ujjawal

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why am i like this

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(everyone else posting lore in the tag): "this is the sorcerer bleepus bingo, at a young age he came into contact with a cursed idol and accidentally wiped out his birth clan, but now he is a valued member of the tea shop inn staff and he loves candy and jokes and his best friend in the clan is blongo plonkus the noble warrior who he saved from a pack of wolves once with a spell (that's how he joined the clan) :)"

(me posting lore in the tag): *emerges from pile of nonsensical notes on the linguistic implications of the shapes of each individual dragon breed's lips and takes a long drag from imaginary blunt* "so kids wanna hear some DRAGON SLURS?"

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Can we get some flat fucks for a belated flat fuck friday?

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

THAT HE GAVE THEM

FLAT FUCK FRIDAY!!!

marine flatworm (Pseudobiceros gloriosus), family Pseudocerotidae, order Polycladida, Lembeh Straits, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

photograph by Jens Petersen

Meet the Penis-Fencing Flatworm  

from The Mating Game | BBC Earth

“Each reveals its two-pronged penis” 😳 Things you didn’t expect to hear Sir David Attenborough say…

via:  BBC Earth

 Pseudoceros dimidiatus, family Pseudocerotidae, order Polycladida, North Horn, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea

photograph by Richard Ling

Blue Pseudoceros Flatworm, Pseudoceros liparus, family Pseudocerotidae, order Polycladida,

photograph by Steve Childs

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i was just hit with an inexplicable premonition of a nonexistant trading post shop called "Reginald's Rags-For-Riches" but it vanished before i could figure out what it was supposed to be for

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do you think "lamp" is a slur lightning dragons use for light dragons

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if we want to stop the patriarchal concept of surnames being passed down the male line, we have a few options options that i’d be 100% fine with:

children get whichever surname is cooler, to eliminate uncool surnames over the generations

children get whichever surname is rarer, to achieve a utopian future in a few centuries where all surnames are more or less equally common

children’s surnames are randomly generated: say, heads for parent #1’s surname, tails for parent #2’s surname

parents pick the first names first, and then a court decides which surname fits it better. so if a couple named mr. madison and mr. liu want to name their daughter alison, she’ll get the surname liu, because alison madison sounds ridiculous

everyone stops having children right now