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Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.

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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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Dumb Post About Harris’s Hawks

Intelligent, deadly pack hunters: raptors. 

No, not those girls.

These girls.

Harris’s Hawk is the only raptor (i.e., bird of prey) that hunts together as a pack using teamwork to take down their prey. Most birds of prey are solo hunters, and if they’re social at all, it’s limited to mated pairs getting together to raise their young before going their separate ways.  Even Bald Eagles (the America Bird), who are monogamous and will raise children with the same mate year after year, are pretty much loners most of the time. They get together in the spring, have some chicks, and then fly away like “see you next year, honey.” So while it’s remarkable that they’re able to find their mate again every year and they’re great parents, they’re not really that social. 

(These lovebirds do win the prize for best at long-distance relationships)

Harris’s Hawks, on the other hand, are always together. Living and working together to survive. That’s pretty amazing. Not only are the coordinating hunting together, but they’re also coordinating their attacks from the air. 

(literal wingman) Harris’s Hawks live in South America, Central America, and the South Western US (Arizona and Texas). Since they aren’t that big, they eat a lot of little things, birds, lizards, small mammals, and giant insects. But because they have figured out how to hunt in groups, they can take down larger prey. In fact, in the Northern part of their range (Arizona and Texas), their favorite food is the desert cottontail, which weighs about 1.8 lbs. They’ve also been known to take down prey weighing over 2lbs like jackrabbits (which weigh from 3 to 6 lbs and can run up to 40 miles an hour).

( Run Rabbit, Run Rabbit)  Why is that so impressive? Well, the males only weigh about (1.204 to 1.874 lb), while the adult female average is (2.269 lb). 2lbs max is pretty small. That rabbit they’re chasing weighs about as much as they do or more and is hella fast. Imagine killing something that’s almost the same size as you are or bigger using only your feet. That’s hard. 

They have the tools to do it, bigger powerful beaks and large deadly claws:

(look at the size of its claws compared to the rest of its body)

(just like it’s distant dinosaur ancestors: murder feet) However, as with Jurassic Park’s fictional raptors, what makes these girls dangerous is the power of teamwork. The first Hawk flies right for the prey. It sees the danger, it runs, and that’s when the attack comes, not from the back but from the side and the other raptor it didn’t even know was there. (Wanna see?)

(clever girls) Often called the “Wolves of the Sky,” the Harris Hawk not only hunts in packs like wolves but lives in family groups. The “alpha” hawk as it were (alpha theory of dominance isn’t real) is the big female, or you know mom. 

(Mom raises her babies with the help of her family, in their Sonora-Arizona range they nest in cactus) The babies don’t “leave the nest” as soon as they outgrow their fluffy murder muppet stage. The young from previous years stick around and make up the pack. The hierarchy goes Mom, Dad ( other Dad if she has two male mates) older siblings, and younger siblings.

(They also like to stand on top of each other to form a hawk family tower) 

The pack size ranges from 2 - 7 birds, and this family not only hunts together but takes care of the nest as a team with siblings looking out for their new baby brothers and sisters. While the babies will be ready to fly in about 2 months, they will stay with their parents pack for up to three years before heading out to start families of their own.  Because these hawks are intelligent and social, they have become super popular among falconers. 

(see what I mean about them being small, if the Bald Eagle is the T-Rex of the skies, these really are the raptors) Also, the babies are adorable:

(well I think they’re cute anyway) These hawks are the closest you’ll get to Jurassic Park. Intelligent, pack-hunting raptors. If you’d like to see them in action, you can visit a pack at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum, which has flying demonstrations daily in the winter (you know, when the pandemic is over *this post is from 2020*). Just remember: 

They Stack

They Attack 

And most importantly: They Hunt with the Pack

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Welp. This fucking sucks. As we all knew it would.

I'll still be here, posting good news and only good news, no matter what.

The United States is going to be a much bleaker place for the next four years (and hopefully no longer than that).

But there's an entire world out there that's not the United States. And even in the United States, there are literally millions of people trying their best to do what's right and to protect everyone they can.

Hang in there. Find something you can do to help the world and the people around you - no matter what it is, no matter how small.

And whatever you do - whatever you have to do, emphatically including if you need to not look at the news ever for the next four years - keep yourself safe, and keep yourself alive.

This too shall pass. Literally everything does.

There is still a whole world out there. There are millions of people doing whatever they can to help. This situation is awful but it is not hopeless.

Whatever you have to do, keep yourself alive.

There will be a time when we're on the other side of this. There will be a time when this horror show is over, and we've made it out.

I am going to see you all there, or so help me fucking god.

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Hi, no pressure to post this if you don't want to, but I was hoping to write some letters to my elected officials in the coming days (the tangible, physical outcome is much more satisfying for me than signing online petitions) and I was wondering if you or your followers had any recommendations for known artists with cards for sale on etsy/redbubble/etc with positive queer/immigration/reproductive rights themes. I would love to support small, tumblr-local artists while also pressuring elected officials! And thank you for all your positivity posts in recent days.

Great idea, and I'm happy to try to help you find some!

Anyone have any cool stationary recs for anon?

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Baby Quail Livestream

It's working for now, though I don't know how long I'll stream. But, if you'd like a little break to watch a bunch of baby quail running around, here you go!

Updating to add: I live in the boonies, so it was only a matter of time before my internet gave up, but we made it about 2 hours! I will try again tomorrow :)

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alright everyone

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That's the spirit

I'm proud of you for making it through today to this point.

There are 1461 days left until someone else is in office. There are 208 weeks until someone else is in office.

We will take them one at a time, together. Team cockroach.

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Today I learned that Juniper will wear hair clips.

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What good things are you going to do this week? 1/21/25

Bringing back my "what good things did you do this week" posts from a while back as a way to make/motivate myself do good/activist work despite (and specifically in spite of) these shitty times. And because at least some other people seemed to like it when I was doing them!

I'm going to try to make these posts once weekly on the weekends. If you don't want to see them, filter "doing good things roundup"

Things I'm committing to doing this week:

Start relearning Spanish so that I can help volunteer with Spanish-speaking communities (esp/ideally with any anti-deportation work) (already started this one!)

Volunteer this morning to help distribute breakfast to unhoused communities in my area (just signed up at the wonderful site LA Works, which lists hundreds of volunteer opportunities in LA)

Talk to my roommates about getting a compost bin for our place

Request a new green bin from the city (our old one broke rip)

Volunteer at a pet rescue (I've been trying to do this weekly, as of last week)

Find at least one organization doing fire relief to sign up to help (I'm in LA, but haven't done this yet, and I'm changing that)

Make more good news posts on here

Add your own stuff you've done or are committing to do, so we can all inspire each other and give each other ideas and be reminded that, everywhere, people are trying to help

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Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."

This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.

He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.

He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.

He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.

Elon Reeve Musk is a fucking Nazi.

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Hello, I hope it's okay for me to send this to you. I just really wanted to share this experience with someone since it did genuinely make me happy

While I was waiting for a bus yesterday, a guy came up to me and asked me for a cigarette. I gave him one because he was really polite about asking, and he thanked me a lot for it. I overheard another stranger coming up to him, and asking him for a cigarette. Obviously, he didn’t have one because I gave him mine. BUT I overheard that they started talking to eachother. Just two complete strangers, having a seemingly very pleasant conversation. They got on the same bus as me, and I saw them sitting together and continuing to talk to eachother.

Even though I had no part in their exchange, it just really made me think that damn, that's so nice. There's good things and good people in the world

It is always okay to send me good things! This was perfectly lovely to wake up to!

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And every single one of those shaky-lined, silly-voiced, typo-plagued creations will be worth infinitely more than any garbage an AI can generate.

like i'm sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it's something we "want to see" like destiel kisses. it's not suddenly fine. we're not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters "say" stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered "bonus" scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.

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hell yeah they do