#Bengal votes

[cementcornfield]

this is so funny

[bengals-barnesbabe]

[realtapiocafan]

It’s the way I know we might not even get one Bengal’s award at the NFL honours. Joe’s best shot is the CPOY but it’s been rumoured to be San Darnold since November. Trey has a great case for DPOY but again will they actually choose him?

I have no issue with Saquon winning he’s had a fantastic year! I have an issue with people saying Ja’marr is undeserving like let’s use our brains please! He’s literally the only WR ever to have 1700 yards and 17 TDs. I suppose the only positive is that it’ll motivate Ja’marr a lot 🫶🏽

Yeah... 😔

There's basically no chance for Joe to get MVP after we missed the playoffs. It's just between Lamar and Josh atp.

I actually think there's a slight chance that Joe could get Air POY -simply bc he's the passing yds and passing td leader (i do get the feeling that it's kinda. like. a participation award but whatever).

But the one Joe should definitely win, is CPOY. I will never understand why the NFL doesn't just make a Most Improved POY award smh.

Trey has an outside shot at DPOY, but I doubt he'll get it. I think either Pat Surtain (who does deserve it imo) or TJ Watt (for last year).

As for OPOY, Saquon's probably gonna take it. Prob also Ground POY. I do get that rbs are finally getting love after being continuously devalued for years and Saquon's year was absolutely crazy and his season is deserving of OPOY but. I just believe that leading your position group in three stats is inherently more impressive than leading your position group in one stat. Just my two cents.

You have a point though -hopefully Ja'Marr will write 'OPOY' down on his sticky note and put it on his mirror (if he hasn't already)!

[lewishamiltonstuff]

I just cast the most important vote of my life 😌

[the-mic-drop]

Non-Sports Fans Only (Pt12

Time for the semi-finals!

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

BABY BENGAL PICTURE TIME

Maraly, wee fiesty charcoal girl

Sweet lil man

Shy lil Leeli girl

And some more

Maraly

Snugglebug brother

Leeli!

All kittens are beginning to adjust! They're getting calmer and starting to accept this as their home. They did lots of exploring of the front porch today (under my supervision) and wore themselves out! They've all been treated for fleas and we're going to start working on worming them in a day or two. The little girls hiss and growl at their poor confused brother a lot and we're fairly sure it's because they're at the age where they start going into heat, so their hormones are making them grumpy. But they're getting a lot calmer and none of them have been fighting and they respond VERY well to verbal tones when I tell them, "It's okay" "Calm down" "Be nice!"

They're all little sweethearts. Baby boy wants love the most, he just wants to snuggle all day. Maraly and Leeli like being held because then they can see over the latticework to the world beyond :)

For those who didn't see my post the other day, here's the story of how I rescued three Bengal kittens from the streets.

[burrowdarling]

2 Hands (Texting Joe Burrow)

Summary: You were bored while Joe was at practice and decided to have some fun with a text prank. Song: 2 Hands by Tate McRae

Pairings: Joe Burrow x gf!reader

Warnings: implications of smut, still minors DNI

Note: Hi! This is my first attempt at a text fic. I was inspired by @bengals-barnesbabe and her amazing work so figured I'd give the texting trend a shot! Just a little something to tide you over while I work on the support special, vote on the poll here if you haven't!

Check out my Masterlist here!

[bengals-barnesbabe]

📢*ehem this announcement is for anyone who thinks I abandoned #Track9 because let’s be honest I kinda did… These are my newly updated draftssss, there’s lots of goodies in here and I’m STRUGGLING to pick something to finish soooo I leave it to my humble readers. Note Operation Tiger WILL BE FIRST*����📢

Here’s an accurate time summary for each option being done.

More #Track9 ~ within 2 days of OP 🐯

PFW ~ within 24 hours after OP 🐯

Spa Day ~ within 2-3 days of OP 🐯

Mission Report Pending ~ within 2-3 days of OP 🐯

Any other Bucky Fic ~ within 2-3 days of OP 🐯

any requests ~ within 3-4 days of OP 🐯

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Abhijeet - Ole Ole 1994

Abhijeet Bhattacharya is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi Film Industry. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Odia and his native language Bengali both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Abhijeet has sung 6034 songs in more than 1000 films. He was nominated for Forbes Popular 100 Indian Celebrity in the year 2014.

Yeh Dillagi (This Cheerfulness) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Naresh Malhotra and produced by Yash Chopra. Based on the 1954 American film Sabrina, its story revolves on two brothers (Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan) who fall in love with their family driver's daughter, Sapna (Kajol), a successful model. The film released on 6 May 1994, and emerged as a commercial success, grossing ₹10.8 crore against its ₹1.6 crore budget.

At the 40th Filmfare Awards, Yeh Dillagi received 4 nominations – Best Actor (Kumar), Best Actress (Kajol), Best Music Director (Dilip Sen, Sameer Sen) and Best Male Playback Singer (Abhijeet for the song "Ole Ole"). The film's soundtrack album contains seven songs composed by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen. It became one of the top three best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums of 1994, with 4.5 million sales. The song "Ole Ole", sung by Abhijeet was a hit at the music charts. "Ole Ole" was remixed for the 2020 film Jawaani Jaaneman.

"Ole Ole" received a total of 68,2% yes votes!

[reasonsforhope]

"It was widely described as the week that India’s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in on Tuesday [June 4, 2024], all predictions and polls were defied as Narendra Modi lost his outright majority for the first time in a decade while the opposition re-emerged as a legitimate political force. On Sunday evening, Modi will be sworn in as prime minister yet many believe his power and mandate stands diminished.

For one opposition politician in particular, the humbling of the strongman prime minister was a moment to savour. Late last year, Mahua Moitra, one of the most outspoken critics of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), found herself unceremoniously expelled from parliament and kicked out of her bungalow, after what she described as a “political witch-hunt” for daring to stand up to Modi.

The murky and allegedly undemocratic circumstances of Moitra’s expulsion from parliament was seen by many to symbolise Modi’s approach to dissenting voices and the steady erosion of India’s democracy. She was among several vocal opposition politicians who were subjected to investigations by government crime agencies.

But having won a landslide re-election in her home state of West Bengal, Moitra will return once again to parliament, part of the newly empowered opposition coalition. “I can’t wait,” said Moitra. “They went to egregious lengths to discredit and destroy me and abused every process to do it. If I had gone down, it would have meant that brute force had triumphed over democracy.”

While he may be returning for a historic third term, many have portrayed the results as something of a defeat for Modi, who has had to rely on coalition partners to form a government. The BJP’s campaign had been solely centred around him – even the manifesto was titled “Modi’s guarantee” – and in many constituencies, local BJP candidates often played second fiddle to the prime minister, who loomed large over almost every seat. He told one interviewer he believed his mandate to rule was given directly by God.

“Modi’s aura was invincibility, that the BJP could not win elections without him,” said Moitra. “But the people of India didn’t give him a simple majority. They were voting against authoritarianism and they were voting against fascism. This was an overwhelming, resounding anti-Modi vote.”

During his past decade in power, Modi and the BJP enjoyed a powerful outright majority and oversaw an unprecedented concentration of power under the prime minister’s office, where key decisions were widely known to be made by a select few.

The Modi government was accused of imposing various authoritarian measures, including the harassment and arrest of critics under terrorism laws, while the country tumbled in global democracy and press freedom rankings. Modi never faced a press conference or any committee of accountability for the often divisive actions of his government. Politicians regularly complained that parliament was simply reduced to a rubber-stamping role for the BJP’s Hindu-first agenda.

Yet on Tuesday [June 40, it became clear that the more than 25 opposition parties, united as a coalition under the acronym INDIA, had inflicted substantial losses on the BJP to take away its simple majority. Analysts said the opposition’s performance was all the more remarkable given that the BJP stands accused of subverting and manipulating the election commission, as well as putting key opposition leaders behind bars and far outspending all other parties on its campaign. The BJP has denied any attempts to skew the election in its favour.

“This election proved that the voter is still the ultimate king,” said Moitra. “Modi was so shameless, yet despite them using every tool they had to engineer this election to their advantage, our democracy fought back.”

Moitra said she was confident it was “the end of Mr Modi’s autocratic way of ruling”. Several of the parties in the BJP’s alliance who he is relying on for a parliamentary majority and who will sit in Modi’s cabinet do not share his Hindu nationalist ideology...

Moitra was not alone in describing this week’s election as a reprieve for the troubling trajectory of India’s democracy. Columns heralding that the “mirror has cracked” and the “idea of India is reborn” were plastered across the country’s biggest newspapers, and editorials spoke of the end of “supremo syndrome”. “The bulldozer now has brakes,” wrote the Deccan Chronicle newspaper. “And once a bulldozer has brakes, it becomes just a lawnmower.” ...

“This was not a normal election, it was clearly an unfair and unlevel playing field,” said Yadav. “But still, there is now a hope and a possibility that the authoritarian element could be reversed.”

Harsh Mander, one of India’s most prominent human rights and peace activists who is facing numerous criminal investigations for his work, called the election the “most important in India’s post independence history”, adding: “The resilience of Indian democracy has proved to be spectacular.”

He said it was encouraging that an “intoxication of majoritarian hate politics” had not ultimately shaped the outcome, referring to Modi’s apparent attempts to stir up religious animosity on the campaign trail as he referred to Muslims as “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”.

“The past decade has seen the freedom of religion and the freedom of conscience and dissent taken away,” said Mander. “If this election had gone fully the BJP way, then India would not remain a constitutional secular democracy.”"

-via The Guardian, June 9, 2024

[dougielombax]

Given the time of year.

It has become abundantly clear that many people in Europe (not all of it but still) have learnt precisely fuck all from the last 80 years.

Their idea of fighting antisemitism consists solely of sucking up to Israel, all while allowing their own Jewish populations to be harassed and bullied by fascists, who they will also gladly platform and support at the same time.

At best.

At worst they’d vote the exact same descendants of those putrid Nazis into power without hesitation. Under promise of security and “tradition”.

Blaming any and all minorities for their problems. Again. Whether it’s Jewish people, Romani people, Sami people, Armenians, the disabled, neurodivergent folks, and so on. (Speaking as one of those (neurodivergent) I’ve seen a LOT of people all too quickly stop giving a shit about us)

80 years on, they’ve learnt next to fuck all. And they refuse to admit it. They’ll say that they have learnt, but most of them haven’t.

And they’d certainly do it all again without hesitating all because of the whim of some authoritarian shithead.

All it takes is the right bastard to win over the unthinking dullards with a kind smile and the right words.

This doesn’t apply to all of Europe. But a good percentage of it regardless.

I feel like I’m the only non-Jew who realises that much.

The only person in my country who realises that much as well perhaps.

Idk

And if they had learnt, then they ought to have at least done more to prevent future genocides which followed.

Such as the Bengal Genocide of 1971, the East Timor genocide, the Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka, the Anfal Genocide of 1988 in Iraq, the Bosnian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, the genocide of Yazidis and/or Assyrians (and other Middle Eastern Christians) by ISIS, the genocide of Rohingyas in Burma, and so on.

Among others.

At the least.

Just saying.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

What does the spotted pattern modifier do to the classic tabby pattern, do you have any pictures? I feel like any spotted tabbies I see have patterns that follow the mackerel pattern. Does it look differently with the classic pattern, or does it somehow not affect it or smth?

I think right now there is no real consensus on the interaction of spotted and blotched. For example Kaelin & Barsh vote for "no effect all", and puts down mackerel as the tabby (Taqpep/LVRN) genotype of spotted:

Hartwell (of messybeast) thinks it does affect it, or at least a spotting modifier which does exists: "Spotted tabbies can be due to broken mackerel stripes (in which case the spots are not so rounded) or to a spotting gene. The spotting gene breaks up the underlying mackerel or classic tabby pattern into spots."

Personally, when this topic comes up, I always have to think of bengals.

Look at that curve of spots on the first one next to the spine, and that one long rosette on the next in the same position. I can't help but feel like the lines of the blotched pattern are there. Auh, I don't know. "Every bengal is genetically blotched but some have a spotted modifier thus rosetted" and "every bengal has the spotted modifier but some are homozygous blotched thus aren't affected" are both equally valid and sound models, but something pulls me toward the former.

I found some statistics in the supplementary materials of this paper: the authors tested 16 bengals for taqpep alleles and found one at 0.5 frequency.

...All right, that's a little confusing. 50% feels too much compared to the prevalence of marbled (although they didn't disclose the pattern of the cats, so it's possible they just had that much marbleds and carriers by accident or by choosing related animals), and too little for "every bengal is blotched under the rosettes". Maybe there are more, unkown and untested alleles?

AND WAIT A MINUTE!

"Pattern phenotype of F. nigripes, which resembles the atypical swirled pattern observed in domestic cats that carry the T139N allele (Fig. S2). Nine of nine F. nigripes individuals were fixed for 4 species-specific variants (T82K, H87P, E488K, F950V)." Black-footed cats seem to be genetically kind of blotched and phenotypically spotted! So a blotched-type pattern breaking up into spots is indeed possible.

A few more remarks: famously spotted breeds egyptian mau and ocicat both have a relatively high taqpep mutation frequency here (0.32 and 0.6 respectively). To me this suggest their spotting gene affects genetically blotched cats too.

...And now i looked into ocicats and found they have a sister-breed called aztec with a classic tabby pattern according to GCCF. If ocicat, too, has 60% allele frequency of blotched, that suggests the main difference between ocicat and aztec isn't mackerel vs blotched but a spotting modifier. (What's more, this ocicat breeder says not only the spotted modifier of ocicats affects blotched, but actually the mackerel allele has been completely eliminated from the breed.)

Ocicat. If you want to, you can imagine the blotched "bullseye" into the arrangement of the spots. At least I can 😆

All right, this starts to get long, and i know i won't be able to draw any real conclusions in the end. So.

Blotched is complicated*, spotted is even more complicated**, we don't know.

*several alleles that don't necessarily have the same interaction with spotted;

**probably a mix of different modifiers, and it's very well possible some of them affects blotched and some don't.

[optimistpax]

[whippersnappersbookworm]

I am so done with this state! It's a fucking joke! Mamata conducted a rally demanding justice for RG Kar when it is her party safeguarding those criminals. Who the fuck is she protesting against? Also, she called the attack on RG Kar a work of the opposition, when it's very clear who did this. She stood there on the stage, sprouting nonsense, while several known female faces or so-called celebrities (who didn't bother to make a single post or comment on the incident) just stood there listening to all that bullshit. I don't know how to feel about anything that is happening right now. I am tired of all these political parties using such a heinous incident to fulfil their selfish  interests. I am tired of people voting for Mamta. I am tired of the so-called educated overlooking the problems that are there in the state government. Just because CM is a woman doesn't make this state progressive and safe for us. I am so done with Kolkata and West Bengal. I don't have any hope left. MAMATA DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE WOMEN (OR ANY ONE TO BE HONEST) OF WEST BENGAL. TMC IS NOT THE LESSER EVIL OR A LIBERAL PARTY. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND ARE COMPLETELY RUINING THE STATE. IT'S HIGH TIME PEOPLE START ACKNOWLEDGING THIS.

PS: Please don't send me messages telling me how Bengal should give a chance to Bjp. They are the same! THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN OR COMMON PEOPLE. They are NEVER THE RIGHT ALTERNATIVE. 

[betterthanburrow]

Mr. PSL - Instagram AU

(Bengals Quarterback! x Digital Creator! OC)

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Bengals: Your Monday morning cup of Joe

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username1: Future MVP and Super Bowl Champion!

username2: this is the energy boost that i needed.

yourinstagram: my favorite cup of Joe 🥰

username3: it’s a wonderful morning for bengals fans!

username4: what a good way to start the week!

liked by joeyb_9 and 101,513 more users

yourinstagram: summer is the best time of year ☀️💟

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yourmama: my pretty daughter!

↳ yourinstagram: i get my pretty looks from you!

username1: 😍😍😍

username2: your nails design is so pretty!

joeyb_9: summer is the worse time of the year.

↳ yourinstagram: shut up joey.

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CincyProblems: it looks like Joe isn’t excited about the summertime as he is requesting for pumpkin pie!

(via @.yourinstagram’s instagram stories)

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username1: Joe is a crazy man for wanting to eat a pumpkin pie in JUNE!

username2: i hope everyone voted NO! on the poll

↳ username3: PUMPKIN PIE IS GOOD ANY TIME OF THE YEAR! STOP BEING A PUMPKIN PIE HATER!

yourinstagram: i still can’t believe i spent one of the first days of summer baking a pumpkin pie 😭💀

liked by yourinstagram and 395,980 more users

joeyb_9: Hands don’t look that small here.

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Bengals: 👌

username1: you know what they say about small hands

bengals.central: joe remembers what the haters said!

username2: those hands would look better with a certain type of ring on one of your fingers 🤔

yourinstagram: but you claimed that your hands were “too small” to help me with the pumpkin pie 🫤

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BurrowWorld09: Y/N’s Instagram Stories from today.

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username1: i can’t believe our QB hates all things related to the summertime… no wonder he loves pumpkin pies anytime of the year.

username2: it’s kinda crazy that joe would rather be on the football field than on a beach 💀😭

↳ username3: i bet Y/N had to bribe Joe to go to the beach with her by offering to play football with him.

username4: i love the new nickname for Joe, it’s another nickname to add the long list for nicknames.

liked by joeyb_9 and 155,079 more users

yourinstagram: bikini behavior!

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yourbff: THE MOST GORGEOUS GIRL!

username1: can you break up with Joe and date me?!

username2: 🤤🤤🤤

username3: what a lucky man Joe Burrow is…

joeyb_9: 🤍🤍🤍

↳ yourinstagram: love ya Mr. PSL.

Author’s Note:

summer will be coming to an end in a couple of weeks so i think it’s best to get this Summer Themed Instagram AU published!

if you have a Instagram AU request, please send the IG AU request to my Inbox and i’ll try to get the requested Instagram AU published as fast as i can!

thank you all for the love and support! 🤍

[bellzsad]

i just put as many options as possible in this poll even though i'm aware that most of them are rarely talked about!

i also know exactly which one will win but im curious so.. go ahead and vote!!

don't forget to put reasonings in comments/reblogsss

edit: sorry i wasn't aware that the brenda x gally ship was actually brendally, mb!! i didn't know much about the ship beforehand so i just typed the first ship name that came up. it's also supposed to be "bren", no "ben", that was a typo!!