shiny ✨🏔 // on tumblr since 2011 // queer as in fuck you // art history, rock climbing, ecology & birding, polar exploration, folk music, whaling & age of sail, and miscellaneous fandom nonsense
Anonymous asked:
If tumblr dies for real where do you think people will migrate to?
strange-aeons answered:
Gerhard Munthe(1849-1929)
«Fra Munthes hjem (Leveld) Forstuen» 1902／«Interiør fra Leveld. Et hjørne av spisestuen» 1902
For those of you that may have just finished watching Cory Booker’s record-breaking senate speech and are inspired to “get in good trouble”, you have a great opportunity for it this Saturday!
On April 5th, numerous advocacy groups are banding together into one nation-wide rally that will be held in major cities all over the country - you can easily find a participating location here!
I’ll be volunteering as a safety captain at my own local rally, and I encourage all of you to go out there too and get in some good trouble as well!
for the record when I say a lot of major cities I mean a LOT of major cities :P
I will be hitting up one of our Twin Cities rallies tomorrow representing the Great Lakes. Let's get out there and raise hell!
1272 protests listed for today. 686 were counted in the women's march in 2017, which was 1% of the population. 🎉
I love the feeling of seeing someone else having a fruitless internet argument with a person being confidently wrong, but I can only see one half of it because I already have the person being obnoxious blocked.
Thank you past me, you were SO right about that guy.
What's the Bird?
Location: West Texas
Date: Summer
We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.
Happy Birding!
Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE
Bird-499 graciously submitted by @nohriantomatoes
What's the Bird?
Location: Minnesota, USA
Date: Spring
Bird - 496 is ...
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
None of the Above
Show Results
See ResultsWe ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.
Happy Birding!
Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE
Bird-496 graciously submitted by @silvermonarchs
the home-buying process is so stressful, I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that our local market is so “hot” that it’s standard to have offers due within 4-6 days of listing. (meaning you have to learn the place exists, make time to go see it, and then decide if you want to offer to pay someone an alarming amount of money for it all in less than a week.)
it’s happening,,,,
the home-buying process is so stressful, I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that our local market is so “hot” that it’s standard to have offers due within 4-6 days of listing. (meaning you have to learn the place exists, make time to go see it, and then decide if you want to offer to pay someone an alarming amount of money for it all in less than a week.)
Evolution works in somewhat mysterious ways. Two birds at the same backyard feeder that look alike could be separated by millions of years of evolutionary history. Meanwhile, two birds that are each other’s closest evolutionary cousins could live on opposite sides of the world.
That mixing and matching of birds with different speciation histories is borne of two seemingly opposing forces of evolution. On the one hand, divergent evolution is pushing closely related species away from each other; natural selection (the race to enhance survival, such as being better at exploiting food resources or evading predators) pushes birds to gain an advantage by looking different or moving someplace different…
Take the quiz here:
A screech owl attacks ornithologist Arthur A. Allen as he examines its young
By: D. G. Allen
From: The Book of Bird Life
1961
I got the chance to poke around in a rare book collection the other day and found a copy of Grif Taylor’s With Scott: The Silver Lining (1916). Very charming little illustrations, and very nearly skips over the tragic ending to Scott’s attempt at the pole, which Grif only found out about when he was already in Australia (or NZ? can’t remember). The most famous and most emotionally resonant part of the expedition is practically a footnote at the end of a 300+ page book detailing day-to-day affairs, it’s an odd choice. I can see why Cherry’s more emotional account was the one that had staying power in the public consciousness.
(Also: had to visit Grif’s wiki page to check I had the publication date right and. Yikes. 😬)
There was also an 1828 copy of A Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Sir John Franklin which I handled so so gently. Those pages were Brittle as heck. The difference in narrative style between Franklin’s writing (with it’s early 19th century Capitalization For Emphasis and Flowery Turns of Phrase) and Grif’s very conversational account was fun to see. It can be easy to forget, when reading accounts by modern writers, how very different Franklin’s world was to that of the early 20th century explorers.
What's the Bird?
Location: Ireland
Date: January
Bird - 483 is ...
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
European Pied Flycatcher
Pied Crow
None of the Above
Show Results
See ResultsWe ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.
Happy Birding!
Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE
Bird-483 graciously submitted by @benidryl
