I want to be very clear: I did not schedule this to post on Easter weekend.

I want to be very clear: I did schedule this to post on Easter weekend

What they don't want you to know about gay sex is that you don't even have to stick anything in a hole. You can have gay sex just grinding on each other's thighs while you give your partner hickies.

This applies to t4t, too.

REJECT THE FALSE GOD KNOWN AS PENETRATION!

SEX IS SOMETHING YOU DO WITH YOUR TEETH!!!!

A male anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) in Orange County, Florida

by Matthew Addicks

xanthe burdett

ive read the first 6 murderbot books in the last three days is this accurate

Martin Luther King, Jr. -- From a speech at Southern Methodist University. 17 March, 1966

Lothal

Mummy portraits of Egyptians from the Roman period, 1st-2nd centuries AD

Great diving beetle By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

Moebius

Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus), migrating upriver, family Petromyzontidae, order Petromyzontiformes, Willamette Falls, OR, USA

photograph by David Herasimtschuk

Kept me up at night

I’ve got it right here:

You’re welcome.

Life in a snot palace 🏰✨️⁠

Larvaceans, like this redhead larvacean (Mesochordaeus erythrocephalus), build mucous houses that function as elaborate feeding devices. The outer filter can be much bigger than the smaller animal that lives at its center. Larvaceans eat tiny particles of dead or drifting plants and animals that float through the water column. The larger filter traps particles that are too big for the animal to eat, while the smaller inner filter guides perfectly-sized food particles into the larvacean’s mouth. ⁠ ⁠ Eventually, the filters get clogged and the larvacean abandons them (we're talking about days, not weeks or months). The sinking houses, packed with particles, provide an important source of food for animals living deeper in the water column and on the seafloor. ⁠

The thing about harry potter is that it's Not a matter of ~ problematic media ~ it's a "the creator is directly funneling shit tons of money into the Kill All Trannies Foundation". This is our anita bryant. Can you grow a fucking spine and morals and stuff? If we were in the 70s some of you would be talking about how orange juice is your safe food or something. She's the actual devil I think that's more important here

Like your wizard books fucking suck anyway we've pretty thoroughly torn them apart at this point but all of that is still besides the point that she is The Devil. Even if they were good you still shouldn't be giving this woman your money & you should be embarrassed to associate yourself with her work. Come on. Can the millennial nostalgia industrial complex crash and burn yet I'm sick of y'all

"Ooh I'm pirating it I'm buying merch secondhand" ok but you should have some sense of shame about it. Like usually this is where someone makes a point about exposure and continued relevance cause you're still promoting it but, like, even if you found a way to engage with the wizard books without contributing to Millennial Anita Bryant's wealth even a little 100% guaranteed, how can you stomach it at this point? Doesn't it make you feel sick?? What is wrong with you. Also "well I'm headcanoning them as queer so I'm sticking it to jkr" is just stupid. Your Thoughts don't cancel out Real Material Consequences

This is obviously a deeply vile & offensive take but I'm seeing a lot of responses to it which seem to be predicated on the notion that he's factually wrong about what autism is? When dealing with this kind of rhetoric you do need to bear in mind that there are some autistic people have very high support needs and it's not okay to be ableist towards them either.

Some autistic people will never hold a job or write a poem or go on a date or use a toilet unassisted and they still have rights 👍

Round 3 - Reptilia - Charadriiformes

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Our next order of birds are the diverse Charadriiformes, collectively called “shorebirds”. This large order contains the families Burhinidae (“stone-curlews” and “thick-knees”), Pluvianellidae (“Magellanic Plover”), Chionidae (“sheathbills”), Pluvianidae (“Egyptian Plover”), Charadriidae (“plovers”), Recurvirostridae (“stilts” and “avocets”), Ibidorhynchidae (“Ibisbill”), Haematopodidae (“oystercatchers”), Rostratulidae (“painted-snipes”), Jacanidae (“jacanas”), Pedionomidae (“Plains-wanderer”), Thinocoridae (“seedsnipes”), Scolopacidae (“sandpipers”, “snipes”, “curlew”, and kin), Turnicidae (“buttonquails”), Dromadidae (“Crab-plover”), Glareolidae (“coursers” and “pratincoles”), Laridae (“gulls”, “terns”, “skimmers”, and kin), Stercorariidae (“skuas”), and Alcidae (“auks”, “puffins”, “guillemots”, and kin).

Charadriiformes are small to medium-large birds that typically live near water, however, some live in the open sea, some live in dense forest, and some living in deserts. Most eat small animals ranging from invertebrates to fish to other birds. The order was formerly divided into three suborders based on behavior, the “waders”, the “gulls”, and the “auks”, but these three groups were paraphyletic. However, they represent a good summary of the main forms charadriiformes can take. The “waders” are generally long-legged, long-beaked birds which tend to feed by probing in the mud or picking items off the surface in both coastal and freshwater environments (however, terrestrial shorebirds like the Woodcock [Scolopax minor] and thick-knees [family Burhinidae] would also be considered “waders”). The “gulls” are generally larger species which catch fish from the sea, scavenge, or steal food from other animals. The “auks” are coastal species which nest on sea cliffs and dive underwater to catch fish, on flipper-like wings that can swim as well as fly. Now, it is generally understood that the auks are closer related to the gulls than any other family, and birds traditionally considered “waders” exist in all three suborders. Charadriiformes are one of the most, if not the most, widely dispersed bird orders, living on every continent and in almost every habitat.

Charadriiformes demonstrate a larger diversity of reproduction strategies than do most other bird orders (see propaganda below the cut for more). In most species, both parents take care of the young, but in some, the father is the main caretaker. Some breed and raise young in large colonies, while others nest alone.

Alongside the waterfowl, the Charadriiformes are the only other order of modern bird to have an established fossil record within the Late Cretaceous, living alongside the other dinosaurs. The modern groups of charadriiformes emerged around the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, roughly 35–30 million years ago.

Propaganda under the cut:

but even if there weren't any, look at all these other absolute bird wins!!!!!!!! Faves all around!