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Irascible, fire-breathing mule.

@aegor-bamfsteel / aegor-bamfsteel.tumblr.com

I blog about: 1) ASOIAF/GoT (particularly House Stark, House Blackfyre and its allies, and Bracken women) 2) Animals, animal care, and animals in captivity (particularly elephants, horses, cats, and frogs) 3) History, art and military history, historical artifacts (particularly from antiquity and the medieval period) var sc_project=11604890; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="0afff774"; var scJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://secure." : "http://www."); document.write("<sc"+"ript type='text/javascript' src='" + scJsHost+ "statcounter.com/counter/counter.js'></"+"script>");
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Beautiful Gorgeous Vivacious Voigt has passed away peacefully today, one week before her 13th birthday. Voigt had recently been diagnosed with advanced liver cancer but was still able to enjoy her favourite Fingers, Smiling, and Naughtiness with her Stickyfrogs family.

We are so very grateful for the 13 wonderful years we shared with Voigt and the absolute joy she brought to everyone, but tonight there is a very big Voigt-shaped hole at the Stickyfrogs house.

If you have a Happy Memory of Voigt you would like to share, please share it below. We will be sharing some of our favourite Happy Voigt Memories over the coming days.

RIP Beautiful Voigt 🐸

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RIP to the Grande Dame of the Sticky Frogs. I hope you are standing on your sister Gumby’s eyeball in Frog Heaven and getting all the Treaties you want

#frogs#Voigt#sad
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you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

#writing#positivity
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Three-striped poison Dart Frog (Ameerega trivittata), father carrying tadpoles to water source, family Dendrobatidae, Tambopata National Reserve, Madre de Dios Region, Peru

Photograph by Joselo Barazorda

#frogs
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"Blue" island ponies are managed by the volunteer fire department and gathered yearly for vaccines, farrier visit and foals/yearlings are auctioned for the benefit of the fire department. older horses are 'bought back' by the department and released into the herd to ensure genetic viablilty. island ponies live wild for most of the year. Assateague Island, Virginia

Photo by DSC Photography

#feral horses#horses
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*very suspicious squinting*

Skepticism activated

So it's not a dire wolf (which are not very related to gray wolves at all), it's a gray wolf with 14 modified genes.

Like yes, the technology is cool and the advances impressive, but these claims of de-extinction are so fucking overhyped and in this case an outright lie that it makes me want to bite something

#animals#wolves
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Anonymous asked:

Sansa being good at diplomacy and politicking whilst not being as good with sums + Jon’s ability to negotiate loans out of essentially nothing and not as adept with the diplomacy side of things. Almost like they balance each other out.

agentrouka-blog answered:

They definitely have things to both learn and simply share with each other.

Jon so single-mindedly pursues a solution to the bigger issues that he fails to take the considerations of individual people around himself into account. Much like Ned, and much like Robb. (A surprise each time: traitors!!) Sansa has become very attuned to individual feelings around herself, trying to steer the mood of a situation toward the desired outcome through addressing underlying feelings, but she still lacks the drive to identify the bigger picture and work toward her own goals.

I think they will both benefit immensely by learning from each other in TWOW and we will see them refer to each other in applying what they learned and need to do better when they are separated again for plotlines in ADOS. Basically, yes, GRRM will show us that they make a good team.

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#jonsa#sansa stark#jon snow#jon x sansa
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It's hilarious to me how Colossal Biosciences wants to be movie-version John Hammond but are 100% book-version John Hammond. In the Jurassic Park novel, it's very clear: John Hammond is a con artist who gives people an illusion, not the truth. He knew from the beginning that what he was making weren't dinosaurs, but he didn't care because he had a story to sell. He wasn't just "filling in gaps" with the frog dna, his scientists were basically making things up from whole cloth and he had no pretence about it- but he also knew what the public wanted to believe.

Case in point: https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/

The Return of the Dire Wolf
Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct s
TIME

These are not dire wolves. These are GMO gray wolves. Dire wolves aren't even in the same genus as gray wolves, and we know this from genetics.

What Colossal is doing is scamming the public. They want you to believe that they can pull off miracles. They can't. It's the flea circus where everything is mechanised, but because you want to believe, you "see" the fleas. They might be good at genetic modification and they might be good at hyping themselves up, but they haven't de-extincted the dire wolf. They didn't activate mammoth genes in a mouse. They are lying to you and they're going to keep doing it. Don't believe the hype.

#animals#anti capitalism#anti grrm
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