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Giant or Waxy Monkey Leaf Frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), family Hylidae, found in central South America
photograph by Nattattackss (@nattattackss)
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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
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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
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Sound on 🐱
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The Dabous Giraffes - neolithic petroglyphs found in Saharan Niger estimated to be 6,000 to 8,000 years old. The bigger of the two giraffes is 5.4 meters long and is the largest known petroglyph in the world.
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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
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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.
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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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/
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.
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Jungle Cat (Felis chaus), juvenile, Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar, India
photograph by Parth Leuva
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Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex), male., family Bovidae, found in Alps of Europe
photograph by Claude Gurzeler
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isetmyfriendsonfire-deactivated
in the club balding
Yes, king, show more skin!
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African giant pangolin 
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"One day Your Grace will need to take the Iron Islands. That will go much easier with Balon Greyjoy's daughter as a catspaw, with one of your own leal men as her lord husband."- Theon(TWOW).
Theon got angry over Justin Massey proposing to wed Asha to claim Iron Islands. When previously he had similar thoughts:
"A pity Ned Stark had taken his daughters south; elsewise Theon could have tightened his grip on Winterfell by marrying one of them. Sansa was a pretty little thing too, and by now likely even ripe for bedding."- Theon(ACOK).
Do you think Theon will realise that he was going to do same to Robb sister Sansa?
I'm not sure Theon is specifically angry on Asha's behalf as generally cynical.
"You?" The king scowled. "The woman is wed, Justin." "A proxy marriage, never consummated. Easily set aside. The groom is old besides. Like to die soon." From a sword through his belly if you have your way, ser worm. Theon knew how these knights thought. (TWOW, Theon)
Theon can follow his line of thought precisely because it was his own logic. With Theon there was the additional angle that marrying Sansa with Ned's approval was part of his fantasy of officially joining the Stark family, and his crude musings are an intentional dark twist on this "weak" desire. He conquered the castle instead. He could force Sansa into marriage and bolster his hold on Winterfell through her claim.
It's the same logic employed by the Lannisters with Sansa. And by Littlefinger with Sansa.
It's also the same logic employed by the Boltons with "Arya Stark". The very same Jeyne that Theon eventually chooses to rescue.
I don't think we're looking at a case of Theon not understanding how similar he is to a guy like Justin Massey, or worse really, similar to Ramsay. It's him perfectly understanding it.