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RIP Val Kilmer ๐
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Guys they reintroduced Galapagos tortoises to espanola island and theyโve essentially terraformed their environment, knocking over invasive plants so that endangered albatrosses (who need space to take off using the ground as a runway) have returned and established nests!
Some key details from the articles:
- In the 1960's, the tortoise population on this particular island--Espaรฑola--was down to 14 tortoises.
- Those individuals--two males and twelve females--were taken to a sanctuary on the nearby island of Santa Cruz, where they were encouraged to be fruitful and multiply.
- Another male tortoise living in a zoo was identified as being from this island, and joined the group at the sanctuary, increasing the diversity of the gene pool.
- Because Galapagos tortoises live so long--over a century--the reintroduction involved not only the offspring born at the sanctuary, but also the original 14 tortoises, and the guy from the zoo. After half a century, they took their children and grandchildren home.
Also,
- "Galapagos giant tortoisesย spend about 16 hours per day resting and the remaining hours snacking on grasses, fruits and cactus pads." Mood.
The reintroduction project for Espaรฑola is now in its end stage, with all the tortoises back on their home island, free-roaming and reproducing on the their own. (The total population is about 3,000). However, the sanctuary continues to work with tortoises from other islands (because of their isolation, each island's population is its own subspecies).
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Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2004 โย Russell Boyd, ACS, ASC Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Directed by Peter Weir Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
โMaster and Commander โ gee, that was a hard film to make. There is no easy film, of course, but Master was very demanding physically โ because of the water, even though a lot of it was shot in the tank in Mexico that had been built for Titanic. Peter Weir once said to me โ and Iโll never forget it โ he said, โCome on and do a film of mine, and Iโll take you on an adventure.โ And he does!โ โ Russell Boyd for The American Society of Cinematographers, February 2018
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every leverage dynamic โฎ harry wilson & sophie devereaux
sometimes, to my regret. it's a long list of those. am i on that list? time will tell, mr wilson.
Voyseyโs Garden Magna wallpaper - off white [from House of Hackney]
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Dunes at the Hoek van Hollandย - ย Gineke Zikken , 2015.
Dutch, ย b. 1959 -
Oil on canvas,ย 40 x 40 cm.
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JESSIE MEI LI Yellowbelly Photo, 2025
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jane eyre paperback covers published between 1950 and 1970
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Paul Lehr illustration for the 1981 sci-fi story, The Crab.
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if youโre in the uk & worried about the disability benefits reform hereโs some things you can do:
from this page you can add your name to scopeโs open letter to the chancellor and also fill out a form to send your mp an email inviting them to scopeโs parliamentary event to discuss & inform why disability benefits are essential
on trussellโs website you can fill out another form to send an email to your mp asking them to call on starmer to rethink the benefits reform. for both the scope & trussell email form there is a box to add anything you want, but if you want to skip that step you can, just click the button that takes you to the next page :)
there are also these two (one, two) petitions by charity z2k that you can sign. i found both of these through the disabilityrightsuk website
if there are any iโve missed let me know & i can add them! personally i think that emailing your mp is the most important of any of these, and both scope & trussell have made it very easy to do so !
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Versaillesย |ย 2x04 - โMiasmaโ
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#dollhouse#the amount of dollhouse flashbacks Iโm getting from all the severance gifs on my dash#surely iโm entitled to financial compensation#find a doctor you say? rip out the crap in their heads? surely that canโt refer to tech that forcibly makes you forget things#and creates branching and distinct identities which exist in parallel#with a certain amount of bleed-through#exploring the role of memory in identity and the hideous trauma of un-personing by a corporation on the individual#WELL GREAT NEWS#(or possibly terrible news)#two cakes etc#and they both have dichen lachman#desolated to report that neither priya nor tony nor sierra nor victor - the 4 people (at least!) implied to be in this gifset#are the main protagonist of the show however