I linked it because if you feel moved to help, if you can, I would really appreciate it. If you can’t, please reblog it. Getting this in front of eyeballs is a bigger help than you can know.

I am so, so, so tired. And sad. And scared. I love my dad. He should be getting ready to retire, and instead he’s having to do this. He is not the type to ask for help, so I can only imagine that my mom is the one who talked him into going this route.

I can’t write about this anymore, because just thinking about it makes me want to cry.

forcekenobi:

forcekenobi:

as a child being told “the moon controls the tides” with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you’re talking about magic right now? okay. fine

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn’t ready for “the sun is a distant gorilla”. thank you NASA

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probablyavpd:

Not many people talk about how deep emotional neglect hurts you.

I’m afraid to want things. I’m afraid to ask for help. I’m afraid to tell someone something if they seem in a bad mood. I can’t process when someone is nice to me. I can’t handle rejection, but my brain literally short circuits if someone gives me a compliment to the point where sometimes the rejection is better.

There are lots of overlap with emotional abuse, but emotional neglect hurts just as much. And it’s even worse that it usually goes undetected, so a lot of people can’t tell they’re being neglected until it’s too late.

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littlealienproducts:

Wooden Otter Family Toys by BumbuToys

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pyreo:

pyreo:

You grow up and you realise A Bug’s Life was the revolutionary Leftist masterpiece of our childhoods

I’m not even slightly kidding

Ants are the workforce doing the labour needed to survive, and they have to do it twice over to provide for both themselves and for a group of parasites who do nothing but consume the labour of others

The ants work themselves near to death trying to stay afloat

The grasshoppers don’t even need any food. They have tons to spare but still insist on taking the food the ants worked for because they ‘deserve’ it, despite actually contributing nothing of value. The only reason this works is by threatening ants with force and degrading them so they feel weak and worthless, and insisting that the grasshoppers deserve a cut for some vague service they claim to provide to society

In reality Hopper is desperate to stop the ants from thinking for themselves, keeping them ignorant of the fact that he has subjugated ants through threats of power while the ants actually overpower the grasshoppers through sheer numbers.

And should the ants ever realise that the grasshoppers take from them while providing nothing and that revolution is possible, the class system they’ve installed will be finished.

tl;dr feed the 1% to birds

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fairycosmos:

i hate nerves and anxiety. oh nooo i am scared of acting like a weird bitch to remedy this i will act like a weird bitch

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doberbutts:

Instead of bickering who has it worse and who is shittier to who I propose a solution:

Learn the phrase “lateral aggression” and stop blaming entire demographics for the actions of the assholes that are bothering you. There’s assholes in your demographic too, promise.

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orcboxer:

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what’s about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn’t coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death – hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. “it won’t reset anymore,” you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you’re still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

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carpethedamndiem:

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coughloop:

no one ever talks about vermont i dont know anything about vermont

vermont

i was born in vermont and i live in vermont now

i was born in vermont but i do not live in vermont anymore

i was not born in vermont but i live in vermont now

i was not born in vermont, i lived there for a bit but i dont right now

i was not born in vermont but i have been in vermont for more than 24 hours

i was not born in vermont but i have been in vermont for less than 24 hours

i was not born in vermont and i have never been in vermont for even a second

no cop outs, if you’ve never heard of vermont in your life choose the last option. vote on my poll. vote on my poll

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traycakes:

bogleech:

is-the-fox-video-cute:

the-gay-prometheus:

is-the-fox-video-cute:

is-the-fox-video-cute:

is-the-fox-video-cute:

Supposedly someone donated $1mil to the project to eliminate predators/turn them into herbivores. Imagine the good money like that could have done for actual conservation projects instead of this nonsense.

Why support actual conservation when you can fund nonsense like this instead? 😬😬😬

In the UK there are around 430,000 foxes. Each fox must eat an average of 8 rodents a day. That means you would need to release over 3.4 million of these robotic rodents every single day just to feed one species in one country.

Now scale that up and imagine how many billions of these you’d need to feed every predator in every country. It’s beyond stupid.

On the flip side, if one of these robotic rodents = one real life mouse or rat saved:

One female mouse can have up to 10 litters in a year, with numbers ranging typically from 5-14 pups each (average number that survive is closer to 7 or 8, but we’ll go with 8)

Numbers are very similar for rats, so we’ll just go with the above numbers.

Since obviously predatory species aren’t taking out every single rodent ever, we can assume that each of these rodents has the capacity to become a breeding pair with a rodent that would otherwise not be eaten.

So if these robots fed the foxes of the UK and totaled to 3.4 million robots in a year, and each robot is equal to one mouse or rat saved…

Roughly 8 pups per litter x 10 litters per year = 80 new mice added to the population per breeding adult mouse per year

3.4 million rats/mice saved from being eaten by foxes x 80 new mice added to the population per breeding adult mouse saved = 272,000,000 (272 million) new mice/rats added to the population for every year this project is a success.

And this is just the number OP stated for foxes in the UK alone. There are many other predatory species living in the UK (both native such as owls and other raptors, and invasive such as domestic and feral cats), some of which rely solely on mice or rats. The amount of mice and rats consumed total by every predatory species in the UK alone is probably in the mid-to-high millions, and as I’m sure everyone knows, there are still plenty of mice and rats in the country. If the predators of the UK would be made to instead start hunting robotic mice and rats, we’re talking potentially many multiple billions of new mice and rats added to the breeding population every year in the UK alone.

That’s not good for people, since wild mice and rats can carry fatal diseases, but it’s also not good for the wild mice and rats as they suddenly need to compete even more heavily with each other for resources and have more chance of spreading diseases and parasites to each other. Not to mention, with all of these new rodents needing to eat, we would see significantly more crop damage and loss, and there would be significant damage and loss to native plant species as well. Also, this should go without saying, but predatory species typically physically are incapable of surviving solely on plant matter, especially when relegated plant matter found in their natural habitats.

This entire project, if ever taken seriously, genuinely attempted to be implemented, and even in some slight way were to become successful, would be a disaster and a death sentence to the whole of nature and ecology as we know it.

Oh don’t worry, they have a solution to that!

They believe they can control the fertility of every single wild animal on earth using birth control and/or biomedical engineering. Cause that’s totally feasible. And even if it was somehow possible, imagine the costs of having to give birth control to billions and billions of animals worldwide. Where would the money and resources from that come from? Is that really the best use of government money when there are millions of people starving and living in poverty or on the streets?

That is actually literally the person who made me question if my emotional responses to someone “being wrong” were normal because there is NO possibility any of their plans will ever happen and they’re not yet harming anyone by just having this positively absurd ideological obsession, but instead of being funny or silly to me I violently despise them for thinking this asinine ridiculous garbage and for not loving nature exactly the way nature is. Having talked to a couple of their followers they aren’t a joke and I want them to die of flesh eating bacteria.

I have spent much of my life in small towns near forests in areas where natural predators had been chased away, meaning there was no control on the deer population aside from hunters and holy shit but deer become such a menace. They’re a danger on the road, they’ll eat your plants, they can jump most any fence, and LED streetlights mean that they can now be nocturnal, since they’re bright enough for them to see at night.

And the thing is deer don’t breed as quickly as rodents, and there are still hunters. If rats didn’t have any predators it would be apocalyptic.

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depsidase:

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prokopetz:

x-cetra:

prokopetz:

To be fair, there are perfectly practical filmmaking reasons why cool guys don’t look at explosions:

1. Most low to medium budget productions don’t use compositing or CGI to put the actor in the same shot as the explosion – they just put the actor much further away from the explosion than you think they are, and use forced perspective tricks to minimise the apparent distance. There are a limited number of camera angles those tricks permit, and most of them require the actor to be directly between the explosion and the camera.
   
2. In spite of the fact that the distance between the explosion and the actor is larger than you think, mistakes happen, and the best way to avoid catching a piece of flying debris in the eye is to direct your line of sight away from the explosion.

“Cool guy slowly walking away from explosion” happens to be a very obvious way of satisfying both of those safety constraints.

Originally posted by thisbluespirit

Example of #2: Seventh Doctor in classic Doctor Who not flinching when the fucking pyrotechnics department actually burned holes in his coat

(multiple clips from his era are now examples in the BBC’s workplace safety training tapes)

Yeah, that’s a fantastic example of how not to do it. The “correct” low-budget approach would have been to show him exiting the building, then quickly cut to a different camera angle for the walking away from the explosion part, using forced perspective to conceal the fact that he’s teleported 30 feet between shots A and B.

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bogleech:

bogleech:

this is the teaser image and actual title of an upcoming horror movie, by a director who thinks cgi is overused and too fake looking already so it’s probably going to be pretty funny

This went from “funny meta joke” to actually top tier monster concept the moment I just learned that the gator is canonically made of bad cgi in-universe. It is created when laptops get dumped in the swamp. The characters will recognize that it is a CGI entity and it will presumably have powers and abilities in accordance with that.

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