Here is a petition you can sign against the proposed extraction of the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea, and which the Tories want to not merely permit, but also fund from taxpayers’ money. Which for obvious reasons would be a really fricking awful thing.
Not quite a wallabie, not quite a kangaroo…must be a wallaroo! Size-wise these macropods, also known as euros, are right in between wallabies and kangaroos, but they’re actually an entirely different group. The name comes from the Australian Aboriginal Dharug name walaru.
(Image: A common wallaroo (Macropus robustus) by Ron Knight)
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[ID: Digital art painted in a vertical rectangle. In the upper half, a red Chinese dragon flies in a pale sky-blue background with stylized clouds swirling around them. The dragon’s head and body are angled downwards. As the dragon descends, the background gets darker. About halfway down it becomes deep blue water. A bubble floats up to the dragon’s face. Slightly below it, several large goldfish and one calico goldfish swim up close to the viewer. Bubbles float around them, reflecting their deep orange scales and the pale blue light from above. /End ID]
icant even explain why i feel this way about it but this meme, this specific version, just makes me so emotional i love it so so much. its very heartwarming. peace n love on planet earth
Oh my god that’s my friend Don!!! He helps run Crypticon here in the Midwest and is a big collector of physical media and horror memorabilia.
He and his wife just got into a bad car accident recently, if you enjoy this meme, PLEASE consider donating to their GoFundMe!
For all the younger folks here that may not understand why Paul Reubens was so beloved that many grown adults are in tears today (myself included), I urge you all to watch at least a couple episodes of Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
Pee Wee Herman represented the quintessential child in everyone: Curious, silly, imaginative, and above all, kind to those around him–no matter how different or even outlandish they were. He also lived in a world that was genuinely magical, and that kids everywhere dreamed of being able to visit.
Even outside of the playhouse, Pee Wee brought that magic with him as he searched for his bike in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure–one of the most off-the-wall but widely beloved films ever made.
Though Paul may be gone, Pee Wee will live on forever. I envy those who can still experience him and his wonderous playhouse for the first time. It will be up to you younger generations now to keep that magic alive.
There is a recall for albuterol inhalers that don’t deliver adequate doses in the midst of an albuterol shortage. These companies are so wasteful and greedy that they used faulty batches of valves that didn’t seal properly and allowed an already finite medication that saves lives be further wasted until entire batches of said medication became unsafe for use.
the batch numbers are IB20045, IB20055, IB20056, IB20057, IB20059, and IB20072.
This is super exciting! Invertebrates are often overlooked in favor of the charismatic megafauna, but in a lot of ways they’re even more ecologically crucial. These little native snails are detritivores, helping to break down decaying matter and convert it back to nutrients more accessible to other living beings. The invasive snails that overtook their habitat–the African giant land snail and the rosy wolf snail–don’t fulfill the same ecological roles. The former voraciously chows down on live plants, while the latter is a carnivore that hunts down other snails.
It’s even more important to be reintroducing the native partula snails, because these species have been declared extinct in the wild. The last few members of each species were brought into captivity and bred in safe enclosures, and now their descendants are heading back to their historic range in places that have had all of their predators removed so they have a good chance of building up a healthy population before spreading out beyond those safe confines.
In case people weren’t aware, there seems to have been a massive issue throughout Patreon. People have had their subscriptions cancelled and many had their payments flagged as fraud with their bank. 150$ of my patronage disappeared, that’s 150$ a month as a disabled artist that took months to build that I’m unsure I’ll ever get back..Gone. It won’t allow me to message anyone whose payments were declined.I also had around 10 people’s payments flagged as fraud, some have had to re-patron.
If you’re supporting Patreon creators I advise you look to see if at least the people you remember supporting are still there / that your payments aren’t marked as fraud, especially if you’re supporting for physical rewards you’re expecting.
I think that the worst and most dangerous misconception people have about fascism is that it’s this sort of turbocharged “Beast Mode” that countries can go into to increase their production, win wars, and make the trains run on time, and that the primary objections to it centre on whether the “obvious” increase in efficiency that fascism offers is worth the loss of freedom and lives. But in reality fascist regimes like to put up a *façade* of strength and efficiency, even as they practice corruption on a scale unimaginable in democracies and even as the public interest is hollowed out by parasitical opportunists. There is no trade-off; fascism is a grift all the way down.
teepublic.com/user/spectrumdragon White, Christian, autistic, leftist. Older than 18. Pronouns: She/her or they/them. Secretly a dragon. This blog contains: dragons and other reptiles, animals and creatures in general, Michael Jackson and other people I like, social justice - especially disability, and a whole host of other stuff. I support animal welfare, not animal rights.
