dendroica:

Black Swallowtail (by Kenneth Gisi)

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On human speciesism and my personal opinions on “the debate”:

derangedhyena-delphinidae:

I would like to share a well-known quote from Richard Dawkins in regards to human speciesism.

It’s shared quite a bit on the internet, but I own/have read the book it comes from and must agree it’s an effective, concise way to get the point across. I included the whole quote instead of the…

I was wondering if I should try to articulate in more detail where I currently stand with respect to that “Sea World’s orca captivity is problematic” comment I made. As it turns out I don’t have to, because this post (which I came across in reading some of the reblogs in that one) did it for me.

This. This is where I stand.

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urbpan:

cozykalia:

pinkisnotonfire:

Is there anyone on this freaking website that supports Seaworld because I can’t be the only person that doesn’t believe PETA’s bullshit

EVERYONE REBLOG IF YOU SUPPORT SEAWORLD OR CAPTIVITY

If it weren’t for captivity thousands more species of animals would be extinct and most people would never see any wildlife except mice and house sparrows

This post seems to have spent much of its life in the land of hyperbole. Nevertheless, as long as we’re throwing out opinions, here are mine:

1) PETA is frequently full of shit.

2) Not all animal captivity is problematic.

3) Sea World, as a commercial entity, has an economic stake in a particular kind of captivity (cetacean captivity in small enclosures for public performance) that IS problematic, at least as currently practiced by them.

4) My beliefs on this matter are not very well-informed, important, or relevant.

5) Nevertheless I felt like sharing them.

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rjzimmerman:

Hiking in the Andreas Canyon and Palm Canyon in Indian Canyons in Palm Springs yesterday. The rains over the past two weeks invigorated the creeks and rivers.

Photos taken by rjzimmerman on December 18, 2014.

My wife and I hiked this path one day about 25 years ago. It was a lovely day, and we saw lots of birds, and one big rattlesnake that crawled by as we sat eating our lunch.

In the afternoon we hiked back up the canyon to where we’d parked, and on the way out we noticed something kind of fun: Where the trail was dusty and took impressions well you could see, neatly atop our own incoming footprints, the four-inch-wide paw prints of the mountain lion that had followed us down the trail without our ever realizing it.

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definitelydope:

Maresia | Álvaro Martino

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http://apilgrimavoyager.tumblr.com/post/106503052769/lies-tumblr-is-being-weird-and-i-cant-reblog:

apilgrimavoyager:

lies tumblr is being weird, and I can’t reblog your reply in order to reply, so here is a completely new post!

I’ve never really thought about it before, but I guess Orion is kinda upside-downish. This is a picture of what we see, and I guess we decided there is another shape in there,…

Thank you for explaining the saucepan!

Yes, I watched the Sydney-Hobart start, and very much enjoyed it. The commercials reminded me of bad US TV, but the actual sailing coverage was awesome; I can only wish sailing got anything approaching that level of coverage over here.

I also felt a certain amount of schadenfreude at Comanche losing to Wild Oats XI. I realize they’re probably all modern-day robber barons with outsized boats representative of their outsized egos, but in the list of mega-rich boat owners I find vaguely (or not even vaguely) off-putting, Jim Clark is toward the top of the list. It’s not really fair, I guess, and I actually feel quite positive toward Ken Read, Comanche’s skipper. And the boat itself is amazing.

Yacht racing generally is super problematic in ways I’ve always been aware of; the whole endeavor operates as an explicit celebration of over-the-top privilege. My awareness of that has come into sharper focus over the years, and when it’s on display as blatantly as it is in the case of Comanche it’s hard for me not to let it color who I’m pulling for.

But I still like watching the boats.

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priceofliberty:

hugsfromhugo:

A solar eclipse and the Milky  Way seen from the ISS

I am practically in tears over how beautiful this image is.

Pretty. But fake.

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darksilenceinsuburbia:

Virginie Khateeb

Deconstruction

The marble quarries of Carrara are constantly evolving landscapes characterized by their surreal architecture and sculpted structures built from gutted mountains. Both material body and missing part, they are incoherent and therefore deny the possibility of a pure presence.

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High five for fortuitously nerdy dads! :D

Specifically in LotR? My favorite ships are probably

• Eomer/Lothiriel (shhh, it counts!)
• Faramir/Eowyn (obviously, I mean who couldn’t love these two?)
• Aragorn/Arwen
• Aragorn/Faramir (but only if Arwen and Eowyn are somehow just not in the picture, because the infidelity thing really bothers me)
• Legolas/Gimli brotp
• Hobbits/happiness

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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urbpan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0
Michel Gondry — Chemical Brothers

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gandalf1202:

John Singer Sargent – Venetian Passageway [c.1905] on Flickr.

The view is across the Grand Canal towards the 16th-century Palazzo Grimani designed by Sanmicheli. On the right is the Rio di San Luca. On the grounds of style the work is datable to the years after Canaletto made his final return to Venice in 1756.

[National Gallery, London – Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 38.8 cm]

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beeftony:

zetsubonna:

thank you so fucking much, science side of tumblr

One small correction: using cowpox to treat smallpox isn’t vaccination, it’s a similar but distinct process called inoculation. A vaccine uses a weakened, mostly dead form of the virus to let your body do some target practice. An inoculation actually infects the body with a related, but less severe form of an illness, and the antibodies developed from fighting it off also repel the more deadly disease.

I’ve become less tolerant of woo as I’ve gotten older. Anti-vaxxers are depressing.

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LOK binge-watch: complete.

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apilgrimavoyager:

sylvia-morris replied to your post “sylvia-morris replied to your post “If I got a tattoo, what do you…”

I like constellation tattoos. Or the watercolour abstract ones. But dude, it’s your tattoo!

same! And I’ve always been fond of the Orion constellation!!! 

When you look at Orion, do you see a human figure who’s standing on his head? Or do you mentally draw the lines some different way? Or is it just a geometric arrangement of stars?

I think my perception has been permanently warped by H.A. Rey. But his stick figure of Orion is Northern Hemisphere-specific.

Oh, as long as I’m thinking about differences in the north/south perceptual landscape:

On the day after Christmas I was watching the start of the Sydney-Hobart race, and the website of the Aussie TV channel that was streaming it was showing the whole broadcast feed, including the local (Sydney) commercials. And I don’t know quite what I was expecting, but it was weird to me that Australian TV commercials (at least on this channel) were _exactly_ as inane, and were inane in exactly the same way, as US TV commercials. Literally the only thing different was that the announcers had a different accent.

I guess I thought that TV in Australia would have been different than the TV I’m used to. But nope; same exact thing. Same exact (depressingly awful) mirror held up to the audience.

I guess we really are one global culture in that respect. At least TV channels in the US and Australia are.

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libutron:

Amazing mimicry of Macrocilix maia

Like a watercolor painting, the Asian moth Macrocilix maia (Drepanidae) paints a whole scene on its upperwings that mimics two flies eating… feces. It is said that the moth reinforces the imagery with a pungent odour.

References: [1] – [2] – [3]

Photo credit: ©Shi Wei (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) | Locality: Fushan, Wulai, Taipei County, Taiwan (2010)

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coleito:

Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫 )

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hooddreamer:

Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet on the set of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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leprincelointain:

Mihaly Munkacsy (1844-1900), Route de Campagne Poussiéreuse – 1883 

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the-hardest-of-hearts-survive:

John Singer Sargent, El jaleo (Detail), 1882

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