Motherfucking Cowboy Meowchow

elodieunderglass:

contemplatingchicken:

is-a-velociraptor:

palaeofail-explained:

I love spoon-billed sandpipers because their beaks are just so different from what you typically think of in a shorebird/wader

Wrybills always have a bill that bends to one side. No one is sure why, but it may allow them to watch the sky for predators while foraging

Long-billed curlews have such absurdly long bills in order to reach buried food that other birds can’t reach.

Ruffs have extravagant breeding plumage, which comes in a huge variety of colours. I’ve always meant to check out the social implications and effects of this – is it speciating?

Ruffs are lek breeders and actually have three different types of male! The dark-colored ones are the dominant males strut around and display their plumage to attract females. The lighter colored ones are called satellite males, and they hang out around the edges of the dominant male’s displaying ground and mate with  females while the dominant male is distracted (usually by a rivaldominant male). There is a rare third type of male called a “faeder” which has no display feathers and looks like a female ruff, though it is larger. It appears to be a mimic of the females that uses its appearance to sneak past the other males and even mating with them to gain access to the females to mate, but this might not actually be the case, since half the time the faeder is the one doing the mounting when mating with other males, indicating that the more typical males probably know it isn’t a female. Long story short, ruffs are weird and also apparently bisexual.

@elodieunderglass important birb business

Oh I ADORE how ruffs do Gender Roles. They’ve got an entire system worked out that is just so obscure for humans; it clearly makes perfect sense to them, and all we can do is try to falteringly, helplessly try to put it in our own language. I believe they’re the only species to use “faeder” in that way, although males all over the animal kingdom practice variations of territorial/satellite strategy. 

firstdegreeliberty:

heimwehr:

robloxgf:

suicidalnautilus:

robloxgf:

how dare u reblog my posts but not follow me

If you find a gold bar in a trash bag, will you take the whole trash can, or just the gold bar?

the fuck

cold af

*writes down time of death*

telegantmess:

whitesaviorcomplex:

I’m slightly convinced that a lot of people on here just see TERFs as just “people who exclude others”
and not a genuinely dangerous group of people who target and ruin the lives of trans women by any means necessary

Time for a history lesson!

Sandy Stone was a sound mixer and engineer for the feminist lesbian separatist music collective Olivia in 1974. She is a trans woman and was a member of the collective for 4 years. She left the collective after a deluge of abuse against her and the collective for allowing her to stay. This abuse included death threats which culminated in a group of armed cis women attempting to enter a performance in Seattle that Stone was working at with the express purpose of killing Stone. That group called themselves the Gorgons, and they were a separatist, paramilitary group that had guns with live ammo confiscated from them when they tried to enter the event.

The following is a quote from Stone in an interview she did for TransAdvocate:

“I was pants-wetting scared at that event. I was terrified. During a break between a musical number someone shouted out “GORGONS!” and I made it from my seat at the console to under the table the console was on at something like superluminal speed. I stayed under there until it was clear that I wasn’t about to be shot… Not that it would have done me any good to be under there.”

The full interview can be found here: http://transadvocate.com/terf-violence-and-sandy-stone_n_14360.htm

Do not think that TERF rhetoric is just about exclusion, or that any of it is new. This has been going on for decades, and this is just one tiny example.