thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

life will persist against all odds

For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.

This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.

At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:

A shadow stalks you in the flames…

Adult website and period tracker

thorin doodle

@ Mahal’s Hall front door circa Gimli’s death.

*knock knock*

Mahal, yelling through the door: I don’t want what you’re selling!

???: I want my husband back!

Mahal, opening the door: What?

Legolas: Give me my husband back.

Mahal: Look it doesn’t work like that—

Legolas bites Mahal’s leg.

Mahal: WTF—

things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:

the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.

heres the tedtalk if you dont believe because everyone deserves to know this reality of the amazing world in which we live 

Holy shit you neglected to mention that when her daughter got a terminal disease with no cure or treatment possible she literally went to the library got some medical textbooks and taught herself enough biochemistry to actually begin developing a drug that halted the disease good god why have we never heard of this absolute genius

YOU KNOW WHY

 YOU K N O W   W  H Y

Real life tony stark is a gay trans woman

Her name is Martine Rothblatt. She also founded United Therapeutics, which is a company that works to find cures for “””small””” diseases that don’t necessarily affect a lot of people. 

oh, yes–and she’s Jewish.

Here is a picture of Martine and her wife, Bina Aspen:

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

This is so funny because that’s a freshly-fledged juvenile red tailed hawk.

It didn’t leave simply because it didn’t really know the giant gorilla thing walking towards it was a threat. You were menaced by what amounts to a teenager who just passed their driving test just chilling under a tree.

This thing weighs all of 1 pound and barely knows it’s a bird.

the bird got a nat20 on intimidation from a die it knocked off the desk

A lot of animals don't see humans as predators because we don't act like it. We are BIG and therefore potentially DANGEROUS, but also we're like "Hey uh, please don't kill me" to a bird that we could send to the morgue before it could send us to the ER if we had to. And the animals see that! They understand what threatening behavior looks like, so when a Big Tall Thing That Might Be Dangerous is not acting dangerous, it confuses them. So they stay and watch and try to figure us out from a safe distance. That's exactly what this hawk is doing. Your body says "THREAT" but your behavior says otherwise, and that mix of messages has confused the hawk.

Normal Game Bug: enemies get infinite health and it eventually causes the game to crash

Dwarf Fortress Bug: new exercise mechanics unintentionally allow river trout to get super buff when swimming against the tide, to the point that they can now walk on land and beat anything they see up.

Just gonna include some of my favourite Dwarf Fortress patch notes and bugs over the years:

• Fixed a bug where animals could rent rooms
• Fixed bug with animals picking out clothes to wear
• Fixed bug with mules shitting luggage
• Cleaned up the bear situation
• Babies no longer start strapped with a knife
  
• Added cat butchery
• Fixed problem with undead passing out from strangling
• Made the corpses of small animals that die out of water stop teleporting
• Made dwarves care if you melt down their masterpieces
• Stopped soldiers from going to parties
• Added mouths
• Added an aperture flag that stops mouths from being gouged out
• Fixed bug where all the local rock turned into sky whenever migrant groups were created anywhere in the world
  
• Made semimegabeasts get along better with their cave friends
• Fixed a problem with blood hanging in the air
• Stopped elves from being pleased with unethical trades
• Stopped children and babies from joining you on your adventures
• Allowed dwarves to get married
• Made thieves and their support groups respect each other
• Stopped booze food from melting, even though it probably should
• Made dungeon masters happy with their cloaks and boots again
• Made all undead respectful of one another
• Fixed problem with the king coming early and not actually showing up
• Stopped aerial births
• Stopped looping dwarves from constantly trying out gloves and boots when they should just pick one and go
  
• Alligators have hair and other unintended attributes
• Rain kills everything it lands on
• Dwarves given their choice of weapons will choose ones too big to use
• Humans in Farming houses are naked
• Tigerman does not have ears
• Blind cave bears have front toes on both front and rear feet
• Magma crabs drown in magma
• Serpent Men can Kick
  
• ALL primates have front and back legs (with accompanying feet), no arms or hands, yet have fingers, somewhere
  
• Undead cat can adopt dwarf
• Vampires who have been scouts brag about murders they committed while scouting
• Undead dwarf contracted were-chameleon curse
• Animal breeding is prevented if animals aren’t “willing to marry”
  
• Frozen in time; no way to re-enter time continuum
• Incorrect use of “whom” in elf.txt
• Nonlethal fall onto upright spike causes unreasonably high skill gain
• Dwarfs refuse to use picks after unforbidding said picks while traders are present with their own picks
• Giraffe is trainable for war
• All animals are described as “Gigantic”
  
• Last time i played DF there was a known issue where female soldiers would charge into battle with their babies strapped to their chest, and go berserk when their child was inevitably wounded
  

Dwarves also used to be able to drink other dwarves

dwarves are just containers of liquids when you think about it

My favourite was a note from Toady as he was developing Jumping, where due to a math(?) error he jumped, rocketed forwards at 30mph, hit a cliff and instagibbed.

here, have an extremely wholesome tiktok to detox your dash