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The saga of Peanut the Squirrel

I know this against my will but the owner of peanut was repeatedly warned that he needed to give him up and could not have him without a license, and the reason peanut was euthanized was bc he bit the cop that came to get him and since the owner had never bothered to get him vaccinated for rabies they had to euthanize him (peanut) to test his brain for rabies. So actually this really is pretty much completely all on the owner.

Every cop should get bitten by a squirrel and contract rabies. You’re a shameful coward

I didn't think I had to clarify my point was that every pet should be vaccinated against rabies at a bare minimum, not that peanut deserved to die for the crime of biting a cop. The cop biting part was admirable.

furry species ranked by how difficult it'd be to take them anywhere

taking my deer boyfriend for a hike in the woods and he hears a twig break and bounds off into the trees never to be seen again

ok everyone leave now this is the best tag hands down.

I beg of you, look at the tags

— Judith Shulevitz, Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore

at least there's the ocean and crazy transgender gay sex and pasta

european italians when italian americans have their own pronunciations & spellings because we are a linguistically isolated diaspora & most of our families spoke regional dialects instead of standard italian when they immigrated anyways:

#not to mention the way southern italian languages and dialects are seen as less valid#and considering a lot of italian americans come from southern italian immigrants it is. not a coincidence#also let’s think abt WHY so many southern italians immigrated#couldn’t be bc of economic disenfranchisement bc of classist and lowkey racist sentiments!#source: my family is from naples and sicily

^^^ yes exactly!!! sicilian + neapolitan aren't even nationally recognized languages in italy & they aren't being taught

There isn't even a word-by-word babelfish-equivalent translation tool for Sicilian and Neapolitan online. I know because I write a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure fanfic where two characters have a language barrier, and I didn't want to make Buccellati speak Standardized Florentine or whatever the fuck it is as his default because he grew up in a southern fishing village and then spent his teen years working for a gang in Naples. Turns out I literally didn't have a choice! It's standard Italian or nothing.

A minor irritation for me, a genuine disgrace for the internet's status as 'the storehouse of all human knowledge'. You're telling me I can learn Klingon and Valyrian through that wretched bird app but not two dialects from a country even small children can find on a map?

idk man! going to the library just to hang out, work on a puzzle. wearing clothes people have given to me rather than clothes I've bought. jewelry my friends have made me. writing letters. cooking food from scratch. walking a LOT. taking public transportation. braiding my hair before bed. having a cup of tea on my porch. saying hi to my neighbors and participating in workplace contests and stopping at the farmers stands on the side of the road. going to local events. smashing entire handfuls of wild berries in my fingers just to KNOW what nature is like. complimenting strangers and chatting with cashiers and bus drivers and everyone. listening to local music. buying organic when I can. putting everything down and petting my cat or thinking about eating my apple when I do. savoring the taste. refusing to listen to anything but happy music before noon. slowing down and connecting with the world might save u. idk.

U dont want a mouthwashing ship U want the 2020 among us ocs. Be honest with yourself

And lets be real. That was the pinnacle of fandom. Let's dp that again

A manatee rescue that I follow responded to a call about a female manatee with two calves because one of her babies had been injured by a boat strike. The entire family was temporarily relocated from the wild into a wildlife rehab facility for the injured male calf to undergo treatment. While there, vets noted the female calf was significantly larger than the little injured male. They did genetic testing and determined that big sister calf actually wasn’t related to the other two manatees at all! She was in fact an orphan calf that the adult manatee had found and taken in to care for right alongside her own little one.

Wild to think this manatee calf was literally adopted and nobody would have ever known if it weren’t for random coincidence and human curiosity. Every animal that you cross paths with in life has a fascinating personal story that you’ll only ever catch a glimpse of (if you’re lucky).

Family photo 💕

There are many ways to make a family (of floating sweet potatoes).

Just wild to think about this from the perspective of the manatees. You've just adopted a lost kid, your son gets injured, and these land fish? Dolphins? Starfish maybe? come out of nowhere and relocate your family to an enclosed space. They feed you, and they are doing something with your son that maybe is helping? And you're pretty chill with it. You are a little old to be adopted, but it's always nice to have more family.

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

Pro tips from original antifa.

one day you too could be a fanfic author who updates a decade later

tell me something nice

if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation.

if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and it’s usually frowned upon, but they won’t see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.

Sorry this was not precisely most people’s idea of “nice.” Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.

I love everything about mycoremediation, but also

Slightly on the topic of removing toxic waste:

A hairdresser noticed that with oil spills, one of the biggest issues was the impact on wildlife because oil loves clinging to fur and feathers.

They used felting methods to create like a mat of hair & used it on a small scale test & it worked really well, the hair mainly stayed on top of the water like the oil & absorbed it like a sponge while leaving creatures & plants alone.

NASA is now working on large scale uses with the help of donated clippings from hair dressers and pet groomers.

And the hair can then be composted with the help of mushrooms.

go white boy goooo

no white boy not like that

white boy i've never seen anyone fuck it up like that

Good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you

I ASKED GOD FOR A SAVIOUR AND HE SAID LOOK AT YOUR HANDS