That is a Maned wolf and they are lovely bizarre creatures! They have long legs so they can see over the tall grass they live in, and tend to be very shy around humans (these are probably captive-born). Have some more pictures:
Walk Walk Fashion Baby
Here’s a baby!
Poofy!
Maned wolves are gorgeous. They’re also fascinating, because they’re not wolves and they’re not very closely related to any other species of canid - they’re actually in a totally separate genus, Chrysocyon.
They’re also nicknamed “skunk wolf” according to wikipedia, because of their odorous territorial markings, which is a distinct sort of stank I can personally confirm makes the appellation well earned.
Disabled and chronically ill Americans protesting the repeal of the affordable care act today outside senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s office, June 22nd. The response? Capitol police violently moving and arresting them as always. Fuck McConnell the police the state and our president for their vicious ableism
Eli Bosnick had the best response to this ridiculousness.
“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”
“Are the other skittles human lives?”
“What?”
“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”
“Well sure. But the point-”
“I would eat the skittles.”
“Ok-well the point is-”
“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.
Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…
… and what kind of monster would think the answer to that question… is yes?”
I'm always amazed at how well cats gentle themselves for our children. Growing up, I had dogs.Their kindness never surprises me, that's what they ARE. I've only lived with cats as an adult. They treat me like an adult. It's always a wonderful surprise when they know to treat a child as a child.
Cafés don’t have clocks because they are timeless places
there’s a cafe in my town called time and it has clocks all over the walls, but none of them are the same or the right time, so like, #confirmed
That café is the entry to the faery world sorry I don’t make the rules
“Do not eat or drink fairy food.”
“I know… but have you tried their lattes?”
okay but the whole thing about not accepting fairy food or drink is that they give it to you and you then owe them something for it
so like, if it’s a normal cafe and you pay for your coffee & muffin you’d technically be okay since you paid them
so what I’m saying is, fairies starting coffee shops because it’s actually pretty profitable and more interesting than just waiting for humans to stumble into fairy circles
Some Fair Folk Cafe’s are fine, you go in, pay for your food, and if you leave wanting to go back that’s normal. These guys want you returning, they like humans, want to watch them and interact with them and learn about them.
Some, less so. You feel an urge, an itch under your skin to take more than you paid for. “We can upgrade you for free, if you’d like!” The cashier says. There’s something a little off in her smile. Sharp teeth are uncanny at this angle, you think. You shake your head, refusing politely.
“Samples, take one!” The person stocking the cabinet says, holding out a plate of small pieces of cake. They don’t say free, they don’t say what they cost. You know better than to take them at the implied meaning. Fair Folk don’t do ‘implied’.
“I just ate, but thank you,” you reply gracefully. The smile fades, sharp teeth hidden, before it widens again.
“Next time then,” they say, and you feel the promise brushing over your skin.
“Maybe,” you reply, still smiling. You know better than to agree with one of the Fair Folk. Words have weight after all, and none more than the echo of a promise to one of The People.
I’d be screwed. I love free samples.
But that’s where they get you - they never say it’s free.
Dear white women feminists who loved Wonder Woman–
Listen, I also loved Wonder Woman. But I also think that Diana would be the first to note that we are not free until we are all free. So if you posted a thousand times about how important WW was for little girls to see, then I hope you are also prepared to post a thousand times about how important the new Black Panther movie is for black kids- girls and boys- to see.
I saw Wonder Woman, and I teared up the first time she stormed the battlefield in her full regalia. But, as a black woman, I couldn’t not notice that the women who looked like me played supporting, and largely non-speaking, background parts. Black Panther is the chance for women who look like me to see ourselves as the heroes in our own story. To see ourselves as warriors, as epic royalty, as fully actualized superheroes. In a major studio blockbuster, no less. Never- not ever- has that happened before.
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As Mitch McConnell finally surfaces to reveal a “healthcare” bill that rewards the wealthy with tax breaks and promises to kill even more Americans than the “mean” bill from the House, Americans affected by this kill-the-poor bill have gathered around his DC office. But they’re not staying long.
Police are literally dragging people away, including those who are disabled or in wheelchairs, leaving the hall of the Senate offices streaked with blood.
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Blood on the floor outside of Leader Mcconnell's office as protestors are physically being removed. pic.twitter.com/z4gVd9t1qe
Republicans just released the text of their healthcare repeal bill and, at this very moment, they are currently dodging reporters in the halls of Congress so they don’t have to answer for the monstrosity drafted by about a dozen white men entirely behind closed doors.
No fanfare, no press conference, no public explanations where they field press inquiries about the content of the bill. Just a mad dash to outrun reporters.
Oh, and Mitch McConnell weighing in from the Senate floor with this:
"I regret that our Democratic friends made clear early on they did not want to work with us..."
… on taking health care away from tens of millions of Americans (that’s the only logical conclusion to that sentence).
Okay, so just to be clear: Total Secrecy + No Hearings + All GOP Drafters = An open process where Democrats were invited to share their ideas and contribute.
When Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke following McConnell, deriding the bill for robbing health care from millions, McConnell actually had the bald hubris to fault Schumer for talking about a bill he “hadn’t seen a copy of”—because, of course, Republicans held it in total secrecy until Thursday morning. Seriously, Mitch? You draft a bill without any public scrutiny whatsoever so you can jam it through the chamber on a party-line vote and then fault the Democratic minority leader for not knowing what’s in the bill? Good god, McConnell is a conscience-less monster.
Schumer noted, by the way, that 142 pages of the bill had been printed online previous to the release and that’s what he was basing his observations on.
You can watch McConnell expressing all the heartfelt “regret” below.
The saddest pair of pictures I have is of SuperButtButt, and the Dearly Departed cat. We we first rescued SBB, she weighed about six pounds, and the DDC weighed about twelve, and we have really nice picture of the two of them almost managing to get along. The DDC passed along a few years ago, of cancer of the everything. We couldn't afford any treatment, and didn't want her to go through anything too strenuous anyway, to make us feel better, so we kept her at home and did our best to make her comfortable. Meanwhile, SBB hit that age where she started to... expand. So we have another picture of the two of them almost getting along, but with their weights swapped.
not. let. the. cat. in. the. bedroom? There is something seriously wrong with some people.
Cats are great, sure, but they can also be jerks. Like when they step all over your face in the middle of the night—so you close your bedroom door and they meow and scratch until you let them back in. Here’s how to get them to stop so you can get some sleep.
A video has been released showing a proud ferret mamma determined to demonstrate her babies to her human – even if that meant grabbing his finger with her mouth and dragging his hand towards her newborns. Now the Internet is going crazy, with some people even commenting this was so sweet, it almost made them cry.
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Ferret babies are called kits. They’re usually only around 2-2.5 inches long and are born with soft baby fuzz instead of fur.
Kits are born blind, deaf and without teeth. Their eyes and ears don’t open until they’re 4-5 weeks old. Ferret mums know the exact number of their babies and can tell if one is missing – that’s how good their maternal instinct is.
In the first few weeks, babies are totally dependent on their mom, but that’s okay, because in this case they have the best – and the proudest – momma ferret in the world.
I have this huge, ex-military biker guy neighbour who is like 80% handlebar moustache and has a ponytail halfway to his ass and him and all his huge biker guy friends all have tiny dogs and special, motorcycle safe seats for them on their bikes and my favourite things is when they all come roaring in on their bikes and take their tiny dogs out of their little studded leather safety carriers there is this loud cacophony of kissy sounds and full blown baby voices like “was that fun sweetie” and “who’s my handsome boy”
“I had never heard of Babylon 5. I go into the audition and there are 10 guys sitting around the room with their hair up like Patti LaBelle. So I’m sitting there looking at them…they knew something that I didn’t, and I was petrified. So I’m going, ‘Hell, I’ve gotta put my hair up.’ So I went to the men’s room and took out my pocket comb, and I’m trying to put my hair up. It’s not standing up, so I’m putting water on it, trying to make a peak, and that’s not working. So I go to the soap dispenser and I put soap on it. The soap gets in my eye, my eye is tearing, I’ve got hair that looks horrible, and they call my name to come in.
So I go into the audition and I say, ‘Before I start the audition I just want to let you know I—I didn’t know anything about the hair. I went into the bathroom and put soap on it and I got soap in my eye,’ and they say, ‘Oh my God, it’s Vir.’”
Now there's man who knows how to stand to protect his junk.
On Tuesday, the New York Postreported that Chris Brown actually doesn’t have to attend 52 weeks worth of batterer intervention programming as a condition of the restraining order a judge ruled on last week to ensure he stays the hell away from his ex-girlfriend, Karrueche Tran.
The 17-year-old was the victim of a horrific bullying incident. A group of girls threw boiling water on her, leaving her badly burned and covered in scars and discoloration.
She thought the physical scars would be with her forever — until she met Basma Hameed.
Basma Hameed runs a tattoo shop, of sorts — but her tattoo artistry doesn’t look like this:
it looks like this:
Basma is a paramedical tattoo specialist. Instead of tattooing vibrant, colorful designs, she uses special pigments that match the skin in order to conceal scars.
With Basma’s help, patients like Samira can see a dramatic decrease in their scar visibility and discoloration after a few treatments. She even offers free procedures for patients who are unable to afford treatment. That’s because Basma knows firsthand just how life-changing her work can be for those coping with painful scars left behind.
