I wish we could teach each other how to love the way we can teach animals that aren’t supposed to be able to feel it.
@kaijutegu is this cute? I know you deal with tegus and not iguanas, but I didn’t know who else to ask
This is precious.
So, first thing you need to know is that is a very visibly healthy adult green iguana. Every part of the iguana is sharp. The claws evolved to haul a ten pound lizard up a tree. The spines are like tiny icepicks. The tail is a bullwhip. The teeth evolved to shred leaves, but they’ll just as easily shred your flesh. Good luck making a healthy adult iguana do anything they don’t wanna. That puts us on our first thing to look at- is the animal capable of defense and getting away, physically? Yes, definitely.
Next thing to know is what does a threatened or scared iguana look like? When an iguana is threatened, it doesn’t stand on its hind legs like that; it stands on all fours and puffs itself up to look bigger, aggressively bobs its head (note: head bobbing is a behavior used for a LOT of things, it does need context- for example, they also head bob as part of mating displays), there is hissing, there is tail whipping- iguanas are not subtle creatures. None of this is the behavior of an iguana that feels threatened or is being a threat!
So what does standing like that mean? That’s just simple reaching. The iguana sees something they want and is attempting to reach it, and what they want appears to be uppies, because they settle into the human’s grip immediately.
Then, we see some GREAT handling from the human. There’s really great communication happening between the two of them! The person picks up the iguana very securely- pelvis and pectoral girdles are well supported, and he doesn’t grab. (Iguanas typically do NOT like being grabbed around the sides; many of their predators are birds and coming at them from above or gripping the sides is scary!)
As he goes in for the pet, he lets the iguana support their back half on his knee. The hold is secure but not tight; at any point, if the iggy was distressed, they could leave. But they don’t- instead, you see them leaning into the pets, actively participating in the behavior. They’re not even closing their eyes to block stimulus. They want this to happen.
This is the kind of bond that’s possible when you can prove to a big lizard that you’re trustworthy, and easily the best iguana video I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you for tagging me in!
Some green iguana body language resources under the jump!
Post this sign above the photocopier at your place of work.
"So many people falling for it - every few minutes I can hear loud yelling coming from the print room."
The Reddit thread had links for other brands of photocopiers (and for a Coke machine and various other pranks) fourteen years ago, but those have undergone linkrot. This is the only one I saved.
Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802) was a French artist known for his expressive and unconventional self-portraits. Unlike many portraitists of his time, who adhered to strict formal conventions, Ducreux infused his works with humor, exaggerated expressions, and an almost modern sense of personality.
How do these loser redit men get these incredibly talented and fascinating women lmao
THIS MAN’S GIRLFRIEND MADE HER OWN LOOM TO WEAVE PERIOD ACCURATE FABRIC AND HER ASSHOLE BOYFRIEND DIDN’T EVEN BOTHER TO LEARN THE NAME OF THE CLOTHES SHE WAS MAKING WITH IT HOLY SHIT I AM LIVID
Some AAVE speakers pluralize ‘child’ as 'childrens’. People get racist about this (“It’s already plural!”), but 'children’ actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.
To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer’ ('ċildra’) was the plural of 'child’ ('ċild’). Middle English developed an ’-en’ plural marker, which we see in 'oxen’. Instead of updating to 'childen’, people slapped their preferred ’-en’ onto the end of 'childer’ - so now we have 'child-er-en’. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s’.
“Pure” language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.
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“Pure” language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.
For anyone that might want to say this is bad to do, the strong man knew losing was a option so his feelings shouldn’t be hurt and you’re not going to get a lioness to do something it doesn’t want to do and it apparently wanted to show up a strongman.
tug of war is enrichment for many big cats! and she is partaking in this wonderfully and making him Very Red
Calling scam victims stupid, much like cult members, serves to do nothing but make you feel superior, blame victims for the wrongs done to them, and in turn actually makes you more vulnerable to scams (and cults, and so on). “Look at these people! Morons! I could never be one of them because I am smart, unlike these people who fell for them because they are stupid. It is not about vulnerability and luck, both of which are factors that could affect me, it is all simply a matter of in-born intelligence, which is why I, a better human, don’t have to worry about falling for them.”
And boom, you have already let your guard down - you would never fall for a scam (or cult, etc.) so you can safely click on that link or read that pamphlet because if it was a scam you’d have identified it as such immediately, because you are smart. You don’t need to stop and question. You’re too smart. And, really, if they didn’t want to get scammed they shouldn’t have gone out dressed like that.
We’re all potential victims. Every single one of us has been at one point or another been at vulnerable to a scammer, or a pickpocket, or any other number of external force trying to harm you for their own benefit. Blaming the victims feels good but it doesn’t help shit in the long run.
Being Cautious makes life really hard…everybody wants me to scan a QR code for some shit or click a link or sign in using an account or put information into a google form etc etc etc just for basic stuff and being like “I don’t trust it” makes you seem weird
Recently ive been involved in projects and stuff for work and school where everybody is like “And you can scan a QR code to access this…” or “You can sign up with your instagram account…” and I have to be the person thats like What If They Dont Have Instagram. What If They Dont Have A Smartphone With them.
Not to mention that the important way to not get scammed is dont click links just go to the website yourself, but everything is always changing their system 3 times a year to a new URL and something you have to navigate differently, so half the time I ignore hte emails then I have to call them on the phone to be like “Ok how do i do this thing”
And my school is sending me a thousand actual legitimate emails a week anyway like “You have to do this thing or you will explode or something” expecting me to click the link in the email
And freshman orientations are always expecting kids to download some sketchy app called Goox or some shit that Accesses Your Everything Conveniently. Well what if I don’t want to access my everything conveniently
oh yeah also during covid the school i was going to made me download literal actual malware to monitor me during test taking. lockdown browser, that thing that can access your camera at any time and use it for god knows what?
the line between scam and legitimate is too tenuous thats why we have all these problems
See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.
And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.
So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.
REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))
Dave Brandt was probably the longest running no-till farmer in the state; he’d been running his land no-till since 1971. He experimented with fertilizers, cover crops, and different irrigation techniques and he’d been doing all of that for a very long time.
The guy was an institution all on his own; look at this.
The “A” profile in his soil is now 47 inches deep compared to less than 6 inches in 1971 and acts like a giant sponge for water infiltration and retention.
From 1971 through 1989 David used an average of 150-250 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre to grow his corn crops. After adding peas and radishes as a cover crop mix, he cut his nitrogen needs in half and was able to get it down to 125 pounds per acre.
When he added multiple species and became more aggressive with his cover crop mixes, he was able to achieve an additional drop in applied fertility. His starter fertilizer is now just 2 lbs of N, 4 lbs of P, and 5 lbs of K. His corn crop now only requires 20-30 lbs of N throughout the entire growing season. He requires no fertility for his soybeans, relying on fertility gained solely through his cover crops. He uses only 40 lbs of 10 N – 10 P – 10 K for his small grains.
Ten years ago (source study published 2019) David stopped using any fungicides and insecticides. This occurred at a time when fungicide and insecticide use has increased significantly with the average commodity farmer.
Four years ago he stopped using any seed treatment, including neonicotinoids.
His cash crop yields have been increasing by an average of 5% annually for the past 5-6 years, with far less fertilizer and no fungicides, insecticides or seed treatment.
What started as a basic heavy clay soils when David purchased the farm in 1971 have been officially re-classified by Ohio State University soil scientists as a highly fertile silty loam soil.
I know I’ve said it before, but–that first point, there, about the “A” profile of his soil? Every time I think of it, I am taken aback with genuine awe.
So this is a picture of the soil horizons. The O profile/O horizon is stuff like fallen leaves, sticks, and so on, which are biodegrading into the A profile. A fair amount of soils might have no O profile at all.
If you are a gardener, the A profile is what you’re concerned with most of the time; it’s what we also call “topsoil.” Your seeds germinate into it, and shallower plants might root into it alone without ever reaching the B profile. Worms and other small delvers live in it. It’s what you’re amending, what you’re testing, what you’re tilling, what you’re trying to fill up with good microorganisms to work with your plants and provide you with food or flowers or cover.
I see this quote around sometimes, attributed to radioman Paul Harvey:
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
Without the topsoil, bluntly, we starve. And there are other problems, in places with a lack of it; without the topsoil, when the rains come, the water strikes hard soil. Hard soil doesn’t accept water easily, so instead it pools and runs downhill. That action makes flooding, makes flash floods, makes standing water that carries disease, it contaminates the water table. Cholera is a huge problem in places with a low A profile that receive too much water at once.
We are seeing topsoil depletion across the US. I can’t speak for other countries, but the heavy-tilling agricultural habits we’ve adopted here have obliterated inch after inch of our topsoil; in the 1800s the average depth was fourteen inches! Today it is six. Many suburban lawns have even less. This has knock-on effects we don’t even consider on the day-to-day (for instance, there’s some suggestion that the lower amounts of various minerals in vegetables and fruits today in comparison with earlier decades might be because of the lower amount of minerals in the soil for the plants to take up into themselves).
And this gentleman took soil that had been that abused and not only returned it to what it had been before the aggressive, destructive European agricultural policy had its way, but trebled that earlier depth.
His land protects the land around it from flooding. His land grows plants less susceptible to disease, because of all the various stressors and pressures those plants aren’t confronted with. His land almost certainly has a considerably higher concentration of microorganisms and it would follow that we’d also see greater diversity of macroorganisms thereby.
Folks, if you are inclined to go out and protest, do it safely and intelligently. Make sure a friend has access to bail funds. Also try to be aware of the lure of the PSL–their anticapitalist and social policies are great and they’re usually found at most protests (and to their credit come with ready made banners and signs), but their support of various foreign dictatorships (Russia, North Korea, Assad’s Syria) is not great…but they’re also very much anti-Zionist and pro-Palestine, so…folks contain multitudes and some of those multitudes are just the worst terminally online leftist takes imaginable. Stop trying to make Juche happen, it’s as dead as puka shell necklaces and John Denver (very dead and probably, respectively).
And the RCP USA has always been a Bob centric cult, so they’re…not great.
Like they make everyone on the rest of the left look like we’re sane and functional in a vanguard party sweeping inexorably towards the Revolution. Cool logo though, it’s got all the greats: a red flag, bayonet, name of the group in the logo. Tight. Too bad your leader is nuts there boyos.
Also if protests are not your thing, there are other things you can do to keep the pressure on folks who need their feet to the fire.
Reminds me of my knee surgery back in the early 90's.... Young cocky doc looked at my MRI and said to his gaggle of residents "just what I though a simple meniscal tear". I elected to be awake for the surgery and as soon as the he saw the scope image he uttered "holy shit; what a mess"
Doctor: Please don’t do that in front of patients.
Some alternative statements you could consider when your initial reaction is just ‘!’:
I’m glad we took that X-ray
Well this is almost certainly diagnostic
When one of my classmates broke my leg in 2nd Grade, there was an entire fiasco and I nearly died but I do remember the guy from radiology storming out to the little curtain area I was in and SLAPPING the X-ray up on the back light and the doctor actually shouting “JE-YAY-SUS! No wonder the kid doesn’t have any damn blood!”
i have corneal dystrophy so my corneas will just kind of. tear. for no reason. quite frequently. cause of death: blinked too hard.
so one time i was in the eye hospital (id been there the day before and a junior doc dismissed me entirely as nothing being wrong, sent me off with no treatment, and my optician was Not Having It)
selfsame junior doc eye rolled and, when it was clear i wouldn’t be leaving again, begrudgingly called in the consultant who took one glance at one eye, said “oh my god” and sent for a second consultant
who took one look and said “‘ive never seen anything like it” and sent for a third
who took a quick look and said “wow. jesus. what a mess” and sent for the fourth etc
(junior doc getting progressively more embarrassed the whole time)
anyway both of my corneas have torn so many times it’s apparently just a mess of scar tissue. but if you were wondering what’s worse than one doctor exclaiming in surprise with 0 info, its having the entire department do it in succession
Thank goodness someone is providing this information, as we can no longer count on the CDC providing accurate information about the spread of contagious diseases under Trump and JFK, Jr.
It’s almost like Trump and JFK, Jr. want to make Americans sick.
We have reached a new social media milestone on one of our platforms and all of us at the Sacramento History Museum continue to be in disbelief of our viewership.
We would have never thought that our institution, a small nonprofit museum in Sacramento, California, could reach this many followers from around the world, but we are incredibly thankful for all of those who take the time to watch our videos and for your support.
In this video, Howard letterpress printed a headline announcing “Sacramento History Museum Reaches 750,000 Instagram Followers” while using our Washington hand press, which was manufactured in 1852! The wood type for the headline is 6 line Gothic font.
I am so in love with humans having realizations like this! 💕
While undoubtedly designed as a research and conservation tool, and probably even valuable as a way for the inland ultra-rich to dine on extra-fresh red snapper, I choose to believe this is just one guy who likes to take his fish for walks.
