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Awesome.

follow @the-future-now

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NO!  If someone put cheddar or American cheese on a pizza, they would be shot, and no jury would convict the shooter.

The reason why tomato soup and grilled cheese is such a good combo is because it’s basically the same ingredients as pizza.

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Get a tuxedo cat, they are the best, most loving cats.

DINOSAUR

Domestic Short Hair-black and white • Young • Male • Medium • House trained • Spayed/Neutered • Current on vaccinations 

Tuff Start Rescue Isanti, MN

Meet Dinosaur! He is about 9 months old and full of spunk! He is good with everyone and loves to play. He does have an issue with eating and chewing on things he shouldn’t, so we would recommend his family have pet insurance on him just in case. His adoption fee includes his neuter, vaccinations, microchip, fecal test, and FeLV/FIV tests. If you are interested in meeting this kitty, please visit our website to fill out an application: http://tuffstartrescue.weebly.com OR email:[email protected] Serious inquiries only please! This cat cannot be declawed and must be indoor only!

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The Jellies and Cephalopods are doing great!

What if the sole purpose of humanity was to warm up Earth for some other entity?

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I needed this.

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

The like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

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Reblogging for costume ideas.

Saiid Kobeisy f/w 2016-2017 rtw

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I got the same crap when I named a girl cat Herschel.  The cat could really not care less. 

the receptionist was so scandalized when i told her my male cat was named daffodil. “but that’s a flower” she kept saying “why would you name a boy after a flower” like lady…..it’s a cat…..

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This might be true because there is no justice in the criminal system.  On college campuses, rape charges are diverted to administrative courts to avoid involving police.  Criminal charges are reported to the Federal government and are public, so colleges have a huge incentive not to involve police.  Add a talented athlete and rape victims almost never get justice.  The amazing thing about the Turner case isn’t that he got only six months; it is that he got any time at all.

I feel like “rape”, today, is almost as powerful an accusation as “witch” was in Salem: not a lot required for public substantiation; infinitely destructive to even suggest.

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I don’t have to, the techs at my vet’s office taste everything before they sell it.

Dog food could say it’s any flavor it wants, you’re not going to test it.

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My spirit animal for my battle with AT&T today.

Hedgehog ferociously battles a shower curtain. 

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When do we admit these birds have nothing to do with the sea and start calling them “garbage gulls”?

Lesser Black Backed Gull 150516 (13) by Richard Collier - Wildlife and Travel Photography

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And yet, it will never be today again.

It will never not be today.

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Advice column

My advice for today:  there is a list of things in your control, and a list of things that aren’t - know the difference, and stop trying to fix the things you can’t control.

#advice #advice column #send me anons #send me quesitons

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Don't let anything stop you.

me: i wanna be on that colonizing Mars thing

media: here is a book and several movies depicting the realistic way space travel would work and why you shouldn't want to go and stay in space

me: nice try but i've already got a playlist called "songs to fuck an alien to" nothing can stop me now

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The person who wrote the original post has never worked at a soup kitchen either.  Helping those who need it gives you back way more than you give. 

Volunteering at a soup kitchen is one of the least productive things you can do to change the world. Art can inspire people and motivate them. Food is important, yes, but you aren’t changing that person’s life. 

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For years I have been dreaming of a boy I knew in grammar school..  We meet, catch up on our lives, tell each other how much we love each other and then go back to those lives. 

What if dreams are glimpses into the lives of ourselves in other dimensions.

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A bird who remembers he is a living dinosaur.