No sad salmon

goblin-banana-shark:

A baby🐾

girl-in-the-hitops:

striders:

Hey is the build a bear employee supposed to force us to jump up and down or are we getting hazed

as a build-a-bear employee it is my honor to happily inform you that we get to make everyone do whatever the fuck we want during a heart ceremony. jump to get that heart beating. rub that heart to your knees so your furry friend always needs you. rub it to your toes so it’s totally awesome! shake it up so it’s got enough energy to hang out with you all day! close your eyes, make a wish, and give it a kiss you helpless motherfucker

tinysaurus-rex:

yougottabepigeonme:

Birb bath gang

Fucking Superb

dicpic:

gotitforcheap:

barf-lyf:

i know there are daddy doms, but are grand-daddy doms a thing?

if ur a good girl for grandpappy, you can have a werther’s original

i want to die

thethreebirbos:

Mushy

rizascupcakes:

eregyrn-falls:

the-library-alcove:

systlin:

kamikaze-kumquat:

systlin:

maximum-marrs:

systlin:

captainoftheseaqueen:

I just saw that people have cut down some of the Joshua trees during this shutdown and I want to cry

w H A T

The what trees?  Someone explain?  I want to be appropriately sad.  I mean, I’m sad either way because trees are better than people.  But why are these trees more special than usual?

They’re a rare species, and one that is very stunning, and also one that is very vulnerable to habitat loss and climate change. 

And if I ever get my hands on one of the people who did this, I will be hard pressed to not kill them. 

Did you see WHY they cut them down? They cut them down so they could go off roading in closed off areas of pristine desert.

Some fucking people should not be let out of their cages.

I take what I said back. 

I would ABSOLUTELY have to kill them. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/joshua-trees-cut-down.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/11/us/california-joshua-trees-cut-down-during-shutdown-trnd/index.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joshua-trees-shutdown_us_5c39adb0e4b0922a21d527cb

These are Joshua trees.  They can be 300 years old (and at tallest, 15 meters).

Their range isn’t confined to the national park, fortunately.  They are found in spots throughout southern CA, NV, and AZ.  

This news makes me absolutely furious.  

Read those articles.  A lot of people think that you can’t “damage” the desert, because they don’t realize it’s not “just rocks and sand”, but an extremely delicate ecosystem that takes decades to grow even a little bit.  Once damaged, it probably won’t repair itself in these assholes’ lifetimes.

And this is exactly the kind of thing that the national parks were established to combat – the mindset of “what does it matter if I cut down some of these trees, there are lots more right over there; what does it matter if I go off-roading, there’s more desert than anyone really needs”.  It’s a profoundly selfish and wasteful mindset.

Just this week I went googling around – hesitantly – to see what the latest news is from Yellowstone.  All of the parks are in danger of poachers coming in while the rangers are understaffed, but I feel like Yellowstone is especially vulnerable, because its wildlife is famous, and in cases like the wolf reintroduction there, infamous amongst exactly the same kind of people who are committing vandalism throughout the parks.

Fortunately, at least so far, I haven’t found any news reports of poachers targeting the wildlife.  There are apparently a lot of local businesses (probably near many of the parks, but particularly Yellowstone) that are chipping in money for cleaning and upkeep and, one expects, security, because those businesses depend on visitors to the parks for their own survival.  (Which is why the shutdown affects far more than just the 800k workers who aren’t being paid.)

Some people are absolutely awful, and the only thing I can take comfort from at the moment is that there are also many people who love the parks, know the danger they face right now, and who are trying to help protect them.  

Sorry to chime in on the post, but I wanna add that Zion National Park is also partially staffed thanks to local businesses. To anyone visiting these parks right now, PLEASE be respectful. With the current level of staffing, try to pack your trash out with you even if there are garbage cans. They won’t be emptied as often. (Also, please pick up trash you see along popular trails. Now especially but also in general, it’s good hiking etiquette to leave a trail cleaner than you found it.)

Don’t go into restricted areas (i.e., in Zion, don’t poach canyons; just because the permit system is down doesn’t mean you’re allowed in—besides the fact that it makes you an asshole, it’s also incredibly dangerous because there aren’t enough rangers to help field SAR calls). Don’t fuck with the wildlife or plants. Be kind to any rangers you do see. They’re all struggling right now.

ruby-white-rabbit:

lord-kitschener:

instructionsfordancing:

artaeum:

lord-kitschener:

Obviously I want you to take care of your pets and make sure they get food and fresh water on a regular basis, but cats being huge drama queens and screaming hysterically at you and acting like they’re tragic famine victims who haven’t eaten in weeks and are about to drop dead from starvation right mcfuckin now, because you’re 10 minutes late feeding them is always going to be one of the funniest things to me

the cat who lives at the vet clinic i volunteer at was mad yesterday because his dinner was half an hour late due to a busy day. he proceeded to go to all the (empty dw) garbage cans and tried to knock them over and started desperately scavenging for scraps of food because obviously no one loves him or cares about him and if he must eat garbage to survive then so be it

not food related, but one time my cat cried at me for 20 minutes before i worked out that the reason why she was upset was because there was a coat hanger on her favourite cushion

This is absolutely beautiful and changed my life, thank you so much. Please protect her from hangers at all costs

I once sneezed and my cat was so startled he fell off my bed and then avoided me for three days with the exception of “starvation” screams.

nobodysuspectsthebutterfly:

paranormal-paralegal:

sparklecryptid:

impossblerose:

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

cephalotodd:

people who live in snowy places are SO bitchy about it like miss nature makes herself gorgeous for you and you’re like wah its cold? wah its dark? wah its so inconvenient? fuck OFF you live inside a beautiful liddle scene from a fairy tale. look me in the eye and tell me you’d rather just have mud you pussy

somebody from southern california that doesn’t experience seasons wrote this

THIS PERSON HAS NEVER HEARD OF SLUSH

THAT “beautiful liddle scene from a fairy tale” IMMEDIATELY TURNS TO GREY SLUDGE FROM HELL THE MOMENT IT HITS THE FUCKING GROUND. 

AND YES WE HAVE HEARD OF MUD, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF SNOW MUD?!?!?! 

ohohohoh
but don’t forget guys!
underneath all that slush? lies ice and you WILL slip on it.

People who haven’t been to the ER for ice-related injuries do not interact

#winter is great! #IN THEORY (via @kaava)